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❓Teacher/mentor/producer. All sorts.
❗️Game design/game dev/filming
🏛️IGDA, Game Dev Union, We In Games

Anything/goes 🏳️‍🌈
These seats in a bus look like a 90s texture, before bump mapping or any of that fancy nonsense.

Nothing but simple optical illusions, just like god intended.

#textures #texturing #gamedev
September 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Kyobimi car reception, super delicious.”

Google Lens, the gift that keeps on giving.
August 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Made some “fancy” noodles last night with an untranslated guide. Surely Google Translate would have my back, right?

Google Translate did not, in fact, have my back.

“Stir, stir, add dried water.”

“Separation of powdered powder and powdered powder.”

Truly words to live by.
August 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hey now!

In Finnish our version of dragon is a salmon-snake. So it’s still a lizard, sure, but also half fish.
That has got to count for something, right?

Like this (credit to @jeniak.bsky.social ) fella:
August 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ended up trying Forest Shuffle at a local Con (shoutout to #ropecon) & what a delightful game it is!

You get to create a forest!
With animals!
And plants & berries & moss, etc!

Such a feel good game.
Engine-building like Wingspan but a bit simpler & more animals.
And trees! Can’t forget the trees.
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Please tell me it’s not just me but this wear a mask-sign I ran into screams more “warning, cyborg ahead” than anything health related, right? Right?

I could be persuaded to see Hannibal Lecter as well, now that I think of it. 🤔
July 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I’m not entirely sure what/who this diva of a character is but my first thought was “moomin in drag”.

Moomin being a widely (in Finland at least) beloved Finnish children’s story character. And now that I thought of it, I can’t unseen it.

Shared this with mates & we’re all fans of this! :D
June 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#IndieDevs in #Finland!
Finishing your first commercial #IndieGame?
New to the industry?

Now's your last week to apply for the IGDA Finland Grant!
💰 10k €
👩‍🏫 Mentorship (design, producing, code, art, writing, etc.)
📣 Visibility within the Finnish game ecosystem

Head to www.igda.fi/grant & apply!
June 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I saw this & I made one of my quickest & strongest double take in a while.

“Friendfarming”?
“Friendslop”?

Sir, we’ve reached levels of terminally online previously thought to be only theoretically possible. I’m afraid to push further because anything beyond this has never felt the touch of grass.
June 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Midsummer came & went, as it does every year.

I hope y’all had a wonderful nightless night, wherever you found yourself. 🙏

On these shores midsummer magic was stamped out a long time ago but on eves like these, it’s easy to see why they came to be.
The nightless night is full of whimsy & mystique.
June 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Another good tip I’ve heard during my life in this wild party called life.
June 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Don’t wanna flex but I met this dapper lil’ gent today.
Eino is his name & today is his 9th birthday!

Look at his lil’ booties!
He has them bc his paws are a bit sensitive. 🥹
He was so hyper it was real hard to get a good shot but I think it only adds to the pic, showing the true nature of Eino.
April 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is an official n it’s to the Yellow converse gang! ✌️

They really do hit different, you’re right that they’re just so sunny & delightful!☀️🌻🌇

Here’s my last look from a summer day a few years back, embracing the yellow converse life. 💛
March 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’m watching Breaking Bad for the first time (yea yea yea) & I gotta say, great storytelling, compelling characters & delightful cinematography.
Enjoying season 3.

BUT!
I always thought people exaggerated the Mexico-filter but goddamn..! Someone turned the colour correction to straight up lemon. 🍋
March 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
White strawberries?
Has science gone too far? 🤔

That look like
-they’ve had all the juice sucked out of them?
-someone thought “you know what, strawberries _are_ too spicy” & then made an affront to nature.

Made me question this whole “let’s form a civilisation, what’s the worst that can happen?”
March 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Following @pantmonger.bsky.social & @cerberusxt.bsky.social got me into figure painting again.

Been 20+ years since I’ve painted but it was so fun!
Need better glasses tho. :D

Tried painting highlights from a light source for the first time & while it isn’t great (but decent-ish!) I learned heaps.
February 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

Michael Jackson’s Dangerous as a preused cassette. Good times.

The first brand new album with my own money was Offspring’s Americana.
I sang along a *lot*. My parents must’ve loved it.

Yea, I (thought I) was a pretty fly for a white guy.
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Didn't realise I can play Jacob Geller in Saros.

A spiritual successor to Returnal was all I needed to hear.
I was already in, baby.
Seeing the face of Geller?
More than hyped!

Housemarque, are you making this game just for me?
Because I'm here for it. 🙏🏼

@jacobgeller.com
@silliet.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
From Finland.

Apple Maps = Still Gulf of Mexico

Google Maps = Weirdly Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

I can’t believe they’re trying to soft launch the name. Ridiculous. Stupid. Childish.
On every conceivable level.
All of it.
February 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Japan har levt, som alltid, i framtiden redan för en lång stund.
February 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
A solid drawing, on top of being a good PSA.

But quick question:
Is the Goon a source of inspiration or not..?
Bc it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the pic.
February 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
January 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Yo, why did nobody tell me that #DragonAge dwarves have face tattoos that are essentially just aggressive contouring?

Thanks to this, I accidentally created a dwarven gigachad.

Wife adores the Dragon Age games so I promised her to play them all & Chaddius here is my guide through Origins.
January 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
1.The actors were all older when filming the films than Tom is right now.

2.They were playing roles making them look older and weathered.

Have a look at Eastwood & Pacino at 28 years.
January 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
As someone who has dealt a fair amount of snow & ice, I appreciate when games do them well & #indianajones did this rather nicely.

Not perfect but a LOT better than many games. Especially the ice was nice, full of small details that show the devs having dealt with ice in their life.
January 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM