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Joe Hocking
@joehocking.bsky.social
I'm a software engineer who develops games and XR using technologies like C#/Unity and JavaScript/WebGL (while increasingly Godot-curious). I wrote the book Unity in Action!

website: www.newarteest.com
My daughter just said we are living in the 20s.
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I have a question for any Koreans who see this: are you supposed to display wedding ducks in the home a certain way? Since I'm only half-Korean I'm not that familiar with the tradition. I know they are displayed beak-to-beak during the wedding ceremony, but at home mine are just sitting like this:
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
So many lol moments, but somehow this was my favorite
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
and my daughter copies everything her older brother does, so of course she drew his sculpture
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
lol my son sculpted kirby in a mario hat
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I still have bookmarked a couple game engineer job posts from Netflix that, while yay they had a salary posted, the range was 90k-600k.
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I see your point, but
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
lol the results when googled "types of dinosaurs" included a chicken
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I like that tweet's overall point, but looking just in the replies to that thread you can see people going overboard in the other direction, like this person who seems to think they'd prefer living in north korea:
August 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
People who think making art is about natural talent never seem to grasp that getting good is just about lots of practice, so I wanna try to explain it in reverse. Here is an illustration I did a long time ago; note the date on the tail:
August 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
getting very close
August 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
August 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
August 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
funny, I don't remember LeVar Burton hawking candy bars.
August 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
July 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
never forget
July 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
what a buff lobster lol
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Amazing how many people running game studios are like the dril candles meme.
June 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
bookmark from the Bad Place
June 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Coincidentally, I saw this literally yesterday:
June 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I keep knee-capping myself by being honest. I guess AI is turning into the comic from this TVTropes page tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
June 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This idea of "players trusting that your game is worth playing" reminds me a lot of this bit Jesse Schell wrote in the foreword to my book:
May 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
relevant
March 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"No spam texts"*sigh* I literally just received this:
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I only know about skibidi toilet because my son was into it for a while. And then of course his little sister had to copy his drawing!
February 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM