kaynSD
@kaynsd.itch.io
Technical Designer & Game Developer. [he/him/his]
C# Programmer and Systems Architect.
Procedural Generator Generator.
RPG Layout Typesetter.
Dilettante and Dabbler. Possibly a Wizard.
Mastodon: [@kaynSD@peoplemaking.games]
Itch: [kaynsd.itch.io]
C# Programmer and Systems Architect.
Procedural Generator Generator.
RPG Layout Typesetter.
Dilettante and Dabbler. Possibly a Wizard.
Mastodon: [@kaynSD@peoplemaking.games]
Itch: [kaynsd.itch.io]
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kaynSD
@kaynsd.itch.io
· Dec 24
I'm Keith.
I am a computer programmer with a focus in #ProceduralGeneration / #ProcGen, a game designer for board and computer games, an RPG Textbook Layout artist, a wargaming terrain builder, and a drummer.
I am a computer programmer with a focus in #ProceduralGeneration / #ProcGen, a game designer for board and computer games, an RPG Textbook Layout artist, a wargaming terrain builder, and a drummer.
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The theme for #PROCJAM 2025 is:
❄️ ☃️ COLD PLACES ☃️ ❄️
Brr! We selected this theme using a new method: I asked community members to send in theme suggestions, then we turned them into word vectors, found the average, and looked at the words nearest to that! A little bit of unpredictability. 🔮
❄️ ☃️ COLD PLACES ☃️ ❄️
Brr! We selected this theme using a new method: I asked community members to send in theme suggestions, then we turned them into word vectors, found the average, and looked at the words nearest to that! A little bit of unpredictability. 🔮
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The theme for #PROCJAM 2025 is:
❄️ ☃️ COLD PLACES ☃️ ❄️
Brr! We selected this theme using a new method: I asked community members to send in theme suggestions, then we turned them into word vectors, found the average, and looked at the words nearest to that! A little bit of unpredictability. 🔮
❄️ ☃️ COLD PLACES ☃️ ❄️
Brr! We selected this theme using a new method: I asked community members to send in theme suggestions, then we turned them into word vectors, found the average, and looked at the words nearest to that! A little bit of unpredictability. 🔮
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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An outright freeze on the industry like Atari saw in the 80s before Nintendo moved in is functionally impossible now.
But I think we're going to see making games become a riskier business proposition and a slightly more niche creative outlet for a while before things stabilize and can recover.
But I think we're going to see making games become a riskier business proposition and a slightly more niche creative outlet for a while before things stabilize and can recover.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
An outright freeze on the industry like Atari saw in the 80s before Nintendo moved in is functionally impossible now.
But I think we're going to see making games become a riskier business proposition and a slightly more niche creative outlet for a while before things stabilize and can recover.
But I think we're going to see making games become a riskier business proposition and a slightly more niche creative outlet for a while before things stabilize and can recover.
No Lancer this week; team Ruthless Efficiency are having their end of level combat next week instead.
So let's continue to make a game, maybe mess about with some world generation stuff or some battle mechanics. #livecoding some #gamedev on twitch
www.twitch.tv/kaynsd
So let's continue to make a game, maybe mess about with some world generation stuff or some battle mechanics. #livecoding some #gamedev on twitch
www.twitch.tv/kaynsd
kaynSD - Twitch
/* livecoding */ - no lancer this week. lets make games
www.twitch.tv
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No Lancer this week; team Ruthless Efficiency are having their end of level combat next week instead.
So let's continue to make a game, maybe mess about with some world generation stuff or some battle mechanics. #livecoding some #gamedev on twitch
www.twitch.tv/kaynsd
So let's continue to make a game, maybe mess about with some world generation stuff or some battle mechanics. #livecoding some #gamedev on twitch
www.twitch.tv/kaynsd
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#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.
I've met Hall and I've got friends that met Romero. All of this post 2010 but it sounds like they're just both the most lovely of people and it's a shame the whole of id doesn't seem to be that way.
funny that hall and romero are here on bluesky but carmack and petersen aren't
I just learned that John Carmack misgendered and deadnamed Rebecca Heineman in his "tribute" over on Twitter. He probably thinks it's okay when talking pre-transition days, but FYI, most trans people hate that. Worse, he never calls her "she," switching to "they" for recent memories. Fuck that guy.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I've met Hall and I've got friends that met Romero. All of this post 2010 but it sounds like they're just both the most lovely of people and it's a shame the whole of id doesn't seem to be that way.
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Starting the rattling sniper kill team that's been on my shelf for a bit. Not sure what colour uniform I want to give them so just starting with the leather for now. #nerdlings #warhammer #killteam
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Starting the rattling sniper kill team that's been on my shelf for a bit. Not sure what colour uniform I want to give them so just starting with the leather for now. #nerdlings #warhammer #killteam
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Demonschool is OUT NOW!
It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action!
Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action!
Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Demonschool is OUT NOW!
It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action!
Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action!
Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
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Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
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Between today and tomorrow, we get four great games that in the late 2000s would have been guaranteed GOTY contenders. It's a brutal time to sell a game; it's an age of miracles for people who play them:
Demonschool
News Tower
Kingdom of the Dump
Birdcage
PLUS, Moonlighter 2 hits Early Access
Demonschool
News Tower
Kingdom of the Dump
Birdcage
PLUS, Moonlighter 2 hits Early Access
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Between today and tomorrow, we get four great games that in the late 2000s would have been guaranteed GOTY contenders. It's a brutal time to sell a game; it's an age of miracles for people who play them:
Demonschool
News Tower
Kingdom of the Dump
Birdcage
PLUS, Moonlighter 2 hits Early Access
Demonschool
News Tower
Kingdom of the Dump
Birdcage
PLUS, Moonlighter 2 hits Early Access
"Keith are you really going to make another iteration of the fractal world generator... again?"
"Yes but this time in hexagon form"
Might need help with how best to place patterns of hexes, especially as when you go for even sized patterns they look real weird and have weird symmetries
#procgen
"Yes but this time in hexagon form"
Might need help with how best to place patterns of hexes, especially as when you go for even sized patterns they look real weird and have weird symmetries
#procgen
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Keith are you really going to make another iteration of the fractal world generator... again?"
"Yes but this time in hexagon form"
Might need help with how best to place patterns of hexes, especially as when you go for even sized patterns they look real weird and have weird symmetries
#procgen
"Yes but this time in hexagon form"
Might need help with how best to place patterns of hexes, especially as when you go for even sized patterns they look real weird and have weird symmetries
#procgen
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I was reading this apple-based TTRPG and found it pretty indigestible, but then I realised it was the core set.
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I was reading this apple-based TTRPG and found it pretty indigestible, but then I realised it was the core set.
Question for the 40K #nerdlings out there. What's the most famous Ultramarines successor chapter who have predominantly bright red armour?
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Question for the 40K #nerdlings out there. What's the most famous Ultramarines successor chapter who have predominantly bright red armour?
every time I consider learning more Unreal I remember I'd have to actually touch C++ instead of a language that won't make me tear my hair out due to things like this and I run straight back to Godot.
"if you pass an array to a function it can no longer tell how big it is, you have to tell the function how big the array is in advance" - they made the language wrong then!
(i am joking but it is funny finding out how much harder this is than c# or python)
(i am joking but it is funny finding out how much harder this is than c# or python)
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
every time I consider learning more Unreal I remember I'd have to actually touch C++ instead of a language that won't make me tear my hair out due to things like this and I run straight back to Godot.
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Sometimes I hate myself for the kind of gameplay ideas I have, coding this tumbling block physics with the screws was SOO hard
But I'm happy that the block puzzles are getting more varied and better integrated with the platforming, pacing and all
(game is ABYSS X ZERO, btw)
#gamedev #lowpoly #axz
But I'm happy that the block puzzles are getting more varied and better integrated with the platforming, pacing and all
(game is ABYSS X ZERO, btw)
#gamedev #lowpoly #axz
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
Part of me really wants to price any game I make at about the twenty five euro mark, never discount it, and raise the price by five euro every time a content pack is added, finalising at about hundred euro... and I only post a pointing to a whiteboard meme image to anyone asking about seasonal sales
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Part of me really wants to price any game I make at about the twenty five euro mark, never discount it, and raise the price by five euro every time a content pack is added, finalising at about hundred euro... and I only post a pointing to a whiteboard meme image to anyone asking about seasonal sales
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November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Thank you prize sponsor Invincible Ink for the gift of tabletop games infinitely more engaging than the video minigame Desert Bus! www.invincible.ink
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Thank you prize sponsor Invincible Ink for the gift of tabletop games infinitely more engaging than the video minigame Desert Bus! www.invincible.ink
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Anyway.
Don't ever let some fucking dork tell you a setting featuring bright blue soldiers called "Ultramarines" and catgirls and canon characters named Lion El' Jonson and *Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau* is something you have to take seriously.
Don't ever let some fucking dork tell you a setting featuring bright blue soldiers called "Ultramarines" and catgirls and canon characters named Lion El' Jonson and *Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau* is something you have to take seriously.
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Anyway.
Don't ever let some fucking dork tell you a setting featuring bright blue soldiers called "Ultramarines" and catgirls and canon characters named Lion El' Jonson and *Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau* is something you have to take seriously.
Don't ever let some fucking dork tell you a setting featuring bright blue soldiers called "Ultramarines" and catgirls and canon characters named Lion El' Jonson and *Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau* is something you have to take seriously.
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"Alright I'ma try and design a matchmaking algorithm"
*several hours later*
"Damn, matchmaking algorithm got hands"
*several hours later*
"Damn, matchmaking algorithm got hands"
November 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"Alright I'ma try and design a matchmaking algorithm"
*several hours later*
"Damn, matchmaking algorithm got hands"
*several hours later*
"Damn, matchmaking algorithm got hands"
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I've finally finished drawing all 30 NPCs for my Ofanim series.
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I've finally finished drawing all 30 NPCs for my Ofanim series.
(CW: food)
Prepping food for tomorrow. Trying to make ramen again
Prepping food for tomorrow. Trying to make ramen again
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
(CW: food)
Prepping food for tomorrow. Trying to make ramen again
Prepping food for tomorrow. Trying to make ramen again
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3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.