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Technical Designer & Game Developer. [he/him/his]
C# Programmer and Systems Architect.
Procedural Generator Generator.
RPG Layout Typesetter.
Dilettante and Dabbler. Possibly a Wizard.

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Painted the most important bit.
A very close up of a Ratling Sniper miniature, part painted. The focus is on the battery pack for the huge sniper rifle, upon which is placed a ham sandwich and a steaming hot enamel cup filled with tea.
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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
An overhead view of a set of Warhammer 40000 Militarum Ratling Sniper miniatures on a small turntable, part painted green, black, and brown A view of the bulldog and Fixer miniature from the Warhammer 40000 Kill Team Ratling Sniper team, primed and part painted A view of the big game hunter and saboteur miniature from the Warhammer 40000 Kill Team Ratling Sniper team, primed and part painted
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"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
An illustration from PROCJAM Seeds #3 from an article I wrote explaining the basic algorithm for a fractal world plotter that places a 3x3 square down on a grid, then 2x2 squares on each of its edges at a random point on the grid, then 1x1 squares on the edges of those, creating an approximation of a koch snowflake, and then filling in the gaps. The caption reads: "Figure 1: Generating a region that starts with a 3x3 square of chunks. It then recursively extrudes a smaller square from a random point on each edge, and repeats until it is generating squares only a chunk in each direction. Finally, orphaned chunks are identified and added to the region as well." A pencil sketch of the generic principle of the procedure as applied to squares, showing the basics of a 1x1 square up to a 5x5, and showing the four valid places to place a 2x2 square on the edge of a 3x3, and a sample of the output at the end. A pencil sketch of the process transfered to hexagons, first showing a 1x1x1 hexagon up to a 5x5x5 hexagon, with the grids then shown as dots to ease drawing the second section, and then showing the four valid places to put a 2x2x2 hexagon pattern on the edge of a 3x3x3 hexagon A mock up of what a final result might be from this pattern, showing a rainbow of hexagons, with a 3x3x3 in red, and rotating clockwise from the right the process of recursively adding smaller patterns of hexagons that in turn add smaller patterns of hexagons
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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A Dark Souls death text prompt with the words "YOU FRIED" instead of "YOU DIED"
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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(CW: food)
Prepping food for tomorrow. Trying to make ramen again
An induction hob with a pot full of dilute soy sauce, spring onions, and thin sliced pork chops. Adjacent to it is a plastic box, within which is a sealed bag full of peeled hardboiled eggs in a soy sauce liquid
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Text in the style of a Neon Genesis Evangelion title card reading "DWARF FORTRESS BUG REPORT VERSION: 53.03: stopped babies born in fort from worshipping extra deities"
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A transparent PNG reminiscent of a Dark Souls death screen, reading "GOD HAS DIED" in red serif font on a black vignette
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Continuing to clear out my backlog and you know what, Chaos deserves some colour. Finished tidying up the other undead warbands I've got, but also decided to blitz through this Gnarlspirit Slaves to Darkness band for Underworlds and decided they needed to be really bright. #nerdlings #warhammer
Two Warhammer Underworld Miniatures; Gnarlspirit Dark path miniatures Gorl and Sarrakkar. Gorl is a huge man welding a giant hammer dressed in skulls and animal skins with only a harness on his top, whole Sarrakkar has a giant monster skull on his head and weilds a staff like a shaman. They have been painted in extremely bright colours Two Warhammer Underworld Miniatures; Gnarlspirit Dark path miniatures Gorl and Sarrakkar. Gorl is a huge man welding a giant hammer dressed in skulls and animal skins with only a harness on his top, whole Sarrakkar has a giant monster skull on his head and weilds a staff like a shaman. They have been painted in extremely bright colours. From the back to show the extreme colours of their first painted in a full palette of rainbow hues Kheira and Lupan from Warhammer Underworlds. Two dangerous looking people wielding prehistoric weapons and decked in furs and skills. Kheira is hunched over, holding two axes in her hands. Lupan wears a skull as a full helmet and has a spear in one hand and a machete in the other. Both have been painted in bright colours Kheira and Lupan from Warhammer Underworlds. Two dangerous looking people wielding prehistoric weapons and decked in furs and skills. Kheira is hunched over, holding two axes in her hands. Lupan wears a skull as a full helmet and has a spear in one hand and a machete in the other. Both have been painted in bright colours. Photo from the back, showing Lupans cape is a bright red
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Very happy how they've turned out now that they've got some inks on them and gone over the yellow in places to make them brighter.

Krump em gud ladz! #orktober #nerdlings #40k #killteam
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Did the basecoat on the Ork Kill Team that's been sitting on my shelf for a few months. Figured Bad Moons were the appropriate pick of clan this time around.
#orktober #nerdlings
A Warhammer 40000 Space Ork miniature, a large Ork Nob with a spiked pneumatic hammer and a rocket launcher pistol, wearing metal armor painted yellow with black highlights in places Two Space Ork miniatures, a pair of Wrecka Krew Orks, one holding a rocket launcher and the other welding a rocket on a stick Two Warhammer 40000 bomb squigs; red beasts that are just mouths, eyes, and legs, strapped up with various explosive devices and mid charge The full collection of models, two squigs, one nob, and five other Orks all with explosive devices.
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Miniatures and board pieces from Warhammer Quest Cursed City arranged on a table simulating a game in progress. Zoomed in view of the battle between the two nexromancers Overhead focus view of a fight between many of the names characters and their opposite number on the villains side of things Focus view of the vampire hunter confronting the vampire lord.
October 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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And with that I have finished painting Cursed City, just in time for Halloween. #nerdlings
Miniatures and board pieces from Warhammer Quest Cursed City arranged on a table simulating a game in progress. Focus of the brawl between three of the protagonists fighting the Wight and an army of skeletons. Focus shot of the duelist fighting two feral vampires
October 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Finally.
Radukar the Wolf
Vampire Lord of Ulfenkarn, and soon the realm of death as a whole if no one stops him

Oh I had a LOT of fun with this one right up until I tried to do anything with the face. Ah well. A presentable enough centerpiece #nerdlings
Warhammer Quest Cursed City miniature of Radukar the Wolf, a gargantuan vampire lord barbarian wearing a ushanka, a green greatcloak, and red trousers, with a monstrous two headed wolf pelt across his shoulders. Holding a wicked looking sword and fist extended and fangs bared.
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Jelsen Darrock
Ostensibly the protagonist, the vampire hunter who has arrived in Ulfenkarn entirely by his own talents and definitely not by being led to this place by other rival vampires who want to see The Wolf fail.

Was a struggle. Lots of shades kept bleeding into each other. #nerdlings
Warhammer Quest Cursed City miniature of Jelsen, a man decked out in traditional van Helping style vampire hunter or witch hunter attire, conical hat, rifle that shoots stakes, and countless stakes attached to his belt festooned with other weapons and equipment. Side shot of the miniature showing the detail on the rifle
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Glaurio ven Alten III
Local Noble Asshole here to beat up other Local Noble Assholes who just happen to be vampires, cousins, or vampire cousins.

More clean paintwork and eyes that don't totally suck. Improvement! #nerdlings
Warhammer Quest Cursed City miniature of Glaurio ven Alten III, a noble duelist wearing his military jacket over one shoulder brandishing his pistol and a hand on his sheathed rapier, all of his outfit in pristine colours. Rear shornif the previous image showing the detail on the pelt lined cuffs of his military jacket and his very clean boots
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Octren Glimscry
Presumably more disappointed than mad at Torgillius for stealing and completing his research, here presumably to steal it back.

I loathe painting necromancers at the best of times. This was particularly ornery. #nerdlings
Warhammer Quest Cursed City miniature of Octren Glimscry, a hunched over wizard with a beard that stretches to the floor, wearing a silvered mask and clutching many books and a wizard staff close to his body. His robes are purple and blue, and in very poor condition Reverse shot of the previous image, showing more of the scrolls and arcane implements that Octren is carrying
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Cleona Zeitengale
A seer in service to Sigmar, preaching about the end times. Correct, in this case.

And possibly the cleanest paint work I have ever done. Very happy with this one #nerdlings
Warhammer Quest Cursed City miniature of Cleona, a robed nun with her face obscured. Her robes are red with white accents and she holds a great wood and gold staff that pulses with blue lightning. Her elaborate shoulder trail is inscribed with runes Reverse shot of the previous image, showing more of the pattern on her veil and the mace she keeps strapped to her side
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Torgillius the Chamberlain
Necromancer and majordomo to the Wolf, spymaster and mad scientist all in one.

Blitzed through this one. I didn't want to spend too long on the various familiars he's carrying about with him and kept messing up the staff. #nerdlings
Warhammer Quest Cursed City miniature of Torgillius, annold necromancer wizard in green robes, hunched over and using a cane topped with a metal wolfs head with glowing red eyes. He carries a wooden frame upon which perches a rat, a raven, and a bat, while a cat walks alongside him. He holds a candle and holder in his other hand Rear view of the same miniature showing that he keeps his notes on a clipboard attached to the frame across his shoulders.
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I don't *think* I caused the current AWS outage, but I *did* just try to enter this as a response to a webform so...
A webform questionnaire that shows an alert response reading "Some of your changes couldn't be saved due to an internal server error. Try saving again". The webform reads "13. Would you like to add anything else?". The response field reads " '); drop table responses; --", a common SQL injection test reminiscent of the "Exploits of a Mom" XKCD comic
October 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Dagnai Holdenstock
Maybe setting up a trade route with a damned city in the realm of death was a bad idea, going there in person was definitely worse

This has been hands down my most favourite end result and honestly it started so badly I was worried I was going to have to paint strip it #nerdlings
Dagnai Holdenstock miniature from Warhammer Quest Cursed City. Ab eyepatched fantasy dwarf in a black jacket with gold plated equipment, a face mask in the shape of a beard, connected to an intricate gilted backpack, welding a gas powered harpoon launcher and a fancy axe. Photographed from the front Dagnai Holdenstock miniature from Warhammer Quest Cursed City. Ab eyepatched fantasy dwarf in a black jacket with gold plated equipment, a face mask in the shape of a beard, connected to an intricate gilted backpack, welding a gas powered harpoon launcher and a fancy axe. Photographed from the back
October 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Qulathis the Exile
When you set off on a journey of revenge, first rip a branch off your most sacred tree, fletch it into arrows, and get banned from returning to your homeland

The single most out of place mini in the heroes side of things for Cursed City, a break from using dark tones #nerdlings
A miniature from Warhammer Quest Cursed City of Qulathis the Exile, an elven woman with long braided blonde hair, a green rangers cloak over mithril scale with gold and leather accents, and an antler crown A miniature from Warhammer Quest Cursed City of Qulathis the Exile, from behind showing the detail on her quiver of arrows, short sword, and hair
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Gorslav the Gravekeeper
Ulfenkarn's serial per-humous inhumer of bodies. A fun monster to paint #nerdlings #warhammerquest
A painted miniature from Warhammer Quest Cursed City of a monstrous figure with a mask of coffin wood and a bare chest, an eight foot tall shovel and hooks, tearing up the floor and exhuming a zombie A painted miniature from Warhammer Quest Cursed City of a monstrous figure with a mask of coffin wood and a bare chest, an eight foot tall shovel and hooks, tearing up the floor and exhuming a zombie. From the back, showing more detail on the trophy rack jammed into his shoulders and the noose and hooks on his belt Close up of the mask and implanted trophy rack on the figure. The trophy rack resembles wrought iron gates from a graveyard, as does the mask being of equal parts coffin wood and wrought iron covering the monsters eyes
October 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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An illustration of a weird looking device; a firepit sits below a half spherical device, presumably full of water, and above it connected by two pipes a suspended sphere with angled exhausts spins above it. An Aeolipile, or Hero's Engine, a steam engine novelty from the 1st Century AD, first described by Vitruvius circa 25BC. Sourced from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
October 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Brutogg Corpse-Eater, Ogor Maneater and gourmand of decaying flesh, who travelled to the cursed city to sample the delicacies and hopes to be the one biting the vampires.

Turns out I really enjoyed painting ogres and big guys and this one turned out much better than Emelda did. #nerdlings
28mm miniature of Ogor Maneater, Brutogg Corpse-Eater from Warhammer Quest Cursed City. A ten foot tall heavily armed and armoured barbarian midway through swinging a giant spiked mace, bare armed but otherwise clad in metal chain, straps, a metal helm and plated kilt. Top half, from the right side 28mm miniature of Ogor Maneater, Brutogg Corpse-Eater from Warhammer Quest Cursed City. A ten foot tall heavily armed and armoured barbarian midway through swinging a giant spiked mace, bare armed but otherwise clad in metal chain, straps, a metal helm and plated kilt. From the front 28mm miniature of Ogor Maneater, Brutogg Corpse-Eater from Warhammer Quest Cursed City. A ten foot tall heavily armed and armoured barbarian midway through swinging a giant spiked mace, bare armed but otherwise clad in metal chain, straps, a metal helm and plated kilt. From the back, focussing on the scimitar, dagger, pouches and amphora he has strapped to his back
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Emelda Braskov, champion of Ulfenkarn and the last living member of it's military.

God I really can't do faces... But I'm a sucker for painting armor. #nerdlings
28mm miniature figure of Emelda Braskov from Cursed City, from the front 28mm miniature figure of Emelda Braskov from Cursed City, from behind 28mm miniature figure of Emelda Braskov from Cursed City, close up of details; face not particularly good, but the tabards twin tailed comet quite nicely done
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM