Kyle Kukshtel
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Kyle Kukshtel
@kkukshtel.bsky.social
making games + tools
zinc.graphics
mood.site
gamedatapodcast.com

also made the certified HIDDEN GEM psychedelic weirdo tactical strategy game CANTATA

currently: senior core runtime eng @ unity
This post became a conference on C# so I’ll throw in my hat too - I love C#. It’s like the perfect gameplay authoring language IN ADDITION to having all the niceties around manual management when you want it and functional when you need it.
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I think reviewer quotes in KS are usually silly for various reasons, but if you know these people then you know how rare it is that they share universal consensus around effusive love for a single book
October 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
did some fanart today for a birthday party card (we got her the first sato book)
July 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
you can now add and edit captions on mood.site! working on a proper update announcement post that will go live later at updates.mood.site, but for now check out a video showing off the feature.

here I use cmd/ctrl+enter to save the caption on the current image and immediately move to the next one.
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the past week or so I’ve been working on a long-requested feature that I didn’t totally want to add, but enough people wanted it that I thought I should do it - image rearranging!

putting the finishing touches on it now and should be out in the next week or so!
June 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
my “why doesn’t this exist” image gallery/moodboard creation site mood.site just hit 100k pageviews! the db reports about 40k boards created with about 340k uploaded images! thanks to everyone who’s found value in it and people that have paid for the upgrades!
June 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I knew my P organ felt different this morning…
June 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
no idea what you could be talking about
May 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
inaugural office board game was finally played terraforming mars. my biggest takeaway was “…this?”

game feels surprisingly baroque as a design from barely 5 years ago, which I also think speaks to the meteoric progress board games have made since its publishing
May 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
May 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I just put them all here (clicking them makes them readable)

mood.site/7cS5aIBN
May 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ah okay! I promise this is not trying to viral market my own software haha but it looked very similar in gutter spacing to what mood uses and I was excited to see a boardgame person using it. Anyways, love your work!!

mood.site/kni23Eb1
May 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
the visuals specifically though - I feel like there’s a bit of a retcon people have. oblivion was a big deal fidelity wise at the time, but the graphic style itself feels like less a choice and more just what was trendy around then. twilight princess had the same gauzy bloom style, as did others.
April 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
contrast this with modern signifiers of luxury like ultra minimalism and it looks like the bluths are living in kanye’s “decorated” house
April 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
at the time of the shows release, it’s very easy to forget that we were peak maximalist pier 1 imports core, decades away from steely gray homegoods decor
April 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
one thing I’ve been thinking about is how our deteriorating sense of aesthetics due to economic precariousness (always renting) and hegemonic coercion due to social media “taste” has started to make the arrested development model home seem a lot less “empty” than the show intended for it to feel
April 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
channeled my inner @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social when I took a picture of some budding flowers today
April 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
switch 2 predictions
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
spoke too soon!
March 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
good post week
March 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
been working on a big update to my image sharing/moodboarding website mood.site
March 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
this is a Special Economic Zone
March 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
a footlong oreo sandwich from subway begs the question:

"how do you photograph yourself eating a footlong oreo sandwich?"

i've compiled some active research here:

mood.site/b0g2L5Vf?edi...

board also open for editing if anyone else wants to contribute their own findings
February 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
good post day
January 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#genuary10 for #genuary2025

"You can only use TAU in your code, no other number allowed."

github.com/kkukshtel/ge...
January 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM