I added a "grab stance" with 4 actions (three swipes & one "button push") to all of our first-person weapons. Inspired by what "Left 4 Dead" did when you looked at item pickups. sbox.game/news/july-2025 #animation

That part has to do with what Scott Benson (Night in the Woods) dubbed the "wikification" of narrative, the tendency to see every little detail in the story as the piece in a puzzle to be solved. OG thread: twitter.com/bombsfall/st...

A month ago, the annual GDC survey had the responses at a staggeringly low "13% feeling positive": www.gamedeveloper.com/business/dev...

It's a shame that USB-C cable manufacturers don't label their products, given the wide variety of specifications. Gotta do it yourself.

I found out today that Firefox has a "compact" interface mode, and it's so much nicer! Especially if you've got folders with dozens of bookmarks... support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/com...

A mildly-amusing edge case I fixed today while adding support for speed-scaling parts of our weapon animation graphs; prevent an awkward pause if someone decides to set the shotgun to reload really, really, really fast... (the solution was to define the transition point by the cycle progress)

It looks like it has the same issues as deep fakes have had for years (destroying expressions when animated). And yeah, the face changing just reminds me of this:

Great article! But this bit here is a factual error: character shadows in all Half-Life 2 games are render-to-texture and not shadow maps.

A few recent bloopers from my time working on first-person shotgun animations... #gamedev #animation

You've seen the beach that makes you old, now here's the slope that makes you long

I have three years worth of #gamedev / tech anim blooper clips like this one... I should compile them all into a single video one day, but for now, I reckon I'll start sharing some of them here 🤠

Hello Bluesky! Here are a few things I've worked on up to 2021; a lot of 3D animation, and some other disciplines...