Christiaan Moleman
@ninjadodo.bsky.social
I make games and animation. www.ninjadodo.net
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ninjadodo
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Christiaan Moleman
@ninjadodo.bsky.social
· Oct 18
By way of introduction, I do animation for games and also make my own indie games when I can find the time. Some stuff I've made / am making below, like this short test with my flour sack rig: #animation #indiedev #gamedev #blender
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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games people, if you could talk to a game developer about their craft for an hour, who would it be, and what would you ask them about?
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
games people, if you could talk to a game developer about their craft for an hour, who would it be, and what would you ask them about?
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Great news for the #StopKillingGames campaign. Signatures are looking good. A ton already verified with only 3 % being discarded so far. Two biggest countries still to be counted. Everything points to the EU Initiative going through.
Stop Killing Games offshoot "confident" EU petition will progress to legislative phase, with almost half of signatures now verified
Stop Destroying Videogames says it is "confident" its petition will progress the legislative phase.
www.eurogamer.net
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Great news for the #StopKillingGames campaign. Signatures are looking good. A ton already verified with only 3 % being discarded so far. Two biggest countries still to be counted. Everything points to the EU Initiative going through.
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Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots):
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
Wildwood First Look: Where Magic Takes Flight | LAIKA Studios
YouTube video by LAIKA Studios
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots):
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
Outcast (1999) score by Lennie Moore: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Outcast (1999) score by Lennie Moore: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Old video but I just saw it. Really neat way to do more dynamic interactive music in unpredictable strategy games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGT...
Starship Troopers Terran Command - Behind the Music
YouTube video by Kejero
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Old video but I just saw it. Really neat way to do more dynamic interactive music in unpredictable strategy games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGT...
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
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something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects
September 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects
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Only 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD.
Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch.
Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch.
Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
September 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Only 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD.
Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch.
Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch.
Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
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With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
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I keep thinking about "3D impressionism" as a much needed term for the way we think about art direction in games
To me measuring how "better" or "worse" the graphics are only in terms of their relation to reality is like claiming the photo of a street in Arles is objectively superior to Van Gogh
To me measuring how "better" or "worse" the graphics are only in terms of their relation to reality is like claiming the photo of a street in Arles is objectively superior to Van Gogh
September 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I keep thinking about "3D impressionism" as a much needed term for the way we think about art direction in games
To me measuring how "better" or "worse" the graphics are only in terms of their relation to reality is like claiming the photo of a street in Arles is objectively superior to Van Gogh
To me measuring how "better" or "worse" the graphics are only in terms of their relation to reality is like claiming the photo of a street in Arles is objectively superior to Van Gogh
Mysterious Cities of Gold: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ycG...
September 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Mysterious Cities of Gold: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ycG...
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The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
I would rather play a game with rough unpolished mechanics that lets me visit an interesting world than an ultra-polished game that has the same boring setting and same story and characters I've seen a million times. Show me something new.
August 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I would rather play a game with rough unpolished mechanics that lets me visit an interesting world than an ultra-polished game that has the same boring setting and same story and characters I've seen a million times. Show me something new.
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In Donkey Kong Bananza, Pauline's idle animations evolve over the course of the game as she learns to be more comfortable around DK. In the beginning, she looks around worriedly. After Sublayer 300, she starts ruffling his hair, and after Sublayer 1400, starts tickling him.
August 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In Donkey Kong Bananza, Pauline's idle animations evolve over the course of the game as she learns to be more comfortable around DK. In the beginning, she looks around worriedly. After Sublayer 300, she starts ruffling his hair, and after Sublayer 1400, starts tickling him.
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I feel like the unspoken fourth line of this one is that it's impossible to please everyone and if your only goal is to hammer down every feedback mole that pops up you will end often with everyone unhappy. Have your audience and creative goals in mind. Not everything NEEDS fixing
a friend of mine who's worked on a somewhat recent free multiplayer game says this about player feedback that I feel like is very astute
hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want
hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want
August 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I feel like the unspoken fourth line of this one is that it's impossible to please everyone and if your only goal is to hammer down every feedback mole that pops up you will end often with everyone unhappy. Have your audience and creative goals in mind. Not everything NEEDS fixing
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Hitman VR makes you feel so slick
I can't believe you can do this
I can't believe you can do this
August 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hitman VR makes you feel so slick
I can't believe you can do this
I can't believe you can do this
The giant rat from King's Quest 1. You had to type "give cheese" quick, or he eats you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulq4...
August 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The giant rat from King's Quest 1. You had to type "give cheese" quick, or he eats you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulq4...
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seeing a lot of folks on here sharing things they work on without adding links to it, doing links in comments, links in bio, etc. but unlike twitter I’m pretty sure bluesky doesn’t punish you for making people go off the website! please include your links
August 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
seeing a lot of folks on here sharing things they work on without adding links to it, doing links in comments, links in bio, etc. but unlike twitter I’m pretty sure bluesky doesn’t punish you for making people go off the website! please include your links
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In that context, when i look, right now, at a group of hobbyist journalists who, as far as I can tell, are not game developers at all, pivoting from calling mastercard to attacking an individual itch employee for having the gall to disagree with them, leveraging their power solely for that purpose
August 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
In that context, when i look, right now, at a group of hobbyist journalists who, as far as I can tell, are not game developers at all, pivoting from calling mastercard to attacking an individual itch employee for having the gall to disagree with them, leveraging their power solely for that purpose
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Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons
Today is an excellent day to be reminded how important @itch.io is and how lucky we are a platform like this exists, where creators (rather than customers) come first. Share an itch.io project you like! Make a purchase!
Download the latest indie games
itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...
itch.io
August 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons
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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
A little panther jaguar trot cycle I've been working on #animation #b3d:
August 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A little panther jaguar trot cycle I've been working on #animation #b3d:
"If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you."
I can think of a couple (HL2, VTMB, Grim Fandango, Deus Ex, so many good ones) This is one's a classic: Psychonauts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVX...
I can think of a couple (HL2, VTMB, Grim Fandango, Deus Ex, so many good ones) This is one's a classic: Psychonauts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVX...
August 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you."
I can think of a couple (HL2, VTMB, Grim Fandango, Deus Ex, so many good ones) This is one's a classic: Psychonauts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVX...
I can think of a couple (HL2, VTMB, Grim Fandango, Deus Ex, so many good ones) This is one's a classic: Psychonauts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVX...