jake rodkin
@rodkin.online
Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs
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Back in 2015 when the 360 was only ten years old, I started rebuilding blades in Unity for a timer-based trivia game, as part of an Idle Thumbs game jam. You’d dig through a giant blades interface for the answer. Like all jam games I’ve ever attempted, I didn’t finish, but had a couple fun evenings.
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Back in 2015 when the 360 was only ten years old, I started rebuilding blades in Unity for a timer-based trivia game, as part of an Idle Thumbs game jam. You’d dig through a giant blades interface for the answer. Like all jam games I’ve ever attempted, I didn’t finish, but had a couple fun evenings.
That’s how we covered it on our podcast back when it came out www.idlethumbs.net/idlethumbs/e...
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
That’s how we covered it on our podcast back when it came out www.idlethumbs.net/idlethumbs/e...
To say I am consumed by the cast of Dispatch would be a true statement, and canon.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
To say I am consumed by the cast of Dispatch would be a true statement, and canon.
Nothing has felt better this decade than completing the BOTW tutorial and having this quest pop
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Nothing has felt better this decade than completing the BOTW tutorial and having this quest pop
You must believe in the power of the mustache. A listener to my old podcast made this cross stitch and it’s been on my desk ever since.
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You must believe in the power of the mustache. A listener to my old podcast made this cross stitch and it’s been on my desk ever since.
Glad to hear this isn’t true
September 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Glad to hear this isn’t true
Up way too late encountering the end of Monkey Island 2 when I was around 11 years old.
August 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Up way too late encountering the end of Monkey Island 2 when I was around 11 years old.
It’s always a surprise to see an old debug screen years and years later. This is not a fancy one but is what we saw when booting Tales of Monkey Island every day for the ~year it was in development.
August 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It’s always a surprise to see an old debug screen years and years later. This is not a fancy one but is what we saw when booting Tales of Monkey Island every day for the ~year it was in development.
View from my old apartment
July 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
View from my old apartment
SFMOMA had an exhibit on Sea Ranch a few years ago and I really wanted to quietly add a photo of the Pacifica Taco Bell
May 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
SFMOMA had an exhibit on Sea Ranch a few years ago and I really wanted to quietly add a photo of the Pacifica Taco Bell
Here’s most of my surviving collection. Goes a couple layers deep back there.
March 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Here’s most of my surviving collection. Goes a couple layers deep back there.
I think this list is accurate, though I’d trade the top two around based on mood. And shoutout to Last Rites for its incredible airplane fuselage interior.
March 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I think this list is accurate, though I’d trade the top two around based on mood. And shoutout to Last Rites for its incredible airplane fuselage interior.
You love to see it. (I love to see it.)
March 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
You love to see it. (I love to see it.)
It was a different time
February 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It was a different time
I have “real” versions of a bunch of the books from Firewatch, that were put together by @gregmaletic.bsky.social for a heavily themed press event we did before the game came out. (The contents are just random books but the covers are real!)
February 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I have “real” versions of a bunch of the books from Firewatch, that were put together by @gregmaletic.bsky.social for a heavily themed press event we did before the game came out. (The contents are just random books but the covers are real!)
Never forget E For All
February 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Never forget E For All
