Romain Barrilliot
skacky.bsky.social
Romain Barrilliot
@skacky.bsky.social
Level Designer @ Arkane Lyon | Previously 3D Realms, Streumon Studio | Project Director on The Black Parade for Thief | Opinions are my own | Immersive Sims forever!
My new Thief 2 Fan Mission, Reflection in Red, is out! I am very proud of this one, and it is by far my most ambitious work in the Dark Engine to date. www.ttlg.com/forums/showt...
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The warehouses' yard. It's a freezing night out there.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Wage Cage.
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Haven't done any work on this one in a week, so I made an interior space for one of the warehouses.
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Another angle. The orange beam of light is emitted from a nearby lighthouse.
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Positively miserable 🫡
October 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Records finally came in the mail, and it's heavyweights this month.

Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim (gothic rock)
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium (psychedelic gothic rock)
Nefilim - Zoon (gothic rock/industrial metal/death metal)
Olhava - Reborn (post-atmospheric black metal)
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Ah yes so now it’s become plain fiction. I’ve never seen anyone say this about the mod ever, and I read *everything*.
October 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Huge icon. His iconic poster for The Thing is my phone’s background.
October 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
They play right next to the Arkane offices! (Same building in fact)
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Continuing T2X. One of the things I like most about it is that its new setting, Sunnyport, is quite distinct from The City in terms of mood. Sunnyport has wider streets with shorter buildings, and is snowed in when you first arrive. The game really sells how cold it feels.
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Well I've started yet another playthrough of Thief 2X: Shadows of the Metal Age, along with the other members of Feuillade. I've always loved T2X, despite the fact it's too easy.

Stellar production value for an early 2000s mod, too. I very highly recommend checking it out if you haven't yet.
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm at this point where I'm just walking around the level basking in the atmosphere with no NPCs around to bother me, totally not procrastinating doing patrols and stuff.

(I shot that ground texture, turned out great).
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I highly recommend trying out Pigface. Everything looks and feels so miserable in this game, in a great way of course. The levels are open-ended and fun. I've been an absolute menace picking off goons one by one with my sniper rifle. >:)

For a next update, please allow us to rebind keys. 🙏
September 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I'm almost done with the mission's brushwork, really not much else to do. There's no scripting at all as of yet, though. Anyway, here's a guest bedroom and a flooded cave.
September 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We hiked to a signal tower at the top of steep forest hill the other day. It felt very STALKERish, perfect spot to fish for artifacts and get ambushed by a couple of Bloodsuckers.

Fitness app says climbing up there was equal to 82 flights of stairs.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Here's the picture I took, for reference. This is Sainte Blandine church in Lyon.
September 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Since I'm getting close to the cells limit for my Thief 2 WIP I have to rely on meshes quite a lot, especially for the basement.

Also, I shot some pictures of the church near the office, and made a texture from one of its doorways. The texture is a first pass, I need to tweak it further.
September 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I found some WIP screenshots of the Black Parade while perusing my hard drive. The area featured in the last screenshot is one of the few things that got cut entirely.
September 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I also have Themes From William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which I believe is still their best record yet. This one definitely isn’t darkwave though.
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The darkwave trilogy of Ulver is now complete (The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Flowers of Evil, Liminal Animals).
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well in other news I made this little dining room last night. I want to keep working on the map but I think I'm gonna go to bed instead.
September 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The reclusive lord of the castle's laboratory.
August 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The top of the highest tower
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM