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Jake!
@spriteborne.bsky.social
Game Designer, he/him

SXSW Gaming Awards 2x nominee, IMB alumnus, industry panelist, showed off my game at the Smithsonian that one time

Email: Jake@Spriteborne.com

www.Spriteborne.com

www.Pickaxe.website

#indiegamedev #gunpla
Now THAT’S a rifle

In-Era Thunderbolt 2.0
#gunpla #ガンプラ #plamo
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trobbio, First Sinner, and The Unravelled down

First Sinner is tied for my highest deaths record at 11 (with budget Ornstein & Smough)
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I heard you can miss things if you don’t do them before you get into Act 3, so I did all of those zones before the Cogwork Dancers. That is…very much not the right order lol. I trounced them immediately
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
How are you liking the Arcanadea kits? There are a few on my radar but I haven’t gotten any yet
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
CG Trader is a very sketchy website but I had no idea it was *that* sketchy. Thank you for spreading awareness
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’m really proud of you. You did good work here and it was a pleasure offering you the help I could
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I have had the good fortune of getting to talk to or read interviews from most of my favorite developers

My favorite question, though, is: What’s the closest you’ve come to complete failure and what prevented it?

You get a lot of answers about champions. I like that
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I can always tell when I’ve been doing a lot of platforming because my thumb gets a very specific kind of abraded from doing all of the slide inputs from one face button to another
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Right? What they really mean is “everywhere but China” which I guess does involve crossing a sea via most possible shipping routes

To China, even Japan is technically “overseas”
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Body assembly complete ✅

As far as instruction manual pages go, we are less than halfway done. The most ridiculous parts are yet to come. I’m pumped

In-Era Thunderbolt 2.0
#gunpla #ガンプラ #plamo
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Happy birthday!

We get a few regular squirrel visitors to our deck/bird feeders. I got this picture of one the other day munching on a nut
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Every single character has been recast repeatedly so it’s always felt like a mythos to me rather than a continuous, linear story. Each cast has had a linear story within their roles and that’s it
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I cleared Mount Fay, Sands of Karak, Voltnest, Memorium, and Putrefied Ducts all today 😌
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
“Ew look at all of this banding” and other statements from steak sickos

(It’s me, a steak sicko)
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
To me, the friction is a feature. If I don’t want it enough to deal with the one minute it takes to input it into the spreadsheet, I probably shouldn’t be buying it
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
wait until you see the backpack/manta ray in action lol
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I have one of these, too. I also catalogue when I got the kit, where it came from, and how much I paid for it. I have pivot tables to tell me everything I could possibly want to know. I also track whether I’ve gotten the third party water slides yet or not, which is super useful!
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Arms, shoulders, and torso

I like the developing asymmetry. I bet this is gonna look great when it’s built and posed, with the high contrast asymmetry drawing the eye in different ways

In-Era Thunderbolt 2.0
#gunpla #ガンプラ #plamo
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Quick mid-detailing shot for a PSA: DSPIAE soft tip markers work great on this plastic, but don’t expect a friction clean. This is what it looks like with friction only. You will still need a cleaning agent (I use Solven)

In-Era Thunderbolt 2.0
#gunpla #ガンプラ #plamo
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What’s it like to know with absolute certainty that your career is over?
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It’s pretty rad so far. I’m almost done with the body and that’s like, not even half the build. The manta / Green Goblin air board is half the build itself
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I still use Duolingo but give them precisely $0 for that reason. That said, as a direct comparison Duo just gives you new stuff while Busuu actually teaches you how the language works and why things are a certain way. It’s much more thorough
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Very subtle, much grace
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM