Steve de Niese
@stevedeniese.bsky.social
Lead/Game dev at Metal Pandas Studio. Founder and Creative Director at Assemblo. Sometime solo game dev. Programmer, artist, musician. Melbourne, Australia. 🇦🇺
https://linktr.ee/letterafterz
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My son just turned 6 and loved PAX as a surprise Saturday birthday present. Turns out he’s got his Mum’s skill of getting all the free things!
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
My son just turned 6 and loved PAX as a surprise Saturday birthday present. Turns out he’s got his Mum’s skill of getting all the free things!
It’s the little things that make me happy, like achievement hunting irl
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
It’s the little things that make me happy, like achievement hunting irl
Ain’t no party quite like an AGDAs party.
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Ain’t no party quite like an AGDAs party.
Stoked to be back at GCAP after missing it last year. Great to see all the awesome things happening in the Aussie gamedev space. If you see me around come say hey!
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Stoked to be back at GCAP after missing it last year. Great to see all the awesome things happening in the Aussie gamedev space. If you see me around come say hey!
I just drew a quick lil cowboy ant in pen this morning, for no particular reason. I’m pretty happy with him.
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I just drew a quick lil cowboy ant in pen this morning, for no particular reason. I’m pretty happy with him.
Hitting up a different kind of book to what I usually read. Found this one hanging out on the bookshelf and couldn’t resist the cover, no idea what I’m going to be in for here…
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hitting up a different kind of book to what I usually read. Found this one hanging out on the bookshelf and couldn’t resist the cover, no idea what I’m going to be in for here…
Yeww! Just hit 1k days, you’d imagine my Japanese would be better than it is haha
September 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Yeww! Just hit 1k days, you’d imagine my Japanese would be better than it is haha
So it turns out this card game I was working on back in 2018 was way closer to finished than I remembered. All it needed was a rule book to be finished…
September 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
So it turns out this card game I was working on back in 2018 was way closer to finished than I remembered. All it needed was a rule book to be finished…
Haha Gog’s back to school campaign- aimed at the parent being able to game while the kids are at school.
September 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Haha Gog’s back to school campaign- aimed at the parent being able to game while the kids are at school.
Got up bright and early this morning to help Ash get set up for a great show today. Such an awesome spot.
August 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Got up bright and early this morning to help Ash get set up for a great show today. Such an awesome spot.
I’ve played enough puzzle games to know that my wife clearly has a colour coded lock somewhere around here and I now know how to open it if I could just find it…
August 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I’ve played enough puzzle games to know that my wife clearly has a colour coded lock somewhere around here and I now know how to open it if I could just find it…
I’m no food photographer, but man I’m loving this salmon and eggs from my mates’ chickens for breakfast this morning.
August 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I’m no food photographer, but man I’m loving this salmon and eggs from my mates’ chickens for breakfast this morning.
Haha literally idly patting my cat almost identically to this while reading this post
August 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Haha literally idly patting my cat almost identically to this while reading this post
DK sure has some junk in the trunk.
July 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
DK sure has some junk in the trunk.
I remember playing Gods back in the 90s and being absolutely blown away by the graphics.
July 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I remember playing Gods back in the 90s and being absolutely blown away by the graphics.
My 5 year old is getting good on the old camera. Got to have an anniversary photo with Ash.
July 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My 5 year old is getting good on the old camera. Got to have an anniversary photo with Ash.
Reminds me of this stored deep in my memories.
July 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Reminds me of this stored deep in my memories.
My current mood is ‘use kazoo
July 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My current mood is ‘use kazoo
Great way to start off the weekend.
July 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Great way to start off the weekend.
“What name for your coffee”
“Steve”
“Steve”
June 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“What name for your coffee”
“Steve”
“Steve”
Imagine going into a parallel universe, but the only difference is that George Lucas went with a slightly different Darth Vader helmet design.
June 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Imagine going into a parallel universe, but the only difference is that George Lucas went with a slightly different Darth Vader helmet design.
Little bit of an impulse buy cause my wife is persuasive.
June 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Little bit of an impulse buy cause my wife is persuasive.
Woo, pretty pleased with myself,especially managing to maintain it (with some lighter kanji practice) on my post surgery days.
(with maybe one or two steak freezes but shh)
(with maybe one or two steak freezes but shh)
June 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Woo, pretty pleased with myself,especially managing to maintain it (with some lighter kanji practice) on my post surgery days.
(with maybe one or two steak freezes but shh)
(with maybe one or two steak freezes but shh)
I’m obsessed with these
juicy lil shelf merging animations Alex dropped in. I can’t stop playing with them.
juicy lil shelf merging animations Alex dropped in. I can’t stop playing with them.
June 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I’m obsessed with these
juicy lil shelf merging animations Alex dropped in. I can’t stop playing with them.
juicy lil shelf merging animations Alex dropped in. I can’t stop playing with them.