Thomas Beekers
thomasbeekers.com
Thomas Beekers
@thomasbeekers.com
Videogame dev in Taipei, Seahawks fan
Narrative Director at Super Evil Megacorp
Before that: Wasteland 2 & 3, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Clockwork Revolution, Interkosmos, Metamorphosis
He/him
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The Xbox Indie Selects program has selected TMNT: Splintered Fate to be included in their July Selects Collection on the Xbox Store. Learn more here: s://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/07/30/xbox-indie-selects-july-2025/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/07/30/xbox-indie-selects-july-2025/

@idatxbox.bsky.social ‪@xbox.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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if you're a game dev outraged at how blithely the NYT is producing misinformation about the AI and video games, wait til you hear about their coverage of Palestine
July 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Uh-huh. Even if this eternal "soon" finally delivers rather than be a neverending threat... It's been possible to make these worlds with procedural generation for years now. It's nothing new, nor is it answering the question "ok but does anyone wants to play endless content with no intentionality"
ign.com IGN @ign.com · Jun 4
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney believes small teams will soon be able to use AI prompts to make video games on the scale of Nintendo masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
AI Prompts Will Soon Let a 10-Person Team Build a Game Like Breath of the Wild Where the AI Is Doing All the Dialogue and You Just Write Character Synopsis, Tim Sweeney Predicts
bit.ly
June 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Blessing everyone's timeline with this Taipei shop doggo. He's got goods if you got pets
May 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Saw Sinners over the weekend and can only join the chorus in recommending seeing it, especially now in cinema where it's an intense experience. The first half especially, with its engrossing performances and incredibly well-paced, detailed worldbuilding is worth the price of admission by itself.
April 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It is an interesting socio-economic system we built where I look at a delusional madman with ambitions to found a nation/become God and can only think "well he's probably doing less harm than most billionaires out there"
Among Bryan Johnson’s humble goals: Become God.
March 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Drop a fight scene you love.

Jackie Chan vs Kwan Yun and Ron Smoorenburg in Who Am I?

A lot driven by nostalgia I don't doubt - I loved this movie as a kid and grew up in Rotterdam. But I still love the mix of martial arts, music and usual Jackie Chan physical comedy

youtu.be/L0FWMk79ELo?...
March 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Working through string revisions with one of my narrative designers today reminded me of a foundational truth here - you have to understand the meaning, intent behind your writing choices, to have purpose in writing. LLMs by definition can only produce facsimiles, but never understand why.
I went to a couple of genAI talks at GDC and came away feeling very secure in my job. The amount of labor that goes into "co-creating" stories with AI simply isn't worth the effort.
March 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The sheer excitement over Gigi is delightful. Always a joy to see people loving these moments.
Shout out to @stumpt.tv for playing our new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate DLC #ad

Watch the full video 🏑💥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA58...
February 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Get ready for Punk Yard chaos in TMNT: Splintered Fate TOMORROW

💥 Casey Jones and the Junkyard Jam DLC
🏑 Out Feb 5
👁️ Watch/Comment Full Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQz4...
Casey Jones and the Junkyard Jam - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate DLC Trailer
YouTube video by Super Evil Megacorp
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Inhumane, horrible and propagandistic. Trans rights are human rights.
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.

It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.

I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.

Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you see this quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This deserves to go viral on the excellent use of this handshake alone.
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Pretty noticeable earthquake in Taipei shaking the place for a bit. All good in Taipei hope the same everywhere else!
January 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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🚨COVER REVEAL!🚨

We're delighted to reveal the UK paperback cover for SAVAGE BOUNTY, the second instalment in @mattfnwallace.bsky.social's epic fantasy trilogy - SAVAGE REBELLION!

Cover art by Head Design.

Releasing May 2025! Available to preorder now: https://geni.us/savagebounty
January 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Super (Evil) ideas can come from anyone ✨😈 #gamedev

Our 100% remote approach means our team is spread across the world, our shared goal is to create innovative and impactful gaming experiences
January 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I would not necessarily have guessed a side story involving adult baby play, diapers and shaved ice would end up with me bawling my eyes out at a beautifully renditioned emotional crescendo, but that is the magic of Like a Dragon...
January 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Good writeup here on the unsustainable ceiling-capped graphics arms race of our industry (until the eye-rolling "AI will fix it". Rofl. Lmao)
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/a...
Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good (Gift Article)
The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is in Steam Winter Sale! ❄️

35% off until Jan 2
🐢 store.steampowered.com/app/2996040/...
December 19, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.
December 15, 2024 at 9:40 AM
As is so often the case with anything AI, the claims outpaces the actual. What they built is an overly expensive way to solve an already solved issue (procgen) for a question no one asked (greyboxing is a better solution for rapid prototyping). And even with choices editing the cracks show...
Google has developed an AI tool that generates fully playable 3D worlds

www.eurogamer.net/google-has-d...
December 7, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Forget the week - time to start working at Leonard Williams Defensive Player of the Year campaign? #GoHawks
December 1, 2024 at 9:08 PM
I have such a soft spot for Avalanche's Mad Max game. Mad Max is formative and when you hit a convoy in this game- it just beautifully hits the Mad Max vibe. A steal at 2 bucks. store.steampowered.com/app/234140/M...
December 1, 2024 at 7:50 PM
The amount of "Seahawks have never played a normal game" in this one. We're so back 😎
December 1, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Sometimes you just run into a tree and you know it would have many interesting tales to tell.
November 28, 2024 at 11:14 AM