A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one:

It takes a special kind of asshole to set off fireworks at 1:30am.

What if I bought the totally not intended for kids dinosaur table lamp?

Reposting cos it's that time again 👻

Hey everyone, I'm still available for freelance UI/UX or illustrative projects! I can take UX, UI vis dev, motion and art direction work. Looking for short as well as long-term projects 💪 ✨ Check out my work → cedrepradier.com 📮 Drop me a message → [email protected]

Finally wrapped up Alien Earth. And while I enjoyed a lot of the setup, the last 2 episodes fell pretty flat and didn't really pay things off in a satisying way.

Forever wishing I could wipe this game from my memory to experience if fresh again. But this is the next best thing.

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

You miss one leg day and the next one feels like you've never trained legs in your life.

Follow-up reminder: if you want to use alt text but keep forgetting, there's a setting for that!

Irregular reminder that alt text on images is a valuable accessibility tool, and also lets your images show in search results or respect mute lists. For instance, I found the below image by searching "capybara alt text".

Hey Brits! I'm sure you've seen this, but quite a lot of us don't dig this move. I certainly don't. Seems invasive and quite open to abuse (and hacking!), especially looking at the shower in power and the worse shower waiting in the wings. Yeesh. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Happy Friday, time for a picnic ☀️ #StarWarsJediSurvivor

I'm listening

Spent far too many hours grinding out a gear set for a job I barely even play but as soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it.

what movie do you consider “perfect”?

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. The fact that they canned it after one season and left the story unfinished is frankly criminal. I mean it literally has the greatest theme tune of all time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K0...

Today we're repping @aftermath.site and @kim-hu.com 🤍

them: we'll be there between 9 and 12 me, not wanting to start anything until they're gone:

Team Cherry, to the best of my knowledge, never diminished the work of contractors. Let that be clear. It was brainrotted assholes who want to insist that gamedev “isn’t that hard” and “only needed a few devs and a handful of contractors” to get this masterpiece out the door. Don’t fall for it.

Semiotic Standard icons designed by Ron Cobb for the USCSS Nostromo in Alien (1979). They're everywhere in the USCSS Maginot from Alien Earth (2025).

You ever see an ad for a cool shirt and when you click through to buy it you realise it's for kids?

Thinkin' about a boxed, teal Gameboy Color that I saw for sale yesterday. Box looked pretty much perfect but I'd need to ask to see the Gameboy itself. Assuming it's equal condition, would you pay £150? 🤔

Hey folks, my availability opens up in September and onwards! If you're looking for a freelance UI Artist or Illustrator, I would love to help! 😊I love working on Game UI, Posters, environments, you name it! 📨: Hello(@)http://Olliehoff.co.uk 🎨http://Olliehoff.co.uk

four bucks for one of the best games ever made

Quote with your red art 🔴

Ahhh, I see the internet has distilled another batch of pure 200 proof 'my bullshit'... youtu.be/zNXFEJ1xC2E?...

Excited to share I’ve joined Vessel Forge as a mentor! If you are looking to level up your sculpting skills as an environment artist, stay turned for more info. 😊

Finished Clair Obscur 😢

Went to Loxwood Joust at the weekend which also turned out to be my introduction to Trobar De Morte. Genuinely a magical performance so excuse me while this band becomes my entire personality.

I love this stupid game

The new Game UI Database server is now firing on all cylinders, which means updates are finally back on the menu! To mark the occasion, Donkey Kong Bananza, Mario Kart World, Switch 2 Welcome Tour and the Switch 2 OS have all been added to the database! www.gameuidatabase.com

Let's be trade partners since it's actually intuitive now instead of a huge pain in the ass 🙌 2955841919966220

Finally figured out an Unreal thing that's been bugging me for ages and now I feel unstoppable.

Game devs adding 'temp' assets that they're gonna come back and update later

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

My dream ✨

The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

If you see this, post your blue art 🖥️

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw: If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

LORD OF THE RISO

Not using alt text in general is annoying, not using WHEN YOU ARE SCREENCAPPING is even more annoying. You can cut and paste from the original source or use the OCR that is built into the app! There is no excuse!

classic rule of thumb for writing alt text when you're lost, lands every time. i guess we just need the familiar social context, rather than thinking of it as an academic writing assignment

Friends, I ordered a Steam Deck. What have been your favourite games to play on it?

If anyone needs a frankly astonishing 2D artist for UI, concept or any other need then @wiloverton.bsky.social is your man. Apart from his immense skills he is one of the loveliest chaps in all the Game Dev industry. He also has some killer anecdotes from many a year being in and around games.

Tonight!

CDPR is hiring for a bunch of game jobs, y'all. No writing roles on my team at this moment, but lots of other positions. It's a really good place to land www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

As I’ve spent the last 7.5 years assembling the AAA team at Zenimax Online, I have a deep understanding of their strengths/passions and where those might line up with YOUR team’s needs. So if you’re in #talent #recruiting or just hiring for your project, my DMs are open! RIP to the best team ever.