SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

Often times if you play a game with what feels like strange or shortsighted decisions made in it, it’s not due to a wild miscalculation in the planning stage but a late adaptation to some other limitation (time, tech, knock on design changes) and people doing the best with what they have…. 1/2

World Cup attendees, pay respects to our local patron saint.

Anyone laid off, apply to our game studio. Doesn't matter if you don't see a matching role, apply anyway via the "General Dev Application" If you applied before, apply again. You got nothing to lose. www.absurdventures.com/careers

Bungie folks impacted by the layoffs: please let me know if you see anything on our careers page that is a fit for you. I will gladly help with application advice and recommendations: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

if you're an environment artist (UE5) from one of the affected studios and are looking for a stable job, hit me up

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus.

Departing for Thrax.

‘The Orrery of The Seven-Part Pact’ commissioned game board for @possumcreekgames.com and @jdragsky.bsky.social’s upcoming game ‘Seven-Part Pact’ kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/seven-part-pact

Thinking a lot about Bungie and Destiny this week. My heart goes to everyone there right now. I didn’t work there for a long time, but it was a team I sought out because I wanted to learn from them. They are wildly talented artists, and taught me a ton (and gave me a true love for gradients).

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco but now you can use Ping on the minimap

The space between all things. Everything dances in #Iceland. The place where the planet smells freshly baked. If the earth doesn't knock you down with its swaying, the wind will. The only way to stay upright is through dance.

amazing run. I was authentically astonished! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQx_...

This is honestly one of my favorite things about living in South Seattle - sad this didn’t become a permanent fixture, but very happy to see Mayor Wilson extend this to every weekend. Biking between Seward Park and Colman Beach in Washington Summer is 👌

This is also the single best model I can think of to avoid 5/6/7+ year development cycles too - let a team build internal tools, workflows, pipelines, let them iterate, and repeat. Hiring/firing cycles (on top of the human pain) cause us to rebuild the wheel over and over, and is really inefficient.

Orbital Harvest for Kitchen Table magazine

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

If you replace your entire workforce after each project, you’ll never grow the generational talent your studio could be known for. You’ll never be Disney, or Ghibli, or Nintendo.

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The incredible and breath taking Tashkent Metro System in Uzbekistan. Started by the Soviets in the 70s. This is what Public Infrastructure could look like. Im posting more Uzbek images on my photo instagram over the next few weeks www.instagram.com/kellan_outsi...

Derelict Gods of The Northwest

This was the pinnacle of artist tools.

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

Really excellent piece digging into some of the development of Morrowind. I remember playing it as a teenager and being amazed not only at its strange world, but contradictory theologies and histories. It breathed a real life into the entire setting im not sure I’ve ever seen again in a game.

Good news, my studio is hiring for both a Lead Technical Artist and a Senior Rendering Engineer! The bad news is both these roles will likely subject you to me ranting about tonemapping. job-boards.greenhouse.io/cloudchamber... job-boards.greenhouse.io/cloudchamber...

Towerborne is out! I spent the last 4 years on this project. I feel very fortunate to have been part of such an amazing Env Team, we made some really cool stuff! Unfortunately most of us are now also looking for work =/ Anyway, I want to share my first ever Lighting Demo Reel! vimeo.com/1154964572

wizard interview

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

Hey! My job at Moonshot got fragged last week and I am now looking for a new role making stylized Environment Art. Prior to this I was Lead Environment Artist on Overwatch 2, and shipped games with a small team at Torn Banner including Chivalry: Medieval Warfare www.artstation.com/lucasannunzi...

Hey game narrative designers, wanna work on something for Meow Wolf with Devon? Yeah. Yeah, I think you do.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

"Isle" lighting study in Unreal 5.7 www.artstation.com/artwork/eRnyqJ

A video for my lighting study "Isle" www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3wb... Music is "Pìobaireachd Nan Eun" by Brìghde Chaimbeul

"Isle" lighting study in Unreal 5.7 www.artstation.com/artwork/eRnyqJ

Autumn’s Waning 🍂

There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.

Rostlogi — "a Nord woman of no importance" — is a commoner living in Gnaar Mok. She can be found in her shack along with her 6 Barrels, 1 Basket, 1 Crate, and 7 Sacks.

Checked out @deadstaticdrive.com today - not sure I've seen something so immediately stylish and suffused with atmosphere in a long time! Very dreamlike experience so far...

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

With the release of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the time we spent with it at HSL. The version put out by the Chinese Room looks really stunning and I’m excited to try it, and I’m so happy they brought their vision of it over the finish line... 1/3

Let's help those hurt by the halting of SNAP food aid benefits. We'll be collecting non-perishable food and encouraging folks to donate to the Rainier Valley Bank on Saturday, Nov 1 noon - 3 pm at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle. DM me if you'd like to volunteer. cascadiademocratic.org/event/snap-t...

If you've ever faced food insecurity in the past: you know how it stays with you. Things are about to get tough for 40 million people. If you're in a place where you can donate some money (or TIME) to your local food bank, please be really intentional about it in November.

By December, Seattle taxpayers were paying a hefty $4,200 a month per empty room — at a time when thousands of Seattleites were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle Gamedevs! Let's do a COVID-safe (outdoors, masks encouraged) meetup next Tuesday, Aug 26th at 6pm at Tailwind Cafe in Capitol Hill! Tailwind closes at 7 but there are nearby places to grab food\drinks and bring to the courtyard. Public transit encouraged!

On that note, let's also *dive* in another favorite subject of mine: 💧 Water shaders 💧 Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 on the tech-art behind our water visuals in HERDLING:

My contract with Blizzard ends in September. If anyone needs a senior writer/narrative designer with 8 years of experience in AAA game development, I’m here!

Lighting and composition study in @unrealengine.bsky.social using marketplace assets, inspired by western painters like Mark Maggiori. Some breakdowns here: lnkd.in/gvE_DEX5