How was this 6 years ago? 💀

who up fracturing they compound

who up getting Adam Jensen-ed (me)

They say he’s back in his features writing era. I spoke to @harvey1966.bsky.social and @lizardengland.bsky.social and then wrote 1300 words about video game ladders, for Eurogamer. www.eurogamer.net/the-descent-...

The game industry is so fucking back

The only downside to adding the lighting-only debug mode is that every time a chunk of level gets built I can't help myself from toggling it over and over lol

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

All of the UE6 chatter was getting me down, but I realised I'm still rocking Unreal 4.27 for my game, so I guess it won't effect me? 😅

Thirty Flights of Loving update! 👉 it's now Steam Deck Verified! 👉 Gravity Bone (included in the download) now has developer commentary! 👉 Fixes to the save/load system! store.steampowered.com/app/214700/T... Big thanks to Ethan Lee www.flibitijibibo.com for helping make this update happen

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The SENTRY Dev Transmission for May is here! steamcommunity.com/games/125268...

Sorry, I've been a bit quiet lately - just busy working on things. Should have more to share soon. Enjoy the weather 💀

pretty pleased with how dino movement is coming together. no physics, no IK, no path post-processing. Just simple A* pathfinding, some additive head/tail bend animations, and a looot of carefully tweaked code lol youtu.be/GtXeTjHmBRo

A (somewhat simplified) look at the light baking in Compound Fracture. All entirely custom, vertex based, and completely separate from Unity's light baking.

One of my last proper twitter posts was very accurate. It was exactly like that!

[putting on my "big brain" hat] Star fox characters are meant to look kinda weird and uncanny because I'm pretty sure they're based on British marionette sci-fi shows like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet

Here's what the team have been up to in April (aside from eating lots of Easter chocolate 🍫): store.steampowered.com/news/app/125...

I’ve had a week off work and I’ve been playing the following 3 games obsessively: - Demon’s Souls - Marathon - Slay the Spire There’s some kinda awesome overlap there giving me some ideas for the future!

Love low poly pigeon

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

There's a lot to admire about Samson: A Tyndalston Story, a flawed open world crime caper with with a lot of neat ideas. But is it this year's Wheelman, or is it this year's "getting tetanus from a rusty claw hammer"? youtu.be/DLvz4aXJV8Q?...

Check out this video from Splattercatgaming: youtu.be/S5xNS5ETKOQ?...

I’m making the argument now because I truly believe it: every single-player stealth fan owes it to themselves to try Marathon. www.rockpapershotgun.com/marathon-isn...

Latest Dev Transmission incoming! store.steampowered.com/news/app/125...

How was this 6 years ago? 💀

New trailer for "The Ghost In The Shell" anime series by Science Saru studio. Coming on Prime Video in July 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZn...

I was reminded of this classic today. Simpler times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiAR...

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater shipments and digital sales top two million www.gematsu.com/2026/03/meta...

Somewhat unexpected, but I'm actually really into Marathon. First game in a while where I've been itching to get back in and have "one more go".

Mother 3 mentioned on nintendo dot com www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.

I'm starting to fill up my freelance calendar for next month onwards. Get in touch if you need an extremely experienced and adaptable freelance games developer.

Loading up that level I was looking at before the break

December update is up! A quiet month that ended up revealing a progression design blind spot in SENTRY #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSBj...

30% off David Lynch titles at The Criterion Collection buff.ly/Nk5K3Cx

Game artists used to work around CRT TVs. Many techniques allowed them to reach more detailed and smooth lines. These ceased when CRT was replaced by LCD early 2010s

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

Same.

I missed #screenshotsaturday but I started working on a thing for a bit of fun. I've been really enjoying the new Protomen album... 😅

I have republished a level design case study breaking down my process from blockout through to playtesting/iteration on a multiplayer map. It focuses on readability, pacing, and controlling engagement while mechanics were still developing #gamedev noonan.design/level-design...