The coolest building in London. maps.app.goo.gl/bYtYcKn3dCxh...

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My first feature of the year explores the phenomenon of Quake Brutalist Jam for @theguardian.com, and how the FPS mapping community is keeping old-school level design alive. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Spawn points somehow got offset

Cheeky ride into central London as somehow the weather has been nice 2 days in a row 👌

The stars aligned! A weekend with good weather so got out on the bike for a bit. Bloody hell bicycles are good you guys

Heh, stumbled upon Megabonk on steam. It has a demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3405340/...

Cool mossy bridleway outside Berkhamsted last summer. I miss the sun :(

Standing on Chanctobury ring, 200mm zoom towards Brighton. Can see the start of the seven sisters in the background. Bonus mountain biker going past the pig farm on the South Downs Way :D

Water at 1/2000 shutter speed looks like alien goo

Re-reading the Ravenor trilogy again and came across this incredible artwork of his chair. Had something pretty damn close to this in my head! ravenor.artstation.com/projects/N5Q...

First day back at work tomorrow so of course I can't sleep 🫠

Really cool exploration into the forced perspective shot with a moving camera, mostly known from LOTR. Also touches on some interesting side subjects about the golden era of dvd bts and the loss of showing how the "movie magic"is made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUu...

Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel in Atlanta GA, USA by architect John Portman (1985) r/brutalism

Spent the last 3 hours cleaning out so much crap from my house. So many empty boxes from things I've bought over the years that I thought I might sell on but never did. 3 bags of clothes going to the charity shop. And a massive re-arrangement of my computer area. Feels good!

Finding a lot of new level designers on Bsky through QBJ3. Hello brush monkeys 😁

QBJ3 has a wild start map. Such intricate details and some lovely functional additions to Quake such as blanking out teleporters for maps you've played (useful when there are 70+ maps!) and each teleporter giving you a rough playtime estimate and difficulty rating. Also, disabled access!

Anyone want to make a Half-Life 2 map from this 👀

What an absolutely incredible turn out from the Quake community! It's gonna take me months to get through this

Starting the year by overloading my bike and cycling to London worked out great. Maybe my legs would disagree

Happy new year folks 🌄

New blog post: "interest sources", contextual NPC interactions, as deployed by me in @sleightofhand.game and other things. Here is one way that you, too, can keep your code from ballooning while actively encouraging your design aspirations to balloon www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sou...

I'm actually gonna have a non party related Nye and then ride my bike home to London on New year's day. Starting 2026 positively I hope. Then I get to find out if I have a job or not, and how many of my friends I'll have to say goodbye to because the games industry is a turd.

Another one going into my folder titled "when envart says my building is silly and cannot exist"

A great feed indeed ☺️

Pedalled up to chanctonbury ring and took some snaps

SO WISE

Steyning bostal. A brutal climb but you are rewarded with this...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays all 🎄🎁

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...

Finally the sun came out yesterday so made the most of it.

still looking for level design work! I can work in Unreal, Unity, and probably whatever in-house engine you'll throw at me. I have worked on DLC for Sniper Elite 5, various community mod projects, and custom maps for TF2 and Half-Life 2. portfolio ➡️ iibo.games

Hope Sven still has that set of plate armour handy :D

The fact that Exo Rally Championship is my no.3 played game this year and its a playtest build should hopefully say a lot about how incredible that game is!

Alright gang, there's a Senior Level Designer opening on my team. You know the drill. 👇 Please pass this along and AMA* jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions...

Finally a nice weekend to get out on the bike. I really, really needed that!

The Reckoning Update is now live - available on Steam and Epic Games Store. New content, fresh challenges, and improvements await. What’s new in the update: www.theastronauts.com/2028/12/witc... To celebrate the release, Witchfire is currently 20% off on both storefronts. Happy hunting.

The amount of failure in this clip is astounding :D and I didn't even have any defibs to help the poor person out afterwards.

Melee combat 👀

Concept art for the Weyland-Yutani #outpost in #Predator #Badlands

Remedy, take my money!

Doing well tonight. Winning.

A while back I started a possible entry into Quake Brutalist Jam #3. It was a compact concrete cube based on the works of sculptor David Umemoto. It looked kinda cool but I couldn't work out good gameplay (too many stairs). Abandoned for now, might revisit... #quake #quakeart #qbj3

Some screenshots of my #Quake map for the #qbj3 map jam

Pedalled a lot this year

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