God LinkedIn sucks.

TIL that the event system I've been building is the bones for a sick I/O tool like this. Which I now feel compelled to create as well.

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Is it time that we make the paddles on the back of Edge/Elite controllers standard? I'm thinking with this next generation of consoles, they should be. About time we expand input schemes for devs in the same way that R3/L3 did when those became standard.

This article is a stark reminder that we need another budget bracket name. I was told several times during GDC that my barely 7 figure budget was AA priced. E33 was reportedly made for ~$10mil, which is way more than most indie titles, but a magnitude less than most AAA. So, Indie Deluxe? Indie+?

Now *that's* the stuff. Gorgeous 🤌🏼✨

A reminder for my moots that you are welcome over for espresso any time. You may also pet my dog.

INFLUX REDUX IS 50% OFF IN THE STEAM SALE and it is never going to be CHEAPER THAN THAT so you would be a FOOL not to buy it NOW store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

my current five year plan is to make a game that @jacobgeller.com would mention in a video

This aged predictably. We're no longer doin' freestyle dual-wielding and now doing the 'immersive sim' method. Combat designers, i fuckin' see you.

GDC 2026 was probably the most I've ever felt like I was a part of the game development community, despite being a working professional in the industry for over a decade. Between the talks, the mixers, running into folks in the gardens, and demoing Soul Food - I'm feeling inspired again.

Honestly that's just doing the Yerba circuit the correct way.

We've got some time this afternoon to hang out around the Yerba Buena Gardens. Come hang, enjoy a bubble tea, talk about our cooking-horror game Soul Food and get a sticker for the laptop. Basic Cable Games #GDC #IndieDev

Like some of ya'll, I'll be at GDC from Monday evening - Friday morning. I'll be strollin' around Yerba Buena Gardens and the Expo floor demoing Soul Food and giving out stickers. I've got a calendar that's fillin' up with events, mixers, and meetings - but I'll always make time for friends!

Okay how many of you dorks are going to GDC and when are we gonna hang out? @llanier.bsky.social and I have stickers to handout and a demo for you to play. 😤

The feeling you get when you finally remove the last use case of the Unreal Engine mannequins is a profound one. You've been real good to me, Manny & Quinn.

Doing some more work with Basic Cable Games on their chef character I'm excited to get to this point because I'm FINALLY working on the stylized shading for this, and I can already see a ton of ways to improve and push it towards looking like their concept art

It's Halloween. Here's some WIP violence. 🎃🔪 Soul Food will have Doom-style "glory kills" during combat.

To be clear, I do not fuck with 95% of GenAI for all the reasons most artists don't. But saying there's *no* place for it seems misguided. The day there's a good AI driven UV tool, mocap cleanup tool, or anything that removes the tedium from making 3D art and animations.. I'm interested.

Not out here to try and necessarily defend Embark here, but if you're curious - here's the tech blog they put out in 2020 referencing their internal "scan from video tool" medium.com/embarkstudio...

We're switching to lightmaps

Working on a blockout of the main character for Basic Cable Games on their upcoming izakaya-chef-battling-monsters game, Soul Food! I knew the pants especially were going to present some sculpting difficulties, so I used a @render-ready.com scan of real chef pants as my starting point

Now that I'm actively working on a dual-wielding combat system.. I now understand why it's so rarely done anymore. Good lord.

Get in the poly-soup workflow.

I've been waiting *so long* for this 💙

This is probably a lukewarm take but Andor has the best costuming in sci-fi tv history and it's not even close. Every drip tells a story. I know exactly where I am in the universe just by looking at the clothing.

Sure yeah that stylization is sick but is it *scalable?* Didn't think so.

Hey, your headphones are still on and your music/video stopped playing. You probably didn't notice because of the overwhelming amount of stuff going on in our lives. Just lookin' out for you, fam. Turn it back on and turn it up.

My feed needs more hot takes. I'm looking at you, #gamedev and #gameart folks - give me your hottest takes or unpopular opinions and I'll respond to them. Maybe even in video form if there's enough. 😤

I worked in ExDev for over a decade as a vendor in game art. Now that I work on the first-party side of the same coin, let me tell you: the stigma that people have for outsourcing runs DEEP. Even as a US based artist, at a US based vendor, we were constantly relegated to "special thanks" at BEST.

Paul was an enormous inspiration for me in my early artist days and I constantly measured myself against him. Incredibly ahead of his time and a true taste maker. I was devastated when we lost him and I still think about him and his work all the time. I hope you're resting in peace, Paul.

related: how can i downvote a bluesky post because i don't want to just block them i need passive aggressive way to let them know what they said was dumb

I don't know why the idea of someone just.. talking to an AI/LLM for hours as a way to learn the nuances of anything fills me with dread. Everything I've learned about game development, music, skating, or any of my other countless interests has always come from engaging with that community.

the validation i needed. deep down in my Sicilian ancestry, i've always known.

I do not hear often enough how fucking *diabolical* Klarna, or any BNPL company, is.

Thinking about that EA + Dr. Pepper cross-promotion from 2010 for no particular reason at all. Now you are too. 🖤

Just in case ya'll didn't know that there's definitely designers that still have that Splinter Cell fish tank living rent free in their minds.

When someone asks me what I do in tech art.

might fuck around and package my game today for my friends to play for the first time

there's two types of people in this world: those who love musou games, and those who really just loved Lu Bu from Dynasty Warriors 3

I want to see one of those building-size banners during GDC with a list of every studio that shuttered or laid off staff since 2022. The industry should be ashamed for the absolute bone-headed bad-bets that it made from the pandemic that are *still* causing damage.

forget your zodiac sign what toppings do you put on your MOD pizza

Solo gamedev is cool and all, but making dope shit with your friends? Now *that's* the dream. If you want to watch us make our little horror fueled cooking game. Consider slingin' us a follow.

This meeting could have been a dance off.

Never heard of #followfriday, but here's my pitch. @llanier.bsky.social & I are workin' on an #indiegame where you cook Japanese bar food by day, using otherworldly ingredients you harvest from the creatures that attack your restaurant at night. Come peep the gameplay and concepts on our feeds.

Goood morning! Time to open up shop. 🍜 #gamedev #unrealengine #prototype

How often do you look at the games being made in the industry and ask yourself: You could have made *anything* and you chose... that? 😩I get maximizing sales, playing it safe, etc. It just bums me out.

I don't know which one of you needs to hear this, but please, go play video games. Try some genres you don't normally go for. I promise it'll make you a better game developer.

the worst part of being fully work from home is that im in here with my best drip and no one else can appreciate it