As the year closes out with the uncertainty of what the next year year will bring in my career, taking the time to connect with my peers at BAFTA has remained a constant highlight. The conversations are always engaging and inciteful, and keep me focused on moving forwards.

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This one has tickled my interest since popping up on my radar. The gameplay loops and art style very much my thing. The Gunk via Powerwash Simulator & Blue Prince?

#WIPWednesday Building up some Hive Guard to deal with some pesky Chaos Knights. Got to get 6 built and painted up along with the Biovore by the end of the weekend. #WarhammerCommunity #MiniaturePainting #Tyranids

The key to getting a great run in a #roguelite is to think "I'll just do a quick run before bed" Boom, you'll be over an hour in, made progress to new areas and multiple unlocks, all at the cost of any decent sleep...

Hey folks - I am around for work from mid September so if you need for your game: -Technical environment work -VFX work -Level design DM me or get me at my email address Jamie.degen(at)gmail.com Reshares of this are greatly appreciated!

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? I'll be saved, but I'm guessing wherever I am is getting flattened.

If you see me at the club, this is what you'll find

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

I've been focusing on improving my airbrush control, and now at a point that I think getting battle ready can be handled almost entirely with airbrushing, which will be a massive time saver. Airbrushed contrast paint almost feels like cheating. #WarhammerCommunity #MiniaturePainting #Tyranids

Methods like NeRF and Gaussian Splats model the world as radioactive fog, rendered using alpha blending. This produces great results.. but are volumes the only way to get there?🤔 Our new SIGGRAPH'25 paper directly reconstructs surfaces without heuristics or regularizers.

Pushing through today to get the Norn and the Trygon painted to battle-ready. I'll be back to them to do the colour-shift carapaces once the rest of the crusade force is done. 2 carnifexes, old one eye, an exocrine, and 12 raveners to go.... #WarhammerCommunity #MiniaturePainting #Tyranids

"Check out this incredible UE5 stylized shader breakdown by Gabriel de Laubier! Amazing work from his personal project R&D. #UE5 #Shader #GameDev #StylizedArt" Link-👇 cyn-prod.com/stylized-pai...

#WIPWednesday Too much on the go. Time off soon with a goal of getting as much as possible battle-ready. Yay for airbrushes. Can you tell I'm enjoying the Subterranean Assault detachment? #WarhammerCommunity #MiniaturePainting #Tyranids

Ace British comic artist Jerry Paris, a veteran of Marvel UK and the world of computer game illustration, and the creator of the fondly-remembered "Bug-Hunters", has launched his new Art Shop, offering a variety of original art, sculpts and prints

Finished up on some sneaky bugs that had been sat on my painting station for too long. #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer40K #WH40K #Tyranids #MiniaturePainting #PaintingMiniatures

On the way for day 3 of @developconference.com Running on about 4 hours sleep and copious amounts of coffee ☕ Looking forward to the @limitbreak.co.uk roundtable this morning. See you there, and remember your sunscreen 🧴 #GameDev

@developconference.com day 2 told in selfies, featuring @samlakewrites.bsky.social , @pvbuk.bsky.social , @edstern.bsky.social , old colleagues, past and present mentees. And sunburn #GameDev @limitbreak.co.uk

Another sunny day, coffee in hand and on the way for day two of the @developconference.com Very much looking forward to the @samlakewrites.bsky.social keynote If you spot me around, please do say hi!

I am still figuring out logistics (and Rami has kindly offered to help a lil!), but I’ve been putting together a means for game devs to present GDC-style ‘talks’ on @playwatchlisten.bsky.social. When it’s public, devs will be able to submit a topic for consideration, and will be paid for their time!

Day 1 of @developconference.com Been told of the passion and attention to detail put into Indiana Jones, roundtables on burnout, explored the gap between the skills of graduates and the expectations of studios, and the grimey tech of Powerwash Simulator. #GameDev

The sun is shining and I'm on my way to @developconference.com Could have done without the bus I was planning to take to the station first thing not turning up, but we adapt.

The impact of the layoffs this week is clear in my socials. Many colleagues & peers facing an unknown future, often for the second time in a year. Events like Develop are vital to build the bonds in our industry so that we can better support each other in these times #GameDev @developconference.com

"Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people." We accelerate towards the sprawl.

Logarithmic maps are incredibly useful for algorithms on surfaces--they're local 2D coordinates centered at a given source. Yousuf Soliman and I found a better way to compute log maps w/ fast short-time heat flow in "The Affine Heat Method" presented @ SGP2025 today! 🧵

So, I popped into my local Warhammer store to pick up an order in the afternoon, and was surprised to see a box of Typhon still on the shelf. With a little encouragement from my wife, it ended up in my hands. New Raveners to build. #WarhammerCommunity #Tyranids #WH40k

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

@nin.com bringing the goods last night with excellent support from #BoysNoize on the #PeelItBack tour Technical SNAFUs couldn't take away from the energy of the gig. Sung myself hoarse

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✨ Cozy Gamedev Jobs ✨ We're looking to meet Mid-Senior Environment artists who love creating vibrant, polished, stylised worlds - can you help us? 🎨 Folks from diverse communities, we'd especially love to hear from you! Apply directly, or please share 💖 jobs.studiodrydock.com

Delighted to say that I was involved in this year's BAFTA Young Games Designer award. Some very difficult decisions in assessing remarkable and innovative designs. I certainly hope all those aspiring designers find a place in the industry in their future. #BAFTAYGD @baftagames.bsky.social

I swear this is giving me anxiety just thinking about playing it

1986. Over a decade has passed since the Beira D incident. What really happened that December day in 1975? A specialist dive team journeys to the North Sea to uncover the truth... #StillWakestheDeep: Siren’s Rest is a paid story expansion launching 18 June on Xbox, PS5 & PC.

Back from a week in Germany to attend our first #WaveGotikTreffen Thousands of goths in the beautiful city of Leipzig celebrating the music, culture and friendships. Leaving the Moritzbastei at 4am, because we are lightweights. #WGT2025 #Goth

Alex nails it again. Been around to see the pattern of exploding budgets to chase the biggest sellers of each generation. But there are known markets, quantifiable audiences sizes for every genre, and if you build to a budget to serve those audiences, then you'll have a sustainable business #GameDev

It’s Jurassic Park, it’s a massive park. What could possibly go wrong?

I made a website to make my freelancing official! mdc.boats I'm helping out independent developers across videogames, boardgames, and TTRPGs with their comms, strategy, and marketing plans. If that sounds like something you need, please do reach out! @uktin.bsky.social #TTRPG #UKGE #UKGE2025

Reused gpu memory + uninitialised/uncleared render target pixels are my new fave design inspiration aesthetic. Building a small collection of these for texture decal+fx remixing later. I guess this counts as #procgen too :) #godotengine #gamedev #glitchart

Honestly, if more planning decisions were done through the medium of Jenga, I think many more projects would make it through development.

Hey amazing games pals! Applications for BAFTA Breakthrough UK supported by @netflixuk.bsky.social are NOW OPEN for 2025! Learn more about the programme and how to apply >> www.bafta.org/programmes/b... 📸 @baftagames.bsky.social / Manuel Vazquez

Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment: Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie. A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remembering Sir Terry Pratchett on his birthday. GNU #PTerry #Discworld "Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?" We really do need more people in the world right now who have Terry's words in their heart.

A third of the year in, and I thought I should get going with a thread of what I've played to credits roll in 2025. First up - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. My first Yakuza game, started in 2024. Charming, with whiplash moments of tone. 7d playtime, which is why I didn't play Yakuza games before

Unreal's material named reroute nodes are vital in preventing node spaghetti. Combined with good commenting means that when you revisit a material months later, you spend less time working out what past you did, or anybody else who has to work in a material you developed. #Unreal #GameDev

Hey @bsky.app team -- @trezy.codes runs a full verification process with the Games Industry Labeler. Would be great to onboard him as a community verifier sooner rather than later. Tech talk here with background -> atprotocol.dev/tech-talk-tr...

I need to finish South of Midnight so I can give this a play.

How I arrived on Bluesky

I've been neglecting my bugs so far this year. Trying to get back into hobby habits this weekend as a mental health reset. I can spend an hour at my paint station, put some music on and just focus on the brush. #Tyranids #WarhammerCommunity #HobbyHealth

OK, now at the 'Take screenshot of everything that seems like a clue' stage of #BluePrince