Working is at times hard. Caring for/having a parent living with you who has Parkinsons and Dementia is hard. Combining both can be incredibly hard. Luckily my place of work is incredibly understanding which helps massively. Others aren't so lucky and I really feel for those in that situation.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

How I imagine New York is feeling right now 🤗 #ZohranMamdani

Hey @activisionblizzard.bsky.social - there’s a Diablo 4 quest bug been reported by multiple users (including me). Reddit post here. www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/s/...

I've signed this - it is completely pointless, open to abuse, an unnecessary expense, and probably more importantly another attempt to move us in a more authoritarian direction. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I've never watched as much American late night chat shows as I have recently...

Not that I would probably be asked to go to GDC, but if I was I would politely refuse - I just have no desire to go the US these days... for reasons too numerous to go into but I'm sure you can work it out.

“In Nazi Germany, satirical content was seen as an existential threat to the regime's authority and was systematically censored, controlled, or co-opted for its own propagandistic ends. This suppression was a key component of the Nazi effort to control all forms of communication and public thought.”

This is an utterly fantastic watch and proof that you can change peoples opinions and mindset. This is exactly what is going on in the UK right now. Labour has for the most part abandoned the working class - they will come back if politicians listen to them and fight on their behalf.

Not content with Level Designing the absolute bollocks off stuff as my day job, I think I might also take part in #blocktober this year… Love an Uncharted game so might have a go at something to do with that…

Hate to say it but the beserker fights in god of war ragnarok are some of the most unnecessarily hard rage baiting encounters I’ve ever had in a game. The game is otherwise fantastic but these are not fun in the slightest 😩

Yes you’re right, after a long work day I could do some personal art stuff… buuuuut, and hear me out here, I could instead play a few hours of God of War Ragnarok before some much needed shuteye. 🤔

Just posted my latest environment to Artstation! This sure took some time but i'm super happy with the results and did learn a lot about trimsheets! www.artstation.com/artwork/8Bn50n #gameart #environmentart #stylized

You know what, fly the flag if you want to - but also I'd encourage all different nationalities and heritages here to do the same. Turn our streets into a sea of different flags with all the different colours of the rainbow that indicate how diverse and brilliant this small island can be.

America, what the fuck is going on? If it wasn’t evident before you are now firmly under the thumb of a fascist dictator. Free elections will be next on Trumps hit list. You fuckers need to get in the streets en mass like yesterday.

Door ref pics - Spinalonga, Crete.

Couple of door ref pics from Crete (Piskopiano).

Rock reference pic from the pool in Crete. Looks like granite or some other igneous rock to me from here. I’ll do some research whilst sipping cocktails in the sun today 😁👍

101 hours on vampire survivors and I just got my platinum. Yay me! 😁 more to do as I have all the DLC though 😅

Started trying to watch Broadchurch on ITVX last night - adverts every 10 minutes. totally pulls the viewer out of the experience. Had to give up - It’s no wonder people sail the high seas.

Trump sending in the National Guard in LA due to ICE protests - what a fucking, and I cannot stress this enough, cunt. Anyone associated with him, this administration, or carrying out his orders in any way shape or form is the complete opposite of a patriot. All devoid of any humanity.

When set dressing for a smashed up area I like to first place the props as they would have been found initially. I then move them into a place that feels natural and tells a micro story of how it got to where it is now - e.g. was it nudged as people fled, or did it get blasted out the way etc

Vampire Survivors Balatro Slay the Spire Dead Cells For me the holy quadrilogy of indie games of recent times. I mean with those the gameplay is almost endless and ofc fucking awesome.

Well, my Vampire Survivors addiction has well and truly killed my CoD addiction. Totally worth it 🧄

Just Vampire Survivors things 😂🧄

Bit late to the party but have to say Vampire Survivors is the best “oh go on just one more go before bed” type game I’ve played in a long long time. So fucking adictive.

Once in a while you get a game idea that just has to be worked on - I have 2 of those at the moment, 1 of which would be much easier for to prototype (I think), the other idea I've had on the back burner for a while but this new idea... something about it just sings to me...

oh hai - we (Wushu) did a thing :-) www.linkedin.com/posts/wushus...

Happy birthday to me - literally lost count of how many times I’ve bought this trilogy 😂 definitely more versions than Skyrim I think… 🤔

Hey 3D #environmentart people - anyone have any links to Env Art wireframe examples? Either on AS or elsewhere. Ta!

the perfect Technical Designer interview

As someone with a huge amount of sarcasm bubbling away under the surface and a very dry sense of humour, it takes a lot of energy to not be pithy and sarcastic when dealing with the constant questions and validation needed from a parent with dementia. It’s fucking exhausting.

Last night my kid took a telescope up on the roof and we all had a good look at some celestial stuff. He got an ace pic of Saturn with the dark line of the rings showing and one of the moon - the incredible detail of the craters on the moon really didn’t come through in the pic unfortunately.

I can’t stress this enough - selling your studio for investment in your studio’s future is utterly pointless. It seems to be that without fail these bigger corporations cut their loses and run. I mean I’ve never been in that position but if I was I think I would be very wary these days.

Season 1 episode 3 of The Last of Us (the one with Nick Offerman) is hands down one of the best TV episodes ever made. It is simply beautiful.

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Having a parent living with you with Parkinson’s and dementia and undiagnosed autism is fucking tiring I can tell you. Not much else to add or say - just wanted it out there is all 🙂

Yep we're looking for a Level Designer - remote team but EU timezone required, shipping experience on Unreal 4/5 strongly preferred, and a love of weird narrative and horror appreciated 🖤

All I want is for the world to finally wake up, get an action plan together and do some proper hard graft on showing the masses… what POV actually fucking means.

That's The Last of Us Part 1 and DLC platinumed - now onto The Last of Us Part 2...

I've owned 3 versions of The Last of Us (PS3, PS4 Remastered and PS5 Last of Us Part 1) and I've only just finished it - what a fucking game, what a fucking story. I cant believe it's taken me this long to do it but I cant wait to dust of Part 2 and give that a play too.

I really should finish this off some day - 2 years it's been sat like this 😱🤦‍♂️ #environmentart #blockout

Just doing some IRL material creation. 👍🖌️

Here's a thing we did at Wushu - so so proud of the work we all did on this. Was an absolute blast contributing to the LD work on this :-)

More tweaks to the blockout lighting for my gothic hallway #environmentart piece - added some lights to the candles, tweaked the colour of the maelstrom as well as the intensities and changed from a singular directional light to multiple rect lights. Still loads more to do but v happy with this. 😀👍

Quick and dirty lighting blockout/mockup for my gothic hallway #environmentart piece. Going to aim for some sort of green maelstrom outside with main interior lighting coming from the candles and braziers and an ominous red light coming from the just open door at the end.

Ref pic - some nice peeling paint here.

Comparison of the 2 column types in my gothic #environmentart piece - the one on the left really does nothing for the silhouette given the amount of polys in it. Will remove and replace with something better I think. Some wasted work yes, but a lesson learnt - soooo swings and roundabouts tbh. 👍🤷‍♂️

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

2 column types for my gothic hallway #environmentart piece. The one on the right involved tracing a pattern, using a solidify modifier and then lattices and shrinkwrap modifiers and finally dupe'ing it. I tried an array but it was getting late and it was beating me too much so I took the easy way 😂