speed level design is so 2015, slow-cooked level design--incremental, iterative, left to simmer--is where it's at.

Map 4, "Treated Sewage" in Marrow for Blood is a great sewer level, loving this expansion. Much darker tone and more surreal than the 90s stuff.

After messing with XMapEdit and playing a lot of Blood on PS5 this week, I think I'm gonna focus my long-term mapping efforts there for a bit; I am feeling more inspired and less overwhelmed by it. Still get the itch to make something more slapdash in Doom, Quake, or something simpler too though.

He lives...again! Blood: Refreshed Supply along with the Deathwish expansion are available now on Nintendo Switch 2! 🩸 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

🚨 new noclip_2 Report 🚨 In an industry full of publisher horror stories, DERELIKT's seems especially cruel. But will this love letter to classic PC and PS1 first person shooters eventually make it to the finish line? Report by @jeremybjayne.bsky.social WATCH HERE: youtu.be/8auTT5c23Ts

just discovered XMapEdit for Blood has an adjustable split screen mode, really helps my TrenchBroom-pilled brain

Really loved this review! As a writer I am very happy the real-life development horrors behind the game's story are getting recognized here! This game has many of our own souls residing within.

Top 15 TV shows ever, off the top of my head-- Twin Peaks/FWWM/The Return Castlevania/Nocturne Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul Mindhunter Chernobyl The Simpsons Spongebob Neon Genesis Evangelion Beef Death Note She-Ra The Pitt Succession Cowboy Bebop FMA: Brotherhood

me and my fiance are both queer, disabled folks and we are in a tough financial situation right now :( we need money for their BPD diagnosis and to cover basic living costs. @sebhar.bsky.social motivated me to post here - here's my paypal: @rewolucyjnosc. every donation is greatly appreciated!

The Draw Steel quick start adventure is super cool and very easy to run via the Codex VTT, I'm a huge fan of this app and system already. Feel like it actually makes DMing online fun again.

hah, Mouse P.I. For Hire has literal "monster closets": doors with skulls on them to signify where the enemies will come from in an encounter but that don't actually lead anywhere, it's a cool idea.

Someone modded their VTuber character into Baby Steps! There's a nexusmods link in there in case anyone else wants to figure out how to do the same thing with other models <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsou...

Quake is 30 years old this year but also so is Duke3d!

Windows 98 Plus: Architecture

Ornstein and Smough fighting to get in at the same time

You could watch The Super Mario Galaxy Movie today. OR you could save yourself an hour, along with 15 bucks, and watch (for free!) my video retrospective on Hollywood's first attempt to center a movie around Mario: youtu.be/-betOrU-xU4

Been coming back to the Build engine games again this week, Death Wish got me thinking about it. So I guess I'm giving Mapster32 another try. Really like what I've played of Wizordum and the editor for that game so far as well.

Unsurprisingly, Death Wish 2.0 is spectacular. I love most of the changes in this version. What I've always loved with DW is that it perfectly understood the assignment: it gives you a metric shitton of TNT with hordes of enemies to blow to smithereens.

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

new water texture WIP for quake, 64x64, original palette last two images are the original texture for comparison

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

Attempted to make a climbing wall in Quake lol. The cheese ramp returns.

I walked into my wife’s office this evening while she was streaming this song, and for one brief, confused moment, I was both astonished and proud that she was listening to the Etrian Odyssey soundtrack youtu.be/CI8gsPnCISY?...

Title: Speedmapping pack 134 - Fuck you this is no theme and it's silly Author(s): Ankh, negke, Spirit, Trinca Date: 2007-08-01 Fuck you this is no theme and it's silly / 4 SP... https://www.quaddicted.com/db/v2/maps/c19fd7cd6c8635dee34b284af15cae209ef94eaadbe97033d5f2370b763628bd #speedmap #quake

No holding back youtu.be/h1_QEjE26-U

Probably a good time to repost a bunch of games that reject photorealism in favor of a more hand-crafted, stylized and tonal immersion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6_...

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Should really be a term for wanting to do 3D level design but not sure of what to make. "Block out block" or something.

Dan Dan, a cool and neat game made by a player, popularized by the community as a fun thing to do, now scalped on eBay for a limited run premium product. Something doesn't feel right about that. Kinda feels, antithetical to the whole thing...?

🎉 picoCAD 2 is out! 🥳 Model, texture, and animate - in a single lo-fi, easy to use package.  GIF, GLTF, OBJ, and sprite sheet export.  Available now on Steam and Itch! Check it out! picocad.net Thanks for boosting! ❤️ 🙏

every British guy between the ages of 38 and 52 has intense, borderline troubling nostalgia for some insanely unplayable looking Amiga game called like “Bonky’s Quest”

We regret to inform you that DKC2 is good, with huge caveats about the visuals and overall design priorities.

COMPUTER WORLDS BEGINS IN 90 MINUTES ON NOCLIP_2 Featuring trailers, announcements and perhaps your new favorite game. Watch it live with us in chat, and engage with the content so that we may see a brighter future together. youtu.be/Og6_t5eiz_s

Watching a demo of how you can turn every NPC in your RPG town into somebody who says "That's right — you *are* the four LIGHT WARRIORS. You make a great point! The bridge to the main continent *does* need to be repaired, and you're just the person to do it."

I have a new piece up at @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social — it’s about when I got hacked in Dark Souls 2, used hacker tools to unhack myself, and then talked to my hacker years later

Major has been promoted to Commodore 😉 Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson, aka the voice of Xbox for 20+ years, has joined team #Commodore as a Community Development Advisor. Congrats on the promotion Major. Welcome aboard. 🫡 www.commodore.net/post/larry-h...

Tried to pick games from the last couple years that get me the most at the moment. #my9games my9games.com/s/df5f5f0e6f...

it's @foddy.net giving a game design talk / career retrospective at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social right now live www.twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

The Marathon launch trailer is gorgeous. I love the way it looks. But it also captures my frustrations with the genre's structure? Lose over and over again with friends to jerks until it's YOUR turn to be the jerks ruining someone's day. You can even be a jerk to your squadmates and abandon them!

nice tech art and level design breakdown. rocks are complicated

::to the tune of “riders on the storm”:: 🎶 tired all the time 🎵

At long last, the Watch Out for Fireballs! about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is finally here. The full episode is available to all $7+ patrons, but everyone can get a taste if they'd like. www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

Got my Commodore 64 Ultimate ^_^ super excited to try some type-in games and learn some more BASIC on a real C64

Inside you are 2 wolves…

we're still watching all of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends on @themutantages.bsky.social and it's a great time to jump on board because we're still relatively early on in the watch. this show actually rules and we are having a great time with it

if you wanted to hear a very long discussion about the state of indie games circa 2013ish (and hear us talk about an extremely underrated Michael Brough game as well) look no further than our esteemed group on this episode

Thank you, @edgemagazine.bsky.social, for shining a spotlight on the Commodore 64 Ultimate and our dedication to upholding the legacy.