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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 01/10/2026

This is one of the sickest addons I've ever seen in my LIFE.

Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 08/09/2026

if you're playing Blood of Dawnwalker for the first time and using the time extension mod you are a coward. this shit will cure you of the completionist *disease* if you let it

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 24/07/2026

Trying to get over my anxiety of sharing WIP videos. I always felt like all of my art posts should be chrome-polished and that no one is interested in a unfiltered, unedited look at what I'm working on. Here's a short feature video of a World Configuration tool for Soul Food. #ue5 #gamedev

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 10/07/2026

The iconic Eames lounge chair makes for a remarkable art test prop, and I used to use it as a benchmark when I was an Art Lead. It has a little bit of everything: cloth, hard-surface, material variety. All useful in gauging where an artist is at with their skills.

wide shot of a cozy room with an eames lounge chair in the center, golden hour lighting

close up of an eames lounge chair, a snake plant on the right, with light filtering in through tall windows

close up of the leather detail on the eames chair

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 26/06/2026

I know you've seen a lot of it today, but yeah, I was also affected by the layoffs at Bungie today. Two years was far too short a stay, but I'm still such a better artist and developer than I was when I joined. Here's to my fabulous colleagues that were also affected, may we all land our feet. 🥂

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 30/03/2026

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.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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...

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It Sucks to Work in the Video-Game Industry Right Now

Even developers who successfully release big hits, like Fortnite and Battlefield, are losing their jobs

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 27/03/2026

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.

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a video game controller with the words mappable back buttons on the bottom

ALT: a video game controller with the words mappable back buttons on the bottom

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 25/03/2026

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+?

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 24/03/2026

Now *that's* the stuff. Gorgeous 🤌🏼✨

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 23/03/2026

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

a corner counter with a decent home coffee bar set up, including a dual boiler lelit Elizabeth

probs the cutest border collie Rottweiler mix you ever seen, against some cherry blossom trees in the distance

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 19/03/2026

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...

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 16/03/2026

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 15/03/2026

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 14/03/2026

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.

a small highball table with a laptop and tablet showing the title screen and teaser for our game demo of soul food

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 14/03/2026

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 10/03/2026

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 06/03/2026

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!

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 13/02/2026

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. 😤

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 26/11/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 31/10/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 22/10/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 22/10/2025

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...

medium.com

The content revolution to come

The way we build games is changing, with new technologies and tools that make it way easier to create and scale content.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 13/10/2025

We're switching to lightmaps

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 01/08/2025

Get in the poly-soup workflow.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 07/06/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 02/06/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 18/05/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 14/05/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 08/05/2025

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. 😤

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 28/04/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 28/03/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 27/03/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 27/03/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 21/03/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 20/03/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 11/03/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 05/03/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 15/02/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 08/02/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 05/02/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 04/02/2025

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

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 16/01/2025

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.

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Basic Cable Cody @basiccable.games · 27/01/2025

This meeting could have been a dance off.

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