ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 19hICOs trees dont really carry as well in screenshots but because they're animated, they evoke the notion of wind/movement in a way I hadn't seen before in any game 0121
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I model all my natural environments manually because every time Ive tried some kind of heightmap or voxel terrain system, its a nightmare of tool dependencies, deprecation, very slow iterative loops 7921
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the best difficulty menu I've seen to date is Silent Hill 2's, which understood that people who want puzzle challenge and combat challenge are not a direct overlap after seeing this back in like 2001 I assumed it would've become standard, but here we are 25 years later and it remains a curiosity 4515
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the best difficult menu Ive seen to date is Silent Hill 2's, which understood that people who want puzzle challenge and combat challenge are not a direct overlap after seeing this back in like 2001 I assumed it would've become standard, but here we are 25 years later and it remains a curiosity 130
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this was the largest pedal I ever made (it was a commission) modelled after the lovetone shape, with expression pedal inputs on the front of each effect 1271
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if anybody needs me Ill be on my Nintendo Playstation 519718
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Me and 9 games that shaped me Im trying to only list the games I was obsessed with. games where I'd go to school and just sit there drawing scenarios and characters and locations. didn't include PS2/dreamcast era, sticking strictly with the 90s despite how formative those consoles were for me 5331
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026amazingly there are still active Quake III servers in 2026. I popped into a match of The Longest Yard last night, first time fighting humans and not bots in ...25 years? was shocked that I was able to survive and thrive in that arena, I assumed only super hardcore people were left in servers 0140
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ron Cobb's 1970s political cartoons are evergreen 010321
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026my gf pointed out that Streetsharks are just reverse mermaids for boys and I nearly died laughing 38016
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026so at necrophone, we developed the term "Brain RAM" to describe the maximum numbers of THINGS you can hold in your brain at any given time. eg: variables, meshes, tasks, sounds, etc. theres a hard limit to the amount you can keep track of before you are overloaded what do other studios call this? 5154
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026mine: Blakestone. we had a 386 that couldn't handle newer stuff like Doom, so I was limited to Wolf3d clones. Blakestone was my fav of these Powerslide. amazing post-apocalyptic racing game from Australia. giant polygonal tracks, no tricks. Beavis & Butthead Virtual Stupidity. hilarious & dumb 150
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026currently trying to get this cursed CD-rom controller card to work, but its really obsolete and seems to be geared mostly for DOS. very early CD-rom stuff might have to give up on this guy and just settle with the single IDE cable for everything 010
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026amazingly got the soundcard working! what a hellspace of IRQ and DMA settings its some flavour of MediaVision pro audio spectrum 16 or some such. I always had sound blasters, I think I once had some hercules card? anyway, fired up doom II and could hear the shots, fm music 140
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026currently trying to see if anything is on this 340mb hard drive. couldn't get it to detect before, need to fiddle with fdisk and more jumpers 130
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026still wrestling with this 486, which it turns out was not pristine, but rather fully expressing all of the ways in which a 35 year old computer might decay leaking CMOS battery, undetectable CDROM, sketchy floppy drive, lost HD partitions finally got win95 to install though! no soundcard yet 3281
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026this is just the same guy at different aspect ratios 1024x768 vs. 1280×720 1303
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026scored a pristine 486DX today this was my first "real" computer back in the 90s. I grew up with DOS and eventually we got windows95, and eventually 98 but this is 2026 and Im wondering, what operating system would you install nowadays? should I go full DOS? is there something meaner/leaner 26986
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Happy Dreamcast 909 day to all those who celebrate! September 9th this is the only day of the year you can combine these two Japanese electronics 013536
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I say we unfold the sphere properly and go full Dymaxion Projection 010
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Viktor was apparently fresh out of art school when working on this title, so he wasn't the Art director, that was Michael Kaufman supposedly Viktor did do a bunch of Dishonoured style character portraits for the game, but they weren't used. I cant seem to find those sketches anywhere. has anyone ? 1220
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I've been studying Kingpin: Life of Crime (1998) , which I always found to be a remarkably beautiful game its immediately apparent that someone on the design team has a cinematographer or fine arts background, the lightmaps are too designed I then remembered that VIKTOR ANTONOV worked on the game 37213
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 05/09/2026if anybody needs me Ill be drinking out of this newly acquired T-Rex Mug 2180
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I haven't played it in almost 20 years I hope you like pea soup 030
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 02/09/2026However it reveals the true limitation of AAA, which is that digital humans are not animated even remotely like actual actors behave. they jerk, they twitch, their eyelines dont match, their lipsync is off. even ILM was unable to create convincing digital doubles of known dead actors; just failure 0101
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 01/09/2026film photo of the tiny bedroom studio where I did the music for jazzpunk, circa 2013~ 1423
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I never played this level. its a teleportation labyrinth? 110
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026interesting to see how nobody has really brought up Gears of War, Uncharted, Killzone I wonder if its because thats a console-only audience that didn't bleed over to PC discussions 061
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026yes, and they do not need to be first person shooters many games have arenas that are not FPS 173
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026that is correct people may have had an immense amount of fun playing them, but they're not especially interesting design-wise. its a somewhat symmetrical set of hills and valleys. thats fine, but its not the data I'm seeking 100
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I really need to clarify something about topologies, because Im getting a lot of Capture the Flag and Team Deathmatch responses, neither of which satisfy the form/structure of a DM level if the map is symmetrical, its TDM or CTF, and so cannot do too many weird/outlandish designs. its a diff flow 270
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 27/08/2026just imagine what lemmings would be now if they'd have been allowed to stick with it but agreed, in order to have an amazing 10th album, the band needs to stick together for 30 years, something suits will never understand 1160
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 27/08/2026what are your favourite deathmatch arena(s) and why? 4112127
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I had a dubbed tape of Rocky Horror Picture show as a child, I watched it so many times I wore the tape out. I didn't fully understand the movie but I knew it was amazing and felt genuinely subversive Tim Curry was one of the pillars of my childhood, his characters were myraid and distinct RIP💔 0445
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I did not get it "on card", but here's what that looks like apparently: 071
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026found this insane Knock Off 'fighting turtle" today. Im not deeply versed in toy lore, but I do find knock offs fascinating as artefacts of a consumerist world gone awry 1121
ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 21/08/2026turns out it the secrets were Simon Phoenix/Ruby Rhod knockoff "Drebin" telling loooong ass, empty codec talks about the B&B corps, instead of having those characters themselves tell their "haunting" humanizing stories. just felt hollow and shoe-horned also some girl on an airplane frying eggs 1120
