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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If your video game has anything like this, you win my heart forever #archive

Battery charger for a power tool. It tells you its battery state using a morse-code style blinking light.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

v. good revive-teammate animation in Splash Damage's DirtyBomb #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made a tool to help create animated webp files. I largely made this to construct simple diagrams for my blog Blendo Webp Tool download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-webp-... source code: github.com/blendogames/... Free! Enjoy!

A simple tool displaying a grid of images. Each image is accompanied by their filename & milliseconds frame duration.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did you know: Sven Coop is v v v good... #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I wrote about how Skin Deep's "Highlighter System" works -- automatically detecting events in the world and showcasing them to the player: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

...and the gunbarrel in Wolfenstein New Colossus auto-offsets itself when near corners ✨ #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

in case you're not infatuated with Chronicles of Riddick like I am: it has this feature... #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Enamored with this button prompt in Batman Arkham Knight #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Nothing Lasts Forever", the book Die Hard is based on: its description of Ellis... #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

still bonkers to me that we can just make stuff that looks identical to concept art [Indiana Jones and the Great Circle]

screenshot of a cave in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

to the Mad Max level designer who made this giant physics dancing skeleton: wow 🙏 #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote a post about how I love BSP/brush mapping: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

a screenshot of the DarkRadiant level editor, showing a level from the game Skin Deep

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Love this seamless transition to gameplay when you start Indiana Jones Great Circle Seems like (?) the level is loaded during the publisher/studio title cards?? Slick stuff

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

videogametoilets .com SOMA (2015) flushable: Y analog lid opening: Y analog flush handle: Y #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote a post comparing Quakeguy 1996 to remastered Quakeguy 2021 blendogames.com/news/post/20...

2 similar-looking quakeguys standing next to each other

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

indiana jones holding a crate of bananas

Screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Indiana Jones is holding a crate of bananas.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The 30th anniversary update for Quake also includes a new id Vault, featuring this little face

a quakeguy face with either a) a bloody mouth or b) his tongue sticking out

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

videogametoilets .com Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011) Flushable: Y Wooden: Y #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Monday Sketch: the Sub Rosa Wrecking Crew #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Happy late birthday to Dawn of Darkness, a Quake 2 mod I contributed to when I was a high school teen I only just learned today that some on the team would later make Control & Wolfenstein The New Order?? Some of my favorite games!!!!!! I made this very cool airship for the mod:

A floating wooden boat, made in the Quake2 engine

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

FEAR 2 giving each book a unique title. true game dev sicko behavior 😌 #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Seattle-style crosswalk buttons in FEAR 2 😌 #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

turn-based strategy mockups from ~2006 (❤️ Close Combat) #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've been replaying Wolfenstein The New Order and it's still SO good. Really wonderful work, one of my favorites. Amazing use of a modified Rage/idTech5 engine

hallway full of pipes, in the game Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)

bj blazkowicz holding a tray with 2 coffees

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Witcher 3: you can whistle for your horse before starting a conversation #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

did you know??? Doom3 has a "saving throw" system. Melee enemies auto-miss fatal attacks, on a 5 second cooldown timer #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"They're waiting for you, Gordon... in the tessstt chammberrr" (Mt Wilson Observatory)

60 inch telescope in Mt Wilson Observatory

The interior dome of the 60 inch telescope in Mt Wilson Observatory

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Skin Deep is in the Steam Summer Sale, 40% OFF store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S... Here's 4 fun facts about the Skin Deep shotgun:

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Celebrating Quadrilateral Cowboy's 10 Year Anniversary with a new update! 💾 Added a brand new EXTRAS menu with a collection of development videos 💾 Added a bunch of new Developer Commentary nodes throughout the game 💾 Squashed some bugs Enjoy! store.steampowered.com/app/240440/Q...

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just Cause 3's resume-last-saved-game transition 💯 💯 💯 #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

attempt #2 at unifying bodymodel + viemodel. camera is now locked to the eyeball bone ~2016 prototype work #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

attempt at unifying FPS viewmodel + bodymodel this created too many pipeline changes to pursue, but it's a pretty special feel imo ~2016 prototype work #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I wrote about level design readability: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

a corridor from the game Thirty Flights of Loving

a series of gaps in a wall, each increasing in size

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Monday sketch: wheeling and dealing in Sub Rosa #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

nice level design switcheroo from 007 First Light

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Appreciation post for snow particles bopping against James Bond

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

007 First Light hair appreciation post

Screenshot from 007 First Light. The Moneypenny character with nicely rendered hair

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I will always appreciate a nice IOI crowd scene

Screenshot from 007 First Light. James Bond is at a chess tournament with a large crowd of spectators

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The JamesBondiverse game console... bringing back the cartridge slot, good 🙏

James Bond standing near a fictional game console. Its gamepad is a mashup of the Playstation+Xbox controller.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thirty Flights of Loving update! 👉 it's now Steam Deck Verified! 👉 Gravity Bone (included in the download) now has developer commentary! 👉 Fixes to the save/load system! store.steampowered.com/app/214700/T... Big thanks to Ethan Lee www.flibitijibibo.com for helping make this update happen

Screenshot of Thirty Flights of Loving. The UI displays a gamepad prompt.

Screenshot of Gravity Bone. The screenshot shows a developer commentary node.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"This is you" [picture of machinegun] Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (2005) #archive

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