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Schipperke owner @PNW Game Systems Designer, one half of Secret Dinosaur and also the other half (previously Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc) Hire me! linktr.ee/djdesign.dev #GameDev he/him

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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 19m
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Capa Pandu
Alt: Alan Grant sees a dinosaur
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 4h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 6h
The Mayor of Ithaca, NY (in which Cornell is located) is taking decisive action against the college. What Cornell's administration has done is unforgiveable. Every single person involved in that decision should be held to account.
Late last week, I learned of the heinous and sickening allegations made against the Cornell students who, according to a former undergraduate student identified as Jane Doe, drugged and brutally raped her at the Chi Phi fraternity house. Despite the severity of these crimes, Cornell University administrators and police failed to contact or coordinate any response with the Ithaca Police Department.
Furthermore, the University failed to hold the perpetrators to account. This is a miscarriage of justice and continues to pose a significant threat to students and residents who may be victimized at unsafe and under-monitored on- or off-campus student events.
Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive and corresponding Common Council resolution, implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event and special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life and other student group gatherings, until such time as the University conducts an accounting of its protocols to prevent and prosecute crimes of sexual violence and publicly releases new standards and practices to keep our community safe.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 6h
When did the software engineering industry get so fucking bad at software engineering?
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 7h
I've never heard of this before, what a wild creature. A 20ft long semi-aquatic archosauromorph from the Triassic.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h
Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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WanderingDM @wanderingdm.bsky.social · 8h
Good on them! But their last paragraph also highlights a problem we have arrived at: people (some) can't differentiate between LLMs/GenAI and npc AI or procgen in a game. I'm seeing it more and more online. Words matter and this is just another thing these mfers have tainted with their grift.
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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 29/09/2026
Video Games are responsible for 50K globally. Not all AI-related. A big chunk are due to the worst “strategy” I’ve ever seen from an industry’s ruling class.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 23h
Heck yeah.
Human-made over 5 years

No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 23h
Should have pre-ordered at Best Buy instead of GameStop, losers.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Signal text chat, one person speaking: 

Man, how has that studio survived all this shit
*Any studio
Oh, Finland
That helps
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember y'all, genAI companies don't hack people, their agents do.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watching WoW swing between these two over two decades (and try abandoning them completely, then come back...) was always amusing.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wake me when they figure out New Movie+ mode
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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 28/09/2026
Come join the Causeway crew! We're looking for a contract 3D artist! 🕶️ Dark supernatural mystery 🎥 Full-motion video 🏩 A strange combination hotel and drive-in movie theatre 👻 A malevolent specter with shrouded motives 👨 A strange otherworldly gentleman in a green suit who breaks the fourth wall
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I do appreciate him totally jumping the gun on his heel turn.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not easy, I'm not great at it, it will not defuse the situation. But refusing to be silent might be the most important thing one can do as an actual ally.
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Katch @katchdraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd love to get some more tabletop game work *bats eyelashes*
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Schipperke: good QA. Like REALLY good.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'll one-up this: don't use Google docs. They're feeding it directly to Gemini.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Things are getting serious... Time to take it to the
"Next Level" by Mike Cook, a book about procedural generation
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love my Disconnected Wife @4shley.bsky.social, which is why I carried her around for the first 15 minutes of Big Walk this evening while she figured out an issue with her headphones.
Big Walk screenshot. A flashlight behind me is throwing my shadow onto a nearby wall, revealing that I am carrying another player (My Disconnected Wife) over my head.
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4shley @4shley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big Carry
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love my Disconnected Wife @4shley.bsky.social, which is why I carried her around for the first 15 minutes of Big Walk this evening while she figured out an issue with her headphones.
Big Walk screenshot. A flashlight behind me is throwing my shadow onto a nearby wall, revealing that I am carrying another player (My Disconnected Wife) over my head.
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Landon Noss @landon.wtf · 28/09/2026
meta keeps showing you exactly what they are: sloppy copycats who will stop at nothing for whatever pathetic sliver of market share they can grasp from last place. stop it.
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am cosmos @amcosmos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh my god it’s like Style Savvy and Love Nikki had a spreadsheet baby
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
And if you're doing any kind of basic research they have both the incentive to steal your work, the means to steal your work, the opportunity to steal your work, and plausible cover to steal your work and say "uhhhh the agent did it"
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
it's soooooo useful you guys it's soooooo good it does sooooo much for me it's changed my workflooooow sooooo much
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 27/09/2026
we should teach kids not to gamble by making them play xcom
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big Update:
Steam achievement: "Big Wall - Go beyond the wall"
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this point, though, if someone contends they've never heard of Baltic birch plywood, it may say more about the person's taste in drawer boxes than the wood. Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. With global news coverage alongside YouTube and big box hardware store presence
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one has ever been as disappointed in me as I am.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Zillow: "wide plank flooring sourced from the surrounding woods" Me, an amateur woodworker: "those planks are like TWO FEET WIDE 🤯"
A realtor's photo of a rustic bedroom with wood floors. The photo is extremely fisheyed to make the room look larger, but you can still tell that the floor planks are nearly as wide as the doorway
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wild Hearth is so intriguing... I'm absolutely floored by Derek's character here: in a realm where the line between cooking and magic is blurred both mechanically and culturally, a Gastromaton is a cooking implement that has gained sentience; and there is a Bard college of Hospitality. Brilliant.
youtu.be
Wild Hearth: Part One | Cooking Competition One-Shot | Pointy Hat Collab
YouTube video by Legends of Avantris
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Do I want a Mummy 4? Not really Do I want more Rachel Weisz as Evie? 😍
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This bot, which purports to track/label genAI and misinformation, appears to be using genAI to reply to random posts with completely off-topic and useless "clarifications".
Two replies in my notifications tab. One, from a human, speculates on Iran's response to Iraqi oil caravans heading north to Syria. The second, from "labeler-prototype", accuses the first of posting misinformation about Ukrainian arms in the hands of cartels and militants
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ugh, the sloppiers have come for Wanderburg.
A YouTube ad for a mobile game called Battleburg. The game is a slavish clone of PC indie game Wanderburg, and the ad is pure genAI slop.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I have invented Artificial Intelligence!" You've ruined a perfectly good computer program, is what you've done. Look, it can't count and gives anyone who uses it psychosis.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Glitch building is crashy af, y'all. ...worth?
No Man's Sky screenshot, a player-built Corvette space ship. It resembles a square-rigged tall ship with futuristic wing and engine elements in the rear and formidable weapons on the sides and bowSame ship from behind/below, showing off a massive number of engines in the rearSame ship docked in a space station
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I cannot express how much I do not want to work at a "Roblox studio." It feels like signing up to be paid in another company's scrip.
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chris balser 🖤 @doomfunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i really like crawlers and would've wishlisted this in a second if I hadn't seen this thread (please read the thread). i know a lot of my mutuals are also retro rpg enthusiasts, so, heads up.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Especially because the prompt is "games that made me". Games made me a game designer - the list is like Bastion, WoW, Journey, Heroes, and a thousand-way tie for every other game I've ever played.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Roko's Basilisk is real but the AI concludes we would have invented it twenty years earlier under socialism.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
everyone ive ever worked with to do hiring thinks they have a genius idea to improve interviews and its always very illegal
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Boy it's extremely past time to delete my Facebook account.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok but I'm gonna need someone to explain to me HOW like the dressform is even adjustable, y'all (dunno if that applies to the assembly gameplay though)
Dressmaker video game screenshot: Placing garment pattern pieces on an adjustable 3D dressformDressmaker screenshot: adding beadwork to a bodice, wherever the player wants to.Dressmaker screenshot: a complex ballgown, pink with multiple ruffled layers, a bustle, off-the-shoulder sleeves, the worksDressmaker screenshot: adjusting the measurements of the dressform mannequin
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hell yeah. Dignity is everything, and it's one of the first things people with power will try to take from others.
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