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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Something thats utterly inconsequential but still does psychic damage to me. People going "ARE YOU READY??!!!" Like they're gonna burn the building down at karaoke and then Sweet Caroline starts playing immediately after.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking forward to being able to do a track by track breakdown of WK's score in the future. There's SO MUCH to talk about there it's kinda wild.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This really isn't meant to be a humble brag I swear. I just keep getting blown away seeing the number of plays on reuploads of the game's music to YouTube. I was perfectly okay for the past 14 or so years having very few plays on anything I made period.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Vholume _might_ be my favorite game this year.

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DreadXP @dreadxp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The new cover for @pcgamer.com just dropped. Huh something looks familiar 👀

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I need to shorten future answers to questions about White Knuckles music and ambience influences to: 1. Probably a Nine Inch Nails song 2. Thats a damn fine sounding garbage disposal. 3. Both 1 and 2 at the same time.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

jackfolkner.bandcamp.com/album/white-... Its Bandcamp Friday, and you're not gonna believe what I've got.

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White Knuckle, by Jack Folkner

19 track album

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The audio end of things for Teeth wasn't easy either. Creature design is a ton of fun for me, but the volume of assets needed was pretty new to me for an NPC feature like this, not to mention the overall collective stress of designing the encounter.

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DreadXP @dreadxp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

No respite can be found in the hallowed halls of CONCRETE BURIAL as the onslaught continues. Out on September 17th!

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

November is a quick one for me even though it was a pretty significant month. Every morning, I'd wake up to a screenshot from Holly from our steamworks page with a new update on wishlist count. Basically christmas most mornings as far as the game was concerned.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

October 2024 was a deeply meaningful and wonderful month for me. But lets talk about getting White Knuckle ready instead HAHAHA.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Alright I'm a day behind on these so you're getting two from me today! Here's how September went for White Knuckle's sound:

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I got around to my end of things pretty late tonight so I'll throw in some comments about this month later!

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

August was a month I consider down right frenetic. I was house sitting for most of the month. Sleeping on a couch with my desktop setup on a folding table in the living room while watching a border collie. The growing momentum was absolutely palpable to me as well.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Figuring the exact vibe for the game's audio was relatively quick. Since the earlier prototypes had these very tight spaces between the walls and short draw distance, I opted to have the background ambience change quickly to help reflect your progress since looking down didn't offer much info.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's funny to think that about a year ago I had this very passing interest in Magic as a game and then I contrast it with the six hours I spent today trying to organize all the fucking cards I got over that period of time.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'll add some extra anecdotes from my end as well on occasion after these threads are posted!

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DreadXP @dreadxp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ever wanted your very own adorable, squishy Grub from White Knuckle? Say no more, YouTooz has your back with an all-new plushie based on our favorite handheld buddy! youtooz.com/products/whi...

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Come play White Knuckle, we will be adding: Cube that screams Clingy friends Finding Nemo sea turtle sequence

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Everything about this area has turned out better than I could've hoped.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Every so often I rewatch an episode of the old Yu-Gi-Oh anime just for the for the nostalgia. I know there's a lot of commentary about localization and the numerous rule breaks for plot, but the only thing that actually bothers me now is these fuckers don't sleeve their cards 😭

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Villains of all Nations The Great Mortality Blood Meridian Rant The Highlands Burm Were the books I meant btw

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trying not to break out in a cold sweat when a kind stranger asks what Ive been reading lately and its all historical fiction and non-fiction about the plague, piracy and war crimes. I swear I'm not just digging for misery porn. Almost all of its educational!

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Waiting for our company karaoke party where its just Holly and Quinn watching me do as many Nine Inch Nails songs as I can while I order bottles of Diplomatico on the company card.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I also picked up a Peavey Patriot at a shop here in town for super cheap. It might be my new favorite guitar I own. The sound is incredible.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So I moved in the last month, and of course I started running around recording every appliance, every door, the general ambience, etc. Its been awesome. Its also shockingly quiet so its been great for spur of the moment stuff. Ugh. Just wild how well my workflow improved.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Nearly every new area we make for the game becomes my favorite at the time it's out, but this is probably going to be my permanent #1. I've been twisting Hollys arm for years to make this kind of environment happen and it's done nothing but exceed my expectations.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

BRB printing this and putting on the fridge and bragging to my family about this praise.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

And it's _the best parts_ of the games too. We should just put Metal Sonic in WK. Idk why but that wouldn't stop us.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm constantly reflecting and evaluating how things are going in my professional life. Every industry I've ever wanted to work in or have worked in is on fire in some capacity. And every day I remain thankful that we've managed to carve out our own sane little space among all the *gestures broadly*

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Holly @ PAX - Wuckle Scientist @jonka.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

happy gay month, trans rights forever, also here's some wuckle teaserssss

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Its been very helpful writing out tiny music ideas at the pace I do these days. After rebalancing some aspects of the Nest region, it basically required a full rewrite of a track to reflect what's happening in game better.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I've gotten properly sucked into playing Magic now that I've got a decent group of regulars. I can't stop thinking about building a Quake themed deck.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Around 2008 on the official Lego forums. I remember making posts about a Bionicle MOC I made in a thread that may have been one for RP? I remember my post getting deleted with the moderator commenting "What?". Twice.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yes I have seen the video of the guy bouncing the metal triangle off of a tree. And yes. That is partially why the spear artifact in White Knuckle sounds the way it does. Sounds are neat.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Feels like there's something to explore with Bayonetta and The Darkness 2 being the games I've enjoyed playing the most this past few weeks.

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Marisa @fleepy.tv · 11/04/2026

working on a "The Abyss Stares Back" remix from White knuckle!! #whiteknuckle

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Finally saw Perfect Blue for the first time over the weekend and I just loved it from the first minute. Listening to people talk about it online for years didn't inform how deep it ends up getting by the end and that's a great thing.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Spoilers with White Knuckle's April Fools update. The ending was done just this past weekend before we shipped the update. The whole thing was already was done. The trailer was done. And then we just threw out the idea of doing a Fallout NV style ending while we were reviewing what we had

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I was so excited to have the sunlight work fairly close to something I want that I had to share it. #trenchbroom I'm bouncing between this more surreal/ nightmare presentation and just straight up ripping off SUPERHOT depending on what ends up looking better.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I get asked often about musical influences for White Knuckle and my general work. There's a lot of answers you'd probably expect like Nine Inch Nails and Massive Attack. But what the kids don't know is that I was raised on soft rock radio stations and sometimes Savage Garden just shows up.

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DreadXP @dreadxp.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

erm...guys? I woke up and am literally in White Knuckle right now? What the actual freak?

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In my free time these past couple weeks I've been learning #TrenchBroom. Eventually I want to get into making some playable maps for Quake, but for now I'm just experimenting and making more sandbox oriented environments.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I cannot wait for us to have this update out so I can actually write about what an interesting time its been to work on in more detail. The past year it was easier to stay tight lipped from being that busy. Our pace is so relaxed now, there's a lot more time to reflect on our progress week to week.

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Jack Folkner @diplodocus03.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

PAX West 25 is an event that is going to be a period of time in my life that will be hard to top. A lot of pipe dream tier items happened just in this past week, and it's a kind of unreal feeling. Attending PAX at all and seeing our game at GDQ were things thought of as "Cool but not likely".

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DreadXP @dreadxp.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

There were so many great moments from PAX West this year, but having the devs there for the @gamesdonequick.com White Knuckle run was way, way up there.

A photo of the crew at the White Knuckle GDQ segment at PAX West 2025!

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Rex Lorem-Ipsum @paperprototypes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A new video drops, right now! See me wrangle more than I can handle and talk about horror and parkour, horkour? Thanks for @jonka.bsky.social, @diplodocus03.bsky.social and Quinn for coming on! #indieDev #gamedev #interview #indiegame #whiteknuckle www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHz...

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White Knuckle Interview with the Devs

YouTube video by Paper Prototypes Podcast

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