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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 29/09/2026

Wow, that's super cool! 😎

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Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) @arganoid.com · 29/09/2026

I'm very happy to announce that Reality Drift will have guest artwork by Keita Takahashi @kt.uvula.jp! Additionally, the game will be released on Steam on Weds 11th November!

A racing game where the player is driving through a giant mouth full of giant teeth and a floating burger

Racing game, player driving towards a mountain and there are giant sheep in the distance

An underground racetrack with giant skulls at the sides

Driving through the human body, the racetrack is surrounded by giant kidneys, a heart and eyeballs

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

This remains my finest work

The classic panel from Watchmen with the caption "I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."

But Doctor Manhattan has been replaced by a photo of Kevin McCloud from TV's Grand Designs.

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FRACTiLE games @fractilegames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Testing eyes on the flying creatures. They were supposed to look weird and scary but they are just.. goofy. I guess I'll have to scrap this idea. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking aloud: Buried Treasure isn't getting updated as much as I want it to, largely because my other income has gone down dramatically this year and I'm trying to stay afloat. This has meant Patreon subs have gone down too. But what I want most of all is to spend more time on BT. So...

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 25/09/2026

Doubly dangerous as tech is full of people who thing that because they know computers, they know everything about everything.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 25/09/2026

Such a good talk and reflects well what I've always thought about my field and the world too.

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 19/09/2026

A familiar boss lurking there! ❤️

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 19/09/2026

Oh wow, that's really cool!

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Gianni Mancini @vitagiocata.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I'm particularly stressed, there's only one game that calms me down @gimblll.com

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 10/09/2026

Probably just because Kenney's Input Prompts doesn't have a separate image for left and right. 🙂

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 08/09/2026

The ending parts were so good! I'm glad someone has the guts to just go for it. Pretty much feel the same about the gameplay too. Would rather play a weird a bit wonky game like this than all the other template copypaste games these days.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 08/09/2026

I'm a little scared of it, I tire of open worlds easy.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 08/09/2026

Maaaaan, that Ocarina of Time remake looks so good. The only Zelda I've ever played is Wind Waker. Might have to try that one.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 08/09/2026

Yeah, we're still above average but not looking great.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 08/09/2026

For 20 years straight kids in my country have become worse and worse at reading, mathematics and natural sciences. Good times ahead.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 07/09/2026

I don't care for afterlife, but I would like a database interface to world data so I could make random queries like when was I closest to a bear eating me.

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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 06/09/2026

If you've been loving our three new EDITIONS, take a browse through the other games we've brought to life including Easy Delivery Co. Sektori, Dread Delusion and SO MANY MORE! 🔗⤵️

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 06/09/2026

I think it's good if it works for exit too, but I probably just forgot it. (I remember doing that in an earlier game, just missed it this time I guess.)

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 06/09/2026

How did it handle it? :)

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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore

a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm a big fan of when games look like nothing else. This looks great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E15...

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Rebounder - Official Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by GameTrailers

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Bounty Trail is OUT NOW! @henrikhermans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

OUT NOW on Steam! Step into the boots of a wild west bounty hunter, grab your gun, saddle up. The Bounty Trail awaits. store.steampowered.com/app/4126530/...

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 01/09/2026

Wooo! Party time! Congrats! 🍾

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 01/09/2026

I would never do such a thing!

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 31/08/2026

Just use Claude and it'll turn into GTA VI by tomorrow, right?!?

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VA•THAN•JA @vathanja.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The final boss of Sektori is at Gamescom.

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 26/08/2026

Hah, just wishlisted it myself too, the only one from the show I did so for. 🙂

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 25/08/2026

Holidays are great. Comings back are not. Also. Life without having to sit on a computer all day is so much better. <end of pointless social media story posted for engagement>

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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 14/08/2026

🚨 LOW STOCK WARNING! 🚨 If you've been waiting to grab: Sektori ~ @gimblll.com Dread Delusion ~ @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social or Easy Delivery Co. ~ @sweaters.bsky.social Now's your chance!! 🫳🎮 Head to the link below to get one before they're gone! 🔗👇

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Parta Games 👉 Choppa: Rescue Rivals is OUT NOW! @partagames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Choppa: Rescue Rivals is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch and Steam! #indiegame #videogame #nintendoswitch #steam #steamgame store.steampowered.com/app/1173100/... www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 13/08/2026

EPIC WIN! Congrats! 🍻

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 12/08/2026

Kiva, mutta kuinkahan selvillä vesillä toi homma on tekijänoikeuksien suhteen...

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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 06/08/2026

Insane. The hardest completion you can do in the game, Arcade mode with the Defier at Revolution difficulty done for the first time! 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqhs...

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Sektori Arcade Defier Revolution (clear)

YouTube video by Hr

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 05/08/2026

Oh noes, I have been upstaged by @househouse.com! (I really need to play Big Walk soon, it looks so good!)

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 05/08/2026

Nice! It's too brutal for me, heh!

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 05/08/2026

In case you missed it, Sektori is getting a very cool physical release on PS5 and Switch 2 through @lostincult.co.uk! Pre-order available now, ships in Q1 2027!

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 05/08/2026

Seriously? Wow! There are a bunch of you doing the numbers on my Discord channel, but yeah, definitely not common! 🙂

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just in case anyone who follows me hasn't heard of Bobby Fingers, here's his latest masterpiece www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...

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Johnny Depp's Bed

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 05/08/2026

Sektori playtime breakdown (Steam).

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