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Keith Evans

@kaynsd.itch.io
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Keith. Technical Designer & Game Developer. [he/him/his] C# Programmer and Systems Architect. Procedural Generator Generator. Technically Swedish Now. Dilettante and Dabbler. Possibly a Wizard. Mastodon: [@kaynSD@peoplemaking.games] Itch: [kaynsd.itch.io]

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 10h
As it happens, Apocalypse World has a move for cooking a Michelin star meal. It's not a basic move, it's a playbook move, because not everybody cooks at that level. It works like this: What happen? On 10+: Pick 2 good things! On 7-9: Pick 1 good thing! On 6-: NBD but meal is still delicious.
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 11h
So someone showed me this movie last year and I honestly believe it to be the highest of fine art. Those in the US with Dropout should watch this feature length film that is best described as vaudeville on video game logic
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 13h
[opens Guess the Game] [Guesses it instantly] [Goes to Guess the Poorly Described Game] [Guesses it instantly as well] I might not be good at video games but I do know of far too many of them.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 17h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AVAILABLE TO-DAY!
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 20h
I'm imagining what other creative fields would look like if they ran like games do. Sorry, you're not allowed to attempt writing a novel until you've done eight years of poetry and maybe we'll give you a shot at writing a novel, well actually a short story and now a quarter of it needs to be ad copy
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D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Get your hands-on introduction to urbanism for #gamedev (and world prototyping) with our *Create An Interactive City In Text using ink* course. Find out more, meet the instructor, and ask questions in a live course presentation on October 29! ▶️ Secure your spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/1990871920...
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Vuntra City @vuntracity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh and the NPC's reaction can depend on their personality.
A happy NPC saying "Yes... Haha, YES!" when another NPC got hurt.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
A photo of a truck by the side of the road in Tokyo. The driver's leg is sticking out of the window resting on the side of the trailer. The title of the talk is written on the truck. It will happen on October 18th, online. Tickets are roguelike.club
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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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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026
What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.
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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There have been two occasions in my career where I had to go to war with teammates against mistaken understandings of probability. In both cases, it was because people expected large numbers of d6s to occasionally result in maximum damage. But the curves for 3d6 and 15d6 (e.g.) look like this:
Two curves showing the distribution of results across 3d6 and 15d6.  At the extreme ends of the first, 3 and 18 are both 0.46% likely.  On the second curve, the extremes are 15 and 90 damage, but the probability drops below 0.00% below 29 and above 76.
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 29/09/2026
Your chances of missing two 95% chance to hits in XCom is actually 1/20 You might inherently think that it's 1/400, but that's the chance of your NEXT two shots missing. The chance of missing when one already has just messed up is just a natural one away And that's why you're angry at dice
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character theonion.com/you-can-be-anything-yo…
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's that last bit that's the real tell; "...from the outside." They're completely outside of gaming and are operating without the understanding of why people play games or enjoy art, and again their only pitch is how to appeal to them; more shiny slop.
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She-wolf of Naarm @jadedsynic.itch.io · 28/09/2026
I could get a brand spanking new console for that. Or pay my motorbike rego for another year. Or cover my therapy bill for three sessions. YOU DON'T EVEN GET THE GAME WITH THIS! WHAT IN DEATH'S NAME WAS 2K/ROCKSTAR ON???
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This evening AEW put out a press release announcing the extremely sudden death of wrestler Benjamin “Pac” Satterley, who was on last night’s PPV in top form; many of the cast learned of his death while at Andy’s memorial service.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 28/09/2026
If you've not seen it, or don't know who Pac is, here is one of the greatest and funniest matches of all time. And as great a wrestler as he was, it seems like he was even more loved as a person. youtu.be/7W63y_mCcg0?...
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FULL MATCH: PAC vs Orange Cassidy | AEW Revolution 2020
YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 26/09/2026
One of the more frustrating things is that for a long time physical and online casinos would not want this kind of gambler as clients. Normal games of chance have a limit of how many people you can service, from the amount of bets a croupier can handle at roulette to enforced spin times on slots.
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Ivano (somepx) @somepx.com · 26/09/2026
I refreshed my rugged pixel font RANK to make it 222% cooler! it also supports more languages. if you have a few dollars, click here. if you don't, you can click anyway: somepx.itch.io/pixel-font-r...
Pixel Font - RANKEnglish pangramDeutsch pangramPolish pangram
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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @broadwell.eu · 26/09/2026
happy henry day to all who celebrate BLESSED BE THE HENRY
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 24/09/2026
Just another e-beg reminder for Steam players to please leave a review, especially if you were *not* a Kickstarter backer. The backers’ reviews annoyingly don’t count towards the final number and at this early stage we need all the momentum we can get! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...
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Save 10% on Nighthawks on Steam
The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, ...
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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And now for something completely different: Tolkien with illustrations by Tove Jansson is now available in English finally! If you want to see the artist most known for moomins have Takes about dwarves and such, this is for you. harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...
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The Hobbit: Illustrated by Tove Jansson
Landmark new 90th anniversary edition featuring a wealth of charming illustrations from Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins, published in English for the first time.Whisked away from his comfortable,...
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 24/09/2026
Trying to learn Morse Code by mnemonics while I wait for simulations to run. My brain is wired weird so it's using the cadence of a Judas Priest song for B, a Blue Öyster Cult song for G, and the American National Anthem for Y.
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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 23/09/2026
Today we announced the first talks for the 2026 AI and Games Conference in November. A great start, with plenty more to come! Our goal is to bring together the people working on real AI for games. I mean c'mon we have 3x talks on navigation FFS. GenAI grifters don't even know what a navmesh is!
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Cailín Walsh 🍀 @cailin.dev · 24/09/2026
The reason you will fail is because you do not care. Giving a shit is the whole game.
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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026
if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.
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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trouble at the charity gala
Bruce Wayne in a tuxedo glances over his shoulder as he dashes away Bruce pulls his bowtie out like a parachute ripcord  Bruce's tuxedo pops like a balloon, revealing the complete Batman costume underneath, cowl and all
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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've not really asked here before but things are getting pretty scary right now. Does anyone have any leads for a job in the broader Stockholm area or fully remote for a Scrum / Agile / release manager / product owner type role? If you need someone to wrangle both devs and clients I'm your guy.
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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 21/09/2026
We have achieved Godot 5 internally at the Godot Foundation, but it is too powerful to be released. We need a bajillion dollars. Thanks 💸
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 22/09/2026
"A procedural generator can never perfectly produce the thing it is trying to generate - that's not what it's there for... [it] is an opportunity for a designer to think about their creative process, to model something about it [and] themselves, and to then expose [it] (and its flaws) to the player"
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 22/09/2026
Okay #multiplayer framework question for anyone in the #godot space. Are there any out of the box solutions that don't explicitly rely on replication as a pattern? Got a few projects in mind that require either cross project communication or will have players operating on conflicting coordinate sets
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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 22/09/2026
we are in the reaping phase of the industry gorging itself on dark design patterns
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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My friend made a cool game on a game jam and within a month a slopclone of it is on Steam. This is happening every day for indie devs and I hate it.
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Current workplace doesn't have a rule against Pepe the Frog emoji in slack, and so currently I am having fairly intense discussions with someone who's avatar is a Pepe in Clown Makeup and isn't making my opinion of still working in gambling much better.
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Nine minutes into the latest @mikerose.bsky.social and @ramiismail.com episode where the description purports to be about what games they are playing and I fully expect it to be a Waiting for Godot situation where the talk about games they're playing never actually arrives...
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Show me a thing someone is willing to automate and I will show you something that person does not care about.
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 18/09/2026
I am technically a Lions fan by the transitive property of "the Americans I talk to in real life are so I guess I am now too" and I, as someone who's full experience of handegg is playing Blood Bowl and watching Jon Bois videos is "you do know the defence side of the game isn't optional, right?"
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is going to be looked back on as one of the stupidest periods of human history. People will simply not understand why it played out the way it did given how obvious every single thing happening was. And the answer is just: everyone involved was either stupid, easily bought, or both.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO
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More Everything Forever
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 17/09/2026
resilience don’t pay the bills tho so so so many people who we look to as having the pluck and moxie to make it work as indies were bankrolled by their partners for most (if not all) of the development, let’s be real a can-do attitude and stick-to-itiveness can only take you so far
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Peter Stormare, America's First President🏴🤷‍♀️🏴 @pres-stormare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i was aware how weird and dumb the "rationalists" and their satellites were thanks to @iwriteok.bsky.social and aware how weird and dumb the folks in the AI industry thanks to @edzitron.com. now i'm aware that the latter are almost entirely a subset of the former thanks to this podcast episode.
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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Speaking of the Aggro Buggy/Ute, I was thinking of making an expansion kit. Basically adding all the parts I didn't get around to making the first time around, plus stuff I've since thought of. Let me know if there's anything you thought was missing from the original release, maybe I'll make it!
The Aggro Ute kit in question. It's highly customisable space ork vehicle 3D print.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Keith Evans @kaynsd.itch.io · 16/09/2026
Every office I have ever worked at in Sweden that has complimentary tea selections.
A four panel comic, modified from The Simpsons screenshots with incorrect captions.
Panel 1: Homer looks at a box of Neapolitan ice cream (chocolate, icecream, and vanilla). The caption reads "Mmm... tea" and the box is labelled "English Breakfast" and "Earl Grey" over the chocolate stripe, "Fruit" and "More Fruit" over Vanilla, and "Green" and "Yet More Fruit" over strawberry.
Panel 2: Homer opens the box and sees the chocolate section of the box has been completely eaten while the other two stripes remain untouched. The caption reads "D'oh!"
Panel 3: Homer angrily looks over his shoulder yelling for someone. It is captioned "Office Manager?"
Panel 4: Homer continues his demand. It is captioned "We need more tea"
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 14/09/2026
The "Adults Only" ranking has been removed from Nighthawks! Everything is set for launch on the 22nd! Phew. What a roller coaster. Thank you everyone for your amazing support while we got this sorted. If you weren't able to wishlist before, now you can! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...
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Steve Bowler @gameism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We were watching the Wolverine Sentinel footage, and... We used to call these "high chair boss battles" because the boss looks like a baby in a high chair and you're on their tray. Now you have to see it, too 😅
screenshot from the new Wolverine game with him battling a giant Sentinel. Wolverine is on a platform that comes up to the sentinel's waist. The sentinel hands can come to rest on the platform. A mock bad photoshop of Wolverine in the same pose from the trailer shooped into a stock image of a large baby boy sitting in a high chair and crying. Wolverine is standing on the high chair tray in a similar angle and presentation to the previous game trailer screenshot
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