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Patrick Haslow

@patrickhaslow.bsky.social
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Lead Level Designer and #gamedev #leveldesign educator. www.youtube.com/@LDLearning #UnrealEngine Gotham Knights, For Honor, BioShock Infinite, Homefront, etc.

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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A funny counterpoint from around the same era - playing God of War on PS2, and dying over and over on a traversal challenge. After several deaths, the game menu pops up and asks: “Would you like to change the Combat Difficulty?”
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ha I read that as the Seattle Karen, and thought “what does she have against them to do that?” Ah cold medicine
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh man that’s awesome, please include in your next game.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SH1 was the first for me that seemed more about eliciting emotions then about being a game. The opening sequence where it feels increasingly disorienting and dangerous until you lose and die. Truly haunting, made me consider different possibilities in the medium.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
9 Games that influenced me. I had an on and off relationship with games over time, with different periods of a few years where I mostly stopped playing. I abandoned it for awhile, but in my absence modding communities and survival horror began and I was pulled in permanently.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
- Alone in the Dark: Inferno had an interesting diegetic inventory system - Still Wakes the Deep - Metro series has quite a lot of horror - Fatal Frame series, although 3rd person, the camera mechanic was an interesting FPS analog
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also have been wondering about this
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Aka information vomit
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Similarly, I remember advertising composition goal was the closer an ad limits to 3 main elements in a composition the better the viewer absorbs the sum of the information. That was pre - internet. Current advertising is just cognition overload so that the viewer retains none of their own thoughts.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah cognitive load is common
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s as if you’re responding to a different post or something.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
about what
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Calm down nerds, this game is 3 years old and sold crazy numbers. Why the hell wouldn't it get a discount now? Bashing an entertaining game made by hundreds of game devs with no inherent agenda does far more harm to them then any imagined good of depriving one person a tiny amount of money.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I remember Tarantino also ragged Lack in this role. I thought it was what was needed - a meek, downtrodden everyman, ultimately a yin to the yang of his brother played by Ironside.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wincing now.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tired of US polarization but I’ll take the win.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’d bet that’s quite common on Steam. Also, sorry I’m one too.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
To paraphrase: "We know you don't want it. We know a lot of you will be insulted by it. We're ignoring that and putting it in anyway. But at least we're not the only ones so don't be mad at us." Why wreck your product like this? Is someone holding a gun to his head off camera? It's so weird.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“I think most of you can appreciate this”. Not so sure guy understands the paradox of his sales pitch.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Intriguing, but this trailer is telling me that games are art more than this game is something I should play.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Great list, feel maybe 85-90% same.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Great. That is some atypical watercolor there.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Love it. That is an expressive palette.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Ah right, I think I saw Beetlejuice on video after that.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This thread is the best. Charity is a fucking cover up for societal thievery.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thanks to everyone in this thread for pointing out the real problems.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Maybe you don't understand science.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wonderful, with tempera even! I clearly don't understand the medium.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As a kid I was the only one of my peers who loved PWBA. Yet as a Batman fan, I was very conflicted learning that Burton would direct it next. So happy he made 2 instant classics in a row. The audience erupted in cheers as the Batwing flew over the clouds, silhouetted against the moon.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dishonored series
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I thought the wardrobe(?) in Mirror's Edge was pretty slick though. Jet Set Radio also.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Also not sure when its inseparable or not from character design.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Of course I must say Team Fortress 2 (especially after community involvement). Are you looking for single or multiplayer?
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
That's a difficult question for me, I am frequently disappointed. I am let down by either sci-fi costumes or lack of good stylized dressing.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There was a time that shit got you sued, would be better off it was still true
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I preferred Sega controllers to Nintendo’s boxy designs, but I didn’t actually really enjoy a controller until the PlayStation.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I really need to visit more thrift stores
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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What an incredible honor, and DOOM is the only video game on the list! Congrats to DOOM devs, players, modders, and the entire games community. This one is for all of us. Thanks @gene.meme and @washingtonpost.com !
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yeah its crazy arrogant.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Completely engaged”? Jesus, who thought that was a great phrase to address an audience? Paramount can’t stop kowtowing to its shareholders long enough to write a press release for customers.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Am confused, is/will this series leave Early Access?
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Modern Lovers?
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
When Atari published Ghostbusters The Video Game in 2009, I was a designer that developed the co-op mode. It’s the only game I ever made where you didn’t assault people and I’m happy that people enjoyed it.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Would like to hear about the LEC adventures on The Eidolon.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
😅
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Holy shit, I’m in good company. I’ve been told I do this all the time.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Don't know if/when the schedule is for shutting down Compulsion but I am already seeing layoffs there.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you believe that you built content faster with a genAI model then the sad reality is that you did not build anything. Nothing at all. You copied it.
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Patrick Haslow @patrickhaslow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Reading up on the UE6 announcement and this line sickens me: "for UE6, we see LLMs, generative AI models, and tools like Claude and Codex playing a central role in helping you build content faster while maintaining the creative control you need." #gamedev #UnrealEngine
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