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Samuel Cohen

@samuelcohen.bsky.social
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Level Designer, Artist, Lecturer. He/Him. Expect photography and game dev stuff. Etherborn is my baby. Worked on Ritual Tides, After Us, Terracotta, Blues and Bullets and some other secret stuff. 🗣️ 🇪🇸🇺🇸🇯🇵 Photography ig: mind.dispersion

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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A whole essay could be written on the misogyny of DLSS5 and its training data, considering that every female face gets covered up with makeup regardless of the character. But you're all not ready for this.
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Noemar @noemardau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
El papá cantando a su bebé y lo hace muy bien. 😂🤣😂🫠🫠🫠🥰🥰🥰
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Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Looking for a job #PortfolioDay
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Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One of the environments I drew for the incredible show #ScavengersReign
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Terminando de redactar la tesina de mi máster, pero quería compartir un adelanto de lo que para mí es el eje central del asunto. #leveldesign #gamestudies #gamedesign
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 21/08/2026
China manufacturing TikTok really has me wanting to buy precision CNC machining.
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Daisy Ons Positifs @daisyletourneur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Come on girls this season we're going full Obelix. To be Gaul is goated actually. Put on your big pants and suck on that magic potion.
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 10/10/2025
today's evil is bullshit hey. you spend your life learning to perceive the many guises and subtle ways of evil and then evil just drops all that shit overnight, villains just publicly high five over evil shit now. please, i trained for the other thing
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nobody wants to talk about this, but probably the worst part about autism is how prone you are to digestive problems. Sent from my toilet.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 17/08/2026
I feel like if you're even cogitating *asking* for 75 variations on one thing you are just so profoundly out of your depth as a director that you really should get the professional equivalent of euthanasia
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 17/08/2026
The primary goal of any lead or director should be: I must not be the bottleneck. Being the bottleneck should mortify you. When you ask for a million variations so you can pick your favorite you are asking to be the bottleneck. You are doing anti-work.
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Noki Bay is one of my favorite levels. A real natural wonder of the gaming world
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Jacobo Dopico @jacobodopico.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
TODAS las autoridades de los Estados miembros de la UE (y de la UE en sí) deben abandonar colectivamente X. Europa no puede tolerar esta humillación. X ha suspendido la cuenta del Consulado UK por publicar una declaración conjunta de las misiones diplomáticas europeas. efe.com/mundo/2026-0...
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X bloquea cuenta del consulado británico en Jerusalén tras una publicación crítica con Israel - EFE
X bloqueó la cuenta del consulado de Reino Unido en Jerusalén después de que ésta realizara una publicación crítica con Israel
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/07/2026
Transport of a balloon from Lake Neuchâtel to Lake Biel, 1915. Museum Burg Zug www.burgzug.ch
 A boat with a large balloon on it. people surround the balloon a ship in the background
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Michel Ziegler @dasmirts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I'm currently working on my SECOND GAME. Please support real 100% human-made weird fucking shit! pls share and give us a follow and together with me wonder where this one fucking lands... All the weird is lovingly hallucinated in my human brain!
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm really fucking sorry for all the headlines the industry has been creating lately, but the one that keeps echoing in my head is the possibility of Arkane shutting down. Whoever makes that decision has zero appreciation for excellence.
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Lo bueno de que el nivel cultural en TikTok sea tan bajo es que aunque el sistema te borre comentarios por decir "masturbación", no detecta nada si usas "onanismo".
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Kudos to the Steam Support team for actually helping me with the kind of login issue that in any other service would've made me hit an AI wall.
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Can't sleep lately. Too many worries about my professional future. Freelancing as a level designer is becoming too heavy on my mental health. Need an opportunity at a studio, but I don't even know where to begin in the current industry.
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NEW: Former Xbox president Sarah Bond, former Roblox chief product officer Manuel Bronstein, and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick have been linked with a secret society called 'Dialog' organised by controversial billionaire and conservative activist Peter Thiel. Strap yourselves in for this one:
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Report: Game industry execs linked to Peter Thiel's secret mixer
A series of leaks have tied multiple current and former video game industry execs to the controversial billionaire's invite-only 'Dialog' conference.
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Dana Night 🌜 & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.northsky.social · 19/06/2026
ohhh heck we're live ^^ www.youtube.com/live/-wNXksq...
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Dana Night 🌜 & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.northsky.social · 19/06/2026
happening in four hours We'll also be joined by @gforgannon.bsky.social and Jeff Hickman ^^ will update with a direct link to the stream when it exists
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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Thinking about doing a commentary playthrough of #Dishonored with @rafcolantonio.bsky.social. He has not played much since we released the game!
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 16/06/2026
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Btw I'm centering my thesis around Level Design and the limitations of spatial navigation among the autistic population. Wrote my first article recently on this and my teachers loved it! Now I need to figure out how to publish it. Any tip is welcome.
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm not very active on social media, but I just have to say that I’m very close to graduating from my master’s in Art and Design Research, and I'm super excited!
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Although this post is not addressed to anyone in specific, it's a good reminder. Despite everything, I'm still getting paid to make video games and I can't pretend it's been easy. I'm so thankful.
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Akupara Games @akuparagames.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🔪The Day Has Come🩸 IT’S KUMITANTDAY! ‼️Available on PC NOW - Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter is here to test your wits, resilience, and detective skills in a love letter to 80s & 90s anime that combines all your favorite adventure game tropes. Get it TODAY!
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I had never ever owned a screen drawing tablet because: 1)They used to be expensive 2)I've always hated the experience of drawing digitally But today I'm blown away by my new purchase. Just did a quick sketch to test my configuration and I can't remember the last time I had so much FUN with a pen!
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Getting rid of Twitter was the right decision, but I think the ONE regret I have is that Brian Fargo was following me over there and that was pretty cool :___
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I don't like being reminded that David Lynch is not with us anymore...
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Watched The Blair Witch Project one more time, and you know what? This thing was actually very fucking well done.
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Memories from Japan. #photography #streetphotography
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Halloween Henrique @kelzor.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This post about the next Pixar movie is spot on.
What strikes me most about modern movies is they’re all the same tone. Animals sound like middle managers. Everyone is snarky and self-conscious. You don’t actually go to another world even when you’re literally not even human anymore. No one writes in mythic mode. No one writes people who don’t talk like the bored college kid or their whiny parent. What’s the point of imagining all these things if it’s just a version of you in a beaver fursuit? 

I long for the honesty and courage of a Watership Down that dares us to imagine that rabbits have their own inner life, and challenges us to become rabbits, rather than remaking all the world in our own narrow postmodern image.
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Downloaded Game Maker 6.1 when I was 15. Wanted to find if there was any tool I could use to make my own games, so I googled different combinations of words. "Game Maker" hit the jackpot.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Lumines Arise developer Enhance is forever chasing God
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Lumines Arise developer Enhance is forever chasing God
The Japanese studio breaks down its unerringly human creative process.
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I've played like half of these games and it's indeed an excellent bundle
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Alfonso 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @springsteen81.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Miércoles
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Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
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Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse
YouTube video by Lucas Pope
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/10/2025
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
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OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Simu Liu has a script draft done for the Sleepy Dogs live-action film
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Pretty clear who won the dick measuring contest here, if you ask me
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Samuel Cohen @samuelcohen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"We don't need producers"
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Fascinating story about a “ghost” concept car that was designed in 1939 but possibly/maybe/probably not actually built at the time, and only discovered when the sketches were found in a barn decades later. “The Dusenberg Coupe Simone” www.hagerty.com/media/automo...
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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.
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Possessor Fessor @professorfessor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If you want to own System Shock 2 but aren’t interested in the Nightdive remake, act now because it’s about to be delisted as a standalone product. www.rpgsite.net/news/18648-s...
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System Shock 2 (1999) is being delisted on October 10 for PC for standalone purchases | RPG Site
It will be included with System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster going forward for new and existing owners.
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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 03/10/2025
The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
A model of the first level from Mario 64.A model of a snowy level from Mario 64.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/10/2025
ADHD Yoda: “There is no do, there is only overdo or never do.”
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Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
From bravewave.net/interviews/t...
Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.
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