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LukeMakes

@servus.bsky.social
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Day: Game Designer pretending to be a Woodworker Night: Woodworker pretending to be a Game Designer Currently - 🤫 | Previously - Lead Game Designer: Predecessor, Elite Dangerous.

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Massive loch, which one is this??
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You used to have some odd hobbies my guy
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bangin
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe so
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I now realise that I misunderstood what the decision was and this just unlocked the whole discussion for me. Thanks!
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm confused, how does this disincentivise save scumming? You can still rerun the save until you get the right outcome no?
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can look for details that are small enough to miss but my best gut check is whether you see a lot of 2d images that have a consistent *selection criteria*, not a consistent *artistic hand*. If it feels like someone chose these images from a long list of variations then they probably did.
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nevrender @nevrender.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Vespers. Illustration for the Armored Core VI zine project RECORDS//ANALYSIS (@armoredcorezine.bsky.social)
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When I was a lot younger (and lighter) we'd call them street trampolines
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
flood
Digital painting, flooded city streets
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Whatever it is runs Half Life Alyx at a decent quality so it's got the juice
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'll keep my ears out, hopefully you find a new project very soon 🤞
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ah. The people I know are so many time zones away 😟
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What location? 🤔
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
?????????
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It has been said that if you don't have a stoner roommate then you might be the stoner roommate. I don't make the rules.
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is cool as hell. It's so robust what the f
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mathy math. 🐧📐📈 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I once wrote faux networking for scripted narrative-heavy raid bosses when I figured out the local event system could broadcast to the lua machine running on the server. I wish I could have recorded Engineer type 1's exasperated<->impressed facial expressions as he scrolled through all 1600 lines.
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have become known amongst my family as the lover of "fabulous drinks" They absolutely do taste better than whatever is currently excreting out of the tap!
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I like that this reply works as a great reference and also an Australian also disagreeing with the nonsense of the world
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why can't you just make lots of things at wildly different quality levels and then force them together via a multi-year low level heart attack like a NORMAL person?
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Crappypasta
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No man, it's just content, don't you get it hdieuufhaheytjogosueufbif9gorkwiridusurur *vomits in mouth*
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Through no fault of their own, Steam's "service better than piracy" philosophy now covers consoles that have historically been truly plug-and-play. Amazing.
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What was your TTP?
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
T-rex ass birb
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What
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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just going to live in the nearby forest now
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What is wrong with that arm I wonder
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You provide a great public service to those of us without the ability or skill to be able to obtain such a butty 🫡
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There best be a photo when you catch up
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I might pinch this graph but retitle it to "how long to make game good", graph 1 is actual, graph 2 is (generously) private equity perception.
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jus' poppin' roof ont' 'ouse like
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This looks like jam that is mine
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" 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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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
H U G E
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hell yeah
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Man standing on cliff shouting through a megaphone with caption "STEAM SHOULD ALLOW GAMES NOT TO SHOW CONCURRENT PLAYERS"
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was not prepared to be emotionally destroyed today. We put a lot into the games we create and reading things like this makes it all seem worthwhile. Big ooof.
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What a sad end of the world that would be 😅
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you! Honestly how much you need to be lucky to find these things is still unreal. The industry is dire at the moment :/
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hell. Yes.
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Side note. It is not lost on me how lucky and fortuitous I have been to end up in this place working on this project. It feels like I've used up all my career luck in one go! I promise to do the best I can with this opportunity, universe.
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So... something REALLY cool happened I had my first week working on a SERIOUSLY cool project with VERY talented people at a place that makes me remember exactly why I LOVE making video games. Coolest. Week. Ever. (..so far???)
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Sam Manley (commissions: waitlist open for 4th Q 2026) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Artists! Quote with your city art!
I mean... it's city art! A big ol' nasty dirty grimy city done for the GM Screen for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th edition
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🥺
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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Peak Peak
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