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Will Slama

@slamallama.bsky.social
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🛠🖌 Level & Technical Artist 💻🎮 Game programmer and player 👀 Looking for remote work! Portfolio: slamawill.com Opinions my own.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Realtime lighting getting baked into vertex colors in Unity! The terrain shader uses the vertices' alpha channel as emission and tapers the edges with the material's normal maps. Might make this a free asset package when I buff out some rough edges to the logic and when I make it more user-friendly.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 27/08/2026
Just a PSA for all the other major publishers: You can’t make a GTA 6. Don’t have any meetings about it. Don’t put together any pitch decks. Don’t preemptively doom your workforce and the industry any further than you already have. Leave it alone.
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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s eat or be eaten when Metroid Ravenous, the latest game in the 2D Metroid series, arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 Jan 28! #NintendoDirect
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The decision to let Samus keep her Metroid powers after the ending of Dread might be the coolest thing the series has ever done
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tim Sweeney
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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
Alt: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Watch out for his SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA-MOVE! ⚡️
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every "corporate execs are assholes" satire ever written could not possibly compare to the level of assholery on display here. Jesus Christ.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I used to be confused watching Americans refuse to stick up for themselves or even allow OTHERS to advocate for things like workers rights (because doing so is Woke Commie Shit America Perfect Fuck You), but it clicked when I found out they make you pledge allegiance to the flag every day as a kid.
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This really hits. My current project just announced "oops, project ends next month, yall better make job plans!!!" after A YEAR of the team asking "hey when is our release date?" Simultaneously realizing I'm blessed to have 1 month+, but still pissed at the detachedness of our managers.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 02/08/2026
Just to be clear on this article, the position I took isn't "developers need to be more brave" but "funding needs to be more brave". Developers make all the cool stuff, just because they want to - the funding side hits it with market research and fear and growth targets and shareholders.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
That said: Asha Sharma IS currently playing a bullshit PR game where she’s really just saying hollow things people want to hear in order to attempt to rebrand, so it’s possible they will hold onto discs for a while solely for that? But I doubt it, and if they do it won’t last long.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 15/07/2026
Update: A Ubisoft Barcelona employee has reached out to Game Informer to explain that Ubisoft is offering a "very bad offer that goes below any reasonable standard" in negotiations amidst an employee strike at the studio held to protest proposed layoffs. gameinformer.com/2026/07/15/a...
an image from the July 14, 2026, strike rally held outside the Ubisoft Barcelona office. Employees on strike are holding a sign that reads, "Corporate Greed," designed to look similar to Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed" title treatment. An image of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced protagonist Edward Kenway clashing swords with Spanish soldiers in the game
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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 14/07/2026
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced developer Ubisoft Barcelona has begun a strike to protest planned layoffs at the studio, just days after the remake's successful launch. gameinformer.com/2026/07/14/a...
an image of Ubisoft Barcelona developers on strike outside the studio's office. Various employees are holding up a large banner that says "Corporate Greed," stylized in a way that makes it look like Assassin's Creed, with matching colors to boot. an image of Edward Thatch aka Blackbeard from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. He is angry.
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Glad they updated this article title to be way more passive-aggressive
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Shell @cptshell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In my opinion, any CEO that deems it necessary to lay off this many people is admitting that they so woefully mismanaged their company and caused harm to their workforce. I think that warrants jail time, and I'm not remotely joking.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.
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Adam. Pottery Beard. @thatbeardoadam.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Telling Tim to STFU is getting a lot of mileage lately.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/07/2026
This is horrifying and so important. Israel's continued massacres, child murder, genocide, forced starvation, concentration camps, targeted and structured destruction of life, and ethnic cleansing continues. It's easy to not see the full scale of this unparalleled evil. archivegenocide.com
Israel Exposed — War Crimes Archive
64,515 videos · 17,904 photos
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Gene Park @gene.meme · 02/07/2026
we were discussing where the cost savings of AI and physical media production go when they’re not being passed on to the consumer
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 30/06/2026
I'm happy to announce to game developers worldwide that almost every single one of us can now officially claim that at least one of our games did better numbers than the "Great American State Fair", and also that we did better at not shipping greybox assets for our setpieces.
That fair is empty.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 26/06/2026
With the shutting down of Concord and EOL for Destiny & the complete gutting of live-service stalwart Bungie, Sony announces a new company strategy focused on -wait sorry let me re-read I must've gotten it wrong... no that's what it says- yeah they're still trying to build a new not-Destiny y'all
In the PlayStation 5 generation, Sony Computer Entertainment's software output hasn't been as impressive as it was in the previous console generation. Due to SIE’s aggressive live service push, the Japanese publisher released several games - such as the ill-fated Concord from Firewalk Studios and Marathon from Bungie - that did not meet players' expectations. Despite this, President Hideaki Nishino confirmed they will continue to pursue live-service games, even as he heavily hints at a PlayStation 6 handheld designed to meet the changing playstyles of gamers worldwide.

"We believe that live service games are content that attracts users on a global level, so we want to continue to revitalize the market through both first-party and third-party content," Hideaki Nishino said in a new interview with Famitsu celebrating the magazine's 40th anniversary. "We are not only focusing on promoting new releases, but also considering what we can do with older titles in the medium to long term. Also, this year we are planning to release our own live service title, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and we hope everyone will enjoy it."
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/06/2026
"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If I had a bigger following a poll I would very much like to do would be which is more tense, the Interstellar docking scene vs the Project Hail Mary fishing scene Because I finally saw the latter and damn
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/06/2026
Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
it's cool that there was a huge recession in 2007 followed by a global pandemic in 2020, houses have more than doubled in price in the last 25 years and these guys are like, 'what if it was the iphone, or marvel movies'
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Counterpoint: I already know how to use GIMP proficiently and not Photoshop, because GIMP is free and Photoshop costs $300 a year and is choked with AI features now.
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Turns out if you don't fire all your employees at the end of every fiscal year, your company functions better. This novel knowledge will hopefully make its way to other game companies soon.
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Krees @wigglykrees.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We're doing amazing and just shipped a bunch of hits? Layoffs. We're doing badly and we need change? Also layoffs. Our new CEO is putting us on track and we're gonna do great? Believe it or not, also layoffs.
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BlonicYouth @blonicyouth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"it didn't save us any time or money, but it did get us in trouble with the public. so you can see how this is the future."
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I feel so bad for all the devs behind these games having their work ruined forever by that stupid hat
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Who would've thought that laying people off every 53 seconds would eventually lead to your company ceasing to function? Shocking! If only this had happened to (checks notes) dozens upon dozens of other studios first, to serve as a warning. If only.
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Undetailed volcanoDetailed volcano :)
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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien v2.48: Stopped children and babies from joining you on your adventures
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recently saw an ad on YouTube poking fun at millenials for not liking using mobile websites for important things And I feel like whoever wrote it also does not use mobile sites ever, becuase if they did, they would know most of them look like this and are, in fact utterly unusable
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Subnautica 2 launched 20 minutes ago. Safe to say Krafton will be forced to pay out the $250 million bonus it tried very hard (via advice of ChatGPT) to avoid paying
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I have to wait until tomorrow aaaaggghhhhhhhhhhh
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Reject physically-based lighting solutions. Return to vertex coloring.
hand-painted ambient occlusion is very awesome
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/05/2026
So, the usuals peddling this is the press forcing this game into your Steam library is genuinely just trying to retain their relevance - they need an enemy, the enemy always needs to "feel bigger", as they need to be able to claim victimhood if someone fires back in kind. It's all content to them.
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Subnautica @subnautica.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We’ve heard your feedback 📢 From today through Early Access launch, you can pre-purchase and pre-load Subnautica 2 on Steam! You can also pre-purchase on Epic Games. We'll update with news about Xbox when we have it. 🔗 : unknownworlds.com/en/news/subnautic…
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It's so cool how closing a program doesn't actually close it anymore. I hope they take away the Minimize button next
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
crack
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
From the top rope. From downtown. From left field.
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This implies people in Washington are just misguided or need a wake-up call. No. You do not commit the amount of evil these people have committed without meaning to. They know what's happening. They're doing it on purpose.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
fyi it started this week!
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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
When I describe my personal design aesthetic to other game designers, I tell them that I don’t design for balance but rather drama. This is a great illustration of that.
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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"
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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
More second art pass. I'm currently studying at the Metroid Prime school of "just put cracks everywhere"
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Subnautica @subnautica.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The depths are calling… 🐟 The Subnautica 2 Early Access cinematic trailer is out now! Make sure you watch all the way to the end for a surprise 🫣 🎞️: youtu.be/8EZhCzFaQuw
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Subnautica 2 Early Access Cinematic Trailer
YouTube video by Subnautica
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