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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My fellow #gamedev, what is your most unhinged level design strat? I'm not talkin skill themes or spacial archetypes, give me some truly outta pocket stuff

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Just some updates on our $5 mario odessey. New enemies and areas added in! #indiegame #gamedev

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#WhatAGamedevLooksLike I'm Kevin, a level designer, indie developer and punk musician working on a 5$ mario oddessey #gamedev

A fit check featuring a battle jacket, patch pants, mohawk, and a lot of chains

A screenshot from a PS1 styled game. A penguin wearing sunglasses and a scarf standing on some iceflows, a large iceberg and waterfall behind it.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

NITW has had a larger impact on random walls than most games

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It's estimated that $150 billion would eradicate world hunger by 2030

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Y'ALL ITS HAPPENING!! I can't believe I'm now a person thats made an album thats CRAZY I can't eait for y'all to hear it 😭

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 11/02/2025

It's annoying to browse for materials in Unreal, especially when doing level design, because the content browser shows the textures applied to spheres, so I just made a texture browser widget that works like you'd want. Searchable too, and you can change the thumbnail size. Who wants it

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

MARK YA CALENDARS MY PUNK ALBUM IS COMIN IN HOT

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Here's a game design tip for the US congress. You cannot play a game with someone who has flipped the table and set it on fire. You throw them out of your house

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Based Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Want to help stop the fall of democracy? Call your representatives *right now* and demand leadership! Step 1: Find your reps using the links below Step 2: Call their offices and share your concerns or leave a voicemail Senate: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... House: www.house.gov/representati...

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG HOLDS A PHONE THAT SAYS "CALL YOUR REPS" ON THE SCREEN

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

You can say this doesn’t matter because billionaires view normal people as instruments for their will but keep in mind we’re talking about a guy who cried after being booed at a Dave Chappelle stand up set

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The album I've been working on for a year now is going to be released in February. RADICALIZED will feature 15 - 17 songs depending on how things go, but I'm very excited to get this stuff out soon

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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

ELON IS A NAZI

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I know this sounds weak, I know it. But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other. We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.

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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

For anyone arguing that this isn't the same salute. Here is a side-by-side view. It's not just that the arm is extended outward. It's the entire movement of bringing the right hand to then extending the arm straight with the palm facing downward. This is intentional.

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I had to deal with an actual nazi at work today and the role of punk is crystal clear. We need it more than ever.

Today I had to confront a nazi. With americas new fascist president the role of punk has become very clear to me. It is no longer simply the voice of the outcast, the abandoned, the oppressed. Punk is there to remind everyone that in the face of fascism, that you still have the drive to fight left in you. Punk is there to slap you in the face and remind you that you deserve freedom and that you must fight for it. Punk is there to remind those most vulnerable that there are people out there who violently oppose their oppression. Punk is the embodiment of the human spirit when it is beat down, pushed against the wall, with no choice but to fight for everything it has got. To me, in this moment, that is what punk is.

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Kim Myatt⁷ @ysvyri.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Go make the art you’ve always wanted to make. Write the stories you’ve been dreaming of. Sing your heart out. Pick up an instrument & play. Do the things you’ve been holding back on because you’re worried about what others might think. Just do it. Do it now. Life is short. Life is precious. Please.

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Connie Geppert @corneliageppert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We are hiring moar people!! For our upcoming game Project Ocean we are looking for another SENIOR LEVEL DESIGNER and a SENIOR GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMER, Go Go Go! :D Remote, freelance, maximum flexibility! www.jo-mei.com/jobs Please retweet, thank you!

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/01/2025

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

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heathen-dumpling.bsky.social @heathen-dumpling.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This was sent to me from a friend in China. The US government has blocked anyone new from opening Xiaohongshu. 🙃

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/01/2025

I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

Trump dropping his own memecoin means he has the wrong people in his ear re crypto policy.

I’m now getting very concerned about the Trump presidency.

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Something that hasn’t been much discussed - creating a bunch of personal memecoins opens the door to secretive foreign buyers trying to curry influence with our leaders. If you hated hunter biden’s anonymous art sales, you should hate this too.
nic carter

@nic__carter
Basically, we used to have an informal rule that presidents wouldn’t start or run businesses that could pose a conflict of interest. Creating a bunch of memecoins and defi protocols opens the possibility to rampant violations of the emoluments clause. Not to mention the obvious COI given the fact that trump can set crypto policy.

Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸
@twobitidiot
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
:

Please fire whoever recommended going forward with the Melania launch today.

1. They don’t know what they’re doing.
2. They cost you a lot of $ and goodwill.
3. They don’t have your interests in mind.

Brent
@Brentsketit
feel bad for anyone trying to build anything serious rn

president just making a complete mockery of this industry

fighting another biden admin prolly would have been better longterm

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hahaha if the Zuck thinks I'll go to instagram he's sorely mistaken. Its his fault I lost my biggest audience for my business and music. He can fucking rot

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 19/01/2025

Utterly unsurprising. Just remember, when you come across a new person who seems super friendly, but they also seem to keep trying to push your ideology further and get you to commit crimes? That's a fed.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18/10/2024

close up of a pale woman's eye. she is wearing a contact. it is large. white and flat. instead of any iris or artificial coloring is the text "ADVERTISEMENT HERE"

https://www.makeupbrutalism.com/comission

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I can't wait for players to figure out how to train it so they won't even have to play anymore in order to win. Players WILL optimize the fun out of a game if it means winning. This is so asinine

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Kevin Ethridge (spikemasc) @spiketrap.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Recent play tests proved this project is worth finishing, but the last few times I've open it up I end up staring at it. Times like this its key to know yourself and have some emotional intelligence so you can identify whats stopping you. For me its seasonal depression and overwhelmed by tasks lmao

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 11/01/2025

so they're expensive, they have steadily increasing subscription & maintenance costs, loss has gone up, they're easy to put card skimmers on so thieves can steal from your customers (oh that sounds like a lawsuit!), and 30% of Canadians (including me) refuse to use them at all HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

There is something so sweet about the human capacity for enthusiasm. For a few days everyone in LA has been glued to Watch Duty and getting in the weeds of how water drops work. Now there are people out here who honestly have a favorite water plane that they are following closely and rooting for.

An Instagram post of a screenshot someone took of a water planes “stats” i.e. how many drops it’s made and its ground speed etc.

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Jason Singingpigs of Pipeline @singingpigs.online · 12/01/2025

the bottom-level lack of curiosity these fuckups have is what sends me up a wall. if you don’t know why there’s ASL interpretation when live captions exist, why not, idk…ask???

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.

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Dmaw⛅ @dmawdev.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Tech art is my passion

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Caden @cadfinch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Working on game dev stuff! Just finished with this summoner enemy's animations

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

But REAL America is Wyoming, an entire state with six (6) percent the population of LA county

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 12/01/2025

fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Just picked up three games from Bull Press, a publisher who supplies “conversational games” to prisoners that are prison rule compliant. The games are cool as hell. And their ethos is punk af. Go support them if you can. #TTRPG bullpress.org

* First Time Key Narrators: fuck nerves. The friends are getting together to riff and bullshit with each other. They're going to have a good time no matter what.
If your first session feels stiff, don't sweat it, it's not because you dropped the ball, it's because things are still developing - the main characters don't really have personalities yet, a crew dynamic is still brewing, and the setting doesn't feel lived-in yet. The pilot session is still a good time, but where the hobby goes from good to great is two or three sessions in when the setting and characters start feeling familiar, start coming to life a little, and start relating to each other in interesting ways. There's a reason it takes a couple episodes to get hooked on a TV show, you know?
Besides that, Keying is easy: just give the main characters engaging shit to do, see what gets people stoked, and find interesting ways to give your actors what they want.

Three book covers:

L: blue and black colour scheme. Book is titled Stirring Giants. Washed out picture of an old building interior
Middle: Corpse Thieves. Right side of cover is black. Left side is image of bird on branch looking up at flowers.
R: Yellow cover with black band at bottom. Shapes and squiggles in the yellow section of the cover. Title is Illadelph

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Weathered, half demolished buildings stand on an empty street, their walls marked by peeling paint and graffiti. A path cuts through rubble and overgrown grass, leading to a small hill crowned by cypress trees and a solitary building in the distance. The sky is muted and heavy with clouds.

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Kyle McKernan @spacetreasured.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

my theory of making art is that you have to learn to Delete Stuff For Good. Identify when the work you're doing is shackling your brain and get rid of it

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/01/2025

Any place that would be destroyed by a few apartment buildings and a neighborhood center should be destroyed.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

IMO it's hard to name any one thing as the attraction of fascism-- there are so many reasons people come to it. But this is close. Fascism makes a lot of very appealing promises, many contradictory. And, they're all lies. Which is why it always, always ultimately shrivels on contact with reality.

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Steve Bowler @gameism.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Everyone: wish I could have a better video card so I could get better shadows and real time reflections and-- Nvidia, after doing eight lines of coke: OKAY BUT WHAT IF, AND HEAR US OUT, WHAT IF WE RENDERED WHAT YOU *WEREN'T* DOING. LIKE WHAT IF WE RENDERED SOMETHING COMPLETELY OTHER THAN YOUR GAME🤔

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 07/01/2025

Does anybody else see what I see here? Anything vaguely - you know - problematic about this? Anything... *ahem* different about the generated, "photo-realistic" face? Like in the eye area? And based on what I'm reading here...this is just what this new generation of graphics cards will do to faces?

A 3D model of a woman's face. The woman has vaguely non-white features. Her eyes are jet black. She has a beauty mark on her left cheek. The character model does not appear to have any makeup on.

NVIDIA's "photo-realistic" generative AI "upscale" of the same model's face. Her skin texture looks smoother, no longer matching the textures surrounding her. Features on her face have changed. Her beauty mark is now smudged, and a new one has appeared near her mouth. Her lips are smoother, darker, and more symmetrical. Strikingly, her eyes and eyebrows now look vaguely more European. You can no longer see individual eyebrow hairs - they are smudged. Her eyes are now dark brown, and she now clearly has eyeliner and what appears to be eye shadow. Her face now appears slightly slimmer, possibly because she now appears to have contouring makeup on her cheeks and forehead.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

i think if i had confidence in my face rendering tech then i would show it on a character animated at normal speed, on multiple faces, in different lighting and movement conditions. i also think i would not do these things if my technology looked like this.

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