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@sunlightafterdark.com
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✦ Maker of things 🖼️🎮🎻👘📱 ✦ Designer @ ZA/UM ✦ Game design lecturer @ NWSPK ✦ sunlightafterdark.com ✦ They / Any

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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 28/09/2026
HEY SOUND DESIGNERS - a friend has passed on their need for some quick adhoc freelance work. 300£ p/day. Something about a theatrical digital experience for children. Message me for details
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 22/09/2026
the modern version of Checkovs Gun is Akiras Bike Slide
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 22/09/2026
Watching people interact with AI is so sad. It's like watching my child put an excess of energy into trying to avoid brushing her teeth.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 17/09/2026
@amazefest.bsky.social where will the 2027 event be held? Do you have a city or venue already?
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 13/09/2026
Sorted all my fabric samples. Extremely satisfying.
A box full of fabric samples neatly arranged
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 13/09/2026
I realize now that as a kid, low poly graphics never felt unrealistic, instead it felt like I was looking at an actual real thing, through a distorted screen - like a bathroom window.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 09/09/2026
Jet2 is ridiculous. All the other plane company names could not have been taken. I guess next year we'll see the launch of "_Planes"
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 07/09/2026
THERE'S A DEATH NOTE MUSICAL?? www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
barbican.org.uk
Death Note | Barbican
Based on the iconic Japanese manga phenomenon, this ★★★★★, 'exhilarating' (The Stage) new musical is on 'a whole other level' (The Guardian).
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 20/08/2026
I'm going!
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 05/08/2026
Not so long ago, there was just blood salt and water. At the emergence of industry, 49 more holy substances were discovered.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 01/08/2026
Quote with a ridiculous movie you think people should watch. ( I will be watching all of them)
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 31/07/2026
Game design process in one image
a miro board screenshot of game design flow charts, with a note in the centre reading "how does time work??"
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 30/07/2026
I want to work with all of these
A pronoun selector featuring 9 different pronoun pairs
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 20/07/2026
The whole design team are on the chopping block. I worked with all those being let go and they are an incredible people and skilled artists. Anyone looking for any designers?
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 13/07/2026
At my kids school they're doing playground repairs but it just looks like the most cursed hopscotch
Misshapen yellow squares over a cracked playground surface
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 10/07/2026
Where's the AI tool that gives the user a sense of ethics? Oh there isn't one? how interesting
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 08/07/2026
Across all the video games I've played, I have never seen a desire path
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 18/06/2026
I had a dream where Kellogs released a cereal mascot smash brothers clone, based on those 8 packs of mini cereal boxes. The Golden nuggets prospector was hammering the coco pops monkey.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 21/05/2026
THE GAME IS OUT! GO PLAY ZA/UM's NEW TITLE! 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/2863680/...
store.steampowered.com
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam
From the creators of Disco Elysium comes ZERO PARADES – an espionage RPG. You're a brilliant but tormented operant on one final desperate assignment. Gather your broken network, untangle a web of lies...
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 18/05/2026
‪My new business - selling soft drinks with high SEO searches as names - "when do the clocks go forward" (lemon) - "Restaurants near me" (peach) - "how many litres in a gallon" (grape) - "why am i so tired all the time" (energy drink) - "photoshop online free" (raspberry)
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 11/05/2026
That bit in movies where they flash back and the child versions of the characters have the same hairstyle and clothes is the most hilariously lazy trope
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 04/05/2026
We watched the end of the century Compressed on a tiny screen A dead star collapsing and we could see That something was ending
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 02/05/2026
Be gay, break chat bots github.com/Exocija/Zeta...
github.com
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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
One last illustration for the Swords Without Masters, again @portablecity.bsky.social is such an incredible art director and assembled such a cool squad of artists for this project, it's been so fun to see everyone flesh out their ideas
illustration of a cursed tree, the tree is covered in swords hanging from bare branches, from a hole in the trunk a liquid splills onto the ground. Surrounding the tree are skulls sitting on and among stones and candles. A ritual occurs here, it seems.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 23/04/2026
Check out this fun new trailer for the game! youtu.be/SMCuyXXlFz0?...
youtu.be
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies - The Friends You Left to Die Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 18/04/2026
Living in a Post-Shrek world
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
From the animated trailer directed by POTTO Collective for "La Langue des Vipères", a graphic novel by Juliette Brocal, published today in France by Rue de Sèvres. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH56...
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 19/03/2026
Rich furries are the 21st Century equivalent of those Renaissance art patrons
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 04/03/2026
All of Terry Gilliam's films need a bath
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 23/02/2026
HEY GO PLAY THE DEMO FOR THE GAME I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR YEARS. FOR COOL PEOPLE ONLY store.steampowered.com/app/2863680/...
store.steampowered.com
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam
From the creators of Disco Elysium - The Final Cut comes ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies – an espionage RPG. You're a brilliant but tormented operant on one final desperate assignment. Gather your broken...
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Concept art by Alex Niño and Marcelo Vignali for Mulan (1998), dir. Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft, Walt Disney Feature Animation
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 08/02/2026
The XX: they who made a track called "intro" which was a brief 2 minutes, it has no business being this good.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 17/01/2026
We are the curators of our own awarenesses
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Heya, folks! I'm looking for games writing work, available asap. Some notables about me: ▪︎ 10 years of freelance writing/narrative design exp ▪︎ skilled in compact prose to convey expansive inner/outer worlds ▪︎ genres: fantasy, scifi, magical realism, occult, post-apoc ▪︎ loves the weird + heartfelt
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 15/01/2026
Virtual-on cyber troopers for sega saturn. Extremely cool game. extremely crispy.
screenshot of VR troopers, a 3d robot fighting game
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 11/01/2026
How did all duck characters become typecast as being up their own asses
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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 08/01/2026
I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 26/12/2025
In 2026, "Grinch" becomes a new DnD race
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 18/12/2025
Modern assassination markets are purchasing a curse from an Etsy witch
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 16/12/2025
Game thought - what if the player creates the music of the game passively, as the repercussion of their actions? Such as matching the rhythm to how often they do specific actions, or favoring instruments for spending more time with different equipment.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 12/12/2025
Zero ethics here. Disney is cool with AI as long as it makes them a billion dollars openai.com/index/disney...
openai.com
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 09/12/2025
What about a tower defense which is about urban planning
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 30/11/2025
I don't think, therefore I'm not
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 16/11/2025
Recovery time is not leisure time
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 13/11/2025
An easy way to tell that you're in England is that all the woodland animals have surnames. Look, there goes Fox Robinson and Badger Cummington
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 30/10/2025
I challenge you to open this in your browser and not be impressed and sucked in messenger.abeto.co
messenger.abeto.co
Messenger
It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 23/10/2025
EXCUSE ME I ASKED FOR *UN-SCENTED*, THIS CANDLE SMELLS LIKE WAX
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 04/10/2025
The sky is an ocean of air
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 02/10/2025
I work at a studio with a union. Hell Yes.
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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 01/10/2025
The mentor to villain character twist is somehow even more lazy and predictable than having the old character die.
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