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Olly Skillman-Wilson

@thepixelcrush.com
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🖌️ Lead Environment Artist on Blackfrost: The Long Dark II 💼 Currently Hinterland ↪️ Previously Graceful Decay, Big Robot Ltd, Aardman. 🏭 Climate anxieter, 🍺 cider appreciator, 🎹 prog snob, 🏘️ Bristolian. he/him 🌐 www.thepixelcrush.com

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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 24/09/2026
Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rockstar-3...
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Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31
Justice for 31 Rockstar employees who formed a union and were fired en masse
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 21/09/2026
Amazing, send me a DM if you're still interested, no pressure either way 🙂. Enjoy this highly relevant gif (options were limited) and have a great day.
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King Of Oil: Everything Everything
Alt: King Of Oil: Everything Everything, Jonathan Higgins singing in front of some yellow bubbling liquid
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 17/09/2026
The beauty of a pre order arriving one day early 🤘🏻👀🤘🏻
the cover of De Staat's new self titled album, two intense staring eyes.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 15/09/2026
yes
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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am thrilled beyond words with what Tim and the team have made here. So excited to see it out in the world!
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 15/09/2026
and with the album child notes visible
another note graph of nodes, this time with lots of little child twigs branching off representing individual albums.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 15/09/2026
Ended up cataloguing my saved streaming albums in Obsidian before the subscription expires, it's going to take some time to rebuild but does feel good that the money will (mostly) go the artists?
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Alex Morgan @mmmorganism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/jame... legitimately hilarious how unfit for purpose it looks. and i STILL havent seen footage of it being used with rapidly moving cameras
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 10/09/2026
Donate to the defence fund here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rockstar-3...
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Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31
Justice for 31 Rockstar employees who formed a union and were fired en masse
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Found a bug that I might keep? I forgot to add chair occupancy restrictions, and penguin hips are simulated with physics, so you can get in tiny chairs with other penguins and shove them aside. 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 08/09/2026
Cancelled TIDAL, let's see how long this fantasy lasts 😅
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 07/09/2026
No Reptiles is so so special 😭 If I remember correctly there was even a real mirror for Enter the Mirror? They didn't do Daggers Edge when I saw them though which was the only shame. Let me know if you're still Bristol based and ever want to rank all their albums over a drink of some sort.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 05/09/2026
Same!! He seemed lovely.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 05/09/2026
Sometimes you just want to play a disk though, which is what the Fosi Merak is for.
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Andrew @andrewcogg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After a few years of work, I can finally talk about this! I’ve been designing puzzles and levels for Uncanyon. I’m super excited to share what we’ve been working on and to be part of the team at @graceful-decay.bsky.social Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3372610/...
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Uncanyon on Steam
Uncanyon is a puzzle-first adventure that drops you into a forgotten world, tucked into the seam between unparallel realities.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 02/09/2026
Raw Data Feel is amazing! Over produced is the bare minimum I expect these days. I think Get To Heaven is the one I've gone back to the most over the years, as a whole its such a journey. I saw them play it live in full last year, there were tears. Maybe the 4th or 5th time I've caught them total?
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 01/09/2026
Top 3 all time bands for me, very special. You have a favourite album?
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 01/09/2026
rediscovering classics whilst watching progress bars, oh to be alive.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 01/09/2026
Bought an external CD drive like its 2004, life is good.
Asus cd drive, daft punk, everything everything, CD stack
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 31/08/2026
I was half joking when I said this, turns out it's true. Play it with people you like, and you will have a very special experience. I feel full of love and awe.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 23/08/2026
Guys I am telling you, I've never had such a high reactivating a monorail with my buds.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 20/08/2026
Money spent on South of Midnight now supports its developers, not Microsoft aftermath.site/compulsion-sou...
the main character of south of midnight wielding cool magic
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deantak.bsky.social @deantak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Exclusive: It's official. Compulsion Games has successfully pulled off a management buyout and is no longer part of Microsoft. gamesbeat.com/compulsion-g...
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Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive
Compulsion Games, the maker of compelling gamers like South of Midnight, has pulled off a management buyout and is now separated from Xbox.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 19/08/2026
Huge win today getting home assistant to suspend *and wake* my ancient laptop with the homelab stuff on it. Turns out the laptop itself is too old to do things like RTC wake alarms, but MQTT and Wake on LAN have it covered! Been chipping away at that for 3 months just to save 37kwh a year 😅.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 14/08/2026
📣Audiophile PSA📣 If you have some nice lossless audio and pair of headphones you can crank the bitrate and frequency response waaay up in windows settings. I also found I was getting weird stereo imaging when changing volume recently, and I think turning off audio enhancements in here has fixed it.
windows system/sound/properties, format 24bit 96000 Hz.
audio enhancements off
spatial sound off
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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is obscene and we should all be enraged about this all the time.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 13/08/2026
Big Walk, game of the decade?
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🗳️ Norfolk PCC by-election in Norwich: 🟢 Grn: 35% ( +6 ) 🔴 Lab: 20% ( -26 ) ➡️ Ref: 14% ( +14 ) ⚪️ Ind: 12% ( +12 ) 🔵 Con: 8% ( -8 ) 🟠 Lib: 7% ( -3 ) ⚫️ Res: 6% ( +6 ) This marks the first time that Greens have won the popular vote in a local authority in a PCC election. x.com/LeftieStats/...
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 09/08/2026
Big words, can't wait to find time for it!
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 08/08/2026
Very very excited to see Mick Gordon live at Radar next year, once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Mick Gordon on stage at The Game Awards
Alt: Mick Gordon on stage at The Game Awards 10 years ago
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 03/08/2026
Huge
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 02/08/2026
I actually polished some noise up a little bit, from a while back, got sidetracked making cover artwork, never posted it, but now I've fixed that! Here it is alongside some fittingly crude imagery: vilejelly.bandcamp.com/track/this-b...
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This Bargain No Longer Works, by Vile Jelly
track by Vile Jelly
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 30/07/2026
Just discovered the graph heatmap plugin for obsidian. I've been searching for something that could do exactly this for a long time. Its beautiful. Want to make your thoughts look like a virus, a volcano, synapses flickering like the northern lights? community.obsidian.md/plugins/grap... #obsidian
a grubox themed custom palette for my note graph, weighted towards most connections
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CGT Catalunya @cgtcatalunya.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ubisoft Barcelona goes on strike. The company wants to layoff 51 #ACResynced developers after game success. 🏴 No to ERE (redundancies) in Ubisoft Barcelona!
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 17/07/2026
Develop was a good time, lovely blend of familiar and new faces.
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the white pube @thewhitepube.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
this week's text is about AI art + hallucinating a horse in Palazzo Te thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/p...
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Palazzo Te
I'm finally writing about AI are you all happy with yourselves
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Romain Durand @rdurand.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And here's some still screenshots cause the video compression is garbagio here.
Birch trees handpainted rendered in UE
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 07/06/2026
Duskers was an incredible game, may have to check this out 👀
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 29/05/2026
Possibly the most adorable thing on the planet is when I sneeze loudly and then the cat comes over and squeaks a lot to reassure me.
A whisky coloured Maine Coone lady
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Death Stranding is real if you want it to be. For @aftermath.site, here are some of my favorite forms of modular storage: expensive wall units, knock-offs of vintage Italian furniture no longer produced, modular German tool boxes, and entirely new 3D printed systems. aftermath.site/best-modular...
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Storage Is Better When It's Modular
Century-old interlocking bookshelves, modular toolboxes, fancy design stuff, network racks, and 3D printed bins. Storage is better when it’s modular.
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Hussain Dabhiya @bleep-bloop.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I played #Mixtape recently and this mini-game of TP-ing the principal's house really tickled my brain in the way that I couldn't get it out of my head. So obviously, I tried to recreate in UE for myself as a fun challenge.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I've been reading through a near-complete version our next #TTRPG book, GOLD TEETH, and while I am not exactly a neutral commentator I can say that @marshdavies.bsky.social is now operating on another level. Do not miss. You can still secure a late pledge copy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...
A mockup of GOLD TEETH, featuring a gold crossbones in a red fabric cover, laying on a sandy beach, of course.Part of Marsh's astounding exploded diagram of The Magdalena, our starting scenario for the adventure.A very cursed page of text from the book.An example of Marsh's superb illustration, writing, and layout.
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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 19/05/2026
Wesley Streeting, 2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/05/2026
More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity
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More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity
Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 16/05/2026
#amaze2026 was a good time. Great performances, talks, atmosphere. Very affirming of games and the creative things that happen at the fringes and intersections with other fields. A wonderful mix of people in attendance too. Also Berlin has some special spots to discover. Would recommend the lot.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 16/05/2026
Yes I will open this email titled "shareholders AGM" whilst on a train rocketing through Belgian countryside, a black coffee in front of me. Am I a European liberal elite, or is it just an email about the southern coop going into administration? Until I click it anything is possible.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 14/05/2026
@xavierck.com my very basic advice that tech artists have drummed into me over the years would be use collision primitives over mesh collision wherever possible, concave objects are a nightmare, and if using unreal look up their UBX_/UCX_ collision import naming as it will save you loads of setup.
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Olly Skillman-Wilson @thepixelcrush.com · 13/05/2026
This cafe in Berlin is playing the Arrival score quietly in the background, such a strong choice.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Former LucasArts, Ubisoft veteran Clint Hocking founds new studio
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Former LucasArts, Ubisoft veteran Clint Hocking founds new studio
Build Machine Games wants to make 'socially relevant games that challenge players' perspectives.'
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