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Thomas Hislop

@thislop.bsky.social

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Co-Director & Founder of @saltstonestudios.bsky.social. Creative Director of 'The Pale Beyond'. Freelance Narrative Designer & Unity Programmer. By Pale on Steam!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/1266030/…

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Love tae see it

Crowds from today’s Belfast anti racist rally

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Scene from hot fuzz where Nick Frost's character asks which film to watch first, with the films photoshopped to be Threads (1980s) and Dr. Strangelove, both films about nuclear disaster with juxtaposed tones

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Last photo is giving this:

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My Son!

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Today’s market downturn, is a result of investors and executives failing the most basic of object permanence tests. (Current LLM driven models are incapable of retaining any sort of viable game state or continuity of data)

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Real

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Break time.

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Pale Beyond is very much on sale at the moment! Check if out, and wishlist the new game too!

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Giving a presentation in Cavan tomorrow about launching The Pale Beyond!

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

yeo

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Time to bring it back

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Whoo, 1500 reviews! x

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

G'wan, we're just 2 reviews away from 1500!

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Don't do it!

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Furnishing the office

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

No, not like that.

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Love your interactive diagrams. Was pouring over the hex stuff over the break, and messing around with 3D axial cells

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Just got stun locked by my brother

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

AI slop postman pat can't hurt you.

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Reminds me of this

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Let’s go bias

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

How it feels.

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Cheers, big greg

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Oh hell yea

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Just finished this. Brutal and beautiful

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Pretty solid chronology of my last 1.5 years

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Lovely review of The Pale Beyond!

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally? (artist: eriatarka.nekoweb.org)

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Fun fact: 'The Pale Beyond' was part of 2 Humble bundles, & there's a 4:1 ratio of purchased copies to activated keys out in the wild. This means there's a few hundred thousand people with the game in their library, who might not even realise, that might get stuck on the ice, some bored Sunday.

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Thomas Hislop @thislop.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I'm sure I'm not the first, but has anyone else messed around with trying to write branching narrative poetry? You gotta consider the rhyming structure of how the player internally reads choices in order, in addition to how they unfurl. Would recommend trying the head melt! (written in Inkle)

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