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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 13h

If I buy this for my cat, his ass is sitting in the cardboard box that the cardboard box came in

James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interested? Email james(at)jameswakeham.com with your portfolio, or DM me. Pitch me something weird! or maybe its sad!? or beautiful? or maybe its just a hello! Know someone perfect for this? Tag them! Reposts also very cool! #conceptart #gameart #illustration #gamedev #hiring

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The details: • Paid, in AUD: $800–1,500/day for concept work, expecting 2+ weeks, than production to follow. • We'd build a look from scratch. • Deposit upfront, written contract, full credit. • Remote · starting October, or later to suit you. • Human-made art only, zero generative AI.

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The role: • Concept work to define Rogue City's look & theme: mood, colour, key art, character designs • All styles and mediums welcome, polished and classic to wonderfully weird • What matters: a strong voice • then, producing the art for our prototype and maybe beyond!?

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're hiring an exceptional artist to define the look of our game! (also paid!) Rogue City is a roguelike city builder about roads and the bastards that love them. Funded by Screen Canberra. Steam is crowded so we need YOUR unique style. I'm talking weird mediums, unique palettes, a third thing!

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it’s because they typically borrow money to make games of that scale and the cost of borrowing money right now is sort of fucked because inflation from the Iran war + borrowing for data centres. The bean counters probably did the math and saw that it wasn’t worth it.

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And yet she still won’t decide what she wants to order on uber eat

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well he is the cto of the discourse factory or whatever

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In the moment before my 100kg body on a 40kg e-bike hits this door, I think the under engineered hinge is probably going to be much more scared than I am

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wait, they do! When you send an email, somewhere a generator does go vroom a little bit.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Musk used a monkey paw to know exactly what people want because he thought it would make him happy, but being unable to follow through made him so mad he turned into hitler

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I use variants of this tweet constantly in my head but the thoughts never cross my lips

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And yet she still won’t decide what she wants to order on uber eat

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is a very important time in your life, don’t feel the need to rush into a decision. A lot of people take a gap year before making a decision you know

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oh yeah my wife’s hair, I think it’s armpit length? Stinky armpit length id say

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Nobody can get any investment at the moment right? All the world’s free capital is being sucked up by AI. We might get a brief respite after the crash but because the rich are so rich right now, the economy pretty much only caters to them and they only want financial assets. We need a wealth tax.

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I’ve gone from being always online, always looking at a screen to listening to old records and reading old books. It’s the only thing you can do to escape that sense of creeping venom that’s seeping into everything online

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sounds like the quantum particle that carries the force attributed to a foot kicking an ass

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I think we should request a review of pine gap as a veiled threat but hold on to the alliance. Leaving the alliance without getting something specific and tangible in return doesn’t seem like a smart move

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I read a study the other day that said that’s said exactly the opposite

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I saw tour dates for New Zealand and I assumed Australia too and got super excited. Should come to Australia, I’d travel to see you.

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Having kids feels impossible, if you get really sick, a loved one dies or the company you work for turns toxic you are cooked. It’s truly horrible

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Batman does show up after the meteor but it’s like, a while.

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

They noticed how much stress you were holding in your shoulders and they want that intensity in their Fortnite 4 stack

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In Australia I remember kids talking about soldiers in general shooting their foot to get out of war

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Jerking off isn’t a video game, video game is a jerking off

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The expansion of solar tech is actually extremely cool. In Australia we’re getting free energy in the middle of the day because we have so much solar electricity that grids are overloaded. That’s cool as hell.

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Excellent call by them you are the perfect person for the role.

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This could be the only point in human history that a muppets lord of the rings with a bigger budget than the Peter Jackson films is possible

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

When you leave loot on the ground the coin rat eats it and waits back at your home base full of coins. You can name it and give it treats

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Maybe we might start making video games again?

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James Wakeham - Hiring an Artist! @videojamesdev.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Those are some amazing sculpts. At first I was like no way, but then I saw them and I was like, oh I’d grab a Gandalf

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