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I like golf. Studio Creative/Design Director at Cold Iron. Figuring out how to accelerate the indie revolution.

Los Angeles
Joined March 2015
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund    alzresearch.org/giving/ Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources     alzfdn.org/donate/ Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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I want a desk mammoth.
Introducing Reality-Aware Rendering in @Simulon, a completely new way to create with the real world. Place neural assets with your phone and act out the scene. When you stop recording, Simulon renders the take, reading everything in it (what you do, what you say and the place around you), and your assets respond to all of it. The final is regenerated from your recording: a new performance of the scene, not a copy of the footage. Available now on iPhone. Coming to Android soon.
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Indie success reminder: Rovio developed 51 games before releasing Angry Birds.
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We’re playing new Dreamcast games in 2026 @AIandDesign
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The State of Gaming in 2026: > BioWare shut down by EA > Arkane Lyon has until November 13 to find a buyer, risking the cancellation of Marvel's Blade > Epic Games announcing they're pivoting more towards AI acceleration after laying off 1000+ employees > Ubisoft cancelled 6 games including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake > Mass layoffs at XBOX > The majority of id Software and up to half of ZeniMax Online reportedly lost their job > Ninja Theory is facing closure after two potential deals fall through > 35+ Game Studios closed so far > Sony announced the end of physical disc production starting in 2028 > GTA 6 having a $400 Collector's Edition Box that doesn't include the game itself > All-time high prices for gaming consoles > RAM, GPU and Storage prices also keep climbing slowly making PC gaming a luxury
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This was posted in the Discord today and now I'm sad
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Developers at BioWare have leaked a trailer for the Mass Effect game they were working on. It has been confirmed real by multiple sources. I’m disappointed we will never get a chance to play as it looks pretty damn awesome!
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I saw someone say they miss when the internet was a library and not a store and I’ll be damned if that’s not the realest thing I’ve seen all year.
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gaming is down so bad rn
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Weekly to-do so far: Protest a corrupt and evil government in the streets ✅ Go viral denouncing AI corpo slop ✅ Go viral again taunting Elon ✅ Help promoting the amazing Tenebris Somnia ✅ Record VOs for a demo of our next game ✅ Drink a gin tonic ✅ Watch a horror movie
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EXCLUSIVE: @bigrunstudios is betting that browser-based gaming can make discovering and playing new games as easy as opening a link. The studio behind Blackout Bingo has launched Crash Arcade with 32 games across arcade, puzzle and strategy genres, with plans to add new titles every week. Players can jump between games without downloading separate apps, carry rewards through a shared profile, customize their own spaces and vote on future game ideas.  For developers, the platform offers a faster way to test concepts and learn directly from players, without needing to build each game around a standalone app launch. @deantak spoke to Andrew Bell, CEO of Big Run Studios, about the launch and the studio’s approach to developing games with player feedback. “We’re not trying to predict the next hit behind closed doors – we want to build it alongside our audience,” Bell said. Read the full interview at @GamesBeat: gamesbeat.com/big-run-studio… #Gaming #BrowserGames #GameDevelopment #GameIndustry
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Tech companies trying to replace people with AI, only for people to start replacing tech companies with AI has gotta be the funniest plot twist of the century
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Surely this is an existential crisis for the video game industry? I'm not sure what can be done, but I imagine there are conversations happening about what should be done
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These indie devs are making a game where you and your friends build a giant tank then run it from inside - Fit it with cannons, rockets and fridges - Aim, steer and fix it together - Smash enemy tanks until yours falls apart Game is Tower Tanks
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Bare Knuckle II (Streets of Rage 2) in the actual streets of Tokyo. I’ve been building an engine to reconstruct games and re-render them in new ways. One of them is spatial rendering. This runs standalone on Meta Quest 3 with a PS5 gamepad.
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Bill Burr: “Capitalism is a great thing if it’s regulated and they started deregulating it in the early 80’s and that’s how we ended up where we’re at. This new way of doing business where you come up with something and you just close the door behind it, nobody else is making money in this sector of business except for me. It’s out of control. You can tell it’s a monopoly when they don’t give a fuck. It used to be where all you had was your reputation, quality of your product, and how you treated your customers. Live Nation are internally sending emails laughing about how much they’re fucking over people. Why would you guys be joking about that?”
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I recently watched the famous lecture by the late MIT professor Patrick Winston, titled ‘How to Speak.’ He opens by saying: “Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order.” Freaking brilliant.
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Roblox’s top 10 creators earn an average of $65.7 million each At RDC 2026, Roblox revealed its top 1,000 creators earn $1.4 million a year on average
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