Ben πŸ¦‡πŸ₯Œ

Ben πŸ¦‡πŸ₯Œ

@ben.batst.one

Pro Game Designer, amateur hole digger. Building social/systems at Dropfake working on @play-dcko.bsky.social. Prev: Linden Lab, Disney, Foxglove, Midwinter, Akili. Trying to build a better pig pen.

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I'm sure it's good that over the past several days I have seen multiple vibecoding people say their individual versions of "yeah this is like playing a slot machine for me and I find it hard to stop and I love that actually"

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funding

NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social

What are AAA gameplay concepts you'd like to see adapted by indies? www.resetera.com/threads/16...

Oh man, is it quarterly earning report time again? Looks like it’s getting Nina be a rough one.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The vehicle, which has been under development for a decade, will be Tesla’s only manual car. It can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in less than one second and achieve a top speed of 230mph. ft.trib.al/LCK9HwV

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Still looking for writing work! Been about four months. I know everything is on fire, but still looking.

Zaire@zeestermeester.bsky.social

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

Probably around 5th grade when my school did a contest that required you to log all the books you read over the year, and I had read two orders of magnitude more than my "normal" peers.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social

QUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?

Ben πŸ¦‡πŸ₯Œ reposted

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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The number of game studios I interviewed at in the last 24 months that have had major layoffs or closed down since is astounding. It feels like dodging bullets like Neo in the Matrix, only to look down and see 3 shots to the gut from the places I did find work.

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If you become a Ravenous paid subscriber today, you’ll get a chance to have a single-figure illustration (i.e. an avatar, portrait or similar) drawn by cartoonist, illustrator, and Friend of Ravenous @mattielubchansky.com. We’ll be selecting three subscribers to win. Here’s how to enter:

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This is why getting back into applying for jobs feels so GRIM

Radiant G🌈@radiantg.bsky.social

Sometimes my feed is just: [amazing art] looking for work [goated resume] looking for work [great writing] looking for work [banger music] looking for work Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora. [industry veteran] looking for work

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PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

The number of game studios I interviewed at in the last 24 months that have had major layoffs or closed down since is astounding. It feels like dodging bullets like Neo in the Matrix, only to look down and see 3 shots to the gut from the places I did find work.

This was literally the first that this trailer has surfaced to my attention, proof again that my follows are pruned with the perfection of a bonsai.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

All these food recalls remind me of a revelatory post from twitter in the "good ol' days." It was in a conversation around prepper culture and the male fantasy of stockpiling guns to protect their families. To paraphrase: If guys really want to keep their kids safe, they'd learn to wash the dishes.

We’re running some load test alphas for DCKO (β€œServer Slam”) and as the social systems designer, I feel like this is probably the nicest result I could hope to see from a PvP playtest.

Palmer Luckey called me names on facebook because I pointed out you could easily cost a political campaign more by hate clicking their social media ads then you are allowed to individually donate to a politician of your choice.

Johanna T πŸ‘» πŸ“š@johannamation.bsky.social

I posted a character design tip on twxtter last year, and several ppl replied β€œstop telling me how to draw!” πŸ™ƒ

Ben πŸ¦‡πŸ₯Œ reposted

Today is August 7, which is my birthday. Please observe the feast by mindfully completing no fewer than one of the following rituals: β€’ sleep in/take a nap β€’ eat something delicious β€’ draw something for fun β€’ wear something that makes you feel beautiful

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I got to draw icons Emma Frost and Miss Piggy for this variant celebrating The Muppet Show's 50th anniversary! X-MEN UNITED #7, out September 30!

The DCKO reactions have already moved this into second place for 'Game I've worked on that people make penis jokes about' within 24 hours of launch. Gonna be hard to top Second Life though.

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introducing rondocode.com, a live music coding platform. it's heavily inspired by strudel but has a lot more functionality around authoring the actual synth dsp graphs

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Every negative response to this game’s title reveals just how little you people know about comics. DCKO is obviously named after famed comic artist Steve Dcko, inventor of Spider-Man (whose reveal I’m sure they’re saving for after Avengers Doomsday)

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

DCKO | Official Announcement Trailer (DC free-to-play fighting game for mobile) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YC7... playdcko.com