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@arivelazquez.com

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technical designer @ riffraff.games ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa https://arivelazquez.com ◦ discord: @roxaloxa

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · Oct 18

hi new folk, i'm ari! 10 years in gamedev on shit you haven't heard of and one you definitely have, nowadays i'm a technical designer mainly in unreal and doing contract work and a hundred side projects.

one of my fave side things:

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · Sep 22

life's been in the way of shareable work but here's the last thing i was jamming on: recreating Ys Origin in unreal so i can use it as a mechanical base for making my own game on top of it. would really love to come back to this

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unrealengine5

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 3h

laura just sent me this one

josie with limbs hanging off the cat tree platform

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 4h

hell yeah

catching the destination sign mid-change makes it look like a texture glitch, the train is going into the void

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 4h

happy bday kate!!!!

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 4h

microdosing the torment nexus

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 4h

swapped out the cat tree platform for a bigger one cause josie gettin bigger and she appreciates it

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Bryn Jenkins @brynjenkins3.com · 4h

So after GCAP I was speaking to a lot of people about my capstone project from last year called Date Me Plz!, which is a Jackbox-style dating simulator where your goal is to date your friends. I decided to put the game on itch io for people to play

brynjenkins.itch.io/date-me-plz

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 4h

the pathetic stilted half-jog across a busy street

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Rainwolf @rainwolf-plushie.bsky.social · Aug 30

my sister has been dealing with a muscle tear, makes her unable to do her job, and the paid medical leave only covers 60% of her paycheck so she's been having a hard time paying bills & medical bills
any donations would be helpful
PayPal [email protected]
#mutualaid #helpsky

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 6h

they don't know what they are talking about and have zero interest in knowing what they are talking about. engagement bait zombies

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 6h

this side of the pokemon fandom is one of the most annoying corners of the internet, just a whole squadron of dipshit losers poking at files they don't understand to come up with sick epic owns on gamefreak. just furiously shitting and pissing themselves because others are having fun

Pokémon Leaks 🦋 @pokemonleaks.bsky.social · 1d

The entire Pokémon Legends Z-A map is just ONE single model. That explains why the game has flat buildings everywhere.

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 6h

among everything else that has sucked about this rebrand rollout, it has such big "games have come a long way since pacman" vibes. what a ridiculous company and event

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 12h

🎮 PIXELS → POWER-UPS → PURE MAGIC ✨
Next week changes everything.
GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 registration launches!

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 11h

How is it that every new video they put out is worse than the previous one, and cost considerably more than what they pay their speakers

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 12h

🎮 PIXELS → POWER-UPS → PURE MAGIC ✨
Next week changes everything.
GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 registration launches!

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 16h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 16h

The site is an experiment to see if an outlet specializing in high-production value longform feature stories can work through a subscription model. The oral histories will always be free, and we’ll supplement them with bonus stories for paid subscribers.

Read all about our plans: bit.ly/3W0rXdA

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1d

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 17h

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 5, Episode 17

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 17h

games press already drafting the end of service post for this game to have on standby

Gematsu @gematsu.com · 18h

Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy announced for iOS, Android

Square Enix has announced "three-versus-three team boss battle arena" game Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy for iOS and Android. It will launch as a free-to-play title with in-app purchases in 2026.

Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy announced for iOS, Android

Square Enix has announced "three-versus-three team boss battle arena" game Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy for iOS and Android. It will launch as a free-to-play title with in-app purchases in 2026.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 18h

News article title: Scientists create super wood that's ten times stronger than steel.

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 2d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 20h

Saw this and thought I'd make it in Scythe.

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 21h

“how dare!! they were hostile… i think…”

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 21h

my wife spent an hour trying to find netch jelly in skyrim dragonborn because she refuses to kill netches ("they're not hostile! it's always two and a baby!!"). tried cycling days outside a dungeon that had them on a table, nope. eventually found a vendor that might have it and rested until they did

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 22h

they should invent a way to travel with your cats that wouldn't make every single involved in the process completely insane

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Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 1d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

been having the music/games 'industry' parallel on the mind all the way through games week, and that always leads back to me thinking about steve albini being essentially my standard for the kind of person i want to be in a scene/community. heres a little something from a reddit ama he did ages ago

Connections don't mean shit. I've never had any connections that weren't a natural outgrowth of doing things I was doing anyway. Additionally, the people you might make connections with who work in the industry and value connections themselves, all those people are clueless assholes with no clout anyhow. You can tell because they think they can get somewhere with connections and spend their energy trying to make connections rather than being good at things, and being good at things is the only thing that earns you clout or connections.

It's a myth that you can get anywhere in music through connections. The guy on the other end of the connection has to be into what you're doing, and if you're doing it publicly and he's receptive, he probably hears about it on his own.

Don't worry about anything but making music you like. Everything else is bullshit.

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