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Boon Cotter

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Aussie in the USA | Game Developer | Lead Lighting Artist | Batshit Crazy | These are my words and are not representative of my employer / doctor / therapist / mum.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Nov 26

Heyo!

I’m a lead lighting artist @ nVidia. Previously Bad Robot Games and Naughty Dog.

I do #gamedev #lighting #artist things, mostly environments with some characters and occasional C++ shenanigans.

Former social media recluse, I am BACK. And I apologise in advance for all the things.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 4d

Update: A bee just flew into the car. So much for “it’s more scared of you” mister Julian.

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s more scared of you than you are of it.”

Ok Julian but I haven’t seen a spider break out in a cold sweat and slap itself in the face and vomit because a person touched it.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 9d

Little Nightmares 3 co-op for Halloween month is pretty perfect tbh.

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 10d

We’re now in a bar, and we need to figure out how to get down to the cellar without anyone noticing.

I just finished the session by wrapping my trophy chain around the potion bottle.

The DM lol’d very loudly. Everyone else looked at me like I’m crazy.

Next session, we’ll see who is crazy.

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 10d

We recently had the opportunity to commission some magic items.

I commissioned a potion of instant rejuvenation. Everyone was wondering why I wouldn’t just buy (much cheaper) potions of healing.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 10d

In our DnD campaign, I play a barbarian. Of course. Himbo’s are my jam.

My character (Meatsnack) collects the toes of his defeated foes as trophies.

A couple months back we defeated some trolls, so now every night by the camp fire, Meatsnack shaves the toe down to prevent it growing a new troll.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 18d

💯 It’s insane that in one generation we went from baked lighting and a couple of runtime spotlights (if you’re lucky) to real time GI with essentially unlimited shadow casting light sources.

But if I ever have to babysit a bake until 4am again I will step into traffic.

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · 24d

The TV series wasn’t the worst thing ever created either.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 14

Don’t listen to the haters.

Borderlands 4 is 🔥🔥🔥.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · Sep 13

it's honestly very funny that dogs are just SO friendly and sociable they're just allowed to smell like that

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Silksong has made me realise I’m now, sadly, too old for some games.

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’m surprised YouTube will play an uninterrupted 30 seconds of ads without putting ads in it.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 5

The last true masterpiece in the genre before Hollow Knight was arguably Ori, and it’s those inspirations that give us games like Hollow Knight. I think ultimately, while there are failures, inspiration fuels magic.

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’m not sure that’s a bad thing? Team Cherry captured lightning in a bottle, and that’s not something you can manufacture, but that doesn’t invalidate the existence of good games that don’t reach that pinnacle. People are inspired by all kinds of things. A masterpiece is a good place to start.

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Tbf metroidvanias are on a pretty consistent release schedule. It’s my fav genre and I think there’s been at least one solid title every year-ish for a while. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was fantastically good, but unfortunately undersold.

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Still refreshing steam / PSN to see which is the first to unfuck their system so we can buy it 💀

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Sep 2

Isometric action puzzle games will always have an audience, and it’s a starved genre. This looks incredible, can’t wait to get my hands on it!

Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Aug 31

🤌

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ditto! I replay it every couple of years. But I rarely meet people who know it exists :(

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Boon Cotter @booncotter.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is 🔥🔥🔥

Memories of LandStalker, the most underrated game of the 16bit era.

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