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Dan Johnson

@coil.bsky.social

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Schipperke owner @PNW Game Systems Designer, dangerously unsupervised (prev Big Blue Sky Games, Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc) Hire me! #GameDev he/him

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello newskies! I'm Dan, a game designer currently hailing from the Seattle area. I have lots of schipperkes, ADHD, and many (mostly crafty) hobbies in varying states of hyperfocus or neglect.

Favorite game: Journey
Color: Aqua
Album: Paul Simon - Graceland
Cocktail: Red Hook
Dinosaur: Amargasaurus

A selfie of me with glasses, a goatee, and curly hair down past my shoulders. I'm wearing a lanyard & attendee pass for Unreal Fest.

Two small black schipperke dogs on leashes, ears up and panting in excitement

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13m

Run a hot enough game and it doubles as a small (very unreliable) drone

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 19m

I had build-vs-PIE woes in a previous project:

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Jan 26

Not to scare you, but building can expose unique bugs too. In particular, level initialization stuff (Event Play and the like) may fire in a different order and eg try to initialize stuff that hasn't been spawned yet. (Thread for my woes and eventual victory)

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 23

Anyone made a local, shared screen multiplayer game in Unreal?

Mine works fine in PIE but in the shipping exe, it's falling to register player 2's joystick input. (Both players on gamepads)

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 21m

Next level gaslighting, the self-shadowban

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 1h

I usually go with

a woman with red hair is saying i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you

Alt: a woman with red hair is saying i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you

media.tenor.com

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 2h

GPUs are the cause of and solution to all of life's shaders

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 3h

I take it all back, games were a mistake

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 4h

Posted at 10/13 @ 1:29pm. Please share!

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JUST IN: Evacuation Warnings have been issued in Los Angeles County in California for ALL burn scar areas ahead of the incoming storm system which could bring dangerous flooding and significant debris flows around the burn scars.
If you live around the burn scars of Los Angeles County, officials are encouraging you to evacuate.
Isolated tornadoes are also possible across Los Angeles and Orange Counties tomorrow.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 4h

That's also why there's no combat. No pressure to act. No quick time events. No fomo. It's just a CHILL GAME that lets you wander around old buildings, be nosy, and maybe see some spooky ghosts.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 4h

If you squint, this is another real-estate bubble

(Data Center Leases are the only ones terminating the money cycle, and that's leases, aka they're holding debt associated with real estate of suspect value)

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 4h

If you need a slide showing "here's why these AI deals don't show demand for AI is that high," this Morgan Stanley Research slide is pretty good at showing how dang circular it all is.

They look like they're just passing the same dollar around lmao

Source: finance.yahoo.com/news/very-tr...

A chart showing the circular deals between AMD, OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft, Coreweave, NVIDIA, and "Data Center Lease."

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 3h

...oof, yeah. As Ed Zitron has just started yelling, all of these promises are starting to collapse to "we'll build a (increasingly large number) GW data center by (increasingly near deadline)" and the timelines are pure fantasy.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 5h

Lot of Americans about to have a pronunciation Moment

Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 7h

I have no memory of typing this last night

Screenshot of a Bluesky post draft reading “new Vietnamese resistance restaurant named Auntie Pho”

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 5h

Support your local indies!

Prime8 @prime8.games · 10h

The Ghost Hunter Simulator DEMO is live on Steam! Go forth and Ghost Hunt! Happy #NextFest everyone!

store.steampowered.com/app/4079080/...

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Screenshot of Ghost Hunter Simulator Demo Steam store page

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 5h

We've also done the opposite of solving the long-dev-cycles problem on the software side.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 5h

I guess, but the last five years have been anything but a normal console cycle. At this point in the last generation, the 1gb PS4 Slim had replaced the original (2x storage, same price point) and the Pro was also available.

This time, no refresh and prices are *up*. Not to mention the studios.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 6h

True, but consider 2020 vs today. 2020 was surprisingly stacked for releases, investors were throwing money around like candy, and idk about other countries but the US handed out $thousands in pandemic relief.

Today we have shuttered studios, AI-obsessed investors, and expensive tariff wars.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely absurd. Who's making games for them? Who's going to buy one? Both current consoles cost *more* than they did at launch just five years ago.

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 13h

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 17h

Correcting myself: class is stronger politics than morality.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 18h

Yep. Class > politics.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 20h

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 19h

Same, though moving from Boston to SoCal to Seattle certainly didn't help either.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 19h

Gonna start a game dev tutorial YouTube channel: how to give Microsoft $20/month like a pro

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 19h

"I think a state tree wouldn't be right here, but a decision tree would be perfect. I haven't actually worked much with decision trees, but I'd start by— Actually, let's have the AI do it. We can just open up Copilot, and"

And great, now *neither* of us is learning anything any more.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 19h

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 20h

Aaand then he fired up the plagiarism machine. Later, loser.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 23h

yaaaay time for one of my favourite fun facts: brassicas are the wacky dog breeds of the plant world

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 21h

Man, Watership Down goes harder than I remember