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Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work

@forkingpath.bsky.social

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Writer, programmer, narrative and technical designer. Freelance. 12+ years of gamedev experience. Looking for contract and fulltime.

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Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 5d

Process breakdown of the STRANGE TALES OF THE SOUTH SHORE poster I did last month! It was a delight to work on, as working with Smog Town Prod. & Ken Amlin always is. Find Ken's instagram at @k___r___a and check out more behind-the-scenes fun from STRANGE TALES!

Strange Tales of the South Shore Poster (2025), Karl Parakenings

Done in four days in Clip Studio PAINT, using primarily DAUB and Frenden brushes on a Wacom Intuos tablet. Based on principal photography by Ken Amlin, who also directed the series, and did the graph...

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 10h

B435
Helpful wild beasts
--canidae
and other carnivora.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 13h

*my friends get pulled with me into my version of silent hill and all the monsters have their dick caught in a jeans zipper*
hmm i wonder what that’s all about

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LindsAI ➡️ Penti-con @neomeruru.bsky.social · 1d

🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Screenshot of my Steam NextFest home page. Featured in the carosel is the game FEMBOY FUTA HOUSE, with a busty wolfgirl railing from behind, presumably with her dick, a mewling femboy making ahegao face.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder (mostly to myself): the goal of a todo list is not to create a list of obstacles between you and rest when “done”.

The goal of a todo list is to get more done *than you would without the list*. Don’t measure against an arbitrary “done”; measure against what you’d accomplish with no list.

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Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 20h

A peek at some tabletop design practice I've been doing between applications. I love Arkham Horror LCG so, so much.

Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 1d

psychic talent is stored in the, er, wrinkle lines?

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vfig @vfig.bsky.social · 1d

so, the core of the dark object system is that every "game object" is made up of a bunch of properties and links. properties are just tables of data keyed by object id, more or less like all ecs systems have now.

but links are the really cool bit.

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vfig @vfig.bsky.social · 1d

patrol paths are just plain old objects placed by a level designer at waypoints, and linked in a loop or a graph with AIPatrol links to show how the patrol should go. and a patrolling npc has an AICurrentPatrol link to the waypoint it is currently heading to.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

how to speedrun random chance graham.build/s/a-blog/028...

Unfair Flips World Record Strategy

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin to get 10 Heads flips in a row.

graham.build

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 1d

utterly vomming at the amount of AI generated capsule art in the next fest. really gross, and a quick way to put many people off your game.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 1d

“the idea that AI is an inevitable, formidable force to be reckoned with basically amounts to propaganda for tech companies”

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 2d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 1d

i am also liking/reposting to my audience of 5 bots and a handful of old friends

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Steve Lee @stevelee.bsky.social · 2d

Rich was a level designer on Bioshock 2, then Senior LD on Dishonored 1, then Lead LD on Prey. Hire him you fools

Rich Wilson @richwilson.bsky.social · 9d

Looks like I'm looking for work. If anyone out there happens to have a lead or principal level design gig in Austin or remote, I'm all ears.

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Jaron | Animator GameDev looking for Work @veritonsils.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Jaron, a Senior Gameplay Animator! I've worked on a wide variety of titles from Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty, Never Alone, Marvel's Avengers and Perfect Dark! I'm on the job hunt now, so if you're looking for someone who can make things move, I'm your guy!

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This is "JaronGittlemanDemoreel2025" by Jaron Gittleman on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 2d

Believe old game devs when we tell you: burnout is real, it's painful. Be honest with yourself, take the breaks when you need them.
I've been burnt out for so long, I only just realized how long. I went from crunch at Iridium into crunch at Giant Squid with no break. About 3 years. It was too long.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 1d

also, who wants this? nobody wants this!

Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 1d

UPS tracking notifications continue to be vaguely sinister

Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 2d

some things are sacred

Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 2d

I often wish I could catch up with my painting teachers and listen to their advice with the benefit of experience.

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 2d

Stuff like this is small but important. When I used to give talks at NAD in Montreal, I rarely talked about tools or process for making art. It was always focused on the psychological and emotional aspects of being an artist and how that applies to working in a studio, staying healthy, etc.

Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 2d

This advice is nothing new to a lot of folks, but may help some artists. If you're struggling to get into the flow for your project, start with the smallest tasks. Tiny fixes you need to do, setting up a scene, etc. For me, the flow starts after 20-40 minutes of working; so filling that time with

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Karl 👻 Parakenings - Looking for Work @forkingpath.bsky.social · 2d

I definitely love problems.

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 5d

Someone at the TVL NYCC panel asked if the writers had considered "solving" the louis-lestat-armand love triangle with a throuple and the response was an emphatic NO (lol) and i have a take brewing that readers/fans are drawn to imagining solutions where writers are more about loving problems

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