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Joshua Skelton

@joshuaskelly.bsky.social

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Half engineer, half artist, all Dad. Tech artist. Delver art guy. Formerly Rec Room, Microsoft. he/him

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hey! Check out my game Delver! It's a run based first person procedural dungeon crawler.

Custom game engine tech by @cuddigan.bsky.social and art by me.

store.steampowered.com/app/249630/D...

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 10h

Progress is being made…

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 1d

But more seriously, no plans.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 1d

Depends how long I’m unemployed. 🤪😬😢

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 1d

Ah. The responsible thing to do.

Dave NewBlood @dave.newblood.games · 1d

Giving a talk at UC Berkeley tonight.

Time to scare the children away from game development yet again 👨‍🎓

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 1d

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 1d

Yup! We use libGDX so we are using RoboVM for iOS stuff.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, I'm working on both Android and iOS.

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 1d

Lately I've been knocking the dust off of Delver Engine and working towards getting mobile builds going. So far it hasn't been _too_ bad, just normal levels of reviving a legacy code base. 😅

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know I wrote a set of command line tools for Quake? Did you know they are totally free and open source?

Once in a while someone will throw a few bucks my way for these tools and every time it makes my day. 😃

joshua.itch.io/quake-tools

Quake CLI Tools by Joshua Skelton

Available for Windows, macOS

joshua.itch.io

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Reposted by Joshua Skelton

Ori-Warui @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 4d

An old sprite cloud experiment i did, trying to recreate Samus Aran in Ballz 3d style, but using animated hex shapes

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 20d

My boys and I had a blast playing the Kex port split screen!

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 25d

You probably shouldn’t dig stra.. aaaah!

Love seeing the progress on this project.

Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 25d

ladies, gents, and all those with genders bent

i have created: The Sun

#EniBlockGame #GameDev 🎮

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 27d

What I find beautiful about old technology are the places where it begins to come apart at the seams. Wobbly triangles on the PlayStation, tracking lines on a VCR.

That sweet spot where ambition and constraint begin to have friction.

Ori-Warui @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 27d

Not gonna lie, as someone who grew up in the snes/mega drive era every time we develop a new custom engine tool my first tought after figuring out how to control what it's meant too do, is 'good. Now let's see if we can abuse it in memorable ways'

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 28d

I don’t know, you could chuck up a small whisk in that baby and really scramble some eggs.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 28d

Is this position on-site or remote? I happen to be a senior technical artist looking for my next thing.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Sep 14

Living your best life I see.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Sep 13

I too am jealous of people who feel “energized” or “good” when they wake up.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Sep 11

Oooh. Is that a midi controller with custom key caps? Or what am I spying?

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Sep 9

You ever get totally decimated by your child completely by accident?

“Hey Dad. Do you remember when you were a kid? You know, back in the 1900s?”

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you’re an indie dev mutual of mine and I haven’t followed you back it’s not because you aren’t amazing. It’s because I’m _very_ bad at social media.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy to report the Spire has been Slain

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you ask me to fix up vibe coded software, my rate just doubled.

angela yang @angelayang.bsky.social · Sep 2

The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

www.nbcnews.com

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yesterday, along with half of the entire company at Rec Room, I was laid off. While having a stable job in the games industry for seven year is rare, it is also bittersweet.

I think the thing that I will miss most is working with so many talented artists and helping them shine.

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Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Aug 25

The first home computer I remember was my Dad’s Kaypro II. I was way too young to use it myself, but I fondly remember the green glow of the screen.

Joshua Skelton @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · Aug 22