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James "Care Level Zero" Henley
@carelevelzero.bsky.social
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He/Him | 21+ Years in Design | Principal Designer at Red Hook Studios | Care Level Zero Inc. | Occasional #2DArt

Prev: Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, SWTOR, etc

#Twitch: twitch.tv/carelevelzero
#YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/carelevelzero
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James "Care Level Zero" Henley @carelevelzero.bsky.social · Oct 17
Fresh intro time!

I'm a #gamedev with 20+ years of design experience.

Current: Senior Game Designer on Darkest Dungeon 2

Past: Jade Empire, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and a few others

Frequent #Twitch & #YouTube streamer & occasional drawer of cute girls & emotes.
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for CEOs to be scored, Metacritic-style, based on how others evaluate how they run a company. I like to imagine it would encourage more restraint. Their incompetence does real damage. You shouldn't have to suffer executives just because you want to be a gamedev.
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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This week's #Twitch and #YouTube #Schedule!

Virtual Couch's presentation of my favorite PS Vita RPG, Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines, continues as the Clan moves into its third generation of children! Will the new arrival be the beast we need? Did the Moby Dicking work?

Guess we'll find out!
Schedule for the week of January 26th on twitch.tv/carelevelzero and youtube.com/carelevelzero. Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines continues on Virtual Couch on Friday night at 7 p.m. CST.
January 27, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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cheerfulgoth.bsky.social
Small, free act you can do to bring some good in this world: add positive reviews to ALL you Steam games, especially the small indies. You don't need to write anything smart, just "game good" is enough. Every positive steam review tips the algorithm and helps your fav artists get more sales
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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SHOWTIME!

Oreshika, my favorite underrated RPG gem of the Vita era, continues with the Zeni of Clan Couch!

Celebrating my birthday early as Texas turns into a frozen Hellscape. Come chill with us!

#Twitch: www.twitch.tv/carelevelzero

#YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWdI...

#GoLive #Oreshika
January 24, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Busy week so the #schedule is late but Friday is all that matters and we're ON for it!

The Zeni of Clan Couch continue down the RNGenetics rabbit hole as the second Feast of All Demons nears. Celebrating my birthday that night as the megastorm comes to annihilate Texas! \o/

#Twitch #YouTube
Schedule for the week of January 19th on twitch.tv/carelevelzero and youtube.com/carelevelzero. Oreshika, RNGenetics with the Zeni of Clan Couch, on Friday night at 7 p.m. Central. Zero's birthday on the 24th, but no show that day. Sad.
January 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Busy week so the #schedule is late but Friday is all that matters and we're ON for it!

The Zeni of Clan Couch continue down the RNGenetics rabbit hole as the second Feast of All Demons nears. Celebrating my birthday that night as the megastorm comes to annihilate Texas! \o/

#Twitch #YouTube
Schedule for the week of January 19th on twitch.tv/carelevelzero and youtube.com/carelevelzero. Oreshika, RNGenetics with the Zeni of Clan Couch, on Friday night at 7 p.m. Central. Zero's birthday on the 24th, but no show that day. Sad.
January 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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The 10th Anniversary Darkest Dungeon Community Showcase video is live!

Thank you to everyone who submitted. The Darkest Dungeon community is an incredible place, and it is an honour to show off some of the amazing art our community members have created over the years.

#darkestdungeon
Darkest Dungeon - 10th Anniversary Community Showcase
YouTube video by Red Hook Studios
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January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Happy Birthday Darkest Dungeon!

Red Hook Studios co-founders Chris Bourassa and Tyler Sigman have shared the following message to mark the 10th anniversary of Darkest Dungeon’s 1.0 release.

#darkestdungeon
A Statement from the Red Hook Founders When we founded Red Hook, our goal was to support ourselves while making a game of our own dreams. Simple to describe, but not easy. We knew the difficulty, of course, because we had previously worked on other projects at other companies. We had seen our share of canceled games, failed games, or games that were good but couldn’t find a large audience. 10 years ago, on Jan 19th, 2016, Darkest Dungeon was “completed” and released as 1.0. It was immediately clear that we had bottled lightning. Back in the pre-release days, we didn’t dare to entertain the fantasy that our work would resonate to the extent it has, or find such a passionate and creative audience. But it did. As we reflect upon this 10 year run (11 if you include early access), the fullness of time has made us realize that connecting with you, the audience, proved to be one of the most fulfilling and thrilling parts of the entire dungeon crawl. Thanks to you and your perseverance, the game wasn’t just flash in the pan. This game about resilience showed its own resilience. A hardscrabble and mean game about making the best of a bad situation created an incredibly good situation for us and the development team. We are so grateful for everyone who has ever engaged with Darkest Dungeon over the years - whether by playing, making art, filming let’s plays and guides, getting yourself tattooed, writing, posting, commenting, and of course critiquing. (And yes, we love reading about the occasional party wipe due to spiders. Patently unfair, but always funny.) Whether you have been with us since the days of Kickstarter or just completed the tutorial yesterday (hopefully Reynauld and Dismas both survived), we are happy you are here. And stay tuned - we're not out of the dungeon yet. This expedition, at least, promises success. –The Ancestor –Chris Bourassa and Tyler Sigman
January 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Darkest Dungeon is celebrating 10 years since its wide release today!

In honour of this milestone anniversary, tell us about your most memorable Darkest Dungeon battle! Who was on your team, what were you fighting, and did it end in victory, or defeat?|

#darkestdungeon
A menacing grey stone door with a glowing red circle on it. The Darkest Dungeon logo and a red X are also on the image.
January 19, 2026 at 5:22 PM
carelevelzero.bsky.social
SHOWTIME!

Oreshika, my favorite underrated RPG gem of the Vita era, continues with the Zeni of Clan Couch! The last of the first gen will die, a new child arrives, and we get a fancy new heirloom!

#Twitch: www.twitch.tv/carelevelzero

#YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cwn...

#GoLive #Oreshika
January 17, 2026 at 1:05 AM
carelevelzero.bsky.social
I'm finally out from under the boot of this illness sufficiently for us to get back to it, even if it's a bit last minute!

This "week's" -- as in tonight's -- #Twitch and #YouTube #Schedule!

Time to get back to the glorious madness of Oreshika in my first show of 2026.
Show schedule for the week of January 12th on twitch.tv/carelevelzero and youtube.com/carelevelzero. Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines continues on Virtual Couch at 7 p.m. CST on Friday night.
January 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing.

We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news.
spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...
A 16-year-old baby is born! Miracles do happen.
After three years under the Netflix umbrella, Spry Fox is once again a fully independent studio. As a studio, we’ve managed to somehow survive countless industry upheavals and release a whole lot o…
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January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay, I'm Regulus and I draw things from the 90s. And elves, lately.
A pixel art illustration of a fictional PC-98 version of Xenoblade Chronicles X. It features a Skell configuration screen with Elma assigned as the pilot. The Skell being configured is a red Verus/Wels model. An illustration of Morrigan Aensland, originally drawn in October 2025. This is cropped closer than the original post, for a better view of some of the details. The pose is based on an unfinished Hiderou Horibe sketch. An illustration of Marcille Donato from Delicious in Dungeon, based on one of the ending credit slides from the Record of Lodoss War OVA. Marcille is sitting and looking off to the side and has her tome clutched to her chest. The silhouette background displays various features and creatures of the dungeon. An illustration of Tiffany Lords from the Rival Schools series for Udon's 2025 Street Fighter & Friends Swimsuit Special. She is wearing an elaborate bikini and running playfully away from a large wave. The wave is starting to overtake Ran Hibiki, who is attempting to take pictures. Roy Bromwell is surfing the same wave in the distance.
January 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
carelevelzero.bsky.social
Man, 20 years using Evernote and they shit the bed *so badly* on their updated subscription pricing that I'm actually moving everything to another service.
January 14, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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@evernote.bsky.social I've used Evernote for nearly 20 years but I think this 'doubling my subscription cost' bullshit marks the end of that.

The only other option you offer is to downgrade and delete half of my notebooks, so I think it's time to switch to Obsidian.
January 14, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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格ゲー開幕ムービー風OC
May 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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done + cerritos and cpt freeman
January 12, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Politely places my environment work into your feed
a stack of gravestones line a hill. old stone stairs lead up towards the top where this glowing ghost trees glow in the darkness.
January 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
carelevelzero.bsky.social
Man, my fingers were insufficiently crossed. I'm locked in combat with a shingles diagnosis so there's sure as Hell no show tonight. orz

Fuck 2026 so far. It owes me a serious win to counterbalance.

#Twitch #YouTube #Schedule
carelevelzero.bsky.social James "Care Level Zero" Henley @carelevelzero.bsky.social · 23d
This week's #Twitch and #YouTube #Schedule, predicated on the assumption my back has recovered sufficiently by then. It's still...not great. <_<;

Fingers crossed!
January 9, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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This week's #Twitch and #YouTube #Schedule, predicated on the assumption my back has recovered sufficiently by then. It's still...not great. <_<;

Fingers crossed!
January 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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vampy-campy on tumblr: "*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard *remembers some ppl use AI* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating."
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Regrettably, I have to cancel tonight's show on short notice due to an amazing combination of circumstance and injury; nothing to be worried about but there's no way my back and/or neck are going to handle 4 hours at a desk tonight.

We'll pick Oreshika up next week!

#Twitch #YouTube #Schedule
January 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Happy New Year!
All the heroes from Darkest Dungeon II stand together in an inn. They are basked in a warm glowing light. The Image reads 'Happy New Year from everyone at Red Hook Studios'
January 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Hello! I'm Nanbu Yasumi, an illustrator & dev working on "The Land of Seidr" - an original Tactics RPG! Please wishlist if interested!

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2679040/_/
Official: indomitable-blade.com/en/
The Land of Seidr on Steam
Lead the warriors of a doomed kingdom in this dark, tactical SRPG. All stats can be damaged by normal attacks, so even powerful units weaken over time. With scarce supplies and steadily deteriorating ...
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January 1, 2026 at 8:14 AM