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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 · 6h
Correcting myself: class is stronger politics than morality.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 6h
Yep. Class > politics.
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 8h
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 7h
Same, though moving from Boston to SoCal to Seattle certainly didn't help either.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 7h
Gonna start a game dev tutorial YouTube channel: how to give Microsoft $20/month like a pro
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 7h
"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.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 7h
"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.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 8h
Aaand then he fired up the plagiarism machine. Later, loser.
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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 11h
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 · 9h
Man, Watership Down goes harder than I remember
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 9h
No way CBP is letting that back in
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 10h
The jury would help hide the bodies
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 10h
My "unlikely domino effect" story starts in an AOL chat room and ends with owning a top 10 schipperke. (Along the way: rock climbing, swing dancing, and my wife)
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 10h
Il Nido in West Seattle - polar opposite of a tiki bar but they've got an amazing cocktail program (on top of the amazing menu).
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 12h
He does tutorials as well, apparently: Firebelley Games

firebelley.com
Firebelley Games
Firebelley is an indie game developer and Godot engine enthusiast. He creates long-form tutorial content as well as entertainment in the form of devlogs.
firebelley.com
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 12h
"Very good at reinventing the wheel and making it square-shaped" 10/10 no notes
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 13h
Send the layered file
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h
NIC NO
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h
Drop-in, drop-out
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h
I found a random YouTube channel doing code reviews of Godot projects and it's probably the most informative game dev video content I've ever encountered.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h
To be fair, the Unipiper has been mysteriously hot for at least a decade
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h
If it helps, I had not previously heard and absolutely love the term "mixels".
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h
Now with smooth panning!
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 15h
Thankfully(?) I've only once been paid enough to not be hourly.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 16h
Short-term, voluntary overtime
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 17h
Charitably: maybe the author is framing it for a hypothetical reader who comes in with the wrong preconception?

Dunno how the rest reads, though.