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Jeiel Aranal
@jeielvtx.bsky.social
Gamedev and artist
Running and cycling enjoyer
Cats? Yes. 🇵🇭

Professional hats:
gameplay programmer, technical artist

Presently: PixelMafia
Formerly: Bunnyhug Games, Ubisoft PH
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In the height of the pandemic, I made this #LowPoly scene depicting metro manila to remind me of what's outside
#ArtPH
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The award for "Most Studios Closed" goes to...

TENCENT AND MICROSOFT
Tied for first with five studios shuttered EACH
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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The award for the "Worst Statement Made By an Executive About Their Community" goes to...

MATT TURNER
Executive Producer at Xbox

For his ridiculous suggestion that laid-off gamedevs turn to ChatGPT for emotional support!
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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The inaugural "Mark Zuckerberg Awards for Most Expensive Boondoggle" goes to...

MARK ZUCKERBERG
for Meta Horizon Worlds

...guess it just didn't have legs. 🥁
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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The Workers' Choice award for "Most Corporate Speak/Tactless Layoff Announcement" goes to...

SATYA NADELLA
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft

"By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving [...] and yet at the same time, we've undergone layoffs." What.
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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The award for "Most Personally-Owned Stock Sold By a Gaming CEO" goes to...

STRAUSS ZELNICK
CEO of Take-Two Interactive
For selling almost $64M of T2 Stock in 2025
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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JANUARY 2ND (MY BIRTHDAY!!!) OUR MAGICAL GIRLS ON SKATES ARE FULLY DEBUTING!!!!!

DO YOU LOVE MAGICAL GIRLS??
DO YOU LOVE INDIE ANIMATION??
DO YOU LOVE ROLLER SKATING?!?!

WELL MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! AHHHH I'm so excited for our full proof of concept short to be shared with the world!!!!
December 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Still need more baseball?

We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/16877
『JAWS フィギュアコレクション2 』発売!
"JAWS Figure Collection 2" now on sale!
#ガチャポン #gachapon
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season
December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!!
🔍Every level hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼… and a soul-shattering story!
GET IT HERE!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I think of Angeline Era's character art as "gestural" vertex colors: big blocks of gradients and hard edges that loosely gesture at finer details. They are often seen very small on the screen, so it helps them not appear over-detailed. But I also think it looks beautiful up close!
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I'm particularly proud of the old sailor who has a lot of personality packed into very minimal geometry!
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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7-Eleven just awarded me its new peace prize for eating a roller hotdog.
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.

There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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SKATE STORY

OUT TOMORROW (9AM PST/NOON EST)

PC, PS5, Nintendo Switch 2
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I wonder how many of the cars parked around NYPD precincts (both department and personal vehicles) are really being used for police work, and how many are just sort of littered about for very occasional use in these various petty grifts nypost.com/2025/12/06/u...
December 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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hey so that sounds like total shit. really fucking awful. bleak. soul and society destroying. world eating levels of bad.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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MARVEL Cosmic Invasion launched today!! 🎉🎉

I was fortunate to compose the soundtrack for this gorgeous game, blending familiar arcade board sounds with Saturday morning colors and cinematic grandeur! It's a big one for me 😊

I hope y'all enjoy the music!

store.steampowered.com/developer/Do...
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Play the DEMO of Shallow Pond now on Steam during @clemmygames Best Indie Games Winter Showcase 💦

#gamedev #indiegame #platformer #cozygame #cute
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A barrister's home office 🔍

(another concept for @bunnyhug.games' new project)
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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I adore this pilot. Needed to draw pixel Guinevere at least once.
#KnightsOfGuinevere
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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everyone in game dev should be comfortable with sketching out ideas with pen and paper

your most crude drawings is almost always better than anything you ask chatgpt or any fuckass ai to shit out

this is a creative industry and if you're not willing to put a piece of yourself in the work, get out
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM