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Technical Designer & Game Developer. [he/him/his] C# Programmer and Systems Architect. Procedural Generator Generator. RPG Layout Typesetter. Dilettante and Dabbler. Possibly a Wizard. Mastodon: [@[email protected]] Itch: [kaynsd.itch.io]

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · Dec 24

I'm Keith.
I am a computer programmer with a focus in #ProceduralGeneration / #ProcGen, a game designer for board and computer games, an RPG Textbook Layout artist, a wargaming terrain builder, and a drummer.

A screenshot from the beginnings of a procedural city building project; showing blocks of various geometries and sizes, roads that only cross at crossroads, and a river fork all rendered as lines and dots in an infinite plane

A picture of scratch built wargaming terrain showing a ruined factory, made from plaster, tin cans, and cardboard. Painted Games Workshop Necromunda miniatures are scattered atop it

$A fractal pattern showing an infinite world being generated on a computer, modified for poster prints$ A computer generated image of a planet made of hexagons and pentagons, superimposed and dramatically lit by the sun rising behind it. Computer generated planet photo-manipulated for print

A computer generated image of a planet made of hexagons and pentagons, superimposed and dramatically lit by the sun rising behind it. Computer generated planet photo-manipulated for print

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 14h

These are my favourite zombie minis ever; such a neat concept for the freshly risen dead to be forced to carry their own tombstones around with them. But oh god they're fiddly and they need so many colours and I never make dead flesh look good #nerdlings

Ten painted 28mm scale zombie miniatures. The zombies are all carrying graves on their back which have been staked through their chests, and show either burial shrouds, nooses, and rats or ravens pecking at them

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 23h

ugh. what a week, huh?

kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 1d

Wasn't complaining about this the reason that MP got Gareth Dennis fired?

kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 1d

I filed Evil Zone in the back of my mind as being a neat concept of a simplified beat em up, and then got completely ethered by the revelation that not only is it played regularly at GDQ as a tournament game, that there's meta to it.

kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 1d

Oh I couldn't, utterly couldn't trouble you for one, could I?

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 1d

I love it when my diagrams show three easy steps where the first one is one and the third one is four.

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✨Mel Albino✨ @nalemart.bsky.social · 1d

It's #portfolioday! I make all kinds of cute stuff and am totally available for design and illustration work

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 1d

I hope the studio that got contracted to animate this got paid a fortune, but you failed to actually write why we should be interested or what has changed, and this isn't going to drum up interest from people who make these kind of effects for a living or work closely with those folk. Poor work

kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 1d

I'm going to buy every disused stadium and put animatronic dinosaurs in them. Larger than life ones. Tall enough that occasionally they poke their heads out from the middle so that passing motorists on nearby freeways are occasionally jumpscared by a TRex staring out of the Super Dome or something.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 1d

Also I know games isn’t doing too hot right now, but if you by any chance could use a concept artist, hi, I’m the Rollerdrome guy and I’d love to work on a game again 🙇‍♀️

Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · Mar 16

Hey, no, wrong game, haha. That is @0jenzee0.bsky.social

I'm the ROLLERDROME guy 💥🔫🛼

Rollerdrome title screen; Kara skating through a canyon.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 2d

I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project.

Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO

Hire me! I make your game look good.

[ #portfolioday ]

My cover illustration for the game Space Jam a New Legacy, which I also art directed and animated #art

Screenshot from a pitch for a TMNT point-and-click adventure game featuring April o Neil as a mystery investigator

Isometric pixelart illustration for Minecraft, while I was working at Mojang. This is meant to show off the world and it's thrills. It lives in the how-to-play section in-game

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 5d

greyboxing the attack system. No damage, just targeting (and range legality), and a little tween to show it being an actual attack.

this little maneuver (and it's associated refactoring) is going to cost us about six hundred lines of code changes...
#indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 2d

Here we goooo~~

kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 3d

'tis the season.

kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 3d

Hahaha. Every UI designer suddenly yelling at their Producer "we warned you! We wanted to use icons but they told us no!"

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 4d

It's Brian with a word bubble that says

I want more seven out of 10 games with whatever graphics and weird ideas made by cool people that don't use ai and I'm not kidding

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 3d

We do Agile, but...

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

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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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 3d

The long running theory I have is that every game developer secretly has the desire to run some kind of place where they serve food to the community

The real test for "is this person a developer?" isn't whether they can code or open an engine or ship, it's whether they yearn to open a little café.

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 3d

Thanks, Musk.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 3d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 3d

TERRIFYING THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE UNFAIR FLIPS SPEEDRUNNING COMMUNITY

Speedrun World Records @speedrunwr.bluesky.bot · 3d

Unfair Flips - Any% [Unrestricted] in 0:52 by Seolfer

www.speedrun.com

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 8d

Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net

Generation Zero Cover Image featuring A person with dog robot companion firing a rocket launcher at a giant bipedal robot.

Cover image of Game Of Thrones: Tale Of Crows featuring 3 dioramas of the frozen north and the wall of ice

Cover image of City Of Red Waters featuring cedar trees in a red bayou

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kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 3d

We're up to septuagintacentillions now.

A screenshot of the game CloverPit, showing an ATM that reads "DEADLINE #47", with a debt of 1.6116E+514, and a deposited total of 1.5939E+514. In the top left corner, funds of 4.0290E+513 are available, and 43506 Tickets. The key box has been opened.

kaynSD @kaynsd.itch.io · 3d

(this is the infinite Cigarettes to Lost Briefcase to Abyssu on cigarettes loop... with the occasional spin on a slot machine fuelled by Raging Capitalist and Thimble to just claim about eight hundred tickets a spin...)