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Senior Technical designer at Epic games. Sample projects, templates, tech talks, StackOBot 2.0, Project Parrot, Project Titan, Lyra and more! Ask me about Unreal, UEFN and indie stuff! All non-work related views / statements my own.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, #UnrealEngine #gamedev gang, my Tech Designer's Toolkit talk from Unrealfest Bali is now available on YouTube!

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2025 Tech Designers Toolkit | Unreal Fest Bali 2025

YouTube video by Unreal Engine

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 2h

I have a barely used Instagram account and Facebook keeps trying to tempt me into using Threads with the most deranged, reactionary shit possible.

That’ll be a no from me, dog.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 2h

Valid!

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Ephemeral Enigmas @ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social · 16h

New blog post time!

This week's game is Midnight Mutants, the Atari 7800 swan song with everyone's favorite vampiric Grandpa. It's well worth recognizing its impressive ambition relative to other games on the 7800 and it's also the closest thing to Fester's Quest on there, so take that as you will!

Midnight Mutants

Midnight Mutants is ultimately a game that’s mostly about friction, so if you’re one of those people who likes to brag about how much they enjoy friction on social media, your time has come! Said f…

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 2h

I definitely blocked the one (accurately named) inane person. Just a deeply dull individual.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 3h

Build a 700 foot tall statue of Jeff Hanneman from Slayer with a built in speaker blasting a selection of terrifying solos at maximum volume

Write and direct The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, starring a cast of unknowns and a barely recognizable Eric Roberts

Dachshund sanctuary, bury me there

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Chris Murphy @highlyspammable.bsky.social · 26d

This is perhaps the most under viewed Unreal Engine video. If you use UMG in Unreal you should really give it a view, Adrienne killed it with this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHI...

20 Things You Should Be Using in Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG) | Unreal Fest Gold Coast 2024

YouTube video by Unreal Engine

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 12h

Love this!

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RPG developer Owlcat launches free game dev learning resource: 'A rising tide truly lifts all ships'

Owlcat worked with Midwest Games, Fireshine Games, Gaijin Entertainment, and 11 Bit Studios to start the GameDev Learning Drop.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 14h

the hitler youth are going to feel so lost when the media finally gives up on the whole mainstream narrative of fash gen z and abruptly shifts to being about kids who like breakbeats and put VHS filters on everything and wear rucking fotten t shirts

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14h

1. Using humor & mockery to punch holes in fear-based authoritarian power grabs is a tried & true method

2. 1 point of such display is inspiring folks to see they're not alone in anger at this regime; that most folks agree w/them; & to fuel action

3. It's not aimed at DJT

It's building a movement

burlygiant.bsky.social @burlygiant.bsky.social · 21h

If only the Germans had dressed in animal costumes in the 1920's and 30's, Hitler would have been stopped in his tracks. I'm all for humour and satire but it's going to take more than some funny costumes.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 16h

Oh no, this is awful. Absolute genius artist.

Saw him live many years back and it was so good.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 16h

One of the nicest famous people I've ever met (during the making of C&C : Red Alert 3). Just a lovely human being.

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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 16h

hero
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‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 17h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 16h

I hope so, especially as consoles are increasingly "luxury product" priced. I'm on a 4 year old Phone at this point because I just can't convince myself to spend the money to upgrade.

It's been nice to see PS4 support continuing deep into the PS5 era.

sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 16h

RIP, very sad to hear about his passing. Drew Struzan's work was so key to my inner world as a child, just a genius artist who understood the balance of realism and the magic of cinema.

Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 17h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 17h

...but I'd love to see this current gen really flex a bit before the next round comes out.

I have a PS5 Pro, it's a really strong machine and I honestly don't feel a need to upgrade any time soon.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 17h

The PS6 talk is the first time in several console generations where I genuinely think that the current gen hasn't really had a chance to stretch yet.

Some of that is long lead times, some is Covid hangover, some is a change in focus - the Sony live service game initiative is a good example.

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Team Seventh Star - CODE Bunny WISHLIST NOW on Steam! @seventhstarsoft.bsky.social · 17h

Meet our game in 20 seconds

#CODEBunny #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieBR #JogoBR #JogoIndieBR #PixelArt #ドット絵 #Chiptune #FamiTracker #Bunny #Bunnies #Rabbit

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 18h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 18h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 1d

The shoot out in the penultimate episode of Task - for that matter, the entire episode - is some excellent, emotionally grounded and masterfully directed filmmaking.

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New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.social · 1d

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 1d

Best wishes Rocky!