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Juan 🧖‍♂️
@juan.bathrobe.news
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Designer infamously known as "The Bathrobe Designer", anti-hero of the modern days 🐋

Currently working on @SpartanSurvivors.bsky.social

📍 Paris // Bayonne, France
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Cette incertitude a perduré jusqu'à Halo 3 (et même Reach).

J'ai tendance à penser (mais jamais pu vérifier) que c'est un mélange entre le rendu maison du moteur Bungie & PBR et une direction artistique, de créer une sorte de matériel qui n'est ni totalement l'un ni totalement l'autre.
Screenshot from Halo 3 showing the interior of the map called Epitah. Screenshot from Halo 3 showing a Forerunner corridor. Screenshot from Halo 3 showing the map Guardian. Screenshot from Halo 3 showing a Forerunner control center.
October 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Bungie made the right call delaying the release for #Marathon, these additional months made for a big difference!

Can't say more to not break NDA but they definitely cooked like people like to say ✨
Keyart from the game Marathon showing 3 runners, the characters played by players, slowly walking in water. There's blue fog and a orange sun in the sky giving a very mysterious vibe.
October 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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People are literally torturing themselves to spend less time on their phone. I just have to use an #iPhone SE 1st Gen for this 😅

Turns out dealing with a battery having less capacity overtime since 7 years makes you naturally more choice-aware of your usage & less eager to spend time on your phone
Screenshot of the application "Time Screen" on iPhone in french showing how much time the user spent on average per day on their phone over a week, here showing an average of 1 hour and 49 minutes per day, which represent a 80% increase from the week before this.
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Enjoying my last month of Game Pass Ultimate before unsubscribing to play Assassin's Creed Brotherhood once again.

I had forgotten how beautiful and great the art direction was on this trilogy. Truly Ubisoft at their peak ✨
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood screenshot showing a character in room made of stone wall with intense blue light and alien symbols on several monolith. The floor reflects the whole room to give a futuristic look yet it is in the Florence Renaissance Era. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood screenshot showing a view above Florence from the Italian Renaissance with the building in the back and a river, the skybox is blue with some clouds during a sunny day. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood screenshot with a character looking in the distance with the sun going down on green hills and mountains in the distance. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood screenshot with the camera behind a character in a futuristic looking room made of walls of stone and intense blue light on them. Some of these walls are showing ancient alien glyphs.
October 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I will never look at a #Playstation controller the same way
Post saying the following: A friend of mine calls the PlayStation buttons 1, 2, 3 and 4... Because they have 1 line (circle), 2 lines (cross), 3 lines (triangle) and 4 lines (square) My mind was blown.
September 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I could have prompted a LLM and have this integration done in minutes, or, I could spend hours on it, carefully crafting every flex-box needed.

I obviously choose the later because I'm an idiot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Picture showing a preview for a stats card for the game Spartan Survivors, showing information such as the level played, the player's gamertag, the score reached and so on, on the right, and the CSS code used to generate said card, on the left.
September 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I had forgotten Winamp used to have skins and quite the incredible ones!

The Winamp Skin Museum is truly a gallery of a long bygone era in which softwares belonged to users: skins.webamp.org
Winamp Player with a Halo (the video game) skin showing the Master Chief in the Background Winamp Player with a Halo (the video game) skin showing the Ring shaped structure in the void of Space Winamp Player with a weird brown skin mixing organic elements such as skin and eyes, with green display for the text & informations Winamp Player with Xbox skin, all light green and black
September 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Not gonna lie, pressing the "Publish" button for Spartan Survivors with such a view feels very satisfying ✨
Photo of the beach from Biarritz, sunny with a clear blue sky showing a lighthouse in the distance
September 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Soon hitting that release button for @spartansurvivors.bsky.social on Steam ✨
Picture with a text saying, in french: "Vous êtes maintenant partenaire Steamworks !" which can be translated to "You're a now a Steamworks partner!".
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Tomorrow can't come soon enough! I wasn't this hyped for a game release since probably #Halo 3 ✨
Helldivers 2 x Halo ODST collaboration key art, showing an ODST soldier wearing their black suit and an helmet under the rain with the Helldivers 2 logo on the top right of the picture.
August 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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20+ years later and @isaachannaford.com is still blowing my mind with some crispy Halo art & design details
A post from Isaac Hannaford on Linkedin saying the following: this was the first time the Halo: Reach spartan armor was represented. I was fascinated by the idea that the x shape of the Halo: combat evolved armor was done on purpose as an icon...maybe related to it being on x-box. Anyway I decided that the X was too good to let die on the vine and pulled it back into the language. I was also hooked on a line somebody used to describe the spartans... "Walking Battle Tanks" I really wanted to convey that these suits were heavy and less like clothes and more like a vehicle. It shows 3 armor design from Halo Reach for the Spartan in gray, 2 front and 1 from the back, one is a make-shaped armor while the second appears to be female shaped, which all look like walking tanks. They have a visual design shaping their chest as a "X" and their helmets feature a golden visor.
August 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I had forgotten how beautiful #Starfield can be.

Almost every frame could be a painting, and wandering around on some undiscovered planet is still something quite unique and breathtaking.
First person with some the game Starfield. The player is holding their weapon toward the landscape with a morning view over a blue sky. There is an abandoned alien temple in the background and a human spaceship on the right of the screen. First person with some the game Starfield. A sunset in the distance with a morning fog giving an atmospheric look to the light. The sky is a mix of pale-orange and pale-blue, giving an hopeful mood. First person with some the game Starfield. The player is holding their weapon toward the landscape with a morning view over a yellow-ish blue sky. There's a distant mountain surrounded in fog with flying alien creature in the sky. First person with some the game Starfield. The player is holding their weapon toward a mountain with the sun rising behind said mountain, giving a very mysterious look to the picture.
August 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Browsing the web became a real mess these past few years... Way too much features added to many services in hope of farming user engagement without thinking about the overall experience.

At my level I hope to fix this with Kana, offering soon a simplified and more focused version of these websites.
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Wait, the Map Editor for #Battlefield 6 available to all players is actually @godotengine.org?

This is totally unexpected by really curious to see how #Godot can be used to create content for this game and how the whole workflow is mapped!
Godot Engine for Battlefield showing how a map can be edited to add content.
July 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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We don't see much layouts like this nowadays, I love it
Magazine page from Arcadia showing characters and their stats in Japanese over an oldish orange background with creatures looking like dragons.
July 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Just found a Internet Archive account posting complete scans from Japanese magazines such as Arcadia and it's a real delight graphic design wise, a must for being inspired:

archive.org/details/@jap...

I mean, look at these amazing cover art 🥰
Arcadia Magazine cover art showing an artwork with a Gundam, a gigantic robot in blue and white over a blueish sky Arcadia Magazine cover art showing an artwork from Guilty Gear with a character with long straight hair wearing a red and black suit. Arcadia Magazine cover art showing an artwork with a strange sword disproportionate. Arcadia Magazine cover art showing an artwork with 3 characters from King of Fighters 2001, the character in the middle is holding their head in their right hand and having a crazy look in their eyes.
July 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Now you're telling me an (unofficial) port for #Balatro on Game Boy Advance is a thing? 🤩

github.com/cellos51/bal...
July 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Can't wait to spread DEMOCRACY 💪
Purchase details for the game Helldivers 2 published by Playstation Publishing LLC for the price of 39,99€, available on August 26th 2025 on Xbox.
July 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I honestly don't know how but @spartansurvivors.bsky.social is getting hundreds of download per day & reached more than 8000 unique downloads just 3 days after reaching 6k.

It really is just words of mouth with a growing community. I don't really get it but so happy seeing people having fun with it
Stats from the game Spartan Survivors showing 48000 views, 8089 downloads and 166 followers.
July 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Definitely some numbers I did not expect at all for @spartansurvivors.bsky.social but I couldn't be happier about the positive feedback we got so far
Picture of numbers from the game Spartan Survivors showing 42600 views, 6500 downloads and 152 followers.
June 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Back when "making a cool website" meant the following ✨

Quite a good idle game for a CSS nostalgia trip: lyra.horse/css-clicker/
A website with a design from the 90, very simple with serif font, it's called "My cool website" and has a menu with the following section: Home, Blog, Guestbook and contact. There are badges at the bottom of the website showing goofing naming such as "I wish it was 2001", "Free sex", "Viewed in 4:3" and so on.
June 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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This meme is surprisingly accurate.

Most of my friends stopped pirating content when Netflix appeared but with the abondance of streaming services and their exclusivities, my friends (and I) are back on streaming website & P2P content sharing.

What was once the answer is now the burden.
A comic in 4 pictures, sharing first a person in 2012 in front of their TV discovering Netflix, saying this streaming service is pretty good, in the 2nd picture they are putting down their pirate hat saying they don't need it anymore. Third picture is the same person but in 2019 looking at their TV with many more streaming services available on top of Netflix, which in the fourth picture made them taking back their pirate app.
May 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Difficile de ne pas regretter que ce reboot de Marathon ne soit qu'un prétexte pour du PvP et n'offre pas une campagne, ça aurait pu être le STALKER Science-Fiction P.A.R.F.A.I.T !

Regardez moi ces environnements, c'est digne de la superbe de Halo 3 ❤️‍🔥
First person view of the game Marathon, with the player holding an Assault Rifle in front of an alien environment in a blueish-green fog. First person view of the game Marathon, with the player holding a knife in front of an alien environment in a blueish-green fog, with a giant planed in the sky and a purple moon around it.
April 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Prêt pour l'Alpha de @marathonthegame.bungie.net
April 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Alright, let's see how this #Marathon plays!
Invitation to play the game "Marathon" explaining how to get your access code once you've been selected to participate in the upcoming Alpha, starting April 23 2005 and ending on May 4 2025.
April 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM