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Devon W.

@devonwiersma.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 [𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆/𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺]⁣ | 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐯: Centauri Dark, Bombing!! 1+2, Lofty Quest, Runt TTRPG⁣ | 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭: Developing #SKRUBSquad & Course Director @ York U. | 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫: Lead Dev. @ Cat Samurai⁣, Sr. Level Design @ The Beans Team, Ubisoft, Cococucumber, others⁣

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hey I'm Devon. I'm a game dev/artist/streamer/general menace.

I've made a ton of stuff over the years and you can see it all below.

🎮 Steam: store.steampowered.com/curator/4517...
🕹️ Itchio: devonwiersma.itch.io
💻 Twitch: www.twitch.tv/slaughterneko
📺 Youtube: www.youtube.com/@Slaughterneko

Screenshot of Centauri Dark depicting a first person robot firing missiles at enemies up in a sky

A screenshot depicting a catoony octopus painted on a wall in a city

A screenshot depicting the word BEAST on a wall in a dark alley

A screenshot of a first person game depicting a night-vision point of view of someone with a gun overlooking an alleyway

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 8h

Oopsie four hours of sleep and two family thanksgivings today, we are cooked chat

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Natalie @heartimecia.bsky.social · 20h

i wonder if this happened to a girl once and we were supposed to learn from it. just a thought

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 3d

Went back to look at old concept art for a thing and was surprised how well the final characters honed in on the first sketch I made, in part @sullivillain.bsky.social's excellent model but also just from shader work. #SKRUBSquad

a sketch of a slime woman wearing a white and purple striped spacesuit. a box is secured to her back via belts and she holds a clipboard and pen. Her head is a glass orb with a slime inside it, secured in place with a series of strings. the slime inside has an unamused expression and is wearing a hardhat

a screenshot of a cartoon-style video game depicting a an alien person sitting on a desk. they are shaded with a black comic style halftone that gives them depth.

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 3d

I tweaked some character camera stuff and added a little monitor so you can preview your character customizations! #SKRUBSquad

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 23h

before i left Hard Drive, they made us do this kind of stuff and it was a lot of me going into meetings like "uh well i guess i spent 2 hours today....thinking about Master Chief"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 1d

thanks I hate it!!

a google search result by a site called My Chicago Steak Company that says "Coq Au Vin (pronounced “Coke Aww Veeyun”)"

Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 1d

Mfs out here making yuri ships of the Silksong bugs, meanwhile I'm out here not even knowing they were girls or that they were capable of speaking

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Ben Newbon @bennewbon.itch.io · 1d

This is something I have been deeply involved in over the last few months. The behaviour of my former employer has been callous and despicable and they have to held accountable. If not only by the legal system, by the public they want to be buying their games!

IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 1d

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

Open Letter to the Executive Leadership at Build A Rocket Boy

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 1d

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 1d

There's a fascinating amount of level design choices in Skate 4 that seem to emulate a real-world city pretty well, but simultaneously aren't really that fun or interesting for skateboarding on.

Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d

This is absolutely brutal and EXACTLY why content ID policies are foundationally flawed policies which force every user to give away incredibly sensitive and valuable data to tech companies who have no accountability when it comes to seriously protecting it!!

Earlier this month Discord announced hackers had breached one of its third-party vendors that supports its customer service efforts. That vendor, which the hackers suggest is Zendesk, handles age-related appeals, Discord said. On Wednesday, Discord told The Verge it has identified around 70,000 users who may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of the breach.
In their Telegram group, the hackers took issue with Discord earlier saying the breach impacted a “small number of government-ID images.” The hackers posted a screenshot of what they presented as the size of the stolen data: 1.5 terabytes.

Text that reads: Then on Wednesday the hackers started posting Discord samples of user data. That included selfies of people holding up their ID documents. At least two of these are from people holding identity documents from the U.S. and Canada. Some of these are images where the individual person is clearly visible; others are screenshots of larger folders containing thumbnails of the images.

This text is followed by an image of someone taking a selfie with their face and identifying features blurred out

text that reads Other data the hackers posted include a spreadsheet of 1,000 users’ email addresses; usernames; a “TRUE” or “FALSE” flag as to whether they had been verified; their town, state or county, and country; partial phone numbers (the spreadsheet includes the area code and the last few digits of the number); whether the person has multifactor authentication enabled; and the last time they were seen on Discord.
The hackers then posted data related to a specific Discord user with a Coinbase email address. That data included information about their payments for Nitro, Discord’s subscription service; their full phone number; and IP address used. 404 Media corroborated the phone number by searching for it in a tool called OSINT Industries which provided usernames that largely match the name in the email address. Coinbase said in an emailed statement “Coinbase is aware and has investigated. We are not impacted.”
The hackers also posted a screenshot of a customer support interaction of a user who has the same name as the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter, Tyler Robinson. Robinson was previously connected to Discord when he appeared to confess the crime to messages to friends on the app, according to CNN. That screenshot includes the user’s email address, Discord username, and location listed as Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

I wrote about this a few years ago

Bizarrely, this legislation is supported by the @ndp.ca despite warnings from Canada's privacy commissioner, legal experts and sex work advocates

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d

uh oh game idea

Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d

Once you've noticed that most consumers can't identify the names of indie studios that develop the games Devolver publishes it's something that you truly can't stop noticing

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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 - Wishlist on Steam! @softrains.bsky.social · 2d

⚠ A new demo build & dev commentary video is now available!

Join @kaittremblay.bsky.social & @astroscout.ca as they chat about worldbuilding and play through our updated demo build featuring:

🆕 A new level!
🗣 Voiceover!
🍄 New fungus!
⚙ Miscellaneous fixes & updates!
and more!

youtu.be/YQZ_t1l-H1c

Ambrosia Sky 🪐 | Developer Commentary [Demo]

YouTube video by Soft Rains Games

youtu.be

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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

Two-page comic about ADHD, self-doubt, and burnout.

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A person with short black hair and yellow antennae recalls lifelong struggles with effort and recognition. As a child, they cry while being scolded over homework. Later, they work hard but still fail small details and receive an “F.” When they finally succeed, they can’t enjoy it—holding a medal labeled “2,” they feel it’s luck, not skill.

Panel 3+4
Page 2:
They explain how productivity fluctuates. A blue graph shows steady effort, while a pink line spikes wildly. They say, “For me, it fluctuates more extremely.” Sitting exhausted at a messy desk, they admit, “I only stop when I’m too tired to go on. The word I learned for all this was ‘lazy.’ I never learned a healthy measure or how to trust myself.”

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 2d

"It staggers me that people resist making the smaller dollar investment for the better outcome," says Councillor Gord Perks of the crisis workers on the TTC initiative. "If we are not here to improve the lives of the people who live in Toronto, what are we doing?"

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Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co · 7d

Exactly 1 year ago I released my normal gardening game ‘Grunn’

A big thanks to all of you who played it and supported me! I have received so many nice reactions since release.. it has far exceeded my expectations 🙏

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d

yeah dude the state of games press recently is horrible since every website has been gutted from top to bottom; that said it has been even more brutal for many people for much, much longer than that.

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d

Publisher boasting about huge player numbers, tons of streams, immensely positive reception, and coverage from small sites: "uhm hey guys... where's our press 🤨"

Micro indie studios launching amazing games for years that get three sales and no one ever hears from them again:

a meme image of a depressed wojak. a man's face drawn in close up rendered with chaotic and frantic pen linework

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing indie publishers who produce well-known and critically acclaimed titles freak out about launching a game and getting no press on it is...surreal.

Welcome to the club with the rest of us I guess. We have jackets.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

loom.ly

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 2d

GC wrote a great thread about the recasting of Hamazaki with Teruyuki Kagawa that I really suggest reading (along with the article from @unseenjapan.com) to get full context of RGG Studios deliberate decision to stand by this choice.

GC Vazquez @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 12d

So for people wondering about the Teruyuki Kagawa stuff (or for people who don't know,) yeah. The new actor portraying Hamazaki in Kiwami 3 admitted to sexually harassing a hostess club employee in 2022.
www.unseen-japan.com/kagawa-teruy...

Everyone Knew About Kagawa Teruyuki - Unseen Japan

The more we learn about the ongoing Kagawa Teruyuki scandal, the worse it gets. Some recent commentary translated for our Patreon subscribers.

www.unseen-japan.com

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daffodil 🇵🇸 @daff.space · Jul 22

Since I got a handful of new followers this past couple months I'd like to remind y'all that I made and released an extreme street unicycling video game last summer and that you should play it

STREET UNi X @street-uni-x.bsky.social · Jul 22

Oh you like Xtreme Action Sports games with tricks and stunts??
Then you should play STREET UNi X:

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