Steve Bowler
@gameism.bsky.social
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25+ year Animation and Game Dev veteran Done putting where I work in my bio Sometimes makes cool stuff. AuDHD AF. “The Greatest Unreal Developer In The World™️” He/HISM
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Introduction post!

Hi I'm Steve, and I've been working in Unreal for something like 20 years now. I'm back working in AAA Game Dev again and even some VR dev but please enjoy the Virtual Studio showreel of my work from the past few years.

I have a ton of fun making magic happen, hope it shows 😅
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hazelmonforton.com
Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com
hazelmonforton.com
It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.
A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025) A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022) A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017) A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)
gameism.bsky.social
Happy Birthday Kiko!!!
gameism.bsky.social
Gotta throw a thumbs up in there just to make them extra mad and (apparently) wonder if it's being used sarcastically or not 👍
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wilwheaton.net
Yesterday, I read that, according to Gen Z, when a Millenial puts "lol" at the end of something, it makes them sound old.

They said nothing about Gen X, but, whatever, lol
gameism.bsky.social
I have all of this real world fencing skill and yet it's ILLEGAL for me to use it 🙄 smdh not fair what's even the point of studying the blade anymore 😡
gameism.bsky.social
Okay finally made it through and managed to get to the top of Olympus but failed at Prometheus because I haven't ever fought him before and didn't realize the "zone flash" was a memory game, and got whacked for 100 damage by the third zone BOOOOOOOOOOOOO not nice boss mechanic not a fan lol
gameism.bsky.social
I don't own any of their albums and I could probably sing at least four tracks off of that at karaoke, because college radio.

That album is real good 🤌
gameism.bsky.social
Played two rounds of Hades2 last night.

Can't even get past the first midboss in either realm now 😮‍💨

I don't even remember what half of the gate symbols are 😭

(Forgot Hera and Medea's and visited them, Medea twice because hers changes depending on where you see it, when I wanted neither 🙄)
gameism.bsky.social
FWIW I tend to try not to reply to randos/strangers with contrary opinions, usually only people I know, or mutuals/folks I've previously had positive interactions with that will know we are "vibing" and I’m not telling them they're wrong/being contrarian.

I USED to, and yeah, p much goes poorly 🤷
gameism.bsky.social
All Hands Meeting Friday
impavid.us
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.
gameism.bsky.social
It's weird it's almost like gross management practices lead to gross management and poor products 🤷

(You can add the one I interviewed at to the pile of "didn't make it" a couple of years after they started. I don't think they ever shipped.)
gameism.bsky.social
[Pours one out for their crotchular areas even though it's better for them] 🫗🫡

(also WAYYYYYY cute kiddies)
gameism.bsky.social
This is why whenever a "design test" is "please design an aspect of our game/product for us" I'm like NOPE and just tell them good luck finding someone who works for free, because i don't 🤷

Have had at least one try it, but thankfully not in the past 15-ish years.
gameism.bsky.social
the. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
gameism.bsky.social
Steam saves them both to your cloud account AND leaves them in the Steam/apps/common folder after you uninstall, so it isn't just windows. This one is 100% Steam + Developers not checking for active vs out of date save files.

But yeah it sucks it's down to developers working around it.
gameism.bsky.social
It didn't! That was a 4k resolution screen rendering on my 27" 1920x1080 monitor.

It chose 4k because I had a 4k monitor when I played in Early Access, but I uninstalled the game. Reinstalled it for 1.0, and it just...rendered it in 4k 🤦🤷
gameism.bsky.social
When I’m salty I apparently swear like a fuckin' sailor so [bows gracefully] y'all are fuckin' welcome 😅
gameism.bsky.social
Are you kidding me?? Turns out it was because the SAVED SETTINGS from the EA game, EVEN AFTER I UNINSTALLED IT.

It thought I still had a 4k monitor
(I don't).

FFS 🤦
gameism.bsky.social
Reinstall Hades 2, he said.
You'll have fun playing Hades 2, he said.
A photo of Hades 2 running on my PC, across nearly both 27" monitors.
It is also WAY too far off the left screen. Not even half of the menu options are visible on the left screen, and the name of the game is "DES" as the HA in HADES is off screen as well. It's fucked up.
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jam2go.com
I've been testing out adding greenscreen footage into Unreal, but compressing it to look like it's a 90s FMV game
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pawbaby2.bsky.social
Portland PD threatens ICE with arrest! More. Of. This. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#USDemocracy
#Pinks
gameism.bsky.social
It's still just so bizarre from any bizdev sense:

"Boss, the guy who gives you some money but the movies always tank and you wind up losing YOUR money wants to give us some money to make TRON a box office failure" and all they hear is is "give us some money"