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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!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntj...

2025 Tech Designers Toolkit | Unreal Fest Bali 2025

YouTube video by Unreal Engine

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

Oh no, this is awful. Absolute genius artist.

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

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

...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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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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 · 3h

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 · 13h

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 · 13h

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16h

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 · 21h

Best wishes Rocky!

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 22h

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Indigenous People's day, did you know that up to 5,500,000 Indigenous people were enslaved? A fact that is often erased because Indigenous erasure is ingrained in American society.

Brown.edu -- "Native American slavery "is a piece of the history of slavery that has been glossed over," Fisher said. "Between 1492 and 1880, between 2 and 5.5 million Native Americans were enslaved in the Americas in addition to
12.5 million African slaves.""

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 23h

Agreed, the beneath-the-surface stuff is where the magic happens and is what makes me happiest as a dev.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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sam is vibrating ominously @samuelbass.bsky.social · 23h

This was a really good one, felt like you engaged with a lot of deep design concepts on a level that most online games writing does not.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 23h

I would pay extra money to be on a flight and a section of the airport where yahoos are not yapping on their phones at full volume nonstop because I’m always next to one of them.

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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!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntj...

2025 Tech Designers Toolkit | Unreal Fest Bali 2025

YouTube video by Unreal Engine

www.youtube.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 1d

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

SWITCH TO TIDAL TODAY

YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW

IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS

tidal.com/transfer-music

Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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