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Simon Vickers

@vickersofdibley.bsky.social

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Lead Gameplay Designer at Playdead || previously Game Director for Second Extinction, Lead Level Designer at Cloud Imperium Games

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoyed Tsushima but found it a standard OW checklist of activities wrapped in an appealing and earnest setting.
Yotei’s structure and framing feels so organic in the way it reveals content that everything feels discovered.

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · 2d

Baffled by how little Ghost of Yotei has been celebrated for its order of magnitudes improvement it made over its predecessor and its open world peers when it comes to its fluid blending of storytelling and exploration

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · 19d

Forza Horizon hitting the same ‘in case of emergency: Japan’ button as Ass Creed

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · 19d

This absolutely diabolical Texas switch

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Sep 12

Whenever my code doesn’t compile I hear Eric idle’s ’that doesn’t work’

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Boyfriend (also on Netflix) is the cutest

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Aug 23

Game execs looking at the tech sector reporting zero returns from AI initiatives

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Aug 15

Duolingo’s decision to fully skin their conversation practice as a random phone call baffles me (a social anxiety riddled mess)

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Jul 15

I feel this is the way with all ass creed features. Nothing ever feels expanded on in subsequent iterations. Only streamlined to the point of insignificance. Parkour, stealth, combat etc.

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Jun 26

My dog out here FaceTiming like me mum n dad

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Jun 24

boxd.it/cp66N ‘allo

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VickersOfDibley uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 54 films watched. Favorites: Porco Rosso (1992), In the Mood for Love (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Jun 13

Eat your heart out Peter Molyneux

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Jun 9

I wondered why I was getting full page gambling ads every paragraph all of a sudden…

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Jun 6

The TEXTURE of it all

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Jun 3

They also having spinning yellow lights and go MAWP MAWP MAWP MAWP

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · May 21

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY

Have you heard?? We're just 8.5k away from hitting our initial funding goal!!!

Please give us a pledge if you've been thinking about it, we might be able to hit 100% within 24 hours of launch!!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

Crescent County - a witch-tech delivery adventure

Underground motorbroom street racing. Chaotic deliveries. Kissing on the mouth. A painterly, witch-tech, open world game.

www.kickstarter.com

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · May 19

I have absolutely zero regrets for this impulse purchase

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · May 14

I wish I could say that I was, but I DO have some very good friends over there :)

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · May 10

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design

Maybe video game level design theory needs less focus on architecture? And maybe I'm part of the problem? My bad.

www.blog.radiator.debacle.us

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · May 10

I often think about how one of the GBA Castlevanias had an amazing synergistic magic system where you combined cards to modify your moveset and one of the end game combinations is just… Gun

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · May 7

Xor.

Scripting jokes!

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Apr 24

I am outraged by how right you are

Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Apr 10

Specifically I'm now wondering if they are always at full mast or the unicock needs to keep emo-fringe flipping it out of their eyes

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Simon Vickers @vickersofdibley.bsky.social · Apr 9

New Mission Impossible movie or new Dumb and Dumber?