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@coil.bsky.social

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Schipperke owner @PNW Game Systems Designer, dangerously unsupervised (prev Big Blue Sky Games, Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc) Hire me! #GameDev he/him

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello newskies! I'm Dan, a game designer currently hailing from the Seattle area. I have lots of schipperkes, ADHD, and many (mostly crafty) hobbies in varying states of hyperfocus or neglect.

Favorite game: Journey
Color: Aqua
Album: Paul Simon - Graceland
Cocktail: Red Hook
Dinosaur: Amargasaurus

A selfie of me with glasses, a goatee, and curly hair down past my shoulders. I'm wearing a lanyard & attendee pass for Unreal Fest.

Two small black schipperke dogs on leashes, ears up and panting in excitement

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 1h

Huh, I didn't make the connection but I guess the two are very close in concept/structure.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 1h

I picked up Hyper Light Breaker on EA launch, and at the time it felt about two iterations away from something really special, but it seems like they just couldn't catch a break. Condolences to the team.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 11h

Heart Machine making layoffs and ending development on Hyper Light Breaker

The news comes around nine months after Hyper Light Breaker launched into early access.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h

2 weeks later I have finally

finally

cleared the High Halls fight.

And they put a tough as nails boss fight directly following it, and I could *not* be happier.

Hades 2 has also been very good.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 4d

It's been 10 days. Might just go play Hades instead.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 14d

I have died more to this High Halls arena fight than to any boss so far in Silksong. /:

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 3h

🙏

Katakateri @katakateri.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. And if you have trouble typing due to disability, a beautiful group of volunteers will help you if you type alt4me anywhere in your post.
It's a godsend for people like me who have been yelled at for no alt text or just had their images left unshared.
And yes, I can type today.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 11h

The Duality Of Scam

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 12h

Corollary: if it's a side project, you let it rip and your coworker responds

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 12h

Wow that actually *is* worse than the Hero's Journey.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes our appeals courts disagree, though, to keep things spicy.

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 13h

Affinity Designer, Publisher, and Photo seem to currently be free on iOS. As in the in-app purchase to fully unlock them is $0

Awkward “photo of my iPad using my phone” for quick evidence

May or may not be intentional. You should act fast if you’re interested

A photo of the Affinity Designer iOS App Store page highlighting the in app purchases section showing the “Designer 2 for iPad License” as being $0.00

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h

After 20 years of trying to figure it out... the truth is that it shouldn't be a balance.

Life has to come first.

And the hard part today is finding stable, lucrative-enough work that is ok with coming second.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h

Not just that it was meant to be a private message, but HE WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN IT WASN'T.

The man is not fit.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h

Not just that it was meant to be a private message, but HE WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN IT WASN'T.

The man is not fit.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 13h

2 weeks later I have finally

finally

cleared the High Halls fight.

And they put a tough as nails boss fight directly following it, and I could *not* be happier.

Hades 2 has also been very good.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 4d

It's been 10 days. Might just go play Hades instead.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 14d

I have died more to this High Halls arena fight than to any boss so far in Silksong. /:

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, with 187 samples in (still looking for more!) let's talk about results so far!

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d

Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).

If you have time, give it a try?

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

AI vs Human Fiction Detection Test

jlp-experiment.github.io

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 17h

That one is well established.

a pixel art of a man riding a motorcycle with the words " no one can stop me " above him

Alt: LucasArts game Full Throttle

media.tenor.com

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 17h

"Dudes rock" implies the existence of dudes paper and dudes scissors

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 17h

That's the mountain area, this is dudes water

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 19h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Kira the gelfling from The Dark Crystal, a pale elf-like puppet in simple travel clothes

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 20h

Ox yokes? 🤔

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 20h

To be fair, game devs haven't been the target "audience" of the game dev industry for at least three (fifteen) years.

Russ Pitts @russpitts.bsky.social · 21h

Setting my feelings aside, if GDC is moving away from a professional conference toward a more mainstream gaming adjacent convention, the practicalities are not promising. That area of SF is not a comfortable place. And it’s in one of the most expensive cities in America. Who’s the intended audience?

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 20h

Some guys would rather declare martial law than release the Epstein files

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 21h

There's no way this isn't a mechanical Turk, at *best*.

Rather than potentially “hallucinate” contract language, the agent works within established template structures that have been battle-tested in real legal scenarios. We believe it is this combination of AI with trusted legal foundations that makes vibe lawyering viable for real businesses use.

Legal to match the speed of knowledge work

As Aaron Levie, Box CEO said in early 2025, AI will take “tasks that took days and shrink them into hours or minutes”. “AI dramatically accelerates knowledge work“.

While human insight remains crucial for connecting and reviewing ideas, many routine processes can be parallelized using AI agents that leverage advanced reasoning. As our productivity increases dramatically, we'll want to do more deals and at a faster prace. We hope we can help that happen.

Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 22h

36 on my phone alone.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 23h

Mythic Quest gets close.