Erik Robson
@erikrobson.net
Game Designer/Artist | LFW | Designer/artist @ Valve | Lead Designer @ Double Fine | Lead Designer @ 3DO | Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Portal2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact
25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47
25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47
Pinned
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Game Designer and AI Programmer looking at this together, trying to figure out a way to avoid this (currently 10% repro rate after 6h of gameplay)
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Game Designer and AI Programmer looking at this together, trying to figure out a way to avoid this (currently 10% repro rate after 6h of gameplay)
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could you pls hold this for a me *hands you some wasps*
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
could you pls hold this for a me *hands you some wasps*
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Play the demo of Band of Crusaders – only on GOG!
👉 bit.ly/4iipMw4
Lead a crusade against a demonic invasion of Europe! Craft your sandbox adventure – explore a medieval simulated world, recruit crusaders, grow your camp, and face demons & human foes in real-time tactical combat.
👉 bit.ly/4iipMw4
Lead a crusade against a demonic invasion of Europe! Craft your sandbox adventure – explore a medieval simulated world, recruit crusaders, grow your camp, and face demons & human foes in real-time tactical combat.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Play the demo of Band of Crusaders – only on GOG!
👉 bit.ly/4iipMw4
Lead a crusade against a demonic invasion of Europe! Craft your sandbox adventure – explore a medieval simulated world, recruit crusaders, grow your camp, and face demons & human foes in real-time tactical combat.
👉 bit.ly/4iipMw4
Lead a crusade against a demonic invasion of Europe! Craft your sandbox adventure – explore a medieval simulated world, recruit crusaders, grow your camp, and face demons & human foes in real-time tactical combat.
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make your kid’s birthday party a special one they’ll be talking about in therapy for years to come
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
make your kid’s birthday party a special one they’ll be talking about in therapy for years to come
Watching the last episode of each Stranger Things season to catch up. (We quit after season one.)
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Watching the last episode of each Stranger Things season to catch up. (We quit after season one.)
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Additions to the story
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Additions to the story
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Toasted sesame seeds are delicious. (I’m pretty sure I’m the first person to ever realize this.)
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Toasted sesame seeds are delicious. (I’m pretty sure I’m the first person to ever realize this.)
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I wish I could travel back in time to pelt Isaac Newton with different kinds of fruit to see if that inspires any other theories.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I wish I could travel back in time to pelt Isaac Newton with different kinds of fruit to see if that inspires any other theories.
When I'm looking up who's blocking me and they have >1,000 blocks, it's like... hey, that's fine. Blocking is your thing. Go off, friend.
(I'm blocking 161 people, and don't subscribe to any block lists - I don't trust them.)
(I'm blocking 161 people, and don't subscribe to any block lists - I don't trust them.)
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
When I'm looking up who's blocking me and they have >1,000 blocks, it's like... hey, that's fine. Blocking is your thing. Go off, friend.
(I'm blocking 161 people, and don't subscribe to any block lists - I don't trust them.)
(I'm blocking 161 people, and don't subscribe to any block lists - I don't trust them.)
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This is pretty niche, but if any of you have watched Dana Carvey's Master of Disguise while *really* high, I'd love to hear about it.
youtu.be/o8xNnmQU2tQ?...
youtu.be/o8xNnmQU2tQ?...
The Master of Disguise (2002) Trailer 2
YouTube video by Jackson Priestap
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is pretty niche, but if any of you have watched Dana Carvey's Master of Disguise while *really* high, I'd love to hear about it.
youtu.be/o8xNnmQU2tQ?...
youtu.be/o8xNnmQU2tQ?...
Something about the sweeping reforms enacted after Nixon's resignation, intended to repair the damage. Seems relevant.
Though what I REALLY want to see is something that incorporates more recent news and explores how all the Nixonistas had their world view shaped by how Nixon was "wronged."
Though what I REALLY want to see is something that incorporates more recent news and explores how all the Nixonistas had their world view shaped by how Nixon was "wronged."
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Something about the sweeping reforms enacted after Nixon's resignation, intended to repair the damage. Seems relevant.
Though what I REALLY want to see is something that incorporates more recent news and explores how all the Nixonistas had their world view shaped by how Nixon was "wronged."
Though what I REALLY want to see is something that incorporates more recent news and explores how all the Nixonistas had their world view shaped by how Nixon was "wronged."
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2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually
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One of the best DOGE report cards I’ve seen is from @petridishes.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
One of the best DOGE report cards I’ve seen is from @petridishes.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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homestar: come to bsky dot com!
voice offscreen: it's dot app
homestar: come to bsky dot com, it's dot app!
voice offscreen: it's dot app
homestar: come to bsky dot com, it's dot app!
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
homestar: come to bsky dot com!
voice offscreen: it's dot app
homestar: come to bsky dot com, it's dot app!
voice offscreen: it's dot app
homestar: come to bsky dot com, it's dot app!
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I do wonder if this is it. WTF is Donald Trump doing w Venezuela? Like we've had US presidents do crazy things. I mean we invaded Iraq and toppled its government more or less for no reason. But as someone who covered that story very closely they DID have reasons. They were bad ...
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I do wonder if this is it. WTF is Donald Trump doing w Venezuela? Like we've had US presidents do crazy things. I mean we invaded Iraq and toppled its government more or less for no reason. But as someone who covered that story very closely they DID have reasons. They were bad ...
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‘Cheer up, dad. They’re making Rush Hour 4’
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
‘Cheer up, dad. They’re making Rush Hour 4’
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A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow.
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
A secret transcript reveals that the Trump envoy was helping a Putin advisor formulate a plan.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow.
#UE5 friends:
Is there a tool or plugins to diff two selected actors of the same class?
One of my postprocessing volumes is misbehaving and I need to see what the good one is doing "right."
Is there a tool or plugins to diff two selected actors of the same class?
One of my postprocessing volumes is misbehaving and I need to see what the good one is doing "right."
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#UE5 friends:
Is there a tool or plugins to diff two selected actors of the same class?
One of my postprocessing volumes is misbehaving and I need to see what the good one is doing "right."
Is there a tool or plugins to diff two selected actors of the same class?
One of my postprocessing volumes is misbehaving and I need to see what the good one is doing "right."
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At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
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Meet our 3 turkeys, Butterball, Yum Yum, and Drumstick. Just Kidding. All turkeys are named Sir Peckworth Of Gobble Town.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Meet our 3 turkeys, Butterball, Yum Yum, and Drumstick. Just Kidding. All turkeys are named Sir Peckworth Of Gobble Town.
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I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”