Karl Parakenings
@forkingpath.bsky.social
Writer, programmer, narrative and technical designer. Freelance. 12+ years of gamedev experience.
tabletop jam projects: https://forking-path.itch.io/
WIP artstation: https://www.artstation.com/forking-path
contact: author @ forking-path.com (site wip)
tabletop jam projects: https://forking-path.itch.io/
WIP artstation: https://www.artstation.com/forking-path
contact: author @ forking-path.com (site wip)
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still looking for level design work!
I can work in Unreal, Unity, and probably whatever in-house engine you'll throw at me. I have worked on DLC for Sniper Elite 5, various community mod projects, and custom maps for TF2 and Half-Life 2.
portfolio ➡️ iibo.games
I can work in Unreal, Unity, and probably whatever in-house engine you'll throw at me. I have worked on DLC for Sniper Elite 5, various community mod projects, and custom maps for TF2 and Half-Life 2.
portfolio ➡️ iibo.games
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
still looking for level design work!
I can work in Unreal, Unity, and probably whatever in-house engine you'll throw at me. I have worked on DLC for Sniper Elite 5, various community mod projects, and custom maps for TF2 and Half-Life 2.
portfolio ➡️ iibo.games
I can work in Unreal, Unity, and probably whatever in-house engine you'll throw at me. I have worked on DLC for Sniper Elite 5, various community mod projects, and custom maps for TF2 and Half-Life 2.
portfolio ➡️ iibo.games
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We're looking for a few good level designers, because asking one person to take on the creation of over 36 levels is a little bit evil for even me. Do you like games like Half Life 1, Quake and Goldeneye? Send a DM. You'd do well on our ship.
Amon26: "OKAY PEOPLE listen up! We have one of the best environment designers in the industry taking on the task of building out ALL of the levels on her own with only ME to help. That's right, Mrs. AOOFAD and her blind jumps and spike pit hell! Let's see some submissions in our DMs!" #indiedev
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We're looking for a few good level designers, because asking one person to take on the creation of over 36 levels is a little bit evil for even me. Do you like games like Half Life 1, Quake and Goldeneye? Send a DM. You'd do well on our ship.
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AI slop could never ever dream of having the staying power of Minmo.
1000 years from now, the people will still remember.
1000 years from now, the people will still remember.
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
AI slop could never ever dream of having the staying power of Minmo.
1000 years from now, the people will still remember.
1000 years from now, the people will still remember.
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Japanese poster for "Angel's Egg" 4K remaster by Mamoru Oshii (in Japanese theaters on November 14).
This is a brand new illustration by Yoshitaka Amano, and you can see him painting it in this video interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWY5...
This is a brand new illustration by Yoshitaka Amano, and you can see him painting it in this video interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWY5...
August 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Japanese poster for "Angel's Egg" 4K remaster by Mamoru Oshii (in Japanese theaters on November 14).
This is a brand new illustration by Yoshitaka Amano, and you can see him painting it in this video interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWY5...
This is a brand new illustration by Yoshitaka Amano, and you can see him painting it in this video interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWY5...
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👩🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
👩🌾 Grab your tools
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www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-...
1 day, 8 hours left to get the indie fears bundle, which includes several amazing games including our very own Adios!! $13 for the whole thing!
1 day, 8 hours left to get the indie fears bundle, which includes several amazing games including our very own Adios!! $13 for the whole thing!
Indie Fears Bundle
Expand your spooky season gaming library with the creepiest indie horror games! Each purchase at the price of your choice supports SpecialEffect charity!
www.humblebundle.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-...
1 day, 8 hours left to get the indie fears bundle, which includes several amazing games including our very own Adios!! $13 for the whole thing!
1 day, 8 hours left to get the indie fears bundle, which includes several amazing games including our very own Adios!! $13 for the whole thing!
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Sounds like you're the one on familiar terms.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sounds like you're the one on familiar terms.
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It is very weird when US media does not report on the safety concerns, which are top of the list for Canadians I know. Yeah we are also pissed off but we've been pissed off since January, the decline was not gonna keep declining based purely on "elbows up."
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It is very weird when US media does not report on the safety concerns, which are top of the list for Canadians I know. Yeah we are also pissed off but we've been pissed off since January, the decline was not gonna keep declining based purely on "elbows up."
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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I’ve talked about how Keeper’s morphs use distance fields (DFs) as their surface representation. But if there are no polys, how do we render them? A DF gives the distance to the nearest surface at any point, which we can exploit for rendering by marching along the view ray until we hit the surface.
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I’ve talked about how Keeper’s morphs use distance fields (DFs) as their surface representation. But if there are no polys, how do we render them? A DF gives the distance to the nearest surface at any point, which we can exploit for rendering by marching along the view ray until we hit the surface.
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It’s very enervating to watch intelligent and educated people play dumb about this amidst the ascendance of a far-right reactionary movement driven by antisocial Silicon Valley psychos and Miami crypto scammers who all treat women as status symbols on the same level as NFTs and Labubus.
he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It’s very enervating to watch intelligent and educated people play dumb about this amidst the ascendance of a far-right reactionary movement driven by antisocial Silicon Valley psychos and Miami crypto scammers who all treat women as status symbols on the same level as NFTs and Labubus.
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Showing this to my barber
Skull from an ossuary with wreath decoration, 1842 by Alpine School, Hallstatt Beinhaus ("bone house", ossuary), a Roman Catholic chapel in Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Austria
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Showing this to my barber
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The wizard sleeps well. The little cat stalks an illusionary frog around the kitchen, knocking over a mushroom.
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The wizard sleeps well. The little cat stalks an illusionary frog around the kitchen, knocking over a mushroom.
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What is the charge? A sweetroll? A toothsome Nord sweetroll?
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What is the charge? A sweetroll? A toothsome Nord sweetroll?
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Friendly tip for folks. My discord got hacked yesterday and my computer was acting funky ever since. Turns out it was malware installed through a blender file I bought as part of an asset pack on CG Trader. I didn’t know blender files were being used this way, but I figured I’d spread the word.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Friendly tip for folks. My discord got hacked yesterday and my computer was acting funky ever since. Turns out it was malware installed through a blender file I bought as part of an asset pack on CG Trader. I didn’t know blender files were being used this way, but I figured I’d spread the word.
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Don't care about Graphix. Only Giraffx. Tokyo Jungle has good Giraffx as shown by this in game giraffe wearing a straw hat.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Don't care about Graphix. Only Giraffx. Tokyo Jungle has good Giraffx as shown by this in game giraffe wearing a straw hat.
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It’s like my grandpa always said: fish wife, fish knife
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s like my grandpa always said: fish wife, fish knife
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please be kind to will stancil. you can't bully someone out of being a The Atlantic writer, that is a chronic condition
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
please be kind to will stancil. you can't bully someone out of being a The Atlantic writer, that is a chronic condition
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Interesting talking to a company outside of games. They were concerned that 40hrs/wk might scare me off. And that there's optional (PAID) overtime during peak season.
I've regularly worked more than 40hrs a week (as much as I've tried not to), and I have NEVER been paid for the OT in gamedev
I've regularly worked more than 40hrs a week (as much as I've tried not to), and I have NEVER been paid for the OT in gamedev
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Interesting talking to a company outside of games. They were concerned that 40hrs/wk might scare me off. And that there's optional (PAID) overtime during peak season.
I've regularly worked more than 40hrs a week (as much as I've tried not to), and I have NEVER been paid for the OT in gamedev
I've regularly worked more than 40hrs a week (as much as I've tried not to), and I have NEVER been paid for the OT in gamedev
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every time I see obsidian's tools, I want them. we built our own for adios but it's nowhere near as complicated for the simple fact that we don't have an obsidian-sized budget or years of R&D behind it
A section of dialogue choices between the player (blue) and Outer Worlds 2 character Ethel Tinsley (red). The full tree of choices for the conversation is shown on the right. The dialogue is written in OEI Tools, a tool made by and for Obsidian Entertainment
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
every time I see obsidian's tools, I want them. we built our own for adios but it's nowhere near as complicated for the simple fact that we don't have an obsidian-sized budget or years of R&D behind it
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POV you are a very small Morrison fern
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
POV you are a very small Morrison fern
