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Jane Ng

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Director of Operations @ Gardens 🌳. Used to build game worlds and now building a game studio. Prev on Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine. 🐱 http://www.janeng.com 🌳 http://www.gardens.dev

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · Nov 19

Hello! I've been a #gamedev for 20+ yrs. I was a Environment Artist for much of it but now I am the Operations Director at @gardens.dev. Prev I was Visual Director at Possibility Space, and worked on various cool stuff like Alyx at Valve. I'm probably most known for my env art work on Firewatch.

A prop chair from Half-Life: Alyx, showing all the possible hand poses that has to be authored with VR hands

A key art shot from the trailer of In the Valley of Gods, by Campo Santo Productions

A green and vibrant shot of an aspen grove from the game Firewatch, by Campo Santo Productions

A shot of the lookout tower from the game Firewatch, by Campo Santo Productions

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 3h

“It was consensual!!!!”

Jane Ng @janeng.com · 3h

My gosh you all weren’t kidding about how it looks like I wrestled a giant squid

Jane Ng @janeng.com · 3h

What no I have not that sounds like it comes from a kink shop lmao but hey I’m open minded

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 3h

Well i am going to our studio retreat next week and there’s gonna be a swimming pool so im just gonna have to tell everyone “these are from a MASSAGE I swear”

Jane Ng @janeng.com · 3h

Oh like I got attacked by a kraken and survived kinda thing? Rad

Jane Ng @janeng.com · 3h

Yesss I love the kind of massage like the tiny Asian lady has a grudge against all the knots and it’s a challenge.
I have those massage balls too I need to go back to regular lay down on them. I mostly have very tight upper back

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 3h

She informed me “we will do some cupping”

“Mhdjdhehr” (I mumbled ok”

I have never had that done and I had no idea what to expect. Afterwards she said “the marks will go away in 7-10 days”

Chat, I am so curious what my back looks like right now

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 4h

I enjoy the kind of deep tissue massage that borders on violence. About 5min into this session after touching my shoulders, my massage therapist - tiny Asian lady, said “what did you do” and I knew I was in for a good sesh

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 1d

Yay he was my city councilman when he first ran! I always liked his proposals

Jane Ng @janeng.com · 2d

Omg I didn’t know I need to be a mouse that bakes pies

Winter Burrow by Pine Creek Games @pinecreekgames.com · 4d

We’re making a game about a mouse surviving winter!

🥧 bake pies
🌲 explore the forest
🍄 forage for mushrooms
🧶 knit warm clothes
& more!

… there are many good times to be had 😌

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Winter Burrow by Pine Creek Games @pinecreekgames.com · 2d

Somehow the problems of the world seem a tiny bit smaller when you’re playing a cozy, survival game about a mouse trying to make it through the winter 😌🤍

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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dymphna @dymphna.bsky.social · 2d

I'm thinking more about this and I think industrial music keeps re-evolving from first principles because the conditions that produced it are everywhere

The Hearse Whisperer @babadooknukem.bsky.social · Sep 1

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 4d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 4d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 4d

What about digital frog

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 6d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 5d

Lmao

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 6d

A canine, or a finger, who could really tell or care if the stuff is good amiright

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 6d

The key is to remedy it DURING the good pussy eating, right?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Jane Ng @janeng.com · 6d

What if that’s how someone discovers a kink huh cat why are you kink shaming

Jane Ng @janeng.com · 6d

Portland

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 7d

wizard frog is insane

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 7d

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

Lateralized Sleep Positions in Domestic Cats bar graph. 192 cats curve left. 109 curve right.

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