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Jeiel Aranal
@jeielvtx.bsky.social
Gamedev and artist
Running and cycling enjoyer
Cats? Yes. 🇵🇭

Professional hats:
gameplay programmer, technical artist

Presently: PixelMafia
Formerly: Bunnyhug Games, Ubisoft PH
Pinned
In the height of the pandemic, I made this #LowPoly scene depicting metro manila to remind me of what's outside
#ArtPH
I would love to play this game.
I also thought it might be fun to make it a little game.
like, show the user SFW pictures, and you have to guess exactly what in the image is setting off the NSFW detector
For example:
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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I tested a machine learning model designed to detect NSFW content. It marked this image as unsafe, because of Tim Allen's breasts (marked in blue) and my hand-penis (marked in green)
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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looking through the preliminary results, it appears the only things it can detect with any reliability are tim allen's big supernaturals. Huh.
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Happy #WishlistWednesday everyone! 🎉 Let's promote your game!

Drop your #indiegame below 🚀

#gamedev #indiegamedev #gamemarketing #steam
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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We are looking for translators for the first episode of Bunlith show!

Translators, please send your rate and examples of previous published work to the attached email address (past published work is mandatory. If you have no examples of previous published work, please do not send an email!)
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm very curious about mister kevin defunctland's reaction to Disney Imagineering putting up a video after his own, that could be read as a corporate nuh-uh to his video.
If you could set aside 4 hours and 18 minutes today for my new video, that would be much appreciated.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I will die for you, A 4-Hour Long Video Essay on A Theme Park.
March 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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If you could set aside 4 hours and 18 minutes today for my new video, that would be much appreciated.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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in Thai we have tone markers & vowels that go on top, and here they're overlapping instead of stacking (a pretty common issue with Unity & TextMeshPro)

always happy to look over thai localization for folks!
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Everyone’s cheering (for freelance reviews on Game File)

I hear it’s a hit (freelance reviews on Game File)

Buy an annual subscription today (for more freelance reviews on Game File)
NEW: @jmrivera.bsky.social has written Game File's first freelance game review--about one of 2025's stranger games

"Blippo+ feels like something I was lucky enough to catch in the wee hours of the night, on a channel that I wasn’t supposed to receive"

www.gamefile.news/p/blippo-plu...
A new video game that's all fake TV shows
A review of Blippo+, one of 2025's stranger new games for Switch and PC (previously on Playdate!)
www.gamefile.news
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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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
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runnin'
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Hi! 👋 I'm looking for freelance pixel art work!

10+ years experience in game dev making lil' guys, big guys, animations, environment, tiles - any style!

RTs appreciated ✨

Portfolio below ⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Most of my abandoned, unfinished junk is available on OpenGameArt.org under free and open source compatible public licensing here: opengameart.org/users/surt
December 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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If you need ai for daily life, you're fucking up. If you need it to be creative, you're missing the fucking point.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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SADAKO for VOGUE JAPAN
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I spent a buncha time last year getting Python 2.7 support for my tools.

Then project that required 2.7 fell off and I've been forgetting to check my tools for 2.7 compatibility and now I'm wondering if its still worth trying to get that compatibility back. #TechnicalArt
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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i have something to say
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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If one model is transparently manipulated, you should assume the others are manipulated — just more skillfully.

Grok is sloppy about it.
Other companies are subtle about it.
The only difference is competence, not intent.
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Person who bought this 6 months later: so my grill keeps trying to tell me about white genocide??? And the plight of the Boers?? How do I get it to stop doing that when friends are over?

(With alt text)
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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We're hiring!!

@blackinaflash.bsky.social is looking for a Co-Lead and Social Media Lead to join the team!

Applications are open until Dec. 7th 11:59 PM PT/2:59 AM ET

Learn more about the roles and apply here: gamesdonequick.com/jobs

November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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now that all the games press is gone, we only have the loudest gamers to rely on when trying to get a vibe of whether a game is good, which is extremely worse than nothing

all you hear about any game that comes out now is "it's shit" or "it's fucked" regardless of how shit or fucked it is
December 1, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM