Nyek London
@stupidhoroscope.bsky.social
Indie game dev gremlin. Making The Last Exterminator:
www.thelastexterminator.com
www.thelastexterminator.com
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Nyek London
@stupidhoroscope.bsky.social
· Jul 21
The Last Exterminator on Steam
You're an exterminator. You kill things for a living. When a hostile invasion of alien cockroaches rocks your city, you've got a job to do. A high-octane retro-FPS inspired by some of the best games o...
www.thelastexterminator.com
Hey all! I'm that weird gremlin dude that's making The Last Exterminator, a retro FPS written on a custom engine. Up on Steam for wishlistin'!
www.thelastexterminator.com
www.thelastexterminator.com
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What a great day to be thankful for what you have! Once you start to see the value in “obsolete” technology, it’s impossible to justify just how short our upgrade cycles have become.
Call me crazy, but I think TVs, phones, computers, etc SHOULD last for decades.
Call me crazy, but I think TVs, phones, computers, etc SHOULD last for decades.
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What a great day to be thankful for what you have! Once you start to see the value in “obsolete” technology, it’s impossible to justify just how short our upgrade cycles have become.
Call me crazy, but I think TVs, phones, computers, etc SHOULD last for decades.
Call me crazy, but I think TVs, phones, computers, etc SHOULD last for decades.
Buddy you can just listen to songs other people have made. You don't need to keep lying to yourself that you're involved in creating music in any way.
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Buddy you can just listen to songs other people have made. You don't need to keep lying to yourself that you're involved in creating music in any way.
Anyone else wear headphones so much you now how a permanent groove in your head where the headband sits, or do I just have soft brain
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Anyone else wear headphones so much you now how a permanent groove in your head where the headband sits, or do I just have soft brain
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I swear, anyone that tries to conclude an argument with 'Find X, I'll wait' is outing themselves as arguing in bad faith
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I swear, anyone that tries to conclude an argument with 'Find X, I'll wait' is outing themselves as arguing in bad faith
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Nobody's clamouring for AI games, nobody's mad that games don't feature AI, there's a total and utter lack of demand for it. The only demand is from business heads who think it'll save them money, audiences and creatives are rejecting it.
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nobody's clamouring for AI games, nobody's mad that games don't feature AI, there's a total and utter lack of demand for it. The only demand is from business heads who think it'll save them money, audiences and creatives are rejecting it.
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This is the inverse of the 'Where's my triangle?' problem
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is the inverse of the 'Where's my triangle?' problem
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Took a break from Drifter stuff to do some art for the next Telwynium game. Been nearly 2 years since I did one of these, glad it's still so fun!
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Took a break from Drifter stuff to do some art for the next Telwynium game. Been nearly 2 years since I did one of these, glad it's still so fun!
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The results are in!
We want to take a moment to thank everyone who participated. Seeing the community come together to create so many incredible pieces has been truly heartwarming for all of us!
Winners are announced in the thread below 🎖️
We want to take a moment to thank everyone who participated. Seeing the community come together to create so many incredible pieces has been truly heartwarming for all of us!
Winners are announced in the thread below 🎖️
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The results are in!
We want to take a moment to thank everyone who participated. Seeing the community come together to create so many incredible pieces has been truly heartwarming for all of us!
Winners are announced in the thread below 🎖️
We want to take a moment to thank everyone who participated. Seeing the community come together to create so many incredible pieces has been truly heartwarming for all of us!
Winners are announced in the thread below 🎖️
So what happened to that Half Life 3 announcement that was totally, absolutely really gonna happen this time, lads
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
So what happened to that Half Life 3 announcement that was totally, absolutely really gonna happen this time, lads
I'm doing business stuff today and I keep mistyping 'milestone' as 'minestrone'
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm doing business stuff today and I keep mistyping 'milestone' as 'minestrone'
The fuckin weird shit that pops up on that weird news ticker on Windows 10.
Just shows "Man Vs Baby Commences" with absolutely no context and disappears again, leaving my brain haunted for the next 24 hours.
Just shows "Man Vs Baby Commences" with absolutely no context and disappears again, leaving my brain haunted for the next 24 hours.
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The fuckin weird shit that pops up on that weird news ticker on Windows 10.
Just shows "Man Vs Baby Commences" with absolutely no context and disappears again, leaving my brain haunted for the next 24 hours.
Just shows "Man Vs Baby Commences" with absolutely no context and disappears again, leaving my brain haunted for the next 24 hours.
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay, worked as a programmer on companies like EA, Microsoft and Ubisoft, helped building the PSP and PS4 operating systems and won the 1980 National Space Invaders Championship!
RIP to one of the greatest :(
RIP to one of the greatest :(
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay, worked as a programmer on companies like EA, Microsoft and Ubisoft, helped building the PSP and PS4 operating systems and won the 1980 National Space Invaders Championship!
RIP to one of the greatest :(
RIP to one of the greatest :(
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dialing in the boxing glove gun ragdoll strength- it's both a mobility tool and a (potentially) non-lethal weapon
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
dialing in the boxing glove gun ragdoll strength- it's both a mobility tool and a (potentially) non-lethal weapon
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How do I fix this bug?
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
How do I fix this bug?
Character limits are a direct assault on people like me that can't elucidate a point in less than 5 paragraphs
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Character limits are a direct assault on people like me that can't elucidate a point in less than 5 paragraphs
Writing code: Write 1500 lines of code, feel like I should've done more
Writing documents: Write two sentences in the whole day, fuck it that'll do for now
Writing documents: Write two sentences in the whole day, fuck it that'll do for now
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Writing code: Write 1500 lines of code, feel like I should've done more
Writing documents: Write two sentences in the whole day, fuck it that'll do for now
Writing documents: Write two sentences in the whole day, fuck it that'll do for now
True art is always born from the phrase "Hey, you know what would be funny,"
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
True art is always born from the phrase "Hey, you know what would be funny,"
I love this photo so much. Early days of Id Software, just some scrappy young lads being scrappy
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I love this photo so much. Early days of Id Software, just some scrappy young lads being scrappy
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attack of the main menu
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
attack of the main menu
You touch Linux for 5 seconds and everyone has an opinion
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You touch Linux for 5 seconds and everyone has an opinion
For some reason I never got into the Metroid Prime games. I've tried them a bunch of times, and even though I love metroidvanias and I *love* FPSes, I just found the Prime games kinda... bland.
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
For some reason I never got into the Metroid Prime games. I've tried them a bunch of times, and even though I love metroidvanias and I *love* FPSes, I just found the Prime games kinda... bland.
I have been expertly crafted to look at a multiple choice question for 20 minutes, staring at the correct answer then entire time, and then changing my choice to the wrong answer at the last second.
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I have been expertly crafted to look at a multiple choice question for 20 minutes, staring at the correct answer then entire time, and then changing my choice to the wrong answer at the last second.