Mike Rayhawk
@mikerayhawk.bsky.social
The BrikWars guy. Former Lego guy.
Concept designer and illustrator behind many of your favorite Lego themes and games, and somehow also the old Roblox logo. I know, I can't explain it either.
mikerayhawk.com
brikwars.com
Concept designer and illustrator behind many of your favorite Lego themes and games, and somehow also the old Roblox logo. I know, I can't explain it either.
mikerayhawk.com
brikwars.com
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Mike Rayhawk
@mikerayhawk.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hi! I guess I need some kind of intro here. I'm a designer with a long history at LEGO and a bunch of digressions into tabletop and video games. I also made the original Roblox logo and BrikWars. Currently freelancing in illustration and whatever odd jobs strike my fancy.
www.mikerayhawk.com
www.mikerayhawk.com
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A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom campaigns ⬇️
#MiniatureWargaming #TabletopGames #WargamingCommunity
www.wargamer.com/miniature-wa...
#MiniatureWargaming #TabletopGames #WargamingCommunity
www.wargamer.com/miniature-wa...
Miniature wargame fans are refighting WW1 using 15,000 toy soldiers and their yards as the battlefield
A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom campaigns.
www.wargamer.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom campaigns ⬇️
#MiniatureWargaming #TabletopGames #WargamingCommunity
www.wargamer.com/miniature-wa...
#MiniatureWargaming #TabletopGames #WargamingCommunity
www.wargamer.com/miniature-wa...
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
Wake in a cold sweat, quickly check the internet to make sure the Japanese translation for "Gandalf" isn't just "Ganondorf"
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wake in a cold sweat, quickly check the internet to make sure the Japanese translation for "Gandalf" isn't just "Ganondorf"
There is almost no feedback I'll automatically ignore as a game designer - sometimes to the teeth-gnashing anguish of the rest of the Discord channel - but there's a whole bunch that inspires me to gleefully double down
there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There is almost no feedback I'll automatically ignore as a game designer - sometimes to the teeth-gnashing anguish of the rest of the Discord channel - but there's a whole bunch that inspires me to gleefully double down
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It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
Dispatch has sold 1 million copies in under two weeks
Dispatch has sold 1 million copies in under two weeks
The episodic superhero comedy features big-name actors like Aaron Paul and Jeffrey Wright.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
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I wrote a piece on it a while back, with a bit from the developer who was chuffed to bits someone remembered and recognised what he was trying to do.
The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Forgotten Open-World Game Pioneer
What if you wanted to be part of a living sandbox world that, given the opportunity, runs independent of your involvement but will react and change according to your actions? Such a game would be y…
scanlineartifacts.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I wrote a piece on it a while back, with a bit from the developer who was chuffed to bits someone remembered and recognised what he was trying to do.
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I found an abandoned road being reclaimed by moss... and I know what makes this website cheer #Photography #MossForTheMossThrone (Nikon Z6iii)
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I found an abandoned road being reclaimed by moss... and I know what makes this website cheer #Photography #MossForTheMossThrone (Nikon Z6iii)
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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Note the subtle gradations between "cannon broadsided to smithereens (bad, disaster)" and "cannon broadsided to smithereens (awesome, on fire)"
before asking "how's that project going??" to any creative, just assume it's going like this
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Note the subtle gradations between "cannon broadsided to smithereens (bad, disaster)" and "cannon broadsided to smithereens (awesome, on fire)"
I feel like I've been hearing nothing but GTA6 GTA6 GTA6 in the gaming press for the last year, but IRL it's been crickets.
I don't know a single person who's excited to buy or play another rehash of this. Am I out of the loop? Or is this a product that everyone just thinks everyone else wants?
I don't know a single person who's excited to buy or play another rehash of this. Am I out of the loop? Or is this a product that everyone just thinks everyone else wants?
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I feel like I've been hearing nothing but GTA6 GTA6 GTA6 in the gaming press for the last year, but IRL it's been crickets.
I don't know a single person who's excited to buy or play another rehash of this. Am I out of the loop? Or is this a product that everyone just thinks everyone else wants?
I don't know a single person who's excited to buy or play another rehash of this. Am I out of the loop? Or is this a product that everyone just thinks everyone else wants?
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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A story about Covid, inflation, an industry in crisis and rekindling old friendships:
aftermath.site/board-games-au...
aftermath.site/board-games-au...
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A story about Covid, inflation, an industry in crisis and rekindling old friendships:
aftermath.site/board-games-au...
aftermath.site/board-games-au...
I draw hands by erasing them halfway through and redrawing them with EVEN MORE FINGERS
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I draw hands by erasing them halfway through and redrawing them with EVEN MORE FINGERS
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The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
Scrubbing toilets, cutting down trees, digging trenches, replacing drywall. Can't help but think I spend an awfully large chunk of my waking hours on manual labor every day for someone who's nominally a white collar desk worker
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Scrubbing toilets, cutting down trees, digging trenches, replacing drywall. Can't help but think I spend an awfully large chunk of my waking hours on manual labor every day for someone who's nominally a white collar desk worker
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my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
So I've been studying Danish vocab in case we need to move
Man is "man," solid choice, easy to remember
Woman is "queen," strong value statement
Girl is "piggy," now hold on a minute
Man is "man," solid choice, easy to remember
Woman is "queen," strong value statement
Girl is "piggy," now hold on a minute
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So I've been studying Danish vocab in case we need to move
Man is "man," solid choice, easy to remember
Woman is "queen," strong value statement
Girl is "piggy," now hold on a minute
Man is "man," solid choice, easy to remember
Woman is "queen," strong value statement
Girl is "piggy," now hold on a minute
A few weeks ago I was in Denmark dining on Michelin star meals and running into Tom Cruise and hobnobbing with elite LEGO designers and now I'm back in regular life and we've been so busy that the deep weirdness of that transition back and forth didn't hit me until just now
What even is my life
What even is my life
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A few weeks ago I was in Denmark dining on Michelin star meals and running into Tom Cruise and hobnobbing with elite LEGO designers and now I'm back in regular life and we've been so busy that the deep weirdness of that transition back and forth didn't hit me until just now
What even is my life
What even is my life
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I think there's room for nuance here. I spent decades at odds with a whole population of friends because their favorite author threw up every red flag for me. Reading his work felt like getting stuck in the head of a casually abusive sociopath.
Here's a thing that I despise: When someone is outed as an abuser, TERF, terrible human, and ppl start going "I never liked them anyway" "I never found them funny" "They never wrote good things to begin with" and seriously shut the hell up. All of that is just to position you are superior and (cont)
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think there's room for nuance here. I spent decades at odds with a whole population of friends because their favorite author threw up every red flag for me. Reading his work felt like getting stuck in the head of a casually abusive sociopath.
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.