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Cory De La Torre

@thehorsestrangler

Level Designer - Current: @gravitywell.games and @nodraw-software.bsky.social Prev: @littlekittybigcity.bsky.social @Respawn @gunfiregames.bsky.social @scraggyrascalgames SMOL bit of @valvesoftware.com

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Looks sick as hell though!

29.01.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm with you there, everything should be on Source. Shit works!

26.01.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Got a chance to check out Highguard the other day and when I realized it was basically plant the bomb mixed with capture the flag and a lil bit of BR, I was like aojdoliahsdlihuaslikdhualksjhdlkajsdlkjasd

Incredible. Such a cool mix of OG fundamental FPS modes with a blend of modern flavor.

26.01.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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playing at 640x480 as the lord intended

25.01.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter added the ability to modify posted art/images via a button named "edit via ai" auto embedded onto anything that's an image. It's a not a feature the poster can choose to enable/disable either.

It sucks just about as much as it sounds.

03.01.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard over his shoulder ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard over his shoulder
11.12.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats Cara!

25.11.2025 22:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Holy moly, Ghost Town has been nominated for Best VR/AR Game at #TheGameAwards!

#VR #GhostTown #VRgames

17.11.2025 19:26 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
emoji of two simple pares of legs facing eachother with big butts

emoji of two simple pares of legs facing eachother with big butts

the emoji of two people hugging over the emoji of the legs. It makes the people hugging look like they have giant bottoms

the emoji of two people hugging over the emoji of the legs. It makes the people hugging look like they have giant bottoms

hi i made this for discord if you want it it only works on pc and android

01.11.2025 23:47 πŸ‘ 5027 πŸ” 1534 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 21
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After about 3 days of work, I got DLSS to work on NVK (the open source NVIDIA driver in Mesa)! πŸŽ‰

DLSS is essentially just some launched Cuda kernels, so it was just a matter of implementing the VK_NVX_binary_import and VK_NVX_image_view_handle extensions.

1/5

(Control, 960x540 -> 1920x1080)

14.10.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 360 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
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Save 25% on Project Silverfish on Steam Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

Project Silverfish and ADACA are both on sale during Steam's Autumn Sale!

Silverfish: store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/...

ADACA:
store.steampowered.com/app/1765780/...

#sale #steam #discount #gaming #games

29.09.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 201 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 12
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Saudi Arabia & Other Investors Nearing $50 Billion Deal To Buy EA The massive deal might be announced officially as soon as next week according to sources with knowledge of the situation

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes?

EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep.

Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like?

EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick.

kotaku.com/report-saudi...

26.09.2025 19:55 πŸ‘ 2145 πŸ” 717 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 173

This was legit the first thing I did - assuming I could use him to coop with my wife. Bruh, like, no one else I know who has played the game thought he was for co-op mode.

17.08.2025 01:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

:C

10.08.2025 07:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

BF6 feels like classic bf, even down to some of the weird gotchas like shooting a rocket directly at your feet and it doing nothing at all. I swear that bug has been in the engine since at LEAST battlefield 3..... Maybe even BC.

Very fun but LD is... not that great.

10.08.2025 04:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

And then the game CRASHES WHILE IM WAITING IN LINE. HOW?!? HOW!?

10.08.2025 03:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bro what da Helly

10.08.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Gravity Well

Exciting news! ✨ We're growing our team and have 3 new openings for talented folks in the Design and UI/UX spaces. If you're passionate about making amazing player experiences, come join us!

Check out our open roles here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/

01.08.2025 21:58 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5
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COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

01.08.2025 12:06 πŸ‘ 24717 πŸ” 8075 πŸ’¬ 752 πŸ“Œ 720
Heartworm | Available Now!
Heartworm | Available Now! YouTube video by DreadXP

Heartworm is OUT NOW!

@adinolfi.bsky.social's love letter to the golden age of low-poly survival horror.

Will you be able to connect with your grandfather one last time, or will you succumb to the horrors locked away in the mountains?
youtu.be/dJV_k4JmTWI

31.07.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

I think the president just plainly stating that he's firing the person who produces economic data because he doesn't like the numbers officially pushes us into a new era where you just can't believe government data anymore.

01.08.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 1270 πŸ” 247 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 33
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

19.02.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 9717 πŸ” 3164 πŸ’¬ 156 πŸ“Œ 350

Depends on the specific context again, but those are rounds/stages so not layout.

Are tetris stages level design?

15.07.2025 18:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting question. My thoughts are that it would not be level design. Depends on the context, but if I were asked to simply provide 'a space' to play in and it has zero requirements to facilitate the game loop other than "player can walk/float around" I would consider that more Art than design

15.07.2025 01:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Deep dive into Skin Deep's enemy brains 🧠:
blendogames.com/news/post/20...

07.07.2025 19:48 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
We want to address recent reports regarding the status of Romero Games. These reports have contained inaccuracies, and we feel it's important to set the record straight.
β€’ The funding for our project was pulled, and our game was canceled.
β€’ Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information.
β€’ As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio.
β€’ Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team.
β€’ We've been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we're currently evaluating those opportunities.
We appreciate the outpouring of support and will share further updates as we are able.
Romero Games

We want to address recent reports regarding the status of Romero Games. These reports have contained inaccuracies, and we feel it's important to set the record straight. β€’ The funding for our project was pulled, and our game was canceled. β€’ Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information. β€’ As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio. β€’ Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team. β€’ We've been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we're currently evaluating those opportunities. We appreciate the outpouring of support and will share further updates as we are able. Romero Games

Update (July 7, 2025)

07.07.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 4125 πŸ” 1017 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 96
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I told you we’d be back

12.06.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 42808 πŸ” 12645 πŸ’¬ 1563 πŸ“Œ 5135

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.

These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

07.06.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 15076 πŸ” 3779 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 145

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

07.06.2025 22:02 πŸ‘ 16549 πŸ” 3171 πŸ’¬ 234 πŸ“Œ 83
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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

07.06.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 44777 πŸ” 11914 πŸ’¬ 1101 πŸ“Œ 1749