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Simon Vickers

@vickersofdibley

Lead Gameplay Designer at Playdead || previously Game Director for Second Extinction, Lead Level Designer at Cloud Imperium Games

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Well that’s getting bumped right to the top of my watchlist

08.02.2026 10:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It stole my flip flop as I trod water trying to keep our security deposit on the canoe that it had just caused the capsize of

23.01.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gone fully native and watching the Disney clip show for the first time. God jul j’all πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ πŸŽ…

24.12.2025 16:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Colman Domingo, Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor what a cast

17.12.2025 08:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh hey it’s the first signs of spring.

17.10.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I enjoyed Tsushima but found it a standard OW checklist of activities wrapped in an appealing and earnest setting.
Yotei’s structure and framing feels so organic in the way it reveals content that everything feels discovered.

13.10.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Baffled by how little Ghost of Yotei has been celebrated for its order of magnitudes improvement it made over its predecessor and its open world peers when it comes to its fluid blending of storytelling and exploration

13.10.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Forza Horizon hitting the same β€˜in case of emergency: Japan’ button as Ass Creed

26.09.2025 06:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This absolutely diabolical Texas switch

26.09.2025 06:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever my code doesn’t compile I hear Eric idle’s ’that doesn’t work’

12.09.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Boyfriend (also on Netflix) is the cutest

01.09.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Game execs looking at the tech sector reporting zero returns from AI initiatives

23.08.2025 05:11 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Duolingo’s decision to fully skin their conversation practice as a random phone call baffles me (a social anxiety riddled mess)

15.08.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel this is the way with all ass creed features. Nothing ever feels expanded on in subsequent iterations. Only streamlined to the point of insignificance. Parkour, stealth, combat etc.

15.07.2025 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My dog out here FaceTiming like me mum n dad

26.06.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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VickersOfDibley’s profile VickersOfDibley uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 54 films watched. Favorites: Porco Rosso (1992), In the Mood for Love (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).

boxd.it/cp66N β€˜allo

24.06.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Eat your heart out Peter Molyneux

13.06.2025 12:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I wondered why I was getting full page gambling ads every paragraph all of a sudden…

09.06.2025 20:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The TEXTURE of it all

06.06.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They also having spinning yellow lights and go MAWP MAWP MAWP MAWP

03.06.2025 06:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Crescent County - a witch-tech delivery adventure Underground motorbroom street racing. Chaotic deliveries. Kissing on the mouth. A painterly, witch-tech, open world game.

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY

Have you heard?? We're just 8.5k away from hitting our initial funding goal!!!

Please give us a pledge if you've been thinking about it, we might be able to hit 100% within 24 hours of launch!!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

21.05.2025 08:34 πŸ‘ 352 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 10
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19.05.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I have absolutely zero regrets for this impulse purchase

19.05.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish I could say that I was, but I DO have some very good friends over there :)

14.05.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design Maybe video game level design theory needs less focus on architecture? And maybe I'm part of the problem? My bad.

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

10.05.2025 20:12 πŸ‘ 1030 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 18
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I often think about how one of the GBA Castlevanias had an amazing synergistic magic system where you combined cards to modify your moveset and one of the end game combinations is just… Gun

10.05.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Xor.

Scripting jokes!

07.05.2025 11:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am outraged by how right you are

24.04.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Specifically I'm now wondering if they are always at full mast or the unicock needs to keep emo-fringe flipping it out of their eyes

10.04.2025 07:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Mission Impossible movie or new Dumb and Dumber?

09.04.2025 10:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0