Ally Avalon

game dev is cool and all, but talking this much made me wake up as a tenor

now I'm just vibing in my hotel room singing low notes
#gdc

I've overheard (and been in) 5+ conversations of people wishing AAA would make smaller/more interesting games #GDC

but my game is every game genre at the same time, that's a totally normal scope, right?

A GDC-relevant PSA:

Kiki’s Delivery Service is screening in 4K on the IMAX screen in Metreon next door on Thursday and Friday, and that TMNT II is also playing there on Friday. Go forth.

Photograph of a forest with a clear blue rocky river and golden light

Sprained my ankle on a hike yesterday, gonna be an interesting GDC next week 😅

Was v pretty tho 💚

that's so real, I'm still often like "I'm not partially blind, so nbd," though I'm trying to go easier on myself and rest more often.

Glad you were productive, hope you can have some productive rest and feel better, too!

kinda depends on if you want variants and a textmark and stuff! mine start at $450 usd for iteration to a single variant

An image showing the titles of nine games that I've worked on. Includes Subnautica: Below Zero, Dead Secret, FTL, The Darkside Detective, Subnautica 2, Gravity Ghost, Into the Breach, Photographs, and Generation Exile.

I have some room in my schedule so I'm looking for new soundtrack projects! I've been making music for games professionally for 15 years now. I'm open to almost any kind of game, but I'm looking for something more narrative or horror focused. Check out my work at

www.benpruntymusic.com

A screenshot of the Layers sub-window in a Photoshop document. It contains a layer called "Layer 5103" and multiple copies of "Layer 5903" after some color-coded column groups. These layer names suggest that over 5,000 layers have been created while working on this file.

how did i get here, i blacked out
#gamedev #photoshop

I didn't know DARE was also preparing me to "just say no" to cold plunges. The peer pressure is intense. 🥶❌

A digital drawing of two silly cartoony cats hugging. The left one is bright red, the right one is bright green.

I was poking my colorblind partner about how distinguishable two swatches were, and they noticed the swatches looked kinda like cats. So I made them cats!
#doodle

The screenwriter of my fav star wars movie once tweeted that he liked the soundtrack to my game (full credit to @visager.bsky.social for being an incredible musician) and I never took a screenshot before the site exploded because I am a fool.
#gamedev

What if every rapture has been legit and just nobody has been eligible?

Heck yes, gotta love my fav artist using my fav color palette 💚🧡

it took me less than an hour to add randomized spawning because of this.

I gotta keep it up with the comments

omg, I was dreading revisiting some code I did ages ago, and I finally did it and it's FULLY COMMENTED. thank you so much, past me.

#gamedev

But fr, the spiders are pretty chill

I like to simplify the seasons to
Ants
"Someone tell the birds it's only 5AM"
Spiders
Dark

I'm probably a weirdo because I'm taking an intro interior design class, and each time they assign a documentary I'm like "no, please, just make me read a 20 page essay, pleeeeaaase 🫠"

just refreshed my personal logo, pretty hyped about it

pebble says it's time to stop pattern drafting and to pet her instead

Screenshot of Blender window with a "Not Responding" notification

I was told switching from Maya would free me of this curse 🙃

#gamedev

that looks absolute vibes

An airplane tray table with a half complete watercolor painting of a park, a messy watercolor kit, and a cup of green water.

Did a lil watercoloring on my flight to Boston

btw friends, I'm lurking in Boston this week, say hey if you're around

why do the Internet algorithms know everything about me except that I really don't wanna see mother's day ads?

mother's day is my birthday, lemme be motherless and childless in peace.

for real. I spent half a week setting up Perforce for UE5 with AWS on my solo project just so my sibling could try out some stuff.

okay so, only tangentially related, this reminded me of that the AMV that went the hardest I've ever seen is still a cut of Princess Tutu to Hal Om Mig Nu. Made me actually watch that anime

hahaha, tbh this is not the first time this has happened to me

I'm like "All my friends are game devs, I wanna diversify my friend group," so I go to a gym event and make a new friend. Turns out they're a game dev, haha.

I literally finished a craft project last night and already I've thought of another craft I haven't tried that I wanna give a go.

I want to make a wire flower lantern, but I want to make a huge one and put it above my living room area