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Senior Level Designer • Prev. The Outsiders. ⊃∪∩⪽ Awakening, Vermintide 2 CW, and [NDA] Dungeon Master stuck in a Tiny Hut - (He/him) -- https://larsholte.com

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Time travelling back to tell Dante to write in another circle of hell for people who respond to posts with copypaste from chatgpt as if they're contributing anything

11.03.2026 14:18 👍 97 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

Awesome! Nature willing we might still have good weather for a while as well 🤞 I'm dreading what April might bring

09.03.2026 11:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm sure there's tons of good technique focused videos and articles out there that can lay things out in a more methodical fashion, but if you find yourself in the Stockholm area I'd love to just chat some level design, linear and non-linear both 🔥

09.03.2026 08:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Haha, you'd need more than five of my litte one to get to that number!

09.03.2026 07:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She's gotten so big! Glad everything's well with her after getting so carried away with the ball 😅

08.03.2026 22:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's such an awful feeling, I'm so sorry Steff 💔

04.03.2026 22:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"As leaders we take responsibility, anyways here's how it wasn't our fault."

04.03.2026 22:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah yes the national security risk of 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦

04.03.2026 08:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

04.03.2026 00:38 👍 7485 🔁 1516 💬 5 📌 72
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The NYT style guide

02.03.2026 04:09 👍 8214 🔁 3319 💬 71 📌 105
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

01.03.2026 13:10 👍 10179 🔁 3610 💬 43 📌 58
Kid scratching his head with the caption; "Damn... I'm kinda tired of living through these major historical events"

Kid scratching his head with the caption; "Damn... I'm kinda tired of living through these major historical events"

01.03.2026 10:41 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

01.03.2026 01:32 👍 9639 🔁 2625 💬 25 📌 26
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

28.02.2026 17:18 👍 19207 🔁 8210 💬 44 📌 122

That said- I’m immediately looking for my next role! I am:
- remote or CA based
- 18 year veteran
- looking for principal designer, lead, manager, director roles
- love souls games, ARPGs, and MMOs
- expert systems designer, esp gear, progression, economy, skills
- easygoing, skilled communicator

28.02.2026 05:11 👍 189 🔁 94 💬 6 📌 4

So sorry to hear you were impacted by the layoffs Steven. Best of luck both with internal and external leads! Fingers crossed you find a good fit soon ✨️

28.02.2026 17:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hearing AI company CEOs excitedly telling you how "we can now all finally become managers" without blinking makes me want to pack my bags and move to the moon

27.02.2026 02:09 👍 607 🔁 67 💬 20 📌 4
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This one hits hard.

21.02.2026 22:59 👍 35635 🔁 10544 💬 779 📌 591

I'm 1000 percent sure that indie devs would be better at "marketing" if ;

--they reframed it as "showing your game to people who might like to play it"

--instead of "I'm a sleazy salesman who is trying to sell you something you don't want"

22.02.2026 10:46 👍 141 🔁 16 💬 8 📌 9

Somehow we've reached a point where only negativity is considered sincere. Sincerely being happy for people, or excited about things, or grateful for your industry peers - it's not accepted anymore.

It's become entirely Us vs. Them, and your position shifts based on how much negativity you bring.

21.02.2026 23:40 👍 189 🔁 22 💬 8 📌 2

I just want to design some levels and enable my friends to design levels. And then I'll take a nap on the couch and feel at peace for a moment.

20.02.2026 23:34 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Also feels like a lot of:
"Well if we shrink the studio to a skeleton crew, the red numbers will go black faster :)"

Some gold medal effort in mental gymnastics right there 🥇

20.02.2026 18:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

20.02.2026 13:03 👍 3145 🔁 1325 💬 50 📌 134
Survey: tell us how you're using AI
GamesIndustry.biz is running an editorial survey (with no commercial involvement) to find out how the industry is using AI, how you think it should be used, and how it should be presented to players. It's quite short, simple, and anonymous, although there's the option to give your email address if you'd like to talk more. Please note this survey is only for those working in the industry, not the general public.

You can fill out the survey here.

The survey will run until Wednesday 25 February, and we'll be reporting the results as part of a run of coverage on GamesIndustry.biz, in an effort to look past the controversy and judge the impact AI is having on how games are made and marketed.

Survey: tell us how you're using AI GamesIndustry.biz is running an editorial survey (with no commercial involvement) to find out how the industry is using AI, how you think it should be used, and how it should be presented to players. It's quite short, simple, and anonymous, although there's the option to give your email address if you'd like to talk more. Please note this survey is only for those working in the industry, not the general public. You can fill out the survey here. The survey will run until Wednesday 25 February, and we'll be reporting the results as part of a run of coverage on GamesIndustry.biz, in an effort to look past the controversy and judge the impact AI is having on how games are made and marketed.

Gi.biz have a survey up about genAI usage, you know what to do comrades

survey.alchemer.com/s3/8679343/b...

18.02.2026 17:54 👍 91 🔁 65 💬 5 📌 2
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Unity says its AI tech will soon eliminate the need for coding Company CEO Matt Bromberg claims AI will empower non-coders and seasoned developers alike.

Godot's marketing strategy for 2026: let Unity exist.

16.02.2026 17:41 👍 734 🔁 114 💬 24 📌 8

When you said Anoat City, my brain literally went "Wait was that the...?"

Reads: 𝘚𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴

Yeah, that level was truly something... 😅

15.02.2026 23:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is the most thorough evisceration of armchair game design and online gamer groupthink I've ever seen

14.02.2026 16:19 👍 239 🔁 54 💬 4 📌 0

Can only imagine a long island iced tea...

"Yeah I'll have an oz. of each bottle in your entire back bar thanks! What's that? $90 and my first born child? I guess, fine? It 𝘪𝘴 Friday after all."

13.02.2026 23:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All games are political, and the best games are even more political than that.

12.02.2026 13:16 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

new Website just dropped

10.02.2026 12:39 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0