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Gameplay Programmer @ High Voltage Software. GDC CA. D&D DM. Always learning and improving. #UE5 #GameDev

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Pam Bondi
For @rawstory.com
Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

12.02.2026 18:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1191 ๐Ÿ” 524 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42 ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
Key art for Rush Boss: CurseRime showing a black cartoon blob with white eyes and a sword standing below the number 20 and above the title of the game

Key art for Rush Boss: CurseRime showing a black cartoon blob with white eyes and a sword standing below the number 20 and above the title of the game

Here's my entry for the 20 Second Game Jam @20secondgamejam.bsky.social, Rush Boss: CurseRime!

It's a Silksong-style bite-sized boss rush - can you beat the boss in 20 seconds? Give it a go!

calamitynolan.itch.io/rush-boss-2

16.12.2025 14:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I have really not been present here at all recently ๐Ÿ˜…

I need to do something about that. I'm hoping to make a concerted effort to start getting back into the NYC indie scene this year. It's been too long.

11.12.2025 16:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Layoffs at Launch: that's game dev.

29.10.2025 17:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 179 ๐Ÿ” 47 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I am really enjoying Blue Prince, and I think it's a great game, but one thing that's keeping me from calling it an amazing game is the level of RNG. You can go an entire run without being offered a lever, making it literally impossible to win.

28.07.2025 12:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I will literally never forget playing Brutal Legend and losing my shit when Ozzy and Lemmy showed up.

22.07.2025 18:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

Rest in peace to the OG ๐Ÿ˜ญ

news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

22.07.2025 18:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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God, this took a while

17.05.2025 04:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats on the release. Can't wait to play it

27.03.2025 14:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ROSEWATER IS OUT!

A Wild West adventure about friendship, storytelling, and found family.

It's been a journey making this game. I sincerely hope you enjoy it. ๐Ÿค ๐ŸŒต

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/rose...

27.03.2025 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 816 ๐Ÿ” 342 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71 ๐Ÿ“Œ 78
Harley looks worried

Harley looks worried

My face when I realize ROSEWATER launches TOMORROW

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

26.03.2025 11:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 99 ๐Ÿ” 25 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€

26.03.2025 12:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great stuff Jeff ๐Ÿค˜

21.03.2025 16:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm still so excited about this song, now with video!

Thank you to all of you who have shared kind words, I'm glad people have been enjoying listening to it as much as I did helping out with it.

21.03.2025 16:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Loving Monster Hunter Wilds so far

21.03.2025 16:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Getdafuqouttahea

23.02.2025 20:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

State of the games industry:
- Make a shitty game -> get fired.
- Make a successful game -> get fired.

18.02.2025 19:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What is happening in games when the biggest live-service game launch in at least a year results in layoffs.

18.02.2025 19:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I recently made a post with an example of creating holes, with a link to "80 Level" and about digging a hole game. Here is another example of mine with a laser. Unreal Engine 5, Geometry Script plugin, Generated Dynamic Mesh Actor #gamedev #indiedev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

17.02.2025 13:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman holding an ice cream cone with the words " cause i 'm a singer " next to her Alt: A GIF from Sabrina Carpenterโ€™s music video for the song โ€œEspresso.โ€ She looks up at the camera and sings, โ€œIโ€™m working late cause Iโ€™m a singer.โ€

Looking for work again due to unforeseen circumstancesโ€”reposts appreciated!

Some quick facts:
๐Ÿ“ˆ Indie game marketing wiz with 7+ years of XP on games like Bear and Breakfast, In Stars and Time, and more
๐Ÿ’ผ Portfolio at litvac.com
๐ŸŽฎ Open to indie and AA/AAA
๐ŸŒŽ Based in New York, open to US relo

28.01.2025 14:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 270 ๐Ÿ” 212 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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We are living in a dangerous and unprecedented moment in American history. Iโ€™m getting a lot of calls from people who are wondering how we best go forward. Here are my thoughts: TikTok video by Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders posts an 8-min video that explains whatโ€™s happening, steps for short term strategies, and steps for longer term stuff.

One example: he reminds folks the GOP has four vote majority. They are weak. He suggests calling your reps. Be mad It works.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YLQGLu/

01.02.2025 23:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1658 ๐Ÿ” 804 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

DOOM looks like it would be a really fun game to work on

23.01.2025 18:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

God of War live service game?

18.01.2025 03:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

BZZZT is a great name and the game looks absolutely beautiful

09.01.2025 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What's up fellow CAs ๐Ÿ˜…

08.01.2025 00:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Jeff Penny - Available for Music Commissions!
Jeff Penny - Available for Music Commissions! YouTube video by Jeff Penny

I have some availability coming up soon to work on music. I'd love to find some cool new projects to help bring to life, so please feel free to reach out if you like what you hear (or just have questions)!

In addition to games, would love to work on animation and streams too!

youtu.be/rGJYzXPT5Os

06.01.2025 23:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Announcing my new chrome extension, in the millennials/snake-people tradition, to fix one of the major aesthetic liabilities on the internet right now: "I asked ChatGPT" phrases in posts and headlines. Join me and free yourself by installing My Stupid Friend chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-st...

06.01.2025 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 632 ๐Ÿ” 211 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
The bottom line is that if public health had stopped lying years ago and had been honest about the costs, and if public health had realized what the correct approach is, which is to slow evolution down, then we would have been in a situation today where public health was treating COVID as a disease that needs to be suppressed.
The whole canard from day one was that we would never eliminate or eradicate it, so, let's let it spread as widely as possible. "Learn to live with it," for other diseases doesn't mean the same thing as we have applied to COVID. When we say we must learn to live with leprosy, we don't mean let's make sure everybody has leprosy. When we say we must learn to live with malaria, we don't mean let's make sure everyone gets malaria as often as possible, let's keep mosquitoes lurking in our tanks outside our house. No one says you must learn to live with tuberculosis. Let's let it spread as much as possible and see how that goes.
No, we suppress those diseases every step along the way. We suppress dengue. We suppress tuberculosis.
This whole idea that learning to live with the disease means permitting and encouraging its rampant spread and rapid evolution is just so many levels of stupidity that I don't have a word for it.

The bottom line is that if public health had stopped lying years ago and had been honest about the costs, and if public health had realized what the correct approach is, which is to slow evolution down, then we would have been in a situation today where public health was treating COVID as a disease that needs to be suppressed. The whole canard from day one was that we would never eliminate or eradicate it, so, let's let it spread as widely as possible. "Learn to live with it," for other diseases doesn't mean the same thing as we have applied to COVID. When we say we must learn to live with leprosy, we don't mean let's make sure everybody has leprosy. When we say we must learn to live with malaria, we don't mean let's make sure everyone gets malaria as often as possible, let's keep mosquitoes lurking in our tanks outside our house. No one says you must learn to live with tuberculosis. Let's let it spread as much as possible and see how that goes. No, we suppress those diseases every step along the way. We suppress dengue. We suppress tuberculosis. This whole idea that learning to live with the disease means permitting and encouraging its rampant spread and rapid evolution is just so many levels of stupidity that I don't have a word for it.

God damn GOD DAMN!! Man this interview is a breath of fresh air.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

#S0Pol

05.01.2025 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1262 ๐Ÿ” 493 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

AGDQ week, let's goooo

05.01.2025 18:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Agreed. GDC is prohibitively expensive. If you really want to go, have a goal: networking is a great one.

Iโ€™m honestly at the point where I wonโ€™t be going unless I get into the CA program again. Itโ€™s just too expensive for me.

02.01.2025 23:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0