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Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.

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That's actually really helpful. Tell your dad thanks for me!

27.01.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing cool like dark lights in Obra Dinn, just standard direct light casting. I think there was a period in the 2010's when some games used small dark lights for fake ambient shadows on characters. Not casting afaik though.

27.01.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

<3

27.01.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! I tried to set up a slightly ungated endgame where it was the player's choice to struggle through filling out the entire book. Less blame for me :)

27.01.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

27.01.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, as long as the mod doesn't contain any copyrighted stuff or imply that it's official/supported. Thanks for asking. How does the game feel in VR with this? Was always suspecting that a gently rocking boat is asking for trouble in VR and everything would need a rework.

27.01.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Uh oh. Thanks for letting me know. Fart probs are top priority. Do you remember how this happened or if it's reproducible? Had a poke around the code and mess.lua:1943 is just the comment "-- too much dirt". So biting and topical, no choice but to crash.

27.01.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, she gave _you_ a presentation for _her_ birthday? Gonna run this idea by my kids.

12.11.2025 02:14 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible work! A+ full marks. Especially love the directed graph of deaths. I had the game outputting something similar during development for debugging.

12.11.2025 02:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Animation - Return of the Obra Dinn
Animation - Return of the Obra Dinn YouTube video by Noradora

* SPOILERS FOR OBRA DINN *

youtu.be/jKhZ8plImLY

Check out this amazing pencil-drawn animation for Obra Dinn by Nora McIntyre @noradora.bsky.social . Recaps the game brilliantly in 3rd person. Beautifully done, thank you Nora!

* SPOILERS FOR OBRA DINN *

24.10.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Layers, this one has. I'm assuming the album scam came first, then it trickled down to the wiki.

23.10.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just lovely. Thank you for the details!

23.10.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I guess it's a TuneCore + Spotify specific scam. Thanks for checking.

23.10.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now that’s weird because I’ve also talked to TuneCore support and they’ve pitched this as a Spotify problem. Thanks for the info, I’ll drag it up with them again.

23.10.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t write β€œGosling Drives” and I have no idea who did. Why is it listed on my Spotify artist page you ask? Great question. If anyone knows what kind of scam this is, or why Spotify won’t remove it after multiple requests, I’m all ears.

23.10.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

21.10.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Tom :)

21.10.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It will take some serious effort to stay awake under those conditions. The soft music, droning voice. No chance.

21.10.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That looks great! Bex nailed it.

21.10.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Robin!

21.10.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

<3

21.10.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

21.10.2025 17:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
TIGSource - November 2012 (32 posts) #1 November 14, 2012 11:06 PM Papers, Please Β» Release info in the announcement post here Β« Old Stuff Ever taken an international flight to a foreign country and felt nervous passing through the immig...

Hah, I never noticed that :) Just a coincidence though!

Wens' face is a random combination of features:
dukope.com/devlogs/pape...

Roderick was painted with this fellow as reference:
3909.co/dev/od/img/R...

21.10.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, β€ͺHΓ©lΓ¨ne!

21.10.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! Sorry, no immediate plans for another platform but I'll think about it.

21.10.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's over 2.5 hours long so expect to get real damn sick of my voice.

21.10.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse
Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse YouTube video by Lucas Pope

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week.

For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018:

youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

21.10.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 1097 πŸ” 324 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 30

Thanks wiedo!

23.03.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

<3

20.03.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Sam!

20.03.2025 06:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0