Will Sullivan

First time coming to GDC for the full week and I’m already feeling fried

Fun fact, the Dark Angels (and their primarch) are named after a poem about repressed guilt and sin, as the author was a closeted gay man

What wondrous creatures seagulls are

Devastating

GDC talk from Valve on the state of Steam in 2026. Here are some numbers that demonstrate the size of the platform:

Eating lunch today in the gardens near a dude having a nice picnic with a book and a blanket, then he pulls out a crack pipe lmao

Mark Danielewski’s target audience

This is incredible

FWIW there’s a plugin called Blueprint Assist that takes a lot of the busywork out of node organizing… also I think that writing readable node graphs is as much a skill as writing well formatted code, but too many people don’t take it as seriously sometimes

Just saw that one as well! Loved the bit about using game pillars as a criteria to decide whether or not to cut a feature.

First day of GDC over, lots of great talks today, time to revert to a puddle in my hotel

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Celeste! Youtube speedpaint available as well

Jumpscared by gunfire audio while waiting for the BF6 talk, I’m too American for this

insanely sick demo just showed up my replies

Video game screenshot from Quake Brutalist Jam III. An underground level of a sunlit enclosed courtyard. Everything is made of concrete and hanging vines are visible.

The ground level of the same courtyard. A multi-tiered bunker-like structure with angular shapes stands in the middle, above the pit. Soldiers stand guard.

A much bleaker scene; the cavernous interior of some sort of megastructure. Bluish fog wraps around a tiered structure and hints at the forms of distant pipes. No sky is visible.

A substructure, reminiscent of a parking garage, but with unclear purpose. Short flights of stairs connect several levels lit by regularly-spaced overhead flourescent lights, and there are various sizes of blue storage containers in the background.

My map for Quake Brutalist Jam III: The Smell of Sunshine.

Everybody please go play ROUTINE good lord

Grok is so much worse than you think.

brb getting an econ degree so I can understand Victoria 3

My name is __. My zip code is __. I am calling as your constituent to express alarm at the Abrego Garcia case. Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court by not bringing Garcia back. If you allow Trump to do this, then he is unquestionably a dictator, and your job as my member of Congress is to remove him at once.

(For Reps:) I ask that you immediately introduce Articles of Impeachment in the US House, and block all other business until they are introduced.

(For Senators:) I ask that you block all business in the Senate until Articles of Impeachment are introduced in the US House, and when they pass the House I expect you to vote to impeach. Thank you.

Here's the script, folks. It's now or never.

Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find...

RTs appreciated.

Had such a great time at GDC, it's always so inspirational to meet so many other developers and designers.

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