Sean Noonan

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater shipments and digital sales top two million www.gematsu.com/2026/03/meta...

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Somewhat unexpected, but I'm actually really into Marathon. First game in a while where I've been itching to get back in and have "one more go".

Although I much preferred Burton’s world, Schumacher created something really cool and unique in this one - you can feel his design school roots. Absolutely fucked it in the follow up though 😅

Yeah, it’s discovery too. Over the last couple of years I’ve been finding new bangers from the past without the need for it to have been delivered through a TV show or in slowed down form on a car advert.

Yeah, this was a regular thing with the other half and I, but it’s clear that its the end of an era - we are just left with the potato channels :(

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Aye, definitely my most played device at this point. Switch 2 is gathering dust 😅

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

Well, I mean it’s a team of 30 or so, seems silly to compare yourself to that 😅

It looks great, eh?

Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.

Yeah, not 100% certain I’ll stick with it yet, but as I’ve ditched iTunes, I won’t be using the iPhone music app anymore. Haven’t actually worked out what I’m going to do when I’m on the go…

…and I’ve moved all my stuff from iTunes over to MusicBee! Investigating FLAC like a nerd 🤓

I think it’s the thing that you would see if it wasn’t raining. Sounds like a fantasy though.

It's quite the unhinged platform. It's a shame it has a use from time to time otherwise I'd just bin it.

I'm starting to fill up my freelance calendar for next month onwards. Get in touch if you need an extremely experienced and adaptable freelance games developer.

Sorry to hear that. If you’ve got some bandwidth I could do with more concepts! 😬

Loading up that level I was looking at before the break

I'm certain the gradual enshitification of iOS is responsible for my phone use plummeting over the last decade or so. Life choices too, but the fact that just attempting to interact with that glass oblong causes frustration is a big part of it. Indirectly a good thing, I guess 😅

A Game Design Mistake I Didn't Notice Until Players Found It YouTube video by Sean Noonan

December update is up! A quiet month that ended up revealing a progression design blind spot in SENTRY #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSBj...

Sad times. Any time away from development is pain, but you've gotta do what you can, eh. Personally I would always be interested in devlogs!

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Aye, I went back to buying records a while ago. I wasn't making a stand or anything, I just wasn't using streaming enough to justify any cost. Either way, it's much more satisfying supporting artists on bandcamp or having big old records to pore over.

Game artists used to work around CRT TVs. Many techniques allowed them to reach more detailed and smooth lines. These ceased when CRT was replaced by LCD early 2010s

David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: “I’m wearing dark glasses today, because I’m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.”

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

I had a false memory that he had a fear of milk. But it’s just white? Need to watch it again 😅

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Good luck with the move!