Valentine Kozin

Now this place is teeming with game devs, I should probably pin a post with my actual work. I don't post actual gamedev stuff that much, but the best place to start with is my SIGGRAPH presentation on the Tech Art of Sea of Thieves (second video at the bottom of the page) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Halo Jones was so formative, in so many ways. The different drummers! The rat-king as biological warfare! The dangers of AI robo-dogs!

President for Life of the entire world. It took me a little while to grow out of my tyrannical despot ambitions 😅

Hey there friends! Unfortunately, I was among those impacted by layoffs at Heart Machine last week. If you or someone you know is looking for an experienced Unreal Engine Technical Artist, I'm available for full time, part time, or contract opportunities.

I am part of this round of layoffs and am seeking new opportunities. If your team needs a narrative director / storyteller, please reach out.

Playing around with HDR grading and YouTube videos - interested in what folk think of this format! Want to try and get more into the habit of doing YT videos, so easing myself in a bit with this one. Feels a bit cringe and clickbaity, but maybe a chill watch? 🫣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJz2...

Got to snap some very cool film photos at Voidspace live last weekend with @bintymadger.bsky.social! Had an absolute blast with some of these installations, many thanks to @voidspacezine.bsky.social for the fabulous show!

Still my absolute fav 💖🥰

Wondering what to do in a British bank holiday? Take the time to apply! OPPORTUNITY - Lead Narrative Designer - EA - Battlefield - Hybrid - UK Absolutely affiliated (a chance to work together!). Shares very welcome! jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

Sitting on the duck of the bay, And it goes quack cause of how much I weigh

Is there a term for the opposite of Redundant Acronym Syndrome (e.g. PIN number etc.) to describe where the word feels redundant but actually isn't? Any time I talk about Unreal's Material Parameter Collections and have to say 'MPC Parameter' it feels wrong in a RAS way, but is technically correct.

why did obama leave a baseball on the oval office desk

Streeting has a full review into diagnosis of ADHD and Autism that shows there is no overdiagnosis. But he’s commissioned another in the hope of getting a result that lets him strip people of healthcare. Please consider signing this petition against it: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

So this is good, right? 🤔 What's My JND? 0.0032 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too. Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

Every time that a game has ambitions to be the next Doom, WoW, Apex, etc. I'm always reminded of Douglas Adams talking about how he wanted to be a member of Monty Python when he was younger. Cleese, specifically, and didn't really understand that the role was already taken until he was much older.

Love the classification as a "space western".

Oh my god it wasn't even close 💚

TIL Orient Express makes yachts and lets you book voyages on them like cruises. This is going to get real weird real fast if they start doing cruises down the Nile and someone gets murdered.

I accidentally installed both Avowed and Unavowed on my computer and now both games are gone.

I often think about how @christinelove.bsky.social's Hate Plus depicted the Mugunghwa's frustrating and dumb slide into patriarchal authoritarianism and man is the real world so much stupider than that

Horseradish 100% 🙏

Sing us a song, you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight I play the piano, it's in the name Why would you think that I sing?

Henry’s marvelous medieval adventures redefine the meaning of ‘immersion’

Having a hell of a good time with Seance of Blake Manor 😊 We should be so lucky as to have both Blue Prince and Blake Manor come out within the same year.

I've just found out which Babylonian god people prayed to to get up early in the morning - Ninurta! 'To do business at the quay where traffic rushes swiftly by, You, O unrivalled king of the world, rouse at daybreak him who else would not rise.' From www.ebl.lmu.de/corpus/L/3/1...

Too Far Left Off The Visible Spectrum

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Strange Horticulture was the cosiest puzzle game that was enormously fun, and Strange Antiquities is the perfect follow-up. Getting close to the end now and thoroughly enjoying it.

Every time there's a cabinet reshuffle, I just really want someone to make a deck builder game based on parliamentary politics where you can literally reshuffle your deck and draw a new cabinet as a mechanic.

This is very good.

the reason I’ve been so vocal about the water use of AI thing is that the most commonly cited stuff saying it’s bad doesn’t add up & I think it’s important to be accurate about the negative impacts of this tech. if 1/3 of your cited issues are wrong, an informed listener may doubt the remaining 2.