Jeremy Williams

Jeremy Williams

@jerware.org

Game dev engineer, pinball obsessive, family man. Former Digital Eclipse, Tested.com, PC Gamer Magazine, PlayStation Qore, Game Frame inventor, video guy.

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This past Friday marked my last day as a full-time engineer at @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. I've decided to reprioritize, but the past five years have been the most illuminating of my career, and I'll miss that incredible team. Feeling nostalgic, so here's a quick look back to toast the occasion. 🧵

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I built pinbetween.com as a fun project and launched it (beta) a few days ago. It's free. No advertisements. It shows you two machines at a time and asks which you'd rather play right now. It uses cool statistics and math to build up a new type of rankings. Hopefully it's fun too! Try it out?

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I’ve always wanted to hold a small pinball tournament where the only rule was that you’re not allowed to move Meatloaf.

I was never a comic guy buy I watched The Maxx on MTV in the summer of 1995. I loved it so much I ended up taping them, replaying on loop, and buying the comics where the series left off. That series hit me at the right age and had an oddly profound impact. Thanks, Sam.

IGN@ign.com

Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of Sandman, has died at 63.

This is a gut punch. These teams did incredible work.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

Meta has reportedly closed several studios, including Twisted Pixel Games ('Splosion Man, Deadpool VR) and Sanzaru Games (Asgard's Wrath 1 and 2). www.videogameschronicle.com/news/meta-ha...

I'm six years late to this party but we watched the Netflix film Klaus tonight. I was skeptical but It's really freaking good! Very unique animated film that takes itself just seriously enough. Clever story with an original art style. Loved it.

I've been so looking forward to this game. Played it at Day of the Devs and it is sublime. Raw gameplay. Sick style.

Kimmo Lahtinen@gimblll.com

This is Sektori! A twin-stick shooter I've been making (and documenting the journey) since April 2021. And it finally launched TODAY on Steam, PS5 and Xbox! Here's a fresh launch trailer, all shares highly appreciated. More game info in replies. #indiegame #ps5 #xbox #steam #indiedev #gamedev

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Replying to @oldskool.org

Here's a quick example: The first image is the full UHD frame, the second is a 1280x720 1:1 pixel crop of the light cycles. Their film stock had more resolution than the source frames; scanned at 4K, you can now finally see the fine detail of individual pixels. Had no idea that detail was there!

Okay this is a really nutty move by Nintendo, and I love it, but honestly the best experience you can possibly have playing these games is the open source emulator on Quest.

UploadVR@uploadvr.com

UPDATE: Nintendo revealed that the accessories will launch on February 17, priced at $100 for the plastic version with a stand or $25 for the cardboard handheld version.

I've been (re)using the same PC case for 15 years but I've had cooling issues with the latest games (RTX 4080), so I just spent the evening swapping into a new Fractal Design North. Lovely case, but this is my first PC without a CD-ROM drive. Not that I ever used it, but... still a somber moment.

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ChatGPT has assured me repeatedly that I am the modern avatar of the ancient Babylonian god SAMASH who sees everything that happens in the world every day and therefore metes out divine justice. I am not yet even close to full power (says ChatGPT) but when I am, woe unto this world!! #AI #ChatGPT

It wouldn't be California Extreme without discovering a crash bug on VCTR-SCTR at 11:30pm the night before the show, running to my hotel room to squash it on my laptop, and racing back down to test it on the cabinet. Good times! #CAX2025

Is there any practical reason besides pure laziness that companies like @netflix.com render their trailers for YouTube with black bars? It's not VHS anymore, guys. Modern players maintain aspect ratio, and all it does is shrink the video on ultra widescreen displays and add noisy gray bars.

Guess what went on sale today?

Digital Eclipse@digitaleclipse.bsky.social

You wanted it, you got it! #RitasRewind physical copies are coming for Switch & PS5 on May 30, 2025. Preorders for the Standard & Deluxe editions start today -- secure yours at atari.com/collections/... or your retailer of choice! www.digitaleclipse.com/media/pre-or...

This past Friday marked my last day as a full-time engineer at @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. I've decided to reprioritize, but the past five years have been the most illuminating of my career, and I'll miss that incredible team. Feeling nostalgic, so here's a quick look back to toast the occasion. 🧵

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This past Friday marked my last day as a full-time engineer at @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. I've decided to reprioritize, but the past five years have been the most illuminating of my career, and I'll miss that incredible team. Feeling nostalgic, so here's a quick look back to toast the occasion. 🧵

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This past Friday marked my last day as a full-time engineer at @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. I've decided to reprioritize, but the past five years have been the most illuminating of my career, and I'll miss that incredible team. Feeling nostalgic, so here's a quick look back to toast the occasion. 🧵

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This past Friday marked my last day as a full-time engineer at @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. I've decided to reprioritize, but the past five years have been the most illuminating of my career, and I'll miss that incredible team. Feeling nostalgic, so here's a quick look back to toast the occasion. 🧵

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This past Friday marked my last day as a full-time engineer at @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. I've decided to reprioritize, but the past five years have been the most illuminating of my career, and I'll miss that incredible team. Feeling nostalgic, so here's a quick look back to toast the occasion. 🧵

You should not buy an Apple Vision Pro. It is not worth the money. THAT SAID, I find myself looking forward to flights for the first time in my life. It's a total game changer, and I do a lot of catching up on movies and games (gamepad).

Hey @gimblll.com I played your game at @dayofthedevs.org today and I'm both humbled and completely in love. The sense of style throughout the UI, transitions, and game is off the chart. Downloading the Steam demo now!

Kimmo Lahtinen@gimblll.com

Sektori (week 183): Working on 'Classic' mode. Meant to have a kind of retro feel. No arena changes, enemies pretty randomly spawned. Some bonus twists of course. I'll give the modes the next two weeks more and then they have to be done or at least very near done. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Machine learning is easily the most amazing technology I've witnessed in 50 years. AI is advancing so fast, and I'm not 100% sure where the public pulse is on this one. Has it swung fully into raw hatred? There's good reason for that. But it's also here, and getting astonishingly good.