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jamesbutlin.bsky.social
Lead Programmer @FuturLab working on PowerWash Simulator 2 💦. Previously worked on PWS VR 💧, on a mental health & wellbeing study in PWS 1 with Oxford University 🧑‍🔬 and on Onward (VR) 🔫 Opinions are my own. He/Him
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This looks really fun! 😁

Our dive is next Friday and we're just under halfway to our goal for donations! If you haven't already, please leave a donation to support this incredibly cause! 😁 There may even be a cheeky video of my dive afterwards. 😌🪂✈️

New (and first) piece for The Guardian! I went hands-on with the ROG Xbox Ally X! www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

it's been a year since we announced our game fund @outersloth.com!!! wrote a lil transparent reflection, including tidbits like: ✨ signing rate is 1.4% ✨ majority of our games are <$500k ✨ total games funded so far: 22!! in my feels! chuffed! happy! emotional! 🥺 www.innersloth.com/1-year-of-ou...

Can someone tell the TV manufacturers that no, we in fact don't want to pay extra to have AI on our TVs? 🤦‍♂️ Honestly at this point I would much rather pay less and get a 'dumb' OLED TV and be able to choose my own OS for it.

Aphelion (from Dontnod) coming 2026

bring me more C̷̯͙̥̹̞̗̋͊̋̋̔̋͜ͅȖ̴̢̪̞̲̮͇̓̏̽B̵̡̢͕̙̳͙͓͍̣̝̅Ę̶̱̰̯̰͕͌͂̐̒Ş̵̪̹͍̲̜̜̫̣̹͌̒ #gameart #gamedev

Been working on this the past couple years, so excited it's finally announced! Can't wait for people to see more of Keeper!

I am absolutely blown away by the games showed off across the not e3 showcases this weekend - some I really can't wait to play! Indie scene STRONG! 😍🤩✨

Holy fucking shittttt I am HYPED. youtu.be/eyXGm8JCBrk?...

People and media often say Balatro was made by 'one guy'. I feel like that unfortunately may be stoking the flames of this David vs. Goliath narrative a tiny bit No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits

What might this smell like? Wrong answers only 🤔 videocardz.com/newz/zotac-l...

End of Abyss coming 2026

Love thissss, such a fun concept!

Bluesky, and to a degree Mastodon, are the only platforms I get ANY traction, clicks, donations, views, sales, you name it from. 100 likes and 10 people buy vs 100000 likes and no one buys. idk man. Your pick.

I think Americans really needed that tbh.. A good laugh at the expense of the corrupt assholes trying to gouge their country is always nice. 😌✨

Who could have predicted that aligning with a petty, racist, tinfoil-hat wearing, narcissistic, drug-fueled, reason-impaired idiot manchild with a massive demented cultlike following could blow up in your face and the fun part of that sentence is you don't know which of the two I'm referring to.

I don’t think dunking on most people is a good thing. But when it comes to the most powerful evil terrible people in the world, it’s cathartic. We deserve a little treat once in awhile.

Please tune in. Thank you.

Anyway

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

Cozy #PitchYaGame unite! The Regreening is a cozy nature-restoration game about healing🌾 🌱grow living ecosystems 🦉become friends with ancient spirits 🔥 share stories by the bonfire 💧 engineer water & land to make nature thrive 🌿 watch the world bloom again Follow us so you don't miss the demo!

UK as well please, we mix and match depending on context and it's not ok 🫠

I’m just enjoying the heck out of these Mario Kart World input animations. 🙏

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.

Deathloop is currently free on EGS until 12th June! Amaaazing game and worth playing if you haven't! Has Arkane Studios' specific flavour of gameplay for sure 🙂‍↕️ store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deat...

Videos like this are why I chose to support SpecialEffect without a moment's hesitation! 🥹🥹🥹 youtu.be/bcs9WTYboWo?...

I'm very proud to announce that I've organised a charity skydive to raise funds for @specialeffect.org.uk! Such a lovely cause and well worth a donation, so please give generously! Me and a few colleagues will be getting booted out of a plane on 20th June! ✈️🪂✨

wasn’t aware of this factor. What percentage of the current mass layoffs can be directly attributed to this short sighted destructive and totally self-serving policy? The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs qz.com/tech-layoffs...

What are we even doing here? If you can't take the time to write something, why should I read it. If you can't time to make a movie, why should I watch it? If you can't take the time to design a game with intention, why the eff would I ever waste my time booting it up?

"This....is my BOOM STICK!"

Forever grateful for my ongoing partnership with @giantsquidstudios.com and @mattnava.bsky.social - I adore this game and am lucky to be part of it. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 See you August 19!!