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Lead Designer on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet at Naughty Dog fae Dundee, Scotland. linktr.ee/michaelbarclay
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How do I get there?

I saw Ewan McGregor petting a horse in Times Square.

Prompt wankers

Lovely Cuba libre in my hand and blocking those fuuuuuuuckin Midjourney accounts with my phone in the other

Resident Evil 9 I’m here for you!

Ugh

The neon facemask has done untold damage to character design in video games

A whole lot of Games.

I need Death Stranding 2 a tremendous amount.

Braw stuff!

Cool games, I like them. I like your video games.

Becky is AMAZING, get her on your project!!

The music on that Witcher 4 demo caused me to flash forward to its release day. I have a 2L bottle of Diet Coke. I’ve taken a day off work. Im in heaven.

Got this book and it’s a mix of proper ghost stories then stuff like “a woman called Mary saw a dog walk backwards in this car park”

If your industry relies on theft for profit then that's not a business, it's just crime.

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Pure love the Costa mesa scots fest that’s kind of a ren faire but also just the cheesiest celebration of Scotland you’ve seen outside an Edinburgh gift shop.

We’re hiring designers at naughty dog. If you love the kind of games we make and want to help us keep making them please apply. Im looking for folks that have a keen sense for level design, get the fundamentals but also feel passionate about pushing the discipline forward. Cheers

hey folks, my team is looking for a Principal Producer for our (exciting!) unannounced project. I can't say anything that's not in the req, but I am very excited about this team and what it can make, so encourage you to check it out if you might be interested: careers.blizzard.com/global/en/jo...

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

What do they make after Andor? How do you top this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=waa9... Going through this pain every time you're designing levels for games set in USA.

Going to play the absolute fffffffFFFFFFUCK out of Gears of War: Reloaded

Block Out to Box Office

Producer: No one is updating their JIRA tickets

Enjoying Andors French Resistance arc.

That's me Gaming again. They call me the Gamer.

#leveldesign #gamedev

www.thibaultleblan.com/personal-work/ Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Level Designer Thibault Leblan. A fantastic resource for level designers, showing the nuts and bolts of his personal work with great documentation. (Also some cool Blocktober stuff in there too!) #leveldesign #gamedev #blocktober

Oh my god Andor

Andor episode 1 doing the full on Conspiracy summit is wild.

Me when I see a bloater

Flashbacks to when I got off a plane in LA in 2016, fresh from Scotland, jet lagged tae fuck, sweatin my arse off in the heat, got to my first day of work at Naughty Dog and sat down to hear the story of The Last of Us Part II. Absolutely loved it. Welcome aboard!

I would absolutely humiliate Timothee Chalamet at WWF No Mercy. Im targeting the leg. Figure four. Cloverleaf. Ankle lock. His momentum meter is flatlining. Limb damage in the red. He’s mashing A to recover and I’m on the top turnbuckle taunting. It’s over before he steps in the ring.

When I figured out that Blue Prince puzzle

Nearly said “that’s dope” in my group chat with my mates from Scotland and that would have been an utterly unrecoverable event.

How they get me

Prepare for Blue Prince posting.

Yeah I’m Platinum rated: Plays Like A Trash Idiot Numskull Utter Moron