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Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs 🐘 idlethumbs.social/@ja2ke 🕸️ rodkin.online Avatar by @michaelfirman.bsky.social
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Have been informed that Christian Riese Lassen's c. 2000 flash website is still up and fully functional on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20030210... my memories of this page have felt like a fever dream for the past 25 years, thrilled to see it's been preserved in perfect condition 🙏🏼🐬

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Mod makers rejoice: The Team Fortress 2 SDK has arrived! We've updated the Source SDK with all of TF2's client and server game code. Change, extend, or rewrite TF2, and publish them as mods on Steam. www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

Happy Presidents' Day from The Ghost of Abrajam Lincoln, an actual character concept from the unproduced N64 horror-themed basketball game Monster Dunk by Mindscape archive.gamehistory.org/item/54f8254...

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 9 days ago • 106 comments

And boom!

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

37 years ago, my brother, Rand, and I released The Manhole: our debut game. Its simple point and click interface served as the template for all our games through Riven. Why "Prolog"? We used existing consulting company for our first printing. After finding a publisher, we founded @cyan.com

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Wax House, Baby

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"I will know if you succeeded, and will await your return. Good luck with your search..." Gehn's iconic, regal crest is available as a detailed die-cast pin only at the Cyan Store. 📖⭐️🖋️ ➡️ https://store.cyan.com/products/gehns-crest-pin

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

you might feel moved when visiting the Betsy Ross museum, but don’t get carried away! They won’t even let museum employees do this activity

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

Thanks to a 13 year old YouTube comment I always think of this as “warming up your car during cold winter mornings” music m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEue...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Throwing this one out and hoping: Does anyone have a referral on a small run newspaper press? A place that runs an actual newspaper press, printing on actual newsprint, that will do relatively small jobs of just a few bundles, for eg props for a movie or play, or as a promotional item.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

A lot of you saying you love Canada now, but where were you when the Maniac Mansion tv show needed your support?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment