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🌆 Solo Dev on #LongGoneGame 🏙️ freelance Concept Artist (Prev: @UbisoftMTL , Framestore, JumpButton) 日本語ちょっと大丈夫 #UTFT

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#PrayForJapan Imagine seeing these old images reposted hundreds of thousands of times while you have loved ones worried about you, or worse, you're there and you're freaking out at what isnt coming. Seriously, just stop reposting them.
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I think I've gotten my head around dynamic cutscenes in Unity. Lots of back end stuff was figured out like turning off UI elements, removing player input, moving the player to the right location to start the Cutscene, movie bars etc. ONWARDS! #LongGoneGame #IndieGameDev #indiedev
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Took a break from gutting a UI script and worked on a new sprite shader to recieve shadows. ...back to UI coding. -_-; #LongGoneGame #IndieGameDev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
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Spent way too long making turn animations to make it look like he’s changing direction. But, well; there it is. #longGoneGame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #animation #indiegame
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I had a few really serious #VaccineSideEffects actually. 1) Not dying. 2) Not passing Covid on to someone else for them to die. 3) being able to go outside. 4) having peace of mind. 5) loosing sympathy for antivaxxers. I'm still trying to assess if it was really worth it!
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Progress on the opening cutscene. Pro-tip; Baseball players are great reference for run and slide animations. #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev #Zombie #LongGoneGame #GameDev #solodev #animation
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Block-in is done. Just need to detail it and clean it up. Feeling pretty good about it though, I was nervous about getting this one done because of its complexity. #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev #Running #LongGoneGame #GameDev #solodev #animation #indieDev #PixelArt #Unity
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Dialogue system is in. Jokes will be a plenty. Here’s a taste: #LongGoneGame 🎒🧟 #gamedev #indiegamedev #pixelart #animation #madeinunity
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Remaking all my UI because I've lost my mind.
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It’s been a busy couple of days but I just got to plugging in the item inspection/pickup which detects if the player is in front or behind an item. Having x-axis movement is more work but looks cool. #LongGoneGame #indiedev #gamedev #IndieGameDev #pixelart #madewithunity
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It's my first ever #WishlistWednesday ! 🙌 This is #LongGoneGame , an adventure-puzzle #IndieGame that I'm currently #SoloDev 'ing. 🙏TY for the support! ----- #indiedev #GameDev #PixelArt #Animation #Zombie #Unity #MadeWithUnity Steam Page: Trailer:
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Three different cutscene triggers are now in the game, collision based, input-Based and now, the all new Item-Based trigger! Here's an example of items being used on other items! :D #screenshotSaturday #LongGoneGame #IndieGameDev #indiedev #GameDev #PixelArt #Animation #Unity
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Okay, I've noodled this enough to try and make him look like he's picking something up and not taking a dump. #PixelArt #Animation #gamedev #indiedev #LongGoneGame
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After almost 7 years at Ubisoft, I today handed in my letter of resignation. It's been an absolute pleasure working with some incredible people on Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, R6 and FarCry as a concept artist, but it's time to put down my violin and head for a lifeboat.
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@liitt_art Golfing.
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@RudyGiuliani "the NY Post today reports "it looks to me like an exaggeration through editing." They would know about that.
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@CTropes @berkough Not shilling for marvel (Concept artist for a living), but that’s not how it really works. The art doesn’t belong to the artist. The artist was commissioned to make the art for the company and the company are entitled to use that art where/when they wish for whatever purposes.
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@Dogen I really do hate Katakana. I can read and write them but the whole process of "is that English? German? French? An American word different from British English– I don't know????" Then someone is like "Oh it's a Japanese word to make it look cool".
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#cloudart ? Hey ive got those.
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Yo, people making jokes about the situation at Ubisoft Montreal need to seriously fuck off. I get it, you may not like our games but they're my team mates in that building; have a little respect.
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#LongGoneGame has officially breached 10,000 wishlists! Thank you everyone. It's going to be a great year. You've made this solo dev very happy. #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #IndieGame
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#NobodyArtistClub #under10kgang I make concept stuff. :/
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UX is done. Almost there for the demo! Patreon is live too if you're wanting to have a nosey on development. #LongGoneGame
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To be clear, I have real friends living in Japan, I lived there for four years myself and I'm not suggesting that anyone stops their support for our Japanese brothers and sisters via the hashtag. I just ask that you do it with facts and without using fear from previous events. 🙏
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@katelikhonos @GrahamAllen_1 At least the brick wall doesn't talk back with catch-phases from fox news.
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@Antonjorch Who the hell is he following?! o_O
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@Neil_Druckmann Need any concept artists?
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@vr_mama @G27Status This is literally from a wiki page to navigate the quests in a walk through. It’s not from the game.
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@yashar Ah, the whole twitterverse binary buckets of "Good person" "Bad Person" strikes again I see. This is my main issue with my fellow liberals; they're more concerned with being right than effective. This was 36 years ago.
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@chadwazz @mrpyo1 @geoffkeighley @CyberpunkGame This tweet is every reason why there's normally no refund policy on Sony platforms.
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Over lunch I added a blend to another camera to make cutscenes a little bit more dynamic. Not sure if it's too much or I should just keep the locked camera as it was before. Thoughts? #LongGoneGame #IndieGameDev #indiedev
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Hey guys, I'm on the look out for a talented low-poly pixel artist for #LongGoneGame to make props and environment art. If you're interested or you know someone to tag here then feel free to get in touch. #GameDev #LowPoly #pixelart
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I did some mouth animation stuff. I post stuff on TikTok for #LongGoneGame if you’re into it too. #indieDev #gameDev #solodev #indiegame
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A pixel character knowing how to hold a gun vs. not. A good example of why researching stuff is important, even for a #PixelArt #IndieGame . #IndieDev #GameDev
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#3 - Scaring people isn't going to help. Presenting people and their families that are worrying to death about them with the real facts will keep them safe. Google is free. 🙏🇯🇵
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Yeah, I had to check in Photoshop. I much prefer it in black. #PS5reveal
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Well played @devolverdigital . Well played.
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@gamebols @PlayStationAU Here comes the fanboys!
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@GuntherEagleman @POTUS ….that’s… what he said. In the statement. :/ did you read it?
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Containers have been overhauled to support controllers. You can now rummage through every nook and cranny to your heart's content. #LongGoneGame
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Added a few frames and played with the timing of Mr. McBite-Face's reaction to the gun misfiring. Feeling much better about it now. #LongGoneGame #IndieGameDev #indiedev #GameDev #PixelArt #Animation #Unity I just need to decide if the player is going to throw the gun at him now.
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#Midjourney is ridiculous, man. I'm 100% out of a job in Concept Art within the next few years. Just look at this. I "made" these in about 5 minutes. #AIart
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Look at this badass Wacom pen holder my friend bought me. #conceptart
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#4 - Most of the videos are from Typhoon Jebi from 2018 and not this week. Best way to spot this is the '21' in the corners of the videos. HAGBIS is 2019's 19th. 21 refers to 2018's 21st storm. Source:
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@berkough @CTropes Contracts for illustration work don’t have stipulations in them for where or how images can and can’t be used. It’s like if a builder has rules for homeowners about how they use their house. They have no rights to it, just credit for the build.
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@AdorablePodcast @JaredPushner Read a book. The parties switched liberal and conservatives.
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@Listnansy Yes. It is but repost facts like this, not old pictures that scares the crap out of people.
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Don't mind me. Just staying up until midnight adding mouth animations so my dude can talk. #longGoneGame #GameDev #PixelArt #IndieGameDev #Animation
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Oof. What an evening!🥱 BUT! My UI is now fully functional, working across mouse and keyboard. It populates icons along with item info from scriptable objects. Now I just need to make it look pretty. Onwards. #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #LongGoneGame #GameDev #MadeInUnity
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@vr_mama @G27Status Oh come on; That’s still not the game. That’s just another web interactive map.
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There are people that write code for UI and enjoy it. Those people are probably psychopaths. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #indiedev #longgonegame
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Thanks, everyone for the support on LONG GONE so far! Not wish-listed yes? JOIN US! 🧟‍♂️⚠️☣️ DevLog is coming next week, lots of stuff on the way. #LongGoneGame #IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieGame #Steam
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A tip for any #indiedev / #gameDev who're worried about #colorblindness #accessibility : make a camera post process that is black and white to check values (contrast levels) on important/interactive objects. Makes it easier to find If things are blending. [1/5]
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I've been working on UI dots for two days. Back to making stuff look pretty. #LongGoneGame #IndieGameDev #indiedev
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My day job:
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Bug of the week: Zombie in a mailbox. ...Now wondering if that should be a thing.
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I don't have a #lightsaber in my game. But its #MayThe4th so I do now. But just for today. Tomorrow, its back to throwing various real-world objects at Zombie McBite-Face. #LongGoneGame #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #GameDev #PixelArt #IndieGame #SoloDev
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I miss my little prototype area sometimes. I'm really looking forward to getting the vertical slice done so I can potentially move into production. #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #indiedev #GameDev #solodev #LongGoneGame Onwards.
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#LongGoneGame ...now has over 2000 wishlists.😳 Thank you, ありがとう!, merci!, gracias!, danke!, grazie!, 谢谢!, Bedankt! You all make a #SoloDev very happy! #GameDev #IndieGame
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@Mad0Minotaur @Atlus_West Marketing exclusivity. It's par-to-the-course business. You're free to not buy the remasters but it seems a little silly for that to be the reason. To each their own.
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@vaccaro3d Wait until they find out what programmers reuse.
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@corybarlog Do you guys need a concept artist when you switch to doing Celtic mythology? 😬
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Well, this thing is awesome.
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IT'S #BLOCKTOBER ! Some 3D block-ins for concept art because blocking isn't just for level designers ;)
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Not bad for one day on the platform. But holy crap the comments are absolutely bananas.
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@G27Status AC unity came out in 2014.
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@Naomi_with_an_a tbf, not all video games are designed to be fun.
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Fun fact. When I was working on South Park: The Fractured but Whole, i went through a long period of time where I delivered work to my Lead artist with this PNG over it. It went on for months.
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@KansaiPhotos I was on about this at a games studio in Japan, I moved to Canada and tripled my salary. Japan is a great place to visit but they underpay to justify making a living. Takes many years to get to a decent salary which probably takes a few extra years more for gaijin.
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Yes. He absolutely has a name.
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@LordsMobile Ah yes but the real question is can you make an ad that is actually representative of the game?
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@fasc1nate Real Roman map from the 2nd century:
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Please be next. Please be next. Please be next. #AssassinsCreedValhalla #AssassinsCreed
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Hey guys! It's #WishlistWednesday ! Do the thing and push the button. It'll help me out when I get into production for a bunch of reasons :) 🙏 #LongGoneGame #IndieDev #GameDev #solodev
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Guys, #PrayForJapan is still trending number 1 while the images above have thinned out ALOT. ありがとう to you all for staying concerned but sticking to the facts. It's important. I see you all retweeting this thread at the people posting the images, you've made the difference.
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"Cyber Gaming" is apparently being looked at as a cause for the mass shooting in Texas. You know, not the guns, or the police that didn't have the balls to do their job with their big-boy riles. We need to look at these new-fangled vidja games.
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DPS chief Steven McGraw: “We haven’t gotten into the why [motive]. We know the individual was also into cyber gaming in that regard, and group gaming.”
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Some animation stuff before I start work: this will play when the player goes into their inventory. It'll be a bit snappier in engine so it's not annoying in gameplay. #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #PixelArt #Animation #LongGoneGame
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I've been setting up my Steam page (still pending #Soon ) and settled on these screenshots. I'm always looking at this thing in a small editor window so its weird to see the game scaled up like this. #LongGoneGame #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #GameDev #MadeinUnity
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Lots of fiddly bits done today. Had a wander back into my Prototype scene and worked on some back-end things. Worked on the bag UI so it animates opening different compartments now. This month ill be back in blender to make more art though. #LongGoneGame #IndieGame #GameDev
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The facts: BBC News - Typhoon Hagibis: Biggest Japan storm in decades makes landfall
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#GameDev s watching QA play their game for the first time.
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Happy 2 year anniversary to when I was sleep deprived and decided to post this at 2 am on New Year’s Day
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@Telegraph How is this bad news exactly? Humans aren't on the verge of extinction. We can barely afford rent and people expect 20-30 year olds to buy houses, cars and pay for schooling on a child for an average of 30k a year as if it's 1980? Goodluck with that one.
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Holy crap. Why did I wait so long to make this thing?! A debug drop down menu for the player's starting position on play vs. dragging the character around whenever I was testing anything.🙌👏 #gameDev #SoloDev #IndieGame #IndieDev #Unity #LongGoneGame
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