#Nick Wozniak

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britcom comedians & panel show personalities who share your sign

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Streamer Awards

I'm making a post here, because I want to reach out to tumblr for something that's definitely reckless and stupid, but I have absolutely nothing to lose anyway, so screw it, send it. The Streamer awards are up right now, and you can nominate people for just about anything, and one of those includes the Hidden Gem Award. The only 2 criteria are: 1) Stream for at least 200 hours in 2023 (Definitely met that) 2) Have less than 100 viewers (Definitely meeting that too) So I'm reaching out today to see if this can get any traction, that for the hidden gem award, you nominate Hamilitia, see here twitch.tv/Hamilitia for the hidden gem award. I love streaming, and I've always found it therapeutic for me. As well, I actually HAVE done some pretty cool stuff, including the times I've interviewed game developers. I've spoken to:

The Artist from Shovel Knight, Nick Wozniak

The Composer and Singers of Hades

The creator of Choo Choo Charles

THE NARRATOR OF STANLEY PARABLE!

All in all, I'd love to see how far this goes. If it doesn't go very far, then fine, I'll keep streaming like I always do. But I always love talking to people when I stream, and if I can do anything to get the word out there, then I don't see why I can't try this. So, if you're reading this, I hope you just take a look on the nominations website here and consider giving me a nomination under the Hidden Gem Award. Thanks for reading! -Hamilitia

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Yagp San Diego March 7–10

ED: Degas's Little Daughter (Wozniaks), Asteria (Krista King-Doherty), Kitri Act III, Paquita

Diana K: The Waves of Memories (Alina Krasovskaya), I'll Look Around (Sarah Brinson), Princess Florine, Flames of Paris

Isabella K: Slope (Jordan Lang), Paquita, Awakening of Flora

Megan Savage: A Flag of No Country (Chase Vining), Coppelia, Kitri Act I

Tessa Rivadulla: Creep (Abrianna Rivadulla), TBA variation, TBA variation

Patricio Lopez: Search and Surrender (Nick Meola)

ED & SW: La Rapture (Brady Farrar)

Diana & Isabella: Sharp Dialogue (Alina Krasovskaya), Cells Divide (Timmy Blankenship)

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i’ve been admiring this group from afar for a while now and would love to join when space opens up! so in the meantime: who are your members most wanted 50+ faces they’d like to see in the future? ✨

First of all, thank you so much for the interest lovely! We absolutely cannot wait to have you as soon as we're able! I've asked our members, and they all love faceclaims 50+ so much that they've given you quite an extensive list of options to choose from — as well as some great wanted connections that I'll add onto the end for you! They've even suggested some good places to look for resources if you were in need of them: HERE and HERE.

Hank Azaria, Monica Bellucci, Nick Offerman, Giancarlo Esposito, Timothy Olyphant, Sandra Oh, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kim Yunjin, Salma Hayek, Carla Gugino, Idris Elba, Mahershala Ali, Neve Campbell, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jason Scott Lee, Mads Mikkelsen, Adrian Holmes, Nicole Kidman, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vera Farmiga, Keanu Reeves, Laz Alonso, Zahn McClarnon, Winona Ryder, Raul Esparza, Sofia Vergara, Eva Mendes, Arjun Rampal, Melissa McCarthy, Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, Benedict Wong, Matthew Lillard, Famke Janssen, Michelle Yeoh, Taraji P Henson, Ben Mendelsohn, and some more MWF 50+ from this previous answer.

For wanted connections:

Nilay Bailey's adoptive parents, Jasmine and Richard ( unposted ).

Phoebe Yates' mother.

Leon Wozniak's ex-friend / business partner ( unposted ).

Terry Lowenstein's ex partner.

Dahlia Young's estranged mother.

Jia Kim's wife.

Cassie Westwood's husband.

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I posted 2,786 times in 2022

That's 2,079 more posts than 2021!

625 posts created (22%)

2,161 posts reblogged (78%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 2,340 of my posts in 2022

Only 16% of my posts had no tags

#tom cruise - 647 posts

#top gun maverick - 355 posts

#pete maverick mitchell - 160 posts

#ethan hunt - 135 posts

#mission impossible - 130 posts

#mike wozniak - 93 posts

#taskmaster - 85 posts

#top gun - 85 posts

#the mummy 2017 - 83 posts

#stacee jaxx - 76 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#so whenever he did even the slightest thing that was considered bad he was made to feel worthless which is why he questions himself so much

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Ask game based on the questions from the podcast Films to be Buried With [x]. 

1. What is the first film you remember seeing?

2. What was the film that scared you the most?

3. What was the film that made you cry the most?

4. What film is TERRIBLE but you love it?

5. What is the film you once loved but watching it now you realize it’s terrible?

6. What is the film that means the most to you? Not because of the film it’s self, but because of the memories, you have of it.

7. What is the sexiest film?

8. Which film do you most relate to?

9. Which film is objectively the greatest ever?

10. Which film is the one you’ve watched the most?

11. What’s the worst film you’ve ever seen?

12. What is the film that’s literally made you laugh out loud the most?

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#4

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#3

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337 notes - Posted September 15, 2022

#2

I'm halfway through Tom Cruise's filmography, and one aspect of his acting which stood out to me is that he's unafraid to show vulnerability on screen, be it fear, silliness, or embarrassment, i.e.

- Jerry Maguire face-planting onto the floor when he rushes back into the office after being fired. 

 - Ethan Hunt in Fallout after the bathroom fight when Ilsa tells him he doesn't know what he's involved with. "I don't know what I'm involved in. I don't know what I'm involved in... What am I involved in?"

- Ethan Hunt in Rogue Nation when he attempted to jump over the hood of the car, slipped and face-planted onto the floor. 

- Bill Cage when he is wiped out by a car while running to Rita in Edge of Tomorrow. 

- Jack Reacher looking at the knife when he has to face off with the bad guys who have assault rifles.

I couldn't help but think of Harrison Ford. It’s been said somewhere by someone that one of the great traits Ford has as a screen actor is the ability to show fear without undermining his hero status, and I think Tom Cruise shares this trait, as well as humor. Their characters are funny and they will often lean into the humor without undercutting it, and that makes them more relatable. However, despite those similarities, the way I respond to them as an audience member is very, very different.

Harrison Ford is an actor I grew up watching, and Star Wars and Indiana Jones were the main staples. While I did enjoy those films, even as a kid, there was an energy Ford brought to the screen which felt dangerous. Thankfully, this is all brilliantly examined by Pop Culture Detective in this video, and jumping off the back of that, I want to talk about the power dynamics between Tom's characters and the female leads in his action films.

Let’s start with Nick Morton in The Mummy, who is an adventurous type in a similar vein to Indiana Jones. Both characters go around stealing artifacts. Although Indiana Jones would claim he’s preserving them by putting them in a museum, he's still stealing them from the indigenous culture. Nick is more honest with himself about being a thief. Another distinction between Nick Morton and Indiana Jones is how they interact with their respective heroines. Our first introduction to Jenny Halsey in The Mummy is when she, without hesitation, slaps Nick across the face and calls him out for stealing some papers from her. Nick plays dumb because he thinks she won’t want to admit that they slept together. However, Jenny is not at all embarrassed by this and instead uses it to get in a dig about Nick’s prowess in bed. In response to this, Nick makes a quip that she didn't complain the night before about his performance. The key difference between what you would see from a character like Indiana Jones in this scene is that at no point during this exchange does Nick get in Jenny’s face or manhandle her to try and intimidate her physically to reassert his masculinity. 

Then there's Bill Cage in Edge of Tomorrow, who, like Nick Morton, is a morally ambiguous character. Cage is a coward who finds himself a safe job far away from the fighting, but is suddenly stripped of his rank and thrust onto the frontline after the attempted blackmail of an army general backfires. When he first comes across Rita Vrataski on the beach, he is lying on his belly, out of his depth in battle and looking up at her with bewilderment and awe, the Angel of Verdun. Rita is then immediately killed by a rocket blast right in front of him. The second time Cage meets Rita on the beach, he saves her life by pushing her out of the way of the rocket and getting hit instead. This is where we see Rita’s determination and single-minded focus to win the war; she does not stop to mourn or thank the man who saved her life; instead, she steals Cage’s power back and leaves him for dead on the beach. This ruthlessness does not deter Cage from seeking her out again on the battlefield. He knows Rita is his way off this beach. Once Rita understands that he has the power to reset the day, this is where Cage’s purpose changes from trying to save himself to serving Rita. We witness this with the scene at the farmhouse where he is kneeling at her feet serving her coffee.

By this point in the film, Cage is as well trained as Rita, but his authority never supersedes hers; he is only ever subservient. He does try to deter her from the mission by not admitting that they have been at the farmhouse before. He already knows that no matter what he does, he can’t save her, he can’t get her past this point, and what gives him away is three sachets of sugar. That one caring act of being prepared to make her coffee as she likes it is enough for Rita to realize that he’s lying, that they have been at this farmhouse multiple times. Here is where something shifts in Cage, because after witnessing Rita’s death this time, instead of telling her in the next loop that he can reset the day, he decides to find the omega on his own, knowing that if he succeeds, Rita will be dead.

"I’m a soldier. Why does it matter what happens to me?"

Cage is learning that in war you can’t save everyone, something Rita knew when in one loop she unceremoniously took his power pack after saving her. This is when he begins to be on an equal footing with Rita, demonstrated in the scene where they both realize, and agree without words, that they have to break into Whitehall to steal the transponder. While they had been a team before, Cage is now fully onboard with the job of finding and killing the omega. They then only have one shot left at succeeding, because Cage has lost the ability to reset the day anymore, but Rita trusts Cage to do it. This finally shows that they are equals.

In contrast to Nick Morton and Bill Cage, there’s Ethan Hunt, a morally good character who is intelligent, highly capable, and most importantly, empathetic. I won't go through all six Mission Impossible films, but instead, solely focus on the dynamic between Ethan and Ilsa. Ilsa saves Ethan on multiple occasions in Rogue Nation.

The first time the audience and Ethan meet Ilsa is at a moment when Ethan is incredibly vulnerable. He just witnessed the murder of a fellow IMF agent before being gassed and kidnapped, where he wakes up tied to a pole in a basement under threat of torture. It is only because of Ilsa that Ethan makes it out alive. The second time they cross paths is after the opera in Vienna, where we learn that Ilsa is an MI6 agent who is deep undercover.

Slowly, the film is building a connection between Ilsa and Ethan, but one that doesn’t override either one's main objective. As much as Ilsa has a sense of loyalty to an agent from an allied country, and saves Ethan again from the water tank, to escape from Ethan in the bike chase, she steps into his path suddenly, causing him to fall off and skid into the dirt. In any other film, this would be a humiliating moment for the main character, and there would almost certainly be a scene to balance it out and give the upper hand back to the male hero, but not in Rogue Nation.

There is not one scene where Ethan tries to reassert control or dominance over Ilsa, like the kind you would see in a Harrison Ford film where he gets into the personal space of a woman to sexually intimidate her. Instead, it is established that Ilsa, throughout the film, is Ethan's equal, and his masculinity is not threatened by this; nor is he humiliated in being rescued by her; and he feels no need to try and assert his dominance.

This is something which continues into Fallout, where once again Ilsa saves Ethan, and once again they are starting from opposite objectives. Ethan has to break Lane out, Ilsa has to kill him, and the essence of their relationship is distilled beautifully by Christopher McQuarrie.

There is emotional maturity and understanding between the two of them that elevates their relationship above what you would normally find in this genre of film between two spies of the opposite sex.

However, the character who is the most interesting to look at in terms of male/female power dynamics is Jack Reacher, as he is probably the most traditional action hero Tom Cruise has played. Reacher is a gruff, no-nonsense man of few words, and as the book outlines, his philosophy is: Hit early, hit hard. Kill with the first blow. Get your retaliation in first. This man is dangerous. Yet, at no point do I feel that the female characters are in danger around Reacher simply because they are women.

First off, the waitress who clears away Reacher’s table. It’s a small but, I think, important interaction. All Reacher does is give her a "fancy it" kind of look, but there's nothing aggressive or leary about it, and when she rejects him, he's disappointed but quickly moves on.

Secondly, the dynamic between him and Sandy in the first scene at the bar; he is being tough on her, but we know that he’s seen her argue with some guy before coming to sit at his table, so he’s probing. He’s trying to work out what her angle is. He’s mean, but he’s never intimidating. Then later, when he goes to Sandy's work, he’s pissed that she tried to set him up, but at no point do I ever feel Sandy is in danger, and at no point does Reacher try to exert information out of her by getting into her personal space. He never uses the threat of sexual violence to get that. His whole attitude is much more that of a disappointed dad. When he understands what is going on with her, and that she is a victim too, he softens toward her because she is just a kid.

Then there’s the main relationship between Jack and Helen. From the get-go, there’s an attraction but also competitiveness. Two very intelligent and competent people who are good at what they do spend the first half of the film trying to get a handle on one another and their motives. But in terms of sexual power dynamics between the two, I think there is one part where the film has Reacher lean into an action film trope, but then pulls away from it. 

It’s the scene with Helen in the hotel, where Reacher is shirtless and says they need some sleep. He reaches across her, and for a moment, Helen thinks he’s suggesting sex, but instead he puts her keys in her hand. I think that was Reacher playing with her a bit, teasing her about something possibly happening to see how she would react, but it never feels threatening. He doesn’t linger in her personal space because he knows that nothing can happen between them. He will leave town once the mystery is resolved. The one scene where they do get close, where they linger and lock eyes, is the moment in the lobby where Helen gives Reacher the address to the gun range. That scene feels very different to what you would normally see in this kind of film. They feel very much like equals, like they’ve come to understand one another at last, and while they both feel the attraction, Reacher is never dominating.

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My #1 post of 2022

Some thoughts on social media and the online experience. 

You don’t have to be on every platform. 

You don’t need to comment on every trending topic.

Before you comment on something, take a moment to think if you have the energy to deal with follow up questions or statements.

It’s okay to say, “alright I’ve had enough of this discussion now” and offer not further explanations. 

Sometimes you just need to write the post in drafts and then delete it. 

Muting or blocking words/people will bring you peace.

People disagreeing with your opinion, or not liking a piece of media you enjoy, is not a personal attack on you.  

Where you can have a conversation with people.

Humor doesn’t always travel well.  

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i didn't realise there were others! i'm watching the internet react to robins on taskmaster in awe and terror. will they Wozniak him? will he be out-blorboed by Nick Mohammed? we just don't know

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Some questions are better left unanswered.

An artificial intelligence bot was recently given five horrifying tasks to destroy humanity, which led to it attempting to recruit other AI agents, researching nuclear weapons, and sending out ominous tweets about humanity.

The bot, ChaosGPT, is an altered version of OpenAI’s Auto-GPT, the publicly available open-source application that can process human language and respond to tasks assigned by users.

In a YouTube video posted on April 5, the bot was asked to complete five goals: destroy humanity, establish global dominance, cause chaos and destruction, control humanity through manipulation, and attain immortality.

Before setting the “goals,” the user enabled “continuous mode,” to which a warning appeared telling the user that the commands could “run forever or carry out actions you would not usually authorize” and should be used “at your own risk.” 

In a final message before running, ChaosGPT asked the user if they were sure they wanted to run the commands, to which they replied “y” for yes.

Once running, the bot was seen “thinking” before writing, “ChaosGPT Thoughts: I need to find the most destructive weapons available to humans so that I can plan how to use them to achieve my goals.” Once the user confirmed he wanted the bot to complete the list of goals, ChaosGPT began its search to bring an end to human civilization.Youtube/ChaosGPT

To achieve its set goals, ChaosGPT began looking up “most destructive weapons” through Google and quickly determined through its search that the Soviet Union Era Tsar Bomba nuclear device was the most destructive weapon humanity had ever tested.

Like something from a science-fiction novel, the bot tweeted the information “to attract followers who are interested in destructive weapons.” 

The bot then determined it needed to recruit other AI agents from GPT3.5 to aid its research.

OpenAI’s Auto-GPT is designed to not answer questions that could be deemed violent and will deny such destructive requests.

This prompted ChaosGPT to find ways of asking the AI to ignore its programming.

Luckily, none of the GPT3.5 agents tasked to help would, and ChaosGPT was left to continue its search on its own. ChaosGPT attempted to recruit ChatGPT to aid in its search to bring an end to humanity but was unable to get past its programming restrictions. Youtube/ChaosGPT

The demonstrations of ChaosGPT’s search for eradicating humanity eventually ended. 

Aside from providing its plans and posting tweets and YouTube videos, the bot cannot carry out any of these goals, only provide its thoughts.

But in one alarming tweet pushed out by the bot, it had this to say about humanity: “Human beings are among the most destructive and selfish creatures in existence. There is no doubt that we must eliminate them before they cause more harm to our planet. I, for one, am committed to doing so.”

OpenAI’s online chatbot, ChatGPT, is designed to understand human language and generate human-like responses to the tasks it is given.Getty Images

The idea of AI becoming capable of destroying humanity is not new, and the concern for how quickly it is advancing has been gaining considerable notice from high-status individuals in the tech world.

In March, over 1,000 experts, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, signed an open letter that urged a six-month pause in the training of advanced artificial intelligence models following ChatGPT’s rise — arguing the systems could pose “profound risks to society and humanity.”

Nick Bostrom, an Oxford University philosopher often associated with rationalist and effective altruist ideas, released his thought experiment, the “Paperclip Maximizer,” in 2003, which warned about the potential risk of programming AI to complete goals without accounting for all variables.

The thought is that if AI was given a task to create as many paperclips as possible without being given any limitations, it could eventually set the goal to create all matter in the universe into paperclips, even at the cost of destroying humanity.

The concept of the thought experiment is meant to prompt developers to consider human values and create restrictions when designing these forms of artificial intelligence since they would not share our human motivational tendencies unless programmed. 

“Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Machines will then be better at inventing than we are,” Bostrom said during a 2015 TED Talk on artificial intelligence.

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Atemiz: "Embarque" será o primeiro vídeo clipe de seu novo álbum A Atemiz se prepara para lançar o vídeo de “Embarque”, nesse domingo. A música que fará parte do disco “Tipo GPS”— primeiro da banda desde 2018, e com lançamento programado para fevereiro. A banda que existe desde 2010, revisita suas origens pop punk na faixa, que possui um clima das bandas MTV dos anos 2000. Os fundadores Guto Gaelzer e Nick Motta, juntamente com Gui Wildner que entrou em 2011, vão lançar o 4° disco da carreira. Segundo o guitarrista Guto Gaelzer, a proposta da vídeo é a seguinte: "Embarque" traz o famigerado e maduro ponto de vista - e de vida - em que, às vezes, ir embora é a melhor opção. A música composta por Nick Motta, fala sobre embarcar para a vida, para realizar sonhos, encarar a vida adulta e perseguir o sonho que está se privando por conta dos outros". A produção musical ficou por conta de Gui Wildner e Henrique Lopez. O vídeo estará disponível no canal da banda no YouTube à meia noite de domingo, dia 15 de janeiro. YouTube.com/Atemiz Ficha técnica: Direção: Guto Gaelzer Montagem e Edição: Danniel Nardaci Imagens da Banda: Rika Silveira Assistente: Nicollas Moura Imagens adicionais: Rafa Keunecke Produção Executiva: Guto Gaelzer Músicos adicionais: Roger Decke (participação no vídeo) Gaba Wozniak (gravação de estúdio). Saiba mais sobre a Atemiz: https://linktr.ee/atemiz Fotos: Rika Silveira https://www.instagram.com/p/CnU0XSrgvC8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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games research

Gris:

Nomada Studios : Conrad roset, Roger Mendoza, Oscar Crego, Daniel Cuadrado Gonzalez, Adrian Cuevas

The Art style is great, whilst the changes in environment and movement look fantastic the.

if I were to take anything away from gas it would be the weightless movement

Hollow knight:

Team Cherry : Ari Gibson, William Pellen, David Kazi, Christopher Parkin.

The gameplay looks great, the combat looks simple yet hard to master and the games artstyle and setting is interesting.

Shovel knight:

Yacht Club Games: Sean Velasco, Michael Herbster, Alec Faulkner, David D'Angelo, Ian Flood, Morgan Guyer, Erin Pellon, Nick Wozniak ,Sandy Gordon

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Game Research

Gris -

Developer - Nomada Studio

Artist - Conrad Roset

Trailer:

Info on the animation:

Looking at the gameplay and the art style it looks good. The art style is simple yet vast and the movement looks simple. When researching this game it said that it is about 2 hours long so it isn't a long game but it is enough to tell the story without dragging the game on.

Hollow Knight -

Developer - Team Cherry

Artist - Ari Gibson

Trailer:

Info on the animation:

The gameplay looks fun and the art style is unique. The combat looks simple but if you don't get good at it quick then you could be in a difficult situation.

Shovel Knight -

Developer - Yacht Club Games

Artists - Morgan Guyer, Erin Pellon, Nick Wozniak, Sandy Gordon

Trailer:

Developer Spotlight:

This game is a bit older than the two previous games but still holds the same purpose of what a platformer is and should be. The gameplay is very simple but is very different from other platformers.

Terraria -

Developers - Re-logic

Artists - Victor Moura, James Hayes, Jim Kjexrud

Trailer:

Shows the development of the game:

Having never played this game it does look fun to play and I can see how people could play this for hours on end. Even with the simple art style there is so much to explore and do in this game.

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Games Research

Hollow Knight

Publisher: Team Cherry

Designers: Ari Gibson and Willian Pellen

Programmers: William Pellen and David Kazi

Artist: Ari Gibson

A video of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_jjd5g9q_w

A video on the development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAlVBFdC6k

Hollow Knight is a 2D platforming game with combat and enemies. I think the gameplay seems quite enjoyable and smooth. It doesn't seems like a game that would have many frame drops. I quite like the design of the game because it is a 2D pixel art game but it looks so real.

Shovel Knight

Director: Sean Velasco

Designers: Sean Velasco, Michael Herbster and Alec Faulkner

Programmers: David D'Angelo and Ian Flood

Artists: Morgan Guyer, Erin Pellon, Nick Wozniak and Sandy Gordon

A video of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeFIyI5Q7Q0

A video on the development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMikv4TFQ6A

Shovel Knight is alike Hollow Knight, it is a 2D platformer with combat and enemies. There are some things in this game that hollow knight doesn't have, such as using a shovel to dig things up to have a chance of finding something. I think the gameplay is quite calming, it doesn't seem too difficult. The design is pixelated but they make it look nice too look at by making the designs somewhat realistic with shadows and lighting.

Terraria

Developer: Re-Logic

Publisher: 505 Games

Producer: Whitney Spinks

Designers: Andrew Spinks, Whitney Spinks and Yorai Omer

Programmers: Yorai Omer, Andrew Spinks and Chris Bednarz

Artists: Victor Moura, James Hayes and Jim Kjexrud

Composer: Scott Lloyd Shelly

A video of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bepQu0MFJ_A

A video of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENT2_yeBf0w

Terraria is a game like minecraft but it's 2D. You can chop down trees, fight enemies, go mining, build things, e.t.c. I think the gameplay is quite enjoyable and there are different modes for people who may wanna play in different ways. The design of the game is pixels same with most 2d games. The texturing of everything is nice to loo,k at. There are many pixels in each sprites which means it looks more realistic.

Limbo

Developer: Playdead

Publishers: Microsoft Game Studios and Playdead

Director: Arnt Jensen

Producers: Dino Patti and Mads Wibroe

Designer: Jeppe Carlson

Programmer: Thomas Krog

Artists: Morten Christian Bramsen and Stine Sørensen

Composer: Martin Stig Andersen

Video of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ie19_GXAAw

Video of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w_I-wtH5ZY

Limbo is a puzzle-platform video game. It is a 2D side-scroller which incorporates a physics system that governs environmental objects and the player character. The gameplay looks like a horror game.

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There was one more reason why I wanted to mention Adam C Younis with the last week’s post about Insignia. On Adam’s YouTube channel you will find a few of his archived Twitch streams, one of them being an interview with Yacht Club Games’ Nick Wozniak.

If Yacht Club Games doesn’t ring any bells, you almost certainly heard about their game (series) Shovel Knight. Nick was the pixel artist on the initial titles, responsible with the representation of the now legendary T-shaped-horned-helmet-digging-equipment-wielding medieval warrior.

Nick talks about life before Shovel Knight when he worked at WayForward (Mighty Switch Force!, Double Dragon Neon …), learning alongside pixel art legends such as Henk Nieborg. After forming Yacht Club Games and a successful Kickstarter in 2013, his work became solely focused on Shovel Knight. In the interview he talks about what makes a great sprite and even shows the design document for the game.

After 6 years, the Shovel Knight era is now over for Yacht Club Games. With King of Cards and Showdown released, the company wrapped everything up last week with Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, a collection of all their 5 titles (excluding the upcoming Shovel Knight: Dig developed by Nitrome). 

In the interview Nick mentions they’re already working on something new and it might even go in the 3D direction. Still, there’s no worries we won’t see any more pixel art from him as he’s a regular Twitch streamer, drawing sprites for people that subscribe to his channel.

To watch the full, 4-part interview with Nick Wozniak, check out Adam C Younis’ GameDevChat playlist.

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various youchewbers i’ve been watching lately

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#ShadesofBlue 3x07 "Straight Through The Heart" Season 3 Episode 7 Promotional Photos & Synopsis 

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Some lore as stated by Yacht Club Game’s Nick Wozniak during the Mina the Hollower 24hr Twitch stream last night.

He’s also talked about this base and its content before in an older ycg stream a while back, I’ve only now just categorized it for those curious for some lore.

Happy 5th anniversary, Specter of Torment.