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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

Project Warlock 2 sprites looking good. But it's just, like, my opinion man

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

Game devs, please do not frontload your game with exposition and dialogue. I need to play your game first to see if I even like it. Before it happens I don't give a single F about the story and any of the characters. Give me the game first and sell me on the story later.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

I don't really have skills to ever work on a visuals for a triple A game, but even if I did I would still rather make games like this. I love chunky pixels, blocky levels, sprite animations and small color palettes.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

New imp designs

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

ok, so I learned lowpoly texturing and UV mapping.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

Another tip: Starting with a cold open does not work when your character knows the context behind the situation but You - the player don't. It's confusing and annoying because NPCs interact with you like you - the player - were supposed to know them and what's going on.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

#screenshotsaturday #projectwarlock #retro #FPS

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Egyptian episode in semi retro visual mode. Next episode is on the way.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Some level icons for Project Warlock.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

Hello everyone. Sorry for not posting for so long. I had to take some time to levels and sprite. And strating today I can finally gif again. Here's a Pigdemon monster I made for @project_warlock 2 I hope you have a good day

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Most of the monsters are glass cannons. They hit hard, but die easily. This makes weapons feel good. #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

Unless you are making a story driven game and know what you're doing, put as little story in your game as possible. This might sound harsh but most of you are absolutely terrible at storytelling and this is why most people will skip through it all anyway.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Eyecandy visual mode for project warlock. With lots of bloom and motion blur. Customisation FTW #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Second episode is ready. Yes, it plays as good as it looks. Demo soon. Hopefully. #ProjectWarlock #retro #pixelart #indiedev

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Comparison between old and updated monster design for project Warlock @bckshtsoftware #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

4 years

Yeah I had to jump on this one. I Need to start drawing again. blame @FtK_Artist full body someday maybe. I forgot what anatomy is

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Milltary monster set for @bckshtsoftware turned out a bit grey and muddy so I wanted to revamp some of them. Especially the walker which was so bland and ugly that I made a point to make it the most awesome of the bunch. #krita #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@joewintergreen Half life has a story that's told in many interesting ways. Made by people who knew what they were doing. Also it's not a complete cold open - game takes time to explain who you are and what is going on so when shit hits the fan you have the same important context as Freeman.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Just some experimental low poly stuff. Looks cool enough to tweet.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

3 more monsters for @bckshtsoftware redone from scratch. #krita #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 months

@dashiellwood I'm sorry but this is an awful take. You can't shame people for not buying a product. It's not the customer who is responsible for a game's success. Especially a niche title in a niche market that's already oversaturated.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

Writing a good story is extremely hard. If you're not a seasoned writer then your writing will suck balls. Either find a good writer or don't bother with a story in your game at all. You are wasting so much time you could otherwise spend on improving your game.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

I was at first hesitant when @bckshtsoftware applied the blooom effects to the game but he somehow managed to pull it off and it doesn't clash with the overall artstyle too much. With some more tweaks it will hopefully work even better. #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

This is why amnesia or isekai is such a useful trope: so the character you play is on the same page as the player.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Lovecraftian monster redesign for @bckshtsoftware 's "Project Warlock". This one has bigger resolution, more details and more animation frames. My initial designs for this game were somewhat luckluster. But you have to start somewhere. Made with #krita #screenshotsaturday #FPS

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

5 years

This is what I found at my parents' house vs what I saw. Thanks, @DUSKdev So this is how my life will be now.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

I don't get the cinematic trailers for games. Just show me the gameplay right away so I can see if I want it or not

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

Overview of the first level for @project_warlock 2 We do not often get to see levels from this perspective. Which is a shame. It's actually one of the smaller levels. I wanted to keep them fairly compact but then I got carried away. You'll see.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Right now Project Warlock @bckshtsoftware has over 50 unique types of enemies (including bosses). I think we're breaking some kind of a record here. I used #krita for all game visuals. The color palette is #commodore #C64 #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

@project_warlock will have varous visual modes like #C64 , #Gameboy , #CGA and even #pico8 ! Big thanks to @ENDESGA and @DavitMasia for supporting the game with their own palletes! They look really great! #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

The important thing is to optimise the game well enough to have encounters like this possible. #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Refining shotgun designs and animations. This time without using Doom sprites as templates. #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

@vanaman there are rape gangs in europe. Terrorism on the streets. Censorship in the internet. Yet a mere nasty word is what triggers real outrage.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

2 years

I wanted to improve the monster sprites some more to give them a little darker look. Results so far look promising

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

I have uninstalled so many games and demos of otherwise interesting titles because most of the gameplay was just me frantically skipping through exposition and dialogue from characters I did not knew nor cared about that wanted to tell me their whole backstory mere seconds in.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

So we have all these sliders and toggles in video options, what would we do with them? We make the game look like a gameboy port. This is the peak Project Warlock visuals. We can only go downhill from here. #screenshotsaturday #madewithunity #indiedev

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

2 years

Some more Project Warlock 2 screencaps with new sprites

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

The art of good gif: A good gif is good when you watch it on loop for five minutes and keep watching. Fun fact: every monster in the game has about 10 different death animations. Good Gif should also be pronounced with a hard G. fight me. hashtag @project_warlock zwei

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

5 years

Shotgunner for indie FPS @KrankenheitGame Another step towards the optimal spot between efficiency and quality. animation rendered in #AAP64 palette by @AdigunPolack Made with @ProBuilder3D and Puppet3D Hand drawn textures, normals and emmision maps made with @Krita_Painting

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

5 years

Lowres Lowpoly visuals ar the best. It takes 10 minutes to generate lightmaps for the entire level. And they take up like 4 Megabytes total. @KrankenheitGame #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

2 years

Imp girl for Project Warlock 2

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Boy it's Saturday again? #screenshotsaturday @bckshtsoftware

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

I made several designs for Project Warlock some time ago that I wasn't super happy with. still learning to pixel art. But now that my art has improved I have to redo so much of the old assets to match the quality of new ones, because they look like they're from different games.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Some more examples of enemy designs for Project Warlock. C=64 palette, made with @Krita_Painting #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

4 months

God damn, SELACO slaps so hard. So good to finally play a game that lives up to the hype and expectations. A well deserved success.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Some new monster redesigns for Project Warlock. I have learned to pixelart a bit better since I started so the old monsters look a bit dated now.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Experimenting with some alternative visual modes for @KrankenheitGame This one's unrefined and pretty messy but I'm loving it so far and it's definitely the way I'm gonna play it:) #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Demo level for @KrankenheitGame is pretty much done. It's a bit all over the place but it's my first finished level like ever so I was still mostly learning stuff and experimenting. #madewithunity @ProBuilder3D

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Project Warlock antarctic episode. #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

I'm also remaking the ssg animations from scratch. It's starting to look really nice. #pixelart #indiegame

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

Getting extra mileage out if these monster animations

Project Warlock II in Early Access!

@project_warlock

3 years

First attempt at Monster Intros for PWII: Imp Blitz #retrofps #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@Tovvok Yes and "If handled correctly" is the key phrase here. It's all about exactly this.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

also, since twitter removed the alpha channel, here's a version with black background

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

@KrankenheitGame with textures looks pretty dope even with all post processing turned off. It looks like original Carmageddon but without the cars. I feel like I'm really getting somewhere with it. And it feels so good. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

2 years

Did a fanart of an Imp girl from @project_warlock Actually, is it a fanart if it's technically my OC? From the game I'm working on? Confusing.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Really enjoy the pixelated gritty mode for @KrankenheitGame Working on new levels for the demo. I hope you like them big. Because god damn they will be. #screenshotsaturday on sunday #indiegame #fps

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 months

@dashiellwood Nobody told the developers: "Hey, make this speciffic game and we will buy it in droves!" No. It's the developers who made the game and said "Hey this is our game, we hope you like it!" Sometimes poeple just don't like the game. And it's not their fault.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Some new weapon designs for Project Warlock @bckshtsoftware Making pixel art guns is a lot of fun. But turning them into first person view and centered AND low res is a tricky tricky task.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

5 months

I think we need a new type of remakes where we keep the original art assets but we improve upon the gameplay and mechanics instead. A lot of really bad games had crazy good artstyles. And some games just aged poorly because of unintuitive interfaces or awkward controls.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Miniboss tier enemy for @KrankenheitGame Single mesh enemy made with @ProBuilder3D rigged and skinned with puppet 3D and animated with @unity3d mecanim.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

@vanaman Dafuq did I just read?

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 months

@trashcanroom You realise how many games are released daily? There is no scenario where all of them are successful. And why do you think people want shorter games in the first place? Because they don't have time and money to play them all.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

First screen of Project Warlock in 32 color mode.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Mummy guy animation reel. #projectwarlock

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

2 years

Steam deck is a game changer. If you're into indie games and classics you can store a stupid amount of games even on the 64gb version with a 256gb card. I have 65 of them right now mixed with some bigger ones. And I didn't even touch the emulators yet.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

#screenshotsaturday #ProjectWarlock #retro #indiedev

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@DavidKayConrad

7 years

I think I have found a very nice compomise of time, effort and results when it comes to pixel art. Enough details to make it look good but still pretty simple so that animating it is actually fun and time efficient so I can pull of stuff like these semi 3D motions.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

#screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

This was supposed to be a simple wolfenclone. But the game evolved a bit over time:) #screenshotsaturday

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@DavidKayConrad

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@DavidKayConrad

5 years

Fot this project I think I might go for hi res after all. It will require a bit more refining but looks like the effect will be worth the extra effort.

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@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@Yiga_CC @BanannaSlamma64 Yeah and when I got to eternal after finishing the previous game I was like: what the hell is all this shit about? Everything got retconned six ways to Sunday and nothing makes sense. It would actually be less confusing if I didn't play the previous one.

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@DavidKayConrad

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Play the demo here: More about the game here: Thanks for the support! #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Experimenting with some c64 palette loading screens for Project Warlock.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@docsquiddy Yes - paintv me a big picture if you need but leave the details for later

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

8 years

Project Warlock launched on greenlight today

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Some of the new monster designs for Project Warlock. There will be over 50 types of enemies in the whole game.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@BanannaSlamma64 Bloodstained comes to mind. And Doom Eternal. Both feel like their story is missing a few beats at the beginning and yet The player is supposed to care about what's going on. It's like watching a movie from the second act.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Monster animations for project warlock. Making some new and revamping the old ones. 16 colors total, C=64 palette.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Realised I was doing my @KrankenheitGame character animations wrong. - each moving part was a separate object, which resulted in wasting 20-30 batches to render a single character. Tried making a character from a single mesh and got 20X performance boost.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

groupshot of some early @KrankenheitGame enemies. #screenshotsaturday

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

5 years

Yeah I think hi-res is the way to go here. There's too many subtle little details that would get lost in the process.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

I'm starting a patreon where I will be exclusively posting culturally appropriated lewds of anime elven chicks of questionable age and occasionally some degenerate furry smut. Because fuck it I'm and indie game developer and I need money.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

Gggman lives @Ggdograa reviews Project Warlock.

Project Warlock Review (It's Really Good) - Gggmanlives

Buy the game here: https://www.gog.com/game/project_warlock?pp=e64af58a2898c12b5e81cb6c70bb00d5e9cb3891Join the Sonny Jim Army on Discord: https://discord.gg...

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

Everybody go play Ion Maiden now.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

Arhurian Legends is out. It's bloody awesome. Still has technical issues but is bloody amazing nonetheless. Engine feels ancient but brings back this magic of early nineties so well. Hits right in the feels.

ArthurianLegends

@ArthurianDev

3 years

Arthurian Legends available now on Steam! Grab your axe and start chopping off some heads already! #indiegame #steam #gamedev #indiedev #videogames #retrogaming

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

3 years

we doin this

Project Warlock II in Early Access!

@project_warlock

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

@kchironis It's a bit like asking "how many of you are cooks, and by cooking I also mean making sandwitches and scrambled eggs. if you prepare food - any food - you're a cook". I think having different words for different levels of engagement is pretty useful.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

5 years

One of the most surprising gaming experiences this year was revisiting Quake 2. After playing so many shooters over the years and actively working on games I never expected to be blown away so much by it's design, aesthetics and gameplay ballance.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

7 years

And here's to my 666 followers.

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@DavidKayConrad

1 year

@holstingame This is wild

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

6 years

So I beat the final episode of Dusk. Bloody awesome. The mood and sound design is legendary. At times gets creepy as fuck. Gets a bit too random at times, but I guess that's the running theme of the game. Play it. @DUSKdev #fps

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@DavidKayConrad

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@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@EkiTheTree If the writing is good then yea but most games don't have that.

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@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@_mort96_ It's different because games are not books or movies. You don't just sit and do nothing while the story unfolds. You are supposed to take part in it, act and make decisions. Player needs to know enough to not feel like an impostor.

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david_kay

@DavidKayConrad

5 years

Somebody made a chrome extension that brings old twitter layout back: Buy them a kofi or smth

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@DavidKayConrad

6 months

@ebNASgbXPo Nah I've seen worse

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