Jan Kaluza

@jankaluza.bsky.social

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Senior Technical Artist @ Epic Games.
Former Lead Technical Artist @ Yager & Fishlabs
Recent synth guy.
Wearer of many hats. Metaphorical ones only, I unfortunately don't have a hat face.
Based in Berlin.

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I see it's time for this again.

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Wir haben kleine, schöne Sticker für unseren Podcast „The Game Mechanics“ gemacht. Wenn ich euch die nicht eh auf der #devcom oder #gamescom aufs Auge drücke, fragt gerne danach. Wir freuen uns, dass schon über 600 Menschen rein gehört haben.

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🎙️Neuer Podcast: The Game Mechanics🎙️ Ein Ding auf meiner Bucket list war es schon lange, einen Podcast über #gamedev zu machen. Es geht um Spielmechaniken und richtet sich auch an interessierte Spieler. Mit @zeitweise.bsky.social habe ich einen exquisiten Partner gefunden. Hört doch mal rein! Link👇

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that feeling when you release stuff you made and then other people can see it

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turns out we can draw little guys and no one can stop us

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Once again I remind people of this Venn diagram from my blog: Passion good, but make sure it intersects with your financial/technical capabilities, and also has a market. (This for commercial games obviously. For hobby games you can go pure passion!)

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I put this out today because it's the stupidest idea I've had in a long time and for some reason also the realest. Also it's free which I've heard is a good price????? soundvision.bandcamp.com/album/intrus...

Intrusive Thots, by Baby Bitch Moneysoundvision.bandcamp.com 11 track album

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It’s funny bc everyone agrees that stability, low turnover, and the ability to fail and learn are the things that make the best games and the most successful franchises. So in my mind a great deal of game publishers & investors are going to Find Out next year against small studios that kept lean

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Two point six TRILLION dollar valuation drop for "AI" companies. All because these people refuse to reckon with what their systems are actually good at, and what they are absolutely no good for, and keep trying to shove it into every damn thing, regardless. nymag.com/intelligence...

Wall Street’s $2 Trillion AI Reckoningnymag.com The hyperbolic promises from Silicon Valley are starting to meet reality.

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Vampire Therapist on Steam is a corny idea (pls forgive me) and is a liiiittle contrived (less than Twilight) but is very well written and voice acted and is really horny so… it’s right up there with some of the best indie games imo. Purchase if sick of games that pretend everyone’s loins are dead

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it will never stop being funny that we invented a kind of computer that's bad at math, the entire thing computers exist to do

Oh! Well then

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I was just reminded that today is Shelley’s birthday.

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I’m suddenly disappointed in my life decisions

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Jeff Hamilton

I just love cooking, man. feels like a magic spell every time

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The Dragon Prince ARPG is out!!!! For free on Netflix!!!! Let’s gooooooooo youtu.be/NLQbm823CkM?... link to game here dragonprincexadia.onelink.me/3sxu/uktbrew5

The Dragon Prince: Xadia | Official Game Trailer | Netflixyoutu.be Welcome to Xadia! Step into the boots of your favorite The Dragon Prince heroes and team-up for all-new, epic adventures in this co-op action RPG! Available ...

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Unpopular Opinion: As long as it's single player and no achievements, I think AAA games should just have a "fuck it" (almost impossible to lose/die) mode for people who can't game well enough to beat them but really want to get the storyline and experience Age + Disabilities has killed my gaming

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Artists... Writers... Actors... Creatives of all stripes... REMEMBER THE NAMES OF THE EXECUTIVES WHO DRANK THE AIBRO KOOL-AID WHEN THEY COME CRAWLING BACK... AND UP YOUR RATES ACCORDINGLY.

OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losseswww.windowscentral.com OpenAI might need another round of funding to remain afloat.

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As a totally reasonable request for the universe I want stuff I like to be easy for me, but hard for everyone else, because I'm SO SPECIAL. Thanks.

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These renewable energy graphs people keep posting are practically arousing. Love seeing this

In 2018 the EIA predicted that the U.S. would have 40GW of energy storage installed by 2050. Their latest predictions are for the US to have 40GW of energy storage installed by 2025. Storage is the fossil fuel killer. But the fossil fuel industry, like many, didn't see this coming.

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This is remarkable and compelling data. For all the anti-vaxx and contrarian voices, this is exceptional direct real-world evidence. You don’t need to run an RCT on this. We have the data.

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If you do any work on realtime shaders, I highly recommend checking out this node graph by @jankaluza.bsky.social It centers and scales screen-space UVs on an object, letting you to do things like center a screen-space tiling pattern on an object I use it constantly! twitter.com/JKashaar/sta...

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is it because they fired people's coworkers and replaced those lifelong experts in the field with an extremely stupid guessing machine so the bosses could pocket 100% of the salaries they're no longer paying while asking the remaining workers to pick up the slack and clean up after the AI's mistakes

"Not only is AI increasing the workloads of full-time employees, it’s hampering productivity and contributing to employee burnout." www.forbes.com/sites/bryanr...

77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Findswww.forbes.com Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.

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Instead of on Twitter - let's try this here & see if it works by now. If you're developing a game, or released one: reply with the title, description, screenshots, and/or a link. Doesn't matter what stage of development you're in. Then repost this, and let's see what cool stuff we're all making.

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common: ppl who are new to producing games and have inadequate credits tell people with decades of successful actual game dev experience that they made the opposite of what was the wise/ recommended decision and don’t have to explain themselves. then when it doesn’t work out they fire the devs

general consensus among former humble games employees is that ziff, a media company, simply did not know how to run a video game publisher and repeatedly balked at the idea that games take a lot of time to make aftermath.site/humble-games...

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video games actually come at three price points these days: $20-30 — a video game that costs $20 or $30 $60-70 — $60 to $150, depending on how many missing pieces there are $0 — you will be relentlessly punished until you give them at least $500

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Street Exorcist ShiYa #art #oc Back on my anachronistic silliness, the skateboard art is of the four celestial beasts in Chinese mythology for each cardinal direction.

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why does retvrn to tradition always mean prairie dresses and fedoras but never temple prostitutes and transsexual oracles

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OMG.

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have you heard of video games? they're like normal games but told through the medium of video - and these days, many include audio too! if you'd like to play an audio/video game, they can be accessed from your home terminal