Karl Lakner

Art Director | Art Manager | Indie Dev | Paradox, Overkill, Starbreeze | the face of Dallas in Payday I

[Willy Dequid @WDequid]

The image shows a series of views of a proposed Tupolev strategic bomber, the Tu-170. 145 tons, mid-1990s. Magnificent design! 📸✈️
#Tupolev

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@ClaireMax @ewwendt Except here in stockholm :) we have to use body heat to keep the box at a sweet room temperate 👍

[RUINER 2 @ruinergame]

Missed me, Puppy?

[Brian Fargo @BrianFargo]

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@locust9 @RexTheWho That dollar sign design was more or less a single meeting, and I remember Dave saying “ok” right way when i sketched it out :)

Also, that brief is set in DIN mittelschrift, not the narrower Engschrift I picked just so we could squeeze more text into the interface 😂

[Victoria 3 @PDXVictoria]

Happy Tuesday!

We begin the activities with this lovely 3 Year Anniversary infographic, based on data since the last anniversary! What are your favorite statistics?

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@locust9 This is so shit and so unfair, Dave.

[LogoArchive @LogoArchive]

Lots more historical logos added to LogoArchive over the last two weeks. See these and thousands more at https://t.co/VGmPvDgMdU

[Black 🏳️‍⚧️ Site @UnseenOps]

Love it when military vehicles push the boundaries of hydro and aerodynamics and evolve into something biomechanical

[Tactical Breach Wizards @BreachWizards]

TACTICAL BREACH WIZARDS IS OUT!
Sorry for yelling but it took ages to make

Turn-based tactics game about Navy Seers and Traffic Warlocks from the devs of @GunpointGame and @HeatSig

Grab it now for a discount and a lil extra gift! https://t.co/JX5Sxjhg4R

RTs much appreciated!

[Jek Korpen🆖 @Jek_Korpen]

ART DIRECTION, people.

this is from a 22 year old game. theres less polygons here than a hl1 scientist.

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@Kappische Closed beta when? I need to play this 👍👍👍

[space Kruchygir @Valahor2]

and here i am asking you about retweeting this! I am open for commissions! i can draw any #scifi stuff (mechs, vehicles, weapons, #spaceship ) of every known universe (Star Wars, 40k,halo,Mass Effect, etc.) for more info you can contact me on comments, DMS via [email protected]

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@JaniceChu_89 \o/

…but why? 😊

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@Coulianos @X Same, more or less stopped using it now because of the signal to noise ratio…

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

Easiest nomination I ever made. Good luck, can’t wait to play it!

[Filip Coulianos @Coulianos]

Jump ship has been nominated for most anticipated game, please vote for us!

[AST21 @Gsh_60_1]

Fighter jets turned into racing machines. Old works spawned by old idea. Enjoyed doing these very much :)

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@jtoresson Holy shit

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

[Karl Lakner @ctrldashk]

@pascalblanche @TheSpaceshipper Favourite cover ❤️