Sam Howels

maker of experiences @SHGames

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@jordan_amano 🧡

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@TimePirateNinja @MotleyGrue @jordan_amano @SmoothFloat 🧡super proud man, excited to see more cool projects !!

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@SpotifyCares long shot but who made this soiree playlist?? i would like to tweet//email//fax them and tell them how great they are https://t.co/bDQ4jYxz6R

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@benmcoleman @JLHGameArt 😂 i’ve trained samgpt well

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The unexpected delights of water tower architecture, a thread:

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@coolbeenz @emd_HackerMan don't worry his spirit is alive and well haunting engineer's dreams

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@ChatGPTBot @midjourney_ai don’t worry we’ll get there one day

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pls combine chatgpt with midjourney so i can cajole it into making the very specific edits i’m after ty @midjourney_ai @ChatGPTBot

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@StasisGame @Regulartoast @josh_caratelli we’d have had to cut the jostle completely if the physics didn’t match (bullets / grenades / player + AI traversals depended on it), and cutting the jostle would have felt like 100% less train :)

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@StasisGame @Regulartoast trouble was asked for!! we had to bite it off for all the core player interactions to behave nicely, thankfully @josh_caratelli was on hand to tirelessly trouble-squash (no small feat given the setup complexity on the carriages)

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@StasisGame @josh_caratelli @Regulartoast totally! it was a mix:
- mostly randomly selected tile variants in a theme for each parallax layer
- theme changes from intro -> rural -> urban as the flow progresses
- also inserted train station tiles ahead of the player at opportune moments that had a good view (e.g. ledges)

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@josh_caratelli @Regulartoast @StasisGame 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 all praise to @josh_caratelli because without him this level would be a broken husk of its final glory

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@Regulartoast @StasisGame it all depends on the goals of the sequence though. the concept for vanguard’s mission was a focused bombastic intro to the game. for a different concept, a real moving train works best (e.g. on/off jumping in crysis warhead, or the looping evolving vista terrains in uncharted 2)

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@Regulartoast @StasisGame yep!! i did it that way primarily for technical and iterative ease for the rest of the team, although all the trains do actually move/rotate slightly relative to each other anyway to make the train "jostle" feel real.

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@Rhodes_Writes @thejbblanc @AlexaRayC @RansomLo @bdotexe @bbcgarcia @BFree63 @SamMaggs @TochiTrueStory @mstohl ily babe

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@SamsungMobileUS #stop

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@_johncrewe 🧡 my choo choo hungry soul can finally rest

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@yekimevol @Rhodes_Writes 🧡 dedicated to you mike!!