Brian Foster

@brianfoster.bsky.social

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I teach Game Development at Wichita State, Playtest at Butterscotch Shenanigans, coordinate the ICT Game Jam, and make video games. brianisbrilliant.com

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Green things growing out of the ground!
a screenshot of a sale for kenney game assets that ends in 3 years, 12 months, and 3 days.
Seven fountain pens with their caps on in a black roll case, with the names of the pens and the ink in the top left written on a piece of paper.
Pilot Namiki Vanishing Point <M> with Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo ink. A gift! from a new acquaintance. Very, very cool. And kind. It feels smooth, light, and solid.
A Deity TC-1 for Timecode generation plugged into the Vive Mars Cam Track Dashboard.
A deck of cards laid out in a game of Pile Up Poker, by @Puzzmo.com
Small waves in an indoor swimming pool.
Picture of airplane hangar with stage at one end. Behind the stage is a screen.
Unreal Engine's Third Person Level, with different colors than gray on gray.
Picture of which engine is used the most at Game developer conference. They’re all about equal.
Six disassembled fountain pens drying on a paper towel.
Portrait of author outside a tall building.
a screenshot of the account settings page of itch.io
The credits screen for Kirby Spring Breeze.
Picture of the author sitting in his basement. He looks happy but his eyes are red from staring at the screen all day.
A dancer in white is in front of a large curved LED panel. Two film students are operating a camera.
Photo from view of car driving down sunny road with dark storm clouds above and green trees lining either side.
Picture of me at 35 years old sitting in my car. White sunglasses match the AirPods, but do they look good on me?
Box art for Nuclear Throne, featuring Eyes, Fish, and Crystal.
Box Art for Half-Life 2.
Box art for Dishonored
The box art for Diablo 2: Lord of Destruxtion
The Nintendo 64 box art for Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.
Picture of exterior of Butler Community College, cloudy morning, and ferns.
Sleep tracking from my Apple Watch shows 5 hours of sleep.
Rainy and cloudy view of the highway as I drive to the ICT Game Jam.
A holographic sticker
A yellow sticker and a blue sticker
Charcoal drawing of a still life on an easel.