Brody 🚀 Brooks

@brodybrooks.com

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🕹️ Gameplay & Tools Programmer
 🧑‍🚀 He/Him 🎮 Past Games: Harmonium: The Musical (tOG), Where Cards Fall (The Game Band), Exhibit 01: The Equipment of Apollo 15 (Solo), Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltrati0n (Night School Studio)

A first-person game, showing me walking up to a polygonal desktop computer, zooming into it, moving its little mouse cursor, then pressing its power button to turn it off and then on.
Philadelphia skyline, lit up with red white and blue, with smoke from fireworks in the foreground
Screenshot of Sony's account recovery page, showing an error that reads "The connection to the server timed out."
Holding two boxes: a white box carrying a silicone watch strap, and a blue box holding a Pebble Time 2 watch.
Wiki page diagram comparing Luke Skywalker to "Bigger Luke"
Shipping notification email that my new Pebble Time 2 has been shipped out
Blender viewport screenshot of various street signs, bollards, and machines common on Japanese urban streets.
A small, A7-sized e-reader dwarfed by my left hand holding it. On the screen is the cover for Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Holding a white box with a black outline of a small e-ink reader with XTEINK in large letters, followed by a Chinese subtitle I can’t read.
Japanese athlete Ryusei Yonee while breaking the world record for fastest 100 meters while running on all fours.
A box of 3D printed drain covers
Close up shot of Kepler, a brown French Bulldog with an extra-wrinkly face and floppy ears.
Kepler (French Bulldog) looking over a railing at the enormous Grand Canyon
U.S. President Trump, in announcing that 'major combat operations' had started, urged Iranians to rise up. "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations," he said in a video address.
A scene in space, with a small space probe on the left with a large solar sail seen flying past a planet on the right of the frame that's partially eclipsing a blue star.
Header for my web site, now with a floating 3D model of my head in low enough fidelity that it would fit perfectly in a Dreamcast game from 2001.
Screenshot from the Blender viewport of a low-poly rendition of my head
Blender viewport screenshot of a model of my face, with photo textures that are definitely not fully aligned yet. Looks like I have a giant lower lip.
Split screenshot, with Krita on the left where I'm stitching photos of myself together to make a self-portrait 3D headbust, and Blender on the right where I have the untextured geometry.
A still from the 1997 movie Contact showing Jodie Foster in a brown turtleneck and a brown tweed jacket, a signature outfit worn by Carl Sagan.
10-day weather forecast for Pasadena, California showing rain nearly every day.
The game Routine (announced in 2012) released today on Steam
Washington Post headline: “One sector is holding up the economy. These 8 charts help show if it's a bubble about to pop.”
"Cleveland exported hundreds of Subnautica Maya (.ma) files, which are used in 3D animation modelling and contain proprietary embedded data, providing, effectively, a blueprint for a game," added Negangard. Krafton claims Cleveland downloaded what "essentially amounts to a blueprint for Subnautica."
Mr. Yukawa (aka Mr. Sega) at his desk with his eyes closed, looking down, his hands on either side of his head. Behind me are stacks of Dreamcast boxes.
Night photo of Kepler (a French Bulldog with floppy ears) sitting in grass by the roadside, illuminated by the headlights of an oncoming car. His silhouette is accented by an outline of light.
Inside the window of a closed coffee shop at night, a mannequin with a screaming unicorn head sits at the window bar with a book.
A stream of NASA'S Crew-11 launch, presented by a V-tuber
Screenshot from Urbanista.com showing all of their products are sold out.
Unreal Engine blueprint node for a function called "Is A", used to determine if an object is of a class type. Coming out the right side are two outputs called True and False.
A girl, angry-crying, with a jungle camo bucket hat pulling her school uniform top up to cover her head, with the subtitles saying: "Ahm nae gonnae listen tae ye go off aboot nothin', ye eejits!"
VW Won’t Bring Small EVs To The US. But It's Mulling An Electric Pickup. America already has plenty of large, electron-guzzling vehicles, yet manufacturers don't want to bring cheaper EVs to the States.
The KG Motors Mibot, a tiny, one-person car. It has a yellow body with black trim and wheels, and the front and back are symmetrical; no front hood jutting out.
A popup message in the photo viewer application for Windows 11, advertising "Edit your images using AI. Perfect your images or transform them into something brand new. Learn more." No thank you, I will not.
Me sitting at my desk with headphones on, and a French Bulldog in my lap, back vertical and front legs over my arm like the handlebars on a rollercoaster.
A Zima Blade single-board computer, encased in a black metal casing with a clear acrylic window, and white blocky designs all over. It’s the size of a portable cassette player and LOOKS like a portable cassette player.
A web portal with the title "YunoHost" and a series of large buttons for RSS Reader (an RSS reader service), Gitea (a GitHub-like git forge), NextCloud (replaces Google Drive, Contacts, Calendar, and Docs), and Zerobin (encrypted and limited-lifespan alternative to PasteBin).
Photo of me, a white male with dark blonde hair, wearing a white Flo Mask and silver/teal glasses
I’m sitting at my computer, and next to me in the foreground is a small chair with a ramp by SeatMate with a medium-sized French Bulldog named Kepler resting on it.
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A 3D rendering of a three-storey building with large glass windows on the top floor and rough-outs of billboards plastered all over it." title="A 3D rendering of a three-storey building with large glass windows on the top floor and rough-outs of billboards plastered all over it.
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A top-view diagram of a town with streets and buildings, with a gray background and white outlines.
Reporting screen over the Gumshoe Gooper photo
Matt Damon in "The Martian" recording the video log where he states that he ran out of ketchup weeks ago and is resorting to dipping his potatoes in vicodin.
A small, black laptop. The keyboard is the full width of the device, and the trackpad is above it close to the screen hinge. The screen shows a dark fantasy illustration as a preview.
Video showing the player walking up to a white cylinder, bumping into it to show it's on a stiff spring joint, and then proceeds to sit on it and rock around.
Meme that shows two panels. On top is Regular People: A figure walks towards a rake (called Send a CV), which hits them in face (called Get rejected. On bottom is Software Engineer: A figure rides a rake like a skateboard (Send a CV), starts a grind along a stair railing (Interview with HR), glides down a set of steps (Interview with Developers), hops off the rail (Technical interview), lands with the rake hitting them in the face (Get rejected).
Photo of a cardboard box with a black-and-white pixel art illustration of a dense Japanese alleyway
Screenshot of my portfolio site
First person gameplay of approaching a boxy vending machine, making a selection, putting in money, then getting a bottled drink. And then enjoying a tasty beverage.
Screenshot collage of the Mr. Robot social-engineering-texting game by Night School Studio for phones
Bag of Purdue “Space Nuggets” which are chicken nuggets shaped like stars, crescent moons, and space men.
That’s the joke
Photo of a man holding eclipse glasses on a child from above, the LA Times headline reading "Preparing for Monday's solar eclipse: What you need to do to watch safely"
Near the end of 2022, as management was fighting to bring back Garriss, someone noticed something odd in the in-development new Life Is Strange game. It was an in-game sign that incorporated the word “Sheeeit” in what seemed to be a reference a racist meme. The individual flagged the asset as problematic, and was reassured at the time that it would be changed. But the meme soon surfaced again. A few months later, another person saw the same scene and noticed a problem with a different asset: the number 88, which is widely used as a hate symbol referencing Hitler. This person flagged the issue to their superiors, presuming it was accidental. But as word spread around the studio and more people looked at the scene, even more symbols were found. These included (among potential others) the number 18, an apparent Hagal rune – widely used in Nazi Germany to signify devotion to Nazi philosophy – and the same apparent racist meme reference before, albeit shortened to “Sheee.” Developers flagg
A photo of the Harmonium trailer playing on the Game Awards stage, showing a young girl looking at something and saying “Wow”