Clinton Shepherd

@foolhardygames.bsky.social

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Senior Game Designer at Mighty Games (Keywords). Coffee, game dev and painting minis, in no particular order... (he/him)

Small white truck in a laneway with the words “Design. Regret. Confess.”
Screen grab from the linked article of a paragraph reading; "Krafton now faces that $250 million bill after agreeing to pay $3.12 for every $1, or up to $250 million, to Unknown Worlds’ former shareholders every time the studio’s revenue topped $69.8 million a month since the Korean game developer acquired the U.S. firm in 2021. $250 million is equivalent to about 35% of Krafton’s operating profit last year."
ABC News Headline: Coalition points to stealth bombers as potential AUKUS stop-gap The Coalition says Australia should consider buying next generation stealth bombers to help bridge the gap until AUKUS submarines arrive.
Screenshot of "Oh Nobles" gameplay, with randomly generated battle name "The Battle of Puffing Tweed - Day 3"
The top half the Dan Murphy icons face looms down from part of Southern Cross station’s exit with the text “Dan knows” above…
Screen shot of a pico8 prototype showing a green field covered in a hex grid with 6 blue banners with different symbols down one end, and 6 pink banners with different symbols down the other. Small little 3 pixel high people gather under each banner. At the bottom of the screen there is a information window for the currently selected pink banner. It shows some unknown stats, a small portrait of a cross-eyed noble in a white wig, with the text "Marque De Foolhardy. Must move towards enemy" and then the letters of the alphabet from A to W (as a way of measuring how many letters can be displayed in a single line on that part of the screen)
A small bag of coffee, branded “Mosaic” and labeled as being single origin
Photo of a bag of coffee beans. Text on the bag reads “Orthodox” followed by the sentence “Endless possibilities in coffee”
Screenshot of the main menu from the game The Bridge. The new "Daily Assault" game mode is highlighted and the tool tip at the bottom of the screen says the players high score for 4/10/2025 is only 468 (with the game ending before the charges are all placed)
“Run Ended” screen from the game “From Rust to Ash” running on an RGB30 handheld
Two wine glasses, one empty, one full, on a wooden table looking out on the sea
Photo of a wall with a massive single maroon red stripe that runs down the side of the stairs to level below
The Hives on stage at the Forum theatre. The band are lit up by dramatic lighting and the word “HIVES” is spelled out above them with each letter written on big white sphere hanging from the rafters.
A hand holding up a PocketChip handheld computer that is currently running a prototype Pico8 game
Start screen for the game "The Beastly Seige" by Rob Caporetto. Developed for Atari's "I, Rebel" Jam in 2025. The high score on the screen is listed as 10,550
Gameplay from "The Bridge", a game made in Pico8 that plays a little like a weird tower defense game mixed with something that isn't quite Tetris. The player must manage a crew of three as they try to man and fire 7 cannons at oncoming waves of enemies. Each crew member acquires their own special abilities and blast patterns as the game progresses, and they try to hold out to the end.
An RGB30 handheld game console running a prototype Pico 8 game, sits on top of the touch pad of a laptop with the Pico 8 code editor on screen.
Gameplay of an early Pico 8 prototype. A horde of monsters is advacing from five caves at the top of the screen and moving towards a row of five cannons. The player is trying to keep the cannons firing by moving three crew members between them (a cannon only fires when a crew member is directly behind them). Every other time the player chooses to reposition a crew member, the monsters advance one space closer. The crew members sometimes need to move back from the cannons to pick up more ammunition so they can keep firing. Eventually the player and their crew is overwhelmed and the monsters break through the cannon line, triggering a Game Over screen.
A minute of gameplay from an early Pico 8 prototype with very basic 8 bit graphics. 3 people at the bottom of the screen try to fire a collection of five cannons aimed at the strange creatures that emerge from the caves at the top of the screen. Each time one of the people moves to fire a different cannon or collect more ammo, then creatures advance one space and then more spawn.
A screenshot from Balatro showing the “You win!” Screen
The Game Over screen from Balatro. The player was only 40000 chips away from completing the run.
A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game being played on a table. The two warbands Khagra’s Ravagers and Thundrik’s Profiteers are facing off
View from a hilltop overlooking farmland at sunset. A fence and a couple of round hay bales are in the foreground
A skirmish war game board and terrain set with miniatures in the middle of play
A still from Aunty Donna's "Everything's a Drum" skit where Zach is sitting on the lounge room floor smashing bottles. The subtiles have been changed to "Everything's an Xbox!"
Eight kitbashed plastic army men arrayed on a craft table. Each of them has had their head replaced with beads and/or plastic animal heads to make them look weird and inhuman. They have been primed black dry brushed white, making them look like they are from an old black and white horror film .
Eight different green plastic army men with their heads replaced with random stuff such beads, and plastic zoo animal heads.
Seven different green plastic army men
A video of a game prototype with pixel graphics. Gameplay shows the player selecting and moving three different crew members around to try and fire five different cannons at the oncoming hordes of monsters.
A Kitchen table with a game of Spearhead setup on it. Three mancrusher-gargants have swarmed across the board to swamp an initial force of Stormcast
A game of Warhammer 40k in progress. Some Space Marines and Sisters of Silence are positioned in the foreground, while a group of Terminator Marines advance on some Necrons in the background
Image title "My Games Week" with a photo of myself and list of Melbourne Internation Games Week events I could go to. I have indicated I will be attending the Launch Party, PAX and Megadev
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #3,136,285, Clinton Shepherd ‪@foolhardygames.bsky.social‬, joined on Feb 4, 2024"
A Japanese copy of After Burner for the Famicom
A photo of the Japanese version of Hatris (from the designer of Tetris) for the Famicom
Me, standing in the living area of my new house a year ago. I’m wearing a purple TSNW hoodie and throwing my hands into the air with a look of pride and relief at having a place combined with anger at how fucked the housing market is
Unit of three Bastards with tiny rapiers riding what looks like oversized capybara’s that have antelope horns.
A boss coffee can that’s been cut up and glued into a shape resembling a boot, then filled with tin foil
A kitbashed piece of miniature terrain that looks like if you mashed a tugboat, Thomas the tank engine and the exploding mutated flesh scene from the anime Akira together. The front of the boat is a horrendous pink face with one massive eye, one tiny eye and a mouthful of sharp teeth leering up at severed ox head hanging from a makeshift crane attached to the boat’s bow.
Sinister little potato headed being wearing a dragoons helmet and brandishing a tiny rapier, sits high in the saddle upon an oxen-like beast of burden that has an oversized antelope head. The strange beast is muzzled and blinkered.