Hiroshi McBride

@hiroshi-mcbride.dev

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https://hiroshi-mcbride.dev Burnt out musician. On break from game dev until further notice. half 🇯🇵 he/they

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A still from Brooklyn 99 in which Deputy Commissioner Holt offers Detective Peralta a rabbit's foot for good luck
Hayao Miyazaki says "Native Access was a mistake. It's nothing but trash."
An orange cat submerged in a sink full of water with only its head poking above the surface. It looks thoroughly pleased. A caption reads: "unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing."
Korg Volca Keys synthesizer + tc electronic Hall of Fame 2 reverb
a grid of white lines on black background representing the fabric of spacetime, with earth in the middle bending the fabric around it
A black cat laying on a hardwood floor, basking in prismatic light
Brace yourselves! TRUTH BOMB INCOMING! IT'S UP TO YOU NOW! To stand up and do something about it. TAKE ACTION NOW! Value your privacy. Find ethical alternatives. Built by people who are not out to fuck you over. Because taking back control of our tools is one defense against the system they're assembling. The oligarchs of big tech are descending on you, cementing their monopolies and locking that shit in. But we have this window to act while we can. Because the stakes aren't just about a banal feature or a subscription payment. It's about preserving a relationship with technology that's made... for us."
James Lee as NOX speaking: "But I've got a little - public service announcement - about the true cost of staying in your "convenient" big tech relationship. The technologies we use become an extension of us. Interwoven into our workflows, industry, infrastructure. Enmeshed with the fabric of our culture and society. It's how we spend our time and interface with reality. There is a brazen, perverse business culture permeating big tech. It's not to deliver a quality product or solution, but to soothe, trap, and coerce you to make you reliant, addicted and dependant. Then they lobby, change the political landscape to their favor, to capitalize on the problems that they've fermented. The world is spiraling at the whims of a perpetual motion profit machine. A sick competition of power-hungry addicts. Out to brainwash you, drain your blood, then smash your molecules into shareholder profit."
Surprised Pikachu
“Just do it.” I've always hated that advice. Everything has an on boarding process. If you tell me you want to learn to cook, I'll start you on pancakes so you don't burn down the house. If you want to get fit, I'll give you light exercises to avoid prolapsing on the gym floor. I think raw dogging any activity is more likely to lead to trauma and quitting. Some say this is fine because it weeds out the weak. Be real. We play video games and write about how they make us feel. If anything, we should be trying to preserve innocence and naivety rather than stripping it away and homogenizing our writing styles. Be even more real. The studio shutdowns, acquisitions, and layoffs have done on a number on the game journalism scene, so beggars can’t be choosers.
the cover image of the show Blue Eye Samurai. A lone swordsman stands half facing the camera, brandishing their sword
A low-poly 3D aircraft flying around in a Godot test scene
hiroshi_mcbride purchased 10 releases from 9 different artists this year Barely visible in the background are the 10 releases I purchased: Tim Rurkowski - Rangers Liam P. Vaughan - Songs of the Lignin' Tide Willly Rodriguez - wetdream JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU Devon Again - deep (live from a pool) Devon Again - still can't dress myself (live from outside) Caro - Closet Lunatic Halfsunk (@halfsunk.bsky.social) - InxWAV Múr - Múr Megan Carnes (@magmacranes.bsky.social) - 11 Grains
WHY MAKE GAMES? (Check all that apply.) [ ] For FUN [✓] For MONEY [✓] For SPITE [✓] Because I MUST
a low-poly 3D model of a boxer is depicted as ready to fight, then sitting down winded, drinking from a water bottle. First pose text: "ok ima get more connected with myself" Second pose text: "damn who am i"
A list by craigbrittain.com called "Bots, Fascists, Cops, Feds, MAGA, Useful Idiots, Russian Assets"
Four capsule-shaped entities in between two rows of pillars, moving towards a floating humanoid shape. This figure has one arm and one leg. The sky is bathed in a bright purple glow and a bright light shines directly at the viewer. The music features an electric guitar strumming chords, and four voices all heavily reverberating
9 album covers on Bandcamp: Múr - Múr Halfsunk - InxWAV Caro - Closet Lunatic Devon Again - still can't dress myself (live from outside) Devon Again - deep (live from a pool) JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU Willy Rodriguez - wetdream Liam P. Vaughan - The Wildsea OST: Songs of the Lignin' Tide Tim Rurkowski - Rangers
A REAPER project window. In the bottom right, two clips of me playing the guitar parts to the music. The composite gradually fades in and out, revealing a heron looking at a lamppost. The music prominently features the Amen Break, the kicks and snares layered with additional samples. A distorted electric guitar chugs along to the beat, and a distant, faded guitar plays a lonely melody.
A scene from the game Judero, depicting cows standing in a pasture. One of the herd, named Wise Heifer, says to protagonist Judero: "Then something else has got to happen. And what will happen is one of the most exciting things." Extra detail: The terrain is a low-poly 3D model textured with photographed dirt and grass. In the distance, a small creek flows and cuts through a hill. The cows look to be photographs of real cows, displayed as flat planes facing the viewer - as are all actors and foreground details, including shrubs, blades of grass, and circles of hearts hovering slightly above the ground. A sharp vignette frames the full image. In the bottom right corner, a portrait of the Wise Heifer faces left. To the left of it, the Wise Heifer's name is displayed in text, and the line they speak to the player below that.
The front page of my website. The background is almost black of color. Handwritten, pinkish red text at the top reads "Hiroshi McBride." Smaller text right below it reads "Games | Music | Some Undefined Third Thing." Below that is a row of icons in a mauve-ish color linking to various websites. Then, an embedded YouTube video of my portfolio reel. Finally below that is an embedded playlist of some of my songs.
(fire emoji) If I could get a dime for every time Hiroshi repeated something, I'd be rich enough to fund an indie game.
(fire emoji) Your flirting with productivity is like my relationship with my laundry—always on the horizon but never quite reached.
A popup window of audio software REAPER. It reads: REAPER IS NOT FREE. It is a paid software product. If you use it more than 60 days you are required to purchase a license. You have been evaluating REAPER for approximately 184 days. You have run REAPER 286 times for a total of 184:44:50. REAPER licenses are very reasonably priced. We offer discounts for personal non-commercial use, and for very small businesses. We are showing you this message, instead of crippling this evaluation version of REAPER, because we do not feel that technological enforcement of licensing policy is in the best interest of our customers.
A clip of me on the couch, playing the guitar and singing into a microphone. The song I'm singing is called "Eleven Days" and this particular clip is of the hook, of which the lyrics are: It's only been eleven days and I am feeling some kinda way there must be something wrong with me if I was her I'd run away
Game: I Didn't Axe For This (2024) A low-resolution monochrome image of a character holding an ice axe in each hand, hanging onto a cliff face by one axe. Three bats are hovering around them
A digital paint render by Bluekomadori depicting the pokemon Ninetales. They are in a defensive stance, tails puffed up. The environment is a forest clearing.
Gameplay of Pest Apocalypse, its soundtrack containing a sample taken from a British game show contestant saying "Drum and bass", and its host replying "we need jungle I'm afraid"
Headline: Why the Human Brain Is So Good at Detecting Patterns. Subheadline: Pattern recognition is a skill most people don't know that they need or have.
A screenshot of Tony Hawk's Underground, picturing Eric Koston grinding a rail in New Jersey
I Didn't Axe For This, a 2D game about climbing. The game is entirely in black and white (1-bit) and you control it by swinging the two ice axes in the character's hand. As you hang on a wall you can also flip the character between the black and white planes.
REAPER project window playing a song I made by using the piano roll by @tnhnebula.bsky.social
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My desk, computer, audio equipment, and a bunch of clutter
DESCEND, a short first-person narrative piece about taking the plunge into a dark abyss.
Void Bunny, a 3D deep sea exploration game where you play as a sea bunny wriggling over the ocean floor.
I Didn't Axe For This, a 2D physics-based climbing game where you switch between black and white planes to pass obstacles and evade bats.
Tobias Menzies and Ciaran Hinds in The Terror, desaturated.
A person wearing a Super Mario costume, lifting up the head to reveal their own face beneath it, which resembles Super Mario in a live-action Bob Hoskins sort of way. The caption above it reads: "coming out as nonbinary when your gender presentation is still the same"
First-person movement gameplay; the player jumps off a ramp, lands into a curved quarter pipe, then falls off the level. The player's forward movement is extremely fast. The objects in the level are all textured with a blue or white grid. An electronic beat plays throughout the clip.
System of a Down - Toxicity
The left half of the image features a portrait photograph of Hayao Miyazaki. The right half contains the text: "Following so many starter packs was a mistake."
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A pixel character with a black heart for a body and four white limbs
A blurry photo of me behind a drum kit
A 2D monochrome climber using ice axes to climb up a cliff, flipping between black and white to evade bats.
A REAPER project window showing the full interface
A cropped REAPER window showing 12 vocal tracks and a bass synth as the song is playing
A 2D physics-driven character climbing up a wall using icepicks
A 2D character holding two icepicks, wildly flailing its arms around and failing to climb up a wall.
A screenshot of Judero, speaking to an NPC. Smart looking man: "God, how do we get rid of our mistakes? How do we get rid of our mistakes? How do you wipe them away? You just can't. They stay with you."
A REAPER project whose title is "appropriating instruments from entirely disparate cultures to create a quote unquote exotic sound"
A person lowering their glasses with one hand. Their eyes are moved along with the glasses, and there is just skin where their eyes would normally be.
A screenshot of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, the skateboarder doing a Special grind