Jake Sones

@jakeson.es

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Prinicpal Game Designer @ https://Board.fun Formerly of WB Games, Sony, Blizzard, Insomniac https://jakeson.es

A cropped photo of the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality on a Super Metroid cartridge for SNES.
A photo of the band Black Flag, which as far as I'm aware, is unrelated to Assassin's Creed IV.
A stuffed spider whose two front legs are lovingly wrapped around the ad for peccaries. The caption reads: "Move over, pigs. There's a new pig-like thing in town."
A rakan statue carved during the decade long restoration of Otagi Nenbutsu-Ji temple started in 1981. It shows an excited person holding a Walkman -- pilgrims to the temple were taught to carve personal figures that spoke to their passions.
A screenshot of the Apple Design Awards website, featuring "Is This Seat Taken?" as the games winner of the "Delight and Fun" category.
Screen shot of homebrew Pokédex pulling actual data from a linked Stern Insider account.
Screenshot of Phoenix Slides, image browsing software that focuses on directory structure at the top and thumbnails of the current folder at the bottom.
Also, I hit a golf ball into a toilet. You should be proud of me, this wasn't easy.
A screenshot of Normal Golf Game, where with a perfect example of emergent gameplay, you are able to hit the ball into the toilet.
A screenshot of Jim Carrey's IMDB, where he starred in In Living Color, Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb And Dumber all in 1994.
Time lapse of drawing a bandana pattern using Proceeate's radial symmetry tool. From Hearth Agency: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7R5mJpJDOJ/
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo above two images stitched together to resemble it. The original "100% genuine playtest reaction" from the post this is replying to on the side of God, a magazine ad from The Learning Company in the early '90s playing the role of Adam.
Normal copy protection for PC games in the 80s-90s prompted you for a code, or it would not boot. This required the player to have sheets of paper with codes (in an era where high resolution scanners/copiers or image files weren't readily available).
Level design sketches of Sonic game mechanics by Hirokazu Yashuara
Holding the game case for Rhythm Heaven on NintendonDS above a drawer of other DS games.
AP Thomson on stage accepting the Excellence In Design award for Titanium Court
A corn empanada and and the bag it came in
VTuber Shy Lily making amaaaaazing use of the UMG notepad I implemented using UE5's OnPaint DrawLines. Honestly didn't think it was possible to get this detailed, props to their high DPI mouse.
Screen grab from the Kotaku review of High On Life 2, with an underline on the section in brackets: One memorable mission involves a full-on murder mystery that you must solve, [complete with an in-game notepad that lets you mark off clues and suspects]. Another time, I visited a retro game planet with low-poly enemies and environments. A standout boss fight involved the baddie digitally inserting themselves into my high-tech bounty suit and clawing their way into my pause menu, forcing me to fight them in the different settings menus.
Screen grab of the Game Rant review for High On Life 2, giving it an 8 / 10.
Bluesky user map showing placement among several clusters that have been labeled things like "Indie Creative Workshop" and "Retro Gaming Forge"
An abandoned car found on a hiking trail in Joshua Tree.
A series of short video clips showing interactions on Board, a tabletop game console that detects placement and orientation of physical game pieces on a 25" touch screen.
A screenshot of a lesser known Sierra point & click adventure game, EcoQuest: The Search For Cetus
Retro logo for Shovelware Games with a scanimate style reveal, made in Godot with shaders based on gradient paths.
An illustration of Alex Horne, hidden somewhere within the Taskmaster advent calendar.
An Anbernic RG CubeXX running pico-8, and playing Skeleton Gelatin by Adam Saltsman
An unopened advent calendar from Taskmaster.
Crossbody PlayStation bag given as a swag gift from a Sony E3 party sometime between 2000 and 2010
Two screenshots of the New York Times website, showing a recurring opinion section "Interesting Times" by Ross Douthat and a recent topic from Interesting Times, "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?"
Screenshot of an archived Kotaku article linked from the post that reads: Before Fez, Fish was doing art for project with an indie from Toronto named Shawn McGrath. Things fell apart, there was a disagreement and they both went their separate ways. "So the basic 2d/3d idea was Shawn's," Fish concedes. "But the look and feel of the game, that's all Miyamoto and Miyazaki."
A cabinet full of tiki mugs in a tiki themed room. There's a miniature bust of Admiral Akbar in Victorian naval regalia hiding amongst the decor.
A screengrab from Kaizen: A Factory Story, showing the different charts for optimizing for time, cost, and area. All are showing the lowest section of the bar graphs, except cost, which is left of the lowest shown.
A recording the constructing a sandwich in the game Kaizen: A Factory Story. This is optimized for cost and only costs ¥19.
A magazine ad for the Gravis Gamepad
Star trails forming a circle around Polaris, with some rock formations in the foreground.
One of the original Taco Bell locations, featuring an all brick exterior, arch that holds an actual bell, and logo with character obscured by a sombrero and zarape sitting atop a bell.
A screenshot of the initial setup for How To Convert. It shows the libraries that will be installed and how to acquire them outside of the installer.
A screenshot from Sierra Online's King's Quest IV (1988). A giant dead tree takes up the entire top half of the screen, spreading its blackened branches above a graveyard.
A Lego set for Soundwave, the cassette player Transformer. In the foreground is the toy that the set is based on. In the background is the current bonus set when ordering directly from Lego, a chibi astronaut.
A dark blue baseball cap with an interlocking "KC" in white. Apparently for the Kaiba Corp, a fictional company in the YuGiOh universe, and not the Kansas City Royals.
A professional badge for the San Diego Comic-Con.
A marketing image of a MacBook running macOS Catalina, with the desktop showing an aerial photograph taken from above the uninhabited southern tip of Catalina Island.
A tall personal trainer helping an older woman with her exercise regimen.
SAN DIEGO -The San Diego Police Department would like to commend the tens of thousands of community members who gathered peacefully on Saturday, June 14, for several large-scale protests across San Diego. Two demonstrations downtown drew an estimated 60,000 plus participants and remained peaceful and respectful throughout the afternoon. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl expressed appreciation for the cooperation between organizers, participants, and officers. "It was encouraging to see so many people gather peacefully today," said Chief Wahl. "We're grateful to everyone who helped make these events safe for our city." Throughout the demonstrations, police officers worked closely with event organizers and community leaders to ensure that traffic was managed, streets remained open where possible, and that safety protocols were followed. As of Saturday afternoon, no arrests had been made, and there were no reports of property damage or injuries related to the protests. The Department also recognized the contributions of volunteer marshals, local nonprofit partners, and city agencies that supported the events. Officers were assigned to various demonstrations across the city not only to provide security but to facilitate a safe environment for everyone. The San Diego Police Department remains committed to protecting the rights of all individuals to assemble and exercise their freedom of speech. We thank our residents for their collaboration and the strong sense