Keith Evans

@kaynsd.itch.io

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Keith. Technical Designer & Game Developer. [he/him/his] C# Programmer and Systems Architect. Procedural Generator Generator. Technically Swedish Now. Dilettante and Dabbler. Possibly a Wizard. Mastodon: [@kaynSD@peoplemaking.games] Itch: [kaynsd.itch.io]

Mike and Rami describing Mike and Rami
Mike and Rami live on stage at Develop Conference, Mike looking like an excited gremlin while Rami looks resigned to his fate of what the next hour has in store for him.
Keith wearing an orange polo shirt and smiling, clearly staring too much into the sun. In the background is the English Channel and Brighton's west pier; a burnt out wreck of a pier that isn't a metaphor for the games industry.
A page from "I Want My Hat Back" by Jon Klassen, the left half of which has a red background and a stylised bear sitting bolt upright in a perfect L shape with arms down the side and eyes open. The right of the page is white with black text, in all caps "I HAVE SEEN MY HAT."
A test result from the AI Compass showing a result in the Union Organizer category, just to the west of Cory Doctorow.
A dusty Collectors Edition of City of Villains, with four of the HeroClix miniatures positioned in front of it.
The same scribble of the ship but with hidden numbers highlighted in digital green pen; the main sail has a 1, the aft cabin has a 2, a 3 is hidden in the fore, a 4 makes up the mizzenmast, a 5 is formed out of the back of the ship and a wave, and rudder is a 6, the bowsprit a 7 and the anchor is a sideways 8
A crude scribbled representation of a painting of a ship on graph paper, titled The Effervescent Meteorite and signed by a fictitious painter
A Val and Isaac comic. Dread and Garla are fighting a giant cell monster. Garla yells "Dread it's undergoing mitosis! Shoot it". Dread, armed with a giant futuristic canon responds "On it!". However the gun itself states that she needs to agree to its terms and conditions and end user license agreement. A beat panel follows of Dread looking intensely at the guns popup window while Garla fights the monster. Garla yells "JUST SAY I AGREE" which Dread yelling back "Garla I am not surviving this just to get screwed over by a corporation!"
The words "Godot Android Build Environment" arranged as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title.
A selfie of Keith, a brown haired white skinned man with glasses and a younger than forty one year old complexion, wearing a t-shirt that exclaims DESTROY AI, sitting on the floor in front of a tall shelf of roleplaying game books.
A fake titlecard for Star Trek Deep Space Nine, showing the eponymous space station, with the fake episode name "No Truce with the Nerys".
A copy of the book "Next Level; Making Games That Make Themselves" by Mike Cook
Front profile of a Warhammer 40000 Miniature, a Chaos Space Marine Helbrute. Painted in red and black, a tortured bipedal engine of destruction atop a scenic lava base. Armed with a multimelta and a rocket launcher
A still from kaynSD's gamedev livestream yesterday. In the bottom right is a picture-in-picture view of his webcam showing predomenantly him in an orange shirt looking puzzled in an office/workshop, but sitting on a perch to the top left of the frame is a round, pink, Skatebird mascot plushie.
Agatha's Stone Moon Tavern set from TTCombat's Tabletop Scenic range; a complex multistory wargame scale model of a medieval fantasy inn with timber framing, complex roof shingles, windows, and a well, all cut out of 3mm MDF wood
Warhammer 40000 Red Corsairs Reave-Captain miniature; a 28mm scale miniature of a pirate in red knight like powered armour, welding a sword and a plasma pistol. Base coat colours (no fine details, edge highlights, or inks applied), from the front.
A playback of a round from Killer Instinct (2013) between kaynSD and a low difficulty CPU opponent, between two copies of TJ Combo (the boxer character). kaynSD proceeds to play pretty sloppily but gets a perfect round and demonstrates TJ's Auto-Barrage combo
Screenshot from Star Stable. Four horses of different breeds lined up
Official art of a Ponyta from Pokémon, a white horse like creature with a flaming mane and tail
An auditorium inside a converted chapel at Breda University of Art and Sciences, showing a stage with a projector screen showing talk previews
The caption says "disembodied floating pigs head" but the generative AI machine sludge that this came from doesn't really know what to do with this approximation of a person's head
A webcam picture of the account holder, @kaynSD, a white game developer in his mid forties with long hair, glasses, and a black t-shirt sitting at a desk in an office full of 3D printers and crafting materiel. It is night time and the office is illuminated with low lights to suit.
Panel from Flash Gordon, Thursday, January 16, 2025. Bok the Dragonman and Velle the Ambassador from Shark City have a conversation where Bok is looking smug and Velle is looking uneasy. Bok: Let me guess: you were just living your life, doing what you were told -- then HE made you want to do better. Velle: Well, I-- it's a bit more nuanced than that -- Bok: Sure.
The words "Frank Miller Draws Hairy Turtles" rendered in the classing TMNT 89 cartoon logo
An orange card game deck box containing a hundred orange sleeved Magic: The Gathering Cards for a Commander deck. The card at the front, showing the Commander of the deck, is "The First Sliver" which has a casting cost of one mana of each colour. The joke is that Slivers are uniformly hated across all of magic and so bringing this as your Commander implies the entire deck is a five color Sliver is such poor form and sportsmanship that it must be stopped at all costs, including airport security.
A final score screen from the demo of the game Denshattack!, for the level Shin's Testground with a final score of 105,198 (where a gold medal is 30,000pts) and all 8/8 dares completed
A screenshot from the game Ruiner, showing only the protagonist of the game (Puppy) from the shoulders up. A person in a black jacket with a full face concealing helmet with a screen covering and shaped to the face shaking the words NO FILE in a terminal font
Two side bets in Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, showing successful payouts on side bets for "Likely Event: MAIMED IN RAID" paying out a ridiculous 50,000,000 and a "Long Position: Stock will reach 472,699" paying out an also honestly game winning sum but not quite as ludicrous 12,500,000
Part of a trading end screen from Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator showing a line graph with two lines; a blue one reading Baby Value that steadily trends upwards before crashing at the end, and a yellow one that is labelled Invested Stocks, which rises to it's maximum very early, and then tapers off slowly just as the blue value reaches maximum. The average stock price was 921,502, the average sale price was 1,274,129. The total profit was 20,023,238.
Part of a screenshot from the game Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, showing three alien advisors (one of whom resembles a dog but is actually a lying shapeshifting kajillionaire named Chad Shakespeare WHO IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED OR ACKNOWLEDGED), giving the following advice: - Ratio of positive events will be between 0% and 0% - Will live between 13 and 53 years - Will not live to 30
A screenshot from the demo of MANIFESTO, a gloriously garish nightmare of dystopian pixel art. It shows a round score of $278,208, adding to a balance of $2.4m... with a target quota of 300,000
A snipping of a steam store page saying "Coming soon. This item is not yet available"
An unreleased Warhammer 40000 miniature of a traitor guard officer on a floating platform surrounded by computer screens. She has a peg leg, a cutlass at her waist, and skulls where military medals should be.
A Warhammer 40000 Space Ork miniature, painted in a steel, black, and yellow colour scheme, holding a rocket launcher with distinctive red and yellow wiring.
A game project structure showing a directory named Combat and a long list of files and subdirectories named things like ECS (which contains Components and Systems), and OrderSystem (which contains directories like OrderConstruction, Orders, Respondables, Steps, View and classes like OrderSequencer and OrderHistoryModel),
The cover of a book named "Computer SpaceGames: For ZX Spectrum, ZX81, BBC, TRS-80, APPLE, VIC & PET". The main image is of a series of pulp space ships engaged in a dogfight over a colony ship that has landed on a brown crater ridden planet, with inset pictures of the 1980's style games that could be programmed with the book.
A 1.5m drag chain, 3D-printed in black plastic, wrapped around two displayport cable and one hdmi cable, laid out on a laminate wood effect floor.
A character sheet for an RPG, with a picture of a tall fantasy elf with a long bow on their back dressed in a Christmas Keebler Elf style ensemble and not looking very happy about it.
A screenshot from the game UNBEATABLE, where the main character Beat, a woman with pink hair and a yellow jacket, is standing in a militarised suburb. There is a speech bubble above her head that reads "It's astonishing how little I know what's going on right now"
A steam achievement overlay showing 66/66 achievements attained for Demonschool, the final one being named "Finish the game"
A screenshot from Games Workshop's website showing the Pre-Order listing for Warhammer Quest Darkwater, for a price of 2020 Swedish Crowns (213 USD, 184 EUR, 161 GBP)
Two Warhammer 40000 Kill Teams posed in a display cabinet. The Ork Wrecka Krew on the left and the The Ratling Sniper team on the right.
Warhammer 40000 Ratling Sniper Kill Team minitatures on a turntable
Turntable photo of a Warhammer 40000 Ratling Sniper Kill Team. Focus on the Fixer and a Sniper.
Some 28mm scale Warhammer 40000 miniatures held on a turntable and photographed with a macro lens. A Ratling Fixer (a military sergeant but from a group of people who don't stand taller than three foot tall) holding binoculars and a cup of tea, and a pug laden with supplies, surrounded by ammunition boxes. The crates are painted military green, the fixer and his dog are sandy coloured to match their bases which have been flocked with sand.
A video from a game engine showing a basic dice roller that simulates a roll of five dodecahedral dice (d12) painted with rainbow sides for ease of seeing what values they land on. First the dice rolls the sequence which lands as a 1, 7, 8, 12, and 12. After this roll, the game goes back to the editor, where the values for each of the dice are rigged to 12. The game is restarted, and all five dice roll physically the exact same way, but all five land on 12s.
A very close up of a Ratling Sniper miniature, part painted. The focus is on the battery pack for the huge sniper rifle, upon which is placed a ham sandwich and a steaming hot enamel cup filled with tea.
An overhead view of a set of Warhammer 40000 Militarum Ratling Sniper miniatures on a small turntable, part painted green, black, and brown
An illustration from PROCJAM Seeds #3 from an article I wrote explaining the basic algorithm for a fractal world plotter that places a 3x3 square down on a grid, then 2x2 squares on each of its edges at a random point on the grid, then 1x1 squares on the edges of those, creating an approximation of a koch snowflake, and then filling in the gaps. The caption reads: "Figure 1: Generating a region that starts with a 3x3 square of chunks. It then recursively extrudes a smaller square from a random point on each edge, and repeats until it is generating squares only a chunk in each direction. Finally, orphaned chunks are identified and added to the region as well."
A Dark Souls death text prompt with the words "YOU FRIED" instead of "YOU DIED"
An induction hob with a pot full of dilute soy sauce, spring onions, and thin sliced pork chops. Adjacent to it is a plastic box, within which is a sealed bag full of peeled hardboiled eggs in a soy sauce liquid
Text in the style of a Neon Genesis Evangelion title card reading "DWARF FORTRESS BUG REPORT VERSION: 53.03: stopped babies born in fort from worshipping extra deities"
A transparent PNG reminiscent of a Dark Souls death screen, reading "GOD HAS DIED" in red serif font on a black vignette
Two Warhammer Underworld Miniatures; Gnarlspirit Dark path miniatures Gorl and Sarrakkar. Gorl is a huge man welding a giant hammer dressed in skulls and animal skins with only a harness on his top, whole Sarrakkar has a giant monster skull on his head and weilds a staff like a shaman. They have been painted in extremely bright colours
Warhammer 40000 Ork miniatures on a turntable showing a complete rotation. The six Orks are armed with explosives, demolition tools, and explosive demolition tools. They are wearing metal armor over yellow and black apocalyptic clothes. There are also two squigs, red space hopper sized aliens that are stuffed full of dynamite and explosives.
A Warhammer 40000 Space Ork miniature, a large Ork Nob with a spiked pneumatic hammer and a rocket launcher pistol, wearing metal armor painted yellow with black highlights in places
Miniatures and board pieces from Warhammer Quest Cursed City arranged on a table simulating a game in progress.
Miniatures and board pieces from Warhammer Quest Cursed City arranged on a table simulating a game in progress.
Warhammer Quest Cursed City miniature of Radukar the Wolf, a gargantuan vampire lord barbarian wearing a ushanka, a green greatcloak, and red trousers, with a monstrous two headed wolf pelt across his shoulders. Holding a wicked looking sword and fist extended and fangs bared.