Chris Floyd

@misterfoldy.bsky.social

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Humanities teacher-in-training (MAT). Former game designer & game director: Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Beast Breaker. Preferred diet includes posts about archaeology, large birds, Dante, architecture, board games, Catholicism.

A Google Sheets AI tool prompt that says "Convert to people chips"
"Greatest one line in a song ever. Not verse, shorus, bridge. Just one line..."
A screenshot from Sid Meier's Ace Patrol, showing a landscape with several WWI plants over it. On the ground below one plane are several 3D buttons with arrows showing potential moves the plane can make.
The Message from Deep Space
Cover art for Bad Day on the Midway, with its upsettingly grotesque character art that I wish I could describe.
Cartoon fox Carmelita Fox, law enforcement agent and adversary/love-interest of the thief Sly Cooper
Shoebill stork staring menacingly
The cover of David Bowie's album Outside
The cover of Automatic for the People, by R.E.M.
An illustration from a medieval manuscript of Inferno, showing Dante and Virgil, looking down from a bridge over a trough in the ground. In the trough are a dozen separate giant standing flames. They each have faces because they are eternally burning souls. One--Ulysses' soul--is bent toward the two poets on the bridge, speaking to them.
Part of a visual game design document, labelled "Lair Design." The ideas are conveyed through diagrams built of simple shapes, large text, and arrangement that emphasizes relationships between ideas. Specifically, this shows how a "lair" owned by the player in a fantasy RPG was divided into three main rooms, each with a specific purpose and domain of influence (character abilities, equipment crafting, minion upgrades) but sharing a common structure.
Goose, Destroyer of Worlds, a long-haired black cat, sitting on a wall-mounted cat platform.
A photo of an art installation which is a restaurant dining room in which the alls tables and chairs are all painted a monochrome orangey red. Sitting, running, and leaping around the room are gray and red foxes (sculpted).
A photograph of a drab kitchen with an older man sitting in a chair and an older woman looking in the fridge as more than a dozen bright green cats (sculpted, maybe clay?) swarm around the room without the humans seeming to notice. The cats have knocked over and broken a chair, and two of them are looking at it curiously.
Brad Pitt in Moneyball driving his truck down a highway in California and then suddenly veering over two lanes to take the off-ramp.
A page of BASIC code from COMPUTE! magazine in the 80s.
A screenshot from Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987) showing a sloop sailing south of an island town. Text at the bottom of the screen gives info on the guns and troops on the ship and the town's fort.
Pic of a midnight blue agami heron with orange under-wing plumage spreading its wings to take off. Taken from chava_garza on Instagram, with respect
A mocked up title card for Star Trek: The Next Generation with the title "*Campers* Are *Frumple*" (a Star Control 2 reference).
A wooden plant bench with nine bonsai trees of different sizes and levels of development.
A medium sized deciduous bonsai tree (Chinese elm) in a rectangular blue pot.
Onion headline: Weird Younger Siblings Form Thriving Society Under Bleachers During Brothers’ Basketball Game. A photo of kids under bleachers wearing makeshift costumes and holding plastic swords.
A screenshot of Poppy the hyperactive chipmunk saying "Why stop the fun?!" but with "fun" crudely replaced with "Steam reviews."
A CGA 4-color screenshot of Below the Root PC game. A man stands next to a house built on a branch at the top of a canopy of trees.
A grid of games entitled "About Me: Video Games." Favorite Game: Star Control 2 Best Story: Ultima: Martian Dreams Favorite Art Style: Curse of Monkey Island Biggest Personal Impact: SimCity Best Combat: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Overhated: XCOM: Chimera Squad Underrated: ICO Overrated: Shadow of the Colossus (!) Needs a Remake: Sid Meier's SimGolf Criminally Overlooked: Shadow Watch Favorite Protagonist: Secret of Monkey Island Favorite Antagonist: System Shock 2 Best Soundtrack: Katamari Damacy Best Multiplayer: Europa 1400: The Guild Not Usually My Thing, But...: Octopath Traveler Turn My Brain Off: Golf on Mars Best with Friends: Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Best Retro Game: The Messenger Nostalgic Childhood Game: Zork Game Everyone Should Play: Florence
Colorful potions and gadgets. An orange container with a purple cloth tied over the top containing sand and shells. An elaborate grappling hook made of blue metal and pink thorns. A blue bag with a magical glow and green leaves bursting out the top. A silvery white dart wrapped in spider webs.
Icons illustrating twelve of the abilities in Beast Breaker. Bell Ringer: A silver bell-shaped hammer head. Bursters: Firework-like exploding arrows. Spot Flaw: Silver sword blade. Windblast: Gold arrow with spiral filigree head. Swiftdarts: Bow grip with purple crystals. Diverting Stings: Bow grip with leafy green shapes. Priming Bolts: Arrows crackling with red energy. Surging Salvo: Wrap around hammer grip with an articulated lever sticking off it. Perforators: Sleek silver three-pronged throwing knife. Skewering Sai: Red-gold thin blade with forking hilt. Ricochete: Silver machete with spinning spiky wheels near the tip. Slash Storm: Dark metal curved and barbed sword blade
The Onion headline from July 21, 1969: HOLY SHIT MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON
A lovingly rendered illustration of a basilisk lizard named Tempest, with a pirate ship's cannon on his shoulder. The target of its blast is not shown, but is probably the Silicon Valley headquarters of an AI company, trying and failing to engineer a character of such visual perfection.
Lovingly rendered illustration of Mallow, a blue frog-critter with many snail friends, not one of which could be improved by AI.
9 Games that make me who I am: * Karateka * The Oregon Trail * Sid Meier's Pirates! * Ultima - Words of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams * Star Control 2 * SimCity 2000 * The Curse of Monkey Island * ICO * Florence
A simple digital mock-up of the tracking screen with a map and other details like items collected and companion abilities. Donut icons represent food, pawprints show where the beast has passed, and there are crystals (which became corruption pools). Skipper is represented in one hex, and there's a building showing the settlement under threat.
A paper prototype, made up of a bunch of small plastic chips laid out on a paper hex grid. Some of the chips have letters written on them in marker.
A Beast Breaker tracking gameplay screen, in which Skipper (the player character) and team chase a giant beast around a swamp-themed hex grid map.
Simpsons frame in which Geech, the slack-jawed yokels' "smell-hound" is covered in cement
A swirling snake made up of red location pins!
A big broad-bladed knife with sharp metal fidget spinner shapes attached to it.
Shows an in-game weapon called the Ricochete. Its in-game icon looks like a wide blade with sharp fidget spinners attached. Its description explains that every time it bounces, it causes an explosion and then gets more distance added to its range.
A screenshot from Alien Legacy (1994) showing planetary exploration
A very bad paint job on a Warhammer 40k Space Marine miniature.
The mads from MST3K. Dr Forrester: "Push the Button, Frank."