Sam

@sambeaven.bsky.social

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Hedge wizard & computer enchanter.

A pixel-art "Select a Slot" save screen for a fantasy game, set against a graveyard scene with a scarecrow, tombstones, and a small hut. Two save slots are filled — "1. Ethelbert Difflenuff · Level 1 · Normal" and "2. Maelbolgia Pumpernickle · Level 1 · Normal" — each with Resume and Erase buttons. Slot 3 is empty, with a New Game button on the right. A Back button sits in the bottom corner.
Colour photo of the rooftop racetrack at the Fiat factory in Turin, with cars going around it
It's Londo Mollari and G'kar from TV's Babylon 5
Pixel-art RPG gameplay screen titled "The Herald's Quest." A small character stands next to a stone tower on a grass map, with a HUD showing HP: 8, XP: 12, coordinates X:9 Y:22, and Level: 1. An open pause menu displays four buttons: Exit Menu, Save, Load, and Quit to Main Menu. Inventory and Menu buttons appear in the top corners.
A wargame fought with 10mm figures. Omen are aaaaulting a tower with too-short ladders. There is a breach in the castle walls about to be charged by some very colourful knights.
Alan Partridge lying on a hotel bed with his dictaphone, the 'Idea for a tv show' meme
A level of a 3d game, with walls in red and black, orange floor, red sofas and tan lockers.
A short gameplay video. One character takes a shot and hits his target, who doubles over. When he takes the shot, the camera zooms in over their left shoulder. A second character then moves up behind cover and takes a shot, this time the camera zooms in on the left shoulder to avoid the view being blocked by the cover they are in.
A low-poly visual-novel style sequence with two characters talking. At the bottom there's a box with a selection of dialogue options ('how do you feel about the election', 'what's your role on the ship', 'talk to someone else')
A silent video of a work in progress tactical game. Two soldiers shoot at two other soldiers. The animation effects are out of sync (on guy reacts to being shot before he gets shot).
A footpath disappearing off ahead, curving slightly to the left. Trees and grass line it, with flowers in the verges either side.
A screenshot of a work in progress video game. Two low-poly models, one of a bug-man and one of a robot, both holding plain white guns, badly. Behind them is a low poly scene with very angular furniture. At the bottom of the screen is a dialogue box with the name 'Ximoran' at the top, and underneath 'What'll it be?' with two options, 'Go left' and 'Go right'
A youtube preview image with a lady on the right holding up a finger like she is talking, and large text on the right saying 'These 5 words make women want you"
Su-metal, from Japanese Kawaii-metal band Babymetal, attached to a cross
Screenshot from a prototype video game. Three characters in a spaceship area, next to some lockers and sofas. The characters are done with low-poly art, all three are holding guns
Inca, and elderly brown bengal cat, standing on my lap and demanding adoration. In the background there is some mess. Don’t look at it. And yes I have filled the dogs water bowl now.
Screenshot of a roguelike game, a dungeon viewed from above. The left is 'before' with an extremely basic blocky wall around the room and corridors, to the right is 'after' with a much nicer wall that doesn't take up as much space and follows the curve of the architecture.
Another gif of the blender UI, in the centre of the screen a humanoid bug-man with mandibles, antennae and red eyes is doing a fancy catwalk style walk. His left knee is doing a weird glitchy thing.
gif showing the Blender UI with a low-poly woman in a military uniform doing a catwalk-y type walk
A short, silent video in which a low-poly bug-man holding a white gun is in an animated, idle state in the centre of frame. I click on him, click 'Move' in a popup menu, and select the left-hand side of the frame, at which point he runs to the left. I then do the same to move him to the right.
Screencap from a work in progress video game. A 3d setting, with a very default background. In the centre of the screen is a humanoid figure with mandibles and antennae, going through a looping idle animation. Above his head is the text 'Ximoran health 5 ap 2'
A short gif of work in progress game. A white capsule shape on a grid, in a 3d space. the mouse pointed clicks on the capsule, then clicks 'Move' in a menu at the bottom, and a highlighted area shows where the capsule can move to. With a click, the capsule instantly moves to the new location.
Three Quar Crusaders from the tabletop game This Quar's War (aka A Clash of Rhyfles), a wonderfully grimsical wargame by Joshua Qualiteri. Miniatures by Wargames Atlantic.
Jen from the IT Crowd episode 'The Haunting of Bill Crouse', standing at the window in the rain screaming to be let in, after Bill thinks she's dead.
A gif of the Jazz Club sketch from the Fast Show. Louis Balfour, played by John Thomson, taking a cigarette out of his mouth and saying 'nice'.
Low-poly 3d render of a humanoid figure, with a black head, antennae, mandibles, and red eyes
A 3d render of a very caricatured leonard nimoy as spock, without any haiir
Officer Crabtree from 'allo 'allo, holding a glass of wine and with a manic look on his face
A screenshot of a retro, pixelart video game. In the background is the view of the outside of a castle, with a drawbridge crossing a moat, and a few boarded-up buildings in front. Over the top is 'The Herald's Quest' in big red text and a button that says 'Start'
Maurice, Bella’s dad, from beauty and the beast
A large ish snow bengal kitten lying on his back with a look of total shock on his face and his paws in the air
A villain from Android Kikaider called Pink Armadillo. At first she is a woman in pink clothes, but when she dances, surprise! She is in fact a giant armadillo. She rolls down a mountain and hits the side of a truck, knocking it over a cliff.
Four pictures, two on the left of Mark Zuckerberg, the two on the right of me trying to ape him. In the top one I'm doing okay, in the lower one I look like I'm recognising the true horrors of reality.
A pair of model robot legs, they’re gunpla from a RGM-79 model kit
Screenshot of a tile-based roguelike game. Top down view of a dungeon with a set of stairs and the player character facing a monster. At the bottom of the screen is a message box saying "Missed!" then "Strong farmhand has seen you!" and finally "Regular farmhand has seen you!"
Short gif of a low-poly missile flying through space, controlled by the mouse. It's flying towards a spaceship.
A short gif of a low-poly rocket flying through space past some low-poly spinning asteroids.
Some 10mm scale bretonnian figures, all dressed in bright medieval clothing, on a black desk
A cassowary at Chester zoo, standing next to a pond and reed bed
A short animated gif of a little person walking through a maze. As they walk, more of the maze is revealed.
The iOS shortcuts app showing an action that says ‘text bird! To recipient’
A Labrador on a sofa, curled up into a circle, not looking at the camera, fast asleep
A light beige cat with blue eyes on my lap. I am wearing jeans. He is staring at the camera expectantly
A Labrador’s head resting on a blue-jeaned lap
Three giant robots shooting guns and lasers over a blasted battlefield.
Silhouette of a horse and rider on a beach among standing water and ripples in the sand. They are both reflected in the water.
White a beige cat with his tongue out. Untidy living room in the background.
3 ducks in a river
A forest track, mostly gravel, curving off to the right with trees on the left. In the distance, in the middle of the track, is a friendly looking Labrador
A very fancy, posh looking wooden chair in Chirk Castle, north wales. Someone has left a piece of holly on the seat to discourage anyone from trying to sit there.
Fairy falls in Trefriw, north wales. A waterfall cascading over some rocks in a narrow canyon, with greenery all around it
Some moss clinging to a rock. There’s some loose green frond-y stuff in the foreground and some more straggly stuff towards the background
My results from the jock-nerd/prep-goth test, saying I am 64.5% Goth, 73.6% Nerd, placing me in the LARP category