Tom Waters - Shallow Thinking Games

@shallowthinking.bsky.social

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Solo indie dev, former Rockstar and Argonaut. Tiny plastic guys enthusiast. Purveyor of retro textures. Currently building a small narrative-focused first person exploration game. https://everlink.tools/ShallowThinking

Screenshot of a video game textures folder showing a selection of slightly grimy looking urban textures.
Photo of a typical UK dark green fibre internet routing cabinet at the side of a street. Various stickers and posters have been fixed to it and torn off again at different times. A trans pride flag sticker is still nearly intact and someone has written "🤍 Local Puppy girls" in white paint just below that.
A slightly dismal looking plaza with rough concrete paving slabs in front of a convenience store in Sheffield. There is a line of three different dropbox lockers for parcel deliveries at the edge of the plaza. Part of Sheffield Hallam University is visible in the distance.
Demo render of some delightfully 2D textures on dashingly 3D planes.
Screenshot of a textures folder.
Capsule image for the Downtown Dystopia Texture Pack, with the pack name and type printed over an example game environment.
A gothic fantasy game environment with greenish stones and orangey brown rusted bracing. Additional context: This was made using netRadiant and screenshot in Quake 3 because that's actually a pretty quick way of doing this kind of demo environment.
Some dumbass Warhammer thing that looks like a Jules Verne portaloo helicopter.
It says "-13%" in big letters. Well big numbers technically I guess.
Screenshot of a test environment demoing a new game texture pack with a dark fantasy vibe.
Screenshot of a test environment demoing a new game texture pack with a dark fantasy vibe.
Test environment for a forthcoming texture set. Some might say it's dark, I'd say moodily lightmapped.
Collage sheet of a selection of game textures in various green, grey, and rusty hues.
Screengrab of a file browser window showing thumbnails of a WIP texture set. Green blocks/bricks and orange rusty trim features are prominent.
Textures from the Downtown Dystopia texture pack in use in a simple loading bay environment.
A sign saying "FISHING IS NOT ALLOWED AFTER DUSK" standing in a wooded environment. At some point the "NOT" was painted over, but it has been mostly cleaned off again.
Preview of the new textures being added to the Brutal Base texture pack.
Screenshot of a retro-style base FPS level with chunky architecture and textures. Alarmingly green slime is visible through and around a floor grating.
Promotional render for Downtown Dystopia Texture Pack showing a slightly grimy urban loading bay environment.
A screenshot of a viewport in the Blender 3D software where a selection of the key details from this user's profile picture have been recreated.
A screenshot of a rugged grey base map environment.
Screenshot of a retrogame style future base with a new texture set.
Screenshot of an in-game future base environment with overwhelmingly brown textures.
Promo image of a loading bay environment 3D render bearing the legend "Downtown Dystopia texture pack"
Stupid closeup of a a retro style game texture with pleasing pixelly graininess.
Photo of a hole in a wall where a sign used to be, which has been turned into a tiny magical cave populated with a couple of dozen tiny cone-shaped painted figures, made from something like clothespegs or shuttlecocks.
The "fish react" meme: An image of an alarmingly muscular CG Popeye the sailor, bearing the patchworked legend "This man above me - Fish react him"
Screenshot of a custom map in Doom 2
Concept render of a low-poly loading bay environment using a new texture pack.
Screenshot of a textures folder.
A 3D render of a simple brutalist concrete environment.
An edit of the infamous Kelley "Sickos" image with a red left hand and "sickos" changed to "crimsos."
The box cover of the game Quake 2 (in a widescreen wallpaper format)
Screenshot of the layers in an image file with one called "you did the final window glass patch on the scaled down one btw". Most of the rest of the layers have default names, presumably due to rank laziness.
Picture of a calendar grid for May which curiously has two 24ths.
A screenshot of an unreleased Doom 2 custom map with a plethora of Lost Souls ahead of the player.
Steam screenshot revealing an 865 hour Cyberpunk 2077 total playtime. That's not even four digits wtf loser.
Screenshot of an exterior area of an unreleased add-on level for Doom 2 with some custom textures. Doom guy is pretty beat up.
Screenshot of a file transfer dialogue which would have been well over 3GB of data at the start.
Photo of a countryside scene with bare trees and a green field in winter sunshine, with a blue sky and some cirrostratus clouds above.
Two title menu screenshots showing the game name as "Cheese Omelette" or "Omelette au fromage." Even though the original quote says "du" not "au." I will have to question at least one person's reading comprehension because of this.
Two shots of a menu screen one of which is in English and the other is not actually in French even though it purports to be.
A screenshot of the layers in an image editing program. One of the layers is called "total scuzzing"
A screenshot of an in-progress video game environment depicting horrid little studio apartments.
An very old Warhammer 40,000 Deff Dread miniature that has been set up on an absolute platform heel of a base to match the height of the more modern version.
Development screenshot of a simplistic office building environment seen in a Godot 3D viewport.
A screenshot of an unreleased custom map in Doom 2, featuring some custom textures. A red skull key door is ahead of the player.
Post by Funkaar @Sabeenahmad1 Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, I'm swimming pool.
A DOOM screenshot of an unreleased level with a couple of imps and some custom textures.
A screenshot of a viewport in the Blender 3D modelling software, showing a simple model of a window.
A screen clipping of a simple and quite empty office environment in the Godot editor.
A screen clipping of the Blender 3D modelling software showing what looks like some components for making an office environment.
A screenshot of a custom map for Doom II (1994) with SOME GUY having the gall to shoot at the player. The tastefully brown setting is accented by hints of red key door marker and NUKAGE.
A screenshot of an untextured, low-poly, barren apartment interior running in an unspecified game engine. It looks like it's going to be some sort of wretched little studio flat.
A screenshot of the 3D viewport in a modelling app, showing a stairwell with a ground floor and two landings.
A screenshot of a custom map for Doom II (1994) with imps approaching the player, amidst an aggressively brown-hued environment.
A cropped screenshot of an image browser showing part of the contents of a folder of video game textures.
An open parcel containing the fruits of the SPACE GITS Kickstarter. A compact hardback rulebook rests on top of a horde of bagged resin miniatures.