Matthew Wilde @skilful Twitter profile

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Matthew Wilde

4 years

Spent a good chunk of lock-down doing this important work. Boozy liquid shader, now available in the latest update for Half-Life: Alyx

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

9 months

The new Ancient interactive swampy water from CS2 beta

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

Some great footage of the new CS2 water we've been working on!

Aquarius 🛹

@aquaismissing

10 months

this is so sickk!! kudos to you @CounterStrike

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

This booze shader has been my lock-down hobby, required lots of research

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

8 years

Take care writing tree shaders, you may accidently open a portal into 2001 #screenshotsaturday #discovervirginia

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 year

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@megakosan

4 years

@ZooL_Smith @CSGO Now imagine CSGO Source 2 with the HLA Liquid Shader just to have the sexiest molotov 😵

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 months

New Valve sunset just dropped

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

7 months

I wish I could take credit for this clever shader effect! It wasn't me though, but one of our amazing and talented developers (who wants to remain anonymous) 👀

‎Gabe Follower

@gabefollower

7 months

New eyes for agents @CounterStrike will not affect your FPS at all. It works 100% through "smart materials" aka shaders and morph shapes. They don't even have physical eyeballs. It's a fake effect similar to how the liquid shader works on bottles in Source 2.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 month

Woah, thanks for making me look good!

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@TheoCrusaderr

1 month

Source 2 water and lighting >

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Imagine thinking you've finished and then remembering gravity can change direction

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

You're welcome @3kliksphilip

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@CounterStrike

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@dinkotv

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 year

I'm excited we're excited to announce Counter-Strike 2, it looks great and I think you'll love it.

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@CounterStrike

1 year

Today we're excited to announce Counter-Strike 2. Counter-Strike 2 is an overhaul to every system, every piece of content, and every part of the C-S experience. First, let's talk about smoke grenades:

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 months

Sympathies if you were impacted today - or in any of the other recent lay offs. Consider applying to Valve. We are small and mighty and will stay that way.

Valve Corporation

We make games, Steam, and hardware. Join Us.

www.valvesoftware.com

Riot Games

@riotgames

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Minutes ago, we shared an important update with Rioters about the future of Riot Games. Here’s what these changes mean for our games and what players can expect from us going forward:

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

Oh wow, happy 1st birthday to this shader. My 3rd and best child.

Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Spent a good chunk of lock-down doing this important work. Boozy liquid shader, now available in the latest update for Half-Life: Alyx

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

This shader is legendary and was definitely a reference point!

Joyce(MinionsArt)

@minionsart

4 years

Seeing a lot of people mentioning my Fake-Liquid shader because of that cool one in Alyx. It's nowhere near as good, but it's still pretty fun. You can grab the code for free here : and the ShaderGraph here: #gamedev #madewithunity

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

2 years

Classic Valve sunset tonight

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

I miss it full of people but the Valve office was looking lovely today

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

It was so nice to chat to Simone about the Half Life: Alyx Booze shader, and the video she's produced is great fun! Have a look for some insights into the internal workings of the shader too if you like that kind of thing.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Reminder that the Half-Life: Alyx Workshop is open and you can play community made content or make your own. You can also play with the shaders and make lava lamp rat corpses and combine soldiers out of Coke if that's your thing too.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

8 months

Enjoy!

CS2

@CounterStrike

8 months

Today we are introducing CS Rating—a precise display of your skill in Counter-Strike 2. With regional and World Leaderboards you'll know exactly how you stack up. Competitive mode in CS2 now features per-map Skill Groups, so players can master their favorite maps while learning…

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 years

@thatJaneNg @Myco_Rogue @camposanto @shoomlah A simple way to colour the penumbra - use 2 different coloured lights and then play with the shadow settings (normal bias, resolution) so that one light shows in the edges more than the other!

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

My wife just asked me who the English guy talking about the bottle shader is (clue - it's me)

Valve

@valvesoftware

3 years

Developer commentary is now available to all owners of Half-Life: Alyx, and features over three hours of audio from the team covering every aspect of design. The Developer Commentary also supports subtitles in over 10 languages.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 month

This is great, families can now share games in a common pool - accounts aren't locked when games are being shared as before so multiple family members can play games in the family pool. Congrats to the team on shipping this!

Steam

@Steam

1 month

Hello! We are excited to announce the launch of Steam Families, now accessible in the Steam Beta Client. This feature introduces significant updates and improvements to family sharing, parental controls, and child purchase requests. See all the details at the announcement blog…

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 months

I haven't had glasses in years and it always looks weird to see now, so here I am in Hawaii more recently on the annual Valve Vacation

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

No pressure!

‎Gabe Follower

@gabefollower

10 months

In every major update of @CounterStrike 2 devs try to showcase one of the new Source 2 features. Firstly it was volumetric smokes, then liquid shader in molotov from Half-Life: Alyx. Then Office with a bunch of new glass that shatters quite nicely, and now, they went all-in and…

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Well spotted @_jamesoloughlin but try giving it a shake and using then using it :)

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Wow, nice demo of the vodka here

skkn🐐

@skknyuki

4 years

実際に見ると凄いわこれ

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

Another great video, enjoy your fecal foam

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@3kliksphilip

10 months

CS2 Overpass's Sewagey Secrets

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

2 years

Halloween reminded me of last year's Dota Diretide featuring this spooky illustrative shader. It's a perk of working at Valve to have such incredible artists as colleagues and I worked with legends like Jim Murray and @shoomlah in an attempt to recreate elements of their style

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 months

I'm going to miss working with Claire - we did so much cool stuff at Campo Santo and then Valve, and trying to do her concept work justice was always a very rewarding challenge! There is nobody quite like her and the future of Myst/Riven etc at Cyan is going to be very exciting!

Claire Hummel

@shoomlah

6 months

Friday was my last day at Valve. Leaving a job full of people and projects you love is always hard, but I have a pretty good reason for it this time around: Next Monday is my first day at Cyan.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

5 years

Looking through my old PC and found some interesting shader stuff - like when I modified gerstner waves to 'break' (and also reverse unbreak!) #unity3d #gamedev

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

9 months

@ThourCS Thank you, let me know. We're working on optimising it now!

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 months

The mountain looking Autumnal here today

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 years

I forgot about this slightly nightmarish shader experiment. Dynamic, wipeable rain on window effect #screenshotsaturday #unity3d #gamedev

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

9 months

Comparing my first games job in 1999 vs reality in 2023. I can't tell the difference 😅

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Very different approach but looking incredible @Gaxil !

Gil Damoiseaux

@Gaxil

4 years

I have tried to reproduce the #Alyx liquid in a bottle VFX : here is the result. It's all self contained in a single surface shader, no compute shader, no CPU physics. Still plenty of ideas to experiment though ...later :) #madewithunity #shaders #realtimeVFX #VFX #gamedev

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 year

@kommanderkarl Yes, that's exactly right! This shows the refraction on the basic mesh, followed by the refraction when affected by the roughness/normal maps, and then the final shader. The index of refraction is different for the full parts of the bottle vs the empty parts.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 year

❤️ Timely reminder that Valve is always hiring. Super work environment/inspiring and incredible colleagues/résumé defining projects/top of the line benefits. Even if your role isn't listed get in touch ❤️

Valve Corporation

We make games, Steam, and hardware. Join Us.

www.valvesoftware.com

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

5 years

Went to the @Coldwar_Steve exhibition last night at @thesociallondon - was hoping to see some famous faces but didn't spot any :(

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Brilliant (and fast) work!

Rectus

@rectus_sa

4 years

squirt gun #HalfLifeAlyx

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@skilful

3 months

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@CounterStrike

3 months

Thoughts on this new craft? Excuse the bare hands.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

7 months

@gabefollower Not me but thank you!

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 year

That's for you @megakosan

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

You're welcome @3kliksphilip

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

2 years

I can't work under these conditions

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 years

I wrote about water on the Campo Santo dev blog. That URL though 😍

Campo Santo

@camposanto

6 years

New on the blog: Matt Wilde ( @skilful ) dives deep into a scene cut from the In the Valley of Gods announcement trailer.

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‎Gabe Follower

@gabefollower

2 months

skins for molotov just leaked @counterstrike

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Same, I went in the other evening to pick something up and got this lovely reminder

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

2 months

Exciting news, welcome back Rich!

rich_lord

@rich_lord

2 months

Hello! In a surprise move I'm going back to work with my friends at @valvesoftware this month. Having a stint at being independent has been amazing, but it sounds fun to work with people again for a bit. Here's a reel of a few things i made during this nice time in my life.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

Please give me my 7 likes for accidently dressing my daughter to match the carpet of this soft play party venue

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 months

This was from spring last year by the way, not right now!

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

1 year

I'm biased of course but this device has radically changed gaming for me in 2022 #steamreplay

Steam

@Steam

1 year

We've almost made it to the end of the year! Want to see a overview of your time spent on Steam? Introducing Steam Replay, with your top played games and milestones on Steam this year! All that and more (be sure you're logged in) at:

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@skilful

2 years

Mike going the extra mile to get that authentic toilet breaking sound.

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@MikeMorasky

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No toilets were harmed in the making of this game. #aperturedeskjob #gameaudio

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

9 months

@garrynewman Thanks Mr Smod!

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

4 years

I am refreshed just watching this

Kosan

@megakosan

4 years

Can't believe I got my hands on some Baja Blast in City 17 #HalfLifeAlyx #Source2

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@skilful

6 years

Earlier version showing it building up

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

5 years

@fullbright On Battalion Wars 2 the engine had no facility for placing lights in levels, but explosions did spawn temporary lights. So every point light in the game is actually a recursively looping otherwise invisible explosion.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

@Hepyrian Thank you! @doomquasar made a great video here where I spilled the beers

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

The situation around making this shader was very unusual but the response was amazing. It really made my year. It wouldn't've happened without the amazingly talented folk of Valve, especially @Scott_Dalton who pushed me along and figured out how to get it all working efficiently.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

How to make an old-fashioned (booze shader). Nicely done @notdeadgames !

notdead

@notdeadgames

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#HalfLifeAlyx no longer has the monopoly on VR bottle liquid physics; I added it to #compoundvr . Very fun to work on #pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #madewithunity #vrdev #vr #pixel3d #b3d #blender3D #lowpoly #aseprite #gamedev #gameassets #pixelgame #retrogaming #indiedeveloper

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Matthew Wilde

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7 years

This blob of glue is probably the least flashy VFX I've ever done, but still strangely satisfying #gamedev #unity3d #discovervirginia

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

I'm really excited about this, it's an awesome device. We'll done to everyone involved!

Geoff Keighley

@geoffkeighley

3 years

Valve has introduced STEAM DECK, the first in a new category of handheld PC gaming devices starting at $399. Ships in December.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

2 years

Aperture Desk Job is now live! Don't feel bad if you do a double take looking at this, you're not alone.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

Terrible, you can't even push it inside your own face

Joe Wintergreen

@joewintergreen

3 years

Still working out the kinks but pretty happy with the new bottle liquid shader. Maybe should turn down the bloom lmao

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

2 years

Just Googled something and found the answer in a thread that's 22 years old. That's a record for me. I didn't think they even had the internet in the 80s.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

3 years

Wait what? This wasn't in the employee handbook

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 months

OLED Steam Deck is awesome

Introducing Steam Deck OLED - Now Available

Steam Deck OLED is now available from http://steamdeck.com. Steam Deck OLED features a high dynamic range OLED screen, longer-lasting battery, faster downloa...

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 years

I couldn't believe my luck when I got the chance to work with @camposanto . I never imagined it leading to this though. And all because of a spectacularly broken tree shader.

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@camposanto

6 years

Some big news from us:

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

@Laserlord_ @ohnePixel Good spot!

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

10 months

@jpflores___ You're right! I just realised this is on low settings

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

7 years

Experiment with cloud shader, lighting as a post process #gamedev #indiedev #shader

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Matthew Wilde

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10 months

@jpflores___ Yeah hopefully, better reflections generally. Still working on the low version.

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

7 years

Experiment with caustics fitted to underwater geometry. No special shader on objects - just on the water plane #gamedev #indiedev #shader

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

6 years

Happy Launch Day to @SolarSailGames for Smoke and Sacrifice, playing on the big screens here at Valve!

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

8 years

Experiment with full-screen sketchy effect shader for Virginia front end #screenshotsaturday #discovervirginia

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Matthew Wilde

@skilful

2 years

Hmm, I'm not sure there's actually any wine in those bottles Walmart.

Homo Digitalis

@DigitalisHomo

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This is how Walmart envisions Shopping in the #Metaverse . Thoughts? 💭

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@skilful

2 years

Thanks Chet, that's very kind but I have to confess I think it was me that used the F word here so the headline is accurate in that sense!

Chet Faliszek at Blue Sky not Here

@chetfaliszek

2 years

Sorry but calling it fake is stupid... did you think the game broke the laws of physics and installed real liquid into each bottle? It's not fake, it's magic by the magician @skilful .

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4 years

This is lovely @acdramon , best wishes to your mom

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9 months

@ThourCS @CounterStrike Thank you!

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3 years

@ValveNewsNetwor No I've always been English

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5 years

Can you tell what this is?

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3 months

It's heartbreaking how evergreen this has become, reading about so many people's fates today 💔

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3 months

Sympathies if you were impacted today - or in any of the other recent lay offs. Consider applying to Valve. We are small and mighty and will stay that way.

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3 years

The view through the telescope

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3 years

Such incredible work from the incredible Claire on Alyx

Claire Hummel

@shoomlah

3 years

Making a VERY belated thread of some of the stuff I did for Half-Life: Alyx! First off, concepts for young Alyx—you don’t see her in game, but we wanted to figure out how she might look: five years younger than HL2, but still maintaining some familiar elements/items of clothing.

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Working at Valve is such an awesome privilege and we are always hiring so get in touch if you want to work on some really incredible projects in 2021!

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These weird things the kids built are in the way of the TV but we're too scared to move them

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A daft technique developed for the In the Valley of Gods trailer in #Unity3d #gamedev

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6 years

@thatJaneNg @Myco_Rogue @camposanto @shoomlah A simple way to colour the penumbra - use 2 different coloured lights and then play with the shadow settings (normal bias, resolution) so that one light shows in the edges more than the other!

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3 years

Spot the Space Needle

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1 year

@dan_ginsburg Congratulations Dan! You are one of the best people to work with at Valve.

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@skilful

3 years

It's nice to see In the Valley of Gods living on via this janky lighting hack!

Alex Strook

@AlexStrook

3 years

@lazlobon I think I changed the shadow resolution, and had one light with very low resolution shadow to fake the shadow blur i was inspired by this tweet (RIP this game)

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@thatJaneNg @Myco_Rogue @camposanto @shoomlah A simple way to colour the penumbra - use 2 different coloured lights and then play with the shadow settings (normal bias, resolution) so that one light shows in the edges more than the other!

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2 years

Looking forward to this!

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@skilful

3 years

Younger viewers might be confused but this is what we used to call a telephone. Great solution and write-up!

Sam Birley

@evilsmeevil

3 years

For a recent project of ours, @RossBeardsall came up with a great technique for a super-efficient coiled cable shader in #ue4 that looks absolutely banging!

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Daughter's birthday - she wanted a chocolate mousse cake but got the words a little muddled when she asked for it. And was very confused when she saw what we made her. Anyway, enjoy your chocolate goose cake Ada x

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My 85 year old dad is coming to visit us from the UK after nearly 2 years of being unable to see us due to the US travel ban. This was his reaction when he got his negative covid test meaning he was clear to fly (and after he figured out how to open the result!)

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🐐

Neymar Jr

@neymarjr

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manda pro pai o CS2 @counterstrike Nunca te pedi nada 😂

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😬

Robert Yang

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4 years

source modders in 2009: we just came up with walking sims, a radical challenge to game design orthodoxy, let's focus our energies on imagining a bold new future source modders in 2020: lol now I made the headcrab full of piss, everyone download my pisscrab mod

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🤖👀

Aperture Desk Job Trailer

Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for Valve's new Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games. http://apert...

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Trying to buy the new @Elbow album for the wife off Amazon, genuinely thought for a second it was titled "Brace for Tendonitis"

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