# creed (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover creed. Page: Feed: --- ## [Beast of Reincarnation – Let’s Play (Episode #109) (PC PLAY)](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/beast-of-reincarnation-lets-play-episode-109-pc-play) _2026-08-19 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ Just going to be trying out this NEW game Beast of Reincarnation from this little company called Game Freak. I don’t know much about this single player game but they state the following: Beast of Reincarnation follows Emma, a young woman with plant-manipulating blight powers, and her dog Koo as they journey through a post-apocalyptic Japan to defeat the source of corruption known as the Beast of… ## [GamezAttack Podcast #118 Let’s Talk Games?](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/gamezattack-podcast-118-lets-talk-games) _2026-08-17 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ A slow gaming week and haven’t really got into anything so let’s talk some games like the Gears E-Day multiplayer Beta plus what I’m looking forward for, More Emby and crazily purchasing a bunch of Blu-ray films which out of print get very expensive! Then a good bunch of Gamez Talk Newz.................................ENJOY!! GAMEZ THAT MR. MIKE HAS PLAYED IN THE PAST WEEK! PowerWash Simulator 2… ## [Arrr We Back! Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced – GameOn (Episode #201) (Series X PLAY)](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/arrr-we-back-assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-gameon-episode-201-series-x-play) _2026-08-15 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ Looks like we Arrr Back in action my scummy pirate crew so far still the voice work is working just fine and I think this is going to be our weekly streamer going forward. Let’s see where Edward is going on his pirate assassin journey, maybe with that female pirate gal -----------ENJOY!!! EPISODE #201 DATE RECORDED/STREAMED: 8/14/2026 Comments, Ideas, Questions, or just to say Hey! YouTube Video… ## [GamezAttack Podcast #117 The Promise Of Disks](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/gamezattack-podcast-117-the-promise-of-disks) _2026-08-10 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ Xbox stating to still keep disks going forward will Sony double back or stay the course and could it help XBOX’s fate? Plus will XBOX be able to get most of the publishers on board with it’s backwards compatibility scheme? My Quick non gaming Emby time talk on how having my own personal streaming service is? A GTA 6 Sneak Peak Special is incoming! Plus some Gamez Newz Now folks!… ## [Gears Of War E-Day Multiplayer Beta – Let’s Play (Episode #108) (PC PLAY)](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/gears-of-war-e-day-multiplayer-beta-lets-play-episode-108-pc-play) _2026-08-09 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ Let’s Play some Gears multiplayer with the Gears of War E-Day Multiplayer Beta. I Gamer Boy Mr. Mike will be trying my skill or lack of with the multiplayer modes such as Horde Siege (PvE) and Versus (PvP) looking at some of the potential maps and mechanics it will offer -----------------ENJOY!!! EPISODE #108 DATE RECORDED/STREAMED: 8/08/2026 Comments, Ideas, Questions, or just to say Hey! YouTube… ## [Shiver Me Timbers Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced – GameOn (Episode #200) (Series X PLAY)](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/shiver-me-timbers-assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-gameon-episode-200-series-x-play) _2026-08-08 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ We are back at the sea again?? Hopefully if the protagonist game audio works and behaves again, so let’s hit the open sea plundering and pillaging along the way to our riches and major ship upgrades!-----------ENJOY!!! EPISODE #200 DATE RECORDED/STREAMED: 8/7/2026 Comments, Ideas, Questions, or just to say Hey! YouTube Video Comments: Channel: OldFreakyGamer or OldFreakyGamer-2023 Twitter/X:… ## [Halo Infinite – OFG Game-Through (Episode #7 FINAL)](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/halo-infinite-ofg-game-through-episode-7-final) _2026-08-05 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ Finally finished the fight with the Chief and Cortana 2.0 which is not her name but is non verbally stated she might take that name when and if we get a new Halo sequel. Playing just the rest of the campaign no multiplayer or side quests, so let’s jump back in that warthog and Finish The Fight......………...………………ENJOY!!! Episode #7 STREAMED/RECORDED ON: 7/5/2026 ## [GamezAttack Podcast #116 Online Outages Good For A Diskless Era?](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/gamezattack-podcast-116-online-outages-good-for-a-diskless-era) _2026-08-03 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ Holly Cortana Folks! How did a 1st party title like Halo Campaign Evolved work better on a 3rd party platform aka PS5 over it’s main home XBOX Series? Who let that happen?? So what do I think about Halo Campaign Evolved so far? Online outages continue to hinder gamers to play their games and Sony thinks it’s ok? Does XBOX’s CEO really have a plan for better gaming on XBOX? My NEW Respawn gaming… ## [Halo Campaign Evolved – GameOn (Episode #199) (PC PLAY)](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/halo-campaign-evolved-gameon-episode-199-pc-play) _2026-08-01 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ Playing more of this unique shooter called Halo Campaign Evolved with this individual called the Master Chief and his somewhat sluttish AI companion lady friend Cortana. As these two go off to hunt and kill weird ugly beasts that can weirdly speak English hmmm. -----------ENJOY!!! EPISODE #199 DATE RECORDED/STREAMED: 7/31/2026 Comments, Ideas, Questions, or just to say Hey! YouTube Video Comments:… ## [Halo Infinite – OFG Game-Through (Episode #6)](https://www.oldfreakygamer.com/blog/halo-infinite-ofg-game-through-episode-6) _2026-07-29 · Mike Beyer · Videos & Content - OldFreakyGamer_ FINALLY getting through that installation door after getting all those darn beacons activated and trucking forward blasting my way to the final mission! Passing most of all that side stuff and quests just focusing on the main campaign as I get through the installation to soon meet aka Tazerface the Banished leader. ......………...………………ENJOY!!! Episode #6 STREAMED/RECORDED ON: 7/29/2026 Any… ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vnKsjO5cnF4o) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [old cancelled project: spacething](https://www.joewintergreen.com/old-cancelled-project-spacething/) _2026-07-25 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ A million years ago, in 2014, I was working on a game called Spacething about renovating a sentient spaceship. It contained some of my first experiments with procedural generation and really gameplay code at all you d walk around and talk to the ship and say things like make a new room here or pull \[ \] ## [doom 3: uncutscened](https://www.joewintergreen.com/doom-3-without-cutscenes/) _2026-07-25 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ A while back I had a quick go at modding Doom 3, with a view to turning a cutscene early on in the game into a Half-Life style scripted sequence. Like most of the cutscenes in Doom 3, this one takes control of the camera in order to show you something that is happening right \[ \] ## [feeding the ducks](https://www.joewintergreen.com/feeding-the-ducks/) _2026-07-14 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ today i awoke without any mental health, having been hit sorta harder than usual of late by various upsetting world news, and grief, and whatever else, so after getting a few little things done at work i took the rest of the day off, and went to the park with a view to feeding the \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/benicetotheduck.mp4) ## [absolute state of unreal 2026](https://www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-state-of-unreal-2026/) _2026-06-20 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I guess they just had the State Of Unreal at Unrealfest, and as predicted, it was a real fuckfest full of dogshit. Unrealfest is usually a fun event, but by all accounts the vibes at this one were not great, which is what you get when your opening keynote is about the war you re declaring \[ \] ## [ask: level design tools besides scythe](https://www.joewintergreen.com/ask-level-design-tools-besides-scythe/) _2026-06-11 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ Honestly, not really. Trenchbroom is a good level design tool, but it s for BSP based engines where the turn it into mesh step is a compile to .bsp, so that s not very generally applicable. If we re talking level design tools that output mesh you could use anywhere, there s basically two: Scythe and Source 2 s Hammer, \[ \] ## [ask: cool engineers](https://www.joewintergreen.com/ask-cool-engineers/) _2026-06-07 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ A good question, since I am forever bitching and moaning about engineers. Not many, is the answer although for most of my career I have been on the technical side as well, so some of that moaning is about stuff I ve seen being done to other designers and tried to thwart, and been thwarted \[ \] ## [old cancelled project: magenta sunset](https://www.joewintergreen.com/old-cancelled-project-magenta-sunset/) _2026-06-07 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ Like twelve years ago I was working on a first-person adventure game of some sort, initially on UE3 and then 4, where you d drive a car. I had an admittedly vaguer-than-it-should-have-been pitch that I tried to get funding with, and that failed, so I canned it, but it resulted in a trailer (below) that I \[ \] ## [ask: non-retro retro graphics. non-physical realism](https://www.joewintergreen.com/ask-non-retro-retro-graphics/) _2026-06-07 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I think I expressed this pretty well in this post about Max Payne 3, but what I m basically talking about is games that were going for realism in the sense of what that meant at the time, but were not reaching for photographic realism, which wasn t a reasonable target in the way it is now. \[ \] ## [ask: godot vs doom 3](https://www.joewintergreen.com/ask-doom-3-engine/) _2026-06-07 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ An interesting question there s a lot I don t purport to know about both engines (especially Godot), so I don t want to weigh in too hard, but I will throw out some observations: Hope this helps?!?!?! ## [ask: retro graphics](https://www.joewintergreen.com/ask-retro-graphics/) _2026-05-31 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ This is presumably in reference to this post: And I was, yeah! Back in like, 2014-2016 I was making a pretty cool stealth game that I wound up having to cancel for funding-related reasons beyond my control. Initially it was using pixelated low-res photosourced textures, and then later I swapped to another style, befores and \[ \] ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UlUK6C8xUdLh) _2026-05-31 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [being a level design tooling squeaky wheel: through the ages](https://www.joewintergreen.com/being-a-level-design-tooling-squeaky-wheel-through-the-ages/) _2026-05-31 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ It s now been over 10 years since I started getting a reputation for bitching and moaning about the state of Level Design Tools, starting with my first talk-into-mic youtube video, Level Editing In UE4 Needs To Catch Up To Quake 1, and then a bit later the wider-ranging sequel Ruminations Upon The Insidious Ubiquity Of \[ \] ## [JoeIO: a level scripting i/o system by me](https://www.joewintergreen.com/joeio-a-level-scripting-i-o-system-by-me/) _2026-05-25 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ The level scripting system I described building in a previous blog post is now available to buy, and it s called JoeIO, so you can use it in your games. It s for letting level designers go nuts with level scripting mostly without having to go through programmers or write code themselves. That post is now ✨documentation✨, \[ \] ## [lust bus](https://www.joewintergreen.com/lust-bus/) _2026-05-22 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ when i was about 7, my family bought an 89 tarago from a place called just buses . they had put a sticker on the back of it that said just buses in kind of a sexy cursive font, not as one whole sticker but a letter at a time. i peeled them off, rearranged the \[ \] ## [swipe me now i’m even faster](https://www.joewintergreen.com/swipe-me-now-im-even-faster/) _2026-05-22 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ a brainworm i acquired as a child: in the late 90s in australia there was some incremental upgrade to eftpos card scanners rolled out, where you d swipe your card and not have to wait as long, and every checkout for years had faded stickers on there that said swipe me now i m even faster . the \[ \] ## [skooma thoughts](https://www.joewintergreen.com/skooma-thoughts/) _2026-05-22 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ in Skyrim, Skooma is a hard drug of some sort that ruins lives, but Skyrim doesn t do anything with it mechanically, it just gives you a little bit of stamina. the item is totally out of sync with the lore! here is what i think Skooma should do in my often dreamt-of perfect world where \[ \] ## [I/O systems for level scripting](https://www.joewintergreen.com/i-o-systems-for-level-scripting/) _2026-03-20 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ This week I built a Source Engine style input/output (I/O) system for level scripting in Sleight of Hand, and if you don t know what that is or means, you have that in common with most game developers. (Update: It is now available). It s an astonishingly useful thing to have on any game with level scripting \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/soh_whiskyPuzzle1.mp4) ## [tc\_hydro appreciation post](https://www.joewintergreen.com/tc_hydro-appreciation-post/) _2026-03-15 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I haven t played Team Fortress 2 in years and years, but I think of the map tc\_hydro pretty often, at once launch-TF2 s least popular map (apparently) and, I reckon, its finest hour aesthetically. So much effort and enthusiasm went into every corner of this map, often in ways that on the Source engine were pains \[ \] ## [impromptu vector field painter, a tool for making vector fields](https://www.joewintergreen.com/impromptu-vector-field-painter-a-tool-for-making-vector-fields/) _2026-03-14 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ A tool I made a long time ago with a little help from the excellent Turfster is my Vector Field Painter, made to be used in VR. It s a standalone application that s basically a VR game where you use your hands to paint direction and magnitude into a 3D vector field, preview the result using \[ \] ## [electronic old men i have met](https://www.joewintergreen.com/electronic-old-men-i-have-met/) _2026-03-03 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ In the early-mid 90s my dad ran a PC repair business, which I get the impression he spun up in advance of knowing much about PCs and more or less learned on the job. I remember that when he hit a PC he really couldn t do anything with, he d hit up a guy called Jim, \[ \] ## [fuck windows: dreaming of an honest computer](https://www.joewintergreen.com/fuck-windows-dreaming-of-an-honest-computer/) _2026-02-11 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ In 1997 or so, I remember that my mum could use a computer pretty good. She had a 486 and she d write, research online, copy files around on floppies, email them, save and use images. Salvage Office autosaves. Save websites so she could look at them offline. I once saw her use a null modem \[ \] ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Cni2To13hoOe) _2026-02-11 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [coolest apology i ever got](https://www.joewintergreen.com/look-for-gold/) _2026-02-10 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ Sometimes kids in their teens or early 20s rock up in my discord, and stay for years, and become adults. This only happens if they don t get banned for irritating me, and I m surprised by how often that happens. I can t imagine being cool or thoughtful or insightful at that age, but some of em \[ \] ## [contextual animation stuff in Sleight of Hand](https://www.joewintergreen.com/contextual-animation-stuff-in-sleight-of-hand/) _2026-02-05 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I ve been working for the last week or two on a system to streamline contextual or scripted animation stuff in Sleight of Hand, a stealth game with a lot of systemic interaction aspirations. I built an interest source system a while back for coordinated investigations and dynamic behaviours, and while some of those interactions have \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/UnrealEditor_0wy2LpWmBT.mp4) ## [how Gears of War 1’s train level works](https://www.joewintergreen.com/how-gears-of-war-1s-train-level-works/) _2026-01-10 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I just completed Gears of War 1 Reloaded, a remaster of a remaster (lol same), and it ends with a train level. It s the usual thing, a mostly-static level pretending to be a moving train by deploying various illusions, but since it s possible that Sleight of Hand will ship with one of these, I was \[ \] ## [ass ass in screed: mirage](https://www.joewintergreen.com/ass-ass-in-screed-mirage/) _2026-01-05 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I recently made a second attempt at playing Assassin s Creed: Mirage, having disliked it the first time, but they have patched it in interesting ways and this time it got its hooks in. You would think from the multiple posts I ve done about this franchise that I was a bigtime fan, and that s never been \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vlc_RVoXRkmz9C.mp4) ## [staves eco, the canceled late-2000s Deus Ex game you never played because it came to me in a dream](https://www.joewintergreen.com/staves-eco/) _2025-12-13 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ i had a dream a while back in which i was playing a leaked build of an old cancelled deus ex game called Staves Eco, where dx s neural augmentations existed, but had had generative AI non-optionally patched in in an over-the-air update. it was concerned with the idea that, in the same way you can \[ \] ## [“interest sources”, contextual interactions for NPCs in Sleight of Hand](https://www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sources-contextual-interactions-for-npcs-in-sleight-of-hand/) _2025-12-08 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I ve worked with a few target-based contextual interaction systems for NPCs on different projects, they re one of my favourite things to make, and lately I ve been making one for Sleight of Hand, a stealth game I m working on at RiffRaff, deets of which I shall here now divulge. Everyone calls these objects something different: at \[ \] ## [shit i keep seeing: “conflict resolution” via gaslighting](https://www.joewintergreen.com/gaslighting-on-autopilot/) _2025-11-23 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ An uncomfortable pattern I ve noticed in workplaces and relationships over the years is that even (what I believe to be) genuinely well-intentioned men (I only see it with men) find themselves resorting to gaslighting at the drop of a hat in relatively low-stakes situations. Specifically, I see guys trying to resolve tension by inventing a \[ \] ## [i never draw a picture. here are some of them](https://www.joewintergreen.com/i-never-draw-a-picture-here-are-some-of-them/) _2025-11-08 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ in my capacity as a non-artist, i typically refrain from drawing any pictures. the pictures below, drawn in ballpoint pen (or some of them on an ipad), are exceptions. it s my contention that perspective is for messy bitches so as a put-together ho i don t fuck with it ## [loving oscar, 2011-2025](https://www.joewintergreen.com/loving-oscar-2011-2025/) _2025-11-07 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ about a week ago, wonderful Oscar the cat, my best friend of 14 years, passed away in my arms in the garden. i caught him as a feral kitten living under my house when i was 21, and he was the sweetest creature anyone has ever known. this week has been awful, but i m so \[ \] ## [a quest tool i made once](https://www.joewintergreen.com/a-quest-tool-i-made-once/) _2025-10-20 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ Some years ago I did a quest scripting tool for an ill-fated open-world game I was contracting on. It was ages ago now, the project s concluded, and nothing here identifies any of it, so I m sure nobody ll mind if I talk about my approach a bit here. My number one concern when creating tools for \[ \] ## [dev scoops: some narrative advice a Valve person gave me once](https://www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-some-narrative-advice-a-valve-person-gave-me-once/) _2025-10-05 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ Many years ago when I was a tiny baby making InFlux (of which there is now a Redux), I had no idea what I wanted to do with it narratively, if anything. Because, from a young age, he had humoured me, I emailed Gabe Newell about it, knowing he was in the habit of either \[ \] ## [the time no man’s sky fucked up and turned into a sidescroller](https://www.joewintergreen.com/the-time-no-mans-sky-fucked-up-and-turned-into-a-sidescroller/) _2025-10-03 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ yeah so i was playing no man s sky once and i was on a space station and suddenly every vert s position on one of the horizontal axes collapsed to 0 and it looked like this. i could see dudes running around. cool bug ## [observed a spider today](https://www.joewintergreen.com/observed-a-spider-today/) _2025-09-24 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ this is my favourite kind of spider because it visibly goes on adventures and this i feel is a very good example of that. you can see the thought process. she is vibing if you watch for a while you will see her see a leaf standing on end like a tower and be like \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/signal-2025-09-24-110825.mp4) ## [finally liking Control (2019)](https://www.joewintergreen.com/finally-liking-control-2019/) _2025-09-20 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I ve written before about even though I m a huge longtime Remedy enjoyer not liking Control very much, but wanting to like it. Well, good news! After years of trying to like it, I finally like it. Here I will share with you the secrets, for there are several, to Liking Control If You \[ \] ## [overdrive: conversation system](https://www.joewintergreen.com/overdrive-conversation-system/) _2025-09-13 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ The Weird West side project (called Overdrive) that I started working on some time back is something I rarely find the time to advance, despite having a lot of ideas about, but lately I have a little bit. The other day I smashed out a conversation system! I really love the result (video below) \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/mpc-hc64_skDcQZCBGn.mp4) ## [mgs3 and photorealisming the painterly game](https://www.joewintergreen.com/mgs3-and-photorealisming-the-painterly-game/) _2025-09-08 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ The recent Metal Gear Solid 3 remake uses a lot of Quixel Megascans (a mostly-free library of ultra-high-fidelity photogrammetry), which I don t think matters at all in itself, but it s funny that the bit of wood Snake bites down on when he splints his elbow is 100% identical to a plank you roll over all \[ \] ## [still acting like a fool: an assassin’s creed odyssey](https://www.joewintergreen.com/asscreedodyssey/) _2025-07-23 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ As my Ass Creed quest continues, I ve now played through 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, 4 (Black Flag), and Unity, the whole Desmond Trilogy and then some. Here are some thoughts about each of those! Playing them in quick succession like this feels like overhearing an argument someone wants it to be about this, \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Joewintergreen-Com-20250710-211735.mp4) ## [ask: steam deck verification](https://www.joewintergreen.com/ask-steam-deck-verification/) _2025-07-11 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ So the short answer is I don t think I even faced the hurdle you re talking about. What happened for me is that as soon as Steam Deck Compatibility became a thing, this button materialised on my Steamworks App Admin screen: I recently found out this doesn t happen for everyone. Apparently, some people are just not \[ \] ## [when will he stop acting like a fool? an assassin’s creed 1 post](https://www.joewintergreen.com/when-will-he-stop-acting-like-a-fool-an-assassins-creed-1-post/) _2025-06-08 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ I m on a bit of an Assassin s Creed odyssey lately (not playing Assassin s Creed Odyssey, just on an odyssey through Assassin s Creed), going in a weird order I ve just completed the first game a few days after completing Unity, which is sort of the last one that s on the same train of thought as \[ \] ## [dev scoops: vultures in Weird West](https://www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-vultures-in-weird-west/) _2025-04-12 · joewintergreen · joe wintergreen internet zone_ The first feature I worked on at Wolfeye when I came on board as (what ended up being credited as) a Systems Designer/Technical Designer was the vultures. As well as being ambiently cool, the vultures play a role a bit like the rats in Dishonored, showing up when there s dead stuff around and conveniently disposing \[ \] [Listen](https://www.joewintergreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1438723037738647561-r77oSos5NktGo98F.mp4)