Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027

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Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· 2d

For those who have never stood in the presence of these murals before, they are absolutely wild for a government building. They are the most prominent "Holy shit what is going on at the Denver Airport?" fodder apart from the giant blue demon horse that killed its own maker.

The most iconic of the Denver murals showing a soldier in a gas mask and holding an assault rifle seemingly killing civilians with a sword.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· 5d

At California Extreme today and fascinated by this modern remake of Tales of the Arabian Nights. Pinball, welcome to the remake and remaster era.

A modern remake of the classic Arabian Nights pinball table.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· 6d

Reviewing the manual for the Minolta X-700 I inherited from my grandpa and wow, the '80s were fucking wild.

Text from a manual saying "Used batteries should not be disposed of in fire."

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· 12d

Praying for my friends at Cyan and everyone else in Spokane. Holy shit.

Map of three different wildfires threatening Spokane (and Cyan Worlds) at the moment.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· 18d

I feel like this news is being buried by the prototype video but it's an important counterweight.

From Cyan's site: "We are currently in development of a new game, codenamed Mudfish, set inside the Myst Universe.

This game is currently planned to contain denser, more intricate game spaces than ever before, with new ways of exploring and uncovering information. We are currently in very early development stages of this game and will share more news on this later.

A recording of our “Cyan State of the Union” during this Mysterium will be made available on various channels. More information on where to find this recording to come."

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Jul 13

Three Eiffel Towers.

The drone show for fete nationale showing two drone Eiffel Towers next to the real one.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Jul 13

Sam Neill in Event Horizon after he gouges out his own eyes and says "Where we're going we don't need eyes to see" and then lets out the most chilling laugh put to film.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Jul 5

The bridge is somewhere out in this direction.

A foggy shot of San Francisco with no fireworks in sight.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Jun 29

We are in a golden age of wrestling. An all-timer of a PPV tonight.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Jun 8

Rush 😭😭

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· May 30

Finally built this model takoyaki stand I bought at Donki in Japan in 2024. More involved than I expected but I think it turned out neat. I did not know I was going to need to supply my own toothpicks (for multiple steps) and trim them to size.

Model takoyaki stand, about four inches tall and six wide, with a quarter for scale.

Close-up of the miniature food at the model takoyaki stand, including a grill and two finished takoyaki baskets.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· May 28

The word "Kesha" on a screen at a concert in glowing pink letters.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· May 24

Wrestling is serious.

A walking Vita Coco box at an AEW wrestling event.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· May 18

Found a map of the GDC 2013 floor, and my god, bring me back.

A map of the GDC 2013 South Hall floor, crammed with booths.

A map of the GDC 2013 North Hall floor, with massive presences for Microsoft, Epic, Valve, Havok, and more.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· May 18

Cleaning up some old folders today and found this gem.

Cover page of a Steam Machine presentation/lookbook for CES 2014.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· May 9

Time to watch some real arthouse shit on Criterion.

The perfect film Point Break headlining Criterion Channel today.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· May 1

Me talking to the weird guy in Twin Peaks: Sorry, you eat what? That weird guy in Twin Peaks:

Key art for the game Gambonanza featuring a chess piece on a small chess board.

But also it's impossible to see the title of this game without thinking of Garmonbozia, the creamed corn embodiment of sorrow from Twin Peaks.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Apr 16

Two black cats sitting in an enormous Costco stir fry box.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 13

"We started marking routes we climbed with peach cans. Then at some point we started adding peach cans to things we just thought were plausible...it turns out all of them were except one. These cans on top of a ruin, which we'd never tested."

Slide shows a stack of cans on top of a ruin in the game Baby Steps.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 13

A second Marmite slide.

Audience shot of Gabe Cuzzillo's GDC panel. On the slide, a man is stacking jars of Marmite.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 13

Baby Steps compared to Marmite.

Audience shot of Gabe Cuzzillo's GDC panel. The slide shows a man enjoying notoriously divisive food Marmite.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 13

Gabe Cuzzillo talking about how Baby Steps' level design was inspired by Japanese skate videos—specifically one where people explored skating on things that were clearly not meant for skating.

Audience shot of Gabe Cuzzillo's GDC panel

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 11

Another standout: Floss Boss, which uses capacitive and light sensors to brush and floss an oversized mouth. Developer told me their original set was twice the size and then they had to hack it down to fit their space last minute. Still looks rad.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 11

Alt-Ctrl continues to be a gem. This year someone has a game about a hamster ball where you are literally the hamster in the ball.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 11

Here's an overview of Project Helix features. Partnered with AMD, designed for the next generation of DirectX.

Slide from Microsoft's GDC session about the future of the next Xbox, Project Helix.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Mar 10

At the Valve GDC talk: "If you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it." Anyway, hardware is still listed as coming in 2026. Now it's GDC official (a.k.a. pretty much meaningless still but maybe).

Slide from the Valve GDC talk saying hardware is still coming in 2026.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Feb 22

I can't believe the Trojan Horse in Nolan's version of The Odyssey is just a recolored Bluecifer from the Denver airport.

Statue of a horse standing on its hind legs from the upcoming film The Odyssey.

A statue of a blue horse standing on its hind legs outside the Denver International Airport.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Feb 22

Now we've got Macklin Celebrini also hallucinated by the AI captions. How is this useful to or respectful of people who actually rely on captions?

Another screenshot of the Olympics closing ceremony captions, this time showing "Faber de la la la macklin Macklin" as the system's best guess for what the Italian speakers are saying.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Feb 22

Peacock's AI-gen captions losing their mind during Rigoletto and hallucinating the words "Jack Eichel" among all the Italian.

Screenshot of the Olympics closing ceremony where the captions thought people singing in Italian mentioned the name of US hockey player Jack Eichel.

Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2027@haydendingman· Feb 20

Building all the data centers I can so that sloppy AI code changes can crash the entire internet every few months.