Keith Evans

@kaynsd

Keith. Technical Designer & Game Developer. [he/him/his] C# Programmer and Systems Architect. Procedural Generator Generator. Technically Swedish Now. Dilettante and Dabbler. Possibly a Wizard. Mastodon: [@kaynSD@peoplemaking.games] Itch: [kaynsd.itch.io]

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Keith Evans@kaynsd· 26d

We have now gone meta.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· 26d

"I have no idea what I'm doing" @ramiismail.com

Mike and Rami live on stage at Develop Conference, Mike looking like an excited gremlin while Rami looks resigned to his fate of what the next hour has in store for him.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· 28d

It's hour one of Develop Conference day and I've already bumped into one person who I've only ever talked to online and they're cool. Yay :) Say hi if you see me!

Keith wearing an orange polo shirt and smiling, clearly staring too much into the sun. In the background is the English Channel and Brighton's west pier; a burnt out wreck of a pier that isn't a metaphor for the games industry.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Jul 4

A page from "I Want My Hat Back" by Jon Klassen, the left half of which has a red background and a stylised bear sitting bolt upright in a perfect L shape with arms down the side and eyes open. The right of the page is white with black text, in all caps "I HAVE SEEN MY HAT."

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Jul 2

Same hat

A test result from the AI Compass showing a result in the Union Organizer category, just to the west of Cory Doctorow.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Jul 1

Show me a cool physical game

A dusty Collectors Edition of City of Villains, with four of the HeroClix miniatures positioned in front of it.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Jun 15

Anyway after about forty five minutes they spotted it. And they were VERY upset with me (I'd also hidden numbers in the diary entries that accompanied the puzzle which also spelt out the order without having to see this but this was so much more vindictive)

The same scribble of the ship but with hidden numbers highlighted in digital green pen; the main sail has a 1, the aft cabin has a 2, a 3 is hidden in the fore, a 4 makes up the mizzenmast, a 5 is formed out of the back of the ship and a wave, and rudder is a 6, the bowsprit a 7 and the anchor is a sideways 8

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Jun 15

Two years later, in the same campaign, I have thrown those players into a puzzle room, with a picture of a ship upon the wall and some diary entries. I even gave them a scribble of what the painting of the ship looked like

A crude scribbled representation of a painting of a ship on graph paper, titled The Effervescent Meteorite and signed by a fictitious painter

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Jun 12

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Jun 2

The words "Godot Android Build Environment" arranged as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· May 27

Forty-One Today.

A selfie of Keith, a brown haired white skinned man with glasses and a younger than forty one year old complexion, wearing a t-shirt that exclaims DESTROY AI, sitting on the floor in front of a tall shelf of roleplaying game books.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· May 23

The original title was better

A fake titlecard for Star Trek Deep Space Nine, showing the eponymous space station, with the fake episode name "No Truce with the Nerys".

Keith Evans@kaynsd· May 19

I'm in a book! Well. The acknowledgements section anyway :) (Yay @mtrc.bsky.social; book just arrived albeit a little damaged. Gonna read through it all now :D )

A copy of the book "Next Level; Making Games That Make Themselves" by Mike Cook

Text from the acknowledgements section, the pertinent bit reading "Similarly, I'm indebted to the people who have given their time to support the community over the years; to everyone who has ever spoken at an event I organised, to Hectate and Kayn for binding the PROCJAM community together for a decade,..."

Keith Evans@kaynsd· May 16

This week's miniature (assembled on Wednesday, started painting it yesterday) for my Red Corsairs is a Helbrute. Just the one though. #nerdlings #warhammer40000

Side photograph of a Warhammer 40000 Miniature, a Chaos Space Marine Helbrute. Painted in red and black, a tortured bipedal engine of destruction atop a scenic lava base. Armed with a power claw and a thunder hammer

Top down 3/4 view of a Warhammer 40000 Miniature, a Chaos Space Marine Helbrute. Painted in red and black, a tortured bipedal engine of destruction atop a scenic lava base. Armed with a power scourge and a Reaper Autocannon

Back view of a Warhammer 40000 Miniature, a Chaos Space Marine Helbrute. Painted in red and black, a tortured bipedal engine of destruction atop a scenic lava base. Armed with a lascannon and a power claw, but on a different arm than in image two

Keith Evans@kaynsd· May 15

Skatebird was watching me do my dev stream yesterday :)

A still from kaynSD's gamedev livestream yesterday. In the bottom right is a picture-in-picture view of his webcam showing predomenantly him in an orange shirt looking puzzled in an office/workshop, but sitting on a perch to the top left of the frame is a round, pink, Skatebird mascot plushie.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· May 9

Like, I want to learn to make THESE kinds of things one day.

Agatha's Stone Moon Tavern set from TTCombat's Tabletop Scenic range; a complex multistory wargame scale model of a medieval fantasy inn with timber framing, complex roof shingles, windows, and a well, all cut out of 3mm MDF wood

Keith Evans@kaynsd· May 9

A few hours of painting the base colours on this Reave Captain today. #nerdlings

Warhammer 40000 Red Corsairs Reave-Captain miniature; a 28mm scale miniature of a pirate in red knight like powered armour, welding a sword and a plasma pistol. Base coat colours (no fine details, edge highlights, or inks applied), from the front.

Rear shot of a Warhammer 40000 Red Corsairs Reave-Captain miniature; a 28mm scale miniature of a pirate in red knight like powered armour, welding a sword and a plasma pistol. Base coat colours (no fine details, edge highlights, or inks applied), from the front.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Apr 28

Breaking in the new controller. Been a while since I played #KillerInstinct, gotten sloppy (not that I was any good to begin with)

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Apr 24

I assume that the dozens from one of my previous employers, Star Stable, pass muster

Screenshot from Star Stable. Four horses of different breeds lined up

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Apr 24

Ponyta, from Pokémon

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Apr 7

Back in Breda for #EPC2026 for some #procgen talks.

An auditorium inside a converted chapel at Breda University of Art and Sciences, showing a stage with a projector screen showing talk previews

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Apr 6

Tag yourself I'm disembodied floating pigs head

The caption says "disembodied floating pigs head" but the generative AI machine sludge that this came from doesn't really know what to do with this approximation of a person's head

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Mar 28

Happy Osamaday!

A webcam picture of the account holder, @kaynSD, a white game developer in his mid forties with long hair, glasses, and a black t-shirt sitting at a desk in an office full of 3D printers and crafting materiel. It is night time and the office is illuminated with low lights to suit.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Mar 23

Panel from Flash Gordon, Thursday, January 16, 2025. Bok the Dragonman and Velle the Ambassador from Shark City have a conversation where Bok is looking smug and Velle is looking uneasy.
Bok: Let me guess: you were just living your life, doing what you were told -- then HE made you want to do better.
Velle: Well, I-- it's a bit more nuanced than that --
Bok: Sure.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Mar 21

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Mar 8

My brother built me an MTG Commander deck last year for christmas/birthday and I got to finally go and pick it up last weekend. It tripped airport security and they had to swab the deck protectors. I honestly can't imagine why

An orange card game deck box containing a hundred orange sleeved Magic: The Gathering Cards for a Commander deck. The card at the front, showing the Commander of the deck, is "The First Sliver" which has a casting cost of one mana of each colour.

The joke is that Slivers are uniformly hated across all of magic and so bringing this as your Commander implies the entire deck is a five color Sliver is such poor form and sportsmanship that it must be stopped at all costs, including airport security.

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Feb 28

May have been enjoying the Denshattack! demo a bit too much... thanks @denshattack.bsky.social :)

A final score screen from the demo of the game Denshattack!, for the level Shin's Testground with a final score of 105,198 (where a gold medal is 30,000pts) and all 8/8 dares completed

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Feb 20

Get them, puppy

A screenshot from the game Ruiner, showing only the protagonist of the game (Puppy) from the shoulders up. A person in a black jacket with a full face concealing helmet with a screen covering and shaped to the face shaking the words NO FILE in a terminal font

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Feb 16

Some Kalshi-ass looking bullshit going on here. #swbts

Two side bets in Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, showing successful payouts on side bets for "Likely Event: MAIMED IN RAID" paying out a ridiculous 50,000,000 and a "Long Position: Stock will reach 472,699" paying out an also honestly game winning sum but not quite as ludicrous 12,500,000

Keith Evans@kaynsd· Feb 16

Never mind Cantor Vantis all is forgiven