@mikebithell.bsky.social
Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
@mikebithell.bsky.social PinnedProud to announce the next game
Vampirium: 1997
Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox.
Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful)
@bettybitter.bsky.socialReposted by @mikebithell.bsky.socialSeen on instagram but its cooking with Bluesky energy
@ramiismail.comReposted by @mikebithell.bsky.socialUnity literally announced the "AI makes a game for you" thing as an April fool's joke in 2012 - dunking on the creative bankruptcy of the whole concept - before announcing it with a straight face just the other day.
@theflightmusic.bsky.socialReposted by @mikebithell.bsky.socialGrammy® voting opens tomorrow!
Alexis and I would love you to consider voting for 007 First Light for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you listen to your music. 🍸
open.spotify.com/album/1wx7qv...
@mikebithell.bsky.socialBuzzing with pride
@mikebithell.bsky.socialYou could say, they’re robots in disguise. People who transform in different contexts.
@mikebithell.bsky.socialAmazing puppet maintenance too. Just an incredibly solid degree of puppet maintenance. Well lead, by an amazing head of puppet maintenance. (Reviews are hitting post premier and they are goooooood)
@mikebithell.bsky.socialIt annoys me that a transformers meme is this true of the human condition.
@mikebithell.bsky.socialShe laughs at me every time I giddily deliver her lunch to her on set at the studio. Just wandering into a film studio, all casual like
@mikebithell.bsky.socialI’m a real fanboy of all things stopmotion. Getting to repeatedly visit the sets of nearly everything in the medium over the 20 odd years we’ve been together is a proper perk.
@mikebithell.bsky.socialGotta make my own damn plans tomorrow because my damn wife has to go with her brilliant damn colleagues to the damn premier for their incredible damn film (wildwood)
@mikebithell.bsky.sociallol, think they did a mr blobby sketch a couple episodes in
@mikebithell.bsky.socialQuite enjoying the divergent evolution of SNL UK. I think we passed ‘baffling to Americans’ a few episodes ago now.
@mikebithell.bsky.socialI opened it, looked a bit, but the joke felt stale, and when I prodded it to see if you could fail / find a different path through it immediately fell apart, so assumed vibe coded and moved on. Not bad enough to comment on, but not an interesting joke if you’ve seen the last three versions of it
@mikebithell.bsky.socialOohhhh, yeah ok
@mikebithell.bsky.socialYeah, dodging hypocritical sanctimony every day Which of course would be easier if I wasn’t so damn sanctimonious, but we’re not fixing that at 10:30 on a Saturday
@mikebithell.bsky.social‘Now’? (I’m sure this is a good talk)
@mikebithell.bsky.socialOh no which one?
@mikebithell.bsky.socialI think, if I’m being honest with myself, this is the main reason I refuse to touch these things. More so than being environmentally dilligent, even more so than wanting to avoid being a thief. I am very good at my job. I enjoy being very good at my job. I do not want to become less good at my job
@mikebithell.bsky.socialIt is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
@mikebithell.bsky.socialThey figured it all out
