Great tips from Naoko! She’s been keeping us organized for many years!!!

It's amazing how good the noir mode looks!

Now, the holy grail of bug repro is if your game supports replay files and things ran in a deterministic enough way where it was attached to the bug and you have an automatic repro. We got close to that on Brutal Legend.

I can't express enough how much I appreciate videos being attached to bugs. Capturing moments BEFORE the bug happens and what it looks like is almost essential these days. I remember the closest we had to that were video tapes of bugs being reproed. Otherwise you hope for really good descriptions.

Where I ultimately land with the thoughts around game dev career mortality (wait that sounds too morbid), end game (better?) is that I want to make stuff with folks that like to make stuff and feel joy in the process. And maybe help others as they start their journey.

I do start to think about my own game dev mortality with the number of years and titles left until my brain no longer wants to. Most can't pick and choose exactly what kind of games they want to make, it's always about situations and opportunities, so what should on look for?

The thing that's odd being in this industry (for me) this long is that it's hard to see what paths there are. Many of my peers in programming have gone to other industries, and other than roles in big companies, what does a career path for a gameplay programmer about to hit 50 look like?

This month marks 23 years in the game industry for me. I've been INCREDIBLY fortunate to have worked with all of the amazing folks that I've worked with, the games that I got to work on and to have had made some life long friends along the way. Truly grateful.

After being done with the shipping phase, I have the brainspace to play other games and I am blown away by HOW MANY different games are out there. You all are creating incredible stuff! The breadth of topics, genres, and big swings are inspiring.

Just rolled credits on The Seance of Blake Manor and I had a wonderful time with the game. Wonderful puzzles, games, and environment and it had me fully engrossed in its world for a while. It was really important to me to save everyone that I can, and the feeling of FOMO was STRONG.

So cool to see what are the steps that one takes in developing a feature in a game, and Oliver is posting about the number of things that he's tried. Super interesting and he is a pixel magician.

Also started the Seance of Blake manor. I usually don’t like scary stuff but the adventure game roots really pull me in. It all reminds me a bit of the Last Express. Really enjoying this one so far.

I am having the brain space to play a bunch of games. Been really enjoying Dispatch. The notion of an office of super heroes is near and dear to my heart and their dispatch mini game pings that part of my brain. Also love the telltale dna that’s in that game.

When shipping a game you go through the gamut of emotions from anxiety, excitement (and those are on a spin cycle the first couple of days) and as the dust settles it can be hard to pin down how you feel. Thinking about what you’ve built, and then slowly about what you want to build next.

I want to watch history get made but I also want to sleep.

Wait a minute. Is baseball still baseballing?!?!! Can they all agree to take a break and start again in the morning?

It has incredibly joyful and inspiring working with the team on this game, and I hope all of you feel that joy when you play. I feel especially lucky to have worked with such a talented programming team that brought these pixels and gameplay to life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDmv...

When tomorrow comes our game will be everyone’s game. I hope you all enjoy it. As it’s been a joy to make. I’m glad we were able to make a game like this.

That mullet superman story is incredible. @leepetty.bsky.social always has really interesting stories from the industry, we should make like a whole series on late 90s early 2000's game development.

It’s a very odd time right before you ship a game. You go from sprinting and fixing bugs to then waiting for it to come out. It feels like you need to be doing something but it’s too close to release to really do anything. Excited but also prepped for issues to be found when the game releases.

Oh man, look at that foil, we need to put it in a nice card sleeve and get it graded!

Lighthouse of the Week: Ep. 12 Keeper's Lighthouse is not like any other lighthouse before it. There are no human records or proof of its existence. And yet, it feels a mysterious sense of purpose. It has 4 legs — the perfect number for walking into the unknowable. doublefine.com/games/keeper

Playing this game again and it reminds me HOW many things we achieved in the span of 5 (ish?) years of development post P1. A brand new engine, whole new console generation (and multiplatform!), brand new tools and pipelines, that allowed an open world, car driving, brawling RTS multiplayer game!

Release only once crash

Oh man. Group C definitely would’ve been cool. I remember it was really challenging to tune the physics on the cars. I could’ve sworn we did have a prototype version of the axe car.

Ahhhhhh 8 more days!!!!!! I think the ahhh is for excitement…not anxiety induced terror. I think…. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!

This is awesome! I’ve never seen this before!

Someone on the team has mention that twig is a giant bird. A realization I haven’t made through all of production. Gameplay programmer James Collins and the animation team has done an amazing job bringing Twig’s flight to life!

It was super fun to talk with @ashleyesqueda.com about MMoJ!! A game and team truly near and dear to my heart. I really appreciate everyone that's worked on the game, and everyone that has played it! For folks I manage, I promise I won't draw brocollis on your next performance review.

I saw so much joy coming from this team as they were developing this game. And it really comes across in this very joyous game. It was one of the first DF games my kids were able to play and helped us through the early times of the pandemic. Amazing job on this game DFHAT team!!!

0 legs that we know of…..

This project was so fun to make! Grateful to @leepetty.bsky.social for letting me work on this game and for making a team that was just so fun to work with.

25 years!! I joined the studio when it was 2 years young and I feel so grateful to have a place where I’ve met and worked with so many wonderful people. Thanks to @timoflegend.bsky.social and many others who worked so hard over the years to keep the doors open making games we are excited to make.

This was such a fun game and I loved seeing it develop over time. Patrick and team did an amazing job on it!

For every trailer that goes out there there’s a team that’s bursting with excitement for the world to see their work. Congrats to everyone that got to show off their game today!

SHIPPING TIME!!!!! This game looks so beautiful made by a great team!! It’s been really fun working on this and I’m incredibly excited for folks to play this!

This is SO GOOD! Our fans are amazing!!!

This is so very cool! I'm going to find as many folks who worked on P1 to sign this and frame it.

I am so very thankful for folks that have played the game and enjoyed it. We toiled so very hard to make this very precious thing to us…It fills my heart to know that it was precious to others as well.

20 years ago we released Psychonauts. It was so very hard to make. Towards the finish line I wasn’t thinking about how well the game will received but that we got to do it…we got to finish it….there were so many obstacles in the way that the finish was in doubt. We did it. It went out to the world.

20 years…..oof…wh…what is time?!?!?

These are SO COOL!!!!!

Ending GDC week feeling inspired by my colleagues and fellow devs and amazed by the enthusiasm and ingenuity of new devs.

Starting GDC morning listening to a talk about entity systems and memory allocation while super interesting feels like sprinting before warming up!

Just got back from day of the devs and it’s very inspiring to see devs demoing their work. I saw some amazing games and being able to chat with the devs is a joy.

First shipped game, last shipped game (heh)

How does art direction just get read off a list and not be given stage time. I know this is meant to be trailer-o-Rama but come on.

I’ve been laughing for a full minute about “Get out of my house”.

This is a fantastic set of articles on the nuances of developing the jump. Complex to develop and to have it feel good. Devin did a great job on the feature and these articles! Definitely give this a read!

Hey @doubleanna.bsky.social ! You're right, you did store some bug videos. I found some on the server, like this gem! SO GOOD! It needs a soundtrack.