Didn’t realize the EA deal isn’t closing until Q1 2027

I haven’t had the time to read up on the situation, but why is it bad that EA is going private? Is it who is buying them? I understand that any buyout is often followed by cost cutting, but isn’t the complaint that being public sucks for the devs since the EA only cares about shareholder value?

“pick a god and pray” is my favorite thing ive ever added to my vocabulary

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i thought this was John Economos

i would prefer if more games should expect you to play the previous ones. books expect you to do it, many movies expect you to do it. i want more devs to treat sequels like they do expansions. soon after the beginning, the content should be harder and expect more from me than the previous game.

so, they’re rebranding GDC and making it cheaper? maybe i can attend this year.

Ghost cat oil painting on this #caturday

I know a lot of people have been waiting for this one… Metaphor: ReFantazio has been added to the Game UI Database! One of the most eye-catching interfaces of recent times. www.gameuidatabase.com/gameData.php... This also marks another huge milestone for the site: 1500 Games! 2k by Xmas? Lets gooo!

big green… save me

wandering at a hitherto unprecedented pace

i feel like such a tourist in london hit up soho to on a friday and felt so out of place 💀

hello. i made an 83 minute long video essay on house m.d. and its relationship with television thank you to @gooplord.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social for lending me their voices

everybody WATCH THIS NOW. like legit, pull it up, and see how high effort this is. this is legit cinematic level animation lol

hello, bsky! c: i worked on the pilot episode of an independent animated series. it's taken a long time to figure out how to make this thing, and a lot of hard work went into this from everyone involved. i hope you like it 👉👈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeAq...

Hey, my fellow senior engineers? We’re load-bearing and often get to say LOL NO FUCK YOU to those kinds of things despite policies, so make sure you do that and not in a “fuck you got mine” kind of way. Stand with juniors, more “replaceable” crafts and disabled colleagues, thanks

i’m all in on rugpullcoin

given the whole ghibli AI thing: as a society, we would not give the Deer God its head back

we are single-digit number of days away from the Nintendon Switch 2 presentation, and i’m losing my mind

2 episodes into Frieren, petrified of watching a third. the first two obliterated me. just, full on crying every episode.

i have an ironclad mental. it’s insane the emotional resiliency i gained from playing dark souls in middle school. it prepared me so perfectly to be a software engineer, and deal with the problems that arise in said field.

i feel similar. after trying to find a better job for a couple years, i’ve decided to start applying outside of the industry, too. turns out it’s just brutal everywhere.

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this is about #severance btw

my ants have been severed. my cold has been harbored.

there are grifters everywhere for those with eyes to see

it’s interesting to see people not understanding what LibGen is.

OMG I JUST REMEMBERED I CAN FINALLY SHARE WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO. CHECK OUT THE TEASER FOR THE FIRST EPISODE OF OUR TV SHOW!!! youtu.be/tWuorM43hv4?...

Day two of #GDC2025! This is what I look like today. If you see me, say hi! 💕

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i have beat the flu

man, this fever will not let up! slamming 500 mg of acetaminophen every 6 hours and it hovers around 102.5. if i don’t take any, it threatens to go as high as 104. urgent care it is!

decided not to go to GDC this year, which turned out to be a good choice. i clocked a fever of 103 today!

i do not understand the hype behind these controllers. i want to like them, but i think the face buttons feel awful compared to the Gulikit KingKong Pro. they’re not clicky enough, nor tall enough. they feel shallow and mushy to me. the sticks are great, however.

Got inspired by some older videos on floating capsule based physics characters and decided to make a prototype in #Unreal. #gamedev

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they should’ve sold Monolith instead of obliterating it. those Middle-Earth games were not only quality releases, but i felt that they were far from “missing the mark”. this is incompetence if i’ve ever seen it. they don’t understand their market, so they must feign that they do.

I think what’s so frustrating is executives talking about “getting swagger back” by releasing good games *in order to* increase investment, whereas every dev I know just wants to release good games when they’re ready *in order to* keep sustainably making good games that players like.

where the heck is soul calibur 7

Genuinely excited for the PS2/PSP/Dreamcast era nostalgia to fully kick in and result in some gorgeous mid-fi games

why can i imagine a future in which WW3 breaks out, and america is on the side of russia against this European army? i hate that it doesn’t feel too far flung.

explain why u are ordering an egg from my store.

LMAO MAN this one was completely unexpected

i still romanticize the times i would stroll to class, get back home and have tons of street passes. occasionally, i’d even meet those people. they’d be sit on their 3DS and I’d approach them. we’d add each other and I’d recognize their username from all the times our paths crossed. so sick.

it’s so stupid, but i hate the feel of phone cases. every time i take them off im like: “yes. finally. THIS is technology.”

i miss streetpass

My job at Netflix has not been renewed for another season, along with many incredible colleagues at Night School. The day I found out I got this job was one of the best days of my life, and it’s devastating to see it come to such a sudden end. If anyone needs a game designer, let me know 💔

Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”