What an incredible honor, and DOOM is the only video game on the list! Congrats to DOOM devs, players, modders, and the entire games community. This one is for all of us. Thanks @gene.meme and @washingtonpost.com !

I would add to this the lack of any kind of urgency or action plan, at least relayed to staff, because the assumption is always that the workers will just make it work because hey they have in the past, right?

Watching The Furious right after Backrooms and it’s making me want to get into that liminal space and beat everyone’s ass

More things found while packing: 10 quid and a sealed pack of Japanese Star Wars themed mints

Also if you happen to be making video games in Japan and could use someone like me to help make the video game maybe we can have a conversation about "hey what if I helped you make the video game and in exchange you let me live and work in Japan again please for the love of God"

Just booked my traditional "got laid off from Bungie so I'm going to Japan" trip next month This will be the third time that I have done this specific thing!

More artifacts - when SIGGRAPH was the best place to see new game cutscenes

Looking through this E3 ‘98 guide. First: wow look at that keynote lineup! Second: wow what an extremely unfortunate booking of those two talks huh? Whatever could be keeping girls from playing video games in 1998?! Anyway here’s how to render the least soullessly disturbing sexy Lara Croft render

As a response I’ll draw a full volume of manga and hide it in a greybox test map

Inio Asano: "I spent a month creating a rural town in 3D to draw a one-shot manga. I haven't even finished a single page of the manuscript yet!" x.com/asano_inio/s...

Continues feeling nice to hear good things about Forspoken

Oh God it’s only been two weeks huh

First rejection email lets gooooo

My biggest professional sin is that I've never used Blueprint I guess! Into the trash I go!

The more I watch literally every episode of Cheaters on YouTube the more it becomes apparent that the whole racket was probably a Texas night club promotion scam I hope someone is looking into this

The coolest part about everyone ditching proprietary engines is that I have only exclusively worked in proprietary engines

Iron Chef dub announcer just said "Hey, put your hands together (Allman Brothers)!" and I don't think that was a literal translation

I've actually thought about this a lot and the titular story may be worth the price of admission

Looks like I got some new followers recently for saying some things, but hi! I'm Dan, I've been in games for 25 years and a designer for 15. I've worked at Nintendo, MGS, Monolith, Bungie, 343, Insomniac, and Square-Enix in Japan, including some startup and indie studio experience.

Ah man, just dug up my Forspoken design notebook

Yoji Shinkawa x The Ghost In The Shell (last frame of Episode 1)

PRETTY GOOD

Encouraged to now start writing my game industry memoir, THANKS FOR PIZZA

This is blowing up so I'll leave it by saying this isn't even the dumbest thing that was said that day but I'll let other people tell those stories But it's so much worse

This was the best part about the last year of Bungie, through multiple layoff cycles it was a daily battle between survivor’s guilt and waiting for the other shoe to drop I would reiterate people will not make a good video game under these conditions but that assumes any of these ghouls care

I have very distinct memories of having to demo Halo 4 for Don Mattrick and realizing that these people just live on different planes of reality I was showing off my mission and when the Mantis showed up with its new cool intro vignette he raised his hand and said to the group -

Nothing but massive respect for people organizing resources for people who have lost their jobs. If that were up to me all you would get is a link to the 24/7 Maury Povich Google Freeplay channel and a shrug emoji because I have no idea what I’m gonna do

Read in Norm MacDonald’s voice

I only saw the Documentary Now parody of that movie where they try to dox Bill Watterson but just knowing that is a thing that exists makes me really mad

The living embodiment of "if I had a billion dollars you would never see or hear from me ever again." king

Maybe my unemployment thing will be Guy Who Gets Really Into The Tour de France

Guy on Antiques Roadshow said "I think it's a Swedish bonad" and I instinctively shouted back "I think YOU'RE a Swedish bonad" It's rough out here

This and Capcom Design Works are like the foundational books I own Pages are literally falling out of my old copy

This YouTube thumbnail keeps taunting me and I want to scream at it "I KNOW WHAT IT IS GIVE ME SOME THROUGH THE COMPUTER SCREEN RIGHT NOW"

UGH

Had a lot of time on my hands lately so I’ve been watching a lot of Iron Chef - it was always pretty obvious the Chairman was kayfabe but this is the first time I’ve heard that they gave the character a mock funeral in the last episode because he died of blowfish poisoning

Week one of unemployment done Looks like I’m in for a lot more Slowly adapting to their schedule

Would be nice to see this in a theater but the only real way to experience Robot Carnival is by staying up way too late in your formative years and randomly seeing it pop up on TBS for no reason exactly once at 3:15 AM on a Tuesday

Looks like it's a good time to bring back this system

Anyway this is still my rallying cry

Wrote this before I was even laid off but yeah prepare for a lot of stone cold bummer video games If most of the end results of your product being released are “hey we’re all getting canned no matter what” it turns out people won’t be especially psyched to work on it which means it probably sucks

Phew, almost let a LinkedIn hot take escape containment, unemployment is getting to me

Why is my body still waking me up this early You are useless, you don’t need to exist at all let alone at 5:00 AM

Look how they massacred my boy

ニャロー！

Done my job stuff for the day. Now I'm gonna see how fast I can level this guy.

I haven't been unemployed since the early aughts so the fact that there's just a Google channel that runs old episodes of Maury Povich 24/7 is a gamechanger This is what I should evangelize on LinkedIn