Ergo Proxy mentioned! When I watched it a few years ago I made this word cloud to describe the experience

I internally groaned the time I was talking to a Blizzard recruiter and he asked me if he could use ChatGPT to take notes about my interview with him. Pretty much immediately turned me off (further) from wanting to work there. The disrespect! Might as well spit in my face

I even got fancy with mine to display them on the wall. 😂

This whole genre of thing reminds me of the way that my first design boss, whose job title was "Lead RPG Systems Designer", got recruiting spam from defense contractors I heard this story from him in 2011, not sure when it happened

My friend left his big tech job and is now living the dream: making a cool indie game It’s been fun to watch his work come together

I'm on the same page as this guy

I can tell @paigeedits.bsky.social is tired from packing and organizing because she handed me some sort of toxic painting oil and instead of saying “put this with the hazardous chemicals” she paused and then said “put this with the danger liquid go-go bye-bye”

I wanted to do a bigger article about the development of Zelda 1, but the 40th anniversary snuck up on me. Never saw it coming. Hopefully this collection of fun quotes will be a good read too!

I'm 40+ years late to this party, but rapidly finding myself a Nihon Falcom fan Really want to play Ys X: Proud Nordics (Nihon Falcom, 2026) but am too busy playing Trails of Cold Steel 2 (Nihon Falcom, 2014) Maybe I'll destress by listening to Sunshine Coastline www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvBl...

if you’re wondering “what does Zelda have to do with the doomed Famicom Disk System?” be sure to listen to the upcoming Post Games bonus episode! @maxnichols.bsky.social walks us though the games origin story on March 2 at Patreon.com/postgames

If you were tasked with designing a figure skating game, how would you make it work? I’ve always felt like games are bad at letting you feel like you’re exercising fine control over disparate limbs and fine-grained movement detail

Sometimes I'll say stuff like "Melora (@historyofhyrule.com) has been the heart of the Zelda community for 20+ years" and people kinda nod along. Something a friend of Melora would say! But I MEAN IT! Here's the oldest example I know of of a Zelda creator referencing the English fan community.

RE Bluepoint: Having a studio that is expert at remakes, working for a publisher with an insanely deep backlog of beloved classics, was always a recipe for printing money at a steady cadence. Leave them alone and they print money forever, little or no opportunity cost. Come the fuck on

There has never once been a game or any other piece of media that would have been worth doing this for Selling gangbusters and winning GOTY awards is like, a tiny bandaid on the gaping bullet wound that 8 years of 80hr weeks would leave on your body and soul

I am excited about technology that makes the world or people's lives better. Which is most technology, but 0% of the technology that the "tech" industry makes

They should make an olympic figure skating event that is just this

Maybe we'll finally see the rise of PC cafes in USA gamer culture. Personal machines being too expensive was the whole reason those were a norm in places like Korea, afterall Nah who am I kidding, 3rd places with even the slightest bit of youth bent in the US are looked at with enormous suspicion

Love to see all consumer electronic parts hoovered up by a pretend industry that makes no products and no money, and gives society only economic and ecological ruin in return. Tech companies would love to take this chance to force us all into subscription-based cloud computing. The bubble must pop

I once did a shallow overview of what I think makes Zelda dungeons special in an episode of @sacredrealmspod.bsky.social, so I split some excerpts off into a standalone video: youtu.be/l6yyHQ1ocHg?...

I showed this to @paigeedits.bsky.social, who edits documentation for a tech company Her: “I think this was designed specifically to hurt me”

Don't mind me, just thinking about the fact that Nintendo seemed to be the only company on earth with the institutional knowledge and desire to make 3D Zelda dungeons like Ocarina of Time's, the best dungeons in the entire video game medium And the fact that it's now been 15 years since they did

Vibrating!!!!! The cozy card game "My Book Nook" I illustrated is now at Barnes & Noble and other stores that stock Kingdom of Threads merch!!!! Screammnms with excite! Designed by Carl & Doug who were awesome to work with!

This is definitely not true. Like, 0% chance of this actually happening. Just a con. However, the maddening thing is that even if it WERE true it would accomplish nothing for anyone. Why are AI boosters incapable of actually examining the impact of their supposed tech for five minutes

I basically have one major problem with the Trails series, lol #nopg

Guess how many times I accidentally played a youtube video in the wrong room Luckily @paigeedits.bsky.social knows how to solve these problems

You know how half of all JRPGs and shonen anime climaxes are "Oh no the collective unconscious is manifesting in the real world, we must fight a representation of the id" Anyways That's basically how I feel every time I try to sift through the AI images in search results now. But with worse music

🤲🕯️🏴‍☠️🕯️skies of arcadia 🕯️🏴‍☠️🕯️🤲

I mean... the reality is that these series used to be boundary-pushing, genre-and-medium defining masterpieces, and they haven't been any of those things in decades Why WOULD younger generations still love them when they're bog-standard takes on an ancient formula?

RPGs should refund items you use on unwinnable boss battles >_>

Edmund McMillen doing shock jock shit with his game titled "Mewgenics" is so very unsurprising. I was pretty sure I'd never play any of his games again after watching Indie Game: The Movie in 2012. And more sure when he announced the name of his new game. This voice actor list is just another nail

I am not particular math-brained or skilled at math. I homeschooled from 1st-11th grades and only went to high school for my senior year, and I had gotten all my math credits already. I'm very glad I did, because I could feel a little bit of that judgment+contempt for not taking calc 2 or whatever

It's oft repeated that Takashi Tezuka was inspired by Lord of the Rings for Zelda 1. Believable! But I've never seen an actual primary source for this. Just weird hearsay. Have any of my fellow Nintendo history folks ever seen evidence of this? @makgameadv.bsky.social

Shit

So I had been mostly ignoring Pragmata because it didn't look like my kind of game, But APPARENTLY it's reminding people of Vanquish? The best cover shooter of all time? I had really not parsed it as an action game at all, I gotta check that demo out

this is one of my favorite pictures lately

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

I don’t think I could name another game that has a sense of place as strong as Firewatch

Nobody has mastered the midnight snack like “12AM rotel dip” @paigeedits.bsky.social An absolute genius

There’s a bug where if you use the limb-mutilation system to take out my gruesome left leg it actually BUFFS my speed instead of debuffing it. Unfortunately that puts me at a higher speed than the space was designed for and you can bait me through a wall and into an OOE kill volume

Every year hourly comic day happens and I am reminded of several facts: - a lot of comic artists own cats - most of them are woken up at ungodly hours by said cats - my cats are perfect angels who have never once woken me up (we use auto feeders so the cats don’t associate us with getting fed)

Becoming an Olympic figure skater just so I can make the whole world listen to a video game song

I don't know if Oshi No Ko season 3 is gonna be good in the end, but goddamn is their opening game on point once again Makes it look a lot more cool than it is, frankly, hahah. But I suppose that's always an anime opening's job www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYF5...

I figured I’d explain a bit more here. I didn’t do a great job of describing what I had in mind because… I don’t know what a successful version looks like The reason my mind got on this topic is because of a “LitRPG” manhwa I’ve been reading, Dungeon Odyssey

What is the best example of a full-featured strategy game that also lets you control your avatar for manual combat and exploration The fabled RTS or 4X game where you also get to control the hero directly It seems very difficult to marry the two. I can’t think of any examples

When they make a movie adaptation of a game, I think it is safe to say that it’s because they want a different audience than the game fans. Using the existing IP is just to drum up hype and hope that fans bring their friends/family along Video game films are basically never targeting the gamers

Something which is pretty core to the way I think about game design is what I call "Considerations." In other words, what is the player thinking about at any given time. What information are they given, how do they parse that information, and what do they do with it.

Being a Zelda fan is funny, culturally. Nintendo 1st party games tend to be built to appeal to westerners. Partially because North America was a huuuuge market for Nintendo early on, and partially because of stuff like this, where Miyamoto is an an open anglophile.

Okay I'm actually awake now and not on my phone so let's talk for a moment about why this nameless She Big character from the Horizon Hunter's Gathering trailer is actually, like... Important

A lot of people don't understand that modern pro-wrestling fans were theater kids I assume that going to watch a match feels an awful lot like going to an improv comedy or a LARP (I have not personally been). Everyone is in on the joke and that's why it's good