Woah that Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode was SO GOOD. I was at the edge of my seat the entire time. Heartbreaking. Was this the best choreographed knight-fight I've ever seen? I think so, this was INSANELY well done and paced and staged. What a sequence there at the end! BEAUTIFUL CINEMA.

"How many live-service games can there be at any given moment? You have to compel people to take their time away from where they are, to come over and invest time in where you are. There's a switching cost. That's a hard proposition."

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question: "why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]" It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good. loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

The new marathon trailer is just DRIPPING IN JUICE HOLY FUCK

Here's my hypothesis: live-service games fail because players already know exactly where they want to spend their time, and you’re asking them to abandon an existing pastime for something that you didn’t prove it was worth it. We don't compete with games, we compete with obsessions. Thread:

Man, I LOVE KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS. They did such a good job making a show so focused on little stories. If anything it resembles so much of Andor than anything GOT related. Inspiring from writing perspective and executed so well. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. MORE. A LOT MORE. 10 SEAONS.

🗣️ Our house 🗣️ 🎶🎶🎶 🗣️ in the middle of our HOUSE 🗣️

This is definitely... a game. I have a Rocksteady flashbacks. This is might die in a year, and we ain't gonna get horizon 3, aren't we? Idk what to call this "big corp hero-based action game" fatigue, but it's definitely does not fuel inspiration.

🗣️ Our house! 🗣️ 🗣️ In the middle of our house 🗣️

Soooo it looks like this now, whole different game lol. Still lots of stuff to do, to add, to polish for a demo. Damn has it been 8 months since that other post already? Crazy. Thoughts?

Inspiration does not exist if you're not doing the work, motivation to do the work does not come if you don't act without motivation, you won't be able to act if your body and mental health is in the gutter.

Perfect is the enemy of done.

Haven't done any UI work in... 3 years? Somehow I leveled up my art skills in that time?! Idk how that worked but HEY I'm diggind it lol.

So funny how photoshop is all about that "how to remove noise from the image" while CGI artists are all about adding that chroma noise cause it's better than luma noise and everyone goes "wow so photoreal" cause literally yo it looks good!

Is there a way to like, make my own feeds or something where it's like "these tags / keywords with over X amount of likes / replies over past 10 hours"?

There's just some certain skill of restraint involved to make games like PEAK that are just "This", and not "this and this and this and this" which is what highguard is. A mush of ideas. Sometimes it works, and it's so frustrating when it doesn't, and first instinct is to shove more.

Have you heard the phrase, "less is more"? Well Highguard devs haven't.

For the future me: Make garbage, make shit. Make it ugly. Make it unavoidable. Make it embarrassing. Make the worst version. I'm allowed to make things without intending to keep them, to waste the output, and to never polish it for release.

HAND PAINTED SPARKS, I repeat, HAND PAINTED SPARKS AND is it like hand painted motion blur / hand painted temporal aliasing??? HOW/ WHY DOES THIs LOOK SO GOOD AAA Every frame a painting type shit damn super impressed!!!

Finally watched Predator Badlands, THST WAS SO GOOD 10/10 NO NOTES. Badass beginning to the end. Loved the characters, their story was so well written, pacing was good, it was long enough, and was just well made from script to VFX. I'm now an Ellie Fanning fanboy.

Damn this is gorgeous ♥

This is genuinely so cool. NASA will send your name on a SD card around the moon! Such a little thing but genuinely makes me happy :) www3.nasa.gov/send-your-na...

OH BOY the second episode did not just... who decides to use placeholder stock music for a premium tv show??? I honestly never had such a whiplash from a tv episode before. Literally temp stock music in most of second episode scenes. And the dialogue... pacing. "I saw you with that whale!" 🤣

Oh wait Highguard supposed to launch in 10 days? WHAT?! I thought this was like 2 years away, not this year?! Damn the silence is deafening!

Star Trek Academy... is fine. I didn't hate the first episode. Not as much as I was lead to believe by the sneak peaks (SNL level bad). Production quality is actually good, they put a lot of effort into sets, I just don't like the young cast much, but overall? 5-6/10? It's not amazing so yeah.

If you design with "This character is a real coward, and can’t fight, so I must protect them" thought in mind, idk if it's a good design to begin with. Helpless, maybe. Defenseless, absolutely. Does anyone want to defend a coward? Maybe but it's just like ehhhhhhhhh?? ya know?? idk man.

Been reading House of Leaves. Damn that's good stuff. I'm only like 40 pages in from 600 but this is a delightful read. Love the twists and turns in format, feels so fresh, surprised this came out in 2004?!

I can't browse social media anymore. I've gotten less and less tolerant over past two years. I escaped Xhitter cause it was just a cesspool of negativity, but it's become like this everywhere. Most of it is warranted, as a pushback against unethical things. But I'm tired of seeing only negativity :(

Made an update to the untitled game design tool made with tldraw: 1. Select nodes up the stream 2. Select nodes up to branched nodes 3. Color the output arrows mode

I’d rather "bleed for art" than remove doubt from the process. It's the only human thing left that we can do. I want to doubt, commit to decisions I'm unsure about, antfuck things that I want to be better. There's no higher purpose or meaning than to do what you love with your own hands and thought.

Finished last marathon's playtest match and I'm itching for more. GODDAMN this game is good. I think it's probably one of the most accessible Extraction Shooters out there in terms of immersion. Tarkov is great but you literally have to have a second screen dogfooding you all info. Streamlined here.

GAME DEVS. I got tired of mind maps spaghetti, so I built a game design tool that lets me see exactly what I need to see. It lets you scrub dependency depth: see only direct connections, or expand the chain when you need it. This is for people who design games, let me know what you think 👀

GAME DEVS. I got tired of mind maps spaghetti, so I built a game design tool that lets me see exactly what I need to see. It lets you scrub dependency depth: see only direct connections, or expand the chain when you need it. This is for people who design games, let me know what you think 👀

Made a task planner because none of them served the way work get's done. 'Yesterday' is opinionated on purpose. You decide what must happen, who to contact, and the rolls of toiler paper you must get TODAY. Anything unfinished get's pushed to tomorrow. Lmk what u think github.com/daveranan/ye...

Made a task planner because none of them served the way work get's done. 'Yesterday' is opinionated on purpose. You decide what must happen, who to contact, and the rolls of toiler paper you must get TODAY. Anything unfinished get's pushed to tomorrow. Lmk what u think github.com/daveranan/ye...

WAIT WHAT people are calling that horse shooter from the video game awards a CONCOROD 2??? FASCINATING. Basically a level of hype smashed up against what could be the most generic looking shooter ever gives you a negative rep? Damn that's crazy dynamic tbh. I knew it looked off but not this off?!

ALSO if anyone is playing MARATHON this weekend plz hit me up, I need a steady trio group going, tired of randoms lol

Played Marathon yesterday, 3 rounds of it... Can't say much cause of NDA but I'M IN LOVE! Yes, I'd pay $30 for it. It's polished and get's my itch going for "okay one more round." BUT, the GUI design... GODDAMN MOST SEXY GUI I EVER SEEN. GRAPHIC DESIGN PORN!! But some thoughts below:

That divinity trailer was way too graphic / disgusting and tbh wasn't even that good. The Diablo expansion was hitting that "disgusting but cool as shit" and divinity trailer was just disgusting, way too much, and didn't tell an interesting story. Idk just feels like a weird choice to do it that way

HYPE DAY HEALTH DAY HYPE DAY HEALTH DAY come listen to CONFLICT DLC with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tvl...

It's the first day of summer camp, and adventures await you in CAPY's newest game... 💬 Find Your Words! Enjoy the tranquility of Camp Pals, make lifelong friends, and try different types of communication in this short cozy game! The journey begins in 2026, available on PC!

What a gorgeous game man. This stuff is so good.

Finally playing Hell is Us, and damn I love this game. Reminds me of Dragon Age: Origins in tone and Veilguard in Combat (but more thoughtful I feel like, I enjoy combat in HIU way more) and Inquisition in Environment Art and Death Stranding in Vibe. Superb game. Weird that it is overlooked?! HOW?!

Introducing @eteogames.bsky.social youtu.be/6GIpSKHo9Y4 I'm really excited to announce my new studio, Eteo Games. We'll have more to share in the future but for now, you can check out our new Newsletter at eteogames.com

Guys follow Gruelscum. These guys cook with fire like gruelscum.itch.io/spacewhip is fucking FIRE, like seriously, check it out, these guys are insanely talented

Guys follow Gruelscum. These guys cook with fire like gruelscum.itch.io/spacewhip is fucking FIRE, like seriously, check it out, these guys are insanely talented

I just realized, if I upgrade to iphone 17, I get the new shitty OS... So I guess I'm staying on 16 for a while now =\ I was this close to getting OnePlus 16, but they had to not include a good camera. Apple had to make that ugly ass windows vista skin, didn't they...

Ight, voted.