DEATH OF THE MIDDLE.

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Marathon-inspired effect

Another Marathon-inspired glyph ordered dithering 4k. I love the transition juice effect it gives to the regular footage

Reverse engineering Marathons dithering and applying it to things looks so good!

I made an in-universe archive video reconstructing the fall of Tau Ceti IV from the logs. Curious if Marathon fans think this fits the tone. I spent 4 days editing this instead of playing the game... So I hope it's good lol. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Fv...

I made an in-universe archive video reconstructing the fall of Tau Ceti IV from the logs. Curious if Marathon fans think this fits the tone. I spent 4 days editing this instead of playing the game... So I hope it's good lol. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Fv...

I read it as a "balding point" and I can't stop laughing.

Hi! Not at GDC (too obsessed with Marathon) but I guess I'd like to pitch in my #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I'm David, indie dev, producer, designer, videographer, writer, artist, making silly things.

Tonight, Painted Kingdoms made its debut at Les Pégases ✨ The demo is live on Steam right now, free to play. bit.ly/49MsjMm We'd love to know what you think 🔥

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

I love all of Marathon but am I the only one that really disliked the track? It's just doesn't fit the rest of the brand. Too sobby, and the lyrics are just awful. Glad people enjoying this but damn this one took me out of hype and had to go back to previous released tracks for a palate cleanser.

Ight hit lvl 30 in marathon and I fucking love this gameeeeee can't wait!! Idk how I'm going to stay productive at the end of the weeeeeeeeeeek

back in 2016ish when I was pitching Hypnospace around, a publisher told me that they prefer the games they publish to either be *first* at doing a thing or *the best* at doing an extant thing. for anyone who needs to make money from their projects this is still true imo.

The Marathon VS ARC Raiders discourse is interesting, because at first I dismissed it as "apples and oranges". Now I think it's a little more than meets the eye. Some thoughts on gaming space and gamers when it comes to mass scales, would be curious to hear y'all thoughts on this as well:

Totally worth it

OH FUCK I FORGOT I HAD A NINE INCH NAILS CONCERT IN AN HOUR

We’ve got a beautiful animated trailer to announce our 1.0 release date. And we’re looking for a gaming site or YouTube channel to feature it. Anyone interested? 🌞

The Knight of The Seven Kingdoms.... SO GOOD. If this was a film it would have been such a great film, I think I could make a fan cut at some point. Loved everything about it. Every character was great. It's just a good "hero" story. I miss those. 10/10. Also, every frame a painting?

Okay first episode of Plaribus had me by the edge of the seat. But had flashbacks to "last of us" and "the last man on earth", so wondering where they will take this.

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 :(