Today marks the completion of my 10th year at Epic, so I'm celebrating with a beer at the brewery that opened up right around when I started. Time sure flies 😅

You can listen to a mashup of some of the battle music I wrote in this awesome new release date trailer for People of Note here! Early the biggest musical challenge of my career so far, please share and wishlist on Steam! 🙏🎧 #PeopleofNote #annapurnainteractive #IridiumStudios #gamedev #jrpg

Really excited for this one, the stuff they showed at MAGFest was incredible

"Clair Obscur was 95% Blueprints" I've been eagerly waiting for this talk to be uploaded, great job Tom and team 💪 youtu.be/t1CrbTx6O6w?...

Flying home just in time for Valentine's day so I can kiss my wife and kiss my dog and tell my cat that it's about time she made herself useful around here

Just got Five Iron Frenzy tickets, let's gooooo

@christotten.bsky.social Really good stuff! Stoked for the release

Hey #UEAudio and #MetaSound fans, consider submitting a talk proposal for UEFest this year! Deadline is Jan 22nd. www.unrealengine.com/en-US/news/a...

I don't know where else to say it, so I'll say it here.. I am well and truly spent. Out of juice. Nothing left in the tank. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Ok yeah I finished Rhythm Doctor and I'm about to make this game my whole personality for a bit.

Rhythm Doctor is so good y'all. Truly asking the hard questions, like "why does a rhythm game need more than one button?" and "why can't a rhythm game make you cry?"

Look out, folks. I'm back on my bullshit

Clair Obscur: Expedition Good Boy

So like.. what are you supposed to do if a product is under warranty and the company just doesn't respond via any of their communication channels? CFPB complaint? Small claims? I have some outdoor Hue lights that died after 8 months and I'm running out of options here..

Apparently my talk is live!

Sheeeeeesh My Hero Academia is really sticking the landing

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Keeper not being up for Best Art Direction is a crazy choice. Four of the five nominees are sequels, seems they don't value originality?

Halloween costume might have been too deep a cut

Keeper in a nutshell

Starting Keeper: "Oh sick, this lighthouse has a pet bird" Halfway through: "Oh wait nvm, I think this bird has a pet lighthouse"

For like the 4th time this year I have "completed my slides" and nothing will ever compare to the joy and relief one feels upon "completing their slides".

I keep thinking about the symmetry of Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong both being second games where the original had an emo sadboy protagonist and then the sequel being about a girl who is just incredibly task-focused and direct and probably shops at Athleta

Yeah so in case you aren't up to date on your NC politics, we're not really doing the democracy thing anymore

Always blows my mind when the random people you're talking to at the hotel bar are surprised to learn you aren't local

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

I keep telling myself not to get my hopes up for the MAGFest hotel lottery, but I can't help it. I've tried to go 5 years in a row now, and I straight up can't. That's such a shitty way to run things.

Anyway, here's some thoughts that nobody asked for. If you don't want some light spoilers then uhh skip this thread but I'll try to be vague about late game stuff.

My one sentence Silksong review: It had some moments so bad and unfun that I would have quit any other game, but it had some moments so incredible that I just *had* to see it all.

Spent the night farming Silksong's hunter's journal. Just a few more things left for me to do and it'll finally be time to go fight the final boss and wrap this thing up (just in time for Yotei). I think this will end up being one of those video game accomplishments that I'm super proud of.

I stg I'm about to start building this Lego at the airport lounge bar and nobody can stop me

Here we go again!

Me, watching the new Demon Slayer movie: "oh wow this is just like silksong"

I think silksong would be a lot better with infinite shards and I would download a mod to do that right now if I were not playing on switch

The latest breakthroughs in science and technology have lead to the discovery of a *third* end of the candle for me to burn

technically Silksong boss nerfs are actually just bug fixes

Alright, 15 hours into Silksong I'm comfortable saying its *wildly* inconsistent. I don't think they got the "quality over quantity" memo. Some of these boss fights are incredible, others are unfun and random. What's the point of a fight you can't learn from or iterate on?

If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.

I can't tell if Silksong is SIGNIFICANTLY harder or if it just has a pacing issue, but fair warning that Moorwing (in the first few hours of the game) took me 4x as long as long to beat as The Radiance took me last night. And was way less satisfying 😓

Loving silksong but being reminded of my gaming hot take which is that "lose all your money if you die twice" is a shit game mechanic. Truly the jumpscare of the gaming world. Artificially stressful.

Damn, that hole in Silksong just played me for a fool

Finished with 8 hours to spare! None of the DLC was out when I initially played through, Grimm is super cool! No way I'm doing his dream fight though.. or *any* of the godmaster content. We only had 2 weeks to cram this playthrough in, give me a break 😅

Twenty minutes into Silksong, you face the first boss. You're rusty, you haven't played Hollow Knight in years. You hold your own for a while, but panic sets in and you make the fatal mistake of thinking you can sneak in a heal between his attacks.

A gentle breeze blows My name echoes through the streets Someone lost their dog

I'd love to live in a country where law enforcement views prolific child sex traffickers as a higher priority than your gardener.

The Pixel 10 event is predictably AI-forward, but I'm pleasantly surprised that when it comes to actual creative decisions, the demos are still leaving that agency in the hands of the user instead of offloading it to GenAI

oh no

I didn't have a TV in my room for most of my childhood, but there was this short period right around late middle school/early high school where I had this tiny little CRT TV on a wire rack at the foot of my bed with my GameCube hooked up to it. And I played many, *many* hours of Kirby Air Ride there