If there's one thing I hate to taste, it's my own medicine. Of all the things I want taste, my own medicine ranks dead last. I'd taste any medicine you threw at me unless it's my own. I hate it when my friends are tasting my medicine and they're like "oh this is so good you should try some"—fuck off

We may still see a few more layoffs added for 2025 as I learn of ones I may have missed (there are always some of those) or new ones emerge (not all regions take the last weeks of the month off) but a few more won't make a dramatic change now so behold the state of games industry layoffs. 🧵

alternative math curriculum for game developers: - probabilities and loot tables, aka If you Fuck This Up Your Endgame Playerbase Will Be So Mad At You, Pay Attention - physics, aka Oh God Is The Player Stuck In That Wall Again - vector math, aka Bullet Logic Is Mostly Raycasts Honestly

as someone who likes nintendo a normal amount, i cannot compare to my friends who are advanced nintendo likers. "did you play Super Toad's Toothbrush Gala? i thought it wasn't as good as Yoshi's Colonoscopy but better than Paper Mario Dark Academia"

i can’t do tutorial sections anymore. i need gameplay right now. i need you to pile every system into my brain immediately. i need the video game tutorial equivalent of being knocked over the head with a crowbar, only to wake up in Cancun with one kidney and my venmo fully drained. just fuck me up

they just nerfed your boss fight dude. yep they gave you more startup on your attack. all the people who beat you pre-nerf are gonna boast about it. sorry man.

(holding up the phone to my 3yo) these women sealed the honmoon long before huntrix ever existed 3yo: what are their names me: this is scary spice, there’s also posh, baby, sporty and ginger

😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years. 🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail! 🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will

me, curled up in fetal position, sick, prepping for 4 thanksgivings and 8 holiday events: i’m alive but please— no more the universe, kicking me in the ribs with her glittery heels: get up bitch. you need to somehow secure a pumpkin pie for your kid’s class thanksgiving party by tomorrow morning

friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

the developers clowning around in chat vs the producer who is desperately trying to keep this team ritual on the rails and get everyone to pay attention

Just friendly advice for the Dodgers fans: most fans of other teams are going to be rooting for the Jays no matter what, embrace the villain role and you will be much happier than trying unsuccessfully to convince everyone else that the Dodgers are the heroes everyone should root for

never invite a group of game dev parents to a “digital lab” toddler play place, i promise you we will be insufferable. why is this art wall stuttering and running at 10fps? how come the grass in the frog minigame is like 30k polys? is nobody doing the gameplay clarity work here???

sorry i can't respond to your text right now, i am in hell! aka 10 minutes into a 45 minute unreal engine tutorial video on some obscure part of the tech pipeline where a guy is mumbling rapid fire instructions over a dubstep backtrack

the older i get the more i think there might only be 3 kinds of millennial midlife crisis: Vans Warped Tour, Funkopop, and Making Sous Vide Your Entire Personality

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

level designer and gameplay designer: our friendship is strong. we're not playing your little game design lead in a Saw mask: oh you can leave anytime, but first you have to agree about what kinds of ramps are allowed in this game (level designer and gameplay designer look at each other in horror)

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

most annoying part of having a baby is how everyone you know is all "can I see the baby" "where's the baby" "I don't see the baby" "is there actually a baby" "I don't mean to imply anything" "it's just that... You've been different lately" "ever since you fainted during that weird electrical storm"

developer: put it down. we don't need another one concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month. Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

every expedition 33 journal is like “sadly, our attempts at kitesurfing into the final boss failed” “we tried dabbing on the nevrons and we’re completely out of ideas” “will we ever be free of this tyranny”

it's normal to walk around with the fiscal quarter end dates burned into your brain so that you know exactly which weeks to be most anxious about bad industry news, right

the marshmallow test for game developers, except every day you come into work there's a big button saying JUST ADD A HOOKSHOT TO THE GAME and you have to exert every single ounce of free will to stop yourself from pushing it

i just think if you’re hot, you shouldn’t have to learn how to parry

(holding up tablet) and here you can see the oldest known human writing, it's about one hundred billion years old. it's a message written by a designer to their engineer, begging the engineer to build them something and explaining "it'll be simple"

you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

every JRPG for some reason: …and that’s why on the 17th of the coldest month, all our children must be frozen to death and fed to demons, begging for their lives JRPG: anyway, here’s a minigame where you can teach a dog how to runway model while some bubbly EDM track plays in the background

i have a lot of issues trusting folks and being vulnerable with them. i realized recently-- it's because i frankly do not ask them to go on enough quests for me. i need them to go find a gas canister and some food to prove i can trust them. or go kill my rivals' leader in that base over there

used to do duolingo for French until I started Expedition 33. now armed with my new arsenal of curse words, i’m well equipped for the Parisian vacation of my dreams

sometimes i wonder why i don’t have energy for a DnD campaign right now. then i have nights like tonight where i, a foreign queen hosting a banquet, must convince the “flower princess” (my 3yo) that she should eat protein. this is of course so she can prepare for the coming flower war

every dev team has 1 guy who looks like he would probably stab and/or fistfight you if you met him in a dark alley, but then during some meeting he'll be like "sorry brb, one of my 23 cats knocked over my bonsai collection and it fell into the artisanal tea jar"

Travis Kelce originally planned to propose next week, but moved it forward to avoid the Silksong release window.

pov: you are on your deathbed. you've lived a good long life. no regrets. your family and friends have all come to pay their respects. they've left now and things are quiet and calm. tim sweeney is also there for some reason. he has something to say to you. he whispers: navmesh needs to be rebuilt

Suicide prevention is a very important cause to me, so this year marks the 2nd annual Gamedevs for Suicide Prevention team at the LA (Santa Monica) Out of the Darkness Walk! If you're in SoCal, come walk with us! Or you can donate to our team. afspwalks.donordrive.com/team/371158

“name a better couple than harry and megan” ok what about “player kit designer who wants to build a mantling/climbing system that expects everything to be at right angles, and level artist who wants to build spaces with lots of little curves and bumps and sloped bits”

there are really only two kinds of game designers, philosophically speaking. - let's try to put this functionality on an existing button - let's just add another button

we just posted a role for a Sr. AI Engineer- come work with me, and check out our other jobs too!! I have to specify this is like "make horses play with beach balls"* AI, not like chatGPT AI. *there are no horses playing with beach balls in this game. yet job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteract...

Burbank airport is my #1 favorite place for NDA violations. some woman with her laptop open displaying [REDACTED]’s list of “likely cancelled” shows for 2027? girl yes, i’m here with my iced latte being exactly the person they warned you about in employee orientation

3yo in her play kitchen: mommy make food with me! me, half asleep bc it's 6am: mommy's tired but i will provide thoughts on your cooking strategy 3yo: why isn't mommy making food me: i am involved in the work, just at a different layer 3yo, stamping foot: mommy you aren't DOING anything though

A guy on my team dug two graves and embarked on a journey of revenge but didn’t tell anybody, so when the job of dealing with the bodies fell to me I also dug two graves. What a waste. Talk to your producer.

i joke sometimes about whether a team passes The Cupcake Test. that is: your team has some collective work to bake a cupcake. you hear your teammates having a convo where they describe adding cream cheese & lox, shaping the dough. does anyone remark that this actually sounds like a bagel?

3yo is really into the Mulan soundtrack lately but she also needs to nap. if anyone needs me i’ll be slowly refining my jazzy Sunday coffee shop rendition of “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You”

Shout out to @kchironis.bsky.social for a REALLY Beginner friendly UE4 tutorial (following on UE5.6 and it translates fine) The way Kate has predicated all the newbie questions as well as explaining enough of the 'why' is really well done!

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

one of the most interesting parts of game dev to me is seeing the knowledge each studio takes "for granted" because it's part of the company DNA, vs info that is strange and heretical. as a fake example: Studio Tunneldigger knows how to dig a ditch 179 different ways, but not that the sky is blue!

how can you prepare to become a parent? picture this: you're driving on the freeway. you've had the worst sleep of your entire life, for two weeks straight. a small child in the back seat is sobbing because she just learned what a roller coaster is, and also that your family dog can never ride one