lots of big differences between people who play RPGs and people who don’t, but IMO the sharpest skill check is “have you intimately memorized the layout of a japanese high school or not”

airports suck, but Burbank is the best airport. parking lot is approx 39 inches from your plane. you think you want your bag from baggage claim? they’ve already psychic beamed it directly into your car trunk, have a nice day. only 1 restaurant, but it’s Guy Fieri themed, as all restaurants should be

watching/playing pokemon with my kids has given me a new appreciation for the insane transmedia strategy this IP had right out of the gate. a banger video game series, CCG, and a solid tie-in anime in the same 12 months? could a company in 2026 ever hope to pull that off???

my belief is that at the end of the day, great games are made by groups of people who have high trust with each other & can fluidly execute a shared vision. which is a small part of why these layoffs are so devastating- it's not just about jobs, it's about these "trust structures" being torn apart.

BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!

(looking at blueprint) jesus christ, who worked on this content last? this is in terrible condition. i would never shame anyone, but i need to see who it was and shake my head in disdain a little. let's go check the perforce history an--

i have two children, and they are very different. we saw a little bird on the lawn this morning, a bird we’d never seen before. my daughter, 4, said “wow, so cute!” my son, 2.5, pointed and stated emphatically “i eat him”

went to clean up my hard drive today, got to Steam. there are folders in here for games now defunct-- Highguard, Concord, Marvel's Avengers; and other folders for private "friends & family" betas for games that never shipped, or may not ship. i need the HDD space back. and yet.

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

instant tears. thank you Destiny 2 for being an important space for me and my friends over the years and for giving me some of the highest highs i've experienced while gaming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyUz...

hi friends- we're looking to hire a progression designer on my team! we're remote friendly (1 onsite/year) and implementation skills are a must for this role. i absolutely love this team and game. i'm not the hiring manager, but my DMs are open for questions! job-boards.greenhouse.io/teamlfg/jobs...

five years ago i gave my husband a cute nickname in my phone, but i have to say now (years later) it is really fucking humbling to be struggling thru the Costco aisles with two screaming kids and barking into my phone, “siri, i said CALL HUSBANDOLORIAN”

wake up hikaru utada, we need you on the front lines girl bsky.app/profile/wari...

nocaps takes a look at the history of Game Jams, the commercial games they've spawned, and the future of the form in the absence of Ludum Dare. WATCH NOW on noclip_2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONj... (by @nocapsbb.bsky.social)

sometimes late at night i am confronted with a troubling thought: maybe in 2026 everyone has just forgotten how to make video games. then i am confronted with a more troubling thought: perhaps we actually never knew how to make video games in the first place

watching F1 from a game design perspective is so funny because all of the rulesets and guidelines amount to We Didn’t Think Car Could Be Like That

future career goals? honestly if the opportunity aligns someday, i would love to be the guy standing on top of the shed with my rifle, looking around in a little 180 degree vision cone and waiting for the protagonist to come by

2026 feminism is about rejecting the emotional & mental labor inflicted upon you by Okta Verify

thoughts & prayers for the rocket league team who are transitioning from UE3 to UE6 in one fell swoop, that is a hell of a jump (but yes the cars do look pretty) www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5d7...

good: i bought a bunch of snacks to send you a care package this week bad: i ate the snacks good: ...but i bought new snacks to replace them bad: i ate those as well,

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

an underrated game dev skill IMO is being able to realize “this person and I have been discussing (thing) for months, and yet i think we have slightly different versions of (thing) in our heads. let’s get together and talk about that in excruciating detail”

when i was a kid i always found it unrealistic that padme died of a "broken heart" after luke and leia were born. but now i think it's actually the most realistic thing ever, that a society with flying spaceships and shit still has absolutely no idea how to, like, care for a postpartum woman

we've come up with a system where you can demonstrate growth to shareholders by hiring more people than you should, but also you can demonstrate growth by firing more people than you should. we call it the economy and we think it's going to be great

If we're doing game design doc discourse, I highly, highly recommend following this template from @kchironis.bsky.social

ADAM, TURNING TO GOD: i feel like you could have roped me into this process sooner, there's critical context i'm missing. can you include my department at an earlier step next time?

medieval peasants: what grand works do ye bring of the future, lady me, holding up phone: so it’s a soulslike extraction friendslop with twitch integration and collector elements peasant: and doth it bring joy ? me: oh definitely, for like 4 hours yeah

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

why is game dev feedback always kinda like this

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

i tagged you in that thread. i expanded the DM into a channel. i ported the DM to the thread and then turned the thread into a huddle. i'm operating on planes of existence you've never even heard of. i'm speaking holy tongues to the angels, in the huddle. the huddle is pinging you. join the huddle

protect your peace. right click Slack > mark all as read. namaste

Heartbreaking: Kindest, Gentlest Person You Know Is Just A Real Fuckin Sociopath In Arc Raiders

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

something that goes against everything in my nature…? yes, it’s being asked to insert Screw G into Hole B as depicted on page 11 of the booklet. i respectfully believe that is an insane ask and i rebuke it. why is this dollhouse installed backwards and upside down? please, no further questions

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