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

(impression of a woman who has heard the unreal engine 'build finished packaging' noise too many times today) i think this would make a sick EDM hook

be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a tough invisible battle of their own. for example, this tiny idiot is pawing at my elbow offscreen during every single video call

for the final challenge in this gauntlet of death, you must find a headshot picture to use for your remote working software which doesn't make you look kind of sweaty and awkward

layoffs suck and i'm so sorry y'all. i think i've just run out of words to capture the enormity of how much this whole industry situation sucks. my team is hiring, and it's a lovely place with fantastic people. if you're looking, open roles are here. www.playstation.com/en-us/corpor...

It’s so wrong that tweets about layoffs in the last two years have become evergreen, but here we are. To my friends and peers who lost work, I am so sorry. Once again, here is the layoff lecture from my friend Worth.

my fashion edit of parent categories at preschool dropoff 1. parents with office jobs: 10/10 style. polished. 2. stay at home parents: 10/10, slay. effortlessly chic. 3. WFH parents: goblins. 0/10. it's a lot of frayed leggings and oversized tech tees out here. back to the caves with us

husband: i’m green goblin and i’m gonna burn down the city!! 3yo: no you’re not! husband: have you ever heard of the “yes and” improv rule? ok, i shoot my traps at you 3yo: (running away) ha ha. no you don’t!! you don’t shoot any traps!!!! me: you are gonna get kicked out of your RP server for that

The reason we make games about immigrant food is because food is is the first step in connecting with culture. People will accept immigrant food before they accept the people that make it. You can’t separate the two. We got to celebrate our game in LA this week despite the anti-immigrant assholes.

we're looking for a senior networking engineer for my studio, teamLFG - if you think that could be you, please reach out! i've been here over a year now and it's been a really positive & happy change for me, with teammates i adore and a very fun project. job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteract...

I was born in Los Angeles. I grew up here. I love this city. It is and will continue to be defined by those who choose to call it home. And those who have a problem with that can, with all due disrespect, go fuck themselves

7 year old giggling: when goku, gets super hungry, he eats like 30 meals in a row Me sounding exactly like Jesse Gemstone: I know how much goku eats

me: god damn. why does my back hurt so much after a day at my desk also me, sitting at my desk: