YES YES YES

A lot of you are rightfully pointing out that WARFRAME did this successfully, and it happened because there is a badass woman in charge who pays attention to the community AND industry at large shoutout icon @rebbford.bsky.social 💅

Every fandom would play the hell out of a dating sim in their chosen world and I know I am correct. I KNOW I AM CORRECT.

No hate to my fellow game writers who teach - we all gotta eat and I'm sure some courses are legit, but please please please be very wary of anyone who says that they can get you work and connections if you buy their course. This industry is hard enough to get into without predatory practices. :(

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just a reminder that I am actively in need of work! 🙏‼️ I have years of experience in community and social media management in the video games industry, am excited to learn other disciplines when needed, and am excellent at knowing what makes a community Work™️. more info @ madsmartin.carrd.co

Yippee! I'm so excited to chat about game writing next weekend. Come say hello!

A year ago today we welcomed Dorothy and her baby filly Geordi to their forever home. They've bonded with their farm family. Their personalities have really come out. Volume up at the 43 second mark to hear Geordi root and toot.

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

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”

a huge part of people's bad personalities on the internet could be fixed if they learned "that's not for me" as a polite alternative to various expressions of derision. your feelings about things you don't want to be part of are not that important

Heron by the waterfall

So for this Juneteenth, I went back and updated my feature on the need to incorporate more Blackness into your gaming perspective, more relevant now than when I wrote it years ago. Check it out on @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/cel...

I-get-paid-in-millions-while-you-get-in-exposure ass motherfucker

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Two weeks left to submit a short game to Game Poems Issue 2! Learn more and submit your game at www.gamepoems.com/submit

There's a Magic position up for Narrative Game Designer - Universes Beyond. Hybrid, 3 days in-office, what it says on the tin: job-boards.greenhouse.io/hasbro/jobs/...

My Dinner with Andre (1981) Director: Louis Malle

9:11pm on a Tuesday night? Time to finally finish that project I've been putting off. This time for sure.

good to know you can sexually assault women and ruin their professional lives and still get to direct a video game. cool, love this fucking industry lmfao

More sprinkler time! #CorgiCrew

This talk just keeps on giving

thinking about this dog again

you can't even play most of these games anymore. from a commercial standpoint, who cares! we're all on to the next thing! but deleting them feels like saying a deceased person's name for the last time for some reason. so here i am, slowly amassing this horde of dead things i can't bear to part with.

My thoughts with all the Xbox folks that are in utter uncertainty about whether they're safe or not, and with those that are being tossed aside by an uncaring machine. www.theverge.com/games/950204...

Fuck me. It's like the end of Hamlet, but for the games industry right now.

Things I enjoy: Our Black Walnut tree Squirrels Walking barefoot in the backyard Things I don't enjoy: Picking chewed up walnuts bits off my feet

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South of Midnight was the first time I saw my peers talk about the South as something beautiful and worth seeing. That game did something I didn't think was possible; it was a love letter to a region I believe we should fight for, and for once, my peers got to see the beauty and magic that I see.

The shit that the South of Midnight team had to go through to ship that game would make you puke if you knew about it, and for Microsoft to reward them for shipping not only any game but a really good, award-winning game, with a studio closure is… well, it's routine now, isn't it.

now that i'm recently unemployed (LOOKING FOR NARRATIVE WORK! HIRE ME!), time to share this meme again.

Well... at long last, it's here: my much-requested video detailing the events surrounding the (now-cancelled) Neopets TTRPG. ENJOY (and please be normal). youtu.be/T4I-QYXR-UE?...

This Japan v Netherlands match has got me so excited. What a great shot by Nakamura

Pawn & Arisen

When we worked with Famous Company on the Famous Franchise collab, we had to make revisions based on suuuper specific requirements like what keywords could or couldn't be used, which characters had to be shown together, etc. So seeing genAI on a cover art felt like one hell of a betrayal

Leaders with no ability to do this are one of the top causes of development thrash in the games industry

Some designs I've done for the MCDM RPG. #art #illustration #fantasy #monster #creature #design #characterdesign #ttrpg

the fact that "communicators" are undervalued explains a lot on a lot of fields

the child killing robot can shop for you but heaven forbid someone wants to pay an artist to draw a boob

So… this whole ‘we use gen AI to think through an idea before wasting dev cycles making it’ talking point… Like if I take that on the best possible faith, that the chatbot is used before human concepting… Are you publicly owning up to needing AI to do the job of thinking and scribbling some notes?

Always nice to see designers clearly communicate that they understand why they're making decisions and understand why other designers made different decisions

we need industry-wide crediting for consultants!! i once consulted three times on a game only to be absent from the credits when it launched. credits are important for everyone, but especially for WOC who have to work 3x as hard as our white, male counterparts to get in the same rooms.

there's this social gameplay designer role, too, which would also work closely with me. if you like to make joyful player interactions that feel great and drive meaningful coop experiences, come work with us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/teamlfg/jobs...

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...

It's remarkable how good something like Destiny can be -right now- when all future considerations are stripped away. This version of Destiny is unsustainable for future development of the game, and that's exactly how they should leave it. Throw everything at the players, as if there's no tomorrow.

Please Use AI

cryin in the club and the club is the tower