RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

Knowing that you aren't alone is one of the most powerful antidotes in the world.

You know what Nintendo does when they have a surplus set of devs from cancellations or production ending? Put them on other projects. The ability to redeploy headcount while keeping teams together over time is like, the main strategic benefit of scale in the game industry

Can't say enough good things about this game. 70% off is such a good deal for this!

I watched Stop Making Sense with my brother at our local movie theater, and my god what a replenishment of joy that brought. It's so easy to be broken, especially on a day like today, when you see art and artists destroyed. And the songs don't ignore those pains, but seeing the beauty is so good.

god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next

Hello world! I'm bringing a professional account forward out of fandom lurking. I'm Johannah, I've been a narrative designer on Destiny 2 since 2022 and contributed to releases since then. :) Like many of my beloved colleagues I am now on the market. Watch this space question mark?

After almost ten years at Bungie I was laid off today. I started on Destiny 2 in 2016 and was one of the first handful of people to join the Marathon incubation team at the end of 2019. The loss today, like so many of these days, is immeasurable. We built some really incredible things together.

Destiny is and will forever remain my favorite video game of all time. I am heart broken that the people who made it had to suffer through poor management, greedy decision making and are being cast off into the worst job market ever. You all made something special and i will forever cherish that.

She's really cute.

Played MOLE in a single sitting last night. Spooky atmosphere, tactile puzzles, lots of well-earned surprises. Keep digging! store.steampowered.com/app/4064510/...

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

OPPORTUNITY! Senior Narrative Designer-EA Criterion - Battlefield -Fulltime UK Absolutely affiliated. Shares Welcome! Fancy joining Team Battlefield? Have experience in narrative design, implementation and storytelling across teams - then this is the role apply for! ea.avature.net/careers/JobD...

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