When Michael Eisner returns you know it’s fucking going down.

Steam, Discord, Twitch, and Reddit CEOs called to appear in Congress after Charlie Kirk shooting

Writers of every medium, now is the time to WRITE.

new Fire Emblem

Yoshi is the Piccolo of Mario and I will not explain

Today (9/10) is #WordSuicidePreventionDay. In a world like we are in today, it's more important than ever to fight the stigma surrounding mental health. Especially in our industry. SoCal gamedev friends: feel free to come walk with us - or you can donate to the team. Please look after each other.

the patenting of game systems and system design harms the entire industry

Can we please put a pause on games industry fearmongering on LinkedIn, is the psychic damage really worth the engagement my guys?

Disgusting!

I love attending this panel every year because it's hope incarnate -- it reminds me why I am in this industry and why I stay. Amazing opportunity here for women from underserved communities and countries to attend GDC and share their story!

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

I feel like what publishers took away from Baldur’s Gate’s success is that every game needs to have like 5000 hours of content, instead of the much more valuable takeaway imo: you need to let players have sex with a demon lady and a man who turns into a bear

I’ll be speaking about institutional memory at DICE Europe with @jesawyer.bsky.social and @brendaromero.bsky.social in a couple weeks.

THIS. A little grit really pays off. Also making something for a while without the shadow of capitalism over your shoulders (yet) feels really good. 👇

what if we stopped laying off every writer who has ever lived

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

Having written for the Call of Duty franchise... I have sooooooo many questions...

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices, If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text. You get the idea. If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

See you, PAX 😉✨

Him: I think it’s cringe when writers hid bits in all their work that’s like lines from other things or some weird deep cut reference Me (deep in thought trying to figure out where in my current game project I can secretly hide yet another Dragon Ball Z Abridged reference) what

If you haven't played 1000xResist yet you literally have no more excuses left. I will personally come to your house and make you play it at this point.

I don't need to preach about the dangers of homogenizing our storytelling, so instead I'll say WOW he really went out there and said this with his whole chest. I feel terrible for the kids who lose valuable perspective and growth opportunities because of their parents' conservative fear.

The main problem with Jira and productivity software in general is it’s such a powerful and expandable system that any producer can, with the best intentions in the world, transform it into The Hell Machine For Killing All Humans

Just dropping this right here... www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

See also: going back to Ye Olden Times where people were Patrons of the Arts and rich people would pay a random writer or musician to just make stuff and would brag about essentially being the EP on whatever Cool New Art Stuff they made

This bundle supports Game Devs of Color, a nonprofit organization that uplifts and amplifies game creators of color. itch.io/b/3171/game-...

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Some of us remain untainted...

Fairy math strikes again

we JUST left Mercury retrograde, can the discourse stop discoursing for like five minutes please

This entire thread makes me want to backflip off the face of the earth. This is why AI is so fucking bad - you are actively attempting to ignore and strip out the human part of THOUGHT.

AI "voice acting" is never good and just because we can does not mean we should, nobody actually wants it!

Surprising no one, @alexjordanvo.bsky.social is an absolute doll. Loved chatting about his career from doing Jack Sparrow impressions on YouTube to being the extreme load-bearing performance in The Alters! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhb...

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Used the phrase "Chekhov's gunblade" in a meeting and nobody laughed.

Used the phrase "Chekhov's gunblade" in a meeting and nobody laughed.

video games right now: half the people I know are out of work and the other half are in DMs with me telling me things like "yeah so Lobster Guy (guy at my studio who does no work and puts a live lobster into other people's cars as a prank) was moved to another project so HR can avoid firing him"

Can someone please help me understand why these two ghosts are different ghosts

Have you even lived if you haven’t been brutally judged by a chihuahua

As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy

*first day of class “Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*” *Milton’s Paradise Lost

NO!

After seeing it twice, Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball might be one of my favorite pieces of narrative design EVER. It’s a rock opera about fighting the chaos in your heart, harnessing it for art, and sharing yourself with the world unafraid. Truly a transformative piece. I can’t stop thinking about it.

it's friday, pass the yuri!!!

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that I misspelled "opps" or the fact that I am getting roasted for not understanding the opps.

TIL I have been using the term "oops" incorrectly for the past six months. I thought it meant "opportunities," not "opponents." That explains why some things... happened. 🫠

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...