oh so thats what the F stands for

also, and I mean this as the greatest compliment possible: caves of qud

btw when a game teaches me a new word it’s like it gave me a perfect little gem that I will never lose. It’s the best feeling in the world. FFXIV has me doing the onion sickos meme all day

there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol

all I ask is that you not bring the “guy with a pain fetish for being yelled at” lib takes guy into my feed. ya he has bad takes we all hate him I get it now stop giving the fire oxygen thanks

more journalists should be required to post video game takes so that I can more accurately apply my gell-mann amnesia filter to them lol

growing up I thought I would be a musician and now I am a system designer. At first these seemed unrelated but realizing they are both ways of using applied mathematics to elicit an emotional response

This is broadly true of every game with a large content creator following that I’ve experienced. It is vanishingly rare to get a genuine reaction from a player exposed to one of these online communities

I mean, yes, but also I do always think about how he’s very much a reverse weeb and how a lot of western devs get an undeserved pass for the level of cringe Japanese shit they put in their games lol

for me this is final fantasy XV lol

someone has said and I agree that Kojima is an excellent illustration of the difference between narrative design and writing

bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry

everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.

XLOOKUP? i dunno, I find googling people you used to date isn't very emotionally healthy

lol TIL adderall is a better nasal decongestant than pseudoephedrine

I mean I don’t even know if it’s my favorite but it is perfect

intrusive thought

instanced structs are the best UE feature in recent memory change my mind

i think it's pretty clear. the shutdown was starting to affect the constituency they actually care about - upper middle class professionals

also sorry I am never going to call deduction games “metroidbrainias”. sorry. I am open to other terms but not to that one

CPI inflation is not nearly the problem that asset inflation is imo

without being too much of a shill if you like daft punk you should totally do the daft punk experience in fortnite, shit slaps imo

Solving a production problem with game design is one of the most curiously satisfying parts of being an experienced designer imo

Hm. I don’t think Wizardry/Nethack/Diablo and Super Metroid belong to the same structural family or have the same structural benefits. Whenever I’ve heard the term megadungeon I’ve always taken it to mean the Metroid style sprawling interconnected dungeon and not the layer cake Diablo thing

this is one of those jokes where if you are a game developer I think you had to laugh like 50% harder

I think fulfilling player fantasies is a bad and infantilizing way of referring to a more serious goal which is basically ludonarrative consonance in more academic terms. basically the goal of making the act of playing a role feel like what the player imagines it should feel like. This doesn’t have

Also, despite thinking this is mostly silly… I do think that it’s probably true that there’s room for some basic genAI work in doing things like throwing your daily automated smoke test videos at an LLM and having it spit out human readable lists of issues. No clue what the hit rate of that would be

this is a case where I think they’re just using the term “generative AI” in a silly way but the actual deck is talking about automated testing. Which kinda just means “catching up to the rest of the industry” in all likelihood.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

it is way too perfect that they announce zohrans win almost exactly at the “if you have half a brain lyric” lol

I love that it looks that Mamdani is over 50% so this shit doesn’t matter but it would have been genuinely funny for them to have done this and cuomo to lose anyways

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.

games are weird enough and varied enough and tech changes rapidly enough that in reality this becomes “any leader who gives orders before listening”. Acting too confidently as if you know anything without understanding reality on the ground is a recipe for this kind of out of touch leadership

I can answer that * business guy who runs a company because he has an MBA and rich friends * person entering leadership sideways from leadership in an unrelated industry w/ no desire to learn * single-discipline dev who went indie and has never had to think about full production before

dude this is so insanely common, especially back in the day when you were doing WFH for publishers... truly nauseating

the doc is maybe even better

i love my aloof wife

wow was randomly curious and looking at square enix’s job page, they’ve adopted western job titles! (designer for game design instead of planner, artist for artist instead of designer)

yet undiscovered levels of aura farming over here youtu.be/iuch008sm0k?...

dying

really not looking forward to four years of this being sourcelessly cited as the reason he doesn't do something that people want as opposed to the completely normal constraints of the mayorship that, like, 300 people online know about

reasoning why baseball is such a wild narrative experience imo:

thing that kinda terrifies me, in the "history doesn't repeat but it rhymes" sense.... even if somehow we get out of this mess, how do we dismantle something like ICE without creating the old "massive, suddenly unemployed group of people trained to enact violence on their fellow citizens" problem

pretty good argument to be made IMO that social media has irreversibly destroyed the fabric of western liberal society

baseball is a great example of a game "designed" for maximum drama and narrative potential, if you are trying to get someone emotionally invested in a game taking some cues from baseball is not a bad ide

monitors that are incapable of switching inputs without having a signal are maybe the stupidest thing that companies seem to make these days

As a consolation to our Canadian friends, Los Angeles will now embark on one of our greatest traditions: burning down the entire city with illegal fireworks