Unfortunately me and a lot of other programmers have been made redundant. A lot of talented people I've had the pleasure of working with over these past 4 years have been affected as well. If anyone's looking for gameplay programmers, designers, audio, etc. please do reach out to us 🙏🖤

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who the hell is going to make the damn games

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it's a horror game about a bird trying to write a screenplay.

No.

haters, skeptics and losers: Burnham's premiership is dead on arrival Burnham, rolling up his sleeves: what if it was not only dead on arrival, but mostly decomposed

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

All love and support to the developers who made Zero Parades happen. You can infer my feelings on those doing the layoffs in this space.

cannot emphasize how much everything - the writing, world, sound, art, ambient inspirations and research for every small thing - the whole fucking package - Fucks in this game

Axel's one of the best writers at ZA/UM and they have the best writers in the industry. He's also a really cool guy. Whichever team snags him will be really lucky.

I'm one of the folks affected. *Many* on the list are gifted; their work was crucial to the weird little miracle that is ZP. Please, consider hiring them. Dust is still settling on my end, but my inbox is open.

Axel is an incredible, brilliant writer and a person that I am honored to call one of my best friends. They make any place better to be, and they will make any story 10x funnier, smarter, and more heartbreaking. Also, great beard. Really can’t undersell the beard.

If I see any of you cheering for the ZA/UM layoffs I am gonna bite your head off

stand by the workers, always

Unfortunately, I've been informed that my job is one of those being made redundant in the layoffs at the studio today. This has been an insanely creative, talented, and kind group of people, and I am going to miss my friends terribly.

"The solution offered by many was closer collaboration. In an age of insecurity, studios are drawing together for safety."

Me describing UX ideas.

New mutelist for the latest bot invasion.

I learned a new thing about smartphones which is that if you drop them in water it will dial the emergency services for you over and over again and the police were very nice about it, but I probably now have a note in my file like 'mad wet phone lady'

Specsavers with some performance art in this email. Leaning into the joke there, lads.

Scale and performance is where our story began, and this leads back to one of our core beliefs - that you should be free to structure your project in any way you wish, and not be limited by what your tools can handle. #narrativedesign

Just bumped into this, the beautiful art, a dev team to die for, and the promise of shared, social gaming? Be still my MMO-loving heart! Looking forward to seeing more from the team 💚

Why does M&S go completely batshit twice a year

I have developed a taste for rather terrible Norwegian pop music. Perhaps tonight is the night I subject my neighbours to it.

It’s so fucked up. They did great work. They’re total freaks.

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

Helped out at my kid's school careers day, third year running, talking all things software development and, for those interested, game development. Some observations: - Lots still not sure what types of roles there are. - Many more girls interested in coding this year. - Dentistry is cool 😵‍💫

Move, change and delete, then refactor. Catch errors and mismatches before your data reaches the engine. We've been polishing up our refactoring and healthcheck features this week! #narrativedesign

Move, change and delete, then refactor. Catch errors and mismatches before your data reaches the engine. We've been polishing up our refactoring and healthcheck features this week! #narrativedesign

Keep being floored by Zero Parades. Ranks among some of the best writing in any game I’ve ever played. Very different prose and tone than Disco. A feeling of constant drowning and self loathing. Really beautiful.

Truth I really need all the gamers to know is that games are made by people, not companies Corpos are working day and night to make them believe that their corporate entity is what makes the game, and they are succeeding! No other industry has such rabid defenders of The Capital like gamedev

Pixel Skylines - cityscapes in old video games. pixelskylines.tumblr.com So good

TV show where they fire all the actors and writers every season because the heart of the show is the production company.

I love these prints, and I wasn't going to repost until I'd secured mine 😈 My other cro needs a buddy.

ah, the correct amount of wonderwall hate on my feed

I will be honest that was one of the most interesting few minutes of you guys watching sports that I've ever read

i like how every time norway scores the guys get a ride on Haaland

this is not quite my recollection of how people were reacting to the Titan submersible

its just possible there'd have been 50% less devil dog encounters if they hadn't been flavouring the beer with henbane

Was enjoying the nostalgic Camelot theme park article in the @manchestereveningnews.co.uk until the unsettling final image.

If you didn’t know that I live in the same part of Bury where Victoria Wood grew up, you could guess it from a sentence issued by a woman I’ve just been chatting to down the park. “I once saw down here, and I’ll never forget it because it was the day my friend had both thumbs off, two kingfishers.”

Gotta say, I did not know how we were gonna get this pristine white poster out of a sweaty packed show in a heatwave. Solution - bought at the end, rolled, then clasped with a handy studded wrist cuff. Genius. I'll just bring a paper tube next time.

There's only one reason to visit my home borough, and it's this.

Manchester headline

In recent weeks my kids and their friends went to the cinema to see TADC, Iron Lung and Backrooms. They don't watch Marvel or Star Wars. They're not interested in decades-old media, nor were most of us at their age. They watch new media. They play new games.

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Something I don't think many execs understand is that companies don't make games: They make teams. And if they do it well; if they make stable, well-resourced, high trust teams, those teams will make great games forever. But that only happens if the execs understand what the company makes.