Chris Mooney

@chriskmooney.bsky.social

they/them, non-binary, #wotcstaff Principal Game Designer, Great Designer Search 3 Lead for Avatar, SNC cmdr, LCI cmdr, Ponies the Galloping, and more All opinions my own.

GDQ has me reminiscing on how Clair Obscur is so literally just Paper Mario TTYD reinvented from first principles, it has me wondering what other “successors” like this exist, where the core is exactly the same even when all the aesthetics are entirely different.

Being on day three of scouring computer forums and finding somebody who had your same problem but eventually gave up is like seeing a dead body on Everest

the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

A major unspoken issue with ADHD is that if you befriend other ADHD people you have created a cadre of folks who are all simultaneously bad at getting back to each other and experience elevated rejection sensitivity.

Toy Story 5 was about as good as Toy Story 4, which means unfortunately they have me on the hook for Toy Story 6 now. I'm sure the streak will end one day. I think the A plot was weaker than 4, but the B plot was strong and the C plot was much stronger. The inevitable Pixar gut punch really got me.