you know... I really liked the internet. if by any chance you're the guy who did this to the internet, I'd sure like to sock you in the mouth
J. "null" Thomas
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Lead Writer / VO director of @thekillingstone.com, The Blackout Club 🔦 Creative Director, Bioshock 2. Designer, Bioshock: Fort Frolic, Thief 3: The Cradle. Eyeball enthusiast? | he/him https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
Game publishers want the staffing of film and TV without the unions that make gig-to-gig work a viable living and a sustainable business.
Stephen Totilo@stephentotilo.bsky.social · yesterdaySCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...
Today in kids saying silly things: daughter (5) said we were going to do a science experiment, “but I need my goggles so I don’t get science in my eyes.”
Saddest game dev whiteboard. Big red caps, cradled by fastidious black drop shadow. Two pens. Shameful already: “BRAINSTORM” “1. Immersive Sin (Two underlines) Then… “Is this anything?”
glamour (a visual illusion, often suspiciously good) is a Scots origin word but it is also very funny to think about how it came from the word ‘gramarye’, because Scottish people seem to have been extremely suspicious of something written and the internet and AI have truly proved us right
I loathe 'on the nose' dialogue, and was drilled against it so often in my early career. But now, several lovely friends have gently told me: "bro. It is OK sometimes to just say things. On-the-nose is not our worry here. It would be real swell - to know whether there is even a face in the room."
Gone Home and Tacoma co-creator Karla Zimonja ( @coals.northsky.social ) joins me on the new episode of Jewel Cases -Can detective games really 'work'? -Does the Resident Evil 3 water sample puzzle make sense? -Is there anything Cosmo D can't do?! All this and more: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...
Jewel Cases S01E04 - Karla Zimonja
This week, Ed is joined by Karla Zimonja, whose work in games includes BioShock 2 and Minerva's Den, as well as Gone Home, Tacoma, and Wanderstop. /// Jewel Cases is a new interview series, hosted by
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I love game development (Alt text: BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS - Dwarf Fortress, bug report #13172)
zaratustra@zaratustra.bsky.social · 3d agoa lot of men looking around for a daddy to tell them what to do these days. please, tell me which minority to oppress to feel like a big boy, daddy. why don’t you humiliate me for fun, daddy. why don’t you take all my money daddy
any statement like ‘Gen z have no literacy/cannot write/spell/communicate’ that is not also coupled with ‘their means of learning has been eradicated by tech fascism and government removal of funding’ is not worth listening to or boosting. the kids are living under the regime we allowed
“It feels like Final Fantasy 8 is the Andor of Final Fantasy.” 1000xResist creative director Remy Siu shares his all-time favourite games on the new edition of Jewel Cases. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...
Jewel Cases S01E03 - Remy Siu
For the third episode of Jewel Cases, we're featuring Remy Siu, founder and developer at Sunset Visitor, the studio behind 1000XResist and the forthcoming Prove You're Human. /// Jewel Cases is a new
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97 years ago today, ‘The Skeleton Dance’ released in theaters.
watched The Night of the Hunter for the first time… slow start but then it gets good, so many amazing shots, can’t believe it’s from 1955
I desperately need non-games industry people to understand that your regular average game dev does not make millions of dollars off of these AAA/AA titles. istg comment sections make me want to poke out my eyeballs with a stick sometimes.
Website is up! Did we need a site? Unclear, but we love it. www.blackpony.com
Black Pony Immersive
Black Pony Immersive exists to design and develop imaginative, narrative-rich games set in well-realized worlds, where players create their own memorable experiences with expressive, emergent game sys...
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Hope ? In Gaming? Call that a 'Black Pony Event.' What I take from this news is simple. From now on, Immersive Sim doesn't mean 0451 or "one lock, many keys", etc. It means, regardless of genre or budget, as a player: you get a horse, or you ARE the horse. Look at 'em. Surprising the devs already.
Horse
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Watching Hokum with my partner. Paused it for a loo break and she started laughing. Looked up to see this:
@edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social talks to Jordan Thomas ( @nullspeak.bsky.social ) of @questiongames.bsky.social , whose projects include The Killing Stone, The Blackout Club, and The Magic Circle, as well as Thief: Deadly Shadows and the BioShock series. soundcloud.com/bullet-point...
Jewel Cases S01E02 - Jordan Thomas
On a new episode of Jewel Case, Ed talks to Question Games' Jordan Thomas, whose projects include The Killing Stone, The Blackout Club, and The Magic Circle, as well as Thief: Deadly Shadows and the
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The money wraiths in gaming have eyed Hollywood’s hire & fire model w/ rapacious envy since 1990. I've met 'em. That is their only dream. A fulltime 3d artist / LD - not Key Personnel™️ - w/ healthcare? Radioactive to their worldview. In perfect irony, the pure exec is the only 'redundant' game job.
Lego Guillatene Beheading
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Yea absolutely not Twitch. Its on by default but quick to turn off under settings and privacy
If this book is directly up your alley as it is mine, try the audiobook. They used different voice actors 🤩 for each of the key thinkers he was in correspondence with, a bit like McCarthy’s Passenger. A delightful technique (& a bonus bulwark against adhd effects). www.audible.com/pd/B002UZN4T...
The Ego Tunnel
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims...
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All the writing advice about Just Doing your daily 'reps' is half true. You can build usable scaffold, edit... connect threads. It's work. But the breakthroughs? Zero to do w/ waking effort. Many smart folks burn out trying to force it. The "secret" is so stupid. Do dishes, sleep, and f*ckin' wait
not at all worried about rebranding what LLMs do as "intelligence" and what that could mean long term for education
The 2nd optional storyline is in, btw! If you would plausibly take a bullet for your cat, this one's for you.
J. "null" Thomas@nullspeak.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey all! We need more early access players! We've just added 1, soon to be 2 more optional questlines w/ little cinematic diorama scenes to bust up the text. Here's an Aussie guy describing TKS, but his auto-subtitle thing thinks that instead of Steam, that you can find our game right now "On Steve"