Geneviève Routhier 🌈

@genrouthier.bsky.social

• senior art director • making games since 2003 • Past: Studio Art Director @ DICE | Battlefield | Beyond Good and Evil 2 | AC Origins | Rainbow 6 Siege 🎓 Cool/Hat 📣 Available for speaking or podcast opportunities 🇨🇦 Looking for work

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

A crappy photoshop paint image with a red star on blue, in comic sans is the message 'some people on the internet aren't American'

Waking up to discourse and bad faith quote posts because people can’t be bothered to either understand the essence of an article’s title, or just simply read the article. Some people just really prefer talking about waffles.

I cleared the entire content of Love and Deepspace that isn’t locked behind a paywall and then some. This game was not ready for my hardcore brain. They really need to fix their shit and release new story bits though. ‘Cause damn dailies are not going to make me come back much 😔

Can’t help but scratch my head whenever I see people make ballpark estimates of dev salaries, like “oh 30 million dollars pays for 80 devs for a whole year”. Hate to break it to you but west coast salaries are an exception, and not all devs are seniors or programmers. It’s several hundred devs.

So a few years ago I lost my Pacific Rim bluray disk. Not the case - just the disk?? Pure tragedy. Anyway. I treated myself and you know what I’m doing tonight. Sorry not sorry, neighbours 🥹 ✨✨✨✨👌👌✨✨✨✨

A hand holding a 4K disk of Pacific Rim

This was a fascinating exercise: find out what went wrong with creativity in the games industry. The conclusion: there are too many cowards controlling too many critical levers, and until we figure out how to put people -taste, creativity, and craft- back at the top, we're going to be stuck.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

The games industry is stifled by a culture of fear, concludes a workgroup hosted by Rami Ismail. https://bit.ly/4vPbIzv

I think the worst part of selling your apartment is an unexpected private viewing when you hadn’t fixed up the place yet this is super chill no problem it’ll be a mess but please buy it for an insane amount of money thanks.