Scrolling through screenshots from vanilla wow 20 years ago.. I felt so cool here.
Karl Mörtberg
@laffman.bsky.social
Senior Mission Designer at Avalanche Studios in Stockholm. I like cats, making games, tattoos, and spoopy art! https://karlmortberg.com/ My views are my own. Hej!🎈
Seeing top guilds raiding in WoW in 2026 makes me so so so happy with my guild's decision to not commit to the alt-raid bullshit already back in WotLK. We did one alt-raid. And now it seems normalized committing players to have 15+ alts to chase world firsts. Absolute nonsense, raiding lost the plot
Just realized I'm 40y/o next year and I didn't make marriage pact with anyone in my youth. I'm a bad millennial. Anyone want to "get married if we're both single when we're 40" pact?
If you wear a pair of meta/smart glasses I will immediately and forever assume that you are a creep. They are pervert goggles as far as i'm concerned.
Normalize: Instead of saying "The AI thinks i'm stupid" Say: "I made the AI say i'm stupid"
If you need some catharsis today, I talked to Bruce Straley about generative AI in gaming: "I don’t know who wants it, I don’t know who’s asking for it, I don’t know who’s pushing for it, but I don’t think it’s the way as a human species we need to be evolving.” www.polygon.com/bruce-strale...
‘I don’t think prompting is art.’ The Last of Us director tees off on generative AI
Bruce Straley doesn't think gen AI has a place in game development
polygon.com
This article should be painted on the walls and used as criteria for every Execs performance review with bonuses tied to performance www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...
How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
gamedeveloper.com
Gamedev friends, this is more proof that we are not to blame for the current state of our industry. These are the same executives that follow every trend blindly and ignorantly. Aggressive MTX, everything is a live service, DRM that only punish paying players, NFTs, and now AI. What a shitshow.
Melo@letitmelo.bsky.social · last yr.I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
The Switch 2 has about 2 hours of battery life. Am i crazy to see that as a feature? I've had multiple 2 hour sessions, intentionally not charging it while playing and i don't feel any fatigue and i feel like I've accomplished a lot while playing. Maybe the perfect play session duration is 2 hours..
Designed a new look for my portfolio.. Still need to fill in some content but it's a lot more readable now I think, compared to the mess that I made 5 years ago as a student. karlmortberg.com
Karl Mörtberg - Technical Level Designer
karlmortberg.com
As i become older and have less time i found watching other people play games experiencing them for the first time is more enjoyable for me than re-playing them myself. The only way I get that first time experience again and see all the emotions and reactions to big story moments etc.
Someone just said game dev is like "competetive art" and it makes a bit of sense..
Me when another survival horror, souls-like or dark fantasy game is announced
Last summer i injured my knee on the last week of vacation and hopped ok crutches for 7 months. This summer i injured my foot on the last week of vacation and I am back ln crutches again. Both times because i WALK bad. I am so bad at walking i hurt myself from walking normally.
I really wish Lost Ark was more accessible. It's gotten a lot better recently but it's still a huge time investment, and if you want to catch up to the endgame huge monetary investment (you sort of need to p2w to reach it in a reasonable timeframe). But the game has so much amazing content.
If you can't handle me at my "I made fried rice once and now i need a way too expensive high quality carbon steel wok". You don't deserve me at my "I made you fried rice".
I had a nightmare about an extroverts game where you stand in a line and face the game leader one person at the time and they sing a little made up song at you and you have to finish the lyrics as best you can before you get to leave. Had me in tears yelling at them in my dream. Still upset now.
Ok so for a brief moment i have 3 monitors at home.. And i have two computers plugged into one monitor each.. And one monitor running parsec to my office computer. I am working on three computers simultaneously and i feel incredibly powerful!
Looking back at the difference raiding in WoW 20 years ago and today is like seeing into the minds of a generation of gamers after almost two decades of social media consumption and fast content resulting in shorter and shorter attention spans and rampaging ADHD disgnosises..
Our currency being called "crowns" feels very satisfying to me In a medieval, rugged kind of way.