Olive Wesley
@lindydragon.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ Trans 💚 She/her 🐲 Definitely a dragon 🎮 Game designer looking for work ⚡️ Former Raid and Dungeon designer at Bungie PFP by @orachart.com
I think my dad and I might have played other games before it when I was a kid, but this is the earliest one I most vividly remember.
Retro Blast 👻@retroblastpod.com · 3w agoWhat's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
Matrix: Neo and Trinity Walk
Alt: neo and Trinity from the matrix
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Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3w agothe ideal M/F ship is a woman who is constantly charging headfirst into danger and chaos with zero sense of self-preservation, and her emotional support himbo who follows along like “this is a deranged plan, but fine”
When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.
Years ago, lost in time to whenever my friends and I moved from Slack to Discord, I told them that instead/in addition to making new characters that are already trans, media should make characters we already know and love trans because it would deliver a type of authentic experience we don’t really
The most important news from the direct today is the great fairy still being this ridiculous (complimentary)
Don't ever - and I mean /ever/ - try to justify watching the new Harry Potter show to me. Here, it gets an instant block, and in person it gets anywhere from a very loud lecture to thrown hands. IDGAF. You're either a bigot or so painfully unaware of your own privilege that it's the same thing.
This criticism fundamentally misunderstands who gets to decide what ideas get made, imo. I don’t think it is even remotely true that game devs now are drawing from a shallower well of inspiration
Dave Breens@baldbreens.bsky.social · 2mo agoA very real problem we're having now is that the medium is no longer new, the new creators are inspired by other video games instead of other art. Miyamoto made Pikmin because he liked being in the garden, but every ONL game is being made because open worlds are cool and UE5 has nice visuals
For REAL. A good game designer isn't just a robot that intakes complaints and outputs solutions. Can you figure out a design change that enhances the game's goals and themes instead of harms them? Does the game NEED a design change? Or is this an aesthetic problem? Is this an AUDIENCE problem?
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 2mo agoGame design isn’t about being able to identify problems. Everyone who plays games can identify problems. Game design is about diagnosing player experience, having intent, and executing. I think to a lot of folks outside dev, game criticism (an art in itself) is seen as interchangeable with design.
Last week I interviewed the wonderful Casey Yano from Mega Crit about Slay the Spire 2’s placeholder art and how it proves these studios need to STOP with the gen AI placeholder nonsense ✨ Had a great time writing this and hope you all enjoy! www.gamespot.com/articles/sla...
Slay The Spire 2 Is Choosing "Shit" Art Over Generative AI
Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano spoke with GameSpot about why Slay the Spire 2 refuses to use generative AI for placeholders and the importance of "garbage" ar…
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Very cool Secret Lair. BTW @magic.wizards.com it’s “trans woman” not “transwoman” :/
Secret Lair x Global Fund for Women: Their Magic Is Limitless
Secret Lair x Global Fund for Women: Their Magic Is Limitless celebrates the women of Magic, available July 20.
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My life would significantly improve if I never had to hear a firework ever again.
If you enjoyed getting pummeled by the handful of “you must be this tall to ride” first encounters in raids over the years, you’re welcome 😂 I enjoyed making some of the devilish activities I got to work on, and I’m proud of how much I grew and learned. It was a dream job I’d been chasing since 10yo
I too am part of this round of layoffs at Bungie. It’s been real, y’all 🫡
I love to see clips from my encounters like this 😂
From the destiny2 community on Reddit: good news, the dungeon ends on kill
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Praxic Guardians have eliminated the Dredgen threat on Venus. Congratulations to the World First fireteam of the Equilibrium Dungeon on Contest Mode! 🏆 Mariomonkey 🏆 Luigistyle 🏆 Biggz
Something about the tutorialization/hand-holding discourse is that *what* you choose to tutorialize and *how* you choose to do it affects the game's contract with the player.
hi cge, i have been a huge fan of your games since last will, adrenaline, and all your incredible party games. your company has always been very nice to me and helped me when i was a young games journalist who was just getting started in board games i have very strong emotional connection with-
ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵
