LudoLoon Studio

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I'm a video game music composer from Minnesota! Available for commissions: https://ludoloon.studio Support me for free music: https://www.patreon.com/c/ludoloonstudio

These wins are incredible!!! Minimum 4 weeks severance + 1 week for every 6 months employment, AND recall rights, AND hybrid work + AI protections, AND up to 34% wage increases! This would have been unthinkable before the industry started to unionize!

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social · 6d ago

blizzard workers' union contract includes "really strong" layoff protections, recall rights, just cause protections, hybrid work, AI protections, and a salary floor aftermath.site/blizzard-union-contract-warcraft-overwatch-diablo

That includes a bare minimum of four weeks of severance plus an additional week for every six months an employee has worked at Blizzard, up to a maximum of 39 weeks. The unions also won something those at other studios, like Zenimax, bargained for following previous layoffs: recall rights. Blizzard’s, however, are more expansive.
“It's not just recall rights into your unit; it's recall rights into any job that you would be qualified for,” said Cox. “So if WoW has a bunch of layoffs, but Diablo doesn't, and Diablo is looking to expand, the folks who are laid off from WoW can get recalled into Diablo if they're qualified, which has definitely never happened in our industry before, and is very rare to see just in general. So we are really excited about that.”
All unionized units under Blizzard qualify for recall rights, which span 14 months.
“14 months from the layoff, you can be recalled into an open position that you're qualified for,” said Veneto. “This is kind of common in other parts of the unionized world, but we believe this is a first for the tech industry to have recall rights like these.”

More progress on my @play.date game. Dynamic music, menu sounds, more juice with particles and numbers which go up. Who doesn't like those? All logic for the upgrade system is in place, now I need to implement it. My first game ever is getting somewhere! #indiedev #gamedev #playdate

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 4w ago

Report Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790