John Henderson
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Ask me things about Austin game development. Knows people. Austin Game Dev Beer Night, Yellow Card Services, et al.
If Microsoft doesn't want to telegraph how both @xbox.com AND @bethesdastudios.com are up for sale, why make such an effort to push the re-labeling as a re-branding? 40 years ago, the latter was an independent game developer.
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It's only for free accounts, and dimes gets you dollars it's for training its own systems to recognize what slop triggers people and what doesn't. If you pay for premium, you don't see it.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoNew: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
Epc and Activision are still backwards for giving employees crap about participating in game jams on their own time. If it's that big a deal, then come up with a way for people who work on big games to make little games as part of their job.
Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?
They doubled their staff since acquisition, moved into nifty new office space and made ... Keeper. Yeah, it's good that they found the means to be independent again. In San Francisco, one of the most expensive places to live or work. InXile and Obsidian didn't get the opportunity to divest in OC.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last wk.The newly independent Double Fine is laying off staff today, three weeks after Xbox divested the studio as part of its massive restructuring.
Why Half-Life 2 worked, has a story that stayed suspended without conclusion for 20 years until the suspension changed, and any game with escort quests and environmental storytelling that work, owes part of its success to the formula Valve proved.
Half-Life 2 Understood What Most Sequels Don't
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It's just not worth my time to shop at stores that assume I'm a criminal. Some chains are just too big and are run by lunatics in board rooms, though maybe I'm spoiled by stores where I can just put what I want in a basket and not immediately be assumed I'm trying to steal anything.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w agoGreat piece on the largely imaginary shoplifting surge: I do think one thing the piece misses is that a bunch of major police departments started years-long work slowdowns in 2020 where they refused to do their jobs (often falsely claiming their hands were tied by woke prosecutors)
The rebirth of video games as mainstream entertainment media in the mid-90s was heinous. The important part, other than two of these games are all but totally lost to history, is that some people read the copy and intensely identified with it. MY FINGERS ARE STUCK TO THE KEYBOARD AND I LIKE IT.
Danthrax@danthrax.bsky.social · 2w agoCool ad for Origin Systems from the E3 Show Daily 1995 booklets (it's in both Day 1 and Day 3) @wcnews.com
This of course affects Austin, because Archetype and Skeleton Key both started here, and the former still has Exodus in development. Once upon a time there was Fortnite, and a year after it came out, several big companies thought, We Need Big New IP Now. Those things cost money, talent and time.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w agoAfter several years running touting its big push to develop video games in-house, Hasbro has canceled multiple in-development projects and seems to be backing off. https://kotaku.com/hasbro-56-million-impairment-charge-video-games-canceled-2000718018
This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF
Say what you will about Disney but long before Male Influencers were ever part of the public imagination they warned us about what a danger insecure aura farmers are to the community.
Some people forgot that LOTR and by association all high fantasy and derivations like D&D, have racist baggage. But there are ways to address it in the press without using "woke" as an excuse. nkjemisin.com/2013/02/from...
From the Mailbag: The Unbearable Baggage of Orcing - Epiphany 2.0
Awhile back I got an email from a reader which asked, “When are you going to write some real fantasy, y’know, with orcs?” This is a paraphrase, because I didn’t get the reader’s permission to quote (I...
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Bianca Michelle Parker@bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 3w agoFeels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary
I have to know some developers who are getting nothing for marketing. Free marketing that amounts to more than none, has to be an improvement.
Nick Calandra@nickjcal.bsky.social · 3w agoNeed some free marketing for your indie game? Read on! Currently in the process of preparing our Work for Hire arm, Lost and Found, to level-up a bit and be not only a production house, but a very affordable direct marketing solution for indie games.
Me examining a new follower. (If I don't know you, don't follow me.)
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Damion Schubert@zenofdesign.com · 4w agoMe examining a new follower.
The world needs all kinds of minds. Human minds. Made-up minds can't actually do much of anything, and the humans that know better, ought to. Expertise is not "gatekeeping." Part of the reason diversity is a strength is that not everybody is going to be good at everything there is to do.
Tess Snider@malkyne.com · 4w agoI am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.
How many tries would it take Edward Thorndike's cat to beat a boss in The Binding of Isaac? The world may never know.
I Trapped the world's Oldest AI in the Binding of Isaac
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Deserved. Wonder Man is a great show, and for the MCU, it makes the build of the entire genre feel earned, with the world it built brick by brick, in a way Marvel hasn't always managed.
Comicsbeat@comicsbeat.bsky.social · 4w agoCongratulations to Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who has received an Emmy nomination for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Marvel's WONDER MAN.
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Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · last mo.a song about how to enjoy fireworks by carter vail
if you've ever shared our games with someone, y'all have no idea how much it means to us. thank you from the depths of our indie developer hearts💚💜🤍
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · last mo.Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.
It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.
