Rasmus Rasmussen

@rasmusrasmussen.com

Producer in #gamedev. Worked on some AAA games you know, and some indie games you've never heard of. I mainly talk operations and production, or share things I think are important or funny.

I love art that tells a story, regardless of the medium. Not just the story told in the piece, but the greater story of its creator's thought process and motivation, the interpretation of inspiration, ties to other works and the evolution of the artist over time. Dear artists - please keep arting!

The problem with the #gamedev industry: AAA studios and AA publishers, leadership is not in the business of making games - the teams under them are. Instead, their goal is pleasing the shareholders. Here profit is not enough, constant growth is key. Those are two very different priorities.

Years ago, someone on Reddit claimed that the best surprise you can give a man is a hug he didn’t ask for. The point being that male culture is mostly transactional and a free hug therefore holds extra surprise value. I still think about that from time to time.

I rebuilt a 10+ year-old creative writing prompt generator and added a writing mode, in case you get a prompt you like. This version runs on a tiny 8K transformer model, built from scratch and trained on data recycled from my old tool. Write out a scene: ras.ms/prompts

Screenshot of a writing prompt generator.