Isaiah Everin
@signalsandlight.bsky.social
Senior Combat Designer @ Notable Game Studio 🎮 Video essays on game design and media Opinions are mine | He/Him 👾 | Gay 🏳️🌈 | Seattle http://youtube.com/@signalsandlight https://linktr.ee/SignalsAndLight https://www.isaiaheverin.com
A real issue in the industry. The opposite problem also can be an issue when you get to 50+ people, but actually balancing management and production well is clearly a challenge for 95% of people in my experience, unfortunately. I don't think the appeal at the end actually solves it for every team.
The Invisible Layers Holding Games Back
YouTube video by Laura Fryer
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If you ever have a devastating life event that leads to crippling depression and then you're waiting for the SSRI to kick in, may I recommend the humble "watch 90 episodes of Syd and Olivia in 4 weeks." It's very effective.
Mythical Chef Josh Scherer Eats His LAST MEAL! | Syd & Olivia Talk Sh*t - S3 Ep88
YouTube video by Syd & Olivia
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So much fun and cool reading this summer for reasons. ✨ But despite (insert worst emotional experience of the last decade here), I keep meeting new people, going out to events, seeing the city, making new friends, playing board games, and doing stuff. So. You lose some and you sort of persist some.
Kratos somberly reckoning with his violent and aspiring to be a better father while his dead wife is doing double jumps and air combos in another realm is so fucking funny. imagine if Laura Palmer was doing DOOM shit in the Black Lodge
Working on a game that's real and people play and is on a magazine cover sure feels nice. Probably gonna have stuff I worked on in the next patch and I'm excited.
Rarely been more hype. What a beautiful trailer.
sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now!@sunsetvisitor.studio · 6mo agoAn AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place. We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human. Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com. s.team/a/4533950
Made a little video about the metaverse, adapted from the part of my dissertation I had to write twice last week because the cat deleted it youtu.be/aWRzvOiqc-s?...
Zuck Never Understood the Metaverse
YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo
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Name a book, song, film, and TV program that changed your world. 1. Ender's Shadow, by Orson Scott Card 2. Helplessness Blues, by Fleet Foxes 3. Lilo and Stitch, by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois 4. Critical Role
Ian Danskin@innuendostudios.bsky.social · 6mo agoName a book, song, film and TV programme that changed your world. 1. Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany 2. Port Rhombus, by Squarepusher 3. π, dir. Darren Aronofsky 4. Station Eleven
Spent a whole issue of @aiandgames.com last month ripping these surveys apart. Everyone from AI providers to GDC like to pretend they represent the voice of the industry. All of them talk out their ass and over-inflate their worth. www.aiandgames.com/p/separating...
Separating Truth from Fiction in AI Surveys | 21/01/26
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
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I just watched 3 seasons of Industry in 2 weeks and now I'm caught up on the two new eps and, uh. What. The. Fuck? This show is crazy. Unbelievable how much it's changed and also how under the radar it's gone for having some of the best TV performances in the last 5 years.
Just moved and I have a box that's occupied 75% by cables sorted by category in re-used bags, and I had to label one "small ethernet cables" to remind that despite it having ethernet cables inside of it, they will never be of a length that I actually want. Also, the USB bag is horrifyingly swollen.
Geneviève Routhier@genrouthier.bsky.social · 9mo agoI’ve just spent a non-insignificant amount of time sorting through various cables I’d lumped together over time. “What’s this for, precious??”, I asked several times, in a futile attempt to make sense of the mess and mystery connectors. I did not find the cable I was looking for, either.
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This Is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
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📌 Post 🎮 I made videos about enemy combat in games. 📺 I'd like to make more videos about game dev and media one day, hopefully something in '26/'27. ☠️ I worked on the cancelled KotOR Remake and Perfect Dark. ⚔️ Now I do combat design on a new game that people actually already play in closed alpha!
Defining What IS an Enemy Attack
YouTube video by Signals and Light
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I pay so much attention to this stuff, and some games are so unreal good at it. I'd say this is taken for granted, but also literally all of environment art as a field of expertise is taken for granted. The average player can barely tell the difference between masterwork and just okay.
aXL99 _(:3 」∠ )@axl99.bsky.social · 9mo agoOne of the most underrated design skills in games is graphic design for things like decals and fake branding for posters/stickers/flyers/books/props/signs/displays. We take this stuff for granted and yet they are very much a world building detail that adds so much more life to environments.
Others: sPoRtS aRe JuSt AnOtHeR hObBy. The Smug Sports-Hating Preteen Still Inside Me: Video games don't actually cause violence, but sports literally do.
Game-day crime rises up to 70% after sports betting goes legal
Tensions always run high between sports fans of rival teams on game day. But a new study shows that the rise of legalized sports betting in the US is turning those tensions into something far darker.
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Genuinely had a really enjoyable time watching this one.
Fantastic narrative analysis (from a creator that admittedly doesn't usually even like anime). Also this is just also secretly explaining why The Stormlight Archive is so good (because it builds emotional themes and character arcs into this concept so perfectly).
Hype is Fantastic, Actually
YouTube video by Door Monster
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