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Romain Barrilliot

@skacky.bsky.social

Level Designer @ Arkane Lyon | Previously 3D Realms, Streumon Studio | Project Director on The Black Parade for Thief | Opinions are my own | Immersive Sims forever!

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Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 3d ago

Somehow watching Batman Caped Crusader made me want to play Filcher again. Love this game, and it's even better now since you can save your game (though it does lock you out of the max score).

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Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com · 4d ago

Just had an initial poke around Parkside: Decayed Soul Manipulation. An indie immersive sim I'd had an eye on for a while. It's a bit rough-edged and might need a few patches, but it feels like an interesting halfway point between Deus Ex and Cruelty Squad set in the grim cyberpunk future of 2038.

Save 10% on PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION on Steam

PARKSIDE is an FPS-Immersive Sim that chronicles the future of biomechanical subterfuge and suffering. Shoot, hack, and either save or sour the future of humanity in the dystopian city of Abbotsford, ...

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Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 6d ago

The new Pigface update erases your previous save but who cares? It's fucking Pigface of course I'm gonna replay the campaign. I really like these remixed levels, they're essentially harder variants of the story levels with randomized objectives.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 2w ago

To elaborate on the rocket; since we had to adhere to 1996 limits we couldn't do crazy stuff. The rocket is a func_door and the explosions are info_notnull triggered at timed intervals and placed in the world synced with the func_door's speed value. I am delighted that people love it. 🥹

Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm very happy people love the rocket in Tremor's E1M1. I had a lot of fun making that one. Based on @johnromero.bsky.social's ICBM idea for Quake way back when.

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com · 2w ago

Not as outwardly impressive as, say, Brutalist Jam 3, but Tremor just launched - a 'Quake like Id did' full campaign, filtering modern design through roughly the same software limits the original developers did. Some top talent from across the Quake scene involved in this one.

Tremor

A 32 level excursion through a parallel version of Quake, an attempt to evoke the Quake atmospheres of old through the vessel of modern design tools and philosophies. Featuring the mapping efforts of ...

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Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 3w ago

GOG has updated Thief Gold to allow users to play Thief: The Dark Project of Thief Gold, which is really damn cool considering TDP was impossible to obtain digitally for ages. Do note that an overwhelming amount of Fan Missions for Thief 1 are made with Gold, so they won't work with TDP.

Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 4w ago

That AAA developers don't play or like games. I don't even know where to begin with that one, it's just patently false. I know plenty of people personally who play some really obscure indie games and who are really passionate about them.

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w ago

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 4w ago

That we see other developers from other studios as rivals. That was a very prevalent discourse when Elden Ring or Clair Obscur released. We don't. We love when games are successful. I do not know a single designer who didn't gush about Elden Ring, especially its level design.

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w ago

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 4w ago

This. This is why posts like "this mod blows this game out of the water/is better than any game coming out today" irk me to no end. Having done both, I can say without a doubt that games and mods are fundamentally different.

〽️ax krieger asks: who's going to PAX WEST?@maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 4w ago

it isn't fair to hold commercial game devs to the same standards as hobbyists. hobbyists have... -however long of a timetable they want -no expectations other than their own -unique financial circumstances this results in a fundamentally different kind of art, and one an industry cannot depend on

Romain Barrilliot@skacky.bsky.social · 4w ago

With all of that stuff going on I managed to completely miss that our cops have essentially a license to kill with a new law that was passed today. You essentially have to prove that a cop who shot you wasn't acting in self-defense now. What a wonderful country.

AK Fedeau@akfedeau.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm very sorry to announce that I was one of the devs affected by the Obsidian layoffs today. At least for four years, it was a beautiful dream. If you need a writer with experience in everything from the fog of war to romance - especially if you're open to remote - please get in touch.