Slay

Fix your hearts or die.

I was once catching up with a few people whose careers I respect to get some thoughts about what to do next and one of them said

"You know, your next thing doesn't have to be bigger than your last thing."

And it remains one of the most creatively freeing things I've ever heard.

The lead singer of Imagine Dragons helped create a game studio. It launched a live-service shooter this week on PC. It advertised it with the band's social accounts (10 million followers)

It has yet to reach over 600 concurrent players on Steam.

Stop making live-service games, folks.

Has anyone worked extensively with Unreal Mass Entity and instanced static meshes using AnimToTexture? I’m trying to get a LOT of ISMs to animate via AnimToTexture - it works, but it’s far more expensive on the game thread than I think it should be, so I’m feeling like I’ve got it wrong somewhere.

No, I think you’re correct in that a lot of companies are trying to do more with fewer people, so generalists are in higher demand.

Legit

Still love this breakdown of approaches :)

This is looking so sick, dude

Thank you so, so much. It means a lot, as that’s everything we strove for as a team. It’s not a perfect game by any means but it was made with love for the fans.
I continue to hope it reaches people when they need it.

If I’m being honest, my mind is more on the sickening dread of everyone I know and care for struggling to look for work and all competing for the same few jobs. I love these people. I hate this so much.

People Who Live As If The World Is For Them

non-dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? are they stupid?

dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? am I stupid?

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

I will accept being this boy’s grandfather

Love the look, bud! Keep at it!!

I am now looking for full-time employment. I am also available for short-term contract or consulting work. And in the meantime, I am going to be working on Eldritch 2 as my day job. Gotta keep myself occupied!

Today is my last day of Deck Nine.
It’s bittersweet, just having shipped Life is Strange: Reunion and seeing how happy many fans are with the game. I know were circumstances different, we could have made so many more amazing games.

To everyone I’ve worked with, thank you. I’ll see you again.

Thank you. Art is never perfect, it’s always a struggle. But the team really came together to do some of their best work and I’m so happy so many people were touched by it.

For what it’s worth, Jeremy, we typically add an Explore option in scene select which lets you skip past cinematics and get to exploring more quickly :)

thoughts on today:

1) the protests are good, actually

2) you should go to one of you can

3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy

4) you might meet people who you can organize with

5) there are more of us than there are of them

6) we are going to win

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

The Dutch angle rolls on the camera really work for this combat

I would *love* to read this. That thread you wrote is already fascinating

this is an insane price for a game that does some really excellent work in both its proximity barks (if you’re a nerd) and its power fantasy of “being the biggest dirtbag in a crew of dirtbags” (if you’re not)

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*

Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.

GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH

github.com/settings/cop...

Lucy Hale, Square Enix's brand video creator on the LIS series, revealed that she is an Easter egg hidden within Deck Nine's Life Is Strange: Reunion.

Ex-Square Enix artist Jan-Wah Li included her in an early part of Reunion.

🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DWZIjKRDEv...

#SecretsOfCaledon #LifeIsStrange

just this week:

-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content

...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Life is Strange Reunion

LIFE IS STRANGE: REUNION IS OUT! 🥳🙌🏻

here’s your friendly reminder to tag your photos/videos/etc. when sharing about the game! some people aren’t able to play it right away! 🎮

I AM SO HYPED TO PLAY!

Life is Strange: Reunion | SQUARE ENIX Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic finale! In three days, a deadly inferno will destroy Caledon University.

Life is Strange: Reunion is finally out!!

I’m so proud of everyone who’s worked at @deckninegames.com for the incredible work they put in to make this game happen. We really couldn’t have done it without you.

lifeisstrange.square-enix-games.com/en-us/games/...