A great interview! Alexa is a bottomless pit of passion & wisdom.

In comic shops now. Bookstores and online retailers May 5th!

The Warden's Operation manual for Mothership is a great read for designing scenarios/quests with more of a horror focus

The Pathfinder 2E adventures are also filled with really awesome quests you can learn a lot from.

Kobold Press also do a great series of essay books & some are quest design

First trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’

In theaters November 6

Sometimes you can’t think of anything good to write, and that’s a perfectly normal thing a lot of writers struggle with. It just means you committed a great sin and displeased The Lord. It means He has punished you by cutting you off from The Source

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What AI Evangelists always miss is that we've had this model for over a century. People will ALWAYS value the handmade work of an artisan significantly more than a mass produced knock off industrialists insist is "of similar quality." We don't pay artisan prices for mass produced things...like AI.

"all writers are using AI and lying about it" is up there with "all writers are millionaires"

You don't need to watch this. The trailer, the show, none of it.

You are not a child anymore. There are other stories.

Potter may have once been a well of inspiration or joy, but that well is poisoned by the venom of its creator who sees every engagement as endorsement of her war on trans people.

Time to bring out the image again

One Veteran Director Has Some Thoughts on How to Build Video Games Faster Veteran game director Josh Sawyer thinks developers need to make fewer big changes during production

As the length of video game productions has swelled to 6+ years, many people are trying to figure out how to reverse that trend.

Here's some food for thought from the always-insightful Josh Sawyer, director of Fallout: New Vegas and Pentiment.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash The CEO says artistic control remains with developers.

"DLSS5 fuses controllability of everything about the game with [dogshit]," Huang continued.

"Developers can still fine-tune the generative [dogshit]" to make it match their style, as DLSS 5 adds [dogshit] capability to the existing geometry of the game."

www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

That Dune trailer was great. Can't wait to see how Messiah is adapted. That book is a ride.

Yeah I’m a dune fan Okay, then name five characters Duncan Idaho That’s on me, I set the bar too low

I don't care if you're in AAA or a solo indie dev, we're all just trying to make a living doing what we love.

I hope AAA finds its way again and becomes a place devs can feel secure.

I hope AA and indie continues to flourish and pushes the bounds of creativity.

There's no place for "us vs them".

BREAKING: Xbox boss Phil Spencer is stepping down, will be replaced by Microsoft AI platform president Asha Sharma. Sarah Bond is also leaving. Matt Booty staying.

Seismic news for the video-game industry.

This is a great thread. AAA has changed dramatically since I joined the industry in 2010. Mike sums up a lot of why that is the case.

Game exec walks into a curry house.

“Make me a pizza?”

Slay the Spire 2 - Early Access Trailer YouTube video by Mega Crit

In more positive news, I am incredibly excited to play this! Slay the Spire has been a game I constantly go back to & this looks like a delightful follow up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW22...

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Legend! Well done. If I don't walk during most of my meetings I just don't even get close. I need my coffee machine to run away from me. The kitchen isn't far enough away apparently.

If you're wondering why the game developers in your life are ageing at 10x the normal rate, this pretty much sums up the industry for the past... while.

Reporter: Do aliens exist?

Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth

2022: game developers tell execs chasing fortnite wont work
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So much! I have to do 10k a day otherwise my PT will be mad & that is a silly amount of steps when I'm doing it on a walking pad.

But sure, tell us all again how single player games are dead...

I think its accurate to say the live-service 'boom' might go down in our industry's history as the most destructive, chaotic, and short-sighted mismanagement of any of the many corporate executive trend chasing mistakes.

This is also bullet point 2 on my mission statement page of my studio journal. Stay independent, stay in control, make games because you want to & screw the corporate greed/consolidation.