An excerpt from the 2024 book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, telling the story of how author Andy Weir was fired from Blizzard

This past weekend, the new movie Project Hail Mary was a smash hit, bringing in nearly $141 million at the box office.

But many years ago, before he was writing novels adapted into mega-hit films, Andy Weir was fired from his dream job... at Blizzard Entertainment. Excerpt from my latest book:

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The time I hit 50 followers. Life Changing.
#twitch #streamer #attentionwhore #goals

From my video archives: This footage is over 10 years old. The city put a stop to the fun with a barrage of speedbumps since then.
#sideshow #oakland #burnout #cars

“We have to stop building the Human Destroying Machine,” says CEO of Human Destroyer, Inc.

Despite his concerns, the company continues to assemble the Human Destroying Machine, and recently launched the 3rd Beta of Human Destroyer.

Well I can say I had a chance to play the demo before it went away. Just like the PT demo.

Super Tank

Supply Truck(s)

Troopers

Rotary Tank & Traverser

Here are some units. The units can travers the dirt.
#realtimestrategy #gamedev #pixelart

have a good 53rd birthday!

I'm a couple days late but happy birthday to the GOAT of the RTS genre. I've still got my original copy.

#realtimestrategy #RTS #ageofempires

A highlight from the song A Villain's Anthem
Youtube: dub.sh/Generation4YT
Spotify: spti.fi/Generation4
#electronic #hiphop #experimental

Cliffs along with layer filters to make high ground visually different then the low ground.

#highground #gamedev #realtimestrategy

If you think my last post with the dirt texture was amazing get a load of this sand and gravel.
#amazing #pixelart #textures

dirt

close up of dirt

mud on dirt

close up of the mud

Here are some amazing dirt textures I have created.

#pixelart #texture

Here is a crap ass animation I created ohhh about 17 years ago. I think this could be considered my peak in creativity.

#frogger #neverforget what's #crossyroad?

The finisher strikes again

Also attended #seattleindiesexpo or #SIX
Very cool to see what the locals are working on. I'll be keeping my eye on some of these #indiegames.

shiny

games

chairs

Guy(me), Tifa, and Cait.

Did the PAX thing.

#pax #paxwest #FFVII

You all looked like children way back then

I also got the same impression that it is a very young user base.

That means those people will have to relocate if they want to stay in the games industry. Bend is a pretty remote location.

This is one of my preferred tracks from The Void album
The Void on Youtube: dub.sh/TheVoidYT
The Void on Spotify: spti.fi/TheVoid
#mr4 #instrumental #post-rock

Do people touch ferns instead of grass there?

Now that is how you roleplay

The song "Peril" from #Halo2 using #guitar.

Listen on Spotify
spti.fi/gamecovers
or on Youtube
dub.sh/GameCoversYT

#martinodonnell #videogamemusic #coversongs #halosoundtrack

I needed to update a picture on my website and then I noticed I few other things to update and then... I ended up spending my whole day redoing the entire website.

#compulsive #productivity

#cat

Twitch Twitch is the world

twitch.tv/the_mr4

It's been about a year ago since my first stream. It's only gotten worse since then.

#twitch #studioone #first

Somebody told me the plasma rifle from Halo looks like a bird looking at its reflection and it actually pisses me off how right they are.