Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance.
Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf.
#epicgames
Tim letting people know good people are being fired
Tim is just one of the guys!
He is posting this like he’s some junior graphics programmer talking about his peers instead of the CEO who caused this pain directly by his own continued mismanagement.
Exactly this. It takes away all the intended personality, design, staging, lighting etc. from the characters, only to be replaced with what seems like an Instagram filter. Who is really the target audience here?
This is a very important quote from the interview that I hope every single company hoping to capitalize on the gaming industry reads and internalizes. Games are a unique market, and you can't just apply strategies from other industries and find success. This has been proven time and time again.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
On the contrary. They will have to apply for those jobs, along with everyone else. If there's 2 producer openings elsewhere, and there's 5 producers laid off, you will have to go against your friends for the same position. It's very much as the title says and every bit as shitty. No one wants this
Counterpoint.
Instead, offer free media literacy and critical thinking training to every adult in the UK.
And Merry Christmas, gamedevs ❤️
the faux-AI evangelists see the artistic process as a race to get to a finished product, instead of something valuable in itself. the process is where you develop those skills you don't have yet, it cannot be skipped, it is where the art happens
Spore & Viva Pinata
Pure nostalgia
Well deserved mate 👏👏 huge congrats
Not to mention his French pronunciation was wayyyyy off, the others (espc Maelle) at least tried
Well said 🤘
The odd ones I've seen for character art are exactly that - they need a 'senior' on a salary lower than a junior's to do the most tedious & soul destroying work we could do
That's a shame 😞 thank you though!
Dawww! You selling artwork prints of these by any chance? 👀
A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of a sandy landscape with statues and flags submerged in sand. In the distance you can see a temple and a large triangular shaped mountain.
A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of a temple with red brick, covered in foliage. There is a half pipe in the center.
A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of an ethereal blue landscape with floating islands, a ghostly bridge, and a large triangle structure on top of a mountain.
A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of two large armored warriors in a frozen landscape. One is buried beneath the snow with only its hand clawing towards the viewer. There is a beam of light coming from one of the warriors eyes.
A few of my favorite of our environment shots from Sword of the Sea
Reminder that I'm looking for work as an Environment Artist or 3D Artist 🙂
As someone else stated, if you think you'd enjoy it, why the hell not. It will increase your chances to make the shortlists, but if you don't have enthusiasm for the artstyle, they might think you won't be a good fit
A personal (realism) piece done well is just as valid, including good breakdowns helps to show you understand the workflow
Speaking from character side whos done hiring at studio✋
Depending on the role (but espc mid & up), we tend to look for people whose portfolio style roughly matches the project we're hiring for. Our shortlist (out of the 100s who apply) will have people who we think would be a good fit
Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.
Let's hope they submitted for BAFTAs right 😁
And get paid (peanuts) to sabotage 😎
It is so telling isn't it
Offering a pay range of $8-$20 per hour to help train AI as a character artist
They sure aren't offering much $ compensation to sell your soul as a character artist
Offering a pay range of $8-$20 per hour to help train AI as a character artist
They sure aren't offering much $ compensation to sell your soul as a character artist
Sad news today. Bithell Games, having been unable to secure a new larger scale project, is reducing in size. This means that eleven jobs are being made redundant. This constitutes the majority of our full-time staff. It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams seeking funding partners in 2024 and 2025. We’ve fortunately been able to communicate these challenges ahead of time, and work with affected staff to ease departures as much as possible via severance packages. It’s important to state that this was an incredible team of exceptionally talented people. If you’re a developer reading this, and you’re hiring; anyone among those affected would be a great addition to your studio, please reach out if we can help to put you in touch. This news will not impact the availability of our existing self published games and ongoing support for them. We are incredibly grateful for our audience, and hope that your interest in our work follows individual team members as they head into other roles. Bithell Games was always defined and elevated by our people. Today we are less. - Mike Bithell
I am sure that laying off the most skilled people, with otherwise unobtainable insight from decades of experience in game production, will somehow make games cost less to develop and by extension purchase.
