Well we've always been very disciplined at Nine Dots when it comes to output per hour, so it hasn't really made a significant impact in that way. What we did have though is fathers having to take more sick days to take care of family... woops.
I didn't think of that! Let's glue them to screens all day! :-P
Il y a une pénurie de places en garderie au Québec et Nine Dots n'est pas en mesure de payer celles-ci aux employés, mais on leur réserve une place. C'est aussi un avantage précieux en temps et en logistique que la garderie soit au même endroit que le lieu de travail. On donne un léger rabais aussi.
Are you saying we should make MORE babies? XD
But I'll be honest, it is a major stress factor: it's more important than ever to keep the business afloat, yet it makes planning that much more difficult. Our budget was planned tight from the start. It's a tough juggling act. It's only 9AM and I'm thinking of having a drink tonight.
Needless to say, it hurts our development schedules. To be fair though, two of those kids are mine, so it's not like I should complain. Family is more important than games or careers. I'm happy to have my sons playing downstairs at the daycare while I work upstairs.
Nine Dots created its own daycare, Les Petits Pixels. What I had not planned, was the ludicrously high baby boom within the company that would follow. During Outward 2's development, we've had THIRTEEN babies, with TWO MORE ON THE WAY. On average, they take 10 weeks of paternity leave.
That's awful. Spiders especially hits me hard. Between them and Pyrahna Bytes, we're losing a lot of clever, niche RPG experiences.
This is the right way to go. A store that sells shit stains its catalog as a whole. With GenAI looming, things could get even worse if nothing is done to curate games.
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I am not surprised.
We need every country to start regulating against these practices with extreme severity.
100% agree with this sentiment.
Also, stop it with the armchair game devving. Playing demos doesn‘t make you an expert on anything. Indie games in particular should not be playtested to death. Let’s stop perpetuating the worst parts of industrial game development.
Reddit but you need to learn how to be an actual redditor to find results there. Just trying tonuse it for self promo won't get you good results but authenticity is very welcome there.
Discord communities are often easy to fit in
Tiktok has been a viable channel for us.
Reaching out to youtubers
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Do you think that NATO (minus the US) will disband rather than maintain its obligation of defending Greenland?
That's not what he is saying here. He's saying that calling crunch unsustainable isn't true for a company, even if it's not true for individual workers. He's using Naughty Dog as a proof of sustainability, since that studio has been crunching for as long as it has existed.
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
For 2026 I want to express myself less and listen more. Easier said than done, but I think that it will benefit both my personal and professional life.
3 out of 4 children I introduced to 1st person gaming prefer inverted Y axis on controllers. So I'm not THAT much of a freak!
Nice list, I added a bunch of them. If you want to add a fellow Canadian creative director, I'd love to be added to the list. No biggie if you want to keep to people you know.
The immortal Carl Sagan in 1995
this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.
They really nailed the parody of commercials "produced" by genAI vm.tiktok.com/ZGdmdpKRx/
🎄📆INDIEFIESTA 2025! Advent Calender Edition!📆🎄
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Lost in Prayer from @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social !
Another less know game that came out this year! A tactical Rpg with an interesting twist : what you kill becomes playable 😮. Recommend for tactical rpg fans🙌
#indiegame #indiedev #gaming
Outward 2 zeigt großes Potenzial – aber die Alpha ist noch hart. Erste Eindrücke und klare Worte im Preview. 🔥 #Outward2 #RPG #Preview
"What I liked about diving into Outward 2 was how it immediately felt more like a proper RPG experience."
www.cgmagonline.com/articles/previews/hands-...
#Outward #Outward2 #RPG
@aransuddi.bsky.social spent some time with @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social playing Outward 2 and talking about how this sequel expands on the original. Simply, it's the Outward experience a lot of you enjoyed.
www.thesixthaxis.com/2025/12/02/o...
#gaming #videogames #gamenews
