I don't know how anybody can listen to 3D Country, Heavy Metal, & Getting Killed and say Cameron Winter is a bad singer. Like listen to Cowboy Nudes or I See Myself. He's a very technically good singer who purposely uses his voice in unusual ways. Maybe have some curiosity about why he's doing that?
I also love the way that this lets you be a 'participant in the bit', which is another thing unique to games as an art.
Esoteric Ebb has a kind of joke that you can really only do in games writing, which is the continual inappropriate confusing dialogue choice that becomes funny when you pick it enough times, like asking every single person you meet who they're voting for in the election.
Getting knocked unconscious in a cutscene.
The worst variant is when you beat a boss fight and then STILL get knocked out in the cutscene after. I did something cool as the player and you've STILL gotta make me look like a loser?
Something that brings me a lot of joy is that I'm pretty sure every backfill on our narrative team for the past two years has been because someone got promoted or moved over to our D&D project. We've had a remarkably stable team for quite a while, providing lots of opportunities for long-term growth
One of our talented narrative designers is moving on to another great project, and we're looking for someone to join the team to keep the Valley growing!
OPPORTUNITYÂ
Disney Dreamlight Valley] Concepteur(trice) narratif(ve) - Narrative Designer
Montreal, Canada Hybrid
Not affiliated. Shares welcome
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M stands in castle room with a blond woman on floor.
Sleeping Beauty concept art by Eyvind Earle.
#art #animation
Lovely forest scene with a couple dancing.
Another beautiful Sleeping Beauty concept piece by Eyvind Earle.
#art #animation
I feel loved and known when a level designer puts a block somewhere that makes me feel satisfied breaking it, or puts loot right where I'll most appreciate finding it. I don't think we've begun to understand artistically how intimate and strange and cool a communication between human beings that is.
Pokopia has that magical Nintendo thing that I think is a result of institutional knowledge and tons of playtesting, but to the player results in a feeling of being deeply and truly known and anticipated as a human animal, in all of your weird inchoate wants and needs.
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Thank you!
A bearded man gives a talk in front of a GDC podium
A bearded man gives a talk in front of a GDC podium
Saying something very intense and impassioned, probably about Donald Duck
Ah, thank you! Hope you're having a good GDC!
Really enjoyed the GDC talk on the creative direction of Ghost of Yotei as somebody who both loves Ghost of Yotei and is attempting creative direction on a daily basis
Reminder that on Monday, I'll be delivering a talk at GDC about narrative on Dreamlight Valley!
Swing by and hear all about:
- the challenges of creating a shared universe cozy game
- working with beloved IP
- narrative pipelines built for live content delivery
schedule.gdconf.com/session/brin...
Ah man, Pokopia's delightful. So many of those little very Nintendo moments where they just super elegantly guide you toward something or teach you something without it feeling like that's what they're doing. And the Pokemon are so cute.
I saw the Danish String Quartet perform tonight and when they did Ravel it made me float out of my body and right up through the ceiling.
Well- myself and a few of my peers were laid off this week.
Riot’s severance is generous, and I’ve got the opportunity to apply internally to a few roles, which I’m taking advantage of- and I’ve gotten some kind leads on external roles as well. I’ve got a little time to conduct a search.
I'm gutted to hear about the loss of Catherine O'Hara.
Dreamlight Valley is one of the only video games that she lent her voice to (quite possibly the first as well?) and we were all so incredibly excited to have her as our Sally.
What a career. Absolute legend.
shakespeare was on fire writing the history plays and im not afraid to say it. in henry IV part 2 the king laments that his son will take the throne and "commit the oldest sins the newest kinds of ways" which goes absolutely crazy
I'm so curious to see how they ride this sincerity/taking-the-piss line in the next few years. It's such an artistic knife edge -- you can see how there's peril in falling too far to either side.
There's a kind of fear that one might do something beautiful, which the artist must sabotage within the art itself. With Geese, it feels like their talent & range of influences is pushing the tension to a breaking point they genuinely don't know how to resolve & that is so artistically exciting.
I once had a kooky visual arts professor who looked at my end-of-semester work, shook her head solemnly, and told me I had a "complicated relationship with beauty" and should "take a dance class".
I feel like that complicated relationship with beauty is such an endemic trait I see in Gen Z artists.
Then another question comes up: is the impulse to sing in this way an artistic virtue of the work or is it a limiting affectation that he'll eventually shed? Or is it possible that what makes the music so interesting is the very fact that this is currently unresolved?
That tension feels connected to another - which is that Winter pretty obviously has a conventionally beautiful voice and is a technically skilled singer but uses his instrument in some extremely *weird* ways. Once you realize that, you're left with a question: why is he choosing to sing this way?
There's a very interesting tension in Geese/Cameron Winter of whether you become great artists by embodying the quirks of your generation or by transcending them and I like that the tension is so far genuinely unresolved; anyway that SNL performance rocked
George Harrison's vibe in the Beatles Anthology whenever Paul does something goofy is "ugh you're going to embarrass me in front of Bob Dylan and the other Traveling Wilburys"
Thanks, Luna! That's wonderful to hear. Truly made my day.