Aging another year this week

It’s Friday

Supporting Junior Talent and Why the Industry Needs Them How do you support juniors in the current industry environment? The short answer is: be brave and take the risk. The long answer, we'll share. The current state of the games industry has resulted in a...

Our gdc panel about the importance of hiring juniors (and some data that might convince your leadership teams of the business case) is now free on the gdc vault!

gdcvault.com/play/1035965...

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Last month in The Onion:

Players playtesting a game at an event.

Nobody talks enough about how much of game dev is just... not quitting.

Just showing up again after the build breaks, the pitch is rejected, or the playtest doesn't go as planned.

if you're still here, that counts for something!

#gamedev

Art by Brian Froud (b. 1947). Best known for his 1970s book Faeries (with Alan Lee) and his concept work on Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986).

LFG CONGRATS!!

Pen and marker drawing of Kaneda from Otomo’s Akira

Kaneda commission from awhile back

Akira capsule graphics inspired by some old hardcore records/flyers :)

#substance3d #akira #3dart #otomo

A large hall space with wide arches supported by stout columns. Every surface is covered in tiles and sculptures in an array of browns and greens.

A large hall space with wide arches supported by stout columns. Every surface is covered in tiles and sculptures in an array of browns and greens.

A wall of green tiles depicting a German village framed by high arches and tile-clad columns.

A wall of green tiles depicting a German village framed by a wide, flattened arch and carved wood wainscoting.

I realize I never posted the rest of my pics from Louisville so here’s the Rookwood tile-clad Rathskeller (1907) in the basement of the Seelbach Hotel.

According to EDGE magazine, minecarts have never been so versatile as they are in BIG HOPS... sorry, we still love you Donkey Kong.

Akira capsule graphics inspired by some old hardcore records/flyers :)

#substance3d #akira #3dart #otomo

Today we're releasing a huge free content update: Cappler's Conspiracy!
It's a whole 2+ hour photography game hidden inside BIG HOPS:
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...

Enjoy this little thread about it:

whats becoming more clear to me is that I just need to model kanedas bike next lmao

These have been pretty fun to jam on, started as a lil houdini project, I maybe got one more idea in my head than calling it done.

Bad Attitude YouTube video by Articles of Faith - Topic

Lil homage to chicagos articles of faith album www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shcq...

Akira capsules

#akira #otomo #marmosettoolbag #substance3d

The US bombed a primary school in Iran, killing 168 girls.

Why is nobody talking about this anymore?

These abominable war crimes should not be forgotten — and nor should the lives, hopes and dreams of human beings who were slaughtered with impunity.

Illustration of a large snake in a red swamp. A small character stands in the water below the snake. The snake has a large multicolored eye.

👁️

The inspo

Akira inspired material jam

#materialArt #substance3d #houdini #Otomo #Akira

These are what I like to call babs (big ass boulders) 🙏🏽

Turtle Rock Studios Turtle Rock Studios

Heads up narrative game devs! Turtle Rock has a remote possible role in the California PST time zone

Please share with your narrative game dev friends

turtlerockstudios.com/careers/4678...

It Sucks to Work in the Video-Game Industry Right Now Even developers who successfully release big hits, like Fortnite and Battlefield, are losing their jobs

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off.

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

Lil #houdini thing I put together to make some leaf piles, still a laundry list of things to learn/iron out but its going :)

#gameart

Not shared this in a while and many may not know that this the art I make for my self and will be back at making things and do dads again hopefully soon.

Sad day for me.

My role at DICE as Studio Art Director has been eliminated and I’ve been impacted by the layoffs on Battlefield.

I’m very proud of our work on BF6, my team at DICE, and my own impact since joining 3 years ago. I learned a ton, and got to work with amazingly talented people 🙏

Wouldnt change being a dad for the world, and don’t want to sway ppl away from becoming parents, this industry(& country) shouldn’t halt you from living your life, just angry at the inept ppl running all this shit only to ruin people’s lives.

Shout out to parents working in games man, every week is like a existential crisis on top of a panic attack on top of hopelessness, how can anyone think long term in this dumb ass industry

Lil #houdini thing I put together to make some leaf piles, still a laundry list of things to learn/iron out but its going :)

#gameart