The Marathon world art team spent SO much time and love building Cryo Archive and holy shit I literally can't believe it's about to be in players hands. In my career, I don't think I've ever been this excited for something i've worked on to be released, aaaaaaa <3 <3
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Game development is a process where you move a slider to full, then grudgingly move it down by 5% every week until others can stand the output.
playing almost only PvE in Marathon and trying to avoid player combat mostly, but finally equipping the Arachne intro quest and loading into zones like
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I'm the moving castle
Me and my son at the PlayStation 30th Anniversary party yesterday
Made a pumpkin latte cake
I'm lake boy this week
too dweeby to be gay enough.
too gay to be a full dweeb.
just right to make whatever this is
Crown Prince of my heart
#LA #Gamedev #Gamedev PerkUp #events #flyer
🌱 Announcement!
Next Gamedev PerkUp will be June 28th, 10am - 2pm @ Good People Coffee's gorgeous venue in Santa Monica! ☕
✨As always, RSVP is required for attendance/name badge! We'll be doing some quick check-ins when folks arrive.
Happy Pride! 🌈
We'll see u there!
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Ran point on our involvement at the West Hollywood Pride Parade, with strong rep from Santa Monica Studio, Naughty Dog, and Insomniac.
So exhausted lol but real proud of these teams and all we stand up for.
that time again
The lesson to be learned from the development of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is very similar to the thing you can learn from Baldur's Gate 3, which is that if you were exactly that group of people at exactly that moment in time doing exactly that specific thing, it'll work out for you.
lol thanks thanks
playing the tactical game, made my slack status "it's my birthday! you wouldn't assign a guy JIRA tickets on his birthday would you?"
Today is 5 years since Jake died. Feels incomprehensible sometimes, and there's points you can't bear the way each day there's more space from a world that held his voice, that there's less of the world that remembers him.
But I think that's where holding on matters the most
leaving the gay club like www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxWS...
he's a terror but he has his moments
as someone who likes Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" it's funny how the big thing about it is that everyone's like "ahhh it is not about going to the zoo and a movie and having a nice time with someone, it's about heroin" and Lou Reed had to keep being like "no it is literally about a nice day I had"
sex is great but has a dear friend ever given you their own copy of their favorite book, adorned with highlights and notes of the things that spoke to them, and worn by years of re-reading, such that as you read it you get a new level of appreciation for what they love
anyway
Babies first bath and now it's snoozing time
this moment in KH really hit me as a kid and I feel like the more life I live the more I think back to it. Especially leaving a place or a person for a long time.
"you know... I'm sad"
the new Lucy Dacus album's gonna be the emotional death of me (it's so good)
whole week's just been like "damn, I wish I was at GDC"
Perhaps the Gamers are alright
I wish I knew how to quit you