Solo GameDev ⚡️ THE RAZORFORM: https://xitter.cf/t.co/JPQRZvcBUK Was once designer at old-school Monolith/Bungie (before they died)
Phoenix, AZ
Joined April 2016
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The Razorform Playtest v5.0 is LIVE ⚡️
What's NEW:
-More campaign content (on the moon with lasers!!)
-New player character model/face
-Tons of bug fixes and optimizations
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not unconventional, but I used Tom Sizemore's death in Heat as reference for an animation in Halo 2 youtu.be/goh-ytMvjcw?t=461
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Old School Bungie: I built the High Charity 3D asset for Halo 3, and my texture reference for its surface was a scone.
At the bakery today my kid wanted one, and it took me back to '06, the last time I bought a scone.
Ever used an unconventional reference in your work?
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The media attacked rare optimistic souls like me declaring the exact same reassuring message years in advance.
But now that it’s Miyamoto’s own words, notice how they don’t dare attacking.
The price to be early I guess.
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, the acclaimed designer behind Super Mario and Zelda, has explained why he believes generative AI won’t make human creativity obsolete.
"There will always be a role left for us to play."
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Completely braindead take from someone that never worked in the industry.
The modern left has destroyed so much of our culture and now that it's in shambles, they're trying to "blame the rich."
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Chris Avellone comes in with the truth nuke against BioWare holy shit
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I've been calling out progressive rot the last 12 years.
And I'm an old-school liberal, an old-school liberal with conservative friends. I spotted it a little ahead of most people because, as a writer, I witnessed the far-left gatekeepers begin to apply their DEI practices when deciding who was worthy of being published. This was before the rot made it into gaming.
As someone who grew up turned off by some of the more judgmental Christians, it was easy for me to notice the same judgmental fervor from much the left. And if I dislike it from one direction, I'm not going to condone it from another just because we used to vote the same way.
Pointing out the left's excesses got me labeled as "far-right." Friends thought I was extreme for even talking about it. Now almost all of them agree with me.
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🚨 NEW AD 📺
Featuring my amazing daughter Ali.
I'm going to DC to fight for my family and yours.
Chris Avellone is saying what many of us devs have know for years.
Yes, political purity tests were happening.
Yes, the modern left destroyed your favorite franchises and studios.
Yes, the modern left were the authoritarian nazis the entire time.
Chris Avellone (Planescape, KOTOR 2, and Fallout: New Vegas) just dropped a MEGATON NUKE regarding BioWare's hiring practices...
"...when applicants would apply to the studio, the producer would go through their LinkedIn to see what posts they liked, and if he disagreed with their political/social Like, he'd advocate not to hire them based on their Like."
ITS TRUE. EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN SAYING. ITS ALL TRUE.
HOLY SHIT!
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I believe the ideal game studio size for stability in the changing market will be somewhere around 4-12 core people, as long as those core people are hard working, highly creative, and truly reliable.
This just depending on what you want to make, of course, as some things can be done solo and some things will take much larger team sizes. Something to the massive scale doesn't become implicitly possible just because the tools change so dramatically.
I know for sure I would not enjoy working in an environment with more than a handful of other people. I hate bureaucracy more than anything and once you cross a certain size, something that would make an obnoxious amount of noise on a team call, things fall apart quickly.
Many things can be true at once when it comes to the closing of a studio.
For example, the age of major game studios may be coming to an end.
It wasn't long ago that magazines (tech and non-tech) employed thousands of well-paid journalists, illustrators, writers, etc. But that was disrupted by technology as now "everyone" can be a game or tech site.
The same may be coming for game studios. That doesn't discount other factors that hasten economic non-viability.
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Sneak peak of the "autonomy and choice" they were planning to offer:
Mass Effect 4 would have had 'autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match' pcgamer.com/games/mass-effec…
omg people, Death Stranding is NOT a walking sim 🤦♂️
Walking sims are much more fun.
Hideo Kojima says people who have never played Death Stranding but call it "a walking simulator" are proof that social media can form hivemind narratives.
He finds it "scary" that AI may one day shield people from being exposed to differing opinions.
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Add in a workstation with a port for my laptop, hook me up to Starlink, and set a destination for the mountains.
I can't wait for this to be a reality.
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Woke won't report like they would for Kojima/P.T. but the realization of what wasn't possible is what it's all about. In time when it resonates the way the closed studio never could - The story will tell itself :)
I'd like to formally apologize to all gamers.
This is all my fault. I'm so sorry 😔
I get the sense that "wishlist velocity nearing launch" is wayyy more important that "total wishlists".
Yes! I'd love for modders to make some version of this idea, either in a single player or even multiplayer context:
