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Today was my first day in my new role as a Level Designer I at Pipeworks Studios!! Really happy to join this team. I feel really fortunate to have landed this role especially with industry conditions as they are. Wishing good news soon for all game devs still looking for work.

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Love it

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Can't watch SGF rn so just getting secondhand out of context info drops from Bluesky

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So upset about this. Cliffhanger is a studio I'd been watching, seemed to be full of very talented folks working on something cool. Incredibly disappointing to see EA continue to wreak havoc on devs' livelihoods in pursuit of impossible profit. My condolences and well wishes to those impacted.

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I guess it speaks to my selective following habits that I only ever see vague allusions to (or memes about) discourse happening, without ever seeing it myself. Apparently there's some discussion about parrying??

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I've gotten pretty accustomed to the weird daylist titles but this is a new one.

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Watch Scavengers Reign or else

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In tears rn

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Finished South of Midnight. What a gorgeous game. GREAT storytelling and some of the best dialogue writing I've seen in games recently. Deeply grateful this game exists. Big thank you to everyone whose hard work brought it to life.

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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HAWTHORN is what happens when some extremely talented developers from Bethesda, Naughty Dog, & BioWare get together to make their dream game: a mix of Skyrim, Stardew Valley, & the Redwall series. A successful Kickstarter will help make this dream a reality; please pitch in if you have the means!

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In this new mini-doc, @browngirlgamercode.com explores the history of Southern Gothicism, South of Midnight's Southern Gothic inspirations and its impact on the subgenre. Deeper Than the South: How South of Midnight is Weaving a New Path in Southern Gothic Media: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mD4...

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Looks fun!

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It's so exciting to see all these great new games coming out and being well received! We eatin good this spring it seems. Gives me some hope for the industry, but also just makes me hype to start playing these. As soon as I find some time... And finish the games I'm already playing...

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Don't forget to stretch your hands and wrists fellow artists/gamers!

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My backlog of games I need to play is miles long, but South of Midnight skipped to the front of the line cause I simply have to play it. For the culture. Just started and played through the first two chapters and it's as great as people are saying!

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Good! This is why we have to keep speaking up.

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Glad I don't get my care thru PP, but this is disappointing and harmful to folks that do. Providers need to stand up for the people they claim to care for. For those in the Phoenix area who may be impacted by this, I strongly recommend RSG Healthcare for gender affirming care: rsghealthcare.com

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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heads up horror devs, i bothered to look up the eternal darkness sanity system patent and apparently it expired in 2021 go wild patents.google.com/patent/US693...

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The eternal dilemma... little treat as a post-completion reward for finishing important tasks, or little treat pre-starting to help focus/give energy to work on important tasks? 🧋

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Last month I shared a teaser for a project I've been making with friends. A Message From Scar is now available to play! This third-person adventure features a delivery mission with verticality, dialogue, and environmental storytelling. Check out our GDD and play it here: tinyurl.com/amessagefrom...

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Wishing a Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all trans game devs, whether you're visible or not.

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Repost with a movie you know all the words to

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something people don't talk much about in this era of "publishers expecting a near-finished game before investing" is games are being made sub-optimally in order to speed-run vertical slices/convincing demos instead of finalising systems then building content, you have to make content alongside 1/

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A privilege conducting a big swath of @wilbertroget.bsky.social 's music at GDC this past week, and agree with John that HELLDIVERS2 is the score of the year. The score of the decade!

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The GDC concert might be the thing I'm most bummed about missing! Last year's was AMAZING and it looks like this year's was too. I appreciate folks posting recordings so I can experience some of it secondhand ❤️

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I'm a game content designer, prev. Level Designer on Never Alone 2. I love telling stories through play, and I love seeing all the rad people doing this work. Not at GDC this year, but mentally I'm there waiting in line for boba. Feel free to virtually bump into me & say hi! #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

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Loving all the what a game dev looks like posts this year! I'm gonna post mine... As soon as I get a haircut.

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Ashly Burch on AI Aloy: www.instagram.com/reel/DHMN21G...

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This is actually killing me rn

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Hey I'm in this!! Check out the interview ft. producer Rachel Pang and writer Nasugraq "Rainey" Hopson (@nasugraq.bsky.social) speaking about some of the cultural influences for the game 💙

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If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

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Here's a little sneak peak at a project I've been working on with a couple designer friends including @rianbannick.bsky.social. We're building a third-person mission in an original setting. This is some of our playable blockout built in Unreal using the Game Animation Sample. More to come soon!

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Some of my irl friends may know I am an Enjoyer of Frog Content. (I somehow ended up making three different games where you play as a frog while in college...) What can I say

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Emphasis on "idle"- progression is very slow. But that may be for the best, I might spend too much time playing instead of working otherwise 😅 Extra features I'd love to see: - Customizable shirt/pants - Ability to make your own color variants - Ability to save loadouts - More activities for Ropuka

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I've become mildly obsessed with this little guy. Ropuka's Idle Island is an idle game that gives you a little frog buddy who cuts grass and sleeps in a customizable habitat you can place anywhere on your desktop. He's been hanging out with me while I work. Fully worth the $4

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Early birthday gift. Yippee!!!

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