berkbig.bsky.social
Technical Director at Rare working on Sea of Thieves | Bafta Member |
Previously Sackboy, LittleBigPlanet 3, Outrun 2006 and more at Sumo Digital
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Sleep has always been the best debugger - something I have to remind myself regularly :)
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Likewise carefully not answering in the clear affirmative :)
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Even worse, I think I'm still the kid who can't resist putting my hand up to point out that the teacher is wrong - nobody likes that guy but it's just as difficult to resist:)
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Can confirm
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This was my favourite ever back-compat strategy. Why emulate when you can just stuff a whole PS1 on the board and call it an Audio co-processor :)
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Which is not a complaint - I feel amazingly privileged to get to help make something so big and complex and be paid to do it - it's just maybe not obvious looking from outside in
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No worries - AAA is difficult to get in to and we don't necessarily talk about the experience. Never enough time or money is universal though & and at least you are 100% in charge of what you choose to spend it on. Big budgets means more stakeholders and more sales needed which is it's own pressure
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If it makes you feel any better this is also how AAA Devs feel. Budgets go up but expectations and time pressures scale up pretty linearly too. Reframing the competition as "can I do better than my last" rather than "can I be better than amazing game X" is how I keep myself focused forward.
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25 years here and sadly no. I can rationalise it - "They aren't my audience", "You can't please everybody" and all of these things are true. Really though the sheer effort time and love that goes into shipping a game of any size means that it always stings. Turn it into fuel to be better if you can.
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The "whose job is this" and the "who has the time" problems are absolutely real. In the bad old days I was programming first and leading in my "spar time". I've been lucky to get to a place where I am encouraged to spend most of my time in a plan and lead space and it's a totally different thing.
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That's what I'm talking about - let's go make some games :)
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Unless you are willing and able to be the "This is better, here is a 10 step plan to get there and it fits in both time and budget" person as well you aren't helping. OTOH if you can do that thing, you should absolutely get involved. Those people are the best.
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I get that this is a joke, but I think it's important for general discourse to point out that this is not a useful job. Game Dev is hard and by and large people know the things that are going wrong. Being the "this right here is bad" guy is the easy bit and on it's own just makes the team sad 1/2
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More handmade gifts #maker
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Monk and Robot for life :)
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Me and my daughter played this earlier in the year and it is lovely. It's also a perfect game for playing with kids - it has a Story difficulty mode.and - Top Tip; if you don't vibe with any of the mini game bits you can just skip them from the menu. We loved it and completed it.
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Thanks Amy :) I would say this is why I should never have too much time off, but I suspect that actually it is a happy glimpse towards retirement :)
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End of day update - legs and eyes. Just needs a little detail in the face and a clasp and she will be ready to wear. Names under consideration - I'm thinking Narzack Destroyer of worlds. Likes: Hugs, scruffles, Subjugation of the races of man. Dislikes: Vegetables, Homework, Peace in our time.
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Exactly that one - Oof indeed :)
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I also have an absolutely perfect Dan le Sac drum and bass remix of Sabbath's War Pigs which has never failed me yet :)
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Mostly Girl Talk's Night Ripper and 2 Many Djs. Would have been my coding flow music back in 2005 when I was pulling all nighters.on Outrun Coast to Coast. Works just as well here :)
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Many hours later we have wings! This update brought to you by too much coffee and some very messy mid noughties mashup albums. Hand stitching needs a beat it turns out...
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My wife walked down the aisle to Rainbow connection. My best man then played "Can't take my eyes off you" in a Manic Street Preachers style during the ceremony and we walked back together to the Muppets theme tune. This was made much more fun by giving the whole congregation Kazoos :)
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If you've ever wondered "How the dragon got her wings" it's hand sewing. Hours and hours of hand sewing. One day I will be good at whip stitch :)
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Break from the progress updates to remind everyone about the value of good tools. I bought these scissors for my wife's birthday several years ago and they have made some fairly tricky fabric cutting a genuine joy. Also remember that fabric scissors are NOT paper scissors... #sewing
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Wing time!
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A head!
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End of day update. Stuffed and reinforced. Definitely missing a head now though...
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The patient lived :) rightside out and right ways up if a little flat. Stuffing time...
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On the operating table as i insert the spines. Everything is either inside out or upside down. Pray for baby dragon
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Progress!
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Close :)
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Fully legit pattern weights :) #sewing #maker #dessert
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Yep - just adding a cheap jsaux usb c dock turns it into a great TV experience. I sync my Xbox Bluetooth controllers and treat it as a standard console TBH.
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I use my steam deck docked to play most of my PC games for this reason. Even newer games often work great streamed from my desktop to the steam deck in the living room. Definitely hard to focus on play when I am sat at my work desk
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Or this?