Profile avatar
bryantfrancis.me
Writer: Zephon, Endless Space 2 ([email protected]) Senior Editor: Game Developer ([email protected]) Otherwise: There’s a better world out there. Still looking for it. Portfolio: www.bryantfrancis.me
4,274 posts 3,160 followers 538 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 28 Comments 22

One element of the Dragon Age story that I want to emphasize: If the team had known in 2021 (after the single-player pivot) that they'd ship in Oct 2024, it'd be a much different game. Instead they were always under the impression they had to finish in 6-12 months, which led to all sorts of problems

submitted 1 hour ago • 13 comments

NEW from me on the ground at the Westwood federal building, where hundreds of federalized National Guard troops are currently deployed‼️ Currently there are two National Guard troops armed with assault rifles for each protestor: FOUR troops and TWO protestors. Good use of tax dollars? 🤔

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

People will be like "oh you need AI for concept art" when in fact all that's required is a notebook and a terrible sketch, and you too can earn the ire of your production artists as they try to figure out what the hell you were trying to communicate.

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

Confirmed, I am at the gym, the parking lot smells like weed, and *still* no one has cleaned up the “Trump Sucks Ass” graffiti.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Look at all these crimes against the president in this parking lot

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This legitimately describes the parking lot outside my gym in Medford, MA.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

I got to interview Ulas Karademir of IO Interactive and learned more about 007 First Light. I'm very excited that IOI is doing a Bond game, it's a great pairing.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Stephen Miller is from Santa Monica, one of the richer parts of LA, which doesn't resemble a "failed third world nation." The "ruptured, balkanized society of strangers" feels like deep resentment he's taking out on the rest of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

looking to talk to game devs in the US here on visas. is that you? please get in touch! meganfarokhmanesh.76 on signal, open DMs, [email protected]

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Looks like @chrislhayes.bsky.social called it:

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I think going full MAGA could have been a successful business strategy but hey it’s not retreating, it’s advancing in the opposite direction.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So this past weekend, I interviewed the Splitgate 2 director, during which he said he stood by the decision to wear the hat and declined to apologize. Then, ten minutes after I submitted the story to my editor, he apologized. So uh! Here's this! www.ign.com/articles/spl...

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

1047 Games CEO posted an apology on Twitter for his "Make FPS Great Again" hat. "I hate seeing division—on both sides. There's division in the community. For that I am truly sorry. I do stand by the intent of this which the intent truly is...we do want to improve this genre." x.com/Splitgate/st...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Reading Karen Hao's Empire of AI, and I really wish more people understood the degree to which AGI boosters are desperately trying to get everyone to believe in a technology that does not now and might not ever exist

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

History books will be like, “LA had fires in winter and ICE in summer.”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Nintendo just announced a Splatoon spinoff called Splatoon Raiders via the Nintendo Today app. Wild stuff.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Yes!!!! Congrats to SAG-AFTRA!!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

FUCK YOU I SCREAM WALKING BACKWARDS INTO HELL

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing like yelling about how much a place *isn't* cool to make it cooler in the eyes of its users and would-be users.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Well I think this is official confirmation that Bluesky has the Juice

submitted 3 days ago • 475 comments

And a not-for-profit named Dot

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Clair Obscur has revealed I am an absolute sicko who burns four hours on a side boss not for the loot but the sheer *principle* of it.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

the trump movement has inculcated a genuinely rotten contempt for life in our collective political life and the real challenge will be extirpating it in favor of life-affirming solidarity youtu.be/Em6hb2Mg0XA?...

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Turning 35 today. Best birthday gift so far—hosting a joint birthday party with @carlivelocci.com in our new house. 🥰🥰🥰

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

CCGs, a genre where people famously *don’t* care about the quality of the card art.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

and of course, aside from the other issues, this would cost a tremendous amount of money that the university would funnel to a corporation rather than investing in faculty to actually, you know, teach.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Yoooo @nathangrayson.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments