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gamedevkevin.bsky.social
Irish C/C++ programmer. He/him Games, Coding, Art Gaeilge agus fáilte! ☘
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"Hitman’s satire is at its sharpest when it shows the ideological childishness that seems to accompany unimaginable privilege." Joshua M. Henson sees echoes of our current elite in those featured in Hitman 2's final mission:

a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in an interesting way

Starting off our new issue on Stalker: Heart of Chornobyl with @reidmccarter.bsky.social writing about the subtle spirituality of the zone: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/01/13/a...

increasingly feel like new gpus are released only so digital foundry can make more videos

I'm far from the first person to say this but a fundamental and increasing issue with games media and how we talk about games with Themes is an unavoidable lack of media literacy and/or engagement with forms of art that aren't video games (or nerd media, really).

Great review

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

On the last day of the year, there’s just time for my personal GOTY thread, four games that connected with me in 2024 👇

It's time to figure out what happened in videogames this year. Join @reidmccarter.bsky.social, @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @youmeyou.bsky.social, and special guest @ethangach.bsky.social for a discussion of our favorite & least favorite games of 2024. www.bulletpointspodcast.com/post/7703217...

REPORT: Over the last eight months I've been trying to get to the bottom of why (despite being the ideal candidate) Ireland is not a video game development hub. The answer? A lack of government understanding surrounding the sector. For Shacknews: www.shacknews.com/article/1424...

i've seen too many tech talks/presos that suffer from a few totally fixable issues, and decided to write about it: gpfault.net/posts/gripes...

Happy birthday to the 2 best games ever made ♥

Yes, Willem, YES. www.vulture.com/article/will...

This rocks 😄 youtu.be/oVOE2vAVGOI?...

tried to articulate the failure of sh2make & what it says about the state of and culture around big-budget games ...

Our issue on Silent Hill 2, the original and remake, comes to a close with @strida.bsky.social on the 2024 version. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2024/11/20/t...

The Game Awards' power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings

I’ve got a new episode of Game Data out! In it I talk with @perryjon.bsky.social all about his work on UFO50 and you actually go about cramming 50 games in 1! open.substack.com/pub/gamedata...

wrote about SH2 remake! It's a little broad, but I wanted to get into the brass tacks of how Remake's changes *work* thematically and why they are, for me, such a downgrade from the original.

We have a new issue starting up today whose articles will move from the original Silent Hill 2 to its remake. First up is @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on the nature of that remake in light of the source material's reputation. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2024/10/10/a...

This talk is a good watch. I think the most interesting tidbit is this idea of having design pillars for an engine, great advice youtu.be/4sc3cm9Kdys?...

This should be extremely unsurprising news to anyone who does programming for a living.