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I like how half of these are very relatable across time and space and half are "petting a pig brings you good luck at strip poker, as we all know."

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TBH it just seems like bad business to greenlight movie tie-in games scheduled to come out 8 years after the movie. (And 4+ years after the disappointing sequel) Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad and Black Panther are not blue chip evergreen franchises, they're just big movies from 2017.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to seriously engage with "is the game industry florglampulizing????" just seems pointless. Someone came up with a term they thought sounded neat and then tried (unsuccessfully) to make it mean something, while the people who agree all project their own different meaning onto it.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My game design portfolio! It's tiny for now (thanks NDAs), but I'll keep adding to it. daleyspacejohnson.wixsite.com/daleyevedesign

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

It's frustrating that so much tech talk these days is from extremely vocal supporters who either don't understand how a thing works or actively lie about it. 80% of NFT lovers genuinely have no idea what an NFT is and the other 20% know but lie.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I like Rider but it "helpfully" adding pointless "using" lines that break the build, not so much. Not sure what's going on here but sometimes it thinks a file uses "visualscripting" (I don't even know what that is!) and just sticks it at the top.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The first game was pretty neat but I think they killed their own momentum by releasing a mobile spinoff instead of a sequel - nice to hear that the actual sequel (slash remake?) is good.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck I was going to say the 2000 Winona Ryder movie Lost Souls.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Really looking forward to never watching a "deeply personal" AI-generated movie about someone's childhood.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I think a common characteristic of a lot of successful games is they contain parts that a decent % of players won't engage much with. From a rational perspective you might convince yourself to cut that stuff but I think that's often a bad impulse.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Agree. I always think back to the hit piece on Denis Dyack and the anecdote that in a meeting he made a big deal out the fact that a car in the background was grey instead of red. It was written to make him sound ridiculous but if you're making what's supposed to be a colorful super hero game...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

My most recent blog* is doing pretty well but it feels weird in that I have no idea why - there's no way to tell what got the snowball going and it's not clear if it's due to people sharing or just an algorithm pushing it for who-knows-what reason. * = link not included

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

There seems to be a lot more interest in Capcom vs SNK 2 than in Street Fighter Alpha 3. Not a huge Alpha 3 fan but I wonder why - I guess CVS2 just seems cooler in concept?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Longer #GunmetalGothic gameplay video for #ScreenshotSaturday - stills here, link below!

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

@tolkoto.com Fun fact: Ingrid in Capcom Fighting Jam was originally created for their cancelled 3D fighting game, Capcom Fighting Allstars www.youtube.com/watch?v=srsL...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

After mocking "What We can Learn from Expedition 33" takes I'm going to write one, but about a specific design philosophy - hopefully will be better than "learned lesson #3: make your game a global hit!"

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting for Australians

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sympathetic to the idea that lifted textures can make it into a game innocently, by using them as temp art and losing track of them. But when your entire aesthetic is lifted from those assets and you're using them in your game and removing identifying text that seems awfully deliberate.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Are you tired of reading takes on how the game industry is in trouble? Too bad! jmargaris.substack.com/p/were-strug... Topics include: bad management, bad non-management, how much meddling CEOs do, 2XKO, and evidence that I wrote this right after watching the The Island of Doctor Moreau doc.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Are you tired of reading takes on how the game industry is in trouble? Too bad! jmargaris.substack.com/p/were-strug... Topics include: bad management, bad non-management, how much meddling CEOs do, 2XKO, and evidence that I wrote this right after watching the The Island of Doctor Moreau doc.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

What's especially grating about "what we can learn from 33" takes is the people writing them often have no idea how it was made and can't be bothered to ask, they just make up something in line with their world view.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I've started watching the TV show Farscape, I should start a blog about it, or maybe I could write reviews for Polygon or something. I sense an insatiable hunger in people for Farscape recaps and analysis in 2025. (It honestly would be an interesting show to write about)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to use Unity OnValidate to fix problems rather than just report them is bizarrely difficult. If you change a value sometimes Unity gets mad that you did it at the wrong time, and often the change doesn't take because the object isn't marked as dirty. Is weird.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Every time this comes up I feel compelled to point out that Philip K Dick wrote a story laying out the problems with this sort of AI, "Holy Quarrel", in 1967. Even though AI didn't even really exist at that point (!) totally nails problems like the opacity of decision-making.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine working your ass off for this guy (Mahler) to save your game, which is struggling because he stubbornly refuses to back down on bad design decisions, and as a bonus, spends his workday writing long twitter essays about how wokeness is the reason the game isn't doing well.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I'm about to publish a new blog post and at the last minute I removed all the references to Expedition 33 in it since there's so much weird discourse surrounding it. There are some interesting game design angles to discuss but the business angle is just totally ****ed and not worth bothering with.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

More evidence that players dislike press and hold: www.resetera.com/threads/i-do... It's fine if there's a legitimate reason to employ it but so often there isn't!

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The initial release had fundamental design flaws. They tried to copy Dark Souls but didn't understand why Dark Souls works so their version is borked. Then they released an update that people didn't like.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

"According to Mahler." The game got deserved negative reviews and he's fibbing about politically-motivated "review bombing" to rile up his troglodyte anti-woke fans.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes when I'm working I have this on in the background: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydI...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments