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maxnichols.bsky.social
He/him. Game designer. I make worlds that you want to explore. Sr. Tech Design in AAA. Prev: Bungie, Turbine. I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social Blog: namelessquality.com Portfolio: maxnicholsdesign.com
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We’re watching Wholesome Direct. @paigeedits.bsky.social : “Why do they do this to me?” Me: “What??” her, dreamily: “resource management games 😍”

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The people standing up to those Nazi fucks in LA are heroes.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The 1st game I bought on my Switch 2 is.... Squeakross! I've always loved Picross and always felt like combining it with secondary progression systems and themes would be cool, so I've been excited Nicely done @alexstrook.bsky.social and @lukathemouse.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s65h...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

So I just learned about this 100% R&D salary tax credit that expired in the US in 2022. This... was massive for game companies. This would have been a MAJOR factor in the tech & game industry-wide layoffs and contraction we've seen over the last few years, and I had no idea qz.com/tech-layoffs...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Mario Kart World had an issue where driving in straight lines was boring, but for the traversal between world areas players would lose sight of their goals if they had tot urn too much. The mechanics of rail grinding and wall riding, inspired by skateboarding, were introduced to solve that problem

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am a Stingby main All hail Stingby

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Oh so this is maybe like Mount & Blade? Iiinteresting. They have my attention (in a way that their trailer totally failed to do, lol)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

sex playlist dire dire docks rework is incredible. incredible stuff. this game is goty on the back of the soundtrack alone. if it was a clicker game but had this exact soundtrack it would be game of the year

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What if I told you that Pokemon Snap and Hitman have a lot in common To the point where if I was ever tasked with making a mobile Hitman game, I think I'd model it on Pokemon Snap (remaking a twitter thread I lost when I deleted my account, lol)

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

People aren't talking enough about the best-in-class racing game that the Switch 2 has on launch: F-Zero GX

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Good lord this game has amazing music

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment