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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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Half-formed thought: Dedicated game devices will always be important. Not for any technical reason, but because of their power to frame the act of play. Setting expectations and mindset are SO important to how players experience games. The context you play within is a huge chunk

submitted 334 days ago • 4 comments

Tech bros: [Spends a trillion dollars coercing everyone into using AI] "See? AI was inevitable!!"

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

Pro JRPG tip: use the smallest party member as your avatar to go faster

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Imagine if the democratic "leadership" in a state like CA were worth the toilet paper they use at work. The entire CA delegation should be in that protest line. I assume Newsom is too busy fantasizing about killing homeless people

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BREAKING The Pentagon has mobilized roughly 500 US Marines to respond to the protests in Los Angeles. “In this new move, active duty military members are being deployed as a show of force against US citizens.”

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Apropros of nothing: When we were making [redacted AAA shooter] 2, mid-production the creative director gave us all a major new creative theme: "Gotta put a 2 on the box" It basically meant that we needed to make stuff FEEL new even if an old design was working well. This was especially true for UI

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Unsurprising to see union workers being heroes, or being made examples of. It seems unlikely that these charges could stick in front of a CA judge or any jury on earth, and there are huge protests for his release, I'm not sure that this is the effective "example" the fascists are hoping for

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We’re watching Wholesome Direct. @paigeedits.bsky.social : “Why do they do this to me?” Me: “What??” her, dreamily: “resource management games 😍”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago • 1 comment

I am a Stingby main All hail Stingby

submitted 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago • 2 comments