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🕹️ Games BD executive, Studio Head, and CEO. Formerly part of Rockstar Games, Embracer Group, Coffee Stain Publishing, and Nexon Korea. Obscure former indie music producer. https://skylaboperations.com
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A video game that should get a sequel, but never will.

“We’ve got no money” is the new “no” for games publishers I see.

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book your flights and hotels now #GDC2026

You: “See you next year! #GDC2026!!!” Me:

I helped co-found a thing! Almost Ready Games Fund is live! We provide funding, connections & advice to help indie games that are almost there cross the finish line. The team run the day to day while I help with advice, memes & threats of encouragement. Need a boost? Let us know! 🚀

Funding for US AA/AAA is dry. Strategics are dropping portfolios, platforms do not support devs anymore, games VCs close funds but hire $250k/year Principals to offer a few $1m rounds, publishers want live/profitable AAA games built at SE Asian costs. OPEX needs to dive if you want to survive 2025

The #GDC2025 attendance is definitely off when a Hilton 3 blocks from Moscone is lowering their rates AND Uber is cheaper than usual on the Sunday morning prior

Smooth #GDC bsky feed created by @akabaka.bsky.social for all those attending #GDC2025 bsky.app/profile/did:...

To those about to GDC, here are some tips from a conference veteran: - Hollowpoint bullets. 2 to the head. One to the heart. Burn the body - Do not eat anything containing Umlauts. Ä, Ü, Ø etc. don't touch it - if you meet someone claiming to be from EA just run. EA is mostly cannibals these days

Every GDC is someone's first. After every GDC, we hear about mistreatment, assaults, and other horror stories. Conference vets, share your tips for a #safeGDC! I'll start: do NOT. under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. take meetings in someone's hotel room.

CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

Next add music support like OG MySpace and it’s ON 🙏 🔥

I just had a definite #GDC first-time experience. An email from my SF hotel informing me that my reservation price per night has GONE DOWN (-25% per night). This games industry depression is even starting to pierce the conference hotel price gouging market.

It's been over 4 years since I helped launch Valheim, and now, working on "my" own game, I'm more nervous than ever. Grateful for all the support so far! Hope you're as hyped as I am for Monday - our Jump Ship trailer debuts at #IGNFanFest @xbox.com @ign.com 🎮🚀👨‍🚀

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a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

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🧵Last week my pal Sue Jeiven, also my tattoo artist and one of the greatest ladies I've ever met, passed away after a long battle with cancer. My heart goes out to her friends, family and all else who loved her💔 Here Sue and @vicemagazine.bsky.social talk her work www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eTB...

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Crytek will lay off 15% of its 400+ workforce due to "unfavorable market dynamics". The next Crysis game has also been put on hold since Q3 2024. The studio will focus its efforts on Hunt: Showdown and CRYENGINE for now.

A massive, award-winning IP from a large and legendary developer, who owns and created said IP, and their publishing agreement still had 100% publisher recoup 😔

Big news for fans of Bluesky. I asked Valve to add it to the Marketing/External Website breakdown and they did! You can see the results here for Forbidden Solitaire. Thanks Valve! Also @pcgamer.com nice! Thanks :-) Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

Bandcamp lets us keep 85% of revenue. That is the best rate of anybody out there. Over a period of about 15 years, I have taken home ~$3000. Every album is "pay what you want", so you all rock. If you bought an album for $5 then you gave me more than streaming the whole album ~300 times.

Mojang and Coffee Stain veterans form new publishing label Three Friends 'We don’t believe in rushing a game to market or throwing money at problems' www.gamedeveloper.com/business/moj...

Very level-headed and deep analysis of the common clickbait title of "gaming is dying" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Qg...

34 members - and growing! Please let me know if you’re another Austrian artist 🇦🇹 who’d love to be part of this starter pack! 🧡 go.bsky.app/G64mcZV

Thinking of starting a screen capture series of the 90s punk posters and fliers hanging on the walls of the university stoner victims/suspects in old Law & Order episodes. So many good ones! #pinkskyPost

So, I'm in Operations, and most game devs have no idea wtf Operations is. If you're the type of person who enjoys making a Sim City thrive while not using a infinite money cheat, you may be an Ops person. Other adjacent games you might enjoy: base building, Factorio, and the Sims #gamedev