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werejul.bsky.social
🎮 CEO & Co-Founder @ Moon Rover Games 🔨 Working on Project Aldous, cooperative action for PC/Consoles 🌐 Previously: Battlefield, Mirror's Edge, Crusader Kings, Plants vs. Zombies, and a whole lot more. 🇫🇷🇸🇪 Frenchman lost in Sweden.
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Back… 10 years ago now when I worked at EA, the leadership of DICE LA made a big study showing that systemic crunch led to worst games through worst productivity overall and more bugs in the software. More focused work being the answer if you need a burst in production, not more time spent at work.

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Due to the general apocalyptic mood on any social media website, I've realized that I was holding back on posting positive things, feeling it would be tone-deaf. Still, I've had a particularly great time with games these past few months, so here goes a little appreciation thread of recent releases:

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Allow me to provide a break from the doomscrolling with news of the utmost importance: Eurovision is months away and Sweden already has the strongest candidates: Finns singing about sauna. Because of course they would. You can now resume your usual activities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=28__...

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The what now ? Are we setting up data centers on the Moon ? Why ? How ?

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Finished "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry" by Gabrielle Zevin. A book about books, and love, and the love of books. It was incredibly moving. Read it.

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Finished reading "Doom Guy" by @johnromero.bsky.social. Felt like a very deep dive into how games were made back in the 80's and 90's for the most part, showing that even though game dev has changed a lot since then... much is also the same to this day.

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Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

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Very much enjoying Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Y’all should play it. As a matter of fact, I’m going back to it right away. Very well done to our almost-neighbors at MachineGames !

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A very good read on the uniformisation of gaming history and culture in the media discourse.

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If you haven't already read it, here's a nice and enlightening read on the early days of @valvesoftware.com and the making of the original Half-Life medium.com/@monicah428/...

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How do you know when a game you're working on is good ? Games are at the crossroads of art and tech, and assessing when a game is truly "good" or "fun" can be very complex. On that topic, our producer shared this article which is worthy of re-sharing here www.pushtotalk.gg/p/how-do-you...

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God Jul everyone as we say in Sweden. Eat, Game, Read, Love and Be Merry !

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Here is a great and inspiring read to feed your end-of-year reflections and new year resolutions !

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I feel like I’ve been talking about the importance of the first hour in any game for as long as I’ve worked in this industry, and I’m not the only one ! Have a listen to this very nice podcast with @jenmacl.bsky.social znd @iocat.bsky.social gamemakersnotebook.libsyn.com/industry-vet...

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Great wealth of tips and information for all of you who are, like me, new to the Butterfly place.

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Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.

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Congratulations to our friends at Hazelight, Split Fiction looks awesome !

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Wow. Ok then. Well done CDPR, can’t wait !

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Nice initiative worth relaying from @valvesoftware.com & Midgard who are running a promotion on games from studio who track their carbon emissions and disclose it to the public, it's called the Zero Carbon Quest and it's over here: store.steampowered.com/curator/4502...

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Finished « Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow » by Gabrielle Zevin, a novel about people and relationships on a backdrop of game development. The dev process is quite (very) romanticized, but it was still a good read. I wish MMO’s were as easy to build in reality as they are in the book… Read it!

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

Congrats to all our friends at @shirogames.com on the announcement of SpaceCraft, looking really good !

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A really good read on the upcoming hardware development regarding handheld gaming.

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