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Not the same guy, but regarding the GTAVI Situation, your answer to the latest GTAVI question brought little, if any comfort or reassurance. What if I DON’T feel like “accepting the loss and moving on” is an acceptable solution? What if I truly feel what I feel about the GTAVI Situation and feel like I MUST push back for the public’s own good? If I can’t rely on others or gather others to win over the opposition, what can I do, as an individual, to guarantee the results I want? And they HAVE to be guarantees, no matter what. Assume that anything less is unacceptable.

I caution against going down this path. Enacting some kind of crusade against a video game publisher over a video game is basically "jilted lover" behavior. In situations like this, it's common for a person to feel hurt over something that's got a lot of emotional energy put into it over a long time. That built-up emotion needs an outlet, so people in those situations often end up in the franchise hatedom - they cannot give up the emotional investment so it metastasizes to become bitterness and anger instead. Rather than doing the healthy thing and move on, the hatedom continues to invest their time in following the franchise they hate, doing everything they can to hate on every aspect and element as it gets released. It's a lot like going through a bad one-sided breakup, resulting in being the person who can't get over their ex and stalks them on social media constantly.

The saddest thing about this is that there's no winning in this situation. The publisher doesn't really care about the hatedom's opinion because they aren't players. The publisher cares whether they have enough supporters to keep the game afloat and about keeping those players happy. If the game succeeds, there's no reason for the publisher to pay attention to the hatedom. At best, the hatedom gets a pyrrhic victory - the game flops, the publisher goes under, and the hatedom loses the franchise they loved for years, if not forever. The hatedom gets to say they were right, but the ultimate result is still the same - everyone has to move on, because there's no game anymore. This is why we don't really bother with the haters on social media or official channels - there's no point in engaging.

Instead, I think it best to recognize that a particular game may no longer be for you and that it's ok. Life is short and resources are finite, I would much rather spend my time playing games I like than hating on the games I don't. I try to spend as little of my time upset at things beyond my control as I can. there really is no benefit to it. Instead, I focus on the changes I can affect and the things I like. My quality of life has been much improved because of it. I really hope you can take a breath, touch some grass, and join me.

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Thoughts on Gemini being able to crank out playable “demos”?

There's an enormous gulf between a prototype/demo and a shippable product. Even in the development process, the prototypes and tech demos are there years before the finished product can ever hit shelves. The Gemini Genie demos are no different. In the Genie demos, players are incredibly limited by the verbs they can perform and the verbs are what drive gameplay. Players can walk around, but they cannot fight, dodge, climb, shoot, crouch, equip gear, level up, pick up items, talk to NPCs, or any of a thousand other things players expect when playing a game. They're the equivalent of an internet rando cobbling a model and a few animations into Unreal Engine and having it run around in that default grassy field and posting it while other twitter people yell "NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN" because they lack the context to understand what game development actually takes.

I wrote a while back about how [Keywords Studios attempted to build a game with generative AI back in 2023]. They were unsuccessful with building a full game, but the [GDC '24 talk they gave] was very interesting. The main takeaways from then were that the AIs were unable to fix their own bugs well enough and that the human touch is still necessary to go from the prototyping phase to the shippable production-quality phase. In 2024, [they tried to use generative AI to remaster an older game instead] and gave a talk at GDC '25 about it. The results were similar - the AI repeatedly failed to produce shippable quality assets, but was saved significant time at doing prototype and concept work early on.

This is basically where AI is right now - it struggles to make new things, but is very good at remixing a bunch of existing things into a prototype phase. Then, the actual humans have to do the real work of taking the prototype and improving it to production-quality. To me, this feels an awful lot like things are backwards. AI is supposed to do all the busy and tedious work like reducing the poly count and optimizing performance so that I can do the creative and interesting work, not the other way around. As such, we're not actively using AI in the development process in any real regard outside of making executive demo slide decks and as a search engine for our documentation.

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caughtthedarkness93

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

allthingseurope

Bremen, Germany

fuckthisbloganditscurses

Happiness Will Come To You.

12goblins

when tho

fuckthisbloganditscurses

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

wizardshark

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

zigxortega

zac--efren

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

scientiablr

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

mindfairylights

If march lets me down ima have a fist fight with the universe

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askagamedev

Which game studio you would like to work for or is a dream come true if you can work there?

Once upon a time, I used to have dream projects and franchises I wanted to work on. I desperately wanted to work on the next game in the franchises I played and loved growing up. I had all these ideas and passion for them. Eventually I actually got my chance. I went to work on some of them. I got hired by one of the most well-known studios in the world. I was pleased as punch to clock in, work on an enormously famous IP and project, enjoy all the perks of the studio, and go home. It felt super duper awesome to be working on the thing players were excitedly talking about on the internet.

Then I was let go in a big layoff. All of that self-worth I had tied to my job and the project I was working on evaporated in an instant. I had to find another job. So I did. It wasn't as glamorous as the one I had been let go from, but it paid the bills. Then another opportunity came along and I changed jobs again.... and then again, and then again. I worked at studios that were big and well-known and I worked at studios that were much smaller. I worked with some real amazing people that I remain friends with years later, and I worked with some real jerks.

Over time, I came to the realization that the project I was on and the studio I was at didn't actually matter all that much. What mattered far more to me were the people I worked with. I care far more about having a legit dependable team that I can trust to challenge my ideas and work with me. I care far more about having a boss that I can trust to have my back and respects me. These are worth far more to me than any dream franchise or studio with amazing perks.

Today, I find myself again working on an enormously famous IP at a studio with some pretty great perks but, in the end, a job is still only a job. I'm a little older, a little wiser, and no longer putting as much of my self-worth into the name of the game I'm working on or the studio I'm working for. Make no mistake, they're quite nice and I do appreciate them... but my priorities have changed. I like the team I'm working with and I like my boss, but I also know that we're probably heading into a global recession and there are tech layoffs happening all over the place. I'm no longer chasing the dream project or the dream studio anymore... now what I value is more realistic - some stability with a team that respects me and I can respect in return.

But if you must have an answer from me for what my dream studio is... I think I'd like to go work for Atlus on the Persona franchise.

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david lynch // leaves of grass by walt whitman // fleabag // stephen chbosky // richard bosman // free by florence and the machine // ? // motto by bertolt brecht // acceptance // charlotte ager

I can't bear this pain anymore It's too much