nathaniel
game developer (derogatory). Lead Systems Designer at Epic Games on Lego Fortnite
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- This comment on the first take version of on the way cracked me up lol. “My 4 year old keeps saying ‘dame dame! Mate mate! Nagai mo yamaimo dakeshimetai’ lol please stop” Which means “I want to embrace a yam even if it’s long” instead of “I want to embrace both the curse and the disease” lol
- discovering that apparently my opinion that the dandadan s2 op is better is a hot take lol
- Reposted by nathanielwhy is game dev feedback always kinda like this
- ado’s scene is v cyberpunk - people created artificial machine voices, wrote songs for them exploiting their artificiality by making them too hard for normal people to sing, and then ppl took that as a challenge to develop their technical skill to be able to recreate it with the human voice. v cool
- i genuinely couldn’t do this for long in fft because I felt too bad for the guy that i was leaving at 1hp while we threw rocks at each other
- once in a while I’ll see or hear about something like the linked blog and I realize if nothing else I do not have the mental fortitude to be a writer in games, where everyone thinks they could do your job despite not understanding it at all. The sheer frustration. sprints for fucking writers lol
- For more on this, vide Michet 2024 blog.lauramichet.com/why-you-shou...
- Also - this doesn’t need to be in the form of butting in to creative decision making. Many experienced but still bad producers know enough to avoid that. But it can be in the form of arbitrary, ill fitting process or holding meetings that largely exist to make everyone remember the producer is there
- Reposted by nathanielFor more on this, vide Michet 2024 blog.lauramichet.com/why-you-shou...
- My hot take about producers - I have noticed some producers recoil against the role because being a great producer involves a lot of invisible labor and if you are not socialized to believe invisible labor has value, you feel a need to insert yourself into visible labor to validate your existence
- all producers are multipliers on the output of their team. It is very possible for that multiplier to be less than 1
- lol the night manager season 2, truly awful
- Games require engineering, design, art and organization. Sometimes those skills live in one person and sometimes they don’t.
- i've seen a couple people mentioning this today and I enjoy how I've managed to curate my feed such that these kind of bad takes are like dark matter, I can't see them except by their secondary effects
- among all of the things i liked about freiren season 1 it makes a great argument in favor of the effectiveness of remote work
- Reposted by nathanielWorth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
- Reposted by nathanielTake me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
- Sorry everything about this is insane but strong senior-junior hierarchy is really giving harmodius-aristogeiton
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- Reposted by nathanielI hate that this is all just easy to piece together from this guy's poorly-spelled emails
- it does say something about the state of investing in games that a character pointlessly wandering around an empty environment is making people think video games are done for lol
- it's like when you see a character in a cutscene and they're like 10x the polys of everyone else and you realize they're going to join the party later
- Reposted by nathanielHey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:
- While we've gotten affirming feedback on Engine Angel, pitching unfortunately hasn't been successful. As a result, we've had to make the hard decision to lay off five team members. Each of these devs are incredible: if you have a place on your team, or know someone hiring, please keep them in mind!⬇
- damn you know a game woke when Genders.xml is 13kb
- Is there a repository for caves of qud savegames somewhere? like, imagine you wanted to show off various aspects of the game to an audience and needed to jump around different world gens/characters/points in the game, is there a resource like that so you don't have to do it all yourself lol
