That Kenn Guy

Congratulations. Absolutely huge.

Day 3 of GDC. Let's go!

Omw in now.

Every game that is released right now is a small miracle. I don't care if it's a hit or a flop.

I wish I could like this post multiple times.

Day 2. LFG!

What's with the fences and gates?

The LLM we need, not the one we deserve.

Heroes and Villains,

New hotfix notes are now available! Check out the latest updates, fixes, and adjustments before jumping back into the action.

Read the full details here:
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In between the lines below, we're also digging into:

- How to protect yourself and your work in revshare/volunteer studios
- What the next decade of game dev studios and pubs even look like for working devs
- How to archive and allow our work to live on beyond servers and obsolete hardware

It's a good reminder that representation matters in our industry. This is particularly true after a couple years of pretty brutal layoffs that disproportionately impact marginalized folks.

JC and Kenn, making grump faces at the camera.

Looking forward to catching up on some good ole grump time again.

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Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Dealing with Stress

- How stress impacts you
- Reducing stress
- Blaming things on stress
- How this changes from Neurotypical to ND or other conditions

Let's get into it:

Ba, mock reviews. Silly autocorrect.

Mock interviews are a critical action necessary to get external validation to test your assumptions.

Way too many game teams with huge budgets are skipping these types of extra eyes till it's way too late to make changes...and that's a recipe for failure and layoffs.

PD did it - and it shows.

Kenn White in a coffee shop, holding a chai latte.

With GDC coming up, I was looking forward to just having a casual week of catching up with old friends and colleagues.

But now I'm booking up my time VERY quickly between Daybreak duties, Game Industry Coffee Chat, a new game studio I've been advising, and my new YouTube channel meetup.

The latest Ball report is trying to build a narrative out of joining numbers together with duct tape. Crypto trading isn't "beating games in the attention economy". I think the main reason for this type of narrative to exist is to act as self-serving rationalization for floundering execs.

I'm a veteran video game producer working on a cozy life sim called Spirit Crossing! AMA! #cozygames #gamedev #spiritcrossing #mmo TikTok video by Tami 💙

The start of a new series where I talk about game production and misc industry junk while showing off our game Spirit Crossing!

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It's far from over...but it's a good start.

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Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

Ultimately right now in video games I feel surrounded by people who are worried, all the time, about long-term unemployment and ensuing social (or actual) death and so if you seem very invested in coming up with fun uses for LLMs in games I find you despicable.

IOW - you're a badass producer in an industry overflowing with execs who think crunch is peak gamedev.

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." -Charles Bukowski

History is repeating again about people who make money or other success in one industry deciding to buy themselves into leadership positions within games with unfortunately predictable results.

What does this look like? How to deal with it. How to handle the aftermath...

a screenshot of the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor holomap, showcasing Phon'Qi Caverns

Third time's the charm: The Star Wars Jedi team is hiring a Map Environment Artist for our Holomap

you'll work with our UI and Level Designers as we chart the galaxy far, far away: www.respawn.com/careers/map-...

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Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Writing for Games!

Welcome back @davidgallaher.bsky.social

- Writing vs Narrative Design
- Writing for fun vs professionally
- Dealing with creative blocks
- How narrative with each other
- the AI elephant in the room
- Managing writers

Come listen in:

Thanks, Boss.

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Designing Your Playerbase

- How you decide your community feel through game design
- How mechanics impact player toxicity
- Why team diversity can determine who ends up playing your game
- Which games are great at this...or not so great

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