freya

photo of a ruined castle on top of a hill, a fish pond in the foreground, under a mottled blue and white sky

POV you are a game developer getting a few minutes of sun on your lunch break

to be clear this is an indie (team size not apparent) project advert, so maybe the candidate would have a measurable impact, but otherwise yes I agree

they're real for that tho. luck matters

reject aspirational breakout gems, embrace the workmanlike mid

perfect encapsulation of game industry mood. hiring environment where you must be not simply competent, but excellent, whether in a big expensive AAA project or a small commercial indie one. unsustainable; and ime personal skill and game positive reviews are not 1:1 correlated...

gamedev job ad that says Qualifications Experience working on 3D game projects Released titles with clear examples of your contribution (projects with at least 80% positive player reviews preferred)

very funny requirement to spot on a game design job ad. Devs of 7/10 games need not apply

context: fighting fantasy style gamebook. the player is in a gauntlet of arena fights against opponents, each of which has the arena announcer make a pun

announcer: ROUND SIX! and that's not the only thing that's six!

enemy: six goblins

I mean, they already made a threeslop game

I think I tapped out a few dungeons before her... I got to the final layer/biome/etc of the chalices so wasn't that far, but bouncing off Ludwig killed my drive lol

I think I would love a "oops all chalice dungeons" souls game...

it's also in the chalices hanging out

I think the hardest fight I stubbornly beat was the chalice dungeon undead giant with the chains... the hardest one I gave up on was Ludwig

rather that than the nightmare frontier

in an otherwise ambiently miserable employment environment for trans women I'm grateful to have a place that not only employs but explicitly appreciates me...

work gave me a little desk trophy for being there for 5 years... feels a long time... a little bittersweet to receive after my team went through two rounds of redundancies in as many years, but I'm happy to have the trust and respect of my team, and a fun new project...

I'll be between big jobs soon, and would love to dedicate at least a few months toward prototyping the gameplay for this project.

If I made it the focus of my Patreon for the foreseeable future, could you see yourself chipping in a few dollars monthly to support it? I've got big plans!

sell seven million copies? layoffs

In From The Cold was great, albeit I did a lot of hunting around in circles for the one mech with ceruleum... did that, tower of babil, and the trial all in one evening.. absolutely stacked set of quests

that's the first Trial of the expansion???

fingers crossed a nice identifiable Axis

can't possibly imagine what these people scrabbling to survive a decimated city while mistrustful of foreign help and resolute to not betray their country is inspired by

the garlemald section of endwalker so far would not hit as well if I hadn't slogged through 350 hours of the game to date with them as the antagonists... good arc...

poppy compared this arc of the main quest to the film Downfall and, yeah, I see it...

screenshot of FFXIV. a woman sits hunched on the ground of a train carriage saying "our pride, our culture, our knowledge-- all of it, gone"

average bystander on london underground

damn Endwalker isn't fucking around huh

hhhh hell of a lineup to be sat next to ❤️

makes sense for brown rice in weekday dinners imo...

i’d make the case that the doohickey oughta be mentioned in the same breath as excalibur and other weapons of legend

screenshot of an article header reading: meta's ai "smart glasses" actually rely on workers in kenya -- who see the wearer's most intimate moments over a man in a turtleneck in the dark sitting in front of a bright computer screen with the meta logo on it

the mechanical turk 256 years and still going strong

screenshot of a fake bios from videogame "Memorel Restoration Project"

screenshot of fake OS from videogame "Traumakt~04.sexe"

carefully picking which OS to move to after windows