Michael Fitch

Got to introduce myself to Joshua Rubin, Brian Bucklew, and Xalavier Nelson inside of 30 minutes. That’s what GDC is about.

Such a lovely counterpoint to my imposter syndrome to be sitting in the Yerba Buena gardens and have no less than three people I respect and admire stop and say hello.

I guess I have made some connections in the last twenty-five years…

Touché

How did everyone else get so good looking?

The vault will have the talks. They will not have your friends. 😝

Usually, I get grumpy when a trending topic takes over my entire feed

BUT…

I will put likes on #WhatAGameDevLooksLike posts all day long.

Ouch.

Every year, #WhatAGameDevLooksLike is a highlight for me. I don’t post my picture because I’m a White cis male, and a lot of game dev looks like me.

But, I love, love, love all the people claiming their space. Y’all are awesome. Thanks for showing up.

CA’s are awesome and anyone who disrespects them isn’t worth paying attention to.

I am not spending hours learning your idiosyncratic dodge-parry variant.

I do not give a shit about the lore of your universe.

If you cannot come up with something better to motivate people than avenging a dead family member, get out of the story-telling business.

I am so tired of games that seem to have no respect for my time.

No, I do not want to be shoved down your hourlong tutorial chute.

No, telling story at me will not make me want to do it more.

I sat down to play a game and if there’s no decisions to make, I’m going to do something else.

That crash of bells is so good

Morrison was such an incredible writer

Loved the Fool’s Errand

I was going to ask if "the local alt paper" was Westword. My dad moved to Boulder in 76, and then I lived there for grad school for most of the 90's. My wife and I moved back here eight years ago, so the Colorado connection is intense.

Oh, I hear you. I went almost 10 years between Robot Rising and Monopoly Go!

I was working my ass off that whole time, just not on anything I could ever show anyone.

I'm pretty used to cognitive dissonance; I move across many worlds.

It's been particularly weird to realize that I've now been working at Otherside for longer than I've worked anyplace else, in the middle of all the layoffs that have been happening.

I hope I'm not jinxing it by saying something.

Thick As Thieves Preview - A Legendary Team Returns To A Genre It Helped Invent - Game Informer The creator of Deus Ex is returning from his video game development sabbatical with a new stealth game.

Nice to see people starting to talk about Thick as Thieves again: gameinformer.com/preview/2026...

I’m with you overall, but I think we are starting to see a wave build with mobile releases.

It’s not quality, but even in a flooded market, you can see the quantity.

Just got my copy yesterday!

@nbcnews.com it is journalistic incompetence to run a segment on the Noem hearings today and have not one mention of ICE brutality.

Republican senators called for her resignation over it and all you covered is that she’s sleeping with her aide.

Shame on you.

For any game developer or designer type folks out there - do you have any rules-of-thumb that you use in development that you would describe as "counter-intuitive"?

Constraints aren't limiting; they're productive.

Players complain about limits, but they need limits to prevent them from having terrible experiences.

Abstraction is a necessary part of any simulation.

Hopefully may!

When are Republicans going to stop their party from killing innocent people?

There are 4 different cabinet secretaries who are responsible for preventable civilian deaths.

This has never been true before in my lifetime.

This isn’t politics; it’s a travesty.

Nah, they read me the riot act and I went about my business. I hadn’t said anything that wasn’t true.

There are so many other things that Tencent is an investor in…

This would have been 2008. After Iron Lore shut down, I put a little rant about the piracy numbers we had seen on Quarter to Three.

In a game of internet telephone over the weekend, a series of games “journos” turned this into the headline above.

Our head of PR was not amused.

Have I told the story about how a forum post on a Thursday afternoon turned into Monday morning headlines about the CEO of THQ blaming piracy for the ills of the industry?

I dunno if Hidden Agenda was actually a game or really just an exercise in pain...