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So Astrobot gives me an opportunity to share a presentation I did at Gamescom for some developers a few weeks back. This is where the industry is ; and where it needs to go. Another year of peril. #gamedev #gamescom2024 #gamedevelopment tinyurl.com/2kkye42e

@GameOverThirty Another chaotic clusterfuck as always. Microsoft are experts at it. Laying off 3200 but “only 1600 now” is peak

There's no proper way to run a lay off. It will always feel like chaos at some level. In fact, doing it swiftly, and getting to the point, is generally accepted as the cleanest approach possible. No one should celebrate that, but let's understand that a layoff always look messy and it leaves people questioning what is going on around them. As for people claiming Xbox is now asking people to start wearing more "hats" and become generalists? That completely tracks with what is expected with an industry labor correction. You are going to continue to see this across the games industry. The industry, in many parts, became over-specialized. As fidelity and expectations changed over the last year, more people were able to make careers out of being good at one or two skills. I'm not saying that's right, or wrong, but the last 100 years are filled with examples of the labor industry swinging back and forth between specialists and generalists. As you can probably imagine, specialist models become increasingly expensive to maintain at a cost level. If the person working on environments can't work on face textures, it creates rework loops and barriers in the process. As the games industry continues to shift to a "ramp up - ramp down" model, expect core teams to encourage a generalist skill set within their ranks. gamedeveloper.com/production/-go…

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Blue Moon x Brighton is too damn hot. Uh. Develop.

@Serellan Too bloody hot!

Enjoying the English seaside at #DevelopBrighton.

@Chris_Dring Sean is a most wonderful and talented chap.

I loved chatting with Sean about Netflix's Unhinged. I'm quite excited by what Netflix is doing. Rather than competing with PlayStation etc, it's trying to win over people who might not be traditional console/PC gamers. And Unhinged is a glimpse into how they might do that

@nickjcal Investor was his Dad …

At one point the studio was valued at $1.5B The covid-era funding time was fuckin wild man. gamesindustry.biz/1047-games-rai…

Seeing more layoffs at Splitgate developer 1047 on Linkedin today. That's one of the quieter big industry fumble stories. $100M investment for Splitgate 2 which is dead in the water unfortunately, and their new game Empulse isn't doing hot either.

@FredMalmberg Is this an admission or a question?

From the airport lounge in London, who drinks a Marmite Martini at 9 am?

@KahliefAdams Depends who and at what level.

I feel like every week I see a podcast with a former Xbox or Sony employee sharing thoughts on the current state of the business. I feel like sure there is history to be shared and viewpoints that potentially have value but also it feels like we are in unprecedented times and maybe those insights are outdated?

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Back in the UK and things have seemingly gone a bit Jurassic. Watching for Raptor attack. Sad Sam Neill wasn’t there to guide me.

@chhopsky @kiwitalkz I think scale just makes it pointless now as well. When it was a few people (and we were 20) it was effective. Any large project today you’re just wasting your time.

@rpwbrowne @kiwitalkz yeah.. it’s unfortunate because it really doesn’t take long for your overall velocity to tank worse than if you’d never crunched at all but completion urgency comes for us all

During the development of Max Payne 3 the crunch got to a point where it was so intense that producer John Ricchio watched an animator for 40 minutes trying to animate a simple cutscene of a bartender putting a cork into a bottle and he couldn't do it and kept falling asleep at his desk. In the end John told him to go home to sleep. The messed up part is these types of crunch stories aren't even rare, I've heard countless stories like this happening at other AAA studios.

@d_linkski Oh OK. Get back to bloody work then! 😂

@rpwbrowne Nah, next week (for two weeks)

8AM Monday morning, and I’m already thinking about performance in Tau. I should slow down, but I feel fine/healthy. I just want anything we do in Tau to feel good on old hardware.

@archer_rs She’s literally designing a dress that’ll retail for $1000 or more right there. Give her a break, she’s brilliant.

People are often critical of Victoria Beckham but to see this outpouring of emotion here from her as England scores a goal shows her deep connection with both football and the team.

@JazRignall Chicago CES?

35 years ago, I played Battletech at a facility in Chicago. It was incredible: Proper first-person multiplayer mech combat using high-end networked PCs and played from inside enclosed pods. Difficult to articulate just how astonishing this experience was. Years ahead of its time.

@BAFTA Genuinely lovely man with an incredible body of work.

We are saddened to hear that actor Sam Neill has died, aged 78. With a memorable career spanning over five decades, Neill gained international attention in 1993 starring in both Jane Campion’s The Piano and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.

@flooszn This basically comes from history ; largely from Americans being stationed here in WWII when yes, food was atrocious naturally. It didn't recover for a long time after either ; food in the UK got steadily better from the 70s, by the 90s was absolutely World class.

Emily Blunt says British food is better than American food,Matt Damon strongly disagrees.He says the British are known for having horrible food. Emily:“Have you ever had a lovely roast? A Sunday roast" Matt:“Do you know you're known for having horrible food,it’s like a thing.” Emily:“What I don't like eating? Cheeseburgers and nuggets" Matt:“Okay, that's all we have in America?" "We are a melting pot of all the other countries so all their best" Emily:“Do you know what the number onr food In England is?It's a chicken tikka masala. How cultural is that?"

@oliver_drk The Company that is financially trying to turn the ship around is going to do it by increasing their costs after spending years trying to sell people on GamePass? Riiggght.

Jeff Gerstmann claps back on the idea that Xbox might respond to PlayStation by supporting physical media: “Microsoft has the chance to do the funniest thing ever? No, they don't. They don't have the people, they don't have the charisma, they are so fucked over there right now.”