Callum | @TheKesaro

I suppose for the people following me, I'll give a quick rundown and thread of what I do. My Roblox tag is TheKesaro, and I am a co-owner and Art Director/Lead Artist of Gunfight Studios, of which I produce all the guns, most of the maps and some of the camos for. (1/3)

This is an idiotic take, the six nations is derived from a competition specifically built from the 5 nations and the various cups competed between the home nations, they earned the right to be involved long ago, relegation ignores over a century of historical precedent

@SurferRBLX @RoBuilderYT An environmental artist is a subcategory of 3D Artist, they are expected to make their own assets. There is no "Builder" equivalent outside of Roblox, which is why it's a term that's so hard for professionals outside of the space to understand

Not true at all, yes, modeling can help you with your building significantly, I won't deny that. But building and modeling require entirely different workflows from each other. For example, with building, you're using pre-made assets and putting them together into a scene following environmental design protocols / workflows. For modeling, you're breaking every day objects down into their simplest forms and creating them from scratch. There's a reason that in the AAA industry they separate the roles between environmental artists and general 3d artists. Yes, those environmental artists tend to make their own assets as well, but 9 times out of 10, they have a general 3d artist working on the assets they use.

Hot take: building and modeling are the same job. Don't look for commissions if you cant do both, same for UI if you cant make vectors and import it don't call yourself UI Designer.

@sleitnick We have found across many games and many iterations, that the Roblox audience prefer a familiar, simple and bright UI style and will actively reject anything that doesn't confirm to the known patterns. So the player base itself serves as a barrier to greater experimentation.

I've been showing Roblox games to some of my friends who have never played Roblox. We played random top games. Every one of them had audible gasps of disappointment toward UI. What is keeping Roblox devs from leveling up UI? Or rather, why don't the players care?

@Wunmi_yemisi Don't use our games to promote your scam you talentless hack.

2/ SlingshotDAO made waves with its community-powered Roblox games like Slipshot & Gunfight Arena. But we’re not stopping there. We’re expanding into music, tools, videos, and other monetizable UGC. To manage that? We’re launching PODs.

If you’re comfortable letting platforms profit from your ideas, @SlingshotDAO isn’t for you. But if you believe the people who build the culture should own the value, then, this is something you need to see 🧵👇

I wonder if any Roblox execs realize that the entire suite of their top 100 developers and teams, who make up almost 99% of the platforms entire value, adamantly despise that they spend resources on this instead of improving basic creative features?

@DavidinGaming Well, we added the Raygun to both games, and we're yet to find a style of thumbnail that performs better than Gun Held Against Plain Background!

I suppose if you're going to make a thumbnail for one game, you might as well use it for your other game?

@JWolfiez_ @MrChickenRocket @PirateSoftware Many studios, big and small recycle multiplayer code, net bases and infrastructure. Giving public access to the code behind these things for one title, could open them up to vulnerabilities in all future titles, and force them to spend resources retreading old ground.

@MrChickenRocket @PirateSoftware Now let's explore the opposite. Could refraining from releasing the server code affect the quality of the game as a whole or just the part of it that is related to the server code?

Getting up to speed on this whole @PirateSoftware “Stop Killing Games” drama and it’s a headache and a half. Every counter-argument is either an emotional response laced with insults or an attempt to make a response but it’s just “That’s the devs problem to solve, not mine!”

@MrChickenRocket @JWolfiez_ @PirateSoftware ... Cannot be solved by any one studio, government or publisher, and like so many large scale movements, often hamper and deter the growth and advancement of small scale or individual game developers

@MrChickenRocket @JWolfiez_ @PirateSoftware It's an unfortunate inevitability that the most populist arguments surrounding how games should be made are often ignorant to the hurdles that transcend video games as an industry, many of the barriers to mandating eternal access are deep rooted legal and financial issues that...

@CrownCrazyDev At a certain level of quality, skill and experience you aren't paying just for the Dev to work on your game, you are paying them to not spend that time working on their own game, or for someone else. You are competing for their time and skill, not the other way around.

Everyone on the Grow a Garden team has given everything to this project... blood, sweat, tears, and then some. Many of us have spent the past 8 years mastering our craft on Roblox, growing alongside Splitting Point every step of the way. There’s no question this level of success wouldn’t be possible without this team. I truly believe this is a defining moment for UGC and indie gaming. There's a growing gap between what AAA studios are delivering and what players are actually looking for.

This weekend on Grow a Garden... we are going to set the world record for most people to Monster Mash at the same time. roblox.com/events/8780257… #Roblox #RobloxDev

This goes out to all the haters at GDC from 2022-2024 if you aren't taking Roblox seriously then you are getting left behind!

@plasma_node You may dislike it, and think it's low effort, due to it's simplicity in presentation, but you are ignoring the massive amount of complexity in its depth and design. And are dismissing the work of extremely talented Devs.

@plasma_node Why are you so salty about a game that actually is having a ton of work and effort put into it, I'm not working on GaG, but I get to sit in our Dev discord and listen and see the huge amount of passion and excitement that the dozens of developers get to pour into it.

Would be nice if Roblox gave us a separate front page for older audiences/that also suppressed lower quality games.

@Mariofly5 @WoodReviewerRBX I retextured all the crates and panels in Gunfight after the review, now I just make every wood texture laminate MDF, which doesn't adhere to directional wood grain

@WoodReviewerRBX i took the dusty trip wood grain article personally… NO BAD WOOD GRAIN

I told you all there was demand for a game with proper wood grain but no, no one believes the guy who's written a quarter million words worth of blog posts.

@OnettDev @Anareloux At this rate you're going to need to start some sort of service for hooking up single Roblox Devs

@Anareloux Proud to be a matchmaker!

The universe is a funny thing because you can meet a random dude and get Covid, so your first date is on @OnettDev Bee Swarm Sim-- 3 years later you have a dog and are getting a house together and he still refers to himself as Bee Daddy

@ThatOneMTFGuy I've never seen someone so openly vie for a chance to be added to an industry wide blacklist. Hash this stuff out privately and properly.

@Cedralian Nice bait dumbass

@Cedralian Alternatively, pick up a pencil rather than devastating the rainforest to generate some bland garbage.