Dan Floyd (danfloydplus on bsky)

ok hear me out… Zenless Zone Zero has an overanimation problem. #zenlesszonezero #animation youtu.be/1yH4Qz23FqM

There was a lot of good game animation in 2024, and I found ALL OF IT. #animation youtu.be/eD_dYrVFTEY

I am begging @TeamYouTube to give me the option to toggle/hide this buffoonish generated reply "feature" I will never ever use it

apropos of nothing, note my profile name! 👍

@DanFloydPlus On every Guild Wars 2 release I had about 700 bugs JUST for the floating grass clumps floating over the sides of cliffs and poking through rocks.

@Xenohiraeth They are incredibly polished for how giant and complex they are! But even they are loaded with minor bugs, edge cases and exploits once you start digging. It's pretty much impossible to iron out every bug in such giant sandboxes full of systems and unpredictably-interacting parts

@DanFloydPlus The only open world titles I've played where I have not experienced noticable visual or gameplay bugs are Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. For the life of me I can't figure out how they shipped such ambitious games with that kind of stability.

I'd actually be amazed to hear of any open world sandbox game shipping with fewer than 700 known bugs still living in a Jira backlog somewhere (the others just aren't admitting it out loud)

@DanFloydPlus As someone who has experience with QA: Yep, 100%

@EnkikoBun Off the top of my head, maybe Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom? Even those have tons of minor bugs and exploits to find if you go digging. It's pretty much impossible to avoid in a giant sandbox full of systems and parts that can interact in endless unpredictable ways

And if you don't have 700 known bugs in a backlog, that just means you actually have 700 UNKNOWN bugs you didn't manage to find yet. Don't worry: your players will encounter ALL of them within 72 hours of launch

Professors/Teachers at high school/secondary school/universities: Please STOP assigning your students to interview game companies as a graded assignment. I found 6 different students this morning from the last 2-3 weeks in our inboxes.

@John17497515 Not sure how I'd make a video out of it, to be honest, but I'd definitely be up for it if I ever figured out an angle

@DanFloydPlus Any chance you'll cover the 10% polish in a video?

When posing/animating 3D characters, that last 10% of polish makes all the difference (and takes twice as much time, but still)

@MonstersofHope Doesn't really work when the whole point of the video is showcasing them all :P

@DanFloydPlus On the plus side, Knowing there's always going to be another special-animation-fish out in the sea, And not having to worry finding them all.

The worst part about scanning through 7000+ game trailers each year to find the ones with great animation is knowing that, somehow, you're still going to overlook one

@Pharmacistjudge Not yet (and I don't expect to be playing SUPER often) but I may start one of my own for the folks who do want to join in?

one of these times, I'll learn my lesson

@Gold_Starz Nah just still need a LOT of footage for future New Frame Plus videos :P

@DanFloydPlus alliance raid preview got you nostalgic?

@CauseImDanJones <3

@jax_pool Thank you so much for all these lovely sketches!

congrats to @DanFloydPlus for clearing pokemon emerald! and with such a fun team too!