Max Hoberman

@GameWithTurik @GriffinWB Interesting. They know their stuff and they manage it well. Of particular note: • Skill is not a primary factor in mm • They back off of skill more quickly than other criteria • Skill is essential to team balance • They recognize that a pre-formed party outperforms random

@GriffinWB I thought a spin on SBMM was interesting that my colleague @MaxHoberman brought up from Halo 2: giving the occasional stomp out to serve as a relief valve for constant 50/50 intense matches. Every once in a while you need a win without contest but that obviously also means a loss

Been saying this for years. SBMM is always best. Always has been.

@scrubulba @CertainAffinity If you make it fun, you will have done it justice.

@MaxHoberman @CertainAffinity Thank you for responding! Hoping we can do it justice!

I like paper design, and here's proof: design docs for an unfinished @CertainAffinity map for the Halo 2 Blastacular Map Pack. We were making one original and two remakes, but Bungie pulled our timeline in so as to not interfere with the Halo3 beta. Alas. halowaypoint.com/news/digsite-d…

@TheJoValiant @scrubulba @CertainAffinity I remember getting up there to light up the bridge, in playtests. There's no right answer though: the map was a work in progress, still in blockout, mid-iteration when we were compelled to set it aside.

@MaxHoberman @scrubulba @CertainAffinity Which of the two designs did you prefer?

@scrubulba @CertainAffinity Our schedule got pulled in to make way for the Halo 3 beta, forcing us to cut this third map.

@MaxHoberman @CertainAffinity Was this map cut due to time constraints like you mentioned before or was it cut for some other glaring reasons?

@TheJoValiant @scrubulba @CertainAffinity That activation panel was a switch that turned on the light bridge. You could still drive underneath it, however.

@MaxHoberman @scrubulba @CertainAffinity Hey Max, I'm another forger on the project and was wondering what the intentions were with the activation tower, as this rendering has it more infantry focused and the bsp has a route underneath the tower

@scrubulba @CertainAffinity The light bridge worked fine: get in that tower, turn it on, it's on for the remainder of the round. I think the base actually needed a bit more playable interior space though.

@MaxHoberman @CertainAffinity Thanks for the response! My fellow forgers were wondering what would you do to make the base more interesting? How exactly did you want the bridge to be utilized?

@scrubulba @CertainAffinity Interesting. What they shared is all there is; it was very much a WIP. We had some fun moments on it, but it was far from complete. I was definitely feeling we'd oversimplified the base a bit, for instance. The ice caves were cool, but could have used a little more interest too.

@MaxHoberman @CertainAffinity Hey Max! A group of Forgers and I have taken all of the documents for Permafrost and are going to try and adapt it for Infinite. Do you have any thoughts or changes you would like to see based on the 2D layouts and the bsp available thru DigSite?

Finally, apparently I wrote those descriptions for Missile Beach and Solitude, but I need to jog my memory!

Oh look at that, a nod to Fourth Station too—a CA experiment resurrecting the Mars Needs Women mp map from Marathon. We had these maps playable, and I have fond memories of playtests on both. I ended up shying away from the latter, however, as it didn't work as well as I'd hoped.

It has been an incredible week in Toronto. Thank you to IO and XP for hosting two amazing events. It was a whirlwind meeting other industry folks and catching up with colleagues. @XPGamingInc | @IOnews #XPGAMESUMMIT #XP24 #gamedevelopment #gamedev #gamestudio

What an invigorating lesson in crafting and developing Intellectual Property from Corey Caplan, @lduchaine and @MaxHoberman, led by moderator Pierre Moisan 📝 #XPGAMESUMMIT #XP24

@acweyand @DrJenGunter Happy 34th of May to all who celebrate!

Number of the day.

@Dictionarycom Next do "oh snap!" please.

guilty adjective 1. having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty. dictionary.com/browse/guilty

@ProjectLincoln Flotus

Depends

Well we got pulled away before we found a match, so we'll have to try again. On a positive note, we had to go for a debrief on a Loro multiplayer playtest today, and it went quite well.

@Insignia_Live Sam fired up H2 in our office, I'm looking over his shoulder now...

@AronThoughts Or just resurrect Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous to feature his new assisted living arrangements.

They need to make a TV show about Trump's time in prison. Might I suggest the name "Orange is the new orange"

...reduced, but at the expense of a unique environmental characteristic we're invested in. The sandbox can change to accommodate, but we'll lose some of its uniqueness and identity in the process. Is there a path through the maze that doesn't compromise either? Soon we'll know.

Today was a very interesting continuation of an ongoing debate: can the unique sandbox that we made for our playable PvE demo of Loro be carried over to PvP? The rub here is a) longer engagement distances, and b) faster and more erratic targets. Engagement distances can be...