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What's the best $2k office chair and why? Aeron vs Embody

Is there a right way to do AI in games? One studio thinks so. AI created jobs at their studio. The final result is all human art.

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No DLSS 5 for me...I must have 'The Artists Vision' 👇

Imagine you're John Carmack you're 22 years old and you just wrote a 3D engine in assembly that runs at 35fps on a 486 Doom drops. Quake drops. Half the planet is playing your code. you're the reason GPUs exist. you're the reason your friend Jensen has a yacht today. then in 2009, you sell id Software. people call it betrayal. you call it "they made an offer I couldn't refuse." VR obsession. Oculus. Meta buys it for $2B. you're CTO. but Meta thinks you're a liability. your demos are "too intense." your emails are "too long." your focus on frame timing is "slowing us down." 2022. they push you out. not fired officially. just "restructured." the media writes "end of an era." some crypto bro calls you "washed up." silicon valley moves on. but you don't. you don't write a book. you don't start a podcast. you don't collect speaking fees. you go completely quiet. you take the money. you buy a warehouse in Texas. you hire 10 engineers. and you start coding. not games. not VR. AGI. two years. radio silence. no tweets. no conference talks. while everyone's debating ChatGPT, you're debugging CUDA kernels at 3AM, testing world models. then in 2025, Keen Technologies pivots hard. you're not "exploring" anymore. you're building it. here's what people get wrong: everyone calls it a comeback. a redemption arc. "revenge on Meta." it's none of that. you're a 54-year-old engineer who still codes 12 hours a day because you genuinely can't stop. most CTOs would have bought an island. most legends would have written memoirs. you just kept typing. the most dangerous person in any codebase is the one who goes quiet and never stops shipping commits. karma doesn't need to be real. but obsession is. welcome back, Carmack.

The best GDC Talk I've seen that was extremely entertaining was the one that Nintendo did about Donkey Kong Bananza. It was all about how they came up with the Voxelized World concept for Bananza and it nicely showed how Nintendo thinks about introducing features. Instead of just doing things because they're kinda cool, they're looking at it in a somewhat technical way that all leads back to levels of interactivity, which I love cause that's also how I've always been thinking about this stuff. They showed early examples where they explored what the possibilities of interactivity would be if the whole world would be made out of voxels. Which obviously starts with the player being able to destroy the world. But then they also used it for puzzles, like DK being able to rip a piece of the world out of the ground and then throw that against a wall to create new platforms and then they even created voxelized NPCs that could change their form to direct the player into the right direction, etc. It just shows how often Nintendo made mistakes and learned from them - e.g. the 'Spinner' in Twilight Princess, while cool, was a fairly self-contained item that barely had any use outside of the dungeon it was featured in. For Ori, the rule for every new feature that was pitched was that we'd only commit to developing it if we could easily think of at least 10 ways of using that feature with the added condition on top that it should ideally span multiple disciplines. Let's take 'Bash' as an example: Bash is a slingshot mechanic that James Benson first concepted in an animation - It was basically little Ori slingshotting himself off an enemy. That was the main feature and its main use in combat. But then we had to make it work for other things, so we hung little spirit lanterns throughout the world in order to allow the player to slingshot not just on enemies, but throughout the world as well so that it'd get even more use as a platforming tool. And in order to make it work for puzzles, we allowed players to even bash off projectiles in order to then redirect projectiles towards e.g. breakable doors. I think it's incredibly important for designers to always think holistically. I still believe that one could potentially come up with a 'formula of fun' simply by looking at a games core pillars and its feature set and then looking at how interconnected everything is. That's one of the reasons why I'm so often warning against just making big worlds for the sake of having a big world: If this big world is then lacking of opportunities of interactivity, you're actively working against the formula of fun. Always think of opportunities of interactivity: If you're introducing a simple 'rock' prop into your game... don't just add it, but think of what the player could actually do with it. Maybe the player could pick it up to find something underneath? Maybe the player could then throw the rock at enemies. Maybe the player could use the rock as a weight to solve puzzles? Maybe the player could store the rock in their inventory and then use it for crafting? Games are an interactive medium and 'fun' very often is very much defined by how many interesting ways you found for the player to interact with your world.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 revealed their recipe for success in development on a budget (and only 4 programmers) at GDC... 95% pure blueprints, very little C++ Nobody in the audience could believe it.

'Project Hail Mary' has become Ryan Gosling's highest-rated movie ever on Rotten Tomatoes Surpassing 'Drive' and 'La La Land'

Vivaldi – Winter Made in Blender, audio with Cubase. Absolutely breathtaking! Credit; Conde X on YouTube

Everything is Computer, but Computer isn't Everything!

Introducing Cowork and plugin updates that help enterprises customize Claude for better collaboration with every team.

Claude really is mocking us humans at this point.