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Tor Frick

@Snefer

Co-founder and Creative Director at @NeonGiantGames currently working on @NoLawTheGame shipped @AscentTheGame

Uppsala, Sweden Katılım Haziran 2009
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Tor Frick
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I just made all my old tutorials free, just use the discount code "Free" to get 100% off (since gumroad doesn't allow you to set the price to 0). I hope they will be of some use to some people out there! #gameart snefer.gumroad.com
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Gotta stack them crates!
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NoLawTheGame
NoLawTheGame@NoLawTheGame·
Four crime lords. One city under their heel. Meet the four Mayors of Port Desire in #NOLAW
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Tor Frick
Tor Frick@Snefer·
@LiamTart Restrictions is one of the best methods to allow you to focus on pure visual aspect I feel. Too many choices in the pipeline just makes you pause to solve the same problems over and over again.
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Liam Tart@LiamTart·
Some props I've been working on today for our scifi logistics game - Rusted Frontier! 64px/m texel density, very strict UV snapping to maintain that consistency. Keeping poly count as low as possible. Baking most things flat to a texture. It's fun to give yourself constraints!
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@adrianchm @exphrasis Yeah, gotta jump in with Geoffrey here, tons and tons of talented people are struggling now. Of course it depends on where you draw the line for “talented”, it’s a sliding scale for sure. Also this is more true in Cali than Europe. We’re not hit nearly as hard. Cali is cooked.
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Adrian Chmielarz 🧙‍♀️🔥
Adrian Chmielarz 🧙‍♀️🔥@adrianchm·
@exphrasis I gave you a very simple way to burst my bubble and heal my delusion. But we both know why you won't take me up on this offer, don't we? :) Still, this was heated but quite civil discussion, and I appreciate that. Cheers.
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Adrian Chmielarz 🧙‍♀️🔥@adrianchm·
Most reactions to this post can be summed up in one word: "good". People want the industry to reset, and I get it. I'm a developer, but I'm a gamer too, and I see what you see. But this is clickbait. I do not know of any truly talented game developer who cannot find a job.
Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly@kiwitalkz

I don't think gamers really understand how bad of a state the video game industry is in right now. The Rockstar developer I am interviewing next week has been unemployed for a year, he can't find work and this is someone who worked on L.A. Noire, RDR1, GTA V and RDR2!! Even with an impressive resume he can't even get interviews, I wasn't exaggerating when I said we are in the midst of an extinction level event of talent in the game industry.

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@HelderHP @edgeonline They really know their imsims, had lots of long and in depth discussions with them. Great time!
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Tor Frick@Snefer·
Very honored to have @edgeonline yet again let Neon Giant grace their cover! First time we showed off the game in a playable form and gave hands-on for someone else. Can’t wait to show more, and very happy with the article, the excitement is real!
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Edge@edgeonline·
Neon Giant’s No Law is the cover star of Edge 421, available now. Inside, we visit the studio’s Uppsala HQ to access the world of Port Desire, where the creators of The Ascent are scaling new heights with a cyberpunk immersive sim betting big on believability, agency and chaos.
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Tim Soret
Tim Soret@timsoret·
Internet in Europe has become so annoying in the last 2 years. I don't think Americans realize how lucky they are. It now feels like being in one of these poor secluded authoritarian countries, forced to use VPNs for mundanities everyday to escape stupid regulations.
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Tim Soret
Tim Soret@timsoret·
I'm 37 and I don't pass age verification with a selfie on @Vimeo. Ok. Too bad. I'm not giving any government ID to unknown, unreliable third-party companies.
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@PS_Leoluch @MR3Dev You can also make things with a very specialized art pipeline, like we made for The Ascent. But this is not something studios can copy, or use for a larger scale. The tech knowledge needed today is several orders of magnitude higher today than 10 or 20 years ago.
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Sergei Panin
Sergei Panin@PS_Leoluch·
I would not say that I do not agree, but we are talking about art production only, not creating successful game. My main point is that we can't go back to 2010-2015 content wise. And usage of an unreal marketplace is not really that different from outsourcing. Personally, I see a lot of potential for AA and we reinvent the wheel too much. But if you want to go to this "AAA quality" - you are doomed
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Sergei Panin
Sergei Panin@PS_Leoluch·
Being outsource art manager is incredibly difficult. It is not just order models. You have to develop guidelines, rework things which not fitting the style and also be aligned with art direction. It's like you delivering work of 20 people, but all responsibility is on one. It's crazy to read comments like "ye, you just order models" or "oh, so this is HR positions" Doing feedback to artists and rework it non-stop is crazy pressure and much harder than just to models yourself.
Tereza "Teya" Rozumkova@TerezaRozumkova

I’ve just been laid off from Highguard, where I worked as a Senior 3D Character Outsource Manager. I have about 60 days to find a new job in the US. Over the past year, I built and owned Highguard's 3D character and mount cosmetics outsourcing pipeline. I shipped 30 skins for Season 1, more for future seasons, and directed up to 32 assets simultaneously across multiple vendors, handling everything from daily artistic/technical feedback to pipeline/documentation creation and UE5 integration/lookdev. Before that, I spent 4.5 years at Riot Games working on League of Legends, where I modeled & textured 23 skins and managed 60+ outsourced skins. I’m actively looking for roles in character art, outsource management, production or art leadership (US or EU) 💕

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@MR3Dev @PS_Leoluch No, because that hurts development in other ways, obviously. And increases financial risk for the studios even further. It will rule out a lot of types of games.
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@MR3Dev @PS_Leoluch I have never worked with an outsource studio for modeling that could handle it internally. Maybe if you lower your standards enough to ship whatever.
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MR3D-Dev@MR3Dev·
@PS_Leoluch So none of the outsource studios you work with has a lead artist that can solve that? Maybe stop using the lowest bidder
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@HelderHP @thomasmahler Yeah, this is not very complicated at all, pretty easy to set up in unreal. It’s just well used and in a game with limited environment, SP, and a focus on physics. Something like teardown is more impressive :)
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Helder@HelderHP·
You're touching on one of my biggest frustrations in regards to how game engine technology evolved (or didn't), I assumed by now we'd have really good breakable systems that behaved convincingly per material type. Control being the one exception, with great breakables tech, but it's obviously in-house, and I'm not sure if Remedy r&d guys ever publicly talked about how they achieved this. It's legit impressive youtu.be/dOVBk2nl5Ck?si…
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thomasmahler@thomasmahler·
Anyone remember this? youtube.com/watch?v=7K5euA… This video is 18 years old now. And physics in games still haven't achieved what was shown there, 2 decades ago. Personally, I think this is the kinda stuff where advancements in tech would have far more impact on the players experience than making graphics a tad sharper once again. I think it's high time we see some more advancements in fields like physics and enemy AI behavior in games since in both those categories, I think gamers would agree that not that much has changed for the better, sadly. In general, I think in some fields we've actually seen regression instead of progression. It's nice that developers can use photogrammetry and asset libraries now, but... I think players have noticed that environments in a lot of games have become a whole lot more static due to that.
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Tor Frick@Snefer·
Just chilling and building some cyberpunk drones for @NoLawTheGame to the tunes of @JesperKyd's amazing cyberpunk ambience :) Can't wait for people to hear and see more.
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@rafcolantonio @pcgamer As far as I know, pretty much every imsim I know of sold quite a few copies as well, it was just that the budget were sometimes maybe too high. Too risky for the big AAA productions.
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Raphael Colantonio
Raphael Colantonio@rafcolantonio·
@pcgamer Maybe it’s more of a matter of statistics: in any genre, success is rare. Give imsims are rare, then it’s even rarer to see a successful imsim.
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PC Gamer@pcgamer·
Nightdive boss says no one's making immersive sims because they appeal to 'a very small, niche group' and tend to 'come together at the 12th hour,' even though it's obviously the best genre pcgamer.com/games/nightdiv…
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Extreme long shot, but does anyone happen to know where to license short form animations/shorts? Think purple & brown :D
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@henningsanden @HelderHP @Chozabu @EuropaGame Not everything is exposed to blueprints. Lots of variables are not, for example. Anything that needs to run thousands of times, be multithreaded etc. Calls to blueprints don’t scale very well.
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Henning Sanden
Henning Sanden@henningsanden·
Can you make a whole game in UE with only blueprints or do you need to code at some point?
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“Airdrop a fully crewed Soviet T-80 straight into a car dealership; Also make sure the parachute is red so when it covers the building it looks like a Red dawn.”
Oyez³@OyezWurfel

@Amanseeks WIC is the best strategy game ever made btw

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