Timothy Heard

To all #gamedev out there, has working in a team ever worked out for you? If not, what sort of team experience made you decide you'd rather make #videogames alone rather than with other people? #indiegame #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #gamedevelopment

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.” –Henry Beecher

Oh how I love you, wacky restaurants

Turok: Evolution (2002)

The chip change actually removes the underlying horror of Order 66 by removing the active decision 99% of clones made to follow the order There's no internal conflict, no horror in the fact these men are just as soulless as the droids, and no agency. Nope it was all "le evil brain chip" The worst fucking change and proof that Filoni is a hack that needs handlers to tell him when an idea is fucking retarded

Since when did people hate the Warbird suit?

When you Google "Fallout" the first result is now the TV show. God that is grim

In the mid-90's, certain members of federal congress in the USA were trying to ban or heavily regulate shooters, for being too violent. Meanwhile, we created magazine ads that poked fun at their efforts.

Quake 4 napalm launcher can be obtained via cheats in campaign, also it has reload animation. According to one of Quake Champions devs Syncerror/Adam Pyle, in discord this weapon was leftover from Quake 4 Awakening, just like multiplayer maps added in 1.3 update along with it.

There was a time. A distant, magical time. When we all wanted more Star Wars, not less.

Battle Station operational, Commander! Early 90s PC gaming was serious business. Getting those beasts running took skills that would humble most gamers today.

Concept art | Bloodborne - Weapons

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” - General George Washington

I'm making Half Life 2, except you are a cybernetically enhanced super soldier in a brutal cyberpunk city collapsing under military rule and cult fanaticism.

The aura of being a CEO in the 1980’s

Fallout co-Creator Tim Cain says gamers look to influencers to tell them what to think about games: “Many gamers don’t even look to influencers for reviews; they look to influencers to be told how to think about the games.” “So people don’t form opinions from the online video; they’re handed an opinion from the online channel they’re watching.” “I don’t want to think about it. You tell me what I should think about it.” Is he right about this?

Books feel like friends who never need the perfect words.

Daily reminder that you need to be stacking *physical* books. Why? -they can’t be changed -you can pass them on to your children -they’re a break from a screen -you don’t lose entertainment when your battery goes out -they make great decorations -they smell amazing

This is no better than the "videogames make you violent" argument. Art can be used to express morals, but it's not always a reflection of them. If you draw a warrior wearing a Lion's mane that doesn't mean you hate cats or want to kill Lions IRL.

Am I missing any? • Postmodern "deconstruction" of a genre that thinks it's more clever than it really is. • Everything is ironic because they're afraid attempts at sincerity will be seen as cheesy. • Bathos (when something serious happens but the drama is immediately undercut by a joke). • Fucked up moral lessons such as portraying selfishness as good. • Aversion to heteronormative romance. • Unlikable "strong female character" who talks down to everyone. • Fetishism masquerading as progressivism. • Villain is a thinly veiled stand-in for the writer's dad. • If it's a sequel, prequel, adaptation, or remake, then it's written less like a story set in that universe, and more like a metacommentary about the franchise where creative decisions are based not on what's natural or logical, but on audience expectations or the subversion thereof. • Protagonist was always perfect the way they are and they just had to learn to unleash themselves instead of improving or overcoming weaknesses. • "This is a good character because they're really powerful." • Conflating high stakes with high drama. • Soapboxing. • "It's sci-fi/fantasy, so it doesn't have to be consistent with its own internal logic or established rules!" ("space wizards" argument.) • "Who cares whether or not it makes sense! What matters is how it makes you feel!" Because these things are mutually exclusive somehow. • Female villain is only evil because of something a man did to her. • "The man-eating, soul-stealing, vampire rapist spider people are just misunderstood. Humans are the real monsters." • "Capitalism bad. Now here's a thing we included just so we could sell toys of it." • Pop cultural references. • "LOL drugs." • "Isn't it funny that we're drawing attention to this trope we're doing? We're so much smarter than those other shows and movies that do the same thing because at least we're self-aware!" • Ugly on purpose for no real purpose. • Snarky and irreverent protagonist who quips and has a witty retort for anything said to them. • Sexualizing women bad, sexualizing men good. • Safe-edginess that's just casual bigotry toward acceptable targets such as straight men, French people, American southerners, etc. • Old IP "reimagined" for the "modern audience". • Protagonist is a shameless self-insert. • "Humor" is "person I don't like dies." • "Muh realistic anxiety attack!" • Someone told them "write what you know" and what they know is coffee shops and porn. • Cute, child-like thing is evil. • "Traditionally heroic virtues are bad, actually." • "I may be a cannibal who burns down orphanages, but at least I'm not a racist!" • "Morality is subjective! Unless you disagree with my politics, in which case you're objectively evil!" • Thinks they can make a scene "emotional" by simply showing a character crying when they haven't done anything to earn that emotional moment. • Dialogue has a lot of "ums" and "yeeeahs". • Memes in the place of jokes. • "Creative" insults that are just swear words combined with other words, like "fuckstick", "shitballs", or "bitchmuffin". • Adult characters talk like teenagers. • Characters use internet slang in real life. • All male characters are stupid, evil, or both. • Baby talk combined with excessive profanity. • Male protagonist gets pushed aside for a female character. • All characters who oppose the protagonist (and therefore the writer's ideals since the protagonist is the writer) are strawmen because the writer cannot model other people's minds. • "Why tell a timeless story that will resonate with future generations when I can make it about my pet political gripe of the week?" • "How can I show that this character is unique and rebellious? I know! I'll give her blue hair and a side-shave!" • Sexual preferences/gender identity is a character's entire personality. • Stupid gotcha argument presented like it's profound wisdom and always goes unchallenged. • "It's a made-up story, so we can do whatever we want with our adaptation! Who cares about the author's intent or the reasons they wrote it how they did?" • Performative support for whatever happens to be the current political issue of the moment that no one will care about in five years.

“I like big books and I cannot lie.”