Tom Brien

@IndieGameJoe @cultra Crazy that someone would play a game instead of opening a VHS rental store. I had a friend once who watched a movie instead of becoming 1952 American table tennis champion Marty Mauser. smh!

@cultra and? if we want to play something that brings us joy, that means something to us, why should that bother you?

People will spend 40 hours a week playing this rather than putting in those hours to build something real

@Jakob_Wahlberg Well I mean I guess that's how it's animated

@TomBrienTweets It’s real pig’s head actually!

A small evening procedural pig prototype

@NVIDIAGeForceUK Does this look like LA Noire to anyone else?

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.

@DevLand95213410 Try using: "hello fellow kids" "im just normal like you" "anybody else loves buying products before school?"

One crazy thing I never hear people talk about is how games look so different when WATCHING them vs PLAYING them. I saw my wife play Pokemon Arceus and there's tiling textures and models popping in like crazy. It looks so empty it's nuts. But I'm playing it myself now, and my eyes are locked on a 1-inch collectable ahead of me for the whole game. I literally don't see the optimisations happening around it. In my memory it's a different looking game. I'm sure great art directors and optimisation programmers know this and use it in their decisions. Hopefully I'll figure it out aswel.

@Case_Portman Wow, really fun to watch!

I fucking love my job. #sounddesign #gamedev

@newgroundsdoc @terrycavanagh @Newgrounds @kongregate This phase of Flash games was a very funny time! We swung from Bomb The Teletubbies to Existential Anxiety so hard in one generation of teenagers. It's cool. I'm glad this was the curve.

17 years ago, @terrycavanagh uploaded DON'T LOOK BACK to @Newgrounds. A take on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, it was originally sponsored by @kongregate. The game won Daily 4th, and has over 300K+ plays on the site.

@SamSantala Wow your art is amazing! I was really into Everwild. Good luck, I hope you catch a great and achievable idea. I think a game that utilises your paintings could be exciting.

Posted on LinkedIn last night, woke up to several hundred notifications, friends requests, etc. Seems I struck a nerve in the industry by saying I wanted to create my own projects and not be at the mercy of execs. It's going to have to be smaller studios and smaller projects.

Finished the UI for the Season change-over screen #gamedev #devlog #gameart

@Andy_VGC That's kind of a cool logo. and the way it says UNBИD

Shinji Mikami’s new studio, ‘Unbound Games’, is building a ‘AAA original IP’ for consoles and PC. vgc.news/news/shinji-mi…

@spaztron64 This was it for me. "Everything PS3!"

This has to be some of the most intense historical revisionism I've seen in a while. An entire trend born out of a term forced by a bunch of LARPers that call themselves an "institute", whose aim is to also revise what skeuomorphism is Here's what a 00s site really looked like:

@__silent_ @SamsonMcCray Lol I was gonna suggest it might help make the game feel more responsive, but I read the replies and twitter is experiencing a gas leak for some reason 🤣 It's a reasonable question for the developer! I hope they get back to you sensibly in a DM.

From their Dev Diary, it -almost- looks like @SamsonMcCray doesn't blend the animations, they all start so unnaturally abruptly...

@edmundmcmillen 2 of my favourite games are X-Com and Hearthstone, you might like those aswel.

my top 25 games of all time ( in no specific order ) 1.Magic the gathering 2.katamari damacy 3.Twilight zone (pinball) 4.Spelunky 5.Overwatch 6.Elden ring 7.Dnd 5e 8.RE4 9.smash bros. ( the good one ) 10.Rock band 11.Advanced wars 12.Viewtiful joe 13.Shadow of the colossus 14.Tony hawk 2 15.Slay the spire 16.Pokemon go 17.Diablo 2 18.Zelda: link to the past 19.Fallout ( 1-3d whatever ) 20.Dungeon crawl classics 21.Wwf no mercy 22. Theater of magic (pinball) 23.Warioware 24.Tetris 25.Terraforming mars If a really good game isn’t listed, there’s a high probability that I simply never played it.

I agree, it's gross! There's so much to like about how games play, look, sound, feel, and how the design culture changes so much all the time. Its a fun thing to be into. Then there's teenagers tracking product data like they're old men at the horse racing track, the most boring thing in the world. Bizarre.

I think the rise in steam chart discourse has arguably been one of (if not the) worst things to happen to gaming communities in recent years

@Psycho_Goldfish I need it to have the exact same algorithm for turning brush input into a big smooth vectorized slug

Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!! (link in reply)

@dieworkwear And then they start selling their own protein power, or soap for men or whatever, so they've got 15 boxes of those in the house.

@dieworkwear Companies send them a bunch of action figures and energy drinks, and they don't want that stuff hanging around their house. So they put it in the office room. Now the office room is a warehouse full of free samples.

is there a reason why successful, presumably wealthy streamers always stream from rooms with ugly interior decor? is it branding? always looks like the back supply room for some baseball card shop.

@TheCartelDel btw I also miss companies where people would do research, get interviews, and showcase a variety of different games. That still exists, it's just very spread out and you have to try subscribing to a lot of different stuff to find good ones.

@TheCartelDel I think they could do this when there were 800 games coming out in a year. Now that there are thousands, I think its really difficult and time-consuming to carry that flag.

Real sad to see the legacy game journalist websites die slowly - no matter how you feel about them, you can't deny they play SO many damn unknown games, and were often the reason Indie hits would even happen. Stardew Valley, Hades, Hollow Knight, Expedition33, Animal Well, Tunic, Stray, Disco Elysium. A lot of those games were rocket propelled out of nowhere into the light after Insanely high reviews from those sites. If the army of Youtubers were actually taking time to play lots of unknown games to find hidden gems, at least we would have a replacement - but many seem too focused on saying what they hate about games, or just commentate on the biggest releases. Indie will suffer