Simone Lombardo

Hey! I wanted to show what I have been doing for 2 years> ViZual. A node-based, no-code tool for creating branching stories and VN. The goal is simple: lower the barrier to entry so anyone can start building interactive stories. More Info in comment! FREE and open source.

ViZualにユーザー別設定機能を追加しました！🎉 キー割り当ての変更に加えて、エディタのカラーや各種設定も自由にカスタマイズできます！ ずっと要望の多かった機能、ついに実装です🙏 ViZualはビジュアルノベル／分岐ストーリー制作向けのエディタ＆エンジンです。 オープンソース＆無料で使えます！ DLはこちら👇 vizual.space 英語・日本語・フランス語に対応済み！ （ドイツ語も準備中です） #ゲーム制作 #インディーゲーム #ビジュアルノベル #ViZual #gamedev #indiegaming #VN

@_Brendandroid_ I mentioned it on linkedin, but i will here too. REST. Let time to process. If you can afford it, take a week doing nothing. Our brains were used to 24/7 work for so long they don't know how to function anymore.

A native tweet? Okay I guess. Waking up the next morning after 8 years of building things at the same place M-F (and often weekends heh) feels…weird bro. Do I shower? What am I doing today? Should I go for a walk or apply for jobs?

@synaesthesiajp And all the other things you don't remember yet where u used your epic email for....

You know what's really awesome about getting laid off? I can't change the email to my epic games store account since I can't access it anymore. Kinda an ironic problem to have, huh? Hopefully account recovery process is smooth.

@BarrettJ I wish the same! I actually never did sport in probably 20 years or more. I bought a Tonal while at Epic, and i think i used it twice. What a waste.

@epic_simone Thanks! And it's definitely one of those things I'm kicking myself on. For years, I defined myself as a runner and never cared about weight training. And now I wish I'd started in my twenties. It just makes so much easier, having the extra strength.

Is it a lot of weight? No, not really. But as the skinny computer nerd who waited until age 40 to see the advantage of weight-lifting, 3 sets of 3 reps at 200lb is pretty damn cool. Onwards and upwards!

Same here went from about 2-4 bad hours sleep to a good 9h, not only that but I had cortisol/TSH issues for 5 years (giving me anxiety and panic attacks) and they are all but gone. Working out + better diet + better sleep == no more GAD/numbers in normal range. I did also cut most processed sugar, which probably helped. I wish I would have started much younger.

@Anxious4Lyfe @epic_simone Very much so in my case.

@TheJoeySwoll 44 years old, just restarting working out a few weeks ago after... i dunno... 20 years.... I can see my abs again... feels SO SO GOOD

No matter how big or how small, celebrate your wins in the gym and be proud of yourself. 💯

@MobileMamaLlama Happy Birthday!!!

It's my Birthday! 🎉🎂🥳🎊

I got a special behind the scenes look on how this 2.5D Anime Game was created with Paper 2D and PaperZD! They developed many new techniques here which are pretty groundbreaking and might help you in your own projects! Full Video: youtu.be/wet2X6FLMf0

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@TheWintersFox And I will make enemies, but the WFH made those people barely outputting even more difficult to unmasked.

Agree on the 80% output, i would go even more far, by the end I was there. About 10% of the people in the project I was on were actually outputting. The others were playing or barely working, dragging along. This is not just Epic tho, the bigger a company is the more the output is centralized around key people - often invisible to the majority, who actually do most of the important work, and less and less of the company is actually outputting anything of real value. It is a well studied issue called the Pareto Principle. Some simple tasks would take bigger team ages to implement, but then one dev would just get tired of it and do it themselves, and it would take 2h. In that last layoff, I know of many people who were those "doer" and I am not sure how they were chosen, but i can foresee many mistakes. Some of the people let go have been literally feature owner and the tribal knowledge is gone with them. This ain't good.

Unfortunately one thing I observed while working on Fortnite with Epic Games was the paredo principle in action. 80% of the outcomes come from 20% of the inputs. Meaning there are a small portion of people that actually make 80% of the results happen in companies. Not referencing any specific people from this cull that just happened at EPIC but there are people who are “blackboxes” in a workplace. A blackbox is someone who can do a job that no one else can do because they know the system so well, that when they leave it’s like the system they run is held together by chewing gum and duct tape running a quantum computer and only they and a few others know how to use it. (Meaning if someone else was hired to do their job it’d be nearly impossible to do it the same) When you get rid of those people, their inputs are now gone. Meaning all the information they know, the processes/efficency that only they can do, their expertise is gone. Even if they document what they know there’s still a ramp up time to train new people, and some cannot be replaced. The only explanation to get rid of a blackbox in a workplace is they are not a culture fit anymore/ they don’t play nice with others/ or they use their status and knowledge as leverage against the company to do whatever they want “I can post whatever I want on social media because I’m indespinsible”. The only other reason to get rid of a blackbox is that the owner or their management got to know them so well that professionally they think it’d be better for their growth to go elsewhere. Thus changing how their business runs so other non top 20% performers will then step up, to fill in the gaps.

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@TypicalGamer @TimSweeneyEpic @jogo Former Epic Dev here, semi-retired, but I ll work on it for free if you get it and need help. I know how Fortnite functions under the hood.

Hey @TimSweeneyEpic, I love Ballistic and I know there's a dedicated community behind it. Let us at @JOGO buy it from you and we'll maintain, update and grow it. I'd be sad to see this mode just disappear... it didn't get the chance it deserved.

#レトロゲーム　がトレンドですが、 私たちはレトロ風最新ゲームを開発中です！ ゲームショップ経営SLG、 「ゲームショップ斜陽」2026年4月発売予定！ ウィッシュリストは以下から👇️

@evankinney This makes no sense, wtf....

guess who got laid off today! 🫠 i am genuinely so confused and bewildered like, i spent the past week debugging the rivalry system while recovering from pneumonia and just in the past few days i’ve had multiple directors tell me how much they appreciate everything i do

@giovauefn Thank you. I used ray reconstruction, it does help a lot for all those messy interior, but it is still noisy AF. I ll play with your settings! thanks!

@epic_simone For me the best settings are DLSS 4.0 with quality mode, no frame generator and no ray reconstruction. You might enable it with a 5090 though. I get around 90 fps like that and the noise isn't the worst (but still there)

Anyone has any setting to run Crimson Forest without any ghosting/temporal noise? Every videos I see has noise and ghosting. Even reviews/tech review. Running AMD9800X3D/RTX5090/32GB RAM. Native barely hit 40fps, DLSS is noisy like crazy.

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