Dylan West

This bug was just the laugh i needed late in the day. I thought the characters top half wasn't rendering, but upon closer inspection it got much better.

@Jorombinoz @garrynewman Sandy’s Mod

@garrynewman how do you say the name of the game?

4 hours until the s&box launch on Steam 😎

Any senior folks from epic layoffs who want to move to NZ and make games, visit careers.rocketwerkz.com. If you want to help build a client email me dean.hall@ahwoo.com

@bexsayswords @leveldesigned Hopefully I don't get butchered by the americans for this take, but you might have had one of these and to my uncouth palette they're pretty similar...

@leveldesigned I’m not sure I’ve ever had root beer!

Working from New Zealand with American coworkers has caused me to uncover many weird things that NZ does and it’s gotten to the point that today someone asked me “Do you have Mountain Dew over there?” We do! We actually have lots of soft drinks.

@locust9 The economics are fucked. It sucks that with all the advancements we’ve had over the last 30 years we’ve still just digitised retail boxes competing on a shelf.

If your game cost 20m to dev at 39.99 on steam you need to sell north of 1m for breakeven. if your game cost 100m, >3m copies. If your numbers are not 66% of those numbers and your game doesn’t retain, expect to be shut down or go out of business these days.

@stfu_thxx @HurricanePL2 @MADMANMATRIX @SolomonJake It's easy to forget about the 99% of studios that sit between the successes and the failures they mentioned, seemingly oblivious to the fact that without them you ultimately get less innovation and less great games to play.

@HurricanePL2 @MADMANMATRIX @SolomonJake You are delusional. The gaming industry is the worst it has been in a very very long time. Studios are closing at alarming rates and people are losing their jobs like crazy. The indie scene is also brutal as fuck. What the fuck are you even saying dude

We built a studio, we made a game, and I'm really proud of both. Before we close the doors at Midsummer Studios I'd like to share a glimpse of Burbank, the game we poured our hearts into. It's like "Life Sims + The Truman Show," but it's more than that. I believe people are storytellers, and I want them to share whatever stories and characters they can dream up. Burbank let's you do that. We have moments playing this game where characters come alive in a way we've never experienced. And for an old game developer like me that's special. What you're about to see is definitely pre-alpha. But this game was a dream of mine, our team made it come true, so watch and dream with us.

@pavlovs_khat @rocket2guns You can do all this now - check out 'Open World' mode and the mission board system.

Very pricey, stiff competition. New Frontiers should have been the base game and having to start from scratch with each new mission is god awful, why not allow missions to be accessed planetside? Kinda got into it until the grind got boring. World building is good, building is fun and love the upgrade paths though.

Over the steam winter sale, ICARUS sold just under a million new base game units during the sale (984k). We also did quarter of a million DLC units (243k).

@locust9 I totally get that. I found that if I was playing a game that was miles away from anything I worked on I had a way better chance of switching from analysis to play almost without realising it. Last ones I remember that happening with was Hades and Dave the Diver.

I mostly play games to understand them now, not to enjoy them, it is an interesting thing to be able to find a few where i still can

8 years of development and the team has got the game absolutely screaming. 6 players each with their own massive base, 30k+ objects, runs like a dream.

Any likes, retweets, wishlists whatever are all very much appreciated. I need help, cheers.

Abiotic Factor will be launching into 1.0 on July 22nd, 10:00 AM PST! Please consult the map and set your wristwatch according to your correct time.

Not unity. Not unreal. Kitten space agency. Custom engine. Dust storm on Mars. Releasing for free, powered by contributions. Will have some tech firsts. See for yourself.

@codemiko To make a game, or stream tech? Unreal can be pricey for a game but not sure how the licensing would work for your content stuff.

Unity or unreal engine?

@DaveOshry @GoodboiSaul Does he at least chew on them to get the ‘Denta’ part? Freya would demolish them in 3 bites sometimes.

If Saul doesn't get a dentastix by 7:04 am he starts punching me in the head then looks at me like this c'mon man

@bexsayswords The home of OMC’s smash hit ‘How Bizzare’

New person: so you’re from New Zealand? Me: yeah! Them: haha lord of the rings Me: yeah 😊 Them: does it bother you that that’s the first thing people say about people from New Zealand? Me: No because I remember what people used to say before the movies came out

@DaveOshry I don’t remember this scene from Conclave

Morrowind Remastered

definitely suggest you check out This Maw of Mine

@DJSnM Ben Affleck on the directors commentary asking wouldn’t it be easier to train astronauts to drill instead of drillers to be astronauts. youtu.be/-ahtp0sjA5U

'Who was the most important character in the movie Armageddon'

@harrietprebble Congrats! 2 kiwi games in the top 7 too, we take those 🇳🇿

We launched our game today. A little in shock.

@DaveOshry Manners on point though

I worry for this child's health.