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just realized we have the team composition at proletariat such that a feature in spellbreak has the possibility of being imagined, designed, implemented, tested, marketed, and managed almost entirely by women. that's dope.

And that's another GDQ down! It's still such an honor to work for this organization and help make events like this happen. Congratulations to everyone on the over $2.5M raised for PCF! 💚

PS: If you love Astro Bot, @TheFPSPodcast did a great interview with Nicolas Doucet, the TeamASOBI Studio Director this past week

Astro Bot proves that new AAA releases can still have a soul!!! The rave reviews are so well deserved, and hats off to TeamASOBI.

rip concord

Dungeons of Hinterberg has made me realize how much I love the game archetype of "something you can do irl, but Video Game" Off the top of my head this is like, playing as a park visitor in Thrillville, GW2 EoD's fantasy DMV, and all of Pokemon Snap. More of these please!

anyway suikoden remasters march 6th 2025!!!!!!!

@NickMudry Yeah that and/or the playbook they were following was outdated - felt a bit like they were following Overwatch's strategy but a decade later

@its_spef I think your thoughts are very spot-on here. Very similar has been stewing in my head lately. The team clearly has made a fantastic game, however it feels the playbook for bringing a new hero shooter to market was completely ignored and instead relied purely on Sony brand power

Despite the last week including some major game launches for both the wider industry and me personally, I'm finding myself obsessed with Concord and why its launch went (seemingly) so poorly. I'm going to summarize my thoughts below just because I need somewhere to put them.

@sjsivak How much do you think the lack of momentum was caused by negative beta reaction vs. a lack of marketing push from Sony itself? With a curve like that it feels like they just gave up

@its_spef There was not much momentum going into launch. A good example is the slope of the curve for twitter followers. The growth is actually plateauing leading up to launch, that is the opposite of what you want.

@old_lady_katie LMAO that too but at least Splitgate's hook is very clear!

@old_lady_katie ooh excellent video, thanks for the rec! And all great points too - they were really trying to hit beats that were already associated with other franchises and didn't land the differentiation

Like, off the top of my head there's also conversations to be had around understanding a game's target audience, release timing, the role of new PvP games when the majority of players already have their lifestyle games, and so much more.

Clearly I'm very invested in this so if anyone in my tiny Twitter sphere has any thoughts hmu. Also full disclosure that my brother works on Concord so I'm filled with bias.