Rez Graham

This is amazing!

@SleepyTeaGames Sent in DM. Enjoy! :)

@rezibot Yea that would be awesome if it's not too much trouble !

Day 1 of GDC is done! Did my first talk and got a lot of great responses. Met some really cool people, so if you're a new follower, welcome! I'll try to post more. :) Utility talk is tomorrow first thing in the morning!

@unormal I had a student freak out at a failing grade because "I'm 19, I'll be too old to start a career".

when you're 20 you're like im staring into the abyss and when you're mid 40s you're like lol first time?? im on abyss 4

@BillHuntBits I completely agree. It's so frustrating.

Pardon the rare political post: While I certainly value age and experience, Goddamnit I’m sick of having to choose the least bad of a gripe of septuagenarian and octogenarian candidates. (And yes, that means your team too.) The bench of smart, capable Americans in their thirties, fourties, and fifties is broad and deep. Thank you for your service, elders, but it’s time to step aside and let the next generation lead. We now return to regularly scheduled programming...

@SleepyTeaGames It's not posted anywhere except the vault, but I can certainly send it to you, though I'm not entirely sure how useful it will be without the audio. If you still want them, I can send them tomorrow. :)

@rezibot Wish I had GDC vault for this 🥲 do you post the slides anywhere? Started using utility ai recently and there's relatively few resources online that aren't just overviews If not no worries, I'll watch some older talks and think real hard xD

Petty Officer 3rd Class Anaya is done with your shit.

@BillHuntBits Yes, 100%! I don't care about how an algorithm strings together a bunch of weighted tokens. I care about humans creating art about the human experience. It is fundamentally a human thing.

Cinema is a human art form about human experience. I already block dozens of YouTube channels that feature copy read by fake voice generators, filled with LLM-generated images, and bullshit like “Look: It’s Wes Anderson’s Super Panavision 70 Star Wars!” No thank you. 2/2

Oh, sure. Because that’s what will get people back into theaters? I don’t mind AI as a creative capability multiplayer for artists, but I have absolutely zero interest in seeing films made by droids for robots. 1/2 indiewire.com/news/breaking-…

@_michaeljared Most designers I know use it all the time. I built an entire mathematical simulation of the system used to decide what Sims to spawn for which events on The Sims 4 entirely in Excel. We played with and tuned this simulation, then implemented it in the game.

Do other game designers ever use Excel? I know it's boring but it works for me. Using it to design a chunking system for a sci-fi-builder-looter game (yes, you read that right) #gamedesign #buildergames

@_michaeljared PS: sorry for the delay in my response! Been super busy lately and have mostly stayed off of social media.

@rezibot I just listened to your recent podcast on the Game Developer Podcast - it was awesome and inspiring!! I'm also an EE, turned gamedev, now turned eng/comp. sci teacher. When you were talking about Godot and engine modules/extensions, you were bang on. I thought (1/4)

@_michaeljared That's awesome! I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Godot has some real possibilities, and the broken trust from unity gives them the prime opportunity to shine. I haven't messed with Godot for several years, but I did check out their booth at GDC. I need to give them another chance.

ah good yea hhaving a normal time

Rearrange 1's and 0's.

@brianfoster That's great! If you shoot me an email, I'll send you the slides.

I guess someone missed me at GDC.

I'll miss everyone, and I can't wait for next year.

After five years of not going to GDC, I realized how much I've missed them. My resolution for this next year is to reach out more. Nothing stops us from having these kinds of meaningful conversations throughout the entire year. I'm exhausted but inspired.

GDC day 5: I saw exactly zero talks. I gave the last of my talks today and it went well. One woman told me it was her favorite talk of the conference, which was awesome! This was the talk I was the least confident on.