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Creative Director @ Raccoon Logic. Also Journey to the Savage Planet, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed 3, Army of TWO: 40th Day, Spore, Sims 2 etc. 🇦🇺in Canada.

Montreal, Canada
Joined May 2014
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7 years
This made me laugh. Best costume for Ubi Montreal. Well played, QA analyst. Well played. May you survive the day employed and unmolested.
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4 years
Streamers worried about getting their content pulled because they used music they didn't pay for should be more worried by the fact that they're streaming games they didn't pay for as well. It's all gone as soon as publishers decide to enforce it.
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1 year
Last of us on PC is like a 90s party at Justin Trudeaus house.
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1 year
This is just nasty rotoscoping, and not animation at all.
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1 year
Before/after of Corridor's latest AI video is wild. They shot video on greenscreen, made virtual sets in Unreal, then reskinned it to anime by finetuning Stable Diffusion. Net result? 120 VFX shots done by a team of 3 on a dime. Bravo! This is a milestone in creative technology🧵
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4 years
The real truth is the streamers should be paying the developers and publishers of the games they stream. They should be buying a license like any real business and paying for the content they use.
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3 years
You know you've really started your new studio when Jason Schreier is already trolling.
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@onestar1982 @NoContextBrits No you pay 30% for garbage collection, road maintenance, healthcare (in most places), national defence etc
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4 years
Amazing to me that people are upset at someone saying that the creators of content should be allowed to make some of the money from other people using their content for profit.
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2 months
Just going to leave this great quote from the CEO of Possibility Space here...
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2 months
In a bizarre studio closure and layoff message to staff, Possibility Space owner Jeff Strain blamed the studio closure on employees leaking information to the press.
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@jalenofkonoha @coldhealing She only has one shirt?
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@tswifterastour It's a watch people. Attached to a choker.
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3 years
@Matt_Paprocki @scully1888 If the guy actually believes this, he could just buy it, then relist it at his price.
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10 years
PC players! If you're online complaining about the lack of FOV control ... You pirated the game.
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3 years
The optional ending to Far Cry 4 where you can complete the ‘goal’ of burying your mother without having to murder thousands of people just by waiting in the game’s first room when Pagan Min makes the offer to help you...
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Today’s Easter: game devs, please respond with the best Easter eggs you ever hid in a game! 🥚✨
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6 years
If I could offer a few edits I would perform if I had my hands on that AC3 remaster:
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4 years
Life highlight. Watching my son laugh and play a game we made from absolutely nothing. It really doesn’t get much better. ❤️❤️
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5 years
Hey, uh, Twitter people. I really recommend watching the Game Awards tonight from the very very start at 5:30PST because reasons. Right from the start. 😶
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5 years
A note for the people wondering why Game Company X can't repeat what it achieved on Game A and has instead made Game B... if it's more than 5 years between A and B, there are probably few people still working there from the original game. Company X isn't company X anymore at all.
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5 years
This is an absolute disgrace @australian . Regardless of politics, mocking children for working for positive change is the most shameful thing I've ever seen in Australian media. Issue an immediate apology. Even Fox news apologized for this yesterday. Subscription cancelled.
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2 years
Words cannot express the glory of this email.
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4 years
Anyway, gonna hop online and stream some Fall Guys. Who's up for it?
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1 year
@SnoozeInBrief His Felt Materials.
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4 years
Retweet and share so we can hopefully get something positive in November.
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The trump campaign sent a cease and desist letter to Priorities USA for this ad. So I’m retweeting it.
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3 years
@luis_g_jr If it's not a genuine question, it's trolling. He has my email and many ways to ask the question earnestly, Luis.
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1 year
@indiahannapixie @jalenofkonoha @coldhealing WAIT! Are you wearing THAT EXACT SHIRT AS WELL? What is happening? This is amazing.
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9. Finally admit that today, years after it was released, it was okay to change the color of Connor's sash from the crimson red of Ezio and Altair to a nice royal blue, and that it really wasn't worth having seven two hour meetings about.
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7. Notice that we cast the fantastic @TheNoahWatts as Connor, well before the internet of videogames gave a shit about respecting other cultures and we have characters speaking historically appropriate languages (+sub titles) in a blockbuster FOR A GODDAMN HOUR. That made happy.
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5 years
@jareddiamond Breaking Bad no question.
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4 years
Three years from standing with @rws360 in an empty local studio to holding a printed and finished game in our hands! So much love for the team @Typhoon_MTL and everyone who helped us along the way. Can’t wait to see people playing it in the wild!
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@sapphicslike High as a kite attached to a a balloon on a rocket ship.
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6 years
10. Agree that the only weapon in the AC universe that comes close to the cool factor of the hidden blade was that tomahawk.
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1 year
@JFrankensteiner A corruption of Churchill replying to a woman accusing him of being drunk: 'I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'
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@MeanPanduh Fetal alcohol syndrome.
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8 years
Brilliant idea!
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1 year
@SiddhantAdlakha Actually the Lost producers were so certain that they were going to get cancelled the spent almost their entire budget on the first episode in a gamble to get renewed based on initial big ratings. The game has always been the same, only the metrics change.
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Introducing DomoAI Video to Video 2.0!🧐 Get a first look at our enchanting Ghibli-style transformation. - Enhanced Algorithm: Experience smoother, more stable videos. - Clearer Backgrounds: Enjoy crisp and vivid scenery in your creations. - Improved Character Sync: Witness
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@ZeroSuitCamus That's such a cracking opening.
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@SteveGoffman He thinks all the anger comes from fake accounts and bots, but it is the other way around. You can't claim bots when it is a crowd of real people.
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@kerggl @onestar1982 @NoContextBrits Australia. Canada. Probably plenty of other places.
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4 years
@ZerodsWorkshop Most of the time playing the game just helpsl the streamer. People tune in to watch their ‘show’ which is built on content they didn’t pay for. If their show requires game content, then a percentage of their revenue should go to the game they used.
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3. Create a path to force more of the Homestead side missions earlier: They feature the charming, fun and more human version of version of Connor that is not as obvious if you only play the main missions and ignore the side content.
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8 years
Oh my God I'm dying here.
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Alex Hutchinson
7 years
So! I left Ubisoft after 7 years. Extremely proud of all we achieved on Far Cry and Assassins but very excited to build something new.
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1 year
@Enurgyzer @onestar1982 @NoContextBrits The sad answer for Americas problem in the ways you list is that not enough people at the top end pay enough taxes and then the average person gets poor services.
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First and most recent game I worked on.
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First and Last game I've worked on!
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4 years
Love the fact that Raji is a game set in India made by Indian devs! Can’t wait to get stuck in. Take a look.
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Alex Hutchinson
5 years
Haha it’s Epic! The internet will detonate. Call your kids home from school until the troubles pass. This is going to be amazing to watch. There just isn’t enough popcorn in the world.
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5 years
Death Stranding is no longer listed as a PlayStation 4 exclusive
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5 years
This is a very Microsoft story: Double Fine makes Psychonauts. Microsoft agrees to publish Paychonauts. MS cancels Psychonauts. DF finds other people to publish Psychonauts. DF makes Psychonauts 2. Starbreeze agrees to publish it. Starbreeze goes bang. MS buys DF for Psychonauts.
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5 years
@Daily_Express Eat it. Wait 15. Call back.
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Alex Hutchinson
6 years
11. I'm adding this one to agree with @GameAnim we should have broken up Haytham's intro into chunks and interspersed them throughout the game to get to Connor faster. The shock reveal of another playable character was great, but the start was too slow.
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Alex Hutchinson
9 years
If @WilWheaton gets royalties on a game before myself or any of the others who spent years (not weeks) working on it, the system is broken.
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3 years
We won best new indie game! Congrats to the whole team! A great omen for the future! ❤️
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The Canadian Game Awards
3 years
Breaking into the Gaming space, the Best Debut Indie game is... 🏆 Journey to the Savage Planet 🏆 @Typhoon_MTL Watch LIVE: 📺: @GINXCanada #cgameawards #CanadianGameAwards
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6 years
6. Highlight that it's the AC game with by far the most assassination moves: you can get a custom assassination with every weapon in the game, including all pick ups.
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6 years
1. Take the damage volumes off the fires in the final mission so people don't fail it and finish the sequence with a bad taste. It's too hard for no real reason.
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3 years
For those game dev folks who ever made it out to Gamescom in Germany, just saw this photo on the BBC. Poor Cologne. I had dinner so many times there: the river banks are usually on the other side of that tree line with restaurants on the right. :(
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6 years
Curious to see how The Last of Us 2 (which looks great) can make the idea that violence is repulsive mesh with the fact that it's presumably still a pretty central mechanic to crawl around and kill things.
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5. Somehow, somehow make sure every person who buys the game sees the animation sequence where a homesteader gets a pig, puts it on a chopping block, cuts each limb off, skins it, packs them up and takes them inside. It's amazing.
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Battle Royals is not a game type, it’s a game mode, like death match. It’s easy to build on top of virtually any shooter you already have. It’ll be shipping by default CoD and BF and every other online shooter within a year.
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3 years
@eloquentire @jasonschreier Yup! I've made games with and starring almost all of those people. :)
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Game Dev.
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4 years
@catbakewell @andydiggle When teaching me long stitch my grandma would turn everything over and if the back wasn’t as neat as the front she would just shake her head sadly. Vicious woman. Vicious.
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2. Force the completion of the Temple missions in the present day as they trigger instead of letting them stack up at the end. I thought it would be nice to give players options, but it actually just ruins the pacing at the end.
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@eloquentire @jasonschreier Every project and studio is different!
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3 years
We are back to begin again for the first time for the last time.
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Typhoon Studios devs launch new Montreal studio and secure Savage Planet rights from Google after departing now-defunct Stadia Games and Entertainment team
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10 years
Do you have the skills to kick an eagle in the face? http://t.co/7ycsZhbpDv
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6 years
4. Push more of the naval encounters in the main flow. Again, my preference for letting players engage with the content at their own pace doesn't work as well in a blockbuster. Make the masses play the cool boat missions! ;)
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I've been making games as a designer or creative director for far too long now at lovely places like Maxis, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and most recently our own brand spanking new boutique game developer, Typhoon Studios. #MeetTheDev
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2 years
Ah I see the sad Stadia trolls have risen from their graves to tweet anew! So for posterity: our company was at stadia for about a year and the acquisition was an enormous financial and technological win for our whole team. We have lots to announce and our day was absolutely A+.
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2 years
Nobody will ever be able to convince me that any game ever has sold a single extra copy through celebrity cross over. But I’ve seen it proven a hundred times that it costs you a lot of money. Just obsessed with burning cash at some companies.
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. @NICKIMINAJ in the new Call of Duty trailer.
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7 years
Oh no @liamwong .
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1 year
@GillianBNews You'll be dead before the teacher puts her glasses on, wanders to the wall, pulls it out, tries to get the attention of the kids, drags them all in, realizes she didn't lock it... just ban the guns, America. This is ridiculous. And embarrassing.
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@E_Coldfire That's Robert Downey Jr.
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4 years
Nobody in the office will let me call our upcoming additional content the 'Hot Garbage DLC' even though it's narratively perfect. They have no souls here. None.
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3 years
Savage Planet: Employee of the Month edition, is out today on Stadia! What a crazy coincidence! What a time to be alive.
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5 years
I give up. It's time to die.
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5 years
Mmmm first screenshots for #savageplanet !
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Alex Hutchinson
3 years
It's official! A bunch of the old Typhoon guys and some glorious new faces are back making games again at our new studio, Raccoon Logic. Trash pandas across the globe rejoice, and we'll be talking about some new projects soon! Check out some stuff at !
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7 years
Myself, @rws360 and some other wonderful people have founded a brand new company: Typhoon Studios.
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5 years
Between the retro review dumping of the Borderlands franchise for its Epic Store exclusivity and the review pumping of AC Unity because Notre Dame burned down, its time to admit user reviews were always a terrible, awful very bad idea and end it forever. Think of the children.
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8. Agree that we allowed people to draw rude things in the snow in a game well before it was fashionable or technically advisable.
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@MitchyD Then ask me the question, Mitch! You were a journalist. A side tweet is not the way to engage meaningfully or earnestly with a topic. Nobody is safe when that is the way a discussion is initiated.
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5 years
Here’s another: Ensemble makes Age of Empires. MS buys Ensemble. MS cancels Age of Empires and closes Ensemble. MS opens new studio to make Age of Empires.
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@MitchyD Hopefully if you look at the team you see a hugely talented group of people with a strong track record who managed to create an environment with zero crunch on the last game who want to grow and make cool software.
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6 years
12. Oh! And while we were searching for music, somehow make sure we would find A Tribe Called Red. They would have been perfect. A missed opportunity on many levels.
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Alex Hutchinson
3 years
...but almost no player saw it in their game because people bought the game to shoot guns and burn bears and do their own thing, not follow the story.
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4 years
@alex_navarro Better than Giant Bomb from what I can tell.
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1 year
@blurayangel I feel like Warner Bros was being run by incompetent bumblers for too long.
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9 years
When D&D was first localized for Japan, 'leather armor' was translated as 'reggae armor'. This explains almost everything. Esecially JRPGs.
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1 year
Actually with AI writing it, ALL the dialog will be 'I took an arrow to the knee'.
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1 year
Ah, yes. The dream of procedural content generation. Even BioWare went through several iterations of this: "what if we didn't need every conversation to be bespoke?" Unlimited playtime with dialogue being procedurally created alongside procedural quests!
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4 years
@jcluther And... the artists does get paid each time you play the song on a streaming service. That’s the point.
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3 years
I like how with skins you can make your PS5 look like a water damaged book.
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