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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

11 months

You can find me on: Discord @ actionzebra Instagram: @gavindyoung Blue sky: invite? 🥺

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

People making jokes about the Facebook services going down make me sick. Anyone who was using an Oculus headset at the time is currently trapped in VR, and if they die there then they die in real life.

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Gavin Young

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3 years

Spare a moment's thought for the poor developers on Resident Evil 8 who are frantically rewriting the entire game so that the tall vampire lady is not, in fact, the first act boss who dies 4 hours into the story.

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Gavin Young

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3 years

Seeing a lot of Ready Player Two references in the replies/RT. Never read it, but this is a pretty common trope in sci-fi. eXistenZ, .//hack, The Matrix... in fact I think most fictional VR worlds have some variation on this rule 😅 Glad it's alive and well in 2021!

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Gavin Young

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3 years

Everyone who worked on a game should be included in the credits. That includes interns, people who left the team or studio, or people who joined temporarily to help the game ship.

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Gavin Young

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2 years

"Let's make the combat more Souls-like" "Can we get a Destiny-style cursor in our menus?" "It feels like what we need is a crafting system" "I don't understand what this character being female adds to the story"

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Gavin Young

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4 years

I'm at the office, and I'm ok. Too many people messaging me to reply to everyone.

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@gamedevdotcom

4 years

Report: A possible hostage situation is underway at Ubisoft Montreal

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Gavin Young

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4 years

I haven't crunched since Assassin's Creed 3, and I've shipped three AAA games in that time. Believing that crunch is a necessary part of making a good game is delusional thinking.

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Gavin Young

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2 months

What's especially frustrating is that pressure from marketing and execs to change the gender or race of characters is still fairly common in AAA games: it's just the exact opposite of what angry YouTubers tell their followers (because their business is keeping you angry) (1/?)

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Gavin Young

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3 years

If Kotick gets fired today, remember that it's not because he protected rapists and a culture of sexual harassment and abuse within Activision: it's because he lied to shareholders.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

6 years

Imagine bragging about how bad you are at project management.

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@GIBiz

6 years

Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2 Studio co-founder Dan Houser details the effort put into the upcoming Wild West epic

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

7 years

Three years, a lot of hard work and more than one late night later: I shipped my 4th(?!) Assassin's Creed. Really proud of this one.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

Don't like to dunk on my peers in the industry, but if you wake up this morning and decide that maybe FPS developers should feel bad about their choices because the USA has been suffering a mass shooting epidemic for the past three decades I don't know what to tell you.

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Gavin Young

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4 years

@SunderCR It turned into a watering can't.

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Gavin Young

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2 months

"why does this character have to be a woman?" "that's two black characters now - can one be white?" "you can have a playable female character, but we won't put her on the box" are common refrains. Anyone working in AAA has likely heard these or seen the impacts of them on a game

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Gavin Young

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6 years

Shadow of the Tomb Raider's exploration difficulty settings go beyond toggling HUD markers and actually change the world art - I love it! More great accessibility details here . Keep up the good work, @EidosMontreal !

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

Women shouldn't have to be "a total badass" to survive the games industry.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 months

The anti-censorship crowd like to argue that developers should be able to make the game they want, without being told to make changes to please the market. Believe me, we're trying: we put diverse characters in games because they represent our teams and our friends 🤷‍♂️

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Gavin Young

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3 years

This blew up, so if you've chuckled at it and have a few $ to spare, please consider supporting The Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. I guarantee it'll make you feel better than racist boomer's memes on Facebook

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

5 years

Team Rocket are fucking back.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

Extremely tired of gamers proclaiming that devs need to crunch if they really care about their game.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

Sometimes the algorithm just works.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

8 months

Absolutely get fucked you pieces of filth. I hope this brings at least a small crumb of relief for the many (probably hundreds?) of talented game developers who were pushed out of the company - and likely the whole industry - by their predatory behaviour.

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@GIBiz

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Five former Ubisoft executives, including Serge Hascoët and Tommy François, have been arrested following a year-long investigation into claims of sexual assault and harassment

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Gavin Young

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3 years

@castpixel Crypto evangelists are the worse community on this website. Glowing eyes and terrible takes. If crypto is making them all millionaires why aren't they logging off and enjoying their fortunes?

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 months

It's genuinely scary that despite extensive reporting and a lot of light being shone on the way GamerGate started and grew, and the kinds of people who were stoking the fires, so many people still parrot the same provably false statements and conspiracy theories 10 years later.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 months

I think it's true that an aspect of the "discourse" comes from game development being pretty secretive and hard to understand from a player point of view, but the current wave of targeted attacks are as usual aimed at the wrong people and made in bad faith.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

We've all been there: you accidentally submit your game on two platforms without checking if it runs first.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 months

Anyway Steve Bannon is no doubt absolutely delighted that we're doing a rerun of this whole thing just in time for the US election in November. /fin

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

Breaking my Twitter hiatus to say that I am completely, hopelessly in love with Horizon Forbidden West. Easily the richest, most deeply-woven open world building in recent memory. Side quests are Witcher 3 level in unique characters and narrative. Aloy:👑 GG @Guerrilla

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

My first game, Blur (2010) was de-listed from Steam after only a couple of years because Activision didn't renew the vehicle licensing. I'd love to have it in my library! Willing to pay $ for a Steam code/gift. RTs appreciated 🙏

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

Including Production Babies and Pets in the credits but not someone who gave a year of their life to the game but chose to leave before it shipped is a Really Bad Look.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

@voodi87 @RobOstrom @miasanrot98 Dude you turned into a model.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

And my own personal career favourite: "What if we don't tell the players who the winner was, and then they can discuss it over voice chat afterwards? They'll compliment each other's skill and it will be really interesting and dynamic"

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

People play "violent" videogames around the world - only your country has this problem. I am deeply, truly sorry.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

6 years

Spare a thought for all the AAA game devs coming to work today after a weekend weeping joyous tears over God of War and thinking "how the fuck do we follow this?"

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

@jasonschreier I remember the last time my producer emailed the project saying we'd "been Shreier'd" and had to delay even though things were going well in production. Please stop this madness.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

"Valhalla is Ubisoft's best Assassin's Creed to date."

PC Gamer

@pcgamer

4 years

Our review of Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

Personally I would only make an exception for those who harassed or abused colleagues, especially if their contributions have been removed from the game.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

@sjaay @jasonschreier Really hard disagree - most game devs aren't necessarily suited for non-games jobs. Can't imagine Google needs many 3D animators, writers, concept artists, gameplay programmers etc. It's also a hell of a time to be looking for a new job.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

5 years

Reminder to the gamers who promise to "rise up": this is what actual censorship looks like. I know you love your anime tiddies, but maybe get outraged about something worthwhile for once?

redcandlegames

@redcandlegames

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Greetings, we are Red Candle Games from Taiwan. To all of our players, industry and media friends, we would like to provide an update on ‘Devotion’.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

5 years

Always enable subtitles #TheDivision2

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

What if instead of pursuing the inscrutable target of "AAAA games" we went in the other direction and made smaller, more focused experiences that can afford to fail because they have realistic budgets? AA? still too big A? no ... 𝒶 games?

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

(1/3) Some people mistakenly think that the issue with making diversity a factor in hiring is that you'll hire worse candidates just because their identities are under-represented. This is false: these candidates are out there and they are awesome. The "issue" is that you have

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

I still can't believe Pentiment is a real game. Just bananas in the best way that this exists.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

6 years

@acgodliman @studioanisa @leighalexander Elite Traingerous

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

@jasonschreier Jason I enjoy your tweets but I worry that time spent reading them is time I'm not spending earning. Do you think you could mint a coin or something to give your followers?

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

@zachshakked Wow! Have you considered creating something for yourself, rather than simply stealing someone else's hard work and even using the name of their game?

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@GavinDYoung

5 months

@Cooperstreaming They should actually be mad at legacy admissions, but that wouldn't let them channel their racism.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

Crunch is always bad. Always. Planning to crunch is a deliberate decision to give up on project management and use people as fuel for the fire. Championing crunch makes you a terrible leader. There's a reason I never reply to recruiters who advertise their studio as "AAAA"

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

Here's a thread of links to AAA games industry jobs in Canada for any UK-based folks who are suddenly thinking about a change of scenery. Just don't call yourself an ex-pat, please! More than happy to answer questions about living & working in Canada after 8 years here 🇨🇦

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

Games Publishers Open A New Studio Without Building The Team Around A Known Predator Challenge 2021

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

This but instead you work on Assassin's Creed for 9 years and when it's uncomfortably hot in summer people complain that they want better AC and you cry and tell them you are doing your best.

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@dannyodwyer

4 years

every time you people say AC I think it’s Assassin’s Creed please stop

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

The devs on Hogwarts Legacy are clearly creative, talented people and deserve recognition for what looks like a stunning game that will probably be a lot of fun to play. Sometimes when you're making a game people associated with your title do and say awful things. Fuck 'em.

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Gavin Young

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2 years

Once again, @osamadorias is showing his bravery and enormous compassion in speaking out publicly about this. The game industry's silence on Bill 96 is deafening.

Game over? New language law puts Quebec's video game industry at risk, insiders say | CBC News

According to Quebec’s industry ministry, over 11,000 people are employed in the Quebec video game industry, which generates nearly $1.75 billion in revenue every year. But those who work in the field...

www.cbc.ca

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@GavinDYoung

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@DanaSchwartzzz

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

It's a miracle that any of us ever ship a game. Taylor's thread is a must-read for anyone who has thought "why can't they just fix this???"

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@_taylorswope

4 years

We released patch 1.2 of #TheOuterWorlds today, and it includes a fix for the dreaded "the game thinks my companions are dead" bug, which I believe I spent more time investigating than I have for any other individual bug in my career (1/18)

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Gavin Young

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2 years

@JamesDaFair @NikoRomanBuds @platinumgames That's not what censorship means.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

I see a lot of people asking about NFTs, so I thought I'd cut through the noise and explain it simply: No Fridays Thanks this catchy phrase is a call to action for the 4-day work week. Any other definitions are misinformation spread by capitalists. Hope that helps!

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Gavin Young

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4 months

Everything promised with AI is what we already have, but worse.

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@catacalypto

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this can be done right now by people like me without generative AI.

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Gavin Young

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4 years

@THEAP99 @PlayStation @Guerrilla @hermenhulst @yosp Please seek therapy. This isn't an appropriate reaction to a game announcement. Be well.

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@Dante012d2 There are many, many consultants and companies that do consultancy for a lot of different reasons: reaching out to people to help make a game set in a historical period more accurate, or helping to make sure we don't make any idiotic mistakes when including a trans character

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

6 years

Hardcore players were annoyed that their Tool slot on the Gear page would never reach gold level. So we fixed it 👍 #ACOrigins (from Reddit user qwert1225)

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

If I had to find out this way, so do you.

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several variations of this requested by several people

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Gavin Young

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@catacalypto @CandiceLikesYou The icing on the cake here is the bot in your replies which read your tweet and thought it was celebrating how amazing AI generated images are 😂

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

@Beavs It's a great piece but I'm glad they ultimately decided to keep her as a human.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

1 year

Players already complain about open-world games feeling like they are full of filler locations, repetitive content, and NPCs who look like they're built from a box of similar parts. The people pushing this shit are all massively financially invested in it, just like crypto.

Jon Lai

@Tocelot

1 year

we're entering a new era in AI-first game creation ☀️ up to now AAA games like Red Dead Redemption 2 cost $500M and took over 3,000 people 8 years to make with generative AI, small teams can ship at near AAA quality but at a fraction of the cost & time a few thoughts 👇

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

First and last game I’ve worked on.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

7 years

"Cerebro, show us all the poor people in the world so we may hunt them for sport."

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

Activision managers, this absolutely means they're pulling you into special meetings to force-feed you anti-union propaganda. If you care about your employees, you should find yourself unfortunately too busy to attend 🤷‍♂️

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

@AndreaaCW Andy help I'm drowning in my mentions ✋

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

Home safe and sound. Thanks for everyone's concern, but as far as I know everyone is safe and just shaken from the experience. I'd never seen SWAT in person before, and hope I don't have to again. #ubisoft

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

2 years

@GetTheLOutUK It's extremely weird how you're so obsessed with other people's bodies.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

All I'm saying is that you could announce your new studio without detailing who is in the team if you have more dogs than women.

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@GavinDYoung

1 year

This is bananas. Surely there must have been a handful of lowball questions to choose from? Sorry for the D4 team who are probably shooting daggers at marketing.

Philtacular - wishlist DEATH MACHINE 💢

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So @Blizzard_Ent and @FutureGamesShow put out a "Diablo 4 Devs Answer YOUR Questions" video, but the questions seem... off. Luckily, they included the handles of the "people" asking these questions so we can easily verify them! SURELY nothing wack is going on... 🧵

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3 months

@OverwatchLATAM I guess you shouldn't have laid off the artists you need to paint backgrounds 🤔

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

5 months

The only "news" is that a games studio got robbed. Anyone reporting on the contents of what was stolen is encouraging others to do the same. There's no public good here, no investigative reporting, no whistleblowing. Put Spider-Man's mask back on that kid. You didn't see shit.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

It's SHAMEFUL that publishers and studios aren't speaking out against the continued efforts to eradicate the Palestinian people. Thank you IGN for being better.

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Gavin Young

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2 months

@Dante012d2 But the idea that anyone is coming into a game studio and forcing them to include or not include anything is just bizarre - these people are contracted to come in and do a job, whether it's to write some dialogue for quests or to consult on something like I gave examples of.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

4 years

Sony's entire presentation is an middle finger to publishers that refuse to put a woman or POC on a game's box art.

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Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

3 years

I can't find my vague tweet from 2019 about a cool feature that was finally working, but now I can reveal that it was: DOORS We managed to include them in Assassin's Creed Valhalla - a series first - but we had to overcome... The Door Problem. #gamedev 🧵

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Doors #gamedev

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@MikeMayoral @Gaming_Updates_ I don't work for Sony or MS, I just make videogames. I'm not marketing anything - just sharing my excitement for completing a long project 🙂

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4 years

Anyone shipping a game in 2020 is a hero, and I'm proud to have worked with a lot of them on this one. Can't wait to see what people think on November 10th!

Assassin's Creed

@assassinscreed

4 years

We're extremely proud to share that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has gone gold! 🎺 On behalf of everyone working on the game, we can't wait to see how your own Viking saga unfolds. Your journey to glory starts on November 10. #AssassinsCreed

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Gavin Young

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4 years

A good start. Once get rid of the sexual harrasers and abusers (and the systems that protected them) we're going after the people who like to yell at their colleagues so they can feel like a big boy.

Jason Schreier

@jasonschreier

4 years

Ubisoft has confirmed to Bloomberg News that Serge Hascoet is leaving the company, not just his role.

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hey @Variety what the fuck? Why do you need to do PR for a CEO who ignore an epidemic of sexual harassment in his organisation and threatened* to have his assistant killed? Anyway, don't forget to work the balls. *ᵃˡˡᵉᵍᵉᵈˡʸ

Variety

@Variety

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“Playing games is such a visceral experience,” Activision Blizzard CEO Kotick explains. “We’re getting to the point that the game itself is able to create its own content in real time. That will be exquisite.”

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2 years

There's no stopping this train. 4-day week with no change in compensation is coming whether companies like it or not - especially when there appear to be no downsides!

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

2 years

The workers getting 100% pay for 80% of the hours

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7 years

Was excited to share a photo of the game I made earlier. Have spent the past hour watching fanboys @ me and weave conspiracy theories ☹️

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3 years

The Israeli government has no fucking shame. It's a game to them, and they're going for a high score.

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Gavin Young

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4 years

(3/3) confirm that they'll never really be "a good fit for the the studio culture" We MUST take decisive and visible action when we encounter toxic people, because I will always take a positive, diverse team over a "genius" asshole who creates more problems than they solve.

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(2/3) to prove to folks that they are welcome in your predominantly cis white male workplace and should apply. And the truth is that often they are NOT welcome, because you can champion diversity and inclusivity all you like, but it only takes one shitty person to

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Gavin Young

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7 years

@Gaming_Updates_ I've got a PS4 at home, so that's the version I picked up. Xbox version is great too, especially on the X 🙂

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Gavin Young

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4 years

There's nothing new here. But I still hear "we should hire the best candidate..." from well-meaning people who don't appreciate that you can't confidently hire the best if you ignore or actively discourage huge swathes of your potential talent pool.

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@Dante012d2 Most of these companies offer a great many services, and being asked to take a look at a script and make sure that an Indian character is written in an authentic way (for example) is usually just one thing they might be asked to do.

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Gavin Young

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7 years

@MikeMayoral @Gaming_Updates_ Don't think I'm getting through to you, so have a good night and I hope you enjoy the game 🙂

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Gavin Young

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3 years

What's your favourite example of resolutely sticking to a joke? Mine is @kfc continuing to follow only 11 herbs and spices.

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Gavin Young

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2 months

@chhopsky It's absolutely insane (as in I feel like I'm going crazy) that we as devs can just describe our 10+ years experience in the games industry and people just say "no you are lying". Like...if they've already decided what they want to believe, there's just zero point in engaging 😔

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6 years

I've been in Korea for nearly a day and the only other white guy I've seen is @prattprattpratt

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4 years

@jasonschreier That's the French spelling, you know what Ubisoft producers are like.

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6 years

When talking about "the player" amongst the dev team I've been mixing in female pronouns for a couple of years. I think this was one of the many smart things proposed by @briecode that burrowed its way into my brain and got stuck there.

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