I'm now at a point in my career where I feel I've done everything I want to, in regards to franchises. I've been a Junior, Senior, Lead, and Principal and contributed to numerous character teams over 14 years. Thank you to every peer and game fan; Life update soon.
There's a new trend in China where people make and eat spiceless "white people lunch", as form of self torture.
And their commentary has me crying ๐ญ
The dumbest thing about this is how every other social platform WISHES they created a unique and renowned verb like "Tweet" or "Retweet" - that kind of brand recognition is near impossible to replicate intentionally
You know what I realized about Ai images in your marketing? It sends out the message that you've got no budget. It's the digital equivalent of wearing an obviously fake Chanel bag. Your whole brand immediately appears feeble and impoverished
Gamers: "Gamedevs are lazy nowadays. Nobody ends up in hospital from overtime"
lol here's me in hospital after collapsing from GameDev burnout before the Dr explained my "blood is flooded with lactate from prolonged stress". She then asked if I'm in the military.
A thread!๐งต1/5
This reminds me of a girl in my school who's parents banned her from every single sex ed class. She got pregnant at 13 but said that's impossible because she never kissed him.
I do not want primary school children full stop to have sex education. Nor do I want children to be taught about changing gender. We need to protect their innocence and childhood.
Just a heads-up - Midjourney's AI can now do hands correctly. Be extra critical of any political imagery (especially photography) you see online that is trying to incite a reaction.
Today I learned wtf a "Hurdy Gurdy" is.
I know Middle Age instruments demand godlike craftwork but this thing is ridiculous levels of complex. I thought I didn't like folk music, until I heard the bass drop on this Hurdy Gurdy track.
In 2016, French model Harry Samba posted some selfies online - we are STILL feeling the effects of this man's style & sexiness in every videogame 7 years later.
I decided to look up the singer of the Pokรฉmon theme, because that vocal cadence is NOT a normal amount of talent. Turns out it's Jason Paige - the backup vocalist for Michael Jackson & Jamiroquai????
Back when games were 30% graphics, 70% imagination, you would have been thrown in a locker for saying this at school - by people who didn't even play the game.
I'm ready to quit. This is unacceptable. You jump into a full body of water, and there's no precipitation on Cloud. Wow, bone dry. It's PS5 only. It's 2024. SMH.
#FF7R
#FF7
#FinalFantasyVIIRebirth
When making a game for a console, you're making it for one set of drivers/hardware. When making a game for PC you're making it for like 900+ possible combinations.
I promise you it's not laziness. It's just really really really difficult.
Valve aren't just removing games with AI art on Steam. They're also removing games with AI text too. The premise being 'you don't own the copyright to that content', which is objectively true.
PSA: Valve has been quietly banning newly submitted Steam games using AI-created art assets - if submitters can't prove they have rights for the assets used to train the algorithms:
NEWS: Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, is laying off a whopping 16% of employees (or around 900 people), sources tell Bloomberg News. More to come
Reminded of how in 2013,
@shoomlah
discovered fans were creating explicit fantasies of her Bioshock concepted characters. She responded by creating a tumblr tutorial because the historically inaccurate corsets & undergarments were bothering her.
Here's what actually happened.
@wacom
are correct that these images were from a 3rd party vendor. They are from
@Adobe
stock - yet the artist who uploaded them did NOT mark them as Ai. So even if you filter out Ai they still show up. We now cannot trust labels or moderation. ๐งต
They're building a generation of consumers who have no ideas of their own, no critical thought, no creativity, no love of learning, no craft, and no patience. Magikarp era with no evolution path.
To explain how this happened. When I had to model Sonic for "Sonic Dash", SEGA sent me 3D models as a guide.
SEGA Japan reviewed my submission and said "it doesn't match the Sonic we sent perfectly. Make it match 100%"
"Keep a passionate heart and a cool head."
Let's do some legwork - Eddy Gordo is the first Season 1 playable character in
#TEKKEN8
!
Pre-order TEKKEN 8๐ค
The way Jungle music had an absolute GRIP on videogames in the late 90s and early 2000s was no freakin' joke. It didn't even matter what the damn game genre was.
Stating "oh I can see this is AI. Look at the fabric" is really missing the point here. Your parents will glance at this stuff and the propaganda will succeed if you don't help them.
Zelda, Jedi: Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy, all hitting gargantuan sales numbers with no Multiplayer or LIVE service - is absolutely going to affect the games we see in the coming 3-4 years.
Okay, I'm sure almost nobody knows this.
In Street Fighter 3rd Strike when the announcer says "Let's Go!" when your super bar is charged - that's actually Adam West's Batman. They ripped the whole damn audio from the 1966 TV show.
The wrong thing to do is say "look at the hands" or "check out the teeth". This AI photography has only existed for like 4months. In 2 years it will be indistinguishable.
The correct thing to ask is "Does this Photo cite real sources? Can we prove the origin of this image?"
This was many years ago guys - I'm all good now.
I was just pulling it out the archives to share advice.
Also, physical BURNOUT can come from enduring excessive Micro-Management, Harassment, Bullying, and Toxic Work enviros too. Recognise it.
Some assume 'burnout' means 'exhausted'. Nope. It can mean your body floods you with lactic acid that it can't process. This keeps you in a perpetual anxious state as you are destroyed from the inside. Stress hyperlactataemia is bad, but mine was bad bad. Listen to your body!
1 final note. If you're a minority we are told that we'll be the LAST to be promoted unless we do DOUBLE the work. I've never been promoted (I get offered a promotion almost every time I announce I'm leaving though) but issa trap - Promote yourself by leaving if you have to๐
Some context: This was a long ass time ago. I've worked 14+ games across 8 studios now, so your guess of where this was is likely wrong.
I was working overtime, always. My superiors were VERY happy with me, and I was always being told I was doing a great job then BOOM๐ฅ
I'm told that my hands started to shake and I burst into laughter before collapsing (lol). I also found out the pain in my stomach was caused by my body making too much bile, giving me stress induced gastroesophageal reflux symptoms. My body was eating itself as I hit deadlines
From the studio's perspective - I was hitting all deadlines and my work was looking great. I was not visibly 'failing', I was excelling and praised.
But Gamedevs, please learn to say "nah, that's not realistic", because if you were to ask me if any of this worth it for the game?
You can create a Golden Joystick nominated Indie game that has 9/10 on IGN and Steam reviews, wins a BAFTA for best British Game, is profitable, and the megacorps will still shut you down ๐
Take-Two - owner of the biggest entertainment product of all time, GTA - is shutting down award-winning 15yo indie studio Roll7 (Rollerdrome, OlliOlli World) and Intercept Games (Kerbal Space Program) as part of layoffs largely affecting Private Division:
@NICKIMINAJ
Hi Nicki Minaj. Nice of you to Retweet me. I hope you understand that by promoting Ai generated images, which are scraping my industry's artwork illegally- you are undermining our craft. It also opens up precedent to normalize Ai generated versions of Your songs and voice. Thanks
Draw whatever you want, just don't go around stating "this is literally how women are shaped".
Read a book, watch the Olympics, meet some women, do more life drawing, or have a slut era. Any of these options could correct that misinformation.
Seems like every game studio is hiring, yet finding it difficult to fill every role they need.
Everyone is making something insanely ambitious, yet competing for limited resources in the form of skilled & experienced workers, but nobody wants to train juniors... Unsustainable.
After 1 month in the US, I still can't find Bread that tastes like Bread. So I tried to Google these odd ingredients "Dough Conditioner" AKA Potassium Bromate and "Azodicarbonamide", below are the results.
TLDR: US bread is illegal in EU and actively tries to kill you ๐ ๐บ๐ธ
Final Fantasy X is the richest and culturally unique compared to others because of how South East Asian influenced it is, instead of European. Even Blitzball and the Jecht Shot is likely lifted straight from Malaysian Sepak Takraw.
Happy Birthday to a game whose magic remains timeless :) If my content creation journey has taught me one thing, it's that I'm not alone in my love for Final Fantasy X. Forever grateful to have found this masterpiece, and everything that has happened in my life as a result
#ProjectPrimrose
by Christine Dierk has just been revealed. An interactive physical dress, that demonstrates the potential use of โflexible textile displaysโ
#AdobeMAX
It's worth showcasing that all these 'average women' all weigh 68kg, yet have very different silhouettes. Only 2 have clear hourglass shapes with the other 3 being either top heavy or column balanced. Body diversity, yo.
Yo, shout-out to the Celebes Crested Macaque monkey named NARUTO, who's 2008 selfie saved us from AI art ever being able to be copyrighted.
The courts determined in 2014 that copyright requires Human authorship and the Photographer who owned the cam couldn't claim the rights.
The 2007 writers strike ruined Heroes, Prison Break, and Desperate Housewives. We lost an entire season of The Office and Family Guy. It very nearly killed Lost.
Be afraid, kids. Your treasured shows could be slaughtered because Wordsmiths are yet again not respected.
Nightly talk shows, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, to shut down immediately after writers strike called
@Lightbuthearty
Sarcastic replies are culturally the British people's highest form of love-expression. Other British people will comment under this to confirm.
@MotleyGrue
Yeah, I am a complete victim of this. I used to say Birmingham is nowhere near London to Americans. Now I realise that's just a commute for a Californian.
I was a Lead Artist on Halo Wars 2 when we hired a super talented artist from a Japanese studio. One of his first days he came over to ask what was happening and why ppl are standing up. I explained it was 5.30pm and they're going home. His face was a blend of ๐ง and ๐ฎ
After every Tokyo Game Show, all these western journalists run around fetishizing Japanese studios/developers like tourists with blinders on and it is absolutely infuriating.
Hereโs some real talk: many Japanese devs make shockingly low wages and crunch for literally years.
It's one of the reasons I rarely mention I work on a Sonic game if it comes up in conversation. I was effectively 3D tracing someone else's model.
I also didn't get credited for it as I left SEGA to contract for Arkham Origins... Which I also didn't get credited for ๐คก
At *redacted* studio I was sculpting a woman character and the Lead told me I'm making the thighs too wide. I showed him my reference, and he responded "yes but most people prefer thin women"
My response started with "FIRST OF ALL" - I do not remember the rest.
@basedgirlbosss
Equating "Plain sandwiches tastes unenjoyable" to a false stereotype of an entire people, stemming from a single taboo festival in Guangxi - isn't the same thing. Sorry that you can't see the difference.
This was one of the most well optimized games I've ever worked on. Running at 60fps with 4 playable characters in an open world city is not easy. We had to be careful with every texture size, every polygon, every material draw call. Hope you all enjoy.
๐จ The download size of
#SuicideSquadGame
for PS5 has been revealed!
Itโs current version (1.003.00) is sitting at 45.207 GB! ๐
Some proper file compression, good job Rocksteady! ๐ฏ
Imagine seeing spicy fan art and thinking "Oh no! This threesome doesn't have a petticoat or a chemise, anywhere. I need to help these poor, horny teenagers"
Ah yes, I'm a paid mole. As are the 100k+ people that think Ai in marketing damages a brand. Please just tell me WHO is paying us, because we would like know who to Invoice.
Barbz, anyone retweeting it or discussing it is a paid mole. Quote tweet them @ your own risk. If your head hurting use the block button & blokk me โถ๏ธ if your head hurt getcho crazy tail self the fukk off the internet.
#PressPLAY
has been added to
#PinkFriday2
LA guy I met today: "Marvel blockbusters ruined films by making everything about CGI. Things without CGI always look way better. Just look at your Brit show The Crown."
The Crown!? My brother in Christ.
@wkerslake
Absolutely. Especially because those guys have hundreds and hundreds of recorded hours of their voices. It's too much data to ever get it wrong.
We we're already living in a post-truth landscape even with clear facts. Can't imagine how it will be now... Cults resurgence maybe
It's also worth mentioning that once you make a model for a company it belongs to them to re-use as they wish without mentioning you. That's the norm, unfortunately.
Impressed how Writers shut Hollywood down overnight. If videogame devs had that unity, they'd be so powerful.
We'd probably have 12 Soul Reavers sequels by now.
Anyway muting this - presumably many of you have never met puritan parents before, and have no idea how common young-teen pregnancies were in the 90s when the internet was just an idea.
Have a nice day.
James Gunn just stated that DC want the film, games, and animation characters to be consistent and played by the same actors.
I'll never work on a DC title ever again if that's upheld. You've lost your mind if you think Hollywood can outdo
@tarastrong
's Harley or any VA actor.
My white friends, reporting me is completely unnecessary. I, also, love an occasional turkey sandwich. We're in this together, stop the British on British violence ๐ฌ๐ง ๐