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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

9 months

Truly a graphic design golden age we’re in right now

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Mike Bithell

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7 months

In a healthy industry, this game would already have three publishers fighting for it, and an as of yet unannounced all star voice cast.

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7 months

Update week 3 on Dino-Sword, a personal game project. All Rough animations for now. Music by @nestormronda give him a follow!

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

11 months

I absolutely hate that being technically competent in 2023 means sounding like a Luddite when it comes to the latest digital snake oil. These things are always cool, fascinating tech, but the are also always massively oversold and dishonestly represented, with roughshod ethics.

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Mike Bithell

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6 months

I need someone from the team to DM me if this stuff was all written or if you folks put improv performers in the booth with each other for these moments. Either is impressive. The latter doubly so from a pipeline and approvals perspective.

TheeDreadGod

@TheeDreadGod

6 months

BRO DID YALL SEE THIS?? LMAOOO THE NPC CONVOS IN SPIDER-MAN 2 are HUULLARRIOOOOSSSSS😂😂😂

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

10 months

(Alasdair’s cool and this is a joke) Fun thing: players don’t trust a smooth loading bar. The stutters and pauses show you that the load is ‘biting’. I’ve worked on games where we artificially faked it. Game design: often starts before the game does.

Alasdair Beckett-King

@MisterABK

10 months

Game developers need to invent a loading bar that moves at an even speed, reflecting the amount of time a game will take to load. Once that's done, they can start working on graphics, jumping etc.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

Used to quite like the corridor digital videos for their unpacking of complex stuff for punters. This swing to just insulting other artists (and often misrepresenting the processes they're showing) is just massively disappointing. The algo pushing them off course?

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

You ever make a game about rectangles so good it changed your life and gave you an odd emotional attachment to the engine that made your career possible, only to see the same idiots you were escaping come along and ruin that too, cutting off that path for the next generation?

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Fill the replies to this tweet with awesome games from trans creators please! For absolutely no reason at all.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

11 months

The biggest issue with these timelines continues to be cumulative impact of task estimation. Stuff like crunch comes about because the best project managers in the world cannot possibly be expected to spotlessly plan 5 years. Constantly paying off time debt they can't catch up on

VGC

@VGC_News

11 months

Xbox Game Studios chief Matt Booty has said that both game players and the industry in general need to realise that most big games now have development cycles of around half a decade.

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Mike Bithell

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7 months

Fuck. Just doom scrolling and seeing all of the people out of work is killing me. Our industry normalises this shit, and cycles it. Seeing the ‘come work with us’ tweets from studios who did their own layoffs months ago is certainly a look.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

10 months

It is genuinely impressive how many smart people have been fooled into thinking current ‘AI’ models are anything more than ‘guess the next word really well’ toys. That’s it. It cannot give you professional advice. It can’t even tell you a joke with a punchline.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

Honestly ‘game that’s mentioned whenever a cube shows up’ is a hell of a legacy and I have no complaints.

Alex Strook

@AlexStrook

7 months

Thomas Was Alone but if it was an AAAA PS5 Exclusive

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

4 months

This is the core of it. AI is too stupid to do your job (and LLMs probably always will be), but your boss is very probably too stupid to realize that.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

@doctorow

4 months

That's the true cost of the automation-unemployment #CritiHype : while we're nowhere near bots stealing your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that *fails* doing your job: 45/

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Weird moment of pride that the audience saw through this nonsense so quickly that it died almost instantly.

PC Gamer

@pcgamer

1 year

Are publishers backing away from NFTs because they don't see value in them, or because they get ruthlessly mocked online every time they talk about them?

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

It’s the 10 year anniversary of the morning I woke up with enough cash from Thomas Was Alone to quit my day job. For all the ups and downs, I think Mike of then would feel good about how I played the hand he dealt. Some good games, some better collaborations, and more ahead.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

*stretches, prepares to ruin a perfectly good joke* There's actually a game design in this. Ask a player to roll their own dice and input them, but then track the history of their inputs and futz with stuff based on their statistical likelihood of having been honest over time.

Paul Kilduff-Taylor

@mode7games

7 months

a good solution to the "dice aren't tactile in video games" issue is simply to require that the player roll the dice IRL and input the result

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

9 months

Having now seen Oppenheimer I am filled with absolute admiration for anyone who came out of that and then immediately walked into a screening of Barbie. I want to walk in the rain for 3 hours.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

I think there are still a lot of people at Unity who think that this is a comms issue, rather than a ‘breaking the TOS in a way that utterly dismantles trust and also demonstrates a total misunderstanding of the games industry, again’ issue.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

Lol, I hadn’t even thought about the game pass implications until moments ago. Oh unity, you strange jumble of people just discovering the videogame industry for the first time. (Real talk, sincere sympathy for massive number of people who tried to explain this to the suits)

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

I would like to acknowledge any confusion and frustration anybody has felt as a direct result of reading and understanding my publicly stated, ill constructed and somewhat legally and technically unenforceable positions. I will be providing no further information at this time.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

I swear to god, Unity, I have managed 15 years on here without having to do a jpeg announcement… please don’t break my streak with this nonsense.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

*imagine* letting folks like Kenney go and start making stuff for your competitors. Imagine making a series of choices that set things like that in motion.

Kenney

@KenneyNL

8 months

The @godotengine Splash Screen repository has been updated based on your feedback! Now neatly organized in folders, 7 new screens (including horror themed) and 18 vector logos.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

I present a universal law of science fiction art direction: Make the floor wetter.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

The thread about 'with AI you could make a game the size of cyberpunk' is too stupid. It crashed my computer. It somehow manages to be ignorant of AI, games, the concept of scale, cyber, and even punk.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

Just do the walk back, Unity, this is getting embarrassing.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

I keep cycling back to this tweet and how hilariously exposing it is. Given that their model legally cannot be collecting real user data, it amounts to a guess. A guess they are refusing to break down to those they’re hoping to bill. Walk back imminent, but it reveals a lot.

Unity

@unity

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@CactusVRStudios We leverage our own proprietary data model, so you can appreciate that we won’t go into a lot of detail, but we believe it gives an accurate determination of the number of times the runtime is distributed for a given project.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Y’all weren’t kidding about RRR. Love it so much.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

9 months

Literally never put a line on a map of the world in your game, folks. World map is possibly the most political image you can put in a thing yet nobody thinks of it that way until… well… this happens.

Proley Taire 🏳️‍⚧️

@sex_pervert

9 months

🧵THREAD: MrBeast just released a video titled "Every Country On Earth Fights for $250.000". MrBeast has chosen to wade into every single geopolitical conflict at once. What counts as a county to MrBeast? He makes a LOT of strange choices and mistakes:

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

5 months

Really simple folks: share information revealed in a leak which exposed and endangered a lot of industry professionals, immediately lose credibility and participation from the rest of us.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Today's a special day, it's a decade since I incorporated a company for £30 so Valve would pay me TWA royalties :) Since then it's outgrown me, into a fantastic team of 20 making stuff I wouldn't have dared to dream of, doing so compassionately and at a world class standard.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

4 months

Die Hard is a JRPG

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

I wasn’t allowed a console at home until the ps2 (I was 15)… ‘I don’t want you wasting your life on videogames’ This comes up Every. Single. Christmas.

Trust

@AlexisTrust

7 months

I had to move back in with my Ma at 19. She once stormed into my room, ripped the plug out of my Xbox & snapped "you'll never get a job playing video games all day". When my first SEGA paycheck dropped, I sent her a copy with "never get a job playing video games all day huh?!"

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Mike Bithell

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8 months

I’d really like it if they stopped telling us we’re confused. If anything, the issue is an over abundance of clarity.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

9 months

Becoming a little too fascinated by the crop of grifter former game devs. It's a thrilling villain arc I'm hoping I have the grace to avoid down the road. Mostly it's just a bit embarrassing.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

2 months

It’s wild how many 30 something men have created a successful racket for themselves by exploiting and reinforcing the insecurities of teenage boys via embarrassing YouTube thumbnails.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

Jessie is pointing out the specific challenge of AI implementation in games. We've been doing proc gen and emergent behaviour for decades without trouble and with amazing outcomes. The LLM bubble, and the money attached, is something else, and shouldn't be confused.

Jessie Earl

@jessiegender

7 months

AI (or what it actually is - machine learning) is not inherently bad. It's a tool, and tools can be used ethically, as they generally have been in games for years. However, much recent AI use has been unethical (stealing art, replacing jobs, deepfakes). That needs legislation.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

10 months

So excited to get the design, writing, art, code, animation, music and sound offloaded to AI so we can focus on the creative side of game development.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

I cannot express strongly enough how little relevance your opinion of a studio's output has to stories of layoffs. Also, if the last couple of weeks have taught us anything, it's that 'demonstrable success of game(s)' and 'number of folks laid off' do not correlate meaningfully.

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

The most interesting thing about where AI is at right now, is it’s demonstrating how much believability relies on the beholder’s own skill set. I can’t code python, so those code snippets look mind blowing. I can write, so the poetry is laughably shit.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Just a masterpiece of a campaign this. Maybe the best.

Jamie Moran

@JamieMoranUK

1 year

In TitanFall 2 We got the Single Greatest Set piece moment in all of Video Games. One of the many reasons why we need a 3rd Game:

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Mike Bithell

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8 months

I will say this about the last week, then put my phone away. Leaders don’t send out their employees to do damage control through unofficial channels. I really feel for and respect the folks who’ve put themselves out there. I have opposite feelings for the cowards above them.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

11 months

Fun game.. - Casually watch an old Conan O'Brien clip, see if he makes a joke about someone on his team. - Google that person - Note that they still work together decades later. Says a lot about the dude and the environment he created.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

11 months

Big fan of online criticism, think it’s great for players and game devs alike. Great stuff. But boy do some of you go off the rails when theorising about HOW a project ended up a certain way. Expertise in a field is about knowing what you don’t know, and couldn’t possibly know.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

11 months

Me, seeing that photoshop ‘extend image’ ai feature: Hmm, yeah, I see how that’d save folks some time, neat feature, let’s see Every AI bro I’m served on here: Artists are DONE. Composition is history, from now all images are unending. Get a new job, fans of mise en scène […]

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Really gutted. Was a joy to work with, massively generous as a performer. Thoughts with his family.

Letterboxd

@letterboxd

1 year

Lance Reddick (1962-2023) 🤍

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Mike Bithell

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Said it before, will say it again, getting stuff from our games into one of the parks is my new work ambition. This stuff is so cool.

Star Wars

@starwars

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Playful, curious, and cute. BDX droids are exploring Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Guests may encounter them around Black Spire Outpost in @Disneyland Park for a limited time during Season of the Force.

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

I promise you that most, if not all, billionaires are exactly this stupid. Most at least have financially incentivised hangers on keeping them from publicly showing their whole arse. Not only is he stupid, he has nobody in his life stopping him.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

What a time to be a game industry lawyer.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

4 months

A lot of marketing folks are gonna have to learn to spot AI generated submissions very very quickly, aren't they.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

9 months

We exist. Therefore, either: - No aliens have visited Earth - Aliens of immense technical superiority have visited, and unlike any time in our own human history, this power disparity has not harmed the weaker party (us) Either way we’re living the best case scenario, alienwise

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

Most troubling thing with Unity’s silence, at this point, is that all the ‘back channel, on the down low’ info I’ve heard from buddies and colleagues about what’s going on in there is contradictory. Which implies either confusion or a war raging. Neither of those things is great.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

Hehe, having failed to invent a magical install counting tool, unity are… hoping we will? Or that we’ll guess and they can challenge that? Doesn’t sound super solid, I’ll be honest.

Jason Schreier

@jasonschreier

8 months

SCOOP: In a company all-hands meeting this morning, game tech maker Unity addressed the pay-per-install debacle and floated several big changes to the controversial new policy, including a 4% cap on fees and customers self-reporting installations.

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

Just saw a young artist having to upload timelapse of their process to prove that the work in their portfolio isn't AI generated. That feels like a threshold we can't walk back from. Interesting new thing to check for in hiring process. Gonna need to rethink our art tests.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

PC isn’t a platform, it’s millions of slightly different platforms, often built at home from parts. Every major bug free launch is a miracle.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Ah, British comedy. Reliably impossible to recommend 10 years after airing because, while progressive in its day, there is that one episode with that one character.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

24 days

Idea for a film: musical. Joker from Batman and Lady Gaga. Lipstick on a mirror. I’m in it.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

5 months

nah, fuck off

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

5 months

We are a reasonable country, but our patience has now run out. Our Parliament is sovereign, and it should be able to make decisions that cannot be undone in our courts. That’s what this emergency legislation delivers.

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Mike Bithell

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11 months

Hi. Words like ‘cis’ and ‘straight’ just mean a type of person. They only sound odd or aggressive if you consider those types of people ‘default’ or ‘normal’, making the words unnecessary. It’s an interesting bias to explore in yourself but probably best done privately.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

@PGalaxyPurple lol

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

10 months

@tha_rami Nah Rami, when you leave the room, the sandwiches are stored in the food buffer of the gpu.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Might release a TRON this year.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

TRON: Identity is out now! Let's go! Steam: Switch:

TRON: Identity for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy TRON: Identity and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

10 months

Hi, please disclose the datasets used by these tools, otherwise commercial usage remains incredibly dangerous legally for your customers.

Unity for Games

@unitygames

10 months

Imagine more with Unity AI 🔮 Introducing: ⭐ #UnityMuse , a platform of AI capabilities for content creation, with Muse Chat for AI-based search now in closed beta ⭐ #UnitySentis for AI-powered experiences at Unity runtime, now in closed beta Learn more:

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

You make new friends on every project!

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

2 months

I made the mistake, last time this reactionary nonsense picked up volume, of trying to engage with the substance of the voiced concerns. Not this time I’m afraid. Your fav dweeb online is playing to your anger for ad revenue. Don’t be a mark, and question it critically yourself.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

2 months

Loved the bit at the oscars where they wheeled out the cast of a tie in game, miyamoto, and the very confused looking creator of Pong to deliver speeches on why they felt movies were absolutely a valid art form, and in many ways just as important to culture as games.

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

Two tweets right next to each other in my timeline, one about the terrifying rate of game media layoffs, the other a streamer complaining that a dev was refusing to pay for coverage. Oooff.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

not to be all 'please clap' about it, but if y'all could retweet and share this tweet from @BithellGames you'd be doing us a solid.. got properly derezzed by that twitter outage

Bithell Games

@BithellGames

1 year

Prepare to enter a new Grid where an unprecedented crime has been committed and uncover its dangerous truths. TRON: Identity launches APRIL 2023 for Nintendo Switch and PC! Wishlist now!➡️ #TRONLives #TRONIdentity

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Mike Bithell

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8 months

Hey devs, consider factoring in engine retraining time for your team into your upcoming budgets. I expect indie publishers are already privately discussing their strategy here, but I wouldn’t be shocked if some transparently make space for this when booking next projects.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

9 months

I feel like a lot of days in game dev are about discovering which long held truths are bollocks. Turns out folks never really tired of beautiful game manuals, and we found a way to get one made and shared for a digital release. Expecting a lot of folks to follow this lead.

Bithell Games

@BithellGames

9 months

We’re incredibly happy with the reception of The Banished Vault’s manual -- a 10% attach rate to the game itself! From day one the manual has been written alongside the game, and we love how many people find it an integral component to the experience.

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

It just occurred to me properly that I'm currently writing and directing the first TRON media in over a decade and that's melted my brain a bit. Hope it's good.

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Mike Bithell

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26 days

Artists. Put a portfolio in your profile if you're out here looking for jobs. You have 20 seconds of my attention from seeing 'looking for gigs', to me clicking your profile, to me seeing there's not a portfolio and moving on. Not saying this to be mean, but yeah, make it easy

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

Excited to be pitched slightly fewer NFT projects at DICE next year

Ryan T. Brown 🔜 WASD

@Toadsanime

8 months

NFTs are officially dead. 95% of NFTs are estimated to be literally worthless, with pieces from top collections mostly worth $5-$10. Roughly 25 million people are sat on dead assets, thanks to celebrity endorsements. The speculative bubble has popped:

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Mike Bithell

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7 months

Fuck the tories, obviously

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

Not to be too old man about this, but this worries me too. Even the smarter stuff coming out is often massively, massively out of touch with what shipping a game actually entails.. and don't get me started on that 'I made game x in ONE WEEK' nonsense ;)

Hayden Scott-Baron ✨

@docky

8 months

I took for granted how many experienced people I worked alongside and consulted at the start of my game career. So many junior devs I encounter now have a foundation of pseudo knowledge from YouTubers that have never shipped a game. It’s difficult to unpick this.

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Mike Bithell

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3 months

Intentionally pretty quiet on the socials for a while now, and a while into the future. Pretty single-mindedly focused on keeping my people safe and things rolling. Pretty reasonable reaction to 2024 in games I reckon.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Adding 'not hardcore' to every job listing going forward

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1 year

Holy shit. Credible sources. Humanity might make it.

David Sheppard

@OilSheppard

1 year

FUSION ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH: US scientists have made one of the most significant leaps in decades in the search for the Holy Grail of energy - limitless, carbon free power - by achieving net energy gain in a fusion reaction Huge scoop by @thomas_m_wilson

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Mike Bithell

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7 months

@Erestyn yeah, started with excitement about AI stuff, which I get, but increasingly they're content is framing AI as better or an improvement.. while missing the obvious artistic and technological drawbacks. Shame to see.

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@mikeBithell

9 months

Sold

PC Gamer

@pcgamer

9 months

Ubisoft says Assassin's Creed Mirage is only 20–30 hours long.

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Mike Bithell

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1 year

This place is excellent! If you’re here, I’m the dude in the corner playing the excellent new TRON game on my switch ;) #allthedisneythrills

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

2 months

This is the big one. Your peers are gonna have careers alongside you. I cannot express how empowering that will be a decade from now. Meet your hero and have a fun chat, but look for the talented people at the same place in their career as you and share the journey.

Eric Stirpē

@stirpicus

2 months

To all the going to GDC for the first time next week, especially students: remember that networking is not about collecting interactions with “notable” game devs like filling a Pokédex. It’s making friends with and getting to know your peers in the industry.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Every now and again I let myself think that the royals are relatively harmless anachronism, and then I see the police talking about their low tolerance for dissent and the old man hat party stops being so much fun.

Metropolitan Police

@metpoliceuk

1 year

Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low. We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration. 🧵🔽

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

I do not use the word ‘things’ in my profile lightly…

Wario64

@Wario64

1 year

More Tron games are coming from Bithell Games, starting with Tron Identity releasing tomorrow

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

4 months

Side note: how cool is it to watch a showcase voiced by the teams with lots of sweet sweet turnarounds of game assets on monitors and folks trying to work with headphones on and heads down. Feels proud of the medium in a way that I wanna see more of.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

2 months

What a continued and exponentially awful shit show.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Happy birthday @TroyBakerVA , you annoyingly talented bastard

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

2 months

Catching an Uber outside @KindaFunnyVids , dude says to me “what goes on in there, I keep dropping off guys to that place” I’ll never tell.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

10 months

Me, handing you, an investor, a piece of toast. "Using an exciting new AI pipeline, we used ML to figure out the perfect point on the bread to ash timeline. Our generative models, patent pending, tell us exactly when someone will want toast, before they even know themselves."

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

lol at adults using the word 'woke' as a pejorative

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

My career in games, 2007-2023… it has been… a journey.

Philip Tibitoski ❄️

@PTibz

7 months

Start of my game dev career (2010) to now. 3 released games in 13 years and we’re working on the 4th rn. Got married, got a house, had a son. It’s been good. 👍🏼

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

My brain keeps parsing this car as being made of foil wrapped cardboard, and in that context this is a pretty impressive school project. Moves almost like a real car.

⚙️ Mike, cyberowners.com

@TeslaTruckClub

1 year

Cybertruck taking tight turns with 4 wheel steering looks amazing! Also better taillights on this one. Source: no idea 😄

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

11 months

Fuck the tories, obviously, but also fuck the corrupt hypocrisy they consistently reveal at the heart of a country I’m still somehow quite fond of. The rich and powerful behave like they’re exempt from basic morality because they are, and they act accordingly.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

This is disappointing. Whatever your views on AI, it has absolutely no value in a portfolio for a professional art role in the industry. I cannot appraise your concept development skills and give you a job by looking at your search terms.

jake benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Just got an email regarding an end of year portfolio showcase project from my uni, where they've created a category where you MUST use AI generated concept art as a base to work from...

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

8 months

I’ve leveraged an amazing proprietary model (which you’ll understand I can’t share the details of) to confirm this has happened to Adriel 100k times.

Adriel Wallick

@MsMinotaur

8 months

I’ve decided that every time Unity crashes (or has crashed in the last 12 months), Unity now owes me $10

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

One Perfect Shot

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Ah. Great reviews.. phew.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

At this point, I’m assuming this site will eventually just fizzle out boringly. If that happens, it’s been a pleasure, I’m profoundly grateful that you lot have supported my nonsense up til now, and helped me find a massive number of similarly daft folks to create nonsense with.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

1 year

Got a secret for ya. A writing secret. Three act structure? Five act structure? Hero's Journey? .. It's all just a bunch of excuses to think about causality and character growth. They're pretty much interchangeable. .. Use 'em if you need 'em, ignore 'em if you wanna.

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Mike Bithell

@mikeBithell

7 months

Grant bonuses to players who report low values, penalize the players who are unreasonably lucky. It creates a whole layer of conversation between the player and the game, where they're self consciously trying to appear 'honest' to the extent that luck is downplayed.

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