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sol brennan

@wuffles

9 months

If you need to get in touch with me, you can find all the relevant info here:

Contact Sol Brennan

Links/contact methods for Sol Brennan - game dev.

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sol brennan

@wuffles

2 years

This is what CGI took from us.

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Godzilla (1998)- Baby Godzilla Costumes

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I worry this will kill my career - but this has been eating at me every single day for a year now. Last year I was so depressed - for the first time in my life I started to contemplate suicide. I left Insomniac Games because of how they treat women. 1/??

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Trying to make video games when there is a coup happening in the USA

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11 months

Okay gamedev twitter; I need to know. Who the fuck was responsible for programming Black & White 2 to record creepy whispers of common names; look for your name on your computer, and get it to whisper it only if you played it past midnight? Cause it fucked me UP

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Concepts artists... Modellers... Please talk to your riggers. 😭

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3 years

Number one tactic an employer will use to break up solidarity is breaking employees down into smaller groups, then eventually 1:1s. This isolates you and allows them more control over you. There is power in numbers. This isn't good enough.

Uppercut 🥊

@UppercutCrit

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Activision Blizzard will not be holding any more all hands calls to address the current situation. Instead, the company is hosting "discussion sessions" for employees, and has not addressed the walkout in any significant way

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That's my girl... This is the last thing I worked on at Insomniac. I put every ounce I could into bringing her to life with the help my so many talented former colleagues. I hope they can continue to do her right. ✌️

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Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart

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@FromHappyRock The hands ones are killing me lol

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3 years

FINALLY!! YES to this new technology!! 🐝 🐝🐝

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@wuffles

4 years

To all my new followers: yes - I love Ratchet and Clank. And yes; I've seen what the furry community has done to them. Rock on my little filthy heathens. We know what we did.

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4 years

Firstly - let me say there are so many GOOD amazing people at Insomniac that I would never want to direct harm their way. But there also is a culture of hiding the ugliness that comes from the very top.

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4 years

I have a list in the double digits of women who were harmed by the actions of this company - some so much so that they declined to speak about it to me at all. Insomniac has throttled careers of great women, left them no option but to 'resign' and protected sexual predators.

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3 years

Hot take: Crunch culture would almost entirely disappear if everyone was paid overtime, especially at a higher than base rate, including salaried employees. Every time I’ve proposed this as a solution it’s been immediately dismissed by management. Not even a trial. 🤷

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4 years

I know, in my time there, of at LEAST 3 sexual predators that were protected. One left of his own accord (as far as I can tell), one was fired (despite them being given a heads up earlier) when he became too dangerous and was sexually assaulting people.

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1 year

@FromHappyRock Holy I completely forgot the last line - where they want to create an A/I that draws like people do. Wow. Miyazaki nailed it even back then.

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4 years

One still remains - despite there being a mountain of evidence to get rid of him - because 'it's not clear who was in the right or wrong'. This was all in the near 4 years I worked there.

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4 years

Also, I want to add. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I have so many more incidents that broke me down over time. Last year was definitely the worst for it. I don't know if I have the energy to lay them all out right now. But thank you all for believing me. ♥️

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4 years

This eventually got him to stop. And we went to a bar afterwards to meet some others. I excused myself after this. His name is Edgar Vargas. I don't know where he is right now. I honestly don't care.

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@wuffles

3 years

The fact that the brick leaves brick shaped footprints in the snow shows that tech art did it's job right tho. 😂 @ChrisPerrella @JavaCoolDude

@rob-sheridan.com on BSky

@rob_sheridan

3 years

So my #MilesMoralesPS5 has broken in a spectacular way. I collided with a wall and became... Spider-Brick.

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4 years

Because this is all vaguities - let me give you a clear example. I trusted the guy in HR there. He gave me weird vibes and an uneasiness in my stomach - but I pushed them aside because I believe the best in people and that even tho I was uncomfortable - there was no clear cause.

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@wuffles

4 years

So here I am. Announcing it to the world and probably getting myself blacklisted for it. I suffered so badly at Insomniac. I wanted to stay. DESPERATELY. I have so many good friends there. I was universally loved at the company.

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@wuffles

2 years

@KikiDoodleTweet This is worse than the cut my poor mums cat got earlier this year

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@wuffles

4 years

FWIW, I would like to reiterate here - I am not a woman. But I lived as one for almost 30 years. So I know the experiences and how it feels to be afraid and what it is like to be in their shoes.

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4 years

He would get in your personal space - get really close to you. He would tell you stories or inappropriate jokes which were a little on the edge for me. But I appreciated his company and went to him for advice many times.

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@wuffles

4 years

In secret, in the small meeting rooms there - he confessed his attraction to me. Not once. But twice. I brushed it off - marked it off as only human. Despite my partner at the time also being at the company (this was known).

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@wuffles

4 years

After he was fired (for dating an intern while they were at the company over a year after it happened), I sniffed him down and found out he had abused so many others and so deeply. The company conveniently gave him the boot the week after #MeToo of August 2019.

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4 years

He told me not to tell him and because I was his friend I didn't. Plus, it would make work weird. At the time, I didn't realise how this power dynamic was deeply troubling. He was our main HR recruiter. He would go to conferences and be on booths.

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@wuffles

4 years

But my future was a dead end - there was nowhere for me to go. I watched many women around me suffer and have to go to intense therapy after being gaslit and framed for mistakes made by others. They still suffer. I still suffer. I am deeply saddened.

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@wuffles

4 years

I personally had my career throttled. I watched men around me get promotions (and rightly so - for they were amazing!) - while I had a carrot dangled in front of me for years. I know this doesn't happen exclusively to women - but to anyone who dares to speak up.

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@wuffles

4 years

It was only when I affirmed pretty strongly that 1. I am happily in a relationship and had been for 5+ years. and 2. completely and utterly asexual. Sex and sexual acts do nothing for me and I would never partake in them, that he backed off.

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@wuffles

4 years

Insomniac promotes a culture of open honestly. You can speak to anyone about anything. You can ask any question. I put that to the test and even tho we were told this was the case - it was not. When one of my friends was forced to quit, I handed in my resignation the next day.

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@wuffles

4 years

Through all of this. So little of the men in the company around us supported us. The only true ally I can point to is @xavierck3d who was made miserable at the company for fighting for what he believed in and daring to make a change.

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4 years

And once again, this isn't to say it was all bad. I did amazing work at the company. I have so many good friends there. They sponsored my visa and Greencard which I am eternally grateful for. But women needed them. And they failed them. I don't want them to fail women anymore.

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@wuffles

4 years

Even those where we would go to women only events like Grace Hopper and such. He constantly said we should go drinking - and our birthdays were literal days apart. So one time we did.

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@wuffles

4 years

He told me how he would fuck me, and how he give me what my current boyfriend (who I was happy and content with and he knew this) couldn't. He laboured the point. Over and over. Explicitly. I can't remember most of the words. I blurred it out in my memory.

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@wuffles

4 years

Why would I speak up? Because it was encouraged. And because they promised - most of all - that there would be no backlash or retaliation. We thought about lawyers but we know how the legal system works in America. I thought about going to journalists - but couldn't trust them.

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I knew however, that the company had been warned of his activities at least once months prior. And that he was constantly known by many for going out for drinks - especially with the interns. I know others left the company because of him. And he was only 1/3 men I KNOW.

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@wuffles

4 years

It felt like it lasted forever. I laughed nervously - I was very uncomfortable. But this was just guy talk right? He was my good friend. We had known each other for years. We ended up at a ramen bar, and he continued to come on to me there too.

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4 years

He drove to pick me up, and as we drove to Little Tokyo - he spoke of his love life. How it wasn't going anywhere and his girlfriend and him weren't close. And then he started getting explicit.

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4 years

Mocat

𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒏 | Apple Vision Pro楽しい!!

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4 years

猫がモーションキャプチャされてるのめっちゃいい。可愛すぎる。最高。すりすりしてるモーション今すぐ売ってほしい。モーションだけで可愛いってずっと見てられる

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2 months

You know what sucks? Game studios taking advantage of the fact they've just laid everyone off. Saw a job ad for Sony Santa Monica that was 3 very senior roles in one, with pay equal to only one or those jobs and... CONTRACT. I know it's tough out there but don't these jobs

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@wuffles

2 years

For an industry constantly screaming out 'WE NEED SENIOR TALENT' it sure doesn't fucking act like it. So many companies looking for 'perfect' fits, dropping the ball on recruitment, ghosting and inconsistencies in hiring.

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@wuffles

3 years

I quit midway thru working on my absolute dream game b/c of the shit I experienced & saw. From the moment I played Ratchet - I wanted to make that. And I was DOING IT. And making a WOMAN PROTAGONIST. This was supposed to be the DREAM. And yet I left after just over 1.5 yes on it

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3 years

I bought a house! On an island! With a view!!

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10 months

Already proof of how USELESS AI generated content is - anything I Googled for help in TotK would give me 5-6 different websites with the same templates and same mostly useless and wordy content. I bought a hardcopy game guide for the first time since the PS2 (???) instead.

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11 months

Could have sworn the headline said: 'Billionaire Clown Brazenly Lies Yet Again; Undermining the People He Exploited to Make Him So Disgustingly Rich'

Variety

@Variety

11 months

“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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@wuffles

2 years

@xavierck3d But wait there’s more

✨ a l e x ✨

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2 years

@_TechJess it gets worse. lol.

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@wuffles

5 years

I understand this is how the world works but would be real nice if devs got that money from, you know, making the game instead. 🙃

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Report: EA paid Ninja $1 million to stream Apex Legends.

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@wuffles

3 years

Always a good sign when the head of a Women’s Network and HR exec at your job blocks you for… speaking out about women’s working conditions. 🤷 Good look, Fran. Excellent job.

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1 year

Okay I think I'm allowed one flex this year - but after presenting my GDC talk on Havok Cloth at GDC 2019 - a very polite Japanese fellow approached me afterwards wanting to speak to me. His English wasn't strong, but he opened up his laptop to show me Zelda: BotW...

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@wuffles

1 month

@PinkieToons Here I am trying to rhyme lemon with demon and being really confused….

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@wuffles

3 years

Wanna know why I left direct game dev and production? I was exhausted. Absolutely exhausted. From constantly fighting my corner. Time to link the old thread again... detailing a small fraction of what I saw and experienced in one company alone.

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@wuffles

4 years

I worry this will kill my career - but this has been eating at me every single day for a year now. Last year I was so depressed - for the first time in my life I started to contemplate suicide. I left Insomniac Games because of how they treat women. 1/??

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1 year

Character artists when delivering an asset: 'One of the meshes had a '1' appended to the end of it's name - my sincerest apologies!' Environment artists: 149 unnamed meshes, 22 empty groups, 4 different namespaces, an unrelated referenced file for some reason. 'LOL, yeah... 😎'

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@wuffles

4 years

Last day at Insomniac. End of an era! On to new adventures! PEACE!!

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@wuffles

4 years

@MOOMANiBE I rigged this lass... :)

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@wuffles

2 years

Announcing my first day at the new gig by forcing you all to watch a video... 😘

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@wuffles

4 years

28,000 lay-offs. TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND. And they do this. Why am I not surprised? Eat the rich.

WDW News Today

@WDWNT

4 years

BREAKING: The Walt Disney Company Restoring Salaries of Senior Executives to Pre-COVID Levels

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@wuffles

2 years

Yeah no shade in Stewart but Rivet would have still been Ratchette without Sam. Sam made Rivet. It wasn’t ‘someone’. It was Sam. It’s not my story to tell - but what they did to Sam forced me to give my resignation the day after. And I made sure to tell them in my exit interview.

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This is a fun piece that goes into detail about how we developed Rivet, though it’s pretty upsetting and frankly offensive that they never once mention me, given I was the lead writer and responsible for a TON of this development.

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@wuffles

3 years

I am FREE. Each booby weighed 1.3 lbs. Disappointed. I thought they would weigh much more. Thank you for all the love!! I had a good 2 hour nap after surgery. 😂

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@wuffles

2 years

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for ref btw.

Black & White 2 - Creepy Names

Black & White 2 will play a spooky sound clip of the player's name during gameplay. Here are all of the names from the English version.It's quiet, so please ...

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@wuffles

1 year

With the new law, here's some Rigging salaries in game dev: Blizzard: $29.81-$55.14 hourly/$62k-114k (jr-snr) Naughty Dog: $88k-133k Ubisoft: $112k - 140k (mid), $120k-150k (snr), $120k-$150k (lead - lol) Bungie: $122k-$149k (snr) #gamedevpaidme #gamedevjobs #rigtip

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@wuffles

3 years

Happy Friday 13th! My first rigging post is live! This is hopefully the beginning of a series of many posts tackling commonly asked questions in rigging. What other questions would you like to see answered? Let me know what you think! #rigtip #gamedev

Rigging Tips: Methods for Extra Character Deformation (in Game Dev)

‘Blendshapes?’ or ‘helper joints?’ This is an often asked question by beginner and junior rigging artists — so let’s discuss!

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@wuffles

3 years

Can your facial rigs do this? 😏

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@wuffles

2 years

The longer I work in the industry; the more and more I discover almost everyone working in it is being profoundly fucked over.

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@wuffles

2 years

@Alexand40457338 I work in creating computer graphics and this is satirical but you're welcome to your terrible opinion, guy.

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@wuffles

3 years

It's back, baby!! 2012:Jnr Tech Animator (UK) £17k/$24k 2014: Character Tech Artist (US) $50-55k 2016: Character TD (US) $79-89k 2020: Snr Tech Artist (US) $175k So many times I've been screwed. Not anymore. GET PAID. #gamedevpaidme

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@wuffles

1 year

maybe I'm late to the party here... but apparently The Pentagon just had an audit... that it failed (again). Apparently over 1600 people couldn't account for 61% (SIXTY-ONE) of it's over $3 trillion of assets! Yet we can't afford to write off student debt??? WHAT THE FUCK

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1 year

Croc run cycle reference!!! Who doesn't love those scaley tooth puppies!!

Gators Daily 🐊

@GatorsDaily

1 year

NEW CROC MOVE UNLOCKED

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2 years

@Tieguaili3D @arvalis @KeidranKat Please be joking please be joking please be joking please be joking

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@wuffles

4 years

ANYONE WANT TO GIVE ME A SHIT LOAD OF CASH SO I CAN FOUND A QUEER, BIPOC AND WOMEN MAJORITY AAA GAME COMPANY HIT ME UP WITH YOUR $$$$

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@wuffles

2 years

Designers who put the power button on top of the computer have never owned a cat before.

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@wuffles

2 years

If you value me as a friend at all - please unfollow JK R*wling. Please. I follow 150+ of you who do and I’m going to have unfollow out of principle at this point. :( She is monstrous, without limit.

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@wuffles

3 years

I am so, so bone-tired of hearing every one of my friends in the games industry struggling for raises. Literally every company out there is dying for seniors, but they won't give people raises barely around inflation once they're employed there.

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@wuffles

3 years

You know what I HAVE discovered in the past year… is that some of the most outspoken cis men for justice against sexual discrimination and harassment are the biggest offenders themselves. Anyone who positions themselves as a loud advocate now leaves me suspicious

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@wuffles

4 years

@xavierck3d We absolutely knew the porn that it would spawn. And this fueled us more.

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3 years

@xavierck3d

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I was told in confidence that Mike Ybarra pushes out any woman who tries to work with him and has never, ever kept women on his team and that this was a known. Looks like this was no different. So much for fixing the problems ActiBlizz. 🙄🙄

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@RhysLion

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2 years

Gamedev, baby!!! 😎

Dan Hett

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2 years

absolutely lost it at this texture someone found in Cyberpunk

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@wuffles

5 years

This cat is mocapped. Someone donned a mocap suit and rolled around pretending to be a little cat person. God, I'm jealous.

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@CanYouPetTheDog

5 years

You can pet the cat in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

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@wuffles

4 years

So. This has been a weird week. I technically have started me new role - Senior Technical Artist at Unity! But because of COVID19 we've been instructed to work from home. So my first week has been almost entire WFH. So here's a photo and of me holding my angry gremlin.

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@wuffles

3 years

For a bit of levity in your timeline… My mum is gonna kill me if she ever finds out I posted this. But my parents 20 year old cat needed a shave and I’m DYING.

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@wuffles

3 years

I know there are a bunch of these sheets out there - but I'm sharing this because information is POWER. GET PAID!!! #GameDevPaidMe

Global GameDev Salaries 2020-2021 (Anonymous)

2020 Salaries Patch Notes 8/9/21: I'm closing the submission for 2020/2021 and will be reopening this for 2021/2022 before the end of the month with brand new updates, hold tight. You have the...

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@wuffles

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#MeettheDev I'm a character TD/rigger with over 6 years experience but games take a long time to make! About to release #SpiderManPS4 next week which would make it my 2nd big credited title! 🙏❤️

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@wuffles

1 year

Riggers HATE this one neat trick! (Click to find out more!)

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@Tonymation

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A little behind the camera peek at one of my shots on #Encanto

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@wuffles

3 years

I think it's safe to announce it at this point. But after over a year and a half of searching - I finally have a house!!! It's in an island and it will have an unfiltered view of the Puget Sound. 🥺 it's also cute as HECK.

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@wuffles

3 years

Boobies be-gone! I'm about to head in!! 😤

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@wuffles

2 months

Maybe a good time to mention that @insomniacgames still hasn't responded to my direct email request asking if my data was in their 3+ TB leak. It's only been 71 days.

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@wuffles

4 years

If you are Black and want a free portfolio review or a 1:1 session with me in regards to rigging (in game dev) I will gladly give you one! Please DM me.❤️

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@wuffles

3 years

This exchange over the new 'all white men game studio' is just too good

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2 years

@alanwritescode @Defunctland Aren’t these filled with lead? 😂

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3 years

The people making this have DEFINITELY made games. This is what 90% of game dev looks like. (The camera work is SO good and so subtle too!)

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@wuffles

2 years

Reinforced with plywood and set in with a post. Good luck taking this one. 🤡

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@wuffles

4 years

@RhysLion Oh my god I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog that looks so much like my Rocco!!

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@wuffles

5 years

Holy shit. I just learned that in Harvest Moon 3 for GBC if you played as a woman the game would end when you got married. If you played as a man you got to continue after marriage. What the ACTUAL FUCK.

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@wuffles

3 years

You wanna work extra to add something into the game? Cool - get it approved. If it's worth working on; it's worth getting paid for. And if it's not approved - use that time to make something for yourself or with friends/colleagues. Give back to the industry. Write a post/tutorial

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sol brennan

@wuffles

2 years

I've had to go no-contact with my parents. My mother won't relent in using hurtful words against me for the sake of 'telling me the truth of how she feels'. I'm heart-broken. I don't understand how someone could to this to their child.

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