P-O Desbiens

A fallen tree lies half in a pool in front of a waterfall in the forest

Secret Waterfall

cannot imagine a more depressing game dev job than making ai slop for the US military propaganda game

arts festival president saying "half our grants go back to city in police costs" is beyond infuriating. the police run a protection racket. they are a literal mob, dude

Forgot to post my morning warmup! Architecture exploration. Dunno where it's going yet, but explored two different directions. May end up doing both

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy

Tim Sweeney getting this upset over a review grilling a game for using AI tools is proof that more and more reviews should be taking the same approach whenever AI pops up.

Celebrating the Possessor(s) team 🖤 | Notion I am not one to post like this usually, but as things have developed recently, I want to take a minute and get some stuff off my chest.

POSSESSOR(S) is launching today.

I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them.

🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra

being an uncritical cheerleader for the industry is good for the advertisement show that the game awards are

also IMAX nepotism

IWGB union members protesting on the street, holding red banners

Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar
aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...

paying a thousand US dollars to watch ads is so crazy

In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.

Donate to Help Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa, organized by chad boylen Hey there I'm Chad, an American living in Jamaica. We have hurricane Meli… chad boylen needs your support for Donate to Help Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa

An old friend of mine was out in Jamaica when the hurricane hit and is now out buying and distributing food and helping with repairs, chip in if you can!

www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."

Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke.

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

A little peek into how the sausage is (being) made:

These are the start of the shadow masks I'll be using to define where fake cast shadows should fall on the character

Combining this with a bunch of other masking and overlays will give me some nice control over shadow behavior

sigh

classic case of liberal politician unable to tackle any problem at their root making way for the right wing dumbass to fill the vacuum

exhausting

happy that the people of new york are getting a good mayor because Montréal we just elected the car brained reactionary facebook commentariat candidate and the vibes are so bad

Weapons was pretty good

soundtrack had a light Akira Yamaoka touch to it

Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals! Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.

Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.

actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Just so you all know, @deadstaticdrive.com releases in about 5 hours. Go buy it when it lanuches.

thank you : )

thank you so much!

there's a dreamlike quality to the ps3 bloom era that I'm 100% trying to recapture with Generation Exile, I love to smear vaseline on cameras it's my favorite thing to do

merci big

hey so I did all the environment art on this over the course of many many years, please check it out : )

congratulations to the entire team for their hard work, what a journey

I truly can't stress this enough: No one's art is good enough to justify them being miserable to work with. Almost everyone I've worked with has been wonderful, but the handful of folks that weren't brought the whole team down by being egotistical, sexist, condescending, etc.