@mikl8.bsky.social
Level designer at Romero Games. I love immersive sims and Nolan’s movies.
✨🚌 Is This Seat Taken? is OUT NOW!
💺Arrange picky characters.
🕵️♀️Piece together satisfying puzzles.
🔶 Follow Nat on their journey.
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We want to address recent reports regarding the status of Romero Games. These reports have contained inaccuracies, and we feel it's important to set the record straight. • The funding for our project was pulled, and our game was canceled. • Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information. • As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio. • Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team. • We've been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we're currently evaluating those opportunities. We appreciate the outpouring of support and will share further updates as we are able. Romero Games
Update (July 7, 2025)
07.07.2025 19:38 — 👍 4152 🔁 1028 💬 64 📌 101Im so upset about this. The Romeros are an important slice of the Irish game dev scene, I know folks affected, I was excited for this project. It’s just all around terrible.
07.07.2025 03:02 — 👍 396 🔁 49 💬 9 📌 1
Romero Games, the studio founded by Doom co-creator John Romero and Brenda Romero, has said it has been left "heartbroken" after discovering that funding for its next project has been pulled, reportedly as part of Microsoft's latest cuts, leaving the game and its team at risk.
07.07.2025 04:00 — 👍 56 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 3The best job I had
The best game I worked on
The best company I worked at
All this suddenly and abruptly ruined... I am speechless...
Merci de faire piou piou avec les doigts, ca donne un peu de visibilite pour les joueurs non-dev et de cette periode historiquement horrible...
03.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re hiring! 🌟
Open roles across tons of departments! Check them out at romerogames.com/careers.
Speculative applications are also welcome! ✒️
After a couple of years at Toadman Berlin where I had the pleasure to work on Warhammer Vermintide 2, I am delighted to say that in this early phase of 2025 I started working for @romerogames.bsky.social !
07.01.2025 02:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don't think we're ready yet to talk about just how badly game dev teams are ran. AA/A, Indie, Publishing - all of them. The amount of money and energy wasted through bad planning, poor communication and sheer incompetence is staggering.
Games don't need to be this expensive or exhausting to make.
If a game engine actively tries to use its market position to drive its users out of business MORE THAN ONCE, then maybe it’s time to stop using it.
Unity has already shown us what they’re willing to do to make extra cash. I have no idea why anyone would believe they will not try again.
An image used on Netflix extended a portion of existing Arcane art using AI. It has now been removed, with Riot's brand lead calling the use of AI "disrespectful to the incredible artists who worked on the show." bit.ly/3OpCwmo
22.11.2024 12:56 — 👍 696 🔁 67 💬 18 📌 17There's something I need people to understand.
The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.
The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
We're hiring! If you're looking to join an inclusive, welcoming team of 80+, please check out our openings. We've been working on a new FPS with a major publisher. romerogames.com/careers
12.11.2024 09:41 — 👍 331 🔁 125 💬 20 📌 11As part of the big migration, I'm joining BlueSky, I don't post a lot but I love interacting with other game devs!
20.11.2024 10:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Le trailer est super cool!
20.11.2024 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When we will reach the highest graphic fidelity ever, there will be (I hope) no more marketing focus only around that. It will also be time to concentrate on gameplay again 🙏🏼
Maybe if you dig a little bit on internet you can find some approximate numbers.
AAA studios are not willing to take risks as long as the players keep buying big franchises sequels despite the lack of innovation within them. Furthermore, the amount of money involved is too high to fail.
Which is a very sad assessment in a creative industry…
