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Sven Gießelmann

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Principal Level Designer @4AGames Personal account! #leveldesign

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So this week i was asked by a vending machine if i wanted to tip

???

30.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope we'll get to see it. Ive been replaying the original two on my tablet on mobile and I fully believe those two games are the ones that turned me into a Star Wars fan.. the Revan & Malak story, and in the 2nd part Kreia and the grey jedi... amazing stuff, mysticism galore

13.04.2025 12:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pebbles about to smuggle the king's silver

08.03.2025 16:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man stands in front of a sign that says century on it ALT: a man stands in front of a sign that says century on it

Finished #cobrakai S6 (final season) yesterday and it was worth it sticking with it through the years through all ups and downs, still very entertaining and over the top throughout... and theyre not ashamed of absolutely sending it, give it a try!

25.02.2025 21:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, seems like NE wants to get away from having US/non china based outlets

19.02.2025 10:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

big FARGO vibes, so cool!

01.02.2025 20:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How is World of Warcraft Classic STILL So Popular?
YouTube video by Idyl How is World of Warcraft Classic STILL So Popular?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0y...

I'm yearning for a new MMO that encasulates the slow pace that Classic WOW captures as well as making the world the main character. While being a true RPG. None have stuck with me as much as Classic did. The level of choice during the 1-60 journey is just unmatched.

01.02.2025 11:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love the modding love a lot of studios are providing these days, BG3 tools, now the Hogwarts legacy tools.

If you want your game to sell forever and have a thriving community - give em then tools to keep it alive and itll keep your revenue stream alive. Even if you make a sequel!

27.01.2025 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Its one of the most interesting things in games to me, witnessing evolving player strategies, change in map knowledge as well as pushing/camping tactics, varying loadout usage, meeting different tiers of players and how much they buy into a meta, how tryhard people are playing in each bracket etc.

26.01.2025 10:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Took me 340 hours to join the 6 star club in #HuntShowdown

The first 150 hours I didnt know what the hell I was doing, the next 100 hours were "4 star gameplay", then the next 100 were legit 5 star gameplay.

Very fun how the game dynamic completely changes each MMR bracket!

26.01.2025 10:07 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Although I live in a different country than my german friends, our #D&D group is still going strong!

I can no longer DM (pretty hard as the only remote person in the party) but I can still take part in it as they are so kind to put up a laptop+webcam in my spot every week ♥️ What a gang!

10.01.2025 20:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Living the A24 lifestyle 🙏

06.01.2025 10:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aye, I think one of the most influential differences is also which of the three broad disciplines you define here has the most influence.

Each studio is different. Some are design driven, some art driven, some engineering driven. That often makes a HUGE difference in decision making.

22.12.2024 16:17 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And there will be pain. Shit rolls downhill, as they say, and when the project encounters big issues that means those high up have the sad job of figuring out how to spread it out and who can afford to take the hardest hit. If you're that one, you take it on the chin and you deal. This is the job.

22.12.2024 03:31 — 👍 223    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

You also need to keep in mind that projects are constantly in flux. Problems that were thought solved need re-solving. The team falls behind schedule and scope needs to change. You are constantly in a dance, within your tiny box, trying to figure out sub-optimal solutions that cause the least pain.

22.12.2024 03:30 — 👍 219    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

A fun way to check if you've got an original concept! Just try to generate concept art for that idea that you have, and if Midjourney & co are struggling to portray what you have in your head, you've struck gold & have something actually original on your hands, now go make it ;)

20.12.2024 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks incredible! Loved the first game, cant wait for this one.

18.12.2024 07:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would love to have a single dream that isn't just game design thanks

18.12.2024 06:29 — 👍 37    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

this screams CS map to me, amazing!

17.12.2024 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

casually dropping my new favorite CS map theme just like that how dare you!

16.12.2024 19:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: Google's latest AI innovation offers a putrid vision of game development Another supposedly life-changing AI model, another exasperated plea from a weary video game journalist.

Opinion: Google's latest AI innovation offers a putrid vision of game development

06.12.2024 17:45 — 👍 177    🔁 61    💬 6    📌 17

UEFN support? Yes pleeaaaaaase

07.12.2024 20:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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i think this coudlve used some more yellow paint

07.12.2024 17:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So you want to be A GAME DEVELOPER?

Look no further, I crafted a *very* valid game career guide for newcomers & those who generally feel lost in the games industry.

#gamedev #gamedesign
#leveldesign #gamecareerguide
(Repost of my only viral post on the bird site from May 2020)

04.12.2024 17:33 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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70% of #gamedev like

28.11.2024 19:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Over the top set pieces, cheesy one liners, overly eccentric caricature of side characters/villains, a lead that seemed to be super bored... millions of callbacks or references to part 1, full on Marvel. At some point the MC finds Maximus armor like a legendary upgrade 💀

26.11.2024 22:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gladiator 2 felt like a Marvel movie variant of a historical epic, vibe was totally different than the original and not in a good way

26.11.2024 21:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Looks like ive just missed Lara Croft passing by... #leveldesign

21.11.2024 12:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of my favorites on the new map! 💪

21.11.2024 09:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

so, how many impossible missions will there be until we get tom cruise's character to admit that all 8 of them appeared to be very possible after all 🤔

20.11.2024 09:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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