Michael Harris

Layoffs at Launch: that's game dev.

I am really enjoying Blue Prince, and I think it's a great game, but one thing that's keeping me from calling it an amazing game is the level of RNG. You can go an entire run without being offered a lever, making it literally impossible to win.

I will literally never forget playing Brutal Legend and losing my shit when Ozzy and Lemmy showed up.

Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

Rest in peace to the OG 😭

news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

God, this took a while

Congrats on the release. Can't wait to play it

ROSEWATER IS OUT!

A Wild West adventure about friendship, storytelling, and found family.

It's been a journey making this game. I sincerely hope you enjoy it. 🤠🌵

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/rose...

Harley looks worried

My face when I realize ROSEWATER launches TOMORROW

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

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Great stuff Jeff 🤘

I'm still so excited about this song, now with video!

Thank you to all of you who have shared kind words, I'm glad people have been enjoying listening to it as much as I did helping out with it.

Loving Monster Hunter Wilds so far

Getdafuqouttahea

State of the games industry:
- Make a shitty game -> get fired.
- Make a successful game -> get fired.

What is happening in games when the biggest live-service game launch in at least a year results in layoffs.

I recently made a post with an example of creating holes, with a link to "80 Level" and about digging a hole game. Here is another example of mine with a laser. Unreal Engine 5, Geometry Script plugin, Generated Dynamic Mesh Actor #gamedev #indiedev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

a woman holding an ice cream cone with the words " cause i 'm a singer " next to her Alt: A GIF from Sabrina Carpenter’s music video for the song “Espresso.” She looks up at the camera and sings, “I’m working late cause I’m a singer.”

Looking for work again due to unforeseen circumstances—reposts appreciated!

Some quick facts:
📈 Indie game marketing wiz with 7+ years of XP on games like Bear and Breakfast, In Stars and Time, and more
💼 Portfolio at litvac.com
🎮 Open to indie and AA/AAA
🌎 Based in New York, open to US relo

We are living in a dangerous and unprecedented moment in American history. I’m getting a lot of calls from people who are wondering how we best go forward. Here are my thoughts: TikTok video by Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders posts an 8-min video that explains what’s happening, steps for short term strategies, and steps for longer term stuff.

One example: he reminds folks the GOP has four vote majority. They are weak. He suggests calling your reps. Be mad It works.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YLQGLu/

DOOM looks like it would be a really fun game to work on

God of War live service game?

BZZZT is a great name and the game looks absolutely beautiful

What's up fellow CAs 😅

YouTube video by Jeff Penny Jeff Penny - Available for Music Commissions!

I have some availability coming up soon to work on music. I'd love to find some cool new projects to help bring to life, so please feel free to reach out if you like what you hear (or just have questions)!

In addition to games, would love to work on animation and streams too!

youtu.be/rGJYzXPT5Os

Announcing my new chrome extension, in the millennials/snake-people tradition, to fix one of the major aesthetic liabilities on the internet right now: "I asked ChatGPT" phrases in posts and headlines. Join me and free yourself by installing My Stupid Friend chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-st...

The bottom line is that if public health had stopped lying years ago and had been honest about the costs, and if public health had realized what the correct approach is, which is to slow evolution down, then we would have been in a situation today where public health was treating COVID as a disease that needs to be suppressed. The whole canard from day one was that we would never eliminate or eradicate it, so, let's let it spread as widely as possible. "Learn to live with it," for other diseases doesn't mean the same thing as we have applied to COVID. When we say we must learn to live with leprosy, we don't mean let's make sure everybody has leprosy. When we say we must learn to live with malaria, we don't mean let's make sure everyone gets malaria as often as possible, let's keep mosquitoes lurking in our tanks outside our house. No one says you must learn to live with tuberculosis. Let's let it spread as much as possible and see how that goes. No, we suppress those diseases every step along the way. We suppress dengue. We suppress tuberculosis. This whole idea that learning to live with the disease means permitting and encouraging its rampant spread and rapid evolution is just so many levels of stupidity that I don't have a word for it.

God damn GOD DAMN!! Man this interview is a breath of fresh air.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

#S0Pol

AGDQ week, let's goooo

Agreed. GDC is prohibitively expensive. If you really want to go, have a goal: networking is a great one.

I’m honestly at the point where I won’t be going unless I get into the CA program again. It’s just too expensive for me.

Reminder:
- You do not NEED to go to GDC. You can want to, and that's okay! But you're not missing out/shooting your career in the foot if you don't go
- You should have specific, actionable goals to make GDC worth it for yourself to ensure you're getting real value out of it beyond "going to GDC"

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Holy cow at this huge humble bundle about learning to code: www.humblebundle.com/software/com....
Unreal, Godot, Unity, WebVR, JS, React, Python.
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Gaming stats for the year. Lots of Elden Ring, Metaphor, Yakuza, and Helldivers 😅