Raphael Colantonio

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Terrible

Spotify is the worst for independent artists. It’s important people know

Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.

Wow! “Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones”
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I’m sad

YouTube video by CultureScape Why Prey & Dishonored Changed Immersive Sims Forever | Raphaël Colantonio (Arkane Founder)

Had a fun interview with CultureScape.

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I’m not making the rules, but here is how I believe people read scores these days:
-6 typically bad
-7 either it might be good but it’s broken or it’s mediocre
-8 either means it’s boring but polished, or it’s great but not perfect
-9 and 10 is where you know you have a good game that is polished.

RIP Viktor Antonov.
I wish I told you how much admiration I had for you but we get caught in our lives until a surprise like this hits us.
You were instrumental to the success of Arkane Studios and an inspiration to many of us, also a friend with whom I have many fond memories

Crazy!

Game as a service, because the implicit proposition is that the game will keep finding ways to get money from you in return of updates that gamers might or might not need

Yeah, the world is moving fast. Remote work has changed the world in ways we didn’t suspect

Yes, but that only works if people move out of expensive areas, and even then, taking half salary is a tough one

I worry for American game dev. Europe make equally good games for a fraction of the cost. America isn’t in the leading position it had in the 90s. And China is catching up too. The main culprit is the salary difference, but what is the solution? Cost of living here is absurd. Not blaming the devs

Latest single from my other passion project: Weird Wolves. Give it an ear ;) share if you like it. We’re on IG if you want to support us there.
The song is also on our Spotify Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1pu...

I hope I’ll get to go to Korea.

Yeah. Too many illogical decision that hint that the execs in charge didn’t know anything about Thief

Funny 15 years old secret is that before Dishonored became Dishonored, it was meant to be Thief4. We were working on it but Bethesda lost the bidding war of the Thief IP to Square

Too bad. They buried an amazing franchise by being afraid of embracing the strengths of the IP. Classic

Yeah I can see how that would be a typical random exec decision that nobody in the team wanted. Happens all the time. Sad

The follow up question is how is it possible that no-one told whoever had this reason that not using Steve’s voice would be received as a crime by the fans? How did they let it happen? Steve could have dubbed, like they would in an animation movie

Genuine question (with a bit of a judgement, I admit). Anyone knows why the Thief4 guys didn’t use Steve Russel for Garret’s voice? It’s criminal, sorry can’t help the judgement. There’s got to be a rational answer.

Great news for Spotify who’s finally profitable Now Daniel @eldsjal.bsky.social, would you please pay the artists fairly by switching to a user centric model? My band has 250 super listeners and we only make a few bucks a month. Not cool. (Weird Wolves)

Wolfeye Studios retro sci-fi first-person action RPG to be published by NEOWIZ NEOWIZ will publish Wolfeye Studios’ previously announced upcoming retro science-fiction first-person action RPG for console and PC, the companies announced.

There we go! Signing a publisher is part of the long road to ship a game, and it is a critical piece to the magic. We’re super happy to announce our partnership with Neowiz. The stars align for our new baby to come out and hopefully you’ll love it as much as we do

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Thank you! I hope I won’t disappoint :)

Talking about preplaced corpses

To Stalker2 devs: I love your game, but you taught me not to search corpses (they are never interactive), until 20 hours into the game whete you hide a key in a corpse… (roll eyes). I had to look it up on youtube as I was stuck.

Wow. That’s so cool.

More to see about out next game soon