Nick Crosgrove

I think, not having seen your stuff before, I didn't quite understand what I was seeing on my tiny phone screen. Once I re-read your post I went into the video and actually analyzed it, I got it... but it didn't compress well to read while scrolling.

In GameDev the Smoke is easy, it's the Mirrors that will kill you.

It's less fun than you think when the Emergency Room staff start recognizing you, and know your name by sight before you've even checked in.

This is cool as fuck!

Anti-Gerrymandering laws should always have been a compact and not a unilateral disarmament. Political malpractice going back decades

Its all smoke, mirrors, and coconut.jpeg all the way down

This is just how Game Prototypes work...

We're hiring a Combat Designer! Level Designer! UX/UI Artist!

It's... astounding... it certainly is a Movie of all time.

How is it even possible to mess up making an Until Dawn movie this badly? I don't... Understand... It was a movie director simulation...

ADHD Floor Time is a requirement on launch day.

Credit Card Companies: "We are forcing you to take down your content because kids could use our credit cards to buy it."

Also CC Companies: "It's a federal requirement that someone be over 18 before they can have a credit card."

So... admitting to violating federal regs? what's going on here guys?

If I had a spare $1,200 for flights I would come say hi!

I adore that Famitsu picked the scene where Vivi and Zidane pee together as the one for their cover art.

The entire strategy of VADems this cycle is to seek out disaffected Trump voters, completely ignoring progressives. There's no platform, they're just running the last playbook again and hoping it works.

It's part of the import pipeline into Unreal, we use their plugin and I've had to modify the heck out of it to make it do certain things.

You can do all of these things tomorrow, you don't work Fridays!

One of the best Game Devs I know went to film school, he's got an amazing eye for lighting and scene composition that is way too rare and makes everything he touches absolute 🔥

Anyway, I've been banging my head against the wall for this entire week dealing with what turned out to be a data issue where the solution is to preprocess every-single-node in the script ahead of time... because the tools team felt like including the data would be redundant.

/rant

No support for Bark Matrixes at all either, which is baffing to me, because they support AI Generated barks which is it's own brand of 🤮.

The lack of character counters and enforcement is an ancient gripe as old as the program, it got so bad I literally had to write a plugin that hijacks the colors of the nodes to tell Designers if they go over the character count.

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Lemme tell you, Articy Draft is great for #GameDev up until you want to do something slightly more ambitious than a visual novel at which point you are in a world of pain.

Nothing has sold the idea that Engineers are the Party Tank to me better than working with it... Narrative seems happy though.

American Sarcasm doesn't work outside it's own cultural context. It just comes across as someone being a dick.

++this: I went on a stream specifically to talk about the day to day challenges of engineering in games, got into the weeds of memory management and optimization with the host who did programming back in the day, we hit record low watch counts, and a few people decided to change their majors.

I love this for them.

I only ever liked the Altoid Sours from the dawn of the 21st century.

In case anyone else ever runs into this, here's the diff (against UE 5.5) of my changes to fix stationary spotlights in GPU Lightmass.

I believe this fixes: issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-291...

(It's cool, Epic, you don't need to pay me.)

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