Alina B

Slept for 2 hours, had to catch 2 planes, haven't eaten all day and my slides aren't ready. But damn! I'm glad to come to Tallin for MängudeÖÖ

What does this metaphor apply to? Wrong answers only.

Cool! I hope you're in for a treat then. I tried watching things from "best kdramas" google search but wasn't happy with most of them. So it took me three attempts to get into kdramas till I found what I liked 😄

From what I've liked recently:
- Reborn rich (Jaebeoljip maknaeadeul)
- Lovely Runner
- Wonderful World
- A good day to be a dog

Which ones prior to that you really liked?

For years I thought manslaughter was pronounced exactly like that - man's laughter. I just figured it meant the kind of laugh that ends badly...

And if it's not his namesake, then this person also grew into PC Gamer's Bran Director. Yeah.

The editor of the UK Playstation mag btw studied English Literature and Philosophy, mind you 😄. And this is him talking about his background in a TheSixThaxis interview (which also explains - but no excuses! - a lot).

Damn, that is so depressing

These past few years, browsing game industry news feels like flipping through a scrapbook of near-misses - each headline is another quiet “thank god I wasn’t hired there” or "phew, dodged that bullet" 😑😣

Perfect example how a THEME elevates your story:

- Manhunter '86
- Red Dragon '02

Same story, same cinematographer, completely different movies. Only one has a theme.

In Manhunter, the investigation of the killings is what the characters DO.

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Had a fantastic time speaking about the culture of curiosity and learning at a private knowledge-sharing event organized by my friends - @devgamm.bsky.social.

PS another reminder that I am helping teams build the right product, culture & processes (and I like speaking at events). My DMs are open

OG tweet: Prior to my talk @ Dice Como on how creativity is not "efficient" if you measure efficiency by business, there was an industry report by venture capital group. There,abandoning startup mentality in favor of "good culture" (crunch-free and 4dww) was marked as A PROBLEM. Quote retweet: There are also a lot of talks about how industry is in the Dark Ages right now. It's a shame they don't mention how venture and equity funds had a major influence on how things ended up this way.

A year passed, yet still relevant.

Played some good demos last week!
- Dispatch
- Switchboard
- Goodnight Universe
- Regions of Ruin

Any recommendations?
#indiedev #indigames #gamedev #steam

a close up of a man 's face with a very serious look on his face ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a very serious look on his face

With this premise...

a man is sitting in the back seat of a car making a funny face . ALT: a man is sitting in the back seat of a car making a funny face .

Kitchen 💯

Just found out that Netflix has pulled out of the deal earlier this year - after almost 2 years of project development! Dodged the bullet twice 😂

I was just thinking recently, that moral choices would be so much easier to make if you 'just' had enough money:

- Standing up against corruption would be easier if your livelihood didn’t depend on silence.

- Telling the truth at work would be easier if you didn’t fear losing your job.

Etc

Testing the new cover system
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #stealth

"Too ambitious"?
In WRITING?
What the hell does it even mean? 🤣🤣🤣

My ex bosses however shot themselves in the knee with this and lost a good deal over petty revenge.

Meanwhile they’ve been bleeding projects and laying people off ever since. RIP

My job offer got killed. Which was big luck for me actually!

I didn't like the vibes of "being late even before the project starts", dodged a bullet there turns out.

And just in a month I landed on a much better offer in another company.

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Few years back got an offer on a new Netflix project in a non-Netflix studio. Wanted to bring my ex-studio as co-dev.

Leadership there was toxic, but the devs were top-tier and I trusted them.

Buuut my ex-bosses were so bitter about me quitting that they sabotaged my reference >>

Another AAA company dragged me through 5 hours of interviews with their leadership team only to tell me they don't really know which project to assign this lead position to.

Which suddenly made them realize they "don't need a lead producer". As if they just stumbled on this thought lol.

Experiences like that taught me one thing: whenever a company brags about “having money,” it usually means they have no idea how to spend it.

Which inevitably leads to a sudden downfall of "no more money left". Also known as "Penny smart, dollar stupid".

Once I interviewed at a AAA studio. They sneered at my “smaller team Agile” background, & when I said I knew my way around budgets, they laughed: “We don’t need that -we have money.” Their processes were pure chaos btw.

6 months later, the layoffs began bc the money *suddenly* dried up.

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Way to go!

PC Gamer's definitive (but by no means exhaustive) list of ways to lose your job in the videogame industry

If someone was writing satire on gaming industry - I bet all of this would’ve been considered too absurd and unrealistic.

And yet…

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...