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Connor Bridgeman

@bridge.bsky.social

Marketing at Lyrical Games. Formerly Mad Mushroom & Humble Games. I tweet the full spectrum of game industry takes and shitposts. TW: @bridgetheman

193 Followers  |  287 Following  |  27 Posts  |  Joined: 13.05.2023  |  1.7453

Latest posts by bridge.bsky.social on Bluesky


Steam should give devs 1 no questions asked review smite each month

05.01.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a person is laying on a roof with their feet up . ALT: a person is laying on a roof with their feet up .

Erased four hours of my life this morning to TCG Card Shop Sim this morning.

The dopamine of pulling a $1900 card…

22.12.2024 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Indie games. Just avoid February completely for the rest of time.

04.12.2024 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s fine to be pessimistic about AI applications in art, it’s scary shit, but indie devs especially are going to benefit the most from being able to build cheaper prototypes.

It’s not always the worst case scenario.

03.12.2024 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Look it’s a hot topic but at the end of the day AI stuff is going to get devs through production WAY faster. This doesn’t mean final assets will be AI generated.

It just means less time and money is spent on prototyping and testing which means faster dev cycles.

03.12.2024 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

THICCCC

27.11.2024 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty CrAzY that innovation is just doing what is best for the user and not the business

27.11.2024 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This but a Steam Deck with an OLED screen on top

22.11.2024 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing wrong with taking the RAID bag, it’s a badge of honor

22.11.2024 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup and you can enable β€œshow feeds in following tab” to get a sort of Twitter like feel

22.11.2024 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I need Hermoine’s time traveling watch thing but instead of saving the world I just wanna play WoW and all the other games in my backlog at the same time.

22.11.2024 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People don’t know how feeds work and they don’t want to try lol

15.11.2024 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I read Cyberpunk, it’s more accurate.

15.11.2024 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent taste

15.11.2024 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the weirder years for Game of the Year discussions. There’s not a CLEAR top 5 in my mind. Do you include the Elden Ring DLC?

Personally for me, in no order.

Shadow of the Erdtree
Astro Bot
Helldivers 2
Metaphor Refantazio
Deadlock (doesn’t count I know)

13.11.2024 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Metaphor ReFantazio went from being a game I had no clue was coming out to one of my favorites of the year.

Atlus figured out how to streamline the worst parts of JRPGs while keeping that grand storytelling scale.

It’s fuckin rad.

04.11.2024 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember being at EA around the Battlefield V launch. Every studio was looking at Fortnite trying to replicate their success but it was impossible because it took DICE 6-months to make one map in Frostbite…

How do you make a β€œlive-service” with such high fidelity assets?

04.11.2024 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Western AAA studios need to be looking at replicating the successful formula of Japanese studios like Atlus and RGG.

- Iterate on a formula
- Reuse non-critical assets
- Keep teams β€œsmall”
- Focus on content over graphics
- Get games out quickly
- Repeat…

04.11.2024 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New kitten can be very annoying and then they’ll do shit like this and all is forgiven

23.10.2024 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holy crap Fernanda, those drums are sick

23.10.2024 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

I have had the same phenomenon and someone mentioned that they were using this to copy their following list to Blue Sky. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

I tried it out, works well!

22.10.2024 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's frustrating that publishers expect old IPs to generate significant "nostalgia" sales immediately with little effort. Everything is seen in quarters and not years.

22.10.2024 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What were sales expectations for a game that didn't launch on Steam and was easily accessible through a subscription model?

The team revived an old IP through an award-winning spin-off that probably cost a dime compared to the other titles in the portfolio. What more can you ask?

22.10.2024 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@ozone.birb.house could I get the games business label? Thanks

22.10.2024 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll appreciate your yapping to my yapping

21.10.2024 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Think it’s time I start yappin on this app more

21.10.2024 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter 2 Electric Boogaloo

15.05.2023 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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