Katie Chironis

most annoying part of having a baby is how everyone you know is all "can I see the baby" "where's the baby" "I don't see the baby" "is there actually a baby" "I don't mean to imply anything" "it's just that... You've been different lately" "ever since you fainted during that weird electrical storm"

developer: put it down. we don't need another one

concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

every expedition 33 journal is like “sadly, our attempts at kitesurfing into the final boss failed” “we tried dabbing on the nevrons and we’re completely out of ideas” “will we ever be free of this tyranny”

it's normal to walk around with the fiscal quarter end dates burned into your brain so that you know exactly which weeks to be most anxious about bad industry news, right

the marshmallow test for game developers, except every day you come into work there's a big button saying JUST ADD A HOOKSHOT TO THE GAME and you have to exert every single ounce of free will to stop yourself from pushing it

i relate hard to your pain i’m so sorry

i just think if you’re hot, you shouldn’t have to learn how to parry

(holding up tablet) and here you can see the oldest known human writing, it's about one hundred billion years old. it's a message written by a designer to their engineer, begging the engineer to build them something and explaining "it'll be simple"

you: what are we having for dinner
game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here.
you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague
game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

every JRPG for some reason: …and that’s why on the 17th of the coldest month, all our children must be frozen to death and fed to demons, begging for their lives

JRPG: anyway, here’s a minigame where you can teach a dog how to runway model while some bubbly EDM track plays in the background

nobody talks about how hard it is to ask your new friend to deliver a message across town and then finish with a mandatory combat encounter when everything goes south afterwards 💔 normalize this!!

i have a lot of issues trusting folks and being vulnerable with them. i realized recently-- it's because i frankly do not ask them to go on enough quests for me. i need them to go find a gas canister and some food to prove i can trust them. or go kill my rivals' leader in that base over there

wow i've never had a software feature deliver me so much acute anxiety in such a short period of time

used to do duolingo for French until I started Expedition 33. now armed with my new arsenal of curse words, i’m well equipped for the Parisian vacation of my dreams

sometimes i wonder why i don’t have energy for a DnD campaign right now. then i have nights like tonight where i, a foreign queen hosting a banquet, must convince the “flower princess” (my 3yo) that she should eat protein. this is of course so she can prepare for the coming flower war

every dev team has 1 guy who looks like he would probably stab and/or fistfight you if you met him in a dark alley, but then during some meeting he'll be like "sorry brb, one of my 23 cats knocked over my bonsai collection and it fell into the artisanal tea jar"

Travis Kelce originally planned to propose next week, but moved it forward to avoid the Silksong release window.

her WHAT

pov: you are on your deathbed. you've lived a good long life. no regrets. your family and friends have all come to pay their respects. they've left now and things are quiet and calm. tim sweeney is also there for some reason. he has something to say to you. he whispers: navmesh needs to be rebuilt

A banner reading GAMEDEVS FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION Greater Los Angeles Santa Monica Walk Saturday, October 18, 2025 You can sign up to walk with us or donate to the team! See you in sunny Santa Monica!

Suicide prevention is a very important cause to me, so this year marks the 2nd annual Gamedevs for Suicide Prevention team at the LA (Santa Monica) Out of the Darkness Walk!

If you're in SoCal, come walk with us! Or you can donate to our team.

afspwalks.donordrive.com/team/371158

“name a better couple than harry and megan” ok what about “player kit designer who wants to build a mantling/climbing system that expects everything to be at right angles, and level artist who wants to build spaces with lots of little curves and bumps and sloped bits”

it depends, but broadly speaking, me like buttons

"well you're inherently limited by the number of buttons if you're designing for console, so--" wrong

there are really only two kinds of game designers, philosophically speaking.

- let's try to put this functionality on an existing button

- let's just add another button

we just posted a role for a Sr. AI Engineer- come work with me, and check out our other jobs too!!

I have to specify this is like "make horses play with beach balls"* AI, not like chatGPT AI.

*there are no horses playing with beach balls in this game. yet

job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteract...

fooled em with the tired mom vibe

“marvel wants to go forward on [REDACTED]” says the man next to me at the Guy Fieri bar & grill. say more bestie i am *here* and *pretending to read my ebook* 👏🏻

Burbank airport is my #1 favorite place for NDA violations. some woman with her laptop open displaying [REDACTED]’s list of “likely cancelled” shows for 2027? girl yes, i’m here with my iced latte being exactly the person they warned you about in employee orientation

(i did eventually help her make a salad out of plastic hotdogs)