Chris Payne

Sadly, current employer doesn't have enough work to keep me on...so I'm looking for a new thing.

Anyone need a director/designer/programmer with 30 years experience on 35 published games across 13+ platforms?

I've got one or two of those as well :)

I already knew I wanted to get into the industry, so wanted to know about games on ALL systems not just the one I happened to have.

Still got a bunch of ACE and The One magazines that I must donate to the Video Games Museum...

a cat is holding a microphone in its mouth and singing into it . ALT: a cat is holding a microphone in its mouth and singing into it .

Call for a voice actor!

We’re looking to cast a female actress for our next game. Vocal age 25-35, Northern England accent, preferably Mancunian, incl. Pakistani and Indian Mancunian accents.

That’s you? Then send a sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”.

Paid gig, ofc

<3 RTs!

Getting heartily sick of VR development. Would be nice to work on a flatscreen game and not have to put the damn headset on and off all day...

You get much more conflict out of an unfair social structure, and what's more unfair than lifelong hereditary rule?

EHRC Drops Workplace Toilet Advice Amid Legal Threat - Law360 Britain's equal rights watchdog has dropped its advice to employers that they must provide single-sex toilets in the wake of a landmark U.K. Supreme Court decision in the face of a court challenge.

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest?

Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

Presume you saw that Perkins and Crawford have just joined Darrington Press? CR have done a great job of building goodwill even as Hasbro have burned it for D&D...D&D still leads in nostalgia value and name recognition but falling behind in every other department...

The D12 is cute but what I really love is that the hope/fear mechanic prompts you to think narratively about EVERY ROLL, instead of just success/failure.

Silence, but for hiss. Flicker of daylight blue on the horizon. The thunder washes gently across the land. Silence, but for hiss. We watch the rain, my brother and I, each alone with the elements. And far away our lives wait patiently for our return. There’s no hurry. The storm will last forever. Watch the rain.

Fragment of a poem from long, long ago...

Chris dressed in LARP costume with white contacts and a beard.

LARP photo from last weekend. I'm growing the face fuzz out for a role, so Idris has a beard now.

Opinion | I know RFK Jr. is wrong about autistic people — because he's talking about me “These are kids who will never pay taxes,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said of autistic children Wednesday. "They’ll never hold a job.”

While RFK Jr. Made his remarks saying autistic life is a tragedy that destroys families, I sat right in front of him and made it a point to let him know he was wrong. My latest for @msnbc.com
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the problem. I'd like to offer mentoring to trans people trying to get into journalism, free of charge. Most of my experience is obviously in political commentary, but I might be passably useful in news and other areas.

Chris, dressed as a wizard, standing in front of a standing stone inside a huge tent.

Last weekend I crewed the debut event of Menhir's Fate - the UK's 4th fest LARP - and it went remarkably smoothly. Players loved the format, which is plot intensive by design. Enjoyed helping players do bespoke rituals around the eponymous Menhir.

Event 2 is only a few weeks away...
Menhirsfate.com

To precisely no-one's surprise, UBI proven to work...again.

Oh noes, you appear to have Issues in your fun idea and I feel uncomfortable about it

TAX THE FUCKING RICH YOU COWARDS

Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back And The Ukrainians Know It

Ukraine was just knifed in the back.

Essential reading on yesterday's deal

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The most brutal assassination in Assassin's Creed history

Also fun to see him do this in a Disco Elysium hoodie :D

YouTube video by Garys Economics How to stop the economy from collapsing

Nice to see Gary moving from educating into activism. 45min video, but worth it - includes full primer for people who don't have an unhealthy obsession with politics like I do...
youtu.be/rAb_p5DCC3E

they're destroying narrative design / games writing as a professional discipline ... for this. great work 100/10 no notes, industry leaders

And it's done that almost entirely *within China*...

Isn't red-shirt-Pooh the one still under copyright by Disney?

This joke is agelessly impossibly old, but is the glue that holds every dev team together. It communicates the gallows humour and nihilism that has powered the development of every game you ever loved.

YouTube video by Anything Could Happen Anyone Could Take Out The Trash

Had a great time recording this episode of Anything Could Happen!

I play governor Storm, desperate for re-election.

Host: Oscar Clark

Cast:
@qixotl.bsky.social
@feyearth.bsky.social
@gaskinator.bsky.social
António Salreta
Myself

#AP #actualplay #anythingcanhappen #ttrpg

youtu.be/PmtMGXXrs4Q?...

Honestly I don't see any camera shake there, just the camera locked to the midpoint of two locators on the characters, so there's a bunch of jank as she strikes and a sudden direction change when he bounces.

I don't think game dev is particularly inefficient - not in the places I've worked, at least.
Even if you could save 20% on production costs, is that a significant enough risk reduction on a AAA project?
Concord was killed AFTER release because they thought it wouldn't even cover the running costs.

It's on Rakuten Viki, £5/month or just use the free trial.

Mostly it means reducing the fidelity of the experience. Stylised games demand so much less effort in characters, environments and affordance design. Photorealism is a millstone around the industry's neck.