@thegamechief.bsky.social
Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail."
People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"
I would suggest this is a more valuable Steam chart, from SteamDB. Releases dramatically grow each year but the number of new games getting more than 500 user reviews does not.
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I still remember the first time I "went and got a floppy disk of the Civ 1 prototype from Sid" after work and I thought hey I'll boot this up real quick and check it out before I go home. Suddenly it was 2am! I also kept subfolders with "old versions" when Sid made changes I didn't like :D
That was, after all, the whole "move fast and break things" ethos.
It's not really engineering.
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
I remember playing Civ 1 for hours after work when there was just a handful of units. It was awesome.
And we got the lowest possible bonus for the game because it was a few weeks late.
I still remember the first time I "went and got a floppy disk of the Civ 1 prototype from Sid" after work and I thought hey I'll boot this up real quick and check it out before I go home. Suddenly it was 2am! I also kept subfolders with "old versions" when Sid made changes I didn't like :D
I was first introduced to Civ2 by my best friend's mother, asking about the game that I saw her obsessing over.
I immediately played it for about sixteen hours straight.
This rings very true to me. Like I can remember Civ 2 getting played around the office A LOT. By people at the office I didn't even know and weren't on the team. Even though the marketing group at the time didn't understand why a sequel to Civ was a good idea, and didn't spend money to support it.
Pardo: When the team loves playing the game during development, they are driven to make it more fun/polished than all the other games out there which they could be playing instead. #GDC26
Whoever this lawyer is running the deposition is quite good at it.
I just got laid off in the Battlefield Studios layoffs this morning. If anyone knows of any UI Programming jobs available in the Seattle area (Or remote), please let me know. I have 7+ years of experience in the industry, and I helped ship Battlefield 6.
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Satan is reportedly building a special wing called “People Who Used Religion Like a Power Tool.”
Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club.
On the professional and personal costs of this work:
I wasn't there but I don't quite understand why people weren't pushing these fence things over? I would have totally pushed one over if there wasn't an obvious policeman standing right there?
this year at gdc, the yerba buena gardens, a space where developers have congregated during the event for well over a decade, has been taken over by the conference and spends part of the day fenced off. developers are upset not just about the clunkiness of it all, but what it represents
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
"controller-optimized experience to your Windows 11 device, letting players browse their library, launch games, use Game Bar and switch between apps"
Why does Xbox keep slamming their dick in this particular car door?
was confused enough they did it even once with XB One, but seeking it out again?
Apart from the sovereignty issue, that's about 22% of annual US production of Tomahawks flying past there.
This isn't a sustainable campaign.
I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money
Seems bad!
A fun cycle we've been locked in for 6-7 years now: AI company implies thing will happen, a load of experts point out thing can't happen as described, media spends six months talking about how thing will happen soon, AI company announces it's not actually trying to make thing happen. Rinse, repeat.
Jesus was unvaccinated? Jesus also wasn’t on Twitter and yet here you are.
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
One of the best cartoons in ages! Thank you @BillBramhall!
I still think about this a lot.
