Matt Lowe

Whatever happened to Occam's razor?

This controller has @hilariouscow.bsky.social written all over it, surely! It all looks very cool.

new GTA6 release date

"The top 10% of US households now hold 87% of all US stocks owned by households, with the top 1% alone owning 50%."

Is this good?

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My favorite Arc Raiders clip so far 🤣

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Arc Raiders has surpassed a peak concurrent player count of 250,000 on Steam, only a day after its release. This makes it the most popular Steam release for a PvP extraction shooter to date. https://bit.ly/47jdqAc

When I talk about a rock, tree, shrub, in our case I'm talking about photogrammetry pipelines. But maybe folk consider that generative AI at this point.

I mean of course it is, but a rock, in itself, is rarely the experience, as is a tree, a shrub etc. I don't want to speak for them but as an example, I think our environment artists are far more excited about building an environment that is the experience, than building solely rocks for six months.

..around 80-90 for production. That was very much about going slow and being agile until we really understood the system we were building, then we could press ahead with speed with a little more confidence.

I think we'd agree. Marginal gains in some places are not necessarily a solve for the practicalities and dynamics of others, but they can at least free up some capacity to allow more effort to be applied.

On The Finals the team ran with just 12-14 devs for almost two years before we ramped up to..

Content in our vocabulary is very specific to visual assets, not experiences, dynamics, gameplay, moments. This isn’t quite the contradiction it might initially seem like. Much of our ambition is to reduce some of the more mundane elements of production to free up more time for the experience.

Arc Raiders breaks 100,000 concurrent players in the first 30 minutes of going live and rising, soaring to the top of Steam's best sellers Raiding them Arcs.

Arc Raiders was originally going to be free-to-play, but its developer switched to a $40 price tag last year to "focus more on the fun." Several hours after launch, it has now peaked at over 200,000 Steam concurrents.

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Congrats to everyone at Embark on the release of Arc Raiders. Documenting the challenging development the past few years has been so much fun. I’m excited to see what people make the series we created soon. But for today, it’s time to raid.

TheFinals Team:
"NOW AVAILABLE | ARC RAIDERS
To celebrate the launch, everyone will receive a FREE gift including a Scrappy charm and an ARC Raiders sticker sent directly to your InGame mailbox. We hope to see you in the Arena… and Topside!
Happy ARC Raiders day, Contestants!"
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YouTube video by Stephen's State Space Why Stephen’s Sausage Roll is Brutal: A State-Space Walkthrough of the Opening Levels

This is one of the coolest game design analyses I've seen. Maybe ever. A graph of the possibility space of Stephen's Sausage roll (amazing game btw).
This is a great representation of a more discrete game.
I always thought of possibility spaces as hyper dimensional fogs.

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Stockholmers, just stay inside and play Arc Raiders! :)

..is still at the mercy of bad strategic decisions made by folk who don’t really understand the ecosystem they make their careers and live in.

And that’s not to say devs aren’t incredibly smart or don’t k ow what they’re doing, not at all. The issue is that knowledge and expertise is largely dependent in the realm of creativity, craft and production, not market dynamics, not player needs. So for all our skill, much of the game industry…

…break out successes are a result of luck, fortunate moments or fleeting changes in the games ecosystem and can’t be reproduced easily, but people try to copy anyway.

Only a fraction of success comes from understanding the state of play, making a plan and executing on it.

I swear like 85% of Swedish dog owners have never trained their dog. I’ve never seen so many dogs fighting, muzzled, unsocialized before I moved here, it’s really depressing.

So lights tonight :)

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Nice, this sounds like a great option!

The previously pitched Malmö to Brussels service would be the absolute dream

....could just solve all the operator paperwork bullshit