Chris Filip

I grew up on these streets

Who did you use?

itch is SO small and I have known the site long enough to trust that this isn't them acting maliciously, but itch is SO small and I can't really resent them acting defensively so much as be furious that like two US payment processors get to determine what gets to be made worldwide.

it's actually so cool that the entire global creative ecosystem is basically held hostage by freak reactionary american companies.

Something I didn’t speak to at the time, but should now — it’s not like itchio or Steam have a choice

If they don’t comply with payment processor requests, they lose access to the payment processor. Without the payment processor, the platform falls apart. It ceases to exist. They’re being bullied

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

Why is this a thing? Alternatively, why isn't there a separate thing targeting the clearly alt-right focused games on there?

Actually, it's the opposite. You'll never deploy solar panels across 100% of the surface, so if managed properly, you generate unlimited clean energy and lower the temp of the water, helping the biome 😅 nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/53...

Any chance you can share the sheet?

A picture of a cute cat in a garden looking at the camera

And another one!

One example I can give you is that at least up until 14, you get "awards" at the end of each academic year that are only based on your school test performance. There's 1 First Prize, 1 Second Prize, 1 Third Prize. I know parents who bribed lecturers to ensure that their kid got good grades for these

That is a very good question - I don't know. I'm talking from my own experience both as an Eastern European and as a game developers who's worked there and with that scene for over a decade at this point. It's not super different from the Silicon Valley mentality, just affected by other factors

There's a lot culturally to be taken into consideration whenever looking at games made by Eastern European developers. So much of growing up in a post-fall-of-iron-curtain culture is about being self-made and pushing exceptional individualism, and designers and developers will take into their games

Such an amazing book

What's a video game Lili?

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However, see Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur, both made by studios who still exist and haven't fired their dev teams post-launch.

So there is hope for studios yet. I think what we're seeing now is a paradigm shift that's still shifting, and plenty can still influence the future. 6/6

Media loves underdogs; "solo devs" are just that - a single face that has "come up with the idea" and gets all the credit. We saw this since 2012 with Indie Game: The Movie. Film directors and writers and TV "show runners" are the same, easy shortcuts to hundreds of professionals and producers. 5/6

It will depend on trends, discourse and incentives.

In the UK, the UK Games Fund incentivises studios to make hires.

Trend-wise, Fortnite and Roblox are today's Facebook Games - a platform that not enough are using to at least prototype and find the fun.

The discourse is slightly different 4/6

Where does that leave us? Will games take a film-industry style approach, that's "creative-led" (so-called "solo devs" still with big teams behind them, but billed as "freelancers" so who may not get proper credits) or will new studios start to re-emerge as the paradigm shift crystallises? 3/6

However, the people TALKING about games and the people PLAYING games live in two different worlds:
- Young people are growing up with F2P platform-games as their first experience (Fortnite, Roblox)
- Mainstream media comes from a premium-first Western game experience, where consoles are king 2/6

Oof. Joining The Discourse:
- This is not new - it has happened before (see Sony Cambridge, Lionhead etc. closing and resulting in small studios created)
- Compared to the mid 2010s, many more have studied or learned game development and need jobs
- Anyone can make games with free tools
However 1/6

There ya go, you're higher than DOOM which has got to be an achievement, right?

This was really confusing going into the film sector where all project names are always CAPITALISED 😵‍💫

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Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏

We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch

If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️

Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

Love this deep dive!

Sorry to tell you this, but they are good. However the middle in not a cream egg, it's just coloured white chocolate

Two spares 👀?

London taking a page from games FTUE