Darcy Sandall

Sledge Australia is hiring for the first time in *years*, if you know anyone who would be interested please pass this on (engineering, animation and production roles)

careers.sledgehammergames.com/search-resul...

Upside of being sick is that I can put some quality time into this banger

(the photo is on an angle, the TV is straight in real life)

Trying to trick myself into believing that if I drink enough lemon ginger tea that the post games week cold I'm definitely getting won't happen.

The last 3km didn't feel rad

I hit a wall at 10:30 and dipped out of megadev early.

Quality games week all. Godspeed to everyone heading to SXSW tomorrow.

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

It might be the Sunday of games week but I still ran a 10k faster than I have in my life

Choices were made when I booked this

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

I'm so used to Australia being more politically embarassing compared to NZ that this is a little unsettling
youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?...

Pour yourself into your work only in the hours you're legally required to in your employment contract.

When you're off the clock build yourself a life outside of games.

It's much easier to handle the ups and downs of this industry when it's not your entire world.

Excellent humans ❤️

It's not games week in California 🫠

I cycled to the office this morning and was only 5 minutes late to my 8:30am meeting so we're calling that a win

Australia makes some good shit

Parallels - Last Minute Tickets Available Now

Know someone who missed out on Parallels tickets? We rummaged around and found a few more in our pockets - but they're very limited!

events.humanitix.com/parallels25

There are so many things in life you can still enjoy in your 30s without regrets but eating a Krispy Kreme donut then going on a 8k run is definitely not one of them.

Hello industry 'veteran' (shit we've been around for a while)

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

Keep AI out creative fields and let humans make cool shit FFS

I am so excited but also have to wait because *games week*

Interesting section on EA's £55 billion takeover, I'm sure this is all gonna work out so well... "The deal is a huge bet that artificial intelligence can significantly cut EA's operating costs, allowing the equity consortium to manage a large debt load on a company that historically carried limited net debt. Al is already widely used across Silicon Valley to accelerate many kinds of computer programming. In games development, it can be used to replace voice actors and create backdrops and other assets, as well as automating play testing to avoid bugs before release." "The investors are betting that Al-based cost cuts will significantly boost EA's profits in coming years, people involved in the transaction told the Financial Times." Source: https://www.ft.com/content/ be980240-13ec-498c-ba79-71eada30d133

Wait was EA’s big GenAI push a bid to convince potential buyers that it could lower operating costs after a purchase to help pay for debts??

They have like four whole game studios making the Battlefield series, you can’t run a CoD-competing juggernaut with automation.
www.ft.com/content/be98...

EA goes private in $55 billion deal, Andrew Wilson to remain as CEO. https://bit.ly/3WaGqnc

My prediction will be our jobs will become just cleaning up slop.

I've kind of done it (bought a room of someone from someone planning to go to GDC that ended up not) but I knew the person I was getting the room off.

The difference is you understand the boilerplate code and can see if there's something wrong with it. If someone has only ever used AI might not have the skills to because they've never learnt the basics.

Firstly, gen Z saw our toxic workaholic bullshit and decided to do better.

Secondly, AI is ruining the ability for entry level workers to learn the fundamentals of their roles, if they're even lucky enough to get those roles to begin with.

Holy shit huge congrats!!

(Also good luck with that timeline 💀)

Melbourne International Games Week: I'm working like normal so I'll only be at a few events but I'll be *around*. Reach out if we should catch up and I'll make time.

(also no SXSW Sydney for me, completely dropped the ball, next year I promise)

Incredible