Drew McCoy

The data was cooked to begin with -- COD4 had a demo in 2007 and that game outsold I think everyone (except maybe if you consider Wii Sports pack-in as a sold copy?)

I found 4 perfectly good monitors of varying quality in my closet last night. Not a single power supply in sight 😭

Well, I've heard enough - onto the list it goes

I'd pay to watch this.

Gotta shoutout the mad lad behind it all, stellar work @gimblll.com

Sektori on Steam Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another s...

The last year produced some incredible games, but the one I think I'm going to continue to go back to for years is Sektori. If you love shmups or twinstick shooters like Ikaruga or Geometry Wars I can't recommend it enough. The Steam reviews are spot on

store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...

Admittedly you'll have to put up with the occasional groan-worthy dad joke puns from me, but on the positive side we're working on something cool and are looking for more awesome devs to help us!

tldr: rad team, independent studio, new IP (we own it!), great benefits, equity/profit sharing for all

Top 5 for me amongst some killer games this year!

Oh hell yeah. I'll play thru again with HDR and photo mode!

First playthrough of Terminator 2D: No Fate completed

If this was released to arcades in 1992 it would have made all the money. Highly recommend it if you like this sort of game, just make sure to play on a higher difficulty. Was pretty easy to blaze through on the medium difficulty setting

Also loving Sektori by @gimblll.com! If you enjoy twin stick shooters and have a burning hole in your soul since Geometry Wars you should check it out. I play when no one else is home because the home theater needs to be at 11 for the music. Didnt blink during a 30m run I had last night, no notes A+

Shoutout to @bysameng.com on Skate Story. Played a few hours and its everything I was hoping for. Awesome skating gameplay, rad af graphics, killer soundtrack via Blood Cultures, and just a perfectly bizarre narrative - this is the skating game I've been waiting decades for

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0m...

The core conceit of this is truer than you realize. Doing a great Game 3 can be arguably harder to do than Game 1

Agreed, its a well reasoned write up

If I have one issue it's their insistence on cost being The Reason for doing TTS VO. There are logistical reasons (aka getting actors in booths across 10 languages, in time to ship next season) that I could see using this as well

Note: we explicitly ban AI @ GW

Really looking forward to ARC Raiders launch tomorrow. First game I've preordered and been this hyped for in a long while. That server slam test was some of the most fun I've had in PvP in years - no surprise, Embark showed they already know what's up with THE FINALS

Anyone else going topside?

Picked up one of those insane-o 45" ultrawide OLED LG monitors. Wow

Suddenly my 4090 doesn't feel quite so beefy 😭

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30 years ago this is what I hoped video games would become. So happy games like this are being made

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So, thank you to Cyan for putting that making-of videon on the Myst CD. Wouldn't be here without it ❤️

None of it turned into making games, but about a decade later I finally got into games - as an IT admin. All that time learning the basics of how of how a game comes together turned out to be instrumental in being able to support the world class dev team at IW, which led to me becoming a producer.

Around this time I was also teaching myself how to build maps in Wolf3D/Doom/Duke3D. Took a few community college courses in high school on an early version of Maya, spent hundreds of hours tinkering with Photoshop from 2.0 onward, and messed with webdev along the way too

I taught myself how to "script" in HyperCard while my older brother went about making all the art and we put together a few 10-15 minute point and click adventure games on our dad's Mac Centris 610

We got our hands on Infini-D and taught ourselves modeling/animation, and I got a copy of FutureBASIC

When I was 12 I got Myst for Christmas and fell in love (was huge Sierra / Lucas Arts adventure game fan), and this making-of video on the CD was the first time I saw any kind of game development. From then on I knew what I was supposed to do

@digitalfoundry.bsky.social Do you guys use off the shelf software for your framerate/frametime overlays or is that a custom job?

Often in dev I wish I could replicate it, as running extra profiling to get the data isn't always possible

One benefit of having COVID this week is that I've had the time to clean up my email inboxes

Gotta keep things nice and tidy for the daily dump of spam to arrive, ya know?

It's just your average fifo system and they have limited capacity

New job listing posted! Totally biased, but I think we're on to something really neat here. Come help us make it a reality!

Horde with Threadrippers is a lifesaver

Ayup

Watching the team go through a show and tell of all their work this morning and I am just in awe that I get to work with such talented and amazing people

This was how I learned about Knightmare. Went down a little YouTube rabbit hole. Holy shit this show was incredible! Super jealous