Thomas Reiffer

Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis Itchio joins Steam in pulling games due to pressure from extreme groups with an ongoing campaign aimed at payment processors

I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent?
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...

credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think

It's #PortfolioDay! As my search for gainful employment continues, please check out mine and consider me for your narrative writing needs (the weirder the better) 🤠

📚 Portfolio: www.immersionruined.com
🐱 Baldur's Gate 3 showreel: youtu.be/jfKfc7F9kuY
💾 Dates & Wires showreel: youtu.be/XXmGzAHW1IM

It's #PortfolioDay! As I'm still searching for gainful employment, please check out my Baldur's Gate 3 showreel (and the portfolio linked therein) and consider me for your narrative writing needs (the weirder the better): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKf...

The thing that drew me to the NFTS was the 100% project-based curriculum. And we made software - not board game/paper mockups. We ended up with like 5 .exes at the end of the course, which was a HUGE draw for me.

I took the Games Design & Development course at the NFTS and, while the teaching was excellent, the thing that landed me my first job was the relentless networking they had us do, and the large number of industry people they brought in. The school has a good rep, so recruiters would come to us.

Siiiiiiick

Bluesky post: To me it's only pointless when there's no context for why it's happening. People having sex just because the author got horny? Cringe. People having sex because of themes in the story that have built up to that moment? Tends to be interesting.

Kudos to everyone writing sex scenes because they're horny. Do it as often as you like.

These days, 'indie’ either means solo hobbyist or multimillion dollar companies using the word 'indie' to market themselves, but there are SO many developers in-between: professional, long-term devs who haven't grown into a huge studio – perhaps due to funding or simply because they don't want to.

Hell yeah

Excuse me are those fondant potatoes

GDC Survey: 41% of devs affected by layoffs in 2024 The Game Developers Conference released its annual State of Games Industry survey today, which found that one in ten de…

The Game Developers Conference released its annual State of Games Industry survey today, which found that one in ten developers were laid off in 2024

Overall, 41% of developers were impacted by layoffs last year compared to 35% in 2023

www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-4...

Like many people here have already said, doing nothing even a remotely related to game dev. I was fortunate(?) to burn out into an industry-wide crash that forced me to do nothing for like 6 months while my wife supported us both.

I'm proud of my own individual work, but each game release is less pride and more a of just a milestone, if that makes sense? Permission to rest.

You're gonna blink, it'll be the end of the day, and you'll think "hey that wasn't so bad". 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia.

Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

lmao thanks for the heads up 🙃

I've started using "NPC behaviour logic" when I'm talking about my roles, and I have only once had someone pick up the fact that I'm avoiding saying AI.

Part of why Netflix seemingly can't produce anything good or memorable is that "showing people exactly what they want" sucks the life out of artistic creation. No one has their life changed by a movie created in a lab to appeal to their exact marketable demographic.

Whenever it's ready 👍

I'd be happy to give these a look for you! I'm a native speaker and am also suffering from Online Poisoning, so I should be able to help you out on editing.

Truly the most abrasive thing about The Butterfly Site is that people are obssessed with talking about how Things Are Done Over Here in a way that ignores how the platform is built capaciously, allowing many of the same bad behaviors (and actors) from other sites.

we toured a 3-bedroom duplex yesterday just for fun and it was $1.55M lmaooooooooooooo

We were the youngest ones there by at least 20 years

“why aren’t the youths having more kids” bro where will we put them?

I recently did a courtesy call with an indie developer. They wanted to talk to me because their game's target audience is ... uh, me. 25-40-year-old women, many of whom are moms.

They wanted to know: what did I need to pick up a game? What would bar me from playing?

Here are some answers 🧵(1/?):

Occasionally social media is good, eh? I get to personally go 👍👍👍 to someone that made something I really liked, and we both get free serotonin.

Recently I've had an interview for a role that was advertised as remote and turned out it wasn't, and for a role that was listed as on-site and turned out to be completely remote. It's the wild west out there, chat.

I did not anticipate the sequel to the "remain emotionally detached from your pawns" game to deliver so many deeply resonant characters. Some even spoke to me in a way that helped me claw my way out of my own labyrinth. I think you made Good Art on DD2 - I really enjoyed it!!

The one thing this whole debacle has reassured me of is my technical ability. I used to buy into the whole "if you're not pushing keys in an IDE you're not being productive" thing; but hearing very experienced devs talk about how their day-to-day looks a lot like mine has done WONDERS for my mental.

known games industry layoffs by year

known games industry layoffs by month

2024 currently has more known games industry layoffs than 2023+2022 combined.

2024 is roughly 600 layoffs away from doubling 2023. There is still plenty of business days left in the month.

I can't emphasize enough how extreme these last few years have been.

So far.