Derek Reese

Co-op mods for Subnautica and Elden Ring have been fantastic. My guilty pleasure is RimWorld Co-op mod.

But I for one want to see co-op Horizon! Arrows in robot dinosaurs together please and thank you.

It's a bit weird thinking about moving chunks of bits in and out of boxes as 'programming', but I guess at the end of the day that's all of modern production, software or not.

It's a modern horse girl movie with a little wonderful rainbow sprinkle of horror.

Absolutely loved it.

I'm so tired of being asked for advice by guys, and then they balk at the changes I suggest.

It's self-enforced "martyrdom" driven by fear. They cling to toxic masculinity like it's the only social strata they could ever be accepted in.

A text chat, where Derek Reese says "babe... our little psychopath... look at him go" and Ben Sawyer replies, "thank you for letting me help you create an ageless, timeless, eldritch horror villain."

A space battle scene depicting masses of ships firing lasers in front of a planet, bodies and a photo in the foreground.

A cloaked figure muses in front of the wreckage from a space battle scene, map plotting... something. "They lash out like petulant children with gestures they think will win them their freedom. Freedom."

We've been working on a comic book for the backstory of our game universe's villain, and...

I am so in love with it. It's GORGEOUS. Can't wait to share the whole thing and introduce all the artists behind @chroniclersoftware.com 's upcoming title.

Look, I would check some assumptions on your first statement there.

Not sure what you mean by usually, but it's presented pretty disingenuously on first read.

If you've also had a career centered around IP development, then cool you've had a different experience. If not, this is a pretty bad take.

Sure, fans do this *all* the time.

Companies should know better, they're the IP experts with lawyers and research budgets.

Fans just do what they love.

Thankfully not one of the things I'm worried about. We feel in pretty great hands with y'all!

It'll be fun cultivating the IP and community together.

Right?!

You can get in this position with exclusive licenses for merch, but not doing a carve-out clause for custom goods and promotions is amateur hour in IP licensing. Shame.

YouTube video by Galactic Armory We Got a Cease & Desist from Games Workshop… What Now?

Wrong move from Games Workshop.

When will brands learn?! The best way to protect a license is to grant them to community members, not C&D them.

Cherish your fans and they'll take care of you. Threaten them - they'll find somewhere else to go.

youtu.be/LXnF6A0nlaE

Morning philosophical question: Why is there never enough coffee in the mug?

Hey! I resemble this comment.

#DoIRegretHiringAMarketingPersonYet #GuessWe'llFindOut

So many of today's investors are just slot machine addicts with a different name.

Shout out to the real ones who work together to create solutions to problems. You may not be on X tweeting valley AI hot-takes, but you're actually making a difference in people's lives.

Super grateful for our team.

Continuing in my series on "stuff students are asking me", here's a written tutorial about using a histogram to determine Contrast and Exposure in an image, and then how to tweak it to get a better range of brightness values www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... #compositing #arttip #color

If you move to Patreon please post about it so I can go subscribe.

Writers and artists deserve independent funding and safe platforms.

YES THIS!

My first job out of college I took to avoid moving back in with my parents.

It was writing MSSQL for a COBOL-CC codebase in healthcare.

That stuff is seared into my brain. Saved them $15M/yr in reporting costs and got nothing for it so that was cool.

Tom Lehrer wasn't just a satirist or a musician.

He as a comedian who could quietly tell a joke and wait more than SIXTY YEARS for the payoff.

That's dedication to craft.

We lost an icon.

Got another person into using @obsidian.md for note taking.

It’s the plugins, I tell you. So much customization!

> I need to make a Lush trip tho

Me, three days after I've just made a Lush trip 😅

I can highly recommend @drnmcy.bsky.social , who did absolutely killer design work on our site.

And it's tiffany blue and gorgeous and stuff. Hire him.

This is in response to a Reddit thread that's popular right now but I truly feel it's an evergreen problem.

People are way too stressed to hang out and socialize and it shows.

Remind yourself: make friends who are cool with you being stressed out. Go watch a movie, play a board game, or couch co-op together.

Communities are how we survive hard times. Start building one by showing up even when it's hard.

i can make a pretty mean iced matcha latte now and i have never been less governable

YouTube video by Michelle Franklin | Legends and Lectures The History of Video Games with Danny O'Dwyer @NoclipDocs

TODAY it's VIDEO GAME HISTORY on Legends and Lectures!

Join us for a full 2 hours on the history of video games, consoles, and the games we love best with the legendary @dannyodwyer.bsky.social from the wonderful @noclipvideo.bsky.social!

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

#history #videogames

Wow, 600?!

I can't believe that many of us are into game studio discourse!

Either that or you're here for what my wife describes as "2007 tumblr-era golden retriever energy" -

- in either case sorry, welcome, I love y'all let's make better game studios 💛

The feminine urge to start another alt on WoW.

Michael, Rachel & co. are great to do business with!

If you're writer in LA, don't pass up this chance to work with them.

Just a reminder that people like Mike and @timcullings.bsky.social are doing amazing things with alternative game dev events - SLICE is coming up in Seattle soon!

Make sure to give them a follow 💛

Hey, thinking up boomer facebook memes to fundraise off of is a full time job!

How do you expect them to have time to read every bill when that's the case?

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