Aadit Doshi

Hello, I'm Aadit Doshi, a Senior Technical Designer @ HundredStar games. Focused on finding the fun as soon as possible. I've worked on Bioshock 4 and Suicide Squad Kill the Justice league. I post about game design and development.

We need to talk about how cool the opening training montage in 007: First Light is.

At what point do you start considering yourself an experienced TTRPG GM?

TTRPG GMs and Players. How would you feel about the GM auto rolling the player's skill checks. Where players only speak about what they want to do, and you make hidden rolls, and narrate the results?

A company can spend millions on marketing. Move thousands of content creators in tandem to push their product. But nothing changes your mind about something more than a friend you trust recommending you try something

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TTRPG GMs and Players. How would you feel about the GM auto rolling the player's skill checks. Where players only speak about what they want to do, and you make hidden rolls, and narrate the results?

Does anyone have any tips for doing game dev vlogs/blogs? Ive made a really cool personal project and now regret not recording the process.

There is a strong argument to be made that legendary Pokémon are way too nerfed, for the sole reason that players should be able to capture them. And it holds back legendaries in the game from feeling epic.

The discourse around @2xko.riotgames.com Devs wanting to make "substantial changes" to the game is really funny, because it's a direct result of them being extremely transparent in their thinking behind the scenes. I'm sure they can't provide more info, because they themselves are uncertain.

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What's a character trope you wish to see in games more?

Oh man why does this @nintendousa.bsky.social game look so poorly optimized with terrible FPS? I'm never going to buy a Zelda game if this is how poor they run.

What is your favourite 6 or 7 out of 10 game? I really enjoyed the Harry Potter games on PC back in the day. The challenges , puzzles and exploration were so good!

Anyone else still have a bookshelf for games? Or have you all gone digital?

A shovel salesman argues that every person needs a shovel, as it's essential for survival. He questions how one could exist without one and suggests that those without a shovel will fall behind. He advocates for Universal Basic Shovels for everyone in the future.

Which game is the blueprint for the third person action adventure genre? What inspired the gameplay of uncharted, last of us, God of war, batman arkham?

Tech designers, how do you your job to normies?

In most modern video games, no matter how cool your character looks, the player is actually just controlling a capsule.

Blue prince is a fantastic game, but the safe puzzles were definitely not designed to be enjoyed but rather inflicted into the player's minds.

Fun game dev fact: If you're holding a map of a place while standing in that place, there's always at least one point on the map that aligns perfectly with its real-world location. This is why mini maps work.

Game designers, learn to adjectify, verbify, and nounify. Your untargetable, dash-charging goblobs will be a lot easier to talk about.

Can someone explain the profability of the streaming model? You have X users that can go up or down monthly. A new series costs Y. Y cost can only be justified if X goes up enough because of the series and stays up long enough for delta X * subcost > Y. Am I missing something?

fun fact: if you draw fanart for a game within the first week of any sort of major PR event for it (announcement, demo, release etc) there is a 99% chance the entire dev team on the game knows who you are because they are doing nothing but reposting fanart in slack

I still can't believe that Grammerly can legally sell thier Gen AI tools to students, while simultaneously selling tools to teachers to detect use of Gen AI in thier students assignments. ChatGPT can you define Conflict of Interest?

How? Like seriously. Where did that money go? Facebook bought oculus over a decade ago for 2 billion , and changed it's name to Meta only 4 years ago. They aren't throwing money at various studios to build VR experiences. Where is this money going??

It's now extremely common to see bots comment on social media posts. Short form content is thier favourite as all they have to do is repeat the last line and put a laughing emoji and they will get a ton of engagement from real people. We are at the gates of hell

People who wait for their friends to be out of earshot before discussing spoilers are the real heroes

Severance is a masterclass of mise en scene. They know how to tell a story by just framing a shot.

The worst position to be in when buying a gift is knowing them well enough to get them something they would love and want, but not knowing them well enough to know if they already have it.

Civilization VII needs a Philomena Cunk mod!

LMAO, Grammerly sells students AI generated text tools to complete and correct their assignments and sells educators tools to auto correct and detect AI in assignments. What a horrible way to play both sides.

I've been trying to track down a ms dos game whose name I don't know but only what it looked like. It's been a nightmare

This is nuts! The game is a gem.

Kristala is a magic-driven ARPG in which you play as a catlike warrior from 1 of 6 clans. Customize your warrior's fur length and pattern - and choose between three different weapon sets at start of game. Play MEOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1... #actionrpg #soulslike #indiegame #rpg

Can someone give me a rational argument for why credit checks should affect your credit score? What is it? shrodinger's debt?

Why can't we have an arms race for this?

This is terrifying, but also misleading. It's the equivalent of looking at active player numbers for a single player game months after launch.

What do people think namaste means??

It's strange how most viral riddles or puzzles are just programming questions.

This is why most tech companies never step into the revenue game. If they are always in loss but gaining customers, they can claim to be valued way higher than the fundamentals reflect. Unfortunately in this finite game of capitalism, there's only so much thier user base is be able to afford.

The biggest scam no one talks about is that Internet speed is measured in BITS per second, and files are measured in BYTES. If you've ever wondered why you're 100mb file takes more than a second to download on 100mbs connection, it's because your Internet speed is 1/8th the speed you think it is.

One day we will move past the questions of whether games are art, and answer the spicier question, which games are not art.

Remember tommorow is the last day you can create your game dev discourse 2025 bingo card! Luckily we already had the Yellow paint discourse so close to the New year so it probably won't happen again until March.

The Yellow paint video irked me when they used immersiveness and realism interchangeably. A game does not need to be realistic to be immersive, it just needs to be consistent. If breakable barrels are marked in yellow paint, a barrel with yellow paint that you can't break is immersion breaking.

One key aspect missing from the Yellow paint discourse is the fact that identifying paths is not the core appealing feature of the game. I don't want to find the path by jumping to my death because it wasn't climable, I just want to get to the top. The Ff7 wall has so many false leads.

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