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Come get this incredibly charming game for under five bucks! That’s a great shenanigans per dollar ratio!

Whoa whoa whoa!!!! 4.99! Next WEEK!!!!!! That's a tremendous amount of entertainment for less than a Blockbuster Rental!!! That..that's a current reference right? um..that's less than a gallon of gas!!! I..I guess a gallon of gas isn't entertaining? It's a super fun game for a very low price!

Oh maaaaan this was a great shirt! Pick it up before it’s gone again!

Watching Laterns and reading Geoff John’s GL run, I can totally see an adventure or puzzle game with Green Lanterns. Point and click with constructs as inventory? Limited use due to ring power draining.

Woooo!!!! The Keeper programming team did inspiring work bring this world to life. Feel so lucky to have gotten to work with them! And oh man look at all them 1s and 0s on that award.

This game is SUPER fun and hilarious. @willk3d.com and team have done an amazing job on it. One day I hope @devinks.bsky.social can talk about how he hooked up the bus movement! It's very clever!

It’s out! Right now!!!! I’m excited for more folks to experience this world and story! We also do some neat stuff with the PlayStation controller.

WOOOOOO!!!! Thanks everyone!!!!!! SO excited to work on any of these projects!!!

AF is coming back! And there's a bunch of really amazing ideas! Please check them out! And also this is my pitch with programmer art that I've spent way too much time on. Imagine X-Men danger room except it's at the DMV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=By_S...

James did an amazing job on this feature and this talk!!

I’m curious how these games (Metaphor, Persona, SMT) are made. What’s the engine, how are the events scripted, who on the team does what. It must be an astonishing amount of data.

Metaphor was an incredible game and it makes me look forward to the next Persona. The end of the game definitely keeps going…and going…and going. It does appease my procrastination brain (oh no I didn’t do that thing…OH. I HAVE TIME NOW).

Wooooo!!! We’ve achieved technically!!! Folks on the project created some amazing technical features to bring the world and its inhabitants to life.

Woooo launch day! HUGE congrats to the kiln team. Shipping is incredibly hard and this team has done an amazing job tackling the challenges that come along with it. I hope that folks play this game and feel the care that the team has put in crafting it for you.

INCREDIBLE trailer!

21 years! Whoa whoa! My favorite world to work on was Waterloo World. The transitions between the different scales was fun to figure out and setting up the pieces and how they work. @erikrobson.net ‘s design for the gameplay here was amazing and I had such a blast working with him on it.

Sigh, if we find folks a year or so from now lamenting why it takes so long and so much resources to make a video game, we can most definitely point to all the recent layoffs leading to an experience drain in the industry.

Ok. Enough time has gone from shipping where I feel like I could play a long game. Diving into Metaphor (I know super late), multiple hours in and I’m just waiting to level up social links. That’s in the game…right?

Releasing very soon! You seriously have to experience the pot making, it's so very cool.

Really great talk! The world artists did some magical work. The talk also shows off some neat @p1xelcoder.bsky.social tech!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “How…..how did this ever work?!??!”

The pot making tech is incredible. I'm excited for folks to play this game and super excited for the kiln team!

This is really good! I love this part youtu.be/6PIg71aayEE?... where they discuss the development of the light aiming mechanic. Senior Gameplay Programmer Keenan Patterson did a heroic job tackling this very hard problem on the programming side and Lee talks through some of the complexities here.

OH!!! OH NO!!!! My heart....it...it cannot take it..... Also my goggles will be full......of tears.....

The animation team did some awe-inspiring work on this project. This is very well deserved!!!

So well deserved! Lee led the art team to craft an amazing work of art and I’m so proud of them!!!

Great tips from Naoko! She’s been keeping us organized for many years!!!

It's amazing how good the noir mode looks!

Now, the holy grail of bug repro is if your game supports replay files and things ran in a deterministic enough way where it was attached to the bug and you have an automatic repro. We got close to that on Brutal Legend.

I can't express enough how much I appreciate videos being attached to bugs. Capturing moments BEFORE the bug happens and what it looks like is almost essential these days. I remember the closest we had to that were video tapes of bugs being reproed. Otherwise you hope for really good descriptions.

Where I ultimately land with the thoughts around game dev career mortality (wait that sounds too morbid), end game (better?) is that I want to make stuff with folks that like to make stuff and feel joy in the process. And maybe help others as they start their journey.

I do start to think about my own game dev mortality with the number of years and titles left until my brain no longer wants to. Most can't pick and choose exactly what kind of games they want to make, it's always about situations and opportunities, so what should on look for?

The thing that's odd being in this industry (for me) this long is that it's hard to see what paths there are. Many of my peers in programming have gone to other industries, and other than roles in big companies, what does a career path for a gameplay programmer about to hit 50 look like?

This month marks 23 years in the game industry for me. I've been INCREDIBLY fortunate to have worked with all of the amazing folks that I've worked with, the games that I got to work on and to have had made some life long friends along the way. Truly grateful.