Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI

Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI

@liambme.bsky.social

Game designer in Kyoto 🗾 Co-Founder of Denkiworks. Directing & Designing TANUKI: Pon's Summer. Creator of Cursed to Golf. 🦝⚡

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It’s an undeniably strange feeling to be finishing one game, and unable to take a break after 3 years of that, because you’re straight into prototyping new stuff because you need funding 😅 It’s a really quiet, different rat race.

adamatomic@adamatomic.bsky.social

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

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Well, if you insist. Let's go back to Japan in the year 2002.

Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地@colinwilliamson.bsky.social

I'm really hoping that other folks who were hanging out in Japan at the same time can reach out and share their stuff too. Looking at photos from this era makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

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Thank you for the collaboration!

Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI@liambme.bsky.social

Pon’s got a tough journey ahead very soon! So, what’s a little help from friends? Featuring Hat Collabs with: 🐛 Silksong 🐁 Mina the Hollower 🪏 Shovel Knight 💣 Öoo ⛺️ PEAK 🛻 Promise Mascot Agency 🐈 D-topia 🌻 Danchi Days BMX reppin’ your fav in TANUKI: Pon’s Summer! Check it out ☺️

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Happy to have a hat included in Pon's Summer! You'll be able to find it in-game once the game is out!

Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI@liambme.bsky.social

Pon’s got a tough journey ahead very soon! So, what’s a little help from friends? Featuring Hat Collabs with: 🐛 Silksong 🐁 Mina the Hollower 🪏 Shovel Knight 💣 Öoo ⛺️ PEAK 🛻 Promise Mascot Agency 🐈 D-topia 🌻 Danchi Days BMX reppin’ your fav in TANUKI: Pon’s Summer! Check it out ☺️

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Pon’s got a tough journey ahead very soon! So, what’s a little help from friends? Featuring Hat Collabs with: 🐛 Silksong 🐁 Mina the Hollower 🪏 Shovel Knight 💣 Öoo ⛺️ PEAK 🛻 Promise Mascot Agency 🐈 D-topia 🌻 Danchi Days BMX reppin’ your fav in TANUKI: Pon’s Summer! Check it out ☺️

Pon’s got a tough journey ahead very soon! So, what’s a little help from friends? Featuring Hat Collabs with: 🐛 Silksong 🐁 Mina the Hollower 🪏 Shovel Knight 💣 Öoo ⛺️ PEAK 🛻 Promise Mascot Agency 🐈 D-topia 🌻 Danchi Days BMX reppin’ your fav in TANUKI: Pon’s Summer! Check it out ☺️

Almost time for the Tanuki Festival! Pon has 1 month to deliver packages, help out the townsfolk & bring the Shrine back to its former glory. Play the first 3 hours on Steam NOW! Your save game will carry over from the demo to the full game on release! t.co/6vzL2laYlO

Just finished “Sai”… holy moly. The chills. What an incredible, underrated thriller drama. The score is literally, godlike? The certain song that plays at pivotal points will linger in my brain for a while. Making a horror or psychological thriller? Watch this.

I really don’t think people understand what R* is like to work for. There’s no “field” it’s a black box you exist in. There’s no games industry or meeting people from it. It’s just you & the other people who work at R*. You don’t realize but they’re pitted against each other constantly.

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

Wow holy fuck what a shit in principle but also at least have some selfworth and ask for more than an hour of time off for betraying your entire field www.verticalslice.news/rockstar-acc...

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Also just to be clear, I really don't think Rami is wrong at all by what he's said (huge agree) - it's just the reality is (or was) not like that there. The echo chambers of conduct we have here or for our wider industry, don't necessarily work or reach those internally.

And even if they want it, they sadly are not in an environment where big change can happen. But, also I could be completely talking out of my ass a decade later, from my own previous experience of time there. But, obviously recent noise suggests that's not the case 🤷🏻

I really don’t think people understand what R* is like to work for. There’s no “field” it’s a black box you exist in. There’s no games industry or meeting people from it. It’s just you & the other people who work at R*. You don’t realize but they’re pitted against each other constantly.

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

Wow holy fuck what a shit in principle but also at least have some selfworth and ask for more than an hour of time off for betraying your entire field www.verticalslice.news/rockstar-acc...

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I really don’t blame anyone who was told by their very own management that arguably this might have been “part of their responsibility to report“. It was always you’re either with us or you’re not. And my god, if you‘re not they make your life miserable. It’s a sad, manipulative situation.

And in 11 years since I left, sounds like barely anything changed. Outside noise never ever breached those walls back then. It seems now it’s unavoidable and accountability is finally being questioned. It’s about time.

I really don’t think people understand what R* is like to work for. There’s no “field” it’s a black box you exist in. There’s no games industry or meeting people from it. It’s just you & the other people who work at R*. You don’t realize but they’re pitted against each other constantly.

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

Wow holy fuck what a shit in principle but also at least have some selfworth and ask for more than an hour of time off for betraying your entire field www.verticalslice.news/rockstar-acc...

When you’re in this environment where no joke, it’s basically your entire existence. It really is tough to see beyond the walls of that place. I disagree so much with it all, but R* likes to dangle the carrot to people they know they can sway. Bonuses, time off, promotions you name it.

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what ive learned from this year in marketing and advertising for games is huge sections of the ad/marketing industry are money black holes that publishers or devs spend thousands if not millions on for pretty much no measurable gain. some of it might work but a lot seems like tea leaves to me

Haha ok, not necessarily a disaster. But man, absolutely all over the place and the humor is just bad. Ken was good though No idea why there’s this instance that SF is comedic or silly? This storyline could have been exactly the same with some seriousness. Also, fuck the ending. Oh well.

Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI@liambme.bsky.social

As a long time Street Fighter player, time to see what this disaster is all about haha 😅

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‘No offense to COD Modern Warfare 4 and this Activision exec but GTA 6 and TANUKI: Pon’s Summer are the two biggest games of the year’ TANUKI director says.

Andy Robinson@andyrobinson.bsky.social

‘No offense to Zelda’ but GTA 6 and COD Modern Warfare 4 are ‘the two biggest games of the year’, Activision’s chief marketing officer says. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/no-offe...

‘No offense to COD Modern Warfare 4 and this Activision exec but GTA 6 and TANUKI: Pon’s Summer are the two biggest games of the year’ TANUKI director says.

Andy Robinson@andyrobinson.bsky.social

‘No offense to Zelda’ but GTA 6 and COD Modern Warfare 4 are ‘the two biggest games of the year’, Activision’s chief marketing officer says. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/no-offe...

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So happy to announce that TANUKI: Pon’s Summer is already Steam Deck verified (machine too)! Playing TANUKI handheld (imo) is the best experience. Feels of a bygone era. I can’t wait for you all to experience it soon, whether on a small or large screen! 😊 ✅

So happy to announce that TANUKI: Pon’s Summer is already Steam Deck verified (machine too)! Playing TANUKI handheld (imo) is the best experience. Feels of a bygone era. I can’t wait for you all to experience it soon, whether on a small or large screen! 😊 ✅

A year after randomly meeting Will Ramos at Nijo station & helping him with directions. He said “next time we’re in Japan make sure to come see my band!” Well, we fulfilled that promise haha. Absolute 🔥