Sam Cast

The biggest issue in the entertainment industry right now is this concept of short-term value for long-term product degradation. You can see this everywhere, from video games to sports to movies. Companies and people are constantly cashing checks only made possible by built-up market goodwill- cont.

The metaphor here is a sports team's general manager entering win-now mode rather than rebuilding, because they know they'll get fired if they don't win more games right away. The irony is that this just makes them a middling slop-team and cripples the franchise for decades.

The biggest issue in the entertainment industry right now is this concept of short-term value for long-term product degradation. You can see this everywhere, from video games to sports to movies. Companies and people are constantly cashing checks only made possible by built-up market goodwill- cont.

This sort of thing is fine, except that companies are forgetting they need to rebuild that market goodwill. Cutting the game version of Mass Effect while pushing the show out is just one example of a company that is probably costing itself a shitload of money long term (assuming the show is good).

This whole project Genie causing a panic sell of gaming stocks really shows how little the average person understands about game developement.

Not to mention it costs a billion dollars to generate. And yes, of course, the tech will improve, but improvements will be more incremental as time goes on, as the company bleeds money training these models.

This whole project Genie causing a panic sell of gaming stocks really shows how little the average person understands about game developement.

Kindness is free, empathy is free, gratefulness is free. But just because they are free, doesn't make them easy. The present if beautiful, but it can be hard to pay attention to sometimes.

Minimalist design is bullshit.

Going to start re-reading: A Playful Production Process, my favorite book about game design. I'll maybe start posting some of my key takeaways in a thread here, mostly just to keep myself accountable. Or maybe I won't, who knows.

Another couple nuggets: "The eye is connected to the brain but the ear is connected to the heart" and "GD is like standup comedy: the designer and the comedian immediately know if something has worked."

Going to start re-reading: A Playful Production Process, my favorite book about game design. I'll maybe start posting some of my key takeaways in a thread here, mostly just to keep myself accountable. Or maybe I won't, who knows.

Clarity, brevity and active listening are named as keys to effective communication in game Dev. Couldn't agree more. I also like how it paints respectful conflict as an essential piece of the game dev puzzle.

Have been banging my head against a game writing problem for 3 full days, and finally cracked through today. Top 10 feeling.

Going to start re-reading: A Playful Production Process, my favorite book about game design. I'll maybe start posting some of my key takeaways in a thread here, mostly just to keep myself accountable. Or maybe I won't, who knows.

It's very interesting to me that games that struggled to gain significant traction commercially will still sometimes have a large impact on the medium and the Dev's that make games. 1/X

For example, Wayfinder was not a commercial success (mostly due to design reasons). Still, I have found it is almost a ubiquitous inspiration among stylized 3d artists, and I think it will shape game art for decades to come. Seriously, I see it talked about everywhere in that niche.