i remember before the days before microsoft sam auto reading lines with no speech file associated, we’d get the team to recording placeholder lines. team members of north americans trying to do their best cockney ork voices.

most of the games I’ve worked on have had some kind of robovoice that plays in absence of a speech file. like, we as game designers we would call a dialogue event, which often it pulled up some sort of UI thingy to go with it (character portrait, subtitles) and if there wasn’t a speech file to go with it, it’d just…

i just don’t have time for the ‘e-sports is equivalent to real sports’ agenda, especially in 2024 when all the e-sports leagues crashed during the pandemic. It was all a cynical con to get people to spend dollars on stadium gate revenue for something that has no business being billed as live entertainment. Sports is…

I’m not going to begrudge the kid spending his leisure time playing too much games, lord knows I did, but no one would say this kind of thing about record breaking in sports because sports has been a enshrined part of our society and a corner stone of human civilization for thousands of years. And it deserves that…

well that was a mean spirited bit from the broadcaster, but it kind of reflects the reality that this is more novelty than accomplishment. and probably accomplished with an entirely too much unmoderated screen time allowed by mom and dad. i say this as a dad and a game developer.

this is pretty absurd shit from Xbox. I was getting to a point how this is a solvable problem to create an opt-in on racy BG3 clips using metadata... but its absurd this is falling to the end user to manage in the first place. Microsoft reviews all the content that appears on their platform in the first place. They…

“Why does everything online have to be live service?” lmao, one of those “i don’t know anything about game dev,” statements. by virtue of being online you are ‘live’ - you have ops folks and server folks running your network infrastructure, you’ve got a lot of emergent technical problems that you have to be manage,…

trying to imagine kojima containing his over indulgent narratives and dialogue exchanges to a runtime, lol. the man loves cinema but has shown no aptitude for cinema. “What do you mean the 10 minute long scene of exposition didn’t test well? I couldn’t possibly cut it!”

do you know in the Akira movie, Akira isn’t in it at all and is in fact, DEAD! Yet some how, he’s still relevant to the story! Crazy!

I remember when a friend in highschool first recommended Scott Pilgrim with me with the caveat that the characters and story was ‘kind of shallow.’ And while enjoyable, her assessment ultimately proved true, it was pretty shallow. That’s why I was so delighted that the anime zagged instead of zigged. I went from “Meh,…

lol cry about it

No one did Radical more dirty than Bobby Kotick did, but Vivendi came really fucking close. Sad chapter in Vancouver game development history, where a profitable studio with a diverse portfolio was gutted by a parade of terrible corporate management decisions. 

AI is a rallying issue for a union, all performers are anxious about it.

All the characters you could have made and you made the most Andrew Tate looking mfer imaginable.

currency debt is such an obtuse, draconian thing only a japanese gacha game maker could rationalize itself into. the house always wins?

MS needs more time to arrange an untimely accident

this deal getting held up was constipating the whole game industry, a lot of lost business and ruined lives because of the trickle down effects of some of the biggest players and sources of work were paralyzed. microsoft monopolizing sucks but i am relieved this is over.

How much money is appropriate for a couple hours of work? I’m sympathetic but equating video games to film ignores the reality of the issue. An actor in film will be a legitimate draw that markets and sells the game, this is very rarely the case in video games. As a colleague told me about an annoying SAG-Aftra…

reeks of existential desperation. probably a good omen.

I’d pay for an even more premium service to get an official localization of One Piece where Zoro is not ‘translated’ as Zolo.