Game Narrative & Writing

These people will never shut the fuck up and make something worthwhile with their stupid slop machines but they will endlessly whine and whine and whine and whine about not getting credit for being able to pull the arm on a slot machine. …

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Narrative designer: The glass is half {playerEmotionalState() >= OPTIMISM_THRESHOLD: full | empty}. // FIXME: Tune optimism threshold

Okay but you need sleep. You literally need it. We don’t know a ton about sleep but we know it’s when your brain processes memory and cleans itself. It’s when your body makes repairs of its tissue. You will literally hallucinate if you don…

All you worthless wastes of skin have had TWO+ YEARS with these tools now. Go make something undeniable. Go make something people can't help but take notice of. You fucking can't, and honestly I don't think it's the "tools" I think you are…

The reality of it is that none of you losers want to make art. If you wanted to make art you'd shut up and go do it. What you want is attention and recognition and praise and frankly you'll have a better shot at it quitting your job to bec…

I’m quoting this not because of the rest of the thread but this idea in particular: how much time we spend looking at things that are bad and make us feel bad

tryin' out some recorded q&a with the fans! scarlet hollow, slay the princess, and general game dev/art/writing questions are welcome!

I haven't yet seen anyone make what seems to me to be the most important reason to get rid of Cofnas: because of the people who are unlucky enough to become his students. It's clear how he feels about Black academics. How do you think he …

So I thought we all agreed on who the real villain of spiderman brand new day was. But apparently some of y'all out here sounding like senator Kelly and I am flabbergasted. Like damn y'all licking fictional boots now too?

it is annoyingly plausible for you and a handful of your game dev friends to pool together an amount of money that wouldn't buy a used honda civic and walk away with some of EA's zombie IP

Just back from seeing the last movie I'll ever see with my daughter before she goes off to film school. Odyssey was a huge hunk of capital-C Cinema. I have very tiny quibbles, but overall it was a hell of a piece of movie-making. I'm a…

I love how thanks to ssds we abolished loading times for a couple years then brought them back with interminable shader compilation times. I miss the days when the game code was already compiled when I got it from Steam.