Ian M. Fischer

Lead Designer of Age of Empires 2 and Age of Mythology, Co-founder of C Prompt Games

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@Cotnam @JEvanson @chris_vd @joeyjojo36 Man, I miss Nunzi's...

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Happy Holidays, you goons.

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@MrLeePerry I have fond memories of the maps too (and notes - I think I still have a notebook from solving Mean Streets).

There was a time when "dungeons fit on a sheet of graph paper" was a back of the box feature!

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@MrLeePerry Also attempt to remember a time when this was how you learned about EA releases:

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@MrLeePerry Sentinel Worlds is a great game! It also hearkens back to a time when a major EA release had one programmer / designer (but four producers?).

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

We almost lived in a word without System Shock 2. A poorer world. https://t.co/c8FhMw7tFM

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@tametick @onlinealchemist @DigiAntiquarian Yes, love @DigiAntiquarian's stuff - thanks.

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With #ageofempires, we did a lot of work to include blurbs on the history (and mythology) behind the games. Games like #civilization do the same. Curious how many people get something out of this and how many TLDR?

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@PATAL00N @Ghostcrawler @SandyofCthulhu Also, while we're saying thanks, Dishonored is outstanding and I'm waiting on Deathloop, so right back atcha.

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@PATAL00N Thanks. I appreciate it but know that there were a lot of people involved -- I was fortunate enough to be part of an amazing team. On the history text, Bruce Shelley, @Ghostcrawler, and @SandyofCthulhu did a lot of the work.

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Not sure how quarantine habits are going to translate to working in an office again… I have taken to home gym sets when I get coffee. Seems like it would be weird to see someone doing inclined flyes by the coffee machine in most offices.

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@JimSterling It’s often worse than cluelessness.

A nutty schedule is set despite objections. Devs who love their game then break themselves to deliver. If they do, you hear “see, I told you it could be done.”

It is not uncommon to hear this suggested as a valid technique.

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@SandyofCthulhu The beans and black pudding were north of the sausage on my hungover American at breakfast complaint list, Sandy...

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A: I want to buy hold music for my phone system.

B: What’s your average hold time?

A: 3 hours.

B: For 3 hours, you don’t really need a full song…. We have an 8 second loop of donkey braying, recorded on a mic someone is kicking at the donkeys?

A: SOLD!

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"SSO isn't working."

A shocking turn of events.

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@SquirrelTweets Way better. No matter how bad the birds get, I’ve never had to share an elevator with 200 of them or slam the door of my car to keep them from joining me on my ride home.

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@TroyGoodfellow I look forward to the new models, equipped with a siren that wails as long as everything is working with your printer.

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@TroyGoodfellow Is it an HP printer? I have one with an eternally blinking light and it bothered me enough that I ended up on a call with HP CS about it. On some models, that blinking light doesn't indicate any problem. It's the "everything is fine" blinking light.

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@PezRadar Doesn’t New York use a king?

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@direGoldfish Congrats, Gwen.