Koray Hagen

Senior Staff Animation Engineer @SonySantaMonica · Ex Epic, Blizzard, Riot, GDC Speaker · Life in the north: 🌲🌧️👨‍👧☕️

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

Very proud of the team! I think every game dev looks forward to moments like this. A plethora of new animation technology is going into this title, but it's the world-class animators and designers that make this engine scream with brutality and fun.

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

God of War Laufey is coming soon.

Check out the PlayStation blog for exclusive details on God of War's next chapter 👇

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

Eight years ago, we released God of War (2018). At the time, it was simply known internally as INT8, our eighth developed game. Eight years later, that detail has taken on new meaning as we celebrate everything this journey has become. Thank you for joining us on the adventure!

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@SebAaltonen @damianGray Yes, yes it does. I feel seen 😅

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

Today we celebrate the mothers and mother figures who guide, protect, and love without limit. 

Freya shows us that a mother’s love can endure through every trial, every choice. It can always find its way back. 

Happy Mother’s Day. 💐

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@youtheremehere The crowd response for the Kratos reveal was absolutely electrifying

[Jonathan Burke ➡️ 🟦☁️ @IridiumGameDev]

God of War Ragnarök comes tomorrow to PC. Some new features coming along with it!

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

FMA caused chaos on GOW:R for animation data determinism. After some time, I finally discovered that FMA V3 was active on some of our distributed builder machine CPUs and not on others -- this resulted in a 1 bit difference in sin/cos for certain values during curve processing.

[Erin Catto @erin_catto]

New blog post: Determinism
https://t.co/b258YRhg38

[Dan Lowe @danlowlows]

EA Sports doesn’t get enough credit for their animation systems work. This kind of movement, and especially with the ball, is insanely hard to do.

[🙊Christer Ericson @ChristerEricson]

Great post! EVERYONE working on library code (eg middleware or open source), or any code that produces data/code for inclusion in other code (eg tool exporters, compilers, build systems) SHOULD write deterministic code. Read to learn what that means.

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@TheDivisionGame Anything on the roadmap to allow pausing of a Descent run? This parent <-- wants to play more but its discouraging for a successful run to boot you out just for being AFK in the loop lobbies.

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@BlueOwlzMedic Welcome back to PNW, I'm on eastside!

[Santa Monica Studio – God of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica]

SMS is looking for passionate artists, programmers, designers, and producers to join us on a new unannounced title! Check out April’s open positions: 👉 https://t.co/TFTSCBDHJn

#SMSCareers #Gamejobs #GameDevJobs #GameDev

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@clongmire42 The dream finally became real, nice work man.

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@clongmire42 THANK YOU OMG 😅

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@Xelnath Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. It was so grounded for its time. I truly felt like I was in a giant, heavy, mech machine with absurdly powerful weapons.

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@Xelnath Elevators, tunnels, things of that nature which allow the game to load without a loading screen. They're memed on and hated, but it allowed a few generations of hardware limits to be hidden in *some way* that kept players actually inside the game world.

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@clongmire42 My favorite mechanic so far has been spreading democracy.

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@SlappaDeBass @benh57 EZ

[Koray Hagen @animtechdebt]

@vengefularia I am an old man boomer in regards to comments in a professional code base. I put this in the same bucket as swearing, jokes, and memes ... for me, it's inappropriate.

[Bertrand Meyer @Bertrand_Meyer]

We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and friend.