Day One Patch Kids

Because nowadays every modern gamer needs, a Day One Patch Kids.

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

Day One Patch Kids: Coloring Book 👇

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[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

@ObbeVermeij Actual Rockstars hats off to you guys

[Obbe Vermeij @ObbeVermeij]

25 years ago, on October 22, 2001, Grand Theft Auto III was released.
This is the team that made it. (I'm second from the right)
Here's what I remember about making it.

For most of development, GTA3 was in a sorry state. It crashed frequently, the frame rate was terrible and the map was full of holes. Only in the last six months did everything come together.
For the longest time, it looked like the frame rate was going to be 20 fps. Only in the final months did we manage to hit 30.

In 1999, DMA Design, based in Dundee, Scotland, was going through some changes. The company had recently been bought by Take-Two Interactive, and a satellite office had opened in Edinburgh.
Space Station Silicon Valley for the N64 had been finished in 1998, but there was no new project lined up. Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut started working on GTA3. Unprompted.
Meanwhile, the original GTA1 and GTA2 team had started work on GTA2.5, set in Miami. It was called 2.5 because it used the 2.5D (isometric) perspective.

In March 2000, the Dundee office was closed and GTA2.5 was cancelled. Take-Two/Rockstar gave GTA3 the green light.

Everything was written from scratch. Only two people worked on both GTA2 and GTA3, and no code or art from GTA2 was reused.

The way we worked was organic. People would come up with ideas for missions and we'd just try them. If they were fun, they were in. The story was secondary. In fact, the opening plot involving Catalina trying to kill Claude was added well into development.

Leslie Benzies (the producer) plastered a wall in the boardroom with Post-it notes. They were yellow, green and pink, representing missions, contacts and locations.
Missions were moved around all the time, often handed from one contact to another. Only once the voice acting was recorded were these things set in stone.
You sometimes come across locations on the map that are more detailed than you'd expect. Chances are there used to be a mission contact there that got moved elsewhere.

Working on GTA3 was a lot of fun. Every day there was something new going in. A new mission, radio station, car, pedestrian, building or whatever. The game was growing at an incredible rate.
Other than the multiplayer mode we did some work on, I can’t remember a lot of wastage.

Although everybody worked hard, I don't remember many people doing crazy hours. On the rare occasions I was in over the weekend, there were usually only one or two others. Even during crunch time, most people left the office around 9 or 10 in the evening.
I always thought it was better to work eight focused hours than spend your life in the office.

Although we liked the game, it wasn't at all clear that it would be a hit.
GTA3 had a disappointing showing at E3 in May 2001. Most people weren't interested, and those who were thought it was too violent.
It had an OK launch, but sales never tapered off.

Our office was in Leith, Edinburgh. It was a fairly run-down neighbourhood at the time. Just a couple of years before we arrived, J.K. Rowling had been writing the first Harry Potter in that very same neighbourhood.

The thing I remember most is the camaraderie. In a small team, everybody relies on each other and everybody has a lot of input. Most of us were young and had only recently moved to Edinburgh. We went to the pub together.

It felt like a group of friends who happened to be working on a project together.

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[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

Get your Ralph of War: From Accounting

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@2_Old_4_Gaming No substitute

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

@Spicy_Psy_Duck Do they have have Guy at the 52Toyz booth?

[EDU SOUZA @EDUARDO43144759]

Pencil Work #comics #anime #game #berserk #marvelcomics #joemad #Psylocke

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

@JUSTcatmeme Not really, "turning" on her, it's more of the idea of playing a character famous for loosing the ability to consenting, same idiots have zero issues playing as Freddy Krugger, Green Goblin, Vecna or Kim Kardashian.

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

@liloworldgames 🤔 Is that why I didn't like the 3rd one as much? This is Amazing! thanks

[Travis @travinhdev]

Mind the shrapnel

[KAISER 💀😈🐍 @kaiser_drago]

Así quedaron algunas tiendas que fueron saqueadas.

[シティ・ポップ増山（びちろー） @bitchlou]

娘がアケコンよりパッドのがいいとのことで購入 これ誰？と聞かれたので地球最強のプレイヤーだよ伝えておきました

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

Before even tapping into the DEI & ESG shit, they were already set to fail. Konami had solid franchises in Contra and Castlevania. Given the same budget as this two Contra could’ve easily turned into a proper AAA action game like Gears/Warhammer, and Castlevania naturally could've been set up as a Soulslike or even keep it 2D. Instead, we got budget for mobile shlock.

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

@fromsoftserve Congratulations. Dumb question, does it work on the recomp' version none ps4 emulated version?

[fromsoftserve @fromsoftserve]

oh hey my bloodborne mod crossed 200k total downloads on nexus. that's pretty neat. started it 2ish years ago as bloodborne was quickly becoming playable on PC via shadps4. And in 2026, Bloodborne runs and looks better than it ever has (regardless of my mod tbh)

[𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖔𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖒 @DragoonismKF]

Hey @Studio_Evil, streamer @TheyCallMeDSP thinks that your game is boring because he only got $9 while playing the game for a 1 hour, a hour of his time is atleast worth $100.

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

Holy shit, I genuinely believe modern @SquareEnix is allergic to making money.

[つんさん @tsunama_yon]

一気に買う気を失ってしまった・・

[Dementium @Dementium666]

The original Dementium II, restored by the team who made it.

OUT NOW on Steam!

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[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

My 9 games but only Arcade Games. #arcade #arcadegames #My9Games #私を構成する9つのゲーム

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My 9 games but only Nintendo Switch. #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #My9Games #私を構成する9つのゲーム

[Day One Patch Kids @day_patch]

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@Laineytales This was on set for a movie like ten years ago. no?