Big gay. Game director, writer and designer. Ex-Mediatonic/Epic, now gathering power. Murder by Numbers, Swords of Ditto, Hatoful BF.
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News! I'll be available for work from December onwards! Interested in hearing about anything - writing, narrative design, story consultation, script editing, whatever. Freelance or on staff! You can find all my work on my site: https://t.co/1yLBa2LnGa
I haven't mentioned this here yet ('m mostly on Bluesky nowadays) but at the end last year I started an indie venture. Say hello to Emanation Games!
I can't call it a "studio" as it's just me for now, but the first prototype is nearly ready to start getting eye(s) on... maybe 😅
Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall.
DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.
Learn More → https://t.co/yHON3nGyxE
@TonicDave This is awesome! NotebookLM is definitely one of the most useful applications of AI I've used so far, the podcasts are insane. Now graphics too?!
'EVANGELION' New Anime Series written by Yoko Taro Officially Announced at the end of 'EVANGELION 30+'!
-Series composition and script by Yoko Taro
-Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and Toru Yatabe
-Music by Keiichi Okabe
-Production by Studio Khara × CloverWorks
So it doesn't matter if Jim Bob or Jane CEO plays games. Regardless of that, their job will always be to deliver growth for shareholders. Not make the best games.
And when growth is looking weak, you do the next best thing: you slash and cut and de-risk. And here we are.
Put it this way: I got laid off by a CEO who is a gamer, who was taking orders from a guy who is a gamer. At other studios, I've seen half the workforce laid off by a gamer.
The idea that a gamer is better as a leader by virtue of being a gamer is hella flawed.
You don’t have to be a gamer to work in video games. You don’t have to have a gaming background to run a game company.
The industry could do with some outside thinking, frankly.
The personal hobbies of leadership isn't what we should be rallying against.
It's that no company that make games should ever be, or ever be owned by, a public company.
Because under our current flawed flavour of capitalism, shareholders - not customers - will always be no. 1.
@Chris_Dring oh Dringo. I don't think you're wrong, really - Xbox has a major identity problem anyway, and there have been great CEOs from outside games before, as you know. But you are a stronger person than I to be fighting this out on X 😔