Jack Mathews

I make video games, photograph food, make cookbooks with my wife @lovelemonsfood, and try to say funny things.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

Is it a photo of me or some sort of figurine?

[Metroid Database @MetroidDatabase]

Breaking news: Americans will get the following preorder bonuses for Metroid Prime 4 Beyond:
1. Jack
2. Shit

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@kiwitalkz Hahaha

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

Welp, time for another social network I guess.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@kiwitalkz @nintendolife Yeah most people think I can’t type my own name and helpfully fix it.

[Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly @kiwitalkz]

🎮HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO METROID PRIME 2🎮 To celebrate I spoke to 2 engineers who worked on Metroid Prime 2, @ZoidCTF & @jack_mathews
We talk about the multiplayer, the ammo system, a prime 2 remastered and more....
WATCH HERE➡️ https://t.co/eXQe1mRpbU

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@kiwitalkz Make Kynan Great Again

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@StudiosNmg First

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@kiwitalkz I’d reverse Primes 2 and 3. OG Metroid should not be below Other M.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@Sonikko06 @konjak PAL always had “clearer signals.” It was clearer because it had 20% more pixels and 20% less frame rate.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

LCD’s were so not a thing that all of the movies (Front end, primarily) in Prime 1 were encoded as 640x224 interlaced. If the movie skipped a frame, we had to skip two frames otherwise we would be on the wrong interlace clock, and it would look completely screwed there on out.

[Zoid Kirsch @ZoidCTF]

My memory surprises me when I remember making Metroid Prime with a little 14" CRT on my desk connected to a Dolphin devkit. CRT TVs were the the primary target for game. LCD display were still not generally available. Game does look great on LCDs too!

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

"You're a virus scanning company right? Why would you name yourselves Crowdstrike?!"

"Oh... you'll see"

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@ZoidCTF @SeTec9 Watch it. Picks up pretty quick.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@kiwitalkz “It’ll probably be Sylux or whatever” lol

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

Don’t forget that this evening will also be a Terran Eclipse, where the earth itself blocks the sun.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@ZoidCTF The worst is account number where you can send date to that but you can’t paste to the “verify number” field. So I just read what was pasted and type it.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@jcxray48 @mikethompsonx4 Chicago has 150mbit $20/month internet service.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@kiwitalkz It’s because big tech forced salaries up by like double, then games spending went up during the pandemic which seemed to validate those. Hard to blame management because hiring costs have just exploded.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@trevs899 @MetroidFREAK21 It was quite the opposite.

[Jack Mathews @jack_mathews]

@kiwitalkz Legally, it's extremely difficult to lay full time staff off in Japan. Capcom will do it in America: https://t.co/9R8oUYfY5q

They also outsource a lot of their development, but you won't hear about canceled projects and prototypes from 3rd party devs that result in layoffs.