Smilo Gosa

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

It all starts with good intentions of expanding these universes, but the strategy falls apart to the detriment of the profits received.

#Callofduty #gaming #franchise

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@gamer_lafan A longer version of your story deserves to be consumed on Youtube, I'm on standby would such ever be considered. 😎

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@htxtafrica Jeeeeez, naaaaaaah! 😱

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@ssb821 @ThermaltakeJ With solid specs chosen as well 👌🏾

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@ssb821 @ThermaltakeJ Neat build, congrats 🎉

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

Classic 👌🏾

[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

Disney has made some great games, and this is easily one of their best!

[Jez @JezCorden]

Nintendo's share price is down 50% in a year.

Most publicly traded companies would be panicking, firing execs, pulling off mass layoffs, etc.

Nintendo be like:

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@velanstudios Kudos to the entire team, here's to more projects with the publisher. 🎉

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@gamer_lafan As a late bloomer, that is almost a year in on Nintendo's ecosystem, I feel pretty excited to explore the title.

[Zoid Kirsch @ZoidCTF]

I joined id a few months after Quake shipped and saw some of the fallout from this. They were so very burned out. John handed over Quake and Quakeworld post release maintenance to @jack_mathews and myself while the team recuperated and got ready to make Quake 2.

I learned a lot from everyone at id. I left after Quake 3 shipped in 2000 and joined Retro Studios and ended up doing my own brutal crunch on Metroid Prime. I was working 100hr weeks for eighteen months to building an entirely new engine for GameCube and shipping the game in under three years. I fully understand working right up to your personal limits.

But, like John and the team, we were passionate about making an amazing game. I'm grateful I was able to work on so many great games.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days.

Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of rug-pulling everything out from underneath them a couple times. The follow up game could have then brought in full 6DOF environments and characters.

I pushed everyone too hard. I didn’t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out. Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points.

On all of the founders’ shoulders, our original corporate stock arrangement and buy/sell agreement was a mistake, and resulted in bad incentives. We wanted to ensure that all ownership rested in the hands of people working hard on current projects, but the Silicon Valley standard approach of vesting stock would have worked out better.

One real problem that I don’t accept the blame for is that we were insisting that level designers be not just game designers, but also have strong visual design esthetics. They needed to make things that not only played well, but looked awesome, and it got more challenging as the technology provided a richer palette. Romero covered that well, which set our company expectations early on.

We should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers earlier, but there was infighting among the designers, and the ones that could manage the visuals were happy to disparage the ones that couldn’t.

Sorry, Sandy.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

How Quake ruined id Software.

There has been a lot of praise of Quake of late, with its 30th anniversary, and it's deserved. Quake is an amazing feat of art, programming, and design. I worked on it, and everything came together almost perfectly from all of us. We ended up with a free-wheeling, frenetic action game with enough of a visible world to grip the imagination.

All the team did a brilliant job, fulfilling tasks just right. But at a grim cost. We worked long and hard, and I think it broke us spiritually.
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[Jez @JezCorden]

The Xbox Series S is the most underrated console in history.

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@bonbon_pastime Impressive 👌🏾

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

After a few months of getting around #Nintendo's ecosystem and exploring titles that I'd like to get my hands on, something about #StarFox had me very intrigued, so I had to tag @ElliotRamaube along and explore its Demo to gauge the title.

I'm eager for the release. 😎🙌🏾

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@gamer_lafan This is cool, thanks for this.

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@FinalMasonry Sick 🔥

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@VelerSoftware Kudos to you all 🎉

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

How the 'Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist' has been a pain of a feature to live with for those of us with legacy drivers from dated hardware.  Especially after months of intermittent crashes because of sudden hardware errors.😮‍💨

May be the next update be kinder, @JenMsft 😒

[Smilo Gosa @SlimGosa]

@Kaz_Yamauchi Impressive, kudos 🎉