Jon, The Pipe Dreamer

Hey! I'm Jon // Community Manager @HorizenLabs //
Artist Creative Day Dreamer
Opinions my own.

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

I've always loved the darker more mythological side of Sirens, the moments where the siren lulls their prey into a false sense of calm and comfort. Before pulling them beneath the waves.

"Come with me"

Available now:
https://t.co/HWZMEObA2D

[BigSliceGaming @BigSliceGaming]

“We wanted voice acting in our game so we used AI. What are we as a small studio supposed to just come up with $100K to pay actors?”

If you knew voice acting was outside your budget, why was it in your plans? That’s a planning problem, not a budget problem.

[Swen Vincke @where? @LarAtLarian]

What I wanted to say at the #gameawards (1/16)

[Josh Sawyer @jesawyer]

This year’s The Game Awards is an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation via star power with little respect for the devs it’s supposedly honoring.

[Moy Parra 🎮 @_moyparra]

so what's it like working in the game industry I'm often asked. If I had to choose 1 word I would say it's – 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗹 🧵

It can be cruel on both sides, among players and developers.

cruel because behind so much glamour in ceremonies like tonight's #gameawards where some are toasting over a big win, collab announcement or game reveal, there are literally thousands of people who have either lost their jobs or who are actively afraid to loose their jobs because that's just how things are 🙃

cruel among developers because we willingly let ourselves believe that the pixels that we put on a screen have more value than the dinner with our family that we missed all for trying to meet a deadline.

cruel from players because they don't care about the '𝘩𝘰𝘸', they only care about the '𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵' and the '𝘯𝘰𝘸' and are prepared to give us but a fraction of their attention for which the industry spends billions of dollars trying to secure.

so why the hell would people actually sign up for these jobs? 🤷🏼 there's plenty to do out there to earn a living and still come home at a reasonable time — well that my friends is the biggest most ironic cruelty of all: 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆! 🎮

so you see, the cycle will never actually break because as long as there are people willing to play our games, you can be sure that there will be a passionate team out there working late into the night thinking about the next big thing, the next fancy mechanic, the next level design or the next cool animation to wow the audience – because the thrill of creation is simply too addicting and while I wish sometimes things were a bit easier, as long as people love playing games, developers will love making them 🥲

have a good night.

_moy

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

fuck

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

I'll never not be stunned by these hosts spoiling reveals *right* before they're about to show the trailer. Just let it speak for itself! 🙄 #TheGameAwards

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

Overwhelmed

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Broken

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@horizenglobal 👀

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

Baldurs Gate 3 crashing steam, then steam blue screening my PC, then my PC no longer having a recognizable boot drive.

PC really rolled a Nat 1 there..

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

@DeFiFUDDestroy @horizenglobal @tallyxyz 🤝

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@horizenglobal 👀

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@CharlieOscar27 Thank you sir! 🤍

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

Something new.

"Consumed"

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

@horizenglobal @immunefi

[Markus Schofnegger @mschofnegger]

Happy to announce that our paper introducing the arithmetization-friendly hash function Griffin got accepted at Crypto 2023! Learn more about how Griffin makes zero-knowledge proofs more efficient on https://t.co/MryD9vNXjg @rw0x0

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

Learning/playing around with & refining some post processing techniques has been pretty fun.

[Jon, The Pipe Dreamer @thepipedreamer]

Couple of cool-down pieces from the weekend. 'bout 10mins each.

30 second process vids below 🔽

[Manfredi Caracciolo @Itsfredi1]

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