After 6 wonderful years working with the most amazing people at Mediatonic, today is officially my last day. Absolutely gutted to be leaving, but looking onwards to my next adventure ✨
Currently on the look for senior gameplay programming roles based in Barcelona, hmu! 🇪🇸
6 years in the job and I'm pretty sure I'm getting laid off by Epic. Beyond gutted.
If anyone has games programmer roles going in the UK (or Barcelona/Spain as I'm looking to relocate) then please let me know ❤
Question the things your friends/co-workers say or joke about that are suspect and offensive - be it sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.
It's our job as men in positions of privilege to pay attention and call out these things. What starts as a joke can cause real harm.
It's your job, as his friend, to know whether he thinks the joke he just told is funny because he's knows it's wrong, or because he genuinely believes it.
That's how you prevent the next
#SarahEverard
.
Super excited to announce that as of Monday I will be joining the engineering team over on
@FallGuysGame
!
Looking forward to some new challenges and to helping the team make the game even better than it already is! 💙
Super excited to announce that as of Monday I will be joining the engineering team over on
@FallGuysGame
!
Looking forward to some new challenges and to helping the team make the game even better than it already is! 💙
@MrKrisFire
@jasonschreier
80 hour weeks for years on end is not a working practice, it's bad project management, no matter what industry you are in. People in the gaming industry are standing up to try and improve workers wellbeing. Other industries should (and likely are) doing the same.
Slightly personal note here but I've been speaking with
@MovemberUK
this month and the Daily Star has run a piece about my history with mens health:
Hopefully this might be a wake up call to folks about how serious checking yourself regularly is.
Working "100-hour weeks" is not a sign of a company who can budget time well or cares about the health and well-being of their workers. The fact they are stating this as a positive is sickening.
Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2
Studio co-founder Dan Houser details the effort put into the upcoming Wild West epic
Being WFH makes it feel less special but yeah, I've now been working at
@Mediatonic
for 4 years.
Longer than I was at uni for. God I'm getting old.
But it's absolutely the loveliest place to work, and I'm glad I made the decision to join back in 2017. Here's to FOUR MORE YEARS!
The reaction to all these posts proves that the games industry is amazing when it matters.
Thanks to everyone who has reached out. Honestly I'm a little overwhelmed with all the replies so I'm sorry if I haven't got back to you - please feel free to DM me!
6 years in the job and I'm pretty sure I'm getting laid off by Epic. Beyond gutted.
If anyone has games programmer roles going in the UK (or Barcelona/Spain as I'm looking to relocate) then please let me know ❤
Terfs are out in force today. Let me be clear.
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Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans peoples' existence is valid.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Fuck everyone who thinks otherwise.
Apparently
#GameDevPaidMe
is a thing. Always believed salary transparency = higher salaries. Only ever worked at the one company but here's mine.
Junior Client Engineer (London)
2017: £23k
2018: £29k
2019: Promotion - Client Engineer: £30k
2019: £35k
2020: £37.5k
2021: £41k
Ive seen a lot of people say you have to change jobs to get a raise so I thought I'd add to this that there are places that will respect you and your value within!
#gamedevpaidme
2019 start: £22k
2019 end: £25k
✨promotion✨
2020 start: £30k
2020 end: £33k
2021 now: £36kt
Happy Valen-Dean's Day from everyone at Mediatonic, especially Dean (
@DeathBlossoms_
)!
♥️♥️♥️
We've all been blessed with the greatest gift of all, stickers of Dean's head! 👌
♥️♥️♥️
For Season 4, we're traveling to the future...
🤖 FALL GUYS 4041 🤖
Giveaway to celebrate:
- Follow us and retweet this tweet
- Finish this sentence in your own words as a reply:
#FallGuysSeason4
is
20 winners will get 20 crowns each! 👀
Did a little bit of a Q&A over on the
@FallGuysGame
discord earlier today and answered a question about Lost Temple (the level I mostly worked on this season).
Now I'm seeing people talking about it excitedly now that they know more.
Absolute high point of my career so far ❤️
This was the first level I worked on in Fall Guys and I am so proud of how it turned out! So much fun to implement and the design and art teams built a crackin' looking level.
Super excited to play it!
Just noticed that tonight I've hit 400 followers on Twitch
Honestly mind blown that many folk have enjoyed my content or wanted to support me the last 5/6 months, thank you so much everyone
💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡
I'm becoming that person but idc. On the left is me in summer last year; on the right is me last night after a very tiring workout. The first time I've really seen how much progress I've made.
Still got some way to go, but I'm so proud of myself.
There an office in-joke that
@AnnaRoseVan
doesn't like us having more than one mug each, so obviously me (with two mugs as it is) had to go and get this mug made.
So proud of myself.
If we leave lockdown in the next month there is absolutely no chance that I'll be leaving my house except for the most essential trips. To do anything else would be recklessly dangerous, despite what the government might want us to think.
Progress: Feb - May 2022
Honestly so very chuffed with the progress I've made so far. I've lost fat in places I wanted to and I can see some real definition. Probably looking the best I ever have right now 💪
Absolutely no one:
Not a single soul:
Me at the end of a meeting: byeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hearing today that one of my dad's best friends and bandmate has passed is kind of really difficult to take. Helped to fuel my passion for guitar 10 years ago, and my life would be unimaginably different if he hadn't supported me so.
Feeling a little bit numb.
Rest easy, Alan.
My first season working on Fall Guys and I'm so incredibly excited to see how the community reacts to the new levels and content!
As a side note, the levels in Season 4 look ABSOLUTELY INSANE! 😎
Requiring photographic ID in a country without photo ID cards is voter suppression against the poor and the elderly, plain and simple. There is zero evidence that voter fraud occurs in large enough quantities to merit even thinking about needing it.
As of today I've officially been working at
@Mediatonic
for a whole year, that's crazy!
I work with the loveliest, daftest, most talented bunch of people ever; this last year has been an absolute blast.
I still don't quite have the words for everything that happened yesterday, other than you are all fucking amazing.
The initial goal was £250. We hit that in 15 minutes.
Then it was £500. We hit that in just over an hour.
In the 19th hour we broke a grand.
Absolutely unreal 🧡
This is the sort of shit that makes me glad I'm planning on leaving the UK.
I've spent a lot of time in Barcelona the last 2 years and it's insane how much more liveable and enjoyable life is when you can walk everywhere, there's parks and bars all around. The UK is so backwards
Racism will never be gone in Britain whilst we still have monuments to slave owners.
Remove them, change the curriculum to accurately portray the UK's involvement in the slave trade, and then we'll maybe start seeing some progress.
#BlackLivesMatter