Erik Robson
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Game Designer | LD @ TNM | Designer/artist @ Valve | Lead Designer @ Double Fine | Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Portal2, DOTA, The Lab, Artifact
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Hey, I took that picture. It was for an effect but it looked crappy in-game.
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Tesla leads police on wild chase for 15 minutes. Then the driver wakes up and pulls over
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From the "definitely a CSGO level" sub-category of Google Street View shots.
This is in Mirandela, Portugal.
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Dedicated thread for Dall-E 3 screenshots of classic 3D modeling/animation apps that never existed.
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Wait... did Pixar's anim tool not even have 3D gizmos when they made Toy Story?!? They were just dragging left and right on a cell in a spreadsheet on a per-bone, per-transform/rotation basis?
On this day in 1995: Pixar released its first film, Toy Story.
Pixar’s Pete Docter on how the first computer animated feature was made:
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This reminds me of porting Psychonauts to the PS2. Going from 64mb->32mb RAM was a pure pain. Like deciding which 2 of your child's limbs will be chopped off.
What the fuck
The XBox has 64mb of memory
You're telling me Halo managed to run in that tight of a space??
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For the love of Pete, don't follow me because of this. I'll bore you senseless.
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Well, after 13 years I've left Valve. On to new adventures.
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This is a clip from a "making of" short about Jumanji from 1995. The animation package is Softimage.
Look at that elephant mesh - that's not a "skinned mesh" as we understand them today; it looks to me like a series of non-deforming patches bound to bones.
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The big selling point for this expensive Georgia property is that it includes a portal to a kitchen in a different house.
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@Klipchen
I actually went to Safeway to get some unique food items as source/reference. The other one that made it all the way to an effect was a fully-loaded taco, but I tossed it for the same reason.
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My kids did this and then laughed for like 10 minutes straight.
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@Mike_Prinke
Great thread.
I'd add: All games are a TON of work; even bad games. I've worked on several bad games, and none of them were bad because the team didn't work hard enough or weren't trying their best.
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If I wake up tomorrow to find this went crazy I’m going to be so pissed.
Give the credit to
@fark
and that local news station.
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This one was exclusive to SGI hardware (Irix). I really like the widgets on the right side.
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Via r/oddlyterrifying: Mirny, a diamond mining town in Russia
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It doesn't know BeOS, Bezier patches, Cornell Box, or NextSTEP. Some wicked subsurface scattering here - I didn't even ask for that.
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We're 30 years behind where we should be in terms of using games in education. It's wonderful to see folks take matters into their own hands.
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Level designers: Unless your physics system does some auto-smoothing, give your stairs ramp collision. Just do it. Even if my character will "step" up eventually if I keep pushing, it feels yucky.
Stair-walking should feel as smooth as all other walking.
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YES! I finally got it to draw a a control lattice over top the rhino mesh. I'm slowly figuring out which 3D geometry terms it "understands".
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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Dearest Artifact fans,
You are beautiful and passionate and I adore you. You can't know how much I'd like to say things. But I can't, for pretty good reasons.
But yes, per my profile, I am working on Artifact.
However, you shouldn't follow me expecting Artifact news.
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@CooperRappaport
@benjaminwittes
You know, Trump and Barr are doing worse things than killing Epstein on a daily basis.
Sometimes the shiny stuff is just trash.
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I didn't realize until now what a substantial advantage remote-friendly employers have in attracting talent.
I've lived in the Seattle area for 13+ years. I own a home here. My kids have school and friends; we have roots. I'm not going to relocate.
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Stop picking on us, do you understand how little we have to work with?!?
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Doesn't seem like it has a handle on AmigaOS. Don't know why the rhino is GIANT. I do love the unrequested bounce light hitting the rhino's underside!
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This is wild. It just looks just like Unity! If that really is Source 2 running under the hood, then this is a remarkable development.
If hope Garry and team are able to keep pushing this forward. Imagine Source 2 with Unity-level scripting capabilities... 👀
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Casting a wide net:
I'm finishing up some contract work soon and am looking for a full-time lead or senior game design/level design position. 25 years professional experience, shipped 12 games, 5 of those as Lead Designer. Local to the Seattle area or remote.
DMs open!
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Devs, I'm begging you. Check the files that are going into your <possibly shipping build>. I frequently look at game installations and am consistently shocked at the developer-only / debug / SOURCE-CODE-CONTAINING files that make it into releases.
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They just keep doing Archie Bunker's bit over and over again.
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Closest I've gotten to a NURBS model. Once again, the side widgets are my favorite part.
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I don't know why it decided this iteration deserved a different aspect ratio, but cool.
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Who can forget Edwin Wodon's pivotal 1982 SIGGRAPH paper which introduced the Wodon Paths we still rely on to this day?
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WAIT! I can't believe I just noticed this - it gives you the prompt with the image. But because this is a long session with lots of iteration, the prompt is a synthesis of all the smaller prompts. Wild part - there's text in there that I didn't write.
Conceptual interpolation?
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Hold on, hold on. This is the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen.
6. Mondrian, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow
Welp, AI tried to add some colors OTHER than red/blue/yellow, but it did generally try to think about grids and blocks of colors!
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Why are game "credits" still so broken on Wikipedia? It's been like this for 20 years, and it only gets worse as teams grow.
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I've been making video games professionally for almost 25 years now, and I'm still amazed at how 1)difficult and 2)slow it is.
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It was bigger on the inside than the outside. WAY bigger near the end.
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A group of friends were talking about how this sub had LOTS of redundant systems to force a rise to the surface. One is an expert. (Summarized dialog)
The question was asked: What if there's a vertical obstruction?
A: What?
Q: What if the rise is blocked by something?
BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard said a Canadian aircraft has detected underwater noises during the search for a submersible missing near Titanic wreckage.
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@bparsonst
@andreamatranga
I mean… it’s literally a work of political satire, right? Themes gonna theme.
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Man, Source's motion blur was so f'n good by the time we did Portal 2.
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I'll repeat myself: 75% of game development time is spent trying to figure out why shit is broken.
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The kind of schadenfreude we get from dunking on NFTbros after they've lost all their apes only comes along a few times in your life. Usually there's some element of guilt attached, or a liability where you're being hypocritical.
I just want you to appreciate the purity.
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We're having a problem at the moment with NPCs not understanding when they've reached a destination.
Unrelatedly, I hop on Twitch to watch a game dev I follow and they're... trying to figure out why their NPCs don't know they've reached their destination.
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Binding space, time, and gravity together was such a baller move by the Universe.
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I see so many Steam pages for indie games that would benefit tremendously from a simple copy editing pass.
Bad descriptions, bad bullet points, poorly-staged screenshots… these aren’t hard to do right, and they MATTER.
Ping me if you want feedback on your store page!
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Hey, new pinned tweet!
If you followed me because I have DOTA and CSGO in my bio and you think I might say something about those awesome games, you're going to be disappointed.
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@koirakoirana
How my wife and I phrase it: "Can't talk; keeping myself in a state of cat-like readiness."
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Trying to get it to visualize motion paths with splines; it's being pretty stubborn.
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In 20 years GPUs will be external, mounted on stationary drones because their fans will be big enough and strong enough to hover in place.
(Also, they'll heat your home.)
This is an RTX 4090.
Jesus wept it's a *four slot* card.
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@MajorMcDoom
Depends on what you mean by "romanticized."
If you mean making an original game on constrained hardware, sure.
If you mean porting an existing game to a much more constrained machine, absolutely not. It's pure pain.
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Yup.
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All this talk of "save scumming" is so silly. 20 years ago that's just how we played computer games. Shipping without robust, fast quicksave/quickload would've been suicide.
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Sorry, I'll try to make this the last Covid post for a few days. I know most of you dislike my Covid tweets (along with my music tweets lol.)
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Man, I wish I'd thought of that and suggested it my first day on the Portal 2 team!
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BTW, now that Valve is talking about Artifact again, I'm absolutely back to not talking about Artifact!
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A: It would be insane to ever put the sub in that position. But yeah, if you were in an underwater cave or "inside" wreckage, and something went wrong, you'd get stuck.
:(
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Portugal is beautiful. Why wasn't I notified?!
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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In the Source/Source 2 engine they’re “ropes.”
So, gfx nerd hat on for a sec:
- the blood looks so good because they're using ribbon particles
- ribbon particles are criminally underused in most Western games, we think of them as mostly for smoke
- ribbon particles make anything seem more sticky and squirty
- RIBBONS ARE GOD
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Added my actual Discord account info to bio. Not because I'm active on Discord (I'm not) or because I want to be contacted on Discord (I don't) but in the hopes that MFers stop impersonating me and scamming Steam users.
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Oh, we're in a sweet spot now. This lattice isn't about deforming empty space; it's finally tracking the selected model's movement path over time (in a way that doesn't obscure the model!)
Adding "motion vectors" to the prompt is paying off, maybe?
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I want to call out
@InnerslothDevs
for doing a fantastic job with parental controls. They didn't force me to make an account or anything; they just emailed me a link to a page with some key options to enable/disable. A+ experience, would parent again.
My 8 YO son is in the next room playing Among Us (iOS) for the first time. He's been asking for this for >2 years.
I think this is his first PVP-space online experience.
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My 8 YO son is in the next room playing Among Us (iOS) for the first time. He's been asking for this for >2 years.
I think this is his first PVP-space online experience.
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Broadly speaking, I think we should all be suspicious of anyone doing math in public.
It's peak travel season again, so remember to hide your differential equations.
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Sure. I'm sure this all will have blown over in 2 months. Here's what Florida's curve looks like today.
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Insane that corporations can (and do) make art disappear in return for pocket change.
"[Disney] will officially take $1.5 billion in content writedowns associated with removing streaming programming from its platforms."
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Is it still environmental storytelling if you're just like, "wtf happened here?"
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My kids (12 and 10) were riffing on "hey girl" pickup lines, and 10 (son) came up with, "Hey, girl. Are you my wife? Because you look like my wife."
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Damn, this is brutal. Indonesia's capital is sinking into the ocean. (And that's before you include rising sea levels from climate change.)
A huge portion of the Jakarta, and the homes of millions, could be underwater by 2050.
The reason why isn't just a story of sea level rise.
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