Riley ''I makes dis'' Halligan🐀
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Balance Designer @EpicGames working on @FortniteGame ⛏️ Prev: QA at Epic / @Kongregate / @JackboxGames 📱Dad ❤️ GDC CA 👕 He/Him 👦🏼 My Twitter, my opinions 🗣
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I want to talk about videogames, why they're really really important, and why I make them.
To do all this, I want to tell you a story about one of my closest friends. We'll call him "Ricky"
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Hey super quick PSA
1: game devs are humans
2: we really really REALLY fucking care about the things we make and the players we make them for
3: I don't discuss the personal lives of any one individual I know (other than myself) on twitter dot com
4: Kindness is free
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Welcome to the beginning of The End.
Chapter 2 Finale I 12.4.21 I 4 PM ET
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technically, I also makes this
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Water. Earth. Fire. Air.
You know the rest… Avatar: Elements kicks off tomorrow!
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The Mothership's sights are set on the IO's base. Slone has a plan to end the Invasion for good. Are you ready?
Prepare for the live event, Operation: Sky Fire on Sep 12 at 4 PM ET.
🔗:
❤️ this post to be reminded when the Event is live
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Now that the chaos has resided, only one question remains...
Where art thou dropping?
Myths & Mortals - live NOW!
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I makes this.
Specifically, I oversaw testing and owned quality assurance on this upcoming Battle Pass
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Hey Fortnite Friends!
Happy Monday! I start it off with some bittersweet news: Collision was the last Fortnite Event I'll be working for the foreseeable future.
I won't be going too far though! From here on out I'll be doing QA for a whole bunch of cool things on Fortnite!(1/2)
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I makes this.
The universe is vast with many stars and clusters. And somewhere out there he’s the protector.
Equip the Axion Sentinel with this season’s Level Up Quest Pack 🌌🗡
Explore more:
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hey if you remember this.......
.....I makes this
Epic's done the whole "Reality itself is breaking apart!" plot point a lot now, but I don't think they ever recaptured the feeling of genuine dread the tsunami wall storm at the end of C2S2 brought.
I think the Mothership from C2S7(?) was the only one that came close.
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We just want you to come with us to the Rift Tour featuring
@ArianaGrande
Don’t forget to get there early and to wear your favorite outfit to the show.
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Ship system specialist and necromorph slayer Isaac Clarke will take on anything thrown at him.
Grab the Strange Transmission Quest Pack in the Shop now!
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HI NEW FOLLOWERS
I'm Riley! I work on Fortnite in this cool space that handles things like Battle Pass, XP, NPCs, Quests, and progressing through BR. On here you can expect tweets about
(American) Football
Shitposting
weird niche indie games
my life
Welcome. We stay hype!
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Them: Bro you work on Fortnite bro? Wow so cringe!!
Me:
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I makes a bunch of things in this
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New Battle Royale balance adjustments just dropped!
🍓 Flowberries grant more shield.
⬆️ Increased damage for the Ranger Pistol, Shield Breaker EMP, and Ballistic Shield pistol.
❄️ Snowball Launcher mag size reduced.
🔫 Thunder Burst SMG mag size increased.
🎯 Reduced the drop
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It’s almost time for The Big Bang. History is about to write itself.
Start time is 2pm ET. We recommend grabbing a spot at least 30 minutes in advance to ensure you hit matchmaking in time!
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Aiight Twitter you're the last player on your squad and need the W
Who you dropping with?
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Whelp the last few days has been WILD and a whole lot more of you are here now, so....
HI I'M RILEY!
- I design and balance super cool stuff on Fortnite BR
- I blab on here about football, indie games, and game design
- I say "fuck" a lot
- I meme and I shitpost
HOI!!!
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this is legit one of the happiest moments of my life
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You literally just need ant man and nothing else, but y'all not ready for that conversation
you have $15 to make a team to fight thanos. who would you pick?
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this is the why
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Prepare for takeoff.
On June 4th, you’ll be transported to an experience that’s out of this world.
Find out more:
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I'm REALLY FUCKING GLAD that this confirms I'm not the only one who uses MS Paint on the daily in professional
#GameDev
contexts
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Hello Friends!
Today is a very tough day as Epic did a round of layoffs. I remain employed by Epic. However, several talented people, ones that I know both personally and professionally, do not.
I want to get my friends jobs. If anyone has any job leads please send them my way
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I makes this.
Specifically, I've done (and will continue to do) very light balance changes to items in the loot pool as I continue my onboarding to the new design role
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@ItsDanSheehan
I genuinely didn't know that Murder Lemonade existed until the news started talking about it
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massively important
In Lego Fortnite, petting friendly wildlife rewards the player with crafting materials.
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I makes dis
Specifically, I makes the numbers on it while fitting into the weapon goals and confines of the original designer
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goooooooooood morning Twitter! How do y'all think
@HYPEX
and
@FNBRUnreleased
will ratio me today?
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I'm staying with Epic and BR. I'll be working on a space that includes a whole slew of things, from challenges to NPCs to battle pass to EXP to gold bars and more!
I'll miss working on events tremendously, but I'm super excited to impact this game that I love in new ways
(2/3)
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Also I love this community, I love my players, I make this game for y'all
Today I humbly request that you don't ask me about who did or did not get laid off, what layoffs mean for the future of Fortnite, why we did layoffs, and things of that nature
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@br_betting
@DnlTanner
@FDSportsbook
there needs to be some sort of bank open on weekends that just hands out personal loans for hedges on absurd tickets like this
million dollar idea right there
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I makes this.
Specifically: I did some feel / flow / feedback testing on the quests
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PSA, if I post about work and you respond "wow great change you're better than [another epic employee goes here]" I will instantly block you
Epic is a team. We work together. We ship things together. I can't do my job without my amazing co-workers and I fiercely adore them all
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Overall it's been an absolute joy to work on events for the past 3 years. I'm so happy I got to meet so many of you on the twittersphere working on them. Thank you all for making it so great and enjoyable!
Enjoy this silly pic of me riding the Battle Bus to the next adventure
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Light up those dark Winterfest nights with the Bioluminescence Quest Pack 💡
In the Shop now!
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If you told 10-year-old me the game I worked on was going to be on a Nintendo console and an MTG set, I would have thought you were NUTZ
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One like = one game recommendation
Gotta run an errand so I'll start when I get back!
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THEY TOOK BUILDING OUT OF FORTNITE?!?!?!?!?!!?!
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the vast majority of devs care about the thing they're making, to the point of emotional and mental obsession
Just because some bugs slips through to live or one weapon does .00015% less damage than you'd like it to doesn't mean we don't care
Game devs, what's something that you wish the general public knew about making games?
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Genuinely can't process Doja Cat being my number 1 opp
what if the real waterbending was the friends we made along the way
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psssssssst
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of all the contributions I've made to Epic, the one I'm most proud of is a slack channel called "aaaaaaaaaaa"
All it is is people just screaming "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
have a bad day? Miss a deadline? Something in personal got you wigged out?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Guys I'm on Christmas / New Years break. Don't ping me about work stuff.
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specifically: I created the testing strategy for The Device event and the tsunami wall the following week
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sounds like a whole lot of not my fuckin' problem
Two supermassive black holes are set for a collision course. The black holes are roughly 1600 light years apart, which is close, in space terms, and will collide in 250 million years.
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PLEASE NOTE: I did not makes all of this. We have an insanely talented team at Epic and a lot of work went into this from tons of other friends as well
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most players ever at launch 👀👀👀
You always impress, Fortnite fam! The team is working hard to deliver a smooth Chapter 3 experience for the millions of players who joined us, by far the most players we’ve ever seen at the launch of a season.
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Y'all really don't realize how 🐐FUCKING🐐GOATED 🐐 t-rex guy is
i have been in a zoom call continuously for the past 9 hours lol
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Super excited to announce I'm now a Balance Designer II at Epic!
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still the hardest picture on the internet
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working in game dev is fucking hilarious
"i see daddy issues happening all the time, and most of the time i just click away, because i'm not sure what's bad, or actually something i need to care about"
- actual quote from the meeting i am in rn
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Me and who else?
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this is the hardest picture on the internet
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👀👀👀
✅ Unforgettable event
✅ Evolving all things as you know them
✅ Memorable reveal toward the end
December 2, 2023. 2pm ET.
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i was personally attacked tonight, so I'm just gonna retweet this super quick so you are too
Like this tweet if you stay up late every night playing video games and regret it every morning to then do it all over again.
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I have several.
have any theories for the big bang event?
drop your predictions 👇
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PSSSSSSSSST
Don't get hung up about awards. Play the games you like and enjoy them.
Players loving the shit out of your game is more valuable than any trophy
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Hey just to make it abundantly clear
If your only interaction with me on twitter is to make a sock account so you can be mean to the people who enjoy the game I work on I'm going to block you and not think twice about it 😘
#SorryNotSorry
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Okay let me just check twitter this morning and OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING
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Whelp, my title in slack has changed which means I can FINALLY say it....
I am pleased beyond measure to announce that I an now a Balance Designer on
@FortniteGame
Basically, I'm gonna scream at numbers all day. Really excited for this next chapter of my career
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LMAOOOOOOOO twitter really just gave me a "review your tweet before you tweet it" warning because I said "fuck"
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To be clear: The paycheck isn't the only thing I care about & there's about a bajillion things more rewarding about my job than getting paid
At the same time trying to dunk on someone for working on one of the most recognizable pieces of entertainment in the world is clown shoes
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There's something oddly calming and liminal about sitting in the Epic HQ arena at 12:17 am and just vibin'
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we put carts in Fortni..... the Epic Games Store
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for — a way to buy multiple items on the Epic Games Store… at the same time 🤯🤭
We know, we know. But hey! It’s finally here! And with the holidays just around the corner? Trust us, you’re gonna want a cart.
🛒
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@DrakeCursedUs
@brgridiron
I love snead so much. He only makes like... 2 plays a game but they're always the biggest plays of the game
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Me in college: I want to make videogames so that I can deeply move players. I want to create experiences that the human mind has never even comprehended as possible reality.
Me now: this meme is fucking hilarious
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So in light of the
#EpicGames
layoffs I've been thinking a lot about how I can help, this thread of ideas is the best I've come up with. DM me if you need any of this
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@evankinney
That's actually how QA stays employed. Cause if it weren't for people like Evan breaking the game then QA would all be replaced by open beta testers
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@Kotaku
BREAKING: best game to come out in 2020 wins award for best game that came out in 2020
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Hi Fortnite friends!
I appreciate all the love, this has been crazy!!
I do want to clear one thing up tho. I did not makes the trailer. I helped makes the event.
We have a super talented team that works hard on all of our trailers and I dont want to take credit for their work
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Them: Riley what's it like being followed by so many leakers
Me:
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