Alexander Brazie
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Former designer at Blizzard, Riot, and Moon Studios. I help indie studios level up at & lead contributor at
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I’ve got something very close to my heart to share with you.
After 4 years of work and a huge “Thank You!” to fellow designers Joe Sopko, Celia Wagar, Chad Verrall, Chris McEntee, and Michael Anderson for their contribution.
We fine-tuned over 4000 slides to ensure they were
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@nickjcal
Oh, you need more on Kern? Dude flew me out to California to 'train me as a producer'.
Training proceeded to be him reading from a book and getting pissed when I asked him questions.
Then asked me to write ad-ware to inject into World of Warcraft. When I refused, kicked me
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@vinuscule
@ashleyloob
Fastest way to kill a relationship is to not care about the other person's interests out of either pride or insecurity :(
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@kchironis
Link is literally cohabiting with a woman who disappears for centuries at a time.
Sidon and Link are perfect for each other.
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Finally, pronounciation canon from the Godot foundation~
Who needs visible likes if you can use reaction images instead, amirite?
Thanks to the speedy work of
@DevteamL
you can now say yeah in style 💙
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It took me 3 years to admit failure with my first.
It took me 1 year to realize the game concept I had was built wrong and couldn’t ship.
Now, I can build prototypes in 3-6 months to evaluate if an idea is worth exploring.
Here’s the framework I use:
🧵👇
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In Memory of Travis Day, with the encouragement and support of his family, here is Travis's final interview. He talks about item design, player motivations and his hopes for the future.
@Indalamar2
#gamedesign
#wow
#badges
#inmemory
#gamedev
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I spent the first 12 years of my Game Design career working on gameplay and systems balance; so it was time to put an article together on the essential concepts for doing the job!
This is easily the longest article I've written in a long time.
#gamedev
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Here are some stills from
#OriandtheWilloftheWisps
trailer released today if anyone would like to use them for desktop backgrounds.
#e3
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I'm Alexander Brazie, a Design Consultant in the games industry. I've been making games for 11 years professionally and 20 years for myself. Please ask me anything about game design or how to get your foot in the door. Happy to share stories too - AMA.
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@devongiehl
remember when I got yelled at for replying to a lore thread about the legitimite player concerns around gutting a champion to make them a slave villain in the new lore for Shurima?
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@dracordes
@nickjcal
I think what he was expecting was that I'd use the Cosmos Patcher to add a mod into World of Warcraft that added a feature, but also caused the Red 5 logo to appear in the game.
I refused to use the Cosmos Team's stuff and stepped down as Cosmos Lead;
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We have a ton of articles to help you improve your chances of getting hired in
#gamedevelopment
:
Now they are organized in an easy to read layout. Please take a look an tell me what you think.
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Been working on Ori for the past year. Hope you enjoy the trailer:
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Hey
#GameDev
friends, I just posted my first interview podcast for the Funsmith Fireside Chats - the untold stories of games and game design.
@candacerthomas
was kind enough to share her journey through QA into leadership. Check it out :)
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Hey guys, if you're interested in learning
#gamedesign
from me, you can sign up for my course online at . It's an 8 week bootcamp designed to train your brain and observational skills to see the things game designer would see. Sign up!
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There are many different kinds of
#gamedesigner
.
They are generally divided up into two major buckets:
Content and Systems. This means that's where 80% of their attention focuses - but which types of designer fall where?
🧵
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@ZullieTheWitch
It wasn't the most amazing mechanic, but it added a wonderful mini-goal that later games didn't quite have.
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@dracordes
@nickjcal
I did continue writing the addon, because if he wanted to pay me to write fun addons in exchange for branding, I had no issue with that.
I was a broke college student.
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@DannyPage
@Ghostcrawler
I was standing next to Dave in the lobby that year when he sent that text. He was referring to his wife and the wife of another developer in that picture.
To the best of my knowledge, there was no intentional grooming of women to go to that room. It doesn't make the chat OK tho
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@MagnusMKI
@cenewulf
@nickjcal
If it was only development folly and bad decisions, we could all laugh. The way he's weaponizing wounded, vulnerable people to hurt vulnerable people is a disgrace
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@meghaverma_art
This isn't accurate at all. You're assuming the past reporting rates matched the present. People hid their mental health issues, or manifested them in physical and emotional abuse.
Ripping back the bandaid first reveals the existing rot.
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@BriannaWu
@mehdirhasan
This is a pretty damning condemnation of a lack of investigative thoroughness.
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@gamemakerstk
It had to be removed because women started suffering an immediate spike in mistreatment with their identities revealed and others who didn't want their character names known, such as celebrities or athletes couldn't feel safe playing.
This was the right call.
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@AshleyEsqueda
Yes... just imagine.... having solar panels and being able to heat your home, even if your coal-powered power plant line is broken or knocked down by the blizzards.
Sheer madness that someone could have access to solar power right at home!
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Take a look behind my Warlock Overhaul (MoP) Part 3.
Buckle up for a wild ride through the scrapped ideas, design challenges, and Demonology's rebirth.
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Do I have anyone on here interested in applying to see if they qualify to take a
#gamedesign
course, taught directly by me, this year? I've worked on
#wow
,
#LeagueOfLegends
and several other smaller titles.
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Check out this behind-the-scenes interview with Milton Guasti - creator of Another Metroid 2 Remake and my former colleague.
He shows us some of his planning docs and describes the process of recreating a classic.
#gamedev
#gamedesign
#parenting
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@fullbright
In WoW: The Burning Crusade - monsters cant target flying players. To simulate being shot at by Legion cannons, I summoned invisible, flying infernals.
...the code didn't despawn them unless player controlled. The server ground to a halt, filled with invisible, wandering demons.
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@Celestalon
@BrendenSewell
@covingtown
Wow, talk about blowing up the thesis of the article in a sentence.
This is exactly what we want ML to do - eliminate fiddly work that doesn't showcase artistic insight or talent.
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Today, we speak with
@osamadorias
about effective advocacy within AAA Game Development and his journey to Lead Game Designer.
Listen to this amazing journey of consideration and kindness!
#gamedev
#design
#hope
#gamedesign
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@Mike_Prinke
This is a problem I wish we could solve. So much useful game code only lives one life.
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The MoP Warlock: What you knew and what you never knew you missed
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@nickjcal
The convict guy was nice, as far as I remembered. So was his CTO.
However, Markus thrived on a culture of toxicity and malicious resonance towards Blizzard. When I spoke up about that being an unhealthy pattern of founding a culture, I was told off. :shrug:
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"You spend 30 seconds coming up with the core ideas for a game, then two years polishing it enough that anyone would ever want to touch it"
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Dads. Sacrificing clean shoes for their kids happiness since the Dawn of Shoes. 🥰
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Hello, I'm going to teach another round of my
#gamedesign
fundamentals class. Online, one a week for 8 weeks. Anyone interested?
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@RiotZephyreal
@Exgeniar
@JustStephiroth
@npcSara
@cuppy
@SNazerine
No. We are past the age of pretending people aren’t human beings because they work for a company.
I’ve had a picture of me shirtless in a hottub on my Instagram for 15 years and no one complained at any company I worked. And I’ve always listed where I worked.
Doublestandard💀
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Hey, I worked on this back at Riot. Interpret as you will - glad to see this project survived the cutting room floor and hope that we see more in a year or two :)
‘Project F’ is a mystery game by League of Legends developer Riot Games
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@MBGlenn
@SpeakerRyan
@tedcruz
@marcorubio
@Reince
time for a new party. Start over, Repub. Drop religion and focus on fiscal responsibility
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@DrJabalor
@LeagueOfLegends
Being vulnerable is a difficult thing to do 1:1, let alone 1:10,000,000.
Perhaps a breath and perspective here could show that this wasn't a polished social media PR stunt -- and kindness rather than looking for a villain is called for here.
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@Robert_E_Kelly
@ConnellyAL
props for working from home! Not enough dads staying in touch with their kids lives!
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Hello
#gamedev
and
#gamedesign
community. I help people overcome the hurdles to becoming a
#gamedesigner
, starting with a focus on understanding the player-first mindset and branching into game mechanics and satisfying design.
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90% of great mechanics design is really just:
- Consistently apply fundamentals
- Iterate on opportunities
- Save premature ideas for later
The timing, consistency, and insights are your keys to great design.
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@emilysears
It’s not much, but when I was a popular video game developer, people would constantly lobby for their pet change.
If you give a curt answer, in their minds you’ve rejected them, not their idea.
So the options are massive energy sacrifice or withdrawal and hardening. Both suck
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There was a peaceful solution to all of this. Listen, vote and change the laws. The promise of that solution failed.
You can only fail people so many times before they need to struggle for their own safety. You are only as safe as the worst officer in your police force lets ub
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Things that ruin collaboration:
1) Need to be right
2) Fear of critique
3) Inability to de-escalate conflicts
4) Prioritizing how you appear over how you work
5) Failure to credit others
6) Lack of feedback culture
7) Avoiding healthy conflict
Avoid as many of these as you can.
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If you're interested in a technical view at the creation of
#WorldOfWarcraft
This kickstarter is as legit as its going to get. I worked with John for years and can confirm this is the real deal.
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#GameDevPaidMe
$>220k - 2021 (Consulting)
$-35k - 2020 (Startup Costs)
$79k - 2016 (GD Teacher)
$385k - 2015 (Sr. Systems Designer)
$115k - 2013 (Systems Designer)
$103k - 2012 (Game Designer, only after threatening to leave)
$40k - 2005 (Assoc. Game Design w/ CS Degree)
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@emrazz
I was at a hotspring in Budapest, when a man followed a girl around, singing at her. When she started shouting 'leave me alone', I walked over, whispered 'act like you know me and let's walk away.'
She did, then I escorted her till we found her friends on the other side.
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We just broke a quarter million (268,000) views on the
#OriandtheWilloftheWisps
trailer! Thanks for the love,
#E32018
#GameDesign
#MicrosoftE3
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"Everything is a skill. The greatest realization I’ve had on this journey is that some of the most unexpected aspects of who you are as a person and a leader are actually skills, and not fixed character traits as we’ve been taught all along." - Oksana Kubushyna
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@MASHFanficChick
@professordarwin
The issue is that it’s false equivalence in either direction.
It is not enough to examine violence or property damage on its own.
If you think one is lesser or greater you miss the point of both the protests and are not really weighing the impacts, just reacting with feeling.
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Hey, as a reminder, I'm taking in new students for my online game design course. Hit me up if you'd like details.
Been test running the site and materials and the community is starting to grow and the discussions have been fantastic.
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I’m writing a course on game mechanics. What would you expect to be in it?
(Spoiler - it’s almost done and I’m just trying to make sure I didn’t miss something obvious :))
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@ClaireMax
Someone asked me the same thing in high school, except it went:
"I never hear you talk about wanting to fuck any girls here. Are you gay? It's OK if you are, I'll protect you from the jocks."
"No... I just feel really uncomfortable thinking about people like that."
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If you work in Unity, check out this awesome serialization and editor enhancement package.
http://t.co/i8jWrI0GDT
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Game devs watching speedrunners play their game
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@MarcMerrill
Hotdamn, Marc! You are going in full force. Been taking PR lessons from Vi this week?
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@Marisha_Ray
I'm still waiting for the day when we can just fix the uterus to not need to cycle.
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Whelp. I’ve worked on Warcraft, and League of Legends, but my first Arby’s tweet is from Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
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I'm looking for someone to help create a healthy, psychologically safe discord community. I don't know the secret to this and would appreciate both advice and a partner to help here.
Anyone have leads?
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