Not going to
#GDC
#GDC2023
but I wish I could portal in to see some people! Either way, here is me since we're heading into the networking brainzone.
I'm Maria! I'm a Producer with
@SweetBabyInc
- We do narrative and it's cool! Say hi to me/RT if you dare!
Not going to
#GDC
and I never have bc I could never afford it. So instead, let’s do a round of online networking?
Hi, I'm Shila. EP for
@MetalHellsinger
Believer of kindness and hope to encourage an ounce of humanity in our industry.
RT and say hi?
Not at GDC but still loving this trend every time it happens bc i get to see new faces! Hi! I'm a producer at Sweet Baby Inc. working on
@UsualJuneGame
and <redacted>!
Generally sleepy these days but happy to meet other friendly gamers n game devs! 💙
Not at GDC either. HII I’m Mel - senior technical game designer at
@PhoenixLabs
on <redacted> 👾
Here to mostly be your friendly neighborhood genderfluid Métis chaos goblin, and also to headbutt this industry until it is a safer and more inclusive one🩷
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
Well.. here it is! I’m Maria 🥳 and I work as a Project Coordinator alongside
@A_through_L
at
@SweetBabyInc
! We do all sorts of stuff there though. Don’t sleep on us 😤
This is what a game dev looks like at peak selfie and then also with a criminal cat.
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
thank you, Sam. i'm still here working my ass off and will continue to do so. i just wish i could hear it/read it/see it MORE from major companies and brands. this isn't rlly your regular controversy, this is gg, well-documented harassment reemerged and i expect ⬆️ solidarity.
@adashtra
i'm genuinely baffled by this take? Going to a top school in my country only facilitated and encouraged caring more about other people and the different ways you can be an activist.
These are the stories we love and the stories that have made an impact on us this and last year! 💜
@SweetBabyInc
and myself helped to shape some of them and I'm proud of us for doing so!
Thank you again to the studios and devs that invited us to be a part of their creation.
Bear and I say good morning! 😴 it's cold AF and snowy here so it's gonna be an indoor day...
contemplating starting a whole new farm in
#StardewValley
since that update came out..🐓🐄🐖🌾🍇🥒🍅🍓
This is so beautiful to see.
I grew up playing on
@Steam
. To now see
@ZauTheGame
at the top of New & Trending is so WILD.
The support is on another level!
Sharing this for the people who come across my twitter and have the energy to get back into it. You all deserve recovery time and the ability to speak on your experiences. I hope you don't consider this the end of your career in games. 🫂
@JeryceDia
@KayfabeMediaYT
just to note, Sweet Baby wrote barks for Suicide Squad. Everything listed as criticism in that tweet, we did not do/had any control over! Just... in case we didn't know that in this thread.
@djf1107
@JeryceDia
@KayfabeMediaYT
a bark is a short phrase/sentence that characters will say/have read on screen that kinda fills out the gameplay and combat. barks usually get written after main dialogue and bios have been established. they help to better define a char's personality/relationship with others
Thanks everyone for tuning into our Hades II Technical Test live stream!🌒 We have the VOD available here if you can't wait to see the game before Early Access:
We're still taking sign-ups for the Technical Test over on our Hades II page on Steam.
ok imma have to do it. your last selfie is who you are on the outside and last saved meme is you on the inside. — i don’t know if this is a meme but it’s close enough.
part of the difference is there is an evident mutual understanding from
@KahliefAdams
of how sexualized women in games make real women feel both objectified and/or empowered; ofc tho, it's person specific; Lady D is also still somewhat outside of "conventional attractiveness"
@GreenEggzAndCam
It's so fucking funny because Capcom has been going more "woke" every year, doing better and better, and besides that has been the absolute buck-horniest of any major publisher while being beloved for it. It's almost like the clowns are wrong about EVERYTHING.
Once upon a time there was a guy in my Twitter feed who lamented that they didn't make good ol' non-political sci-fi like District 9 anymore and anyway I think about that every time one of these culturally illiterate halfwits opens their mouth on the topic.
@adashtra
also..... it wasn't THAT long ago when ACTIVISTS fought and protested for people like me and like my family to even get to GRADUATE from those said schools??????? like the math on this one ?!?!?!?!
@TheCartelDel
oooh i didn't even think about computer software, that's genius. i go straight to "it's like how people make movies but with lots of computers"
It's been one year since DREDGE came out, and how time flies. Take a look at a few of the stats that we've pulled of how you all have spent the last year. Here's to the next 1400 years' worth of fishing in-game!
@KayfabeMediaYT
@JeryceDia
yeah! that's within the sweet baby section of the credits. most big AAA companies list out the credits per company so those two (my bosses) were the team leads for our sbi team. it's a big game! i don't know what the specifics are about why this number of writers were on it!
lmao yall really think you're doing something 😂😂😂 game development is so much bigger than a group of writers and producers. it's annoying watching yall be so wrong on so many levels 🫠
Having your workplace, coworkers and friends be blamed, talked about and threatened for things that LITERALLY didn't happen is such a weird, sideways experience.
@TheCartelDel
@Mangalawyer
Happy to chime in as a literal person who works at Sweet Baby Inc. (I did NOT work on SSKJL) that Del is correct! My coworkers wrote banter, barks and audio logs! The work was really prescriptive and heavily directed by Rocksteady.
🤖We're happy to announce that our game Battle Shapers is now live!🤖
Wishlist this bot-bustin', droid destroyin', mech mashin' sci-fi FPS roguelite on Steam right now!
@_nyanbun_
Despite my last two messages, I agree with you that there is a balance. And context is super important! But no matter what job/career we choose, that resilience and realistic viewpoint is something I see as the first step towards healthy self-advocacy and resilience.
My first solo game SUMMERHOUSE has just released!! I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the feelings, but mostly I'm excited and grateful I got to make this little game.
It would mean the world if you could give this a retweet and try the game on Steam 💙🌻
also if you’re making a game heavily featuring a sexy woman and your decision makers are not majority queer women — you are making your job nearly impossible when it could have been *so much easier* idk what to tell you
this isn't to say i haven't experienced support, i definitely have and like this post, will always be grateful to hear folks understand the benefit of consultant work and developers' work to enrich stories (including/not limited to enriching with DEI) + denouncing the harassment
Appreciate you Grant for writing this and highlighting how narrative and writing often works within game development (esp AAA).
If you've found me here because I work at Sweet Baby or are interested in SSKTJL, please read!! 💛
This is from last Friday's SSKTJL launch day. When I went to GAME on Oxford Street, it was the first time in sixteen years I'd been able to walk into a store on launch day and buy a boxed copy of a game I worked on.
What people say: “Game companies have an evil woke agenda and are forcing DEI on us.”
The reality: “Square Enix told multiple developers it didn’t want Life Is Strange to be thought of as the “gay game.”
I'm truly sorry to hear this news. There was a time where I dreamed of working on a Fabrik game (and honestly still do!). This team seems so talented and hard-working, like many others, they do not deserve to experience this uncertainty. 🩷
We’re sad to share that we're halting production at
@gutefabrik
due to the challenging funding & investment scene in games right now. We downed tools earlier this month & have been doing our best to support the team who'll be looking for work from mid-March.
Full statement:
yo having a dog or cat allergy is the dumbest thing. like, how is this DOMESTICATED lovely creature going to harm me? what was the evolutionary benefit?! don’t answer that. i just want to smooch a dog without braking out in hives.
It's
#FutureOfPlay
Radio Thursday! We're talking Circles of Trust and the Ethics of Networking in just a couple hours.
We'll have
@atsumariachi1
and
@AlannaMode
(that's me!) joining us for the chat today, going live at 6PM ET
Join us on Discord ⬇️
🎙️ 🎙️
There should be a video game Met Gala where a bunch of us dress up all weird and take pictures but once we go inside it's just a bunch of system linked xboxes and we play Halo 2 until it's time to go home
we are delayed by an hour or so at the airport and i just realised i can draw anything on my remarkable from anywhere and then send it directly to my printer at home where my sister
@atsumariachi1
will see it automatically print out
i get to see a lot of tweets somehow blaming “diversity” as the reason for layoffs genuinely as if the economy was doing really great and capitalism simply worked before miles morales was spider-man*
*they also don’t recognize miles as spider-man