Darcy Sandall
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Expert Engineer @SHGames Australia Works on @callofduty Opinions are my own Trampolines make me happy 🖤💛❤️
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Junior programmer: oh no, I made a mistake. No one can know of my shame.
Programmers at all other levels: lol everyone come look at the dumb shit I did.
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Working in games is weird because you'll say something like "this game shaped my childhood" and your coworker will just drop a "oh yeah I worked on that" like it's nothing.
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Hey! I'm Darcy, a Senior Software Engineer at Sledgehammer, previously in indie, and I've been making games professionaly a bit over 5 years.
And this is
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
when they get up at 3:30am for the announcement of their own game.
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I'm a senior engineer who's been working on COD for over 2 years and I still find parts of the engine and go "wtf is this" almost weekly.
Junior gamedevs need to hear this.... It's OK to feel completely overwhelmed by modern game engines. Games have never been as technically complex to make as they are right now.
You're doing fine...
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Someone joked that I sold out going from indie to AAA and the best part is the person that said it works at Meta.
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Ripping out and replacing an engine is like trying to replace a cake while keeping the frosting exactly as it is.
As an industry, we really need to do a better job at educating players just exactly what a game engine is, so we stop seeing takes like this.
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I sometimes get just the loveliest messages from players.
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Nothing like un-muting your mic after a 30+ round zombie match to hear "we were being carried by a girl?"
YES YOU WERE BOYS.
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As an employee of Activision Blizzard, I personally have zero confidence in Bobby Kotick's leadership.
In response to an explosive story reporting that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick knew about various sexual misconduct and harassment allegations and was himself a perpetrator, and an employee walkout today demanding Kotick's resignation, the board says it is standing by him
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Look I know we all love video games. I love video games. But even the best game in the world, is still, just a game. And absolutely no one should be abused over a game.
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Ok game dev Twitter: everyone asks what your dream role is, but what's the one position in games that would be the absolute worst for you?
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Sorry y'all but apparently I'm solely responsible for the quality of Call of Duty now.
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IT’S CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE III LAUNCH DAY!! ❤️🖤
I don’t have the words for what it’s like to have millions of people play something you helped create, but it’s the most special part of my job.
To all the players, I hope you enjoy. And to all my fellow devs, we did it.
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The entire company have already proven that we can still perform at our best WFH. Forcing people to come back to an office is cruel and unnecessary, and we will lose talent at a time where I'm not sure we can afford to.
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I recon if this person knew anything about programming and I actually showed them the cod codebase they'd cry.
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I have new neighbours moving in today and I hope they enjoy the calming meditative sounds of Call Of Duty.
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Making Sledgehammer Games all hands meetings more difficult, one timezone at a time.
Welcome to the chaos Guildford! 🎉🇬🇧🥳
Today we’re thrilled to announce we're expanding (again!) with a new studio in Guildford, UK to partner with our global teams in the Bay Area, Melbourne, and Toronto.
Explore open roles and join our remarkable team 👇
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Fun fact: the Australian government used to abduct mixed race Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their homes to raise then in white society in order for them to marry white people so that the indigenous population would eventually be "bred out".
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Hi I'm Darcy, an Expert Engineer at Sledgehammer Australia working on the core and audio engine teams 👋
And here's me on our last launch day with a blanket one of my coworkers partners made.
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
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Games would be released faster if we didn't have to waste so much time protecting them from leaks and hacks btw.
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This is giving me flashbacks of having to hide a then unannounced PS5 devkit under an opaque plastic bag because my lockdown work setup was in the living room and my housemate wasn't allowed to see it.
3 years ago today: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War released.
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IT'S CALL OF DUTY
#MWII
LAUNCH DAY!!! 🖤💚
Huge congrats to everyone who was a part of this, especially to all the folks over at
@InfinityWard
. I have no idea how we manage to smash these out every year but we do and I hope you all enjoy it.
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One unified engine means that my code will haunt every single Call Of Duty from now until the end of time.
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I still have a job. So many of my friends and coworkers don't. Completely devastated.
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I'm being incredibly helpful in the work Slack this morning
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I deleted the Tweets. I can take a lot of shit but insults just for the sake of abuse, jokes about harassment and death threats are where I draw the line.
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I can't even fathom why this is a good decision.
Good QA is hard to find, takes a lot of time/resources to train and is immeasurably valuable. They are an important part of the development team and should not be easily disposable.
Call of Duty made $3 billion in 2020, so of course Activision Blizzard is laying off QA
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@Mitch2161998
That's disappointing, everyone should be in a workplace where it's safe for them to make mistakes and learn from them.
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PlayStation I will love you forever but XBOX pays my bills now.
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Ok game devs, what's your favourite bug that your game had that was fixed before the game shipped (aka players never got to see)?
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There's absolutely no way a developer would have the power to make themselves a face model for a major character in a game at a studio like Insomniac on an IP like Spiderman.
Leave her the fuck alone.
Insomniac Writer of Spider-Man 2.
All conclusions and arguments directed to notice patterns are reserved for Twitter users and under no circumstance I'm claiming this is a self-insert
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But I stand by this completely:
The chronic overworking, brutal deadlines and ruthless layoffs that is absolutely rampant in our industry, in the name of making profit, regardless of the human cost, is an absolute fucking disgrace.
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The bright side to this is having my peers in programming and in game development bond over how ridiculous messages like this are.
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I have some exciting news!
Next week I'll be joining the team at
@SHGames
Melbourne!! I can't wait to work on some great projects with so many talented people 🎉
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IT'S CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS COLD WAR RELEASE DAY!!
This is the biggest project by far I've worked on. And while it's disappointing we all can't celebrate person, it's still super exciting for it to be out in the world!
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"Oh your work gave you an entire week off? How nice! How come?"
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Call of Duty campaign hits different when it's on your retail PS5 and there's no debugging text on the screen.
(And no god mode)
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Despite me publicly calling out Activision Blizzard frequency, I actually enjoy working at SHG and want to continue working here.
But if they tried to force me back into the office without a vaccine mandate I'd seriously consider leaving.
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So I have no idea what is an adequate amount to punish a company that had such toxic working conditions that it ended someone's life and hurt countless others.
But $18 million, for a company that paid it's CEO $150 million in 2020, seems like a fucking joke.
Activision Blizzard settles sexual harassment lawsuit for $18 million:
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I genuinely thought that billion-dollar, huge-game-publisher, Activision Blizzard was literally too big to ever be acquired by another company.
I was wrong and this is why I'm paid to write code.
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For all of the garbage that comes with working on a huge game, sometimes you stop and remember that there are millions of people, all over the world, enjoying something you helped create.
And that feeling is something super special.
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Could the entire games industry not touch NFT's with a 5000000 foot pole I'd appreciate it
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Peak Australian internet is having to use your mobile data to download something because your home internet is just too garbage.
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WELL THAT'S A NICE SUPRISE TO COME HOME FROM VACATION TO
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If your version of ‘having a bad day’ is assaulting a 16-year-old then you shouldn’t have a job where you have authority over other human beings.
Officer who kicked Indigenous teen during arrest 'had a bad day', says NSW police boss
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Spending months on end in lockdown over the last 2 years to buy us more time, just to watch the countries entire pandemic response crumble in a matter of weeks feels great.
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Hi all 👋 I'm Darcy, a Senior Software Engineer at
@SHGames
Australia doing core + audio engineering and I'll be at
#GDC23
all week.
If you see a tall redhead in skinny jeans and a COD shirt then it's probably me.
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
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It's Blops time
#BlackOps6
confirmed.
Tune in to the Xbox Games Showcase on June 9th at 10am PT to see what we've been cooking with
@RavenSoftware
.
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4 years at
@SHGames
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5 releases of
@CallofDuty
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Still the best choice I've made for my career.
(Ok my work anniversary was actually 2 days ago but I forgot)
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Honestly good for them. Being successful enough to be sustainable in indie is brutally hard.
$10 Indie game, Lethal Company, is outselling Call of Duty on Steam
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Mine is anything to do with Narrative because I deeply dislike doing creative writing. I am forever grateful to narrative designers and writers for being awesome so I never have to.
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Seeing promos in the wild so early is giving me throwbacks of that one year when I worked in retail that they started playing Christmas music in October.
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Regardless of how good of a human he is, thousands of people have lost their jobs in a company under his leadership. That's a colossal failure. The criticism is deserved.
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Some news: this week will be my last week at
@SamuraiPunkCo
. I've achieved more than I ever expected to in the last (nearly) 3 years and I appreciate everything SamPunk have done to help me do it.
I'm going to miss these Spunks.
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This one hurt more than the others.
I would like to believe that Sledgehammer is a better place now, and a part of me does, but I'm also not naive enough to think that the toxic culture that allowed this horrific behaviour to occur doesn't still exist.
A woman who worked at Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer said she was raped twice by her supervisor after she was pressured to drink heavily. She reported the incidents to HR, but the company took no action.
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I did my first ever industry talk at a overseas international game developers conference and was told by multiple people that it was very good.
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So I walked out yesterday, and most likely will again if my employer doesn't make meaningful changes. Because I genuinely do love my job, and would like to be proud of the place I work.
And to all of my current and former co-workers, take care of yourselves 💙.
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Hi
#VisibleWomen
, I’m Darcy and I’m lead programmer at
@SamuraiPunkCo
, an indie studio in Australia! I’ve worked on
#AmericanDreamVR
,
#TableOfTales
and
#ScreencheatUnplugged
.
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You can also swap out British people with Australians and it still works.
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I call this "I have a lot of confidential stuff on my desk and a rental inspection".
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There's too many for me to respond to everyone directly but you all have some great stories.
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If you treat the people who have a part in making games like this, then you do not deserve to play them.
Laura Bailey talks about how people threaten her new born son when The Last of us part 2 launched.
Man this breaks my heart 😞
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Now I know what happens if you drop a SHG hammer on a Lego plant.
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The moral of this tweet is that if we all quit our jobs whenever we didn't understand our old code the entire games industry would collapse.
I sometimes get just the loveliest messages from players.
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I'm proud to be participating in the
#ActiBlizzWalkout
today.
Because I love what I do, I love games, and I want Activision Blizzard and the games industry to be a safe place for absolutely everyone 💙
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I'd like to call this outfit 'weird shit my work has sent me'.
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Bobby Kotick is officially no longer the CEO of Activision Blizzard.
Today was his final day as CEO.
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Me, a Microsoft employee, found out Microsoft had a worldwide outage from a phone call from my parents.
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EXCUSE ME TIMES SQUARE 👀
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At the end of the day, all we want is to to work at a workplace that values us, pays us fairly and equally, treats us like people and where we don't have to be afraid for our physical safety.
It shouldn't be hard.
It should be the bare fucking minimum.
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The first time I heard 'git gud' I thought people were talking about source control.
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I genuinely feel sorry for the Hogwarts Legacy devs, imagine spending years working so hard on something to have it tainted by a human piece of garbage.
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Yesterday the majority of
@SHGames
Australia got together in person for the very first time since the studio started.
Anyway, I work with some absolutely awesome people and y'all should be jealous.
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I got my staff discount to the Xbox gear store and went too far down the rabbit hole.
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From someone who works in video games: get the fuck out (if you can) and never look back. Those working conditions destroy people.
Here’s the text of the email Musk sent to Twitter staff overnight.
Those who don’t commit to being “extremely hardcore” by 5pm ET today must leave the company. ‼️
Story:
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I'm (virtually) joining the Activision Blizzard walkout (again) today 💙
Activision has a lot of problems, we are all very aware, and for a company with the money and resources of ATVI their efforts to address them consistently fall pathetically short.
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Being the best programmer in the room means nothing if you can't work well with others.
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