Michael

also i need an acapella of bonfire

i had to do it and now i need to commit to this further anyone got a repository of yoshi noises i need to replace every swear word in bonfire, which to my count is uh. a lot

donald glover as yoshi is the best possible option the timeline has been redeemed

okay it's [YOSHI NOISES] Gambino homegirl drop it like the NASDAQ

also this was our first ever run and i think this has set a very high bar for my expectations for STS2 so uh :)

also i'm laughing so hard my jaw hurts so i need help with that issue too everyone hates me b/c i have ornamental fan and i triggered it on accident and everyone yelled at me for a full minute

@megacrit.com we have run into a very funny situation where we've effectively infinite looped block application with two Beacon of Hopes on turn 1 and auto-applied shields and a single combat turn's been going for like ten minutes please send help (also it's giving zero block many many times over)

Act 2 of Demacia Rising is live!

"Why haven't fighting games died yet?"

I wrote about the unique strengths of the fighting game genre that have allowed fighting games to survive multiple generations of evolution intact, and why you didn't fall in love with a product. Warning: This is a long one.

www.patreon.com/posts/152148...

After 9 yeareals, it's finally my turn to post the "a thousand cereals" clip, seeing as how I'm the idiot who made it.

The Game Bakers motto, their design philosophy, is simple: “We make games like we cook.”

I've been using slow cooking as a metaphor all week because the urgency culture in the air is wild rn

That said- I’m immediately looking for my next role! I am:
- remote or CA based
- 18 year veteran
- looking for principal designer, lead, manager, director roles
- love souls games, ARPGs, and MMOs
- expert systems designer, esp gear, progression, economy, skills
- easygoing, skilled communicator

i just wanna make a few specific elements a tiny bit smaller; i don't want toggles i just want like 80% size LOL

game is very fun, i'm excited to grind it in a week

Please do there's so many good uses for it rn

The EVO situation is dire.

digital drawing by me (floon) of my fem viera wol from ffxiv wearing a red and black dress, sitting, with a textured background with rose and sparkle doodles

doodle while i mope about m11s ;w;

while i've not been an Xbox user for a very, very long time, XGS has so many wonderful teams.

i do not await the several additional game industry crashes that come from xbox as a division likely failing to meet rising targets and its eventual dismantling b/c it can't become rev-positive-enough

regarding the recent news

At Getty, art is for all. Including sea lions. 🌊

In honor of #WorldAquariumDay, Aquarium of the Pacific 🐋's Parker shares his thoughts on some of the most popular artwork in Getty's collections.

Animation reference of the gods

IOI makes wonderful games and 007 is looking to continue that trend! Super excited to see what else y'all have cooking.

Thank you so much! It'd been 8 years since I'd Launched a Game; the feeling hits different with time lol

It's fun how everything comes back around, starting from "hey you remember those like, flash game / online kingdom builders from like '09? can we do THAT?" was a fun pitch deck

got the melancholy posting out of my system, time to go play deadlock for four hours or something lmao

this is the exact reason why i keep NOT giving talks despite REALLY wanting to, culling the verbosity that exists deep within my soul, the desire to provide every tiny detail, the effortless stream-of-consciousness that springs forth on any tiny passion

it's uh

a problem

good luck buddy lol

It was honestly really hard for me to play Demacia Rising on my real account; playing it was acknowledging the end. I dreaded it, avoided it for weeks.

It's so tough to enjoy your own work. You see all the flaws, the could-haves, the undone bits. But, I'm so unbelievably proud of what we all made.

I was so incredibly unconfident it was going to work in December. The holiday break was the deepest pit of despair and anxiety.

The reception to it has provided an incredible joy but also a deep, bittersweet melancholy, because I know I have to leave it behind and move on.

It's so easy to lose yourself in the process of creating a thing, in being a part of the whole that puts these things together.

Games are made by people; they are creations of love, joy, self-expression, passion, pain, sorrow, frustration - i truly believe they reflect our humanity as creators.

I won't get to WORK on it like I got to work on Demacia Rising.

There is just so much of me in this game. Who I am as a designer AND a person. There's so much of everyone who worked on it in it. Every single person has at least something there that's a tiny distilled essence of their soul.

Demacia Rising is similar to a lot of things, but it's unique since it's ultimately a progression system wrapper for a season of League.

There's nothing quite like it. Sure I could go play Total War, Civ, HOMM, or Against the Storm for another thousand hours, but it's different.

I'm so glad to have had a product manager who believed in this kind of game, who got us time and a team.

I'm so glad to have support to try and execute my wild vision; the most complicated thing we'd ever made.

I'm so happy to have worked with all of the incredible people I got to on this.