They’re just gonna end up calling it the HelixBox, aren’t they?
06.03.2026 05:31
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They’re just gonna end up calling it the HelixBox, aren’t they?
But in your VS, you need to be using your pipelines and making sure they're robust. It doesn't mean there can't be room for improvement, but you shouldn't be making things in a way you expect to abandon.
A drawing of three speed skaters (by me!) One is wearing red and white with black accents and the caption "Guy who is either Canadian or Swiss or Austrian or Japanese or Polish or Danish" One is wearing red white and blue and is labeled "Guy who is either American or Norwegian or French or Czech or Slovakian or Slovenian or British" One is wearing neon orange and labeled Guy who is UNDENIABLY DUTCH
God bless the Dutch for this
I did! Never got past a certain part of the game though. It was before the time of internet guides, so just had to give up at some point.
Doing some work downstairs, my 5-year old son asks about my laptop. I mention the keyboard and he starts laughing out loud at the Dutch word for it (toetsenbord). I repeat it and my wife joins in on the uncontrollable laughing. My 2-year old happily laughs along. Dutch is a joke to my Danish family.
Vor Frue Kirke in the city center of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I usually work from our Copenhagen office once a week and today it was freezing cold traveling there and back, but I love how the city looks in winter when the sky is clear and the sun is out. This is the Vor Frue Kirke (Church of Our Lady) right next to the office.
Many game studios have "shadow production", in which someone sets up a parallel (but functioning) system of organization to compensate for the inadequacies of whatever methodology the actual producer insists on employing; thus requiring an act of continuous translation between the two.
On arrival we got a backpack with liquor and cigarettes. There was also an airsoft shooting competition where you could win an Xbox 360, which wasn't out yet at the time. Their weapons expert showed us several more WW2 bunkers and weaponry. We were constantly accompanied by female Polish models.
Activision flew us out with parachute planes to a remote hotel in Poland, where Eva Braun supposedly lived. We drove army Jeeps and track vehicles through the woods and got ambushed by Nazis, who brought us to a bunker where we played Call of Duty 2 and Big Red One.
Watching Fast X for the first time and this must be the most nonsensical entry in the series. That’s saying a lot, because in F9 they went to space. But this one has a very silly Jason Momoa and a big celebrity cast that knows exactly what kind of movie they showed up for. I love it, sort of.
Unfortunately I no longer live in Holland, so this awesome opportunity to create cool games with Adriaan at his new company is not for me, but it could be for you!
So, unpacking the 360 and installing the game was as far as I got. 😅 Too much other cool stuff to play. Still going to try and play Skyrim this year, but now that I have a Switch 2, it’s competing with Breadth of the Wild.
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Title image for Grand Theft Auto 6
Title image for Forza Horizon 6
Title image for Wolverine
Title image for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
My most anticipated game for 2026 is so obvious (GTA6, assuming it will release this year) that I’m just going to add a top 3 on top of that: Forza Horizon 6, Wolverine and the Tomb Raider remake Legacy of Atlantis.
Solid advice.
I started a couple of other games this year that were released before 2025 and my absolute favorite was Dredge. It got me hooked (ba dum tss) and I blasted through the main game and its DLCs very quickly. Great vibes and mechanics.
I didn’t play that many games that came out this year, but my 2025 GOTY is without a doubt Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. What an achievement that is for Sandfall and what an experience it was to play. It’s closely followed by Split Fiction, which does some real game dev magic at the end.
Finished build of the LEGO Game Boy set.
Done! This was an incredibly fun build, maybe the coolest one I’ve ever done. Ingenious connections and very true to the original Game Boy in size and functionality, including movable buttons. The on/off switch and game cartridges with swappable screens are real highlights.
Then “promille” will really blow your mind!
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Bad work gums up the gears and slows things down. Clarity of communication is essential for coordination, and both clarity and communication are a lot of work and take time!
LEGO Game Boy box
Next build!
Inside of the Marmorkirken in Copenhagen, with Christmas trees on both sides of the altar.
Took the kids on a trip around Christmassy Copenhagen today and we went inside the gorgeous Marmorkirken for the first time, which looks extra impressive with its cozy Christmas lighting.
Frankly, most game productions are bottlenecked by directors or senior studio leadership – exactly the people who will tell you that their work cannot be replaced with an LLM and who have the power to make it so
We have prepared one little snack before the year's end. 👀
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I couldn’t pick what part to quote post, it’s just all of this thread. I pride myself on my design writing skills and have been valued for it everywhere I worked. It’s not just putting things to paper, so much thought and design happens while writing. If you didn’t write it, you don’t understand it.
Doing your budgets or schedules with a technology that routinely hallucinates is a terrible idea (as is contracts, legal advice, etc.).
Doing docs with AI is making the primary source of truth unreliable for the team and creates ambiguity or conflict, and thus also a terrible idea.
I know he’s only using it as a general example, but when talking about this with artist and writer friends I often say a variation of: genai doesn’t impact me as much as it does you so I can be more nuanced, but the moment someone hands me a generated design doc I will go absolutely nuclear
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Olivier Richters as Zangief is some on point casting.