@pando42
French 🇫🇷 Video game developer in Montréal, Québec. I work at Ubisoft on Assassin's Creed. Previously: Dishonored 2, The Crew 2, Front Line Zero. I was a teacher at ISART Digital for 3 years. 🏳️🌈 ally 🤗 (He/him).
Mildly interesting facts that come with learning Farsi:
Just discovered Tadjikistan's capital, Douchanbé, literally means "Monday" in Persian because of its market historically open on Mondays.
Cannot make that sh*t up 😭🤣
An email title saying "Everything from your steam wishlist is now on sale!"
I have to say this email caught my attention... Alas, it was just one game. 🥺
We invented the Internet to work remotely. Then developed all the tools we might need. Then had a world historical event prove that remote work was effective and necessary.
Since I became a team lead, a significant part of my time is devoted to managing a Jira board.
I am relieved to see other people online share the same opinion as me about this tool:
ifuckinghatejira.com
(We have an in-home Excel add-on that makes it suck a bit less, but still)
Roses are red,
Punch Nazis.
Discord lied.
they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.
“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.
After enjoying DanDadan from them, I have great hopes for Science Saru's adaptation of Ghost in the Shell !
Aujourd'hui, après plusieurs années à me dire qu'il faudrait moins se servir de Google et autres services qui se servent de nos données en échange, j'ai finalement créé une adresse ProtonMail. 😎 Dégooglisons!
Peut-être que je réinstallerai Linux aussi, un de ces jours...
(Autre fun fact ; en tout cas sur Firefox, l'équivalent IPv6 est [::1]:8000, et les crochets sont importants, sinon ça lance une recherche web à la place. 😂)
Aujourd'hui j'ai découvert par hasard www.localhost8000.com : un site qui vous explique que vous vouliez sûrement aller sur localhost:8000 à la place. Lol 🤣
👂🪱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBrm...
It took me a few minutes to realize it's a (partial?) cover of Duvet by Bôa, the opening song of Serial Experiments Lain.
Interesting how they turned this rock song into atmospheric drum'n'bass... lol
Damn.
The original post's URL was missing a single hyphen at the end.
The correct link is this one, obviously.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/for...
Now... One could wonder why they would decide to essentially step him down from this important position...
In French we say "on ne change pas une équipe qui gagne" ("never change a winning team").
Now if the team needs a change, maybe it wasn't winning all that much. Just saying . . .
"Côté claims the offer essentially served as a demotion" Yup... I think everyone else understood it like this too.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/for...
This is still early, but it gives directors so much creative freedom when you know you can just adjust all performances after the fact, it's going to be a game changer.
The FOMO is real. I wish I had a couple of months in a cave to catch up on this new technology. 😂
It's krazy (with a k) that gaussian splatting is advancing so fast. I heard that a clip of A$AP Rocky used GS to capture the actors volumetrically and render them as dynamic splats:
radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-r...
I would like to see that.
I know nowadays as a gamer, Steam Proton does wonders to play Windows-only games on Linux, but as a gamedev, I still use Visual Studio (not VS Code) as my main IDE, and my last try at Unreal Engine on Linux a few years ago was pretty catastrophic. The main reason why I stay
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
À l'inverse des pays anglo-saxons, où la chasse aux syndicats est encore la norme (cf. Ubisoft Halifax récemment...), la France a la chance d'avoir un tissu syndical solide !
Je repartage cet article du STJV : pour apprendre à reconnaître les situations anormales et comment réagir, tout le temps, partout (grosse entreprise, petit studio indé...)
www.stjv.fr/2025/05/auto...
I know, I’m not keeping up a weekly rhythm for my reader’s digest at all, as I would have hoped, but at least, I keep going!
scylardor.fr/2026/01/05/r...
(Dr) Whoever put Amy Pond and Rory Williams as an example in The Knot template guest list Excel spreadsheet...
We see you! #whovians
Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
Peut-être qu'un jour, on fera la distinction entre "Published Indies" et "True Indies" 😅.
(Ceci dit pour avoir déjà essayé, c'est aussi extrêmement compétitif de trouver un éditeur, donc je ne serais pas tant surpris que dans les années à venir, on voie émerger plus de jeux "auto-édités".)
Au final, j'en ai trouvé quelques-uns 😄 Phasmophobia, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight/Silksong entre autres... Toujours est-il que pour moi ce sont des exceptions et non la règle.
Ça doit se compter sur les doigts de la main (et je ne peux en citer aucun).
CO33 voulaient dès le départ réaliser un AA et en 2025, quelques millions c'est ça que ça prend. Le jeu vidéo ça coûte cher...
Je crois qu'un gros point de friction, c'est qu'ils ont remporté les prix des catégories "indépendant" alors qu'ils ont réalisé un projet à plusieurs millions d'euros avec l'aide d'un éditeur mais... Quel jeu à succès (j'insiste: à succès), même indé, se lance sans éditeur aujourd'hui ?
C'est une petite équipe avec peu de moyens qui a réussi à convaincre un gros éditeur de les financer, et qui a réussi à délivrer la marchandise...
On devrait, surtout en France, tous être fiers, que ce genre d'histoire existe. Puis à tous les jaloux: Allez-y, faites mieux, on vous regarde...
