Loïc Fontaine

JC has pink and purple hair and is wearing sunglasses, a black sleeveless hoodie, and a silver necklace with a pizza charm on it. She is in front of a bunch of flowers that look like they are exploding out of her head. The sky is blue behind her.

This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I’m JC, I’ve been a gamedev for 10+ years in AAA/indie, and I am currently lead producer and (NEWLY MINTED) COO at my studio, @twirlbound.com! I love making cool stuff with cool people, developing sustainable career paths, and of course yelling (lovingly) about Jira ✨

For any request in March, the easiest way to contact me will be through Steam DMs as it is unlikely that I check any other device.

Next month, meet the @mod.io team at @officialgdc.bsky.social in San Fransisco.

We're bringing our full range of solutions, with an emphasis on the latest: Switch 2 support, monetization solutions, account verification, file validation systems and automated moderation.

Happy to announce that I've joined the very fine folks at @shirogames.com as COO & Head of Publishing. It's a great studio full of talented and kind people and I couldn't be happier to be helping out with games going from Wartales and Northgard, to new productions like SpaceCraft and Farever.

Very proud of this end of year message to creators, supported by some of our dearest partners. ❤️

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Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

Anno 117, Europa Universalis 5 and Endless Legends 2 all out and I'm stuck there having one of the busiest months of my career when all I want to do is sink 200 hours in each.

Another partnership that feels quite personal, one of my favorite game franchises, and the old friends form Ubi and their crazy talented modding community renewing their trust in mod.io. ❤️

I'd look at the life expectancy of the general population in French Normandy.

Mdr le PS ils vont regarder la victoire de Mamdani ils vont se dire un truc du genre "faut qu'on soit plus présent sur tiktok" au lieu de capter que faudrait juste être de gauche.

Glad that the people travelling to Stockholm for the For Devs conference will get to enjoy appropriate local autumn weather. 🌧️

No, you.

I'll however take the credit for pushing @outstar.bsky.social to apply to that community developer role, hiring her and getting her to Sweden. I often reflect on it as one of the best hiring and decisions in my career. ❤️

I've spent 5 years at Paradox during the development of Bloodlines 2, very excited for everyone who has been involved with this project to see it live.

I've zero credit to take or stories to tell about this project, better people than me have always been the ones making the hard decisions for it. 🖤

A picture of He-Man

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

So happy to read this coming from you, you deserve this. They're lucky to have you ❤️❤️❤️

Finally got my final trophy in Helldivers 2, platinum baby. Did it all for Super Earth.

More GCAP content from mod.io. If you're in Melbourne this week, don't miss @scottreismanis.bsky.social and Joshua Astbury fireside chat about the evolving landscape of modding & UGC, on Wednesday!

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AI is not killing jobs, US study finds Research shows little evidence that cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work

Boosters: AI is changing everything, you're either on board or you're left behind!

Reality: AI has had little impact on the labor market, adoption across industries is very low, and execs claiming that they automated junior roles are often simply lying

Sorry to hear, Dale. That's a beautiful and touching memory ❤️

Once again, incredibly good and very difficult to argue against.

Political Overhaul for Frostpunk 2 - mod.io - 6 new communities with two Zeitgeists (the goal is 12). - Two new city statistics: Strain and Corruption. - Brand new law categories and new options for existing categories. - New events, moral deci...

As surprising as it might seem for someone working at @mod.io, I tend to be mostly a vanilla player, but I can't really see myself playing Frostpunk 2 without Political Overhaul, the mod that won the contest 😅
mod.io/g/frostpunk2...

Had a blast being part of the jury for this, even if it led to late night sessions to play all the mods. Gor worried for a minute with this contest but ended up in awe with the quality of the submissions. Still the early days for FP2 modding community, but crazy stuff already available!

Hard to explain to people without kids that my highest high right is my daughter taking a huge dump in a pot.

Time stamp will be quite critical on that one. 😅

If I'm being honest, I'd just like to have a week off to play shitloads of Helldivers 2 right now 🤷🏼‍♂️