Colin O'Donnell @MeteorColin

Gently kisses u and then scurries away🦭💋✨

@ZacharyWillmore YIPPEE WELCOME BACK

At least in game development, what really matters is whether everyone in the organization—from the owners and top management all the way down to the people actually making the games—can share and genuinely relate to a love for games and a desire to create something. As obvious as that may sound, the reality is that there are workplaces where you can go day after day without feeling even the slightest trace of either. Especially when executives and leaders genuinely love games and are players themselves, conflicts within the organization tend to become meaningful conflicts over creation—arguments that may be intense, but are still moving along the same vector. And that is often where something new is born. When the opposite is true, however, those conflicts become nothing more than a battle against irrationality. And if, by bad luck, that continues for a long time, even a strong team can eventually be destroyed. There are several important factors when game developers work as an organization under executives and leaders, but most important are: (1) whether those leaders can earn respect or (2) whether they have a vision that people can believe in. The first is relatively easy to imagine. If executives or leaders have an outstanding track record in the field, respect tends to come naturally. This may sound obvious, but there have in fact been cases where leaders had not merely achieved nothing in game development, but had virtually no understanding of development or games in the first place. Worse still, there have been organizations in such a terminal state that people known primarily for sexual harassment or abusive management ended up in leadership positions through favoritism and connections among senior management. Many people have probably seen or heard of organizations like this. Respect from developers does not simply emerge from an organizational title or rank. And yet there are still quite a few people who seem to misunderstand this, believing that hierarchy and job titles alone somehow create a leader. That said, even someone without a track record can be a strong leader if they have a vision that people can genuinely believe in. For example, even if someone comes from another industry and has no experience developing games, an organization can still function extremely well if that person has a powerful vision that gets to the heart of the matter—something people can understand, share, and rally around. The opposite is when an employee asks, “Why did you introduce this system? What exactly are you trying to achieve with it?” and the answer is something like, “Because as the head of this organization, I want to do the right thing!” If nobody can define what “the right thing” actually means, there is no clear objective and no identifiable vision. The organization then wastes enormous amounts of time playing a guessing game, trying to infer what that person is thinking and somehow arrive at the answer they have in their head. Organizations like that gradually begin to fall apart. So if you ask me what makes a good environment for developers, one answer would be this: There needs to be either a certain degree of genuine respect for the people leading the organization, or a strong vision that people can believe in. Only when one of those things exists does real challenge become possible—and with it, the possibility of creating something genuinely new. When neither exists, an organization either descends into chaos, or people simply begin treating their work as “just a job,” carrying out tasks every day that have little or nothing to do with creativity. That difference is enormous.

Samuel Lafont @Samuel_Lafont

2 days ago

@Harada_TEKKEN En plus de l’avantage immédiat évident, qu’est-ce que ça vous apporte dans le processus créatif @Harada_TEKKEN ?

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probably the best gyu of all time

@t4tpvp Thank u for this!!!! This was cool to see I enjoy seeing your steps

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keep discussing it please

How could they see the feedback on this and still choose to go back to the same shitty 3D renders

Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic_hedgehog

6 months ago

I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog! 2 months ago, SEGA began the Sonic Rewind celebration. So far, we’ve celebrated the 2020s and 2010s. Now we’re in the 2000s! The party won’t stop there either. For now, enjoy everything this decade has to offer. See you again soon in the 90s!

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I'm only working out for completely vapid aesthetic reasons and I'm not ashamed about it. I just kinda wanna be hot and built 🫡.

SO glad this is my most popular tweet. Still haven’t gotten a definitive answer on whether this ever made it to the US though…

Colin O'Donnell @MeteorColin

7 years ago

🚨 SONIC UNLEASHED IS OFFICIALLY RETURNING TO STORE SHELVES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NINE YEARS 🚨 Please, PLEASE pick up a copy

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No one should have to shave ever. All hair growth should be voluntary

METROID RAVENOUS LOOKS SO GOOD!!!! AND THE NEW KIRBY??? AGHGHGHG

Okay yeah I gotta get a Switch 2

If it can’t boot without verifying functionality of the wifi board it is worth NOTHING

What I’m getting from this is that the first thing I need to do whenever I get a tv is crack it open, find the microphone and wifi antenna, and crush both with pliers

Matt Johansen @mattjay

3 days ago

This investigation into LG TVs spying on you, your family, and your network is absolutely insane. It has made me irrationally angry that even in this 2 hour video there isn't a whole lot of "what you should do about it" - because there isn't much you can do. They suggest

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If it was twelve years ago and I was starting my first 3D Zelda, the appearance of a jump button would be a relief! And I mean maybe that’s the audience it’s there for. But idk, now that I’m more familiar with the game design, it feels… I don’t know… dismissive?

If it turns out that the game is built on Unreal, I’m sorry but I will be judging. I know, I know, it’s just a tool, but it’s just so not how Nintendo does things.

Idk folks, I hope the OoT remake is good, especially since the appeal of the original kinda went over my head a bit, but a lot of the decisions for it feel like they were made by people who have never engaged with the game dev process. Screams “career-exec-run Nintendo”.