Today at
@Blizzard_Ent
they are cleaning the orc with FIRE! In case you didn’t know, the only way to clean the orc is to cover it in special liquid (not sure what exactly is used) and use a blow torch!
I would love nothing more than to just make video games as a woman without the sense of dread of knowing the industry I’ve dedicated my life to is a fucking crime scene
Might fuck around and buy a video game just to feel something and then only play for 10 minutes before going back to lying on the couch to mindlessly browse the internet on my phone because I'm too ✨mentally exhausted✨ to focus on anything, as a treat❤️
No because making games is
Ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to not have this fucking conversation again
Ah! So here’s something people aren’t explaining: NFTs don’t have to be jpgs.
Imagine taking your favorite skin from Valorant, and using it Fortnite. And not paying extra, because you own it. Then using it in CoD, Minecraft, even Twitter, IG.
So many possibilities, no?
Had a recruiter from Blizzard reach out last week and it broke my heart to think that only a few years ago when I still had faith in this industry I would have been elated. But now you want me to be on-site 3 days/week? You want me to move from Canada to Cali? In this economy?
Did it hurt? When you had to step down from your very successful and well-paying job because you couldn’t stop yourself from tweeting in support of a violently misogynistic law
yo fr that was crazy when Larry Longlegs (that’s his full government name btw) looked straight at the camera and said « It’s legging time » then hit the stanky leg
Everyone posting on the “What a game dev looks like” hashtag look so fucking hot, listing tons of cool accomplishments mine would be like “Settings menu go brrr also sorry if I look high on this pic it’s because I was”
Man all this “woke” bs discourse about games is such a specifically online thing because I promise you irl on a day-to-day basis none of this exists. We have our lil design syncs and talk about balancing and flow and then a character happens to be a woman and that’s it lol
TikTok is nuts because this woman was talking about how we all once laid crying our eyes out next to a sleeping man and one of the comments was “we all dated a guy who would drive super fast to scare us” and I’m like how the fuck is this a universal female experience 🥲
Losing my mind at all the articles trying to convince us that working from the office 100% of the time is better than WFH because you can "socialize more". Just like jobs that list stuff like ping-pong tables and free snacks as advantages, it's giving adult daycare lol
@danulmao
bby girl ended up in the ER for drinking nothing but Gfuel like if she loves Jesus so much she can keep it up and she'll be meeting him real soon
This industry capitalizes on people’s passion and chews them up for years only to spit them out with nothing to show for it except a set of skills so damn specific they literally can’t do anything else.
Cinema peaked at the group therapy scene in Ginger Snaps 2 when Brigitte describes very graphically how she’ll turn into a werewolf if she doesn’t get out of there and the therapist just writes down “Lesbian??” underlined multiple times in her notes lmao
Since the entire games industry is getting blocked by esports man, what was YOUR reason? Mine was implying he must have a humiliation kink to be publicly acting like such a fucking clown lol
Heya! I'm Stefanie, senior UX Designer on
@DeadByBHVR
. I'm a Persian woman from Montreal and I have a background in QA and Game Design!
I work on Accessibility features and love everything horror💀
This is also
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
!
Women at GDC this year have been belittled and undermined in their roles, been hit on relentlessly, and had their drinks spiked by predatory men.
Two women were even lured up to a hotel room by a man in a position of power for a “pitch”, where he then assaulted them.
Jesus Christ does Slack really have to turn people’s deactivated account’s profile pic black and white like they died in Danganronpa this is just plain evil
Can’t stop thinking about my friend talking about his gf getting off her anxiety meds and saying « Im so proud of her for not taking this garbage anymore » and it kinda blows my mind that we’re still talking about brain meds like they’re just a matter of will
The issue isn't that it's hard to hire women, it's that it's hard to retain us when our day to day is 90% repeating the same info over and over again and having no one listen until a dude says the exact same thing a bit louder.
Oh my god please tell me you can change your Bungie name at any time I just created it thru my Steam account holy fuck I cannot leave it like this forever
re: THAT new studio
The worst argument I've seen go around has to be "Give them some time, this is just the core team because they're all friends". Like I dunno, not having a single woman or POC in your friend group is not the flex you think it is.
You'd think that if your company had just gone through a very public sexual harassment scandal, you wouldn't slide into someone's Steam DMs and when they ask who tf you are, explain how you found them on your WORKPLACE'S INTRANET and thought they looked, and I quote, "noiiice" 🤡
Not gonna name names but if I get one more message from random men calling me "queen" and telling me to "keep my head up high" and to "ignore the jerks" in reference to the abusers in the industry I will exile myself to a remote cabin in a forest and become the town witch
I recently remembered how a few years ago, when starting dev school and working in QA, I told my then lead how I wouldn’t be a game designer because “I’m too dumb for that”. I can now say that is simply not true; I’m the living proof that you can both be dumb AND a game designer
Me realizing that the Steam name BigTiddyGothGhostFace is too long and cuts off on HUD and in lobby when playing DbD
vs
Me remembering that I’m the UX game designer
Hey, a bit of news!
After 2 and a half years, this is my last week on Dead By Daylight.
I’m so grateful for the smart, passionate and kind people I got to work with. I learned and evolved so much as a designer, all thanks to you.
Thanks for having me in the fog, it’s been real.
Since you're not a developer, no. Game devs should and will care about accessibility. To ensure as many players as possible can easily play videogames without issues.
Is it unfair? No. But this world is unfair to begin with. And there's a choice we make to deal with it.
“You have no idea what it takes to ship world beating AAA games”. Well, neither do you, *checks notes* dude who took 12+ years, 4 engines and then handing it over to Gearbox to ship *makes sure I read this right* Duke Nukem Forever.
Oh fuck off. You have no idea what it takes to ship world beating AAA games and you take the word of disgruntled ex-employees vs the 100's that are happy there. Also comparing a 20-man indie to a 300 person studio is stupid.
What do you mean y’all wanna see the chat logs of an adult sexting a minor what do y’all mean by that can you say that again in front of the fbi real quick
Crypto is here to stay. I’m committed to supporting creators who have pioneered the NFT space, and encouraging more women to be a part of the conversation.
How did nobody go "hey, maybe it's a bad idea to release a game in which you lead a government-approved extrajudicial death squad to kill a conspiracy linking BLM-esque imagery with illuminati terrorism"?
What could you, a 40 year old adult man millionaire in a wig, possibly have to say to an underage stranger online. Like damn if only there was a word for that.
I’m surprised he was actually fired for it. Especially at a director level. People wouldn’t believe how INSANELY common this behaviour is, at all levels.
NEW: In March, top Bungie employee and former Marathon director Chris Barrett suddenly left the company.
Barrett was fired after an HR investigation found that he had behaved inappropriately with at least eight female employees, Bloomberg has learned:
Look I genuinely believe the “If you knew how game dev goes” guy is fucking with us and we’re all falling for it but I still am grateful to him for uniting every single game dev on this godforsaken platform into dunking on his ass. This is what I imagine world peace looks like🌈
Dr Disrespect ended his first Elden Ring DLC stream today talking about being burnt out and possibly stepping away.
"Out of the years it's been drained out of me."
He didn't address the allegations but his mood took a noticeable turn after appearing to look at this phone.
Dudes with no profile pic and 7 followers will try to humble you by going “this you?” and it’s literally one of the hottest selfies you’ve ever posted lol
What if I told you, you can play a game without anyone knowing. Like shutting the fuck up was always an option. Like instead of coming on here and writing whole threads justifying yourself, just play the game and be silent dawg lmao wtf
Why don’t things like THIS get more coverage? Women in Games Argentina posted an experiment with 3 male Valorant pros using voice changers to show the harassment women go through in gaming. Full vid linked in tweet under this.
We ate escargots in front of the Moulin Rouge, Paris has more sex shops than pharmacies OH AND I got engaged in the cimetière Montmartre 😭😭😭🖤 (with a placeholder ring apparently because Canada Post lost the ‘real’ one 😂)
Making your whole entire brand posting “hot takes” on the gaming industry every single day like it’s your job and then dipping the moment people actually think it’s a hot take is wild lmao
"Are we competing with EA for the ‘Most hated Game Studio by the public’ title? Because this is how you do it."
This week, Ubisoft posted a defense of NFTs on its internal message board, Mana. The employee responses were not pretty
Treyarch for blops 4: QA
Minimum wage for California 13.50+ OT
Infinity Ward for MW and Warzone
15.50 per hour+ OT
Outsource environment artist: Sony vasg
32.50 per hour
T10 senior environment artist: Forza Motorsport 90k no benifits
Cold iron studios: 115k FTE
#gamedevpaidme