Drew McCoy
dko5.bsky.social
Drew McCoy
@dko5.bsky.social
Co-founder / Executive Producer @ https://gravitywell.games | He/Him

Working on something new with an awesome group of people
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COD | Titanfall | Apex | ?
Really looking forward to ARC Raiders launch tomorrow. First game I've preordered and been this hyped for in a long while. That server slam test was some of the most fun I've had in PvP in years - no surprise, Embark showed they already know what's up with THE FINALS

Anyone else going topside?
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Picked up one of those insane-o 45" ultrawide OLED LG monitors. Wow

Suddenly my 4090 doesn't feel quite so beefy 😭
October 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
30 years ago this is what I hoped video games would become. So happy games like this are being made

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Je1...
Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹
YouTube video by DevolverDigital
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
When I was 12 I got Myst for Christmas and fell in love (was huge Sierra / Lucas Arts adventure game fan), and this making-of video on the CD was the first time I saw any kind of game development. From then on I knew what I was supposed to do
Check out this amazing remastered (at 4k!) version of "The Making of Myst" mini-doc! Originally included on the Myst CD-ROM in 1993, this version has been carefully recreated by Ted Sase using footage preserved by the VGHF!
https://youtu.be/xBtLZDPnYlM
October 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@digitalfoundry.bsky.social Do you guys use off the shelf software for your framerate/frametime overlays or is that a custom job?

Often in dev I wish I could replicate it, as running extra profiling to get the data isn't always possible
September 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
One benefit of having COVID this week is that I've had the time to clean up my email inboxes

Gotta keep things nice and tidy for the daily dump of spam to arrive, ya know?
September 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New job listing posted! Totally biased, but I think we're on to something really neat here. Come help us make it a reality!
New Opportunity Alert! 🚨

We're looking for an Environment Artist to help us craft an exciting game world! Come join our team and bring our vision to life. 🎮 ✨

Check out the role and apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
September 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Watching the team go through a show and tell of all their work this morning and I am just in awe that I get to work with such talented and amazing people
August 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We don't plan to get much bigger, making openings here more and more rare as we fill out our team. If you care deeply about making fun games with crazy talented people, check us out!
Exciting news! ✨ We're growing our team and have 3 new openings for talented folks in the Design and UI/UX spaces. If you're passionate about making amazing player experiences, come join us!

Check out our open roles here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/
Gravity Well
gravitywell.games
August 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reminded of ATVI blowing up Infinity Ward because the bonuses due to the dev team

Cool quote from an ATVI exec email thread months before they fired our studio heads and took away our bonuses, "we are paying way too many people way too much, we need to find a way to put caps on our bonus payouts"
Some employees at Unknown Worlds were told they were eligible for bonus payouts ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to seven figures if they hit their revenue target. They believed Subnautica 2 was on track for release this year.

Now, with the delay to 2026, the target seems unattainable
July 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Well, Premiere can't talk to licensing servers so I guess I'm done working on this project for tonight. Thanks Adobe!
July 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I miss when there was a hot dog guy outside Home Depot

We used to have standards
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Games media deserve better

If I had an extra pile of cash lying around I'd totally throw it at the problem, but alas :(
May 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My wife and I are working through South of Midnight this weekend, really enjoying it so far. Loving the setting, story, music, and characters -- but the character and environment art are the biggest treat

Congrats to everyone at Compulsion Games on the release!
April 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Damn, think I just fried my 3080 :(
April 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Vividly remember my best friend from high school (rip Rob) getting on IRC and losing his shit after seeing it opening night. I hadn't seen any advertising for it yet, and he convinced me to go in totally blind the following day

Aamazing moviegoing experience. Wish I could bottle that feeling
#TheMatrix was released 26 years ago today 🟢
March 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Happy 6th birthday to Apex Legends

Once in a career project - everything lined up and the team managed to pull off quite the feat

Fun fact: basically all of the launch game was made in about 14 months
February 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just realized that whatever banger @slothy.com is bumping in his office next door is synced perfectly to the blobdance emoji on discord
January 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Life in LA lately
January 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Anyone else finding a certain sense of calm during the holiday? For me I think it's because studios are closed so games aren't getting patched. I launch Steam or boot a console I'm not having to sit there and watch half a dozen games update themselves

I can just boot and play. What a concept!
January 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Also, the project car is nearing completion! I don't usually do new years resolutions, but I do intend on spending more time driving for fun this year

Any other Subaru nerds out there? EJ207, 6MT, DCCD, Ohlins, Brembos, Recaros...
January 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Watched Canadian Bacon tonight (rip John Candy)

Someone should find and question Michael Moore, that shit was prescient and way funnier than I remembered

I'm upset I missed all the weapons manufacturing auctions of the 90s, tho. Getting my own AT4 would've been rad
January 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Is there a way to actually dig yourself out of email spam hell? No matter how many unsubscribes I click through the amount of spam in my inbox doesn't go down. There's no useful way to communicate anymore; spam calls, spam texts, and spam emails have rendered it all useless
December 19, 2024 at 7:23 PM
And Swen's speech was S tier
December 13, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Astro Bot and Balatro cleaning house tonight has me grinning from ear to ear
December 13, 2024 at 4:12 AM