Jean-Baptiste Siraudin
@jbsiraudin.bsky.social
Game design at Ubisoft (Sabacc on SWO)
Video guy on Youtube (Scinema)
Also here: jbsiraudin.github.io
Video guy on Youtube (Scinema)
Also here: jbsiraudin.github.io
It looks like another Darius Khondji banger of a cinematography.
The trailer for Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet, is here 🏓
Directed by Josh Safdie, the film will be released in theaters on December 25 via A24.
Directed by Josh Safdie, the film will be released in theaters on December 25 via A24.
August 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It looks like another Darius Khondji banger of a cinematography.
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I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It
Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?
www.thegamer.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
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After seeing the Bezos wedding, I felt I should share "Next Floor" buy Denis Villeneuve. youtu.be/t60MMJH_1ds Excellent short film. #ShortFilms #Filmmaking #Bezos #Amazon
Next Floor (a short film by Denis Villeneuve)
YouTube video by PHI
youtu.be
June 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
After seeing the Bezos wedding, I felt I should share "Next Floor" buy Denis Villeneuve. youtu.be/t60MMJH_1ds Excellent short film. #ShortFilms #Filmmaking #Bezos #Amazon
I thought about this a lot today. Sad to see how it's gotten so much worse.
![A bicycle for the mind, redux
an interview with Alan Kay, by Judy Schuster
Electronic Learning, April 1994
Q: Looking back to your days at Xerox PARC, and from from your current vantage point at Apple, what do you find most surprising about the way technology is being used in the classroom?
Kay: I think the thing that surprised me is that computers are treated much more like toasters, [with] predefined functions mainly having to do with word processing and spreadsheets or running packaged software, and less as a material to be shaped by students and teachers.
Q: What's the matter with predefined functions?
Kay: Put a prosthetic on a healthy limb and it withers. Using the logic of current day education, we could say that since students are going to be drivers as adults, at age two we should put them in a little motorized vehicle and they will just stay there and learn how to be much better drivers. Now, we would think that was pretty horrible.
But what if we gave the same person a bike? We're not going to feel so badly [because] the bike allows that person to go flat out with his body and it amplifies that. [The bike is] one of the great force amplifiers of all time because it doesn't detract from us—it takes everything we've got and amplifies it.
Most computers today are sold like cars, where as many things as possible are done for you. You don't have to understand how it works and, in fact, you don't have to understand how to think because the most popular stuff is prepackaged solutions for this and that. When you put a person into a car, their muscles wither. You put a person into an information car, and their thinking ability withers.
I wouldn't put a person within 15 yards of a computer unless I was absolutely sure that it was a kind of a bike for them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g4gkegzauv3xeuzxyyhcytdo/bafkreih6ehkjfk6bxuvlvwjrq5b64xiufvuvar5jh44sr3ptdcucxs47xy@jpeg)
June 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I thought about this a lot today. Sad to see how it's gotten so much worse.
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It’s probably bad that the future of America’s government pivots on a fight between Lex Luthor and the Joker
June 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It’s probably bad that the future of America’s government pivots on a fight between Lex Luthor and the Joker
Getting 'The Devil' for the 1000th win on Fortune's Foundation is some next level Barnum effect shit. Thank you gods of Solitaire.
May 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Getting 'The Devil' for the 1000th win on Fortune's Foundation is some next level Barnum effect shit. Thank you gods of Solitaire.
Hey! Btw I'm currently looking for my next role. Primarly in game or tech design, or product design if it's outside the videogame industry, or other stuff if you think I can fit. Cheers :)
May 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hey! Btw I'm currently looking for my next role. Primarly in game or tech design, or product design if it's outside the videogame industry, or other stuff if you think I can fit. Cheers :)
I love typography, which is why I'll spend 3 hours just cycling through fonts to make sure I selected the right one. This is getting ridiculous.
May 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I love typography, which is why I'll spend 3 hours just cycling through fonts to make sure I selected the right one. This is getting ridiculous.
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[every assassin’s creed game]
NPC: hello it is i, your best friend wolfgang amadeus mozart! i made you this crossbow
NPC: hello it is i, your best friend wolfgang amadeus mozart! i made you this crossbow
March 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
[every assassin’s creed game]
NPC: hello it is i, your best friend wolfgang amadeus mozart! i made you this crossbow
NPC: hello it is i, your best friend wolfgang amadeus mozart! i made you this crossbow
Had fun presenting our work on emotional agents at the AI Summit at GDC! Available soon in the vault but find a sneak peek from Tommy below:
Getting close to the end of day 1 of the AI Summit. We have Jean-Baptiste Siraudin from Ubisoft with a design-focused talk on building the emotions of NPCs when playing Sabacc in Star Wars Outlaws.
March 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Had fun presenting our work on emotional agents at the AI Summit at GDC! Available soon in the vault but find a sneak peek from Tommy below:
Excited to share I'll be speaking at @officialgdc.bsky.social for 2 short talks on the design of Sabacc in #StarWarsOutlaws! See you there :)
#gamedev #GDC2025
#gamedev #GDC2025
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Excited to share I'll be speaking at @officialgdc.bsky.social for 2 short talks on the design of Sabacc in #StarWarsOutlaws! See you there :)
#gamedev #GDC2025
#gamedev #GDC2025
Reopening powerpoint but it's for preparing GDC so...
February 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reopening powerpoint but it's for preparing GDC so...
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It’s pretty much all mismanagement. Adopting new tech prematurely? Mismanagement. Changing creative direction in production? Mismanagement. Iterating on content 3+ times? Mismanagement. Adding major features in production? Mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.
This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make
Graphical fidelity is only part of the reason that game budgets have swelled to hundreds of millions of dollars
www.bloomberg.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It’s pretty much all mismanagement. Adopting new tech prematurely? Mismanagement. Changing creative direction in production? Mismanagement. Iterating on content 3+ times? Mismanagement. Adding major features in production? Mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
Finally played through Sparks of Hope (loved Kingdom Battle) during the holiday and it's a very very interesting game. Not in love with everything here but I admire its unique tactical flavor. The soundtrack is also the best I've heard in quite a while. I'll remember it fondly :)
January 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Finally played through Sparks of Hope (loved Kingdom Battle) during the holiday and it's a very very interesting game. Not in love with everything here but I admire its unique tactical flavor. The soundtrack is also the best I've heard in quite a while. I'll remember it fondly :)
Rewatch of the night. Blessed by Willis rim and eye lighting.
December 20, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Rewatch of the night. Blessed by Willis rim and eye lighting.
Probably the best edited trailer I've seen in quite some time, thanks to a 1915 Kipling poem and gorgeous footage (shot on iphone what the hell) : youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08
28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
youtu.be
December 10, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Probably the best edited trailer I've seen in quite some time, thanks to a 1915 Kipling poem and gorgeous footage (shot on iphone what the hell) : youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08
Recovering from eye surgery is living this image every day and I dig it.
a shirtless man wearing glasses in a room
ALT: a shirtless man wearing glasses in a room
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Recovering from eye surgery is living this image every day and I dig it.
Short benchmark on the interactor design of Alien Isolation (super rusty at writing blog post holy moly) : jbsiraudin.github.io/blog/interac...
The buttons and handles of Alien Isolation | jb siraudin's blog
Interactors are surprisingly hard to get right.
jbsiraudin.github.io
November 11, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Short benchmark on the interactor design of Alien Isolation (super rusty at writing blog post holy moly) : jbsiraudin.github.io/blog/interac...
Very sad day for the world and the planet. The 2nd half of 2024 has been nothing but anxiety and negativity for me. Let's not get discouraged.
November 6, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Very sad day for the world and the planet. The 2nd half of 2024 has been nothing but anxiety and negativity for me. Let's not get discouraged.
@ozone.birb.house hey gamedev here too, cheers :)
October 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
@ozone.birb.house hey gamedev here too, cheers :)
Still kinda crazy to see all the physical sets made out of Sabacc shared online. Some creative solutions to translate some of our UI to cards too (way better than the taped out paper stuff I made).
Super wholesome and rewarding for the team!
Super wholesome and rewarding for the team!
October 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Still kinda crazy to see all the physical sets made out of Sabacc shared online. Some creative solutions to translate some of our UI to cards too (way better than the taped out paper stuff I made).
Super wholesome and rewarding for the team!
Super wholesome and rewarding for the team!
Forever in love with Isle of Dogs science-y production design.
October 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Forever in love with Isle of Dogs science-y production design.