Joe Wintergreen
@joewintergreen.com
video game dev. weird west, influx redux, much much more
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lots of anger about "ai" on the feed today... you may read my longform thoughts on this and similar subjects on my blog under the tag "insults to life itself"
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December 26, 2024 at 11:45 PM
lots of anger about "ai" on the feed today... you may read my longform thoughts on this and similar subjects on my blog under the tag "insults to life itself"
www.joewintergreen.com/tag/insults-...
www.joewintergreen.com/tag/insults-...
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Mirage turns out to be by far the Ass Creed that is most consistently a good fun cool stealth game. I most particularly like how if you're in cover when you assassinate someone, your guy auto-drags them into the cover
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Mirage turns out to be by far the Ass Creed that is most consistently a good fun cool stealth game. I most particularly like how if you're in cover when you assassinate someone, your guy auto-drags them into the cover
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I just remembered to be mad at the fact that, I'm told, none of the people who worked on VTMB2 at Hardsuit before it was ripped from them by Paradox and shat out by The Chinese Room ended up being credited, only Special Thanksed. Who else wants to get mad
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I just remembered to be mad at the fact that, I'm told, none of the people who worked on VTMB2 at Hardsuit before it was ripped from them by Paradox and shat out by The Chinese Room ended up being credited, only Special Thanksed. Who else wants to get mad
I think I'm almost through ass creed mirage because it punted me into the DLC chapter. The educational codex entries are actually great. Something I didn't know before is that Islam kinda kicks ass
December 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I think I'm almost through ass creed mirage because it punted me into the DLC chapter. The educational codex entries are actually great. Something I didn't know before is that Islam kinda kicks ass
i am a strong believer in the permaban. many are uncomfortable with anything permanent, but it is an opportunity for growth and the realisation that nothing is permanent; like your tattoos, your ban from a video game lasts only until you die, maybe a little longer
I kinda miss multiplayer games that were aggressive with banning bad actors for a few hours or days. Time outs do work on adults and I think people need more of them
December 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
i am a strong believer in the permaban. many are uncomfortable with anything permanent, but it is an opportunity for growth and the realisation that nothing is permanent; like your tattoos, your ban from a video game lasts only until you die, maybe a little longer
season 1 of pluribus is truly excellent... one has no choice but to lower one's opinion of those who dislike it
December 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
season 1 of pluribus is truly excellent... one has no choice but to lower one's opinion of those who dislike it
discussions in the discord of late of interesting visual approaches taken by games in the era just prior to "everything has a normal map"... much artistic use of non-physical shading approaches... an era of great fresnel
December 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
discussions in the discord of late of interesting visual approaches taken by games in the era just prior to "everything has a normal map"... much artistic use of non-physical shading approaches... an era of great fresnel
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E3 2012, Portal 2 had a PS Move/Razer Hydra tech demo and one of the things you could do was stretch a crate on all 3 axes. Source doesn't support scaling meshes
So I said, wow, you guys implemented scaling huh? Sixense guy goes, nah, it just switches between like 500 different crate models.
So I said, wow, you guys implemented scaling huh? Sixense guy goes, nah, it just switches between like 500 different crate models.
November 13, 2024 at 10:35 AM
E3 2012, Portal 2 had a PS Move/Razer Hydra tech demo and one of the things you could do was stretch a crate on all 3 axes. Source doesn't support scaling meshes
So I said, wow, you guys implemented scaling huh? Sixense guy goes, nah, it just switches between like 500 different crate models.
So I said, wow, you guys implemented scaling huh? Sixense guy goes, nah, it just switches between like 500 different crate models.
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You cannot convince me that the people who were killed by chatGPT all died, essentially, of mere neglect. LLM chatbots played a clear role in their deaths. Corporations are mass-deploying tech that induces people to suicide, we do need to treat this as the abomination that it is.
December 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
You cannot convince me that the people who were killed by chatGPT all died, essentially, of mere neglect. LLM chatbots played a clear role in their deaths. Corporations are mass-deploying tech that induces people to suicide, we do need to treat this as the abomination that it is.
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yall ever get eaten by a squid
December 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
yall ever get eaten by a squid
dishonored death of the outsider is an absurd narrative slam dunk of an impossible concept, probably should hire anyone who was anywhere near that
Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
dishonored death of the outsider is an absurd narrative slam dunk of an impossible concept, probably should hire anyone who was anywhere near that
onboarding an idtech mapper to an unreal project
December 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
onboarding an idtech mapper to an unreal project
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fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped
January 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped
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one time i was workin a game dev job and a fella said this to me
October 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
one time i was workin a game dev job and a fella said this to me
free of charge i will dispense this wisdom: get an ultrawide monitor and one of those gamepads that wraps around your phone so that when you play games from your pc on your phone via steam link you don't have to change the resolution.
December 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
free of charge i will dispense this wisdom: get an ultrawide monitor and one of those gamepads that wraps around your phone so that when you play games from your pc on your phone via steam link you don't have to change the resolution.
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y'ever see my blog post about Max Payne 2's character shadows? got some good Remedy dev scoops in there
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July 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
y'ever see my blog post about Max Payne 2's character shadows? got some good Remedy dev scoops in there
www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-m...
www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-m...
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get psyched: I played through too many Ass Creed games and wrote a big blog post about it.
i don't really like ass creed that much. but i might love it?
www.joewintergreen.com/asscreedodys...
i don't really like ass creed that much. but i might love it?
www.joewintergreen.com/asscreedodys...
July 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
get psyched: I played through too many Ass Creed games and wrote a big blog post about it.
i don't really like ass creed that much. but i might love it?
www.joewintergreen.com/asscreedodys...
i don't really like ass creed that much. but i might love it?
www.joewintergreen.com/asscreedodys...
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microblogging platforms are for making little posts that later you go on your actual blog, your macroblog, and write a proper post about, to get it out of your system. y'all's problem is you don't have blogs so you're all clogged up. that's how you get cancer
December 22, 2024 at 2:59 AM
microblogging platforms are for making little posts that later you go on your actual blog, your macroblog, and write a proper post about, to get it out of your system. y'all's problem is you don't have blogs so you're all clogged up. that's how you get cancer
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blog post about the visuals of xcom 1 vs 2, with scoops from the art director of both www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-x...
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
blog post about the visuals of xcom 1 vs 2, with scoops from the art director of both www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-x...
the guyleap and thingclimb in this really is good
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
the guyleap and thingclimb in this really is good
least plausible thing in spider man movies is always that he made the suit himself. the tom holland ones are the best in this regard (he makes *a* suit and it sucks) but the better solution would be to make peter parker an avid seamstress. possibly a contestant on project runway
December 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
least plausible thing in spider man movies is always that he made the suit himself. the tom holland ones are the best in this regard (he makes *a* suit and it sucks) but the better solution would be to make peter parker an avid seamstress. possibly a contestant on project runway
making a list and checking it twice is just the sort of inefficiency that's costing north pole taxpayers billions of dollars a year
December 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
making a list and checking it twice is just the sort of inefficiency that's costing north pole taxpayers billions of dollars a year
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for christmas, give your friends the gift of Ball Rolling Puzzle Game. It's on sale! it's appropriate for kids! eeeeeverybody loves it
December 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
for christmas, give your friends the gift of Ball Rolling Puzzle Game. It's on sale! it's appropriate for kids! eeeeeverybody loves it