Still haven't gotten in the habit of using bluesky regularly. Despite the hellscape that twitter is, still something missing here that means it doesn't grab me?
Or just sheer habit and just default behaviour like the NPC I am 😂

Really is disheartening to see lay offs in the Games Industry continue.
I was never much a believer in the 'survive till 2025' narrative, but seeing it fall apart this hard. With this many studio closures and all is gutting

I always find the start of the year jumping back into the world of game dev interesting.

How instinctually it is to ramp up to speed yet your brain is also adjusting to having to be productive again.

From nearly a month of no slack messages, to 100s a day at the drop of a hat

2 workdays left of the year for me, to cap off probably the most successful year of my career so far. Proud of what I did this year, interested to see what next year holds.

Got DA Veilguard to finish over the break + getting stuck into POE2 some more!

I have been waiting for Wind and Truth book 5 of Stormlight for damn years and I am so hyped seeing it in my kindle library right now.

Here we go!

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Been thinking about narratives within your own team recently. E.g. your team delivers its roadmap for the year on time, on scope. But the overall game is underperforming.

Navigating the narrative of you guys did great, but sadly we didn't make enough of a difference..tough one!

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I wanted to share some learning's from my current new journey with my first direct report. I've been a people manager as a producer of course, but never directly responsible for someone.

My report has been with me a month, and she said to me recently she'd been feeling anxious

1/2

A question for friendly Producer folks in #gamedev.

Specialisation as a producer, how, when and why?

I'm familiar with a few of the 'trees' in the path but I'm conscious I'm not aware of a bunch.
Overall I'm just curious about what lead folks to specialise and how it's gone for them?
Thanks!

Curious if anyone in #gamedev land has experience trying to bring the concepts of Radical Candour into their teams?

I've been reading about it recently and I very much connect with how it frames honesty and feedback.

I think often in the games industry feedback giving as a refined skill --> rare

It's so disheartening seeing more and more lay offs in the game industry. Yet so few industry leaders or companies are acknowledging that there are clearly massive structural issues in the business of making games that need addressing.

Wiping out massive groups of talent like this is a tragedy

Introducing people to the pure joyous fun of hell divers 2 is a real treat.

The game is just so full of fun moments that people get stuck in real quick. The developers have worked so hard to sell the concept so hard in so many little details that the experience is so full all round.

In awe of it

Thread time!
Subject? Observations on working on mobile games 📱Vs AAA games💰.

Caveat, still young in the industry with 7 months in mobile, and just under 3 years in AAA.

Context; I started in QA and now I work in Production!

All set? Let's dive in..

Gotta love a major change up in your work place 3 days into the New Year.. good old game development always throwing curve balls

I follow over 2.7k twitter. Using a bit to find people from that list which are on here - only 34.

Interested to see how Blue sky really is in reality! Will be posting a mix of thoughts on working in the games industry, project management, games I'm playing, TV shows, films and occasional politics rants for my own sanity