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demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
![“We worked [on Hyper Gunsport] with a localization company that refused to give the names of the people that actually did the work; they just wanted to have their company name in there,” Sheffield said. “They say they do that because ‘It's the standard’ and ‘to avoid poaching’ or whatever, but I hate that and think it's total BS. … I've also seen a lot of folks complain about how they weren't credited on a game because they'd left the studio before the game they worked on was finished. And indeed, our lead 3D artist left two years ago. But he's still the first artist credited because he set the style and visual tone for a lot of the game. Not working on the game to the very end doesn't negate the work he did.”
The more Sheffield thought about how to meet the needs of so many different types of contributors – and discussed the matter on social media – the more a comprehensive, detail-oriented approach to crediting started to make sense.
“That had all been percolating in the back of my mind as we got close to finishing, and then it just sort of hit me as it came time for me to write the credits,” he said. “I discussed this approach with the team and everyone was fine with it, so we just went for it. We always want to credit everyone that touched the game, so even though the core team was 7 or 8 people at any given time, we credited around 145 people in Demonschool. Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit. And you basically can tell who the core team was by reading the descriptions. None of us are precious about that anyway.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreibksibak2xsgvbrid7evym3utz6yzfccilowfs7apv7b2sddssd3q@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
Won't be able to make MAGFest work this year, love and miss all of y'all who are attending!
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Won't be able to make MAGFest work this year, love and miss all of y'all who are attending!
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New irritation level unlocked: memeing my own old tweets
August 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New irritation level unlocked: memeing my own old tweets
Just finished Piranesi, so good! Its a bit early to say but it really might be in my top 5 books ever.
July 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Just finished Piranesi, so good! Its a bit early to say but it really might be in my top 5 books ever.
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Microsoft never should have been allowed to acquire Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard-King, it should have been blocked for the clear monopoly making move it was, and anyone with pattern recognition could've seen this coming, because voraciously acquisition always comes with mass layoffs.
July 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Microsoft never should have been allowed to acquire Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard-King, it should have been blocked for the clear monopoly making move it was, and anyone with pattern recognition could've seen this coming, because voraciously acquisition always comes with mass layoffs.
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i desperately need to never receive an email again
June 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
i desperately need to never receive an email again
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In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI.
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Video-Game Companies Have an AI Problem: Players Don’t Want It
Publishers like EA and Take-Two are warning shareholders about the potential “reputational” risks of AI
www.bloomberg.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI.
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
danielphilipjohnson.hashnode.dev/dont-rob-you...
"Don’t Rob Yourself of the Eureka: How AI Is Killing the Joy of Being a Developer"
"Don’t Rob Yourself of the Eureka: How AI Is Killing the Joy of Being a Developer"
danielphilipjohnson.hashnode.dev
May 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
danielphilipjohnson.hashnode.dev/dont-rob-you...
"Don’t Rob Yourself of the Eureka: How AI Is Killing the Joy of Being a Developer"
"Don’t Rob Yourself of the Eureka: How AI Is Killing the Joy of Being a Developer"
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people say making works with AI is “lazy” and that art is “hard work” but that misses the point to me, that pleasure to an artist is the fixation itself, and a finished work is waste product
This anonymous quote really shocked me—all the tasks listed here are like the absolute essence of what writing is. If you hired a person to choose words and draft scenes for you, you would have to pay them as a ghost writer. The fact that you reviewed it afterward does not mean you wrote it!
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
people say making works with AI is “lazy” and that art is “hard work” but that misses the point to me, that pleasure to an artist is the fixation itself, and a finished work is waste product
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A quick and typed-on-my-phone-riddled-with-typos thread about why I think people need to support NPR/PBS, even though they did post that one interview you didn't like:
May 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A quick and typed-on-my-phone-riddled-with-typos thread about why I think people need to support NPR/PBS, even though they did post that one interview you didn't like:
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Nobody is expecting you to pay for EVERY website, that's not practical. But thinking of these sites as magazines is maybe a better way of framing it than "oh great now i gotta pay for websites", with the added bonus all the money goes to us and not a publisher.
May 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Nobody is expecting you to pay for EVERY website, that's not practical. But thinking of these sites as magazines is maybe a better way of framing it than "oh great now i gotta pay for websites", with the added bonus all the money goes to us and not a publisher.
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Please support worker-owned media. Doesn't have to be us, just...someone. Anyone. We started aftermath because we felt it was the only way to make this work going forward, as did everyone else at all these sites, and the more people paying for our/their work, the bigger and better we'll get.
i wanted to collect links people are posting to good polygon-adjacent sites + ways to follow/support folks who've been laid off from there - almost certainly extremely incomplete but maybe it'll be helpful? haunts.neocities.org/polygon
rip polygon
haunts.neocities.org
May 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Please support worker-owned media. Doesn't have to be us, just...someone. Anyone. We started aftermath because we felt it was the only way to make this work going forward, as did everyone else at all these sites, and the more people paying for our/their work, the bigger and better we'll get.
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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Just woke up to this news, need to be a little more awake to fully process it, but the people I worked with at Polygon are some of the most kind, insightful, and passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Support them wherever they end up. Also, fuck whoever made this decision.
Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up
kotaku.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just woke up to this news, need to be a little more awake to fully process it, but the people I worked with at Polygon are some of the most kind, insightful, and passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Support them wherever they end up. Also, fuck whoever made this decision.
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Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
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digital streaming music has no WHIMSY
April 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
digital streaming music has no WHIMSY
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the guy in the snapdragon commercial who uses ai to generate a bedtime story to tell his kids demonstrates that ai is really useful for inventing new and astonishing ways to be a loser
April 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
the guy in the snapdragon commercial who uses ai to generate a bedtime story to tell his kids demonstrates that ai is really useful for inventing new and astonishing ways to be a loser
April 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The results from last night! Absolutely stoked with how these turned out, studio lighting is just so incredibly fun to play with
#photography
#photography
April 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The results from last night! Absolutely stoked with how these turned out, studio lighting is just so incredibly fun to play with
#photography
#photography
Got a chance to test out my portable portrait #photography setup this evening, so stoked to get the photos into editing tomorrow!
April 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Got a chance to test out my portable portrait #photography setup this evening, so stoked to get the photos into editing tomorrow!
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when it comes to golf, golf is the name of the game
April 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
when it comes to golf, golf is the name of the game
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Hi. Your Jewish pal here. They don't give a shit about antisemitism.
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hi. Your Jewish pal here. They don't give a shit about antisemitism.