Wrapped up Assassin's Creed: Shadows over the weekend. Really enjoyed it! Has been my favorite AC in a long time (up there with AC2 and Black Flag for sure). Well done to the dev team!

Hoping I can crowd-source some data:

How long does it take for you to export animation from your DCC program?

Additional info that would also help:
- frame number
- character count
- joint count
- # of props, cameras, extras
- cines and/or gameplay

There was a lot of good game animation in 2024, and I found ALL OF IT.

#animation
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100% agree with this. Games are a complex mix of interacting systems. It’s near impossible to predict how those individual systems will actually work out, until you can put them into context.

I was unfortunately impacted by the studio closure today. I appreciate any support or leads and am open to new work.

Awesome. youtu.be/sbgYaeerXhg?...

What Jason is saying here is right, but should stress that when people say making games is hard, they’re not kidding. Some of these management challenges aren’t necessarily because the managers are bad, but because finding a clear direction that works, is really, really difficult.

Congrats to all the nominees for the DICE Awards, particularly those in the animation category. Tons of awesome animation in games this year: www.interactive.org/awards/84Kd_...

We occasionally had guest speakers at the uni I went to and most would come, do their talk, then leave. When Martyn Brown was done, he asked who wanted to go to the pub, then spent the next few hours chatting, telling stories and offering advice. It meant the world to all of us.

It occurs to me, after reading posts getting it spectacularly wrong, that there are a lot of misconceptions over how game studios organize and, in particular, who makes the actual decisions about what ends up in your game. Much of it is by folks who don't *try* to get it... but not all, surely. 1/🧵

I see you Naughty Dog, just casually dropping a little jacket put-on in there like it's no big deal.

Super exciting to see new stuff from CDPR and Naughty Dog! Have so much respect and admiration for those teams. Really curious to see how CDPR handles the switch to Unreal.

I think this totally applies to game dev roles as well. I’ve been asked sometimes by students how to get into game dev and my first question is what role do they want to do. If your answer is, “I don’t know, I just want to work in games”, then that’s the first thing you need to figure out.

I started playing Veilguard so I want to talk about one my favorite parts from my time working on it & something I regret not getting to see through to the end.

💃✨DANCE MAGIC✨🕺

🧵 About why it fits the fantasy genre, the franchise and specifically how it applied to the Shadow Dragons faction. 1/8

Four games I've worked on!

Love this! Congrats @carlosbaena.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOZ...

New console day! Very excited! Congrats to folks on the PS Hardware and Platform teams. 🎮