So, thank you to Cyan for putting that making-of videon on the Myst CD. Wouldn't be here without it ❤️

None of it turned into making games, but about a decade later I finally got into games - as an IT admin. All that time learning the basics of how of how a game comes together turned out to be instrumental in being able to support the world class dev team at IW, which led to me becoming a producer.

Around this time I was also teaching myself how to build maps in Wolf3D/Doom/Duke3D. Took a few community college courses in high school on an early version of Maya, spent hundreds of hours tinkering with Photoshop from 2.0 onward, and messed with webdev along the way too

I taught myself how to "script" in HyperCard while my older brother went about making all the art and we put together a few 10-15 minute point and click adventure games on our dad's Mac Centris 610

We got our hands on Infini-D and taught ourselves modeling/animation, and I got a copy of FutureBASIC

It's just your average fifo system and they have limited capacity

Horde with Threadrippers is a lifesaver

Ayup

This was how I learned about Knightmare. Went down a little YouTube rabbit hole. Holy shit this show was incredible! Super jealous

I really should just bite the bullet and make the switch. 25 years of muscle memory is gunna be hard to overwrite 😭

This is literally my backyard. I'm out of town, but my wife has been out there for hours. Fuck ICE

I'd pay the people that literally create the value of the company so they could create more of it.

Having experienced profit sharing and company stock in my career -- profit sharing wins every time. Happier devs, better games, aligned with publisher goal to /sell videogames/

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What I wouldn't give to hear the backroom calculus in terms of deciding when to trigger this, hedging against the team revolting and putting shipping in danger...

This is why we need a healthier industry that would give the dev team enough power to give Krafton the bird and put their biz in a pinch

My heart goes out to everyone at Unknown Worlds. What a shitty situation

This industry is a really crappy place a lot of the time, but only because the people not actually involved in making games hold all the power