Kjartan @ GDC | Causeway Studios

Morning of the first day! May your GDC start with friends, learnings, success, and new beginnings!

See you around the show!

Back in my halo days I was an unarmored tank. Run in grenades blazing and take out as many people as I can before I die. Life was good.

Class select from Quest for Glory III featuring Fighter, Magic User, and Thief.

Another week in the books, and another #QuestionsWithCauseway. This week, we want you to get to know our team through how they play with others. So we're asking... What role do you usually play when you're on a team? Tank, DPS, Support, Lone Wolf, or something else?

My specific role depends on the type of game (EQOA I was a tank, Halo I played objective and support) but it really comes back to whichever role lets my teammates shine brightest.

I'll take the hits so you can do damage, or I'll handle the flag while you clear the way.

We need more mundane everytown, USA. More midwest, heartland, and southern. More backwoods americana and alpine deserts.

Also, more not-US.

Ooh, Bastion is one that’s up there for me too!! I think I got lucky playing it on controller to begin with, because I think m&k would have had me feeling similarly to you.

This is Dreamfall: Chapters from @redthreadgames.bsky.social for me, so much that it was once an answer to last week's question too. I backed it on Kickstarter and wanted so much to love it, but I think it released at a time when I wasn't in the right place for it.

A couple years later though... 💚

I get it. You want to crack the “next big thing” in gaming technology, because that will make you money.

Pro tip: Just find talented people and let them make games. Big games, little games, weird games, safe games. Let people cook.

BG 3 is another one on this list for me too!

Stoked for this!

Here's what TikTok has been doing to our work & art without our consent.

I have tried so many times to start Control.

It has so many things I love: the super weird and atmospheric vibes, the brutalist architecture, the Remedy flair. I haven't even got into any difficult fights or anything.

Control: Resonant looks incredible though, maybe that reveal can be the spark?

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In this week's #QuestionsWithCauseway, we're digging deep into our souls. There are games we've wanted to love. We've tried again and again to sink into them, but something just isn't clicking...

So... what game have you tried to get into but just haven't been able to make stick?

All of the various reports about how people are spending playtime are concerning, from Roblox to forever games like Fortnite, but I also still see massively successful new games every year.

My take: it's a matter of carving out a place, building an audience, and shipping games that resonate.

I would be more interested to see a comparison of how many players each platform sees on a weekly or monthly basis (which I haven't found yet in the report, but please tell me if it's there!).

This is wild, frustrating, and terrifying, but it's also measuring time instead of people.

Roblox is directly targeted at the part of the population that has the most free time, who had to move their socialization full-time into digital space due to lockdowns, and it's designed to hoard their time.

We could finish all three acts of our current production on $30k and get a leg up on pre-production for the plotted sequel.

I'm so tired of this rot.

bsky.app/profile/lerr...

This is deeply silly in some ways: I'm weirdly good at mental arithmetic.

In high school, I entered a financial maths competition and advanced to state (where I made the top ten), but the eye-opening "oh no" moment was when I walked into the state round and everyone else had calculators...

Oh hell yes!

Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.

That meme is *choice* 🤣

Mass Effect. The whole trilogy (yes they all count as one game). I’ve given up telling myself I’ll make different choices. I always fall into roughly the same rut, but dammit if it ain’t fun. I love this world and its characters (Citadel DLC, laughter and tears). What a ride. #QuestionsWithCauseway

I have a couple of answers for this. If I want something where I'm able to just dip in, play a little, and bounce out, I'm loading up Spin Rhythm XD. It's one of the most tactile rhythm games I've played.

But I always rep my 80s roots... so Ghostbusters: The Video Game is always installed.

Yes, this is a picture of Sneak King for the Xbox 360. Don't judge us.

It's Friday. It's been a long week. We know you're tired.

Buuuuut... it's time to wake up for #QuestionsWithCauseway!

This week, we're asking you to join us in answering...

"What is your guilty pleasure game? You know.. the one you keep coming back to when you can't figure out what to play."

My guilty pleasure game is for when my brain just can't anymore, so Diablo 4 is the simple monster-killing, number-go-up, dopamine slot machine for me (although the Baby Trading Simulator might supplant it... we'll have to see).

I don't even try to buildcraft, just go with the meta each season.

I know it’s annoying that I constantly ask people to sub, but subbing makes a huge difference. @aftermath.site has around 5,000 paying subs right now; most of us still work other jobs on the side. we have over 90k bluesky followers. if a fraction subscribed, it would literally change our lives

RE that RT.. it’s wild how steam reviews are still so damn important to getting visibility. If you play and like indie games, the most generous and helpful thing you can do is spend an hour popping positive reviews onto anything you like with <500 or so reviews.