Rik Godwin

A lovely glass of rum

Rum bar, rum bar

Friday at last…

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

In "Game Settings" you solve puzzles by manipulating the settings, unlocking new pieces of the story as you progress.
#TeaseYaGame

QRT with your vehicle, pet and soundtrack of choice for the post apocalypse.

FUCK Mass Effect gdi I knew I was forgetting something.

Yeah, it's a fun little thought exercise but no way I can narrow any choice of games down to 9 entries

Like, minimum 3 of these are purely driven by nostalgia:

Chatting TIE fighter at high school behind the sports hall

A summer spent on the Guernica getting Cloud and co. to lvl 99

Pausing in the ocean and realising Bioshock's intro was over and I had control

VIDEOGAMES

my9games matrix FFVII Witcher 3 Red Alert 2 TIE Fighter Destiny 2 SOMA Bloodborne Breath of the Wild BioShock

An impossible task.

An imperfect response.

Just watch Farscape man

fuck those guys

One of the cast is a MAGA arsehole who helped kickstart GamerGate.

The creator is a sex pest whose body of work continues to age increasingly poorly.

The South Will Rise Again aesthetic was borderline even back then.

They killed the best characters off in the movie.

Some things should stay dead.

my well-meaning non-gamedev friends have finally stopped recommending the gamedev novel that heavily plagiarizes an existing, real-world game

the novel is now being made into a movie

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

All this while participating in a torrid love affair with a married Dutch bisexual.

2013 was a hell of a year.

I worked at a Bolivian animal sanctuary caring for a jaguar and pack of howler monkeys.

It's a genre predicated on:

A) Gambling. Pick what loot you're willing to risk. Bet that your skills boosted by better gear give you the chance to extract with even better stuff or lose it all.

B) Griefing. Everyone's in it for themselves. Make others have a bad day lest you have a bad day.

Selfie. Blonde white woman in a black Jessica Fletcher graphic sweatshirt and gold chain link earrings smiles in a wood paneled hallway

When you discover the same woman who screwed you out of twenty grand did the exact same shit to several other people a few years ago so you decide to pivot from being resigned to destroying her life

OG Cloud saying “What a week, huh?” And Aeris replying “Cloud, it’s Wednesday” while sitting on top of the slide at the playground.

(Just bought the fancy hardback version because I am a sucker for fancy hardback version)

@iamleyeti.bsky.social is in this, as well as a wealth of other amazing narrative voices.

Check that shit out!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I had somehow forgotten this (I remember you said you were ALMOST in a photo I posted of Carnevale last year!).

WELL. We should remedy that!

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis my brain: not u though me: not me though

Transformation SCIC : début de l'aventure Et bienvenue à bord !

Le dev français Damien Mayance (Steredenn, Flipon, CTHULOOT) transforme sa société en éditeur coopératif qui invitera studios, investisseurs et devs à prendre des parts, le tout au format SCIC.

Excusez le lien Substack : c'est a priori temporaire.

tygames.substack.com/p/transforma...

Hellloo I'm about to ~announce~ my side project and I'm looking for journos and press interested in cozy horror/fake OS/visual novel/set in the 90s style games. If that's you hmu! Or if you know of folks pls lemme know!

I'm building my own list but I'm bound to miss the perfect person.

Oooo hell I miss Lyon in the sun. Profitez bien!

Happy sunny birthday!

For reals?! Since they introduced Aggression based matchmaking I've found shoot-on-sight encounters to be super rare.

But I guess that's the point: there's the space in that game for both. Marathon, less so.