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Robin-Yann Storm

@rystorm.com

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Product & UX Designer for Tools, Freelance Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/ Previously Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC. Gets really excited about workflows.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · Aug 31

New video! Old news, new package: AI, Procedural Generation, UGC, in-game trading, Blockchain, and the Metaverse

Why are game developers so adverse to these technologies? The best way to find out is by asking folks who have lived through the history of game development.

youtu.be/CeZ_rcDQg6Q

Old news, new package: AI, Procedural Generation, UGC, ingame trading, Blockchain, and the Metaverse

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1h

Yeah if you know the bait, it's no longer bait

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 4h

Hell yeah, see you there!

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 4h

Stock photo yes, but I don't think folks know these are stock photos of all the same guy every time

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 4h

Let's! I am arriving the 22nd! Flying out again early morning 27th

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 5h

Happy birthday!

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 5h

It's the equivalent of this

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 5h

Whenever you see this guy in the photo of a financial news article, you need to understand you are being clickbaited.

He is called Peter Tuchman, and he's literally famous for being what you would call the 'YouTube Thumbnail' of stockmarket news.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 5h

2. A talk: Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game.

Hardly anyone reads Confluence or wikis, and information gets lost internally all over. In what level was that NPC, how far can a player jump, what was that animation called?
We can solve it, with gyms, zoos, and museums!

Everyone always mentions that people do not read documentation. This is also the case for us as game developers. So what can we do about that? First, it is important not to force everyone to read pages and pages of documentation. Usually, only programmers and other technical folks go through all the effort of reading up on functionality. So what about artists, and designers? Thankfully, solutions already exist: Gyms, Zoos, and Museums. Let’s look at these examples, see how they work, how they can be built, and how they improve the development of your games.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 5h

I will be speaking at GIC in Poznan, 2 weeks from now! There will be two sessions hosted by me:

1. The Tool Design Roundtable, in which we will discuss about what kind of workflows fit your users, how to gather feedback, what UI practices work best, and how to design a good pipeline.

We will discuss and share experiences on Tool UX Design & Production. This is a fairly new topic that every studio has to deal with, but is talked about relatively little. These roundtables will give you the time and place to discuss how the handle feature requests, UX & UI improvements, and tool production for each of our own internal tool needs. Example questions are: 1. What communication channels do you use to inform users about new tool features? 2. How to iterate, and avoid the vocal minority? 3. How do you slow down, so you aren't just a huge feature train for your tools all the time?

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 8h

Which felt extra bad because the crew on KLM flights is great in 90% of flights.

I would say that any upsell feels weird, but I reasonably think I am not always able to spot an upsell. I guess when something doesn't feel like an upsell, it's way less bad. But, I have so little marketing experience!

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 8h

I just remembered I haven't seen a 'duty free' inflight sales brochure or cart on KLM flights for like... 10 years?

I'm glad, because it always felt weird. You couldn't even check the internet to see if the prices were fair, and the 'pushyness' of it always made everyone ignore the crew during it.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 8h

"What if Call of Duty, but as a procedural drama TV show?" is pretty brilliant ngl

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Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 14h

What UVing in a good level editor tool is like:
Select a face and Alt + RMB on hovered faces to flow it to that face.
I can also flow it from the hovered face to the selected faces with Shift + Alt + RMB (coming in Scythe 0.7).

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 12h

You will not remember that piece of dirty clothing until you have already started the washing machine. Somehow, humans can't see issues until something has started, so account for that in your tools.

So always make sure a user can undo an action, like Gmail does with email send timers.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 19h

The official Deadlock discord, in which Yoshi, also with an avatar, does all the update/patch announcements

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

I will never escape this.

…but you released lordbound. So maybe, someday, I will too.

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

BF6 level editing on an iPad. lol. I didn't see that one coming

Foad Afshari @foadafshari.bsky.social · 1d

There is a ton of things going on but as a distraction, I figured I would try this. Battlefield 6 drops tomorrow and with it the new Portal. I downloaded the SDK and loaded it up into Xodot and I gotta admit, it’s crazy that you can do this on an iPad Pro. cc: @migueldeicaza.bsky.social

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

...yet we are seeing more and more things measured, exactly because they are intended as targets.

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 1d

when I worked at Frye's, their metrics were based on how many Norton subs they sold. to the point they had us essentially giving them away. conning customers into adding Norton they didn't want to purchases that made us no money

anyway, time is a flat circle

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Hey it's the famous Yoshi, known for all the Discord notifications!

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

People keep asking me about the hardware I use for my video calls, as the quality is really high. So, here's a list of my hardware and recommendations: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Below is an example of the video quality & blur from an old video I made that shows the autofocus speed.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Please follow this account for the incredible tools, and also the consistent masterclass in video sharing.

No text. No long explanations. No talking head about the 'intention' of the design.

Just very quick features, showcased clearly, and you understand it all in less than 30 seconds.

Canvas of Kings @mightofmerchants.bsky.social · 1d

Procedural generation. Road with buildings. #dnd

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Companies start to flounder when all they do is put the same information in different boxes, trying their hardest to survive by having Directors pushing the same idea in different ways.

Instead, you have to think of different ways to achieve the desired result. Which feels close, but is different.

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Businesses just love to put the same information in different boxes.

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Businesses just love to put the same information in different boxes.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

And yet when folks are applying for jobs, it's the exact same problems with CVs and formatting the same information in a a hundred different bespoke HR application boxes

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Principal Poaster, top of the CV

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