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Matt Lowe

@antipop.bsky.social

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Design Director on THE FINALS at Embark Studios. Worked on ETQW, Brink, Dirty Bomb. MP gaming nut, sports fan, politics mumbler etc.

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Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 6d

I'm still not sure we're a mature industry 50+ years on from Pong, which leads to an awful lot of pain for a lot of people.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 6d

...know what it's doing or why, when to pivot, how to pivot etc. Even many of the more consistent performers do so from a position as the incumbent super-hubs in the system, able to brute-force their way into maintaining their position, but always prone to the next big transition.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 6d

As another round of industry layoffs seems to be rolling, I feel like I need to say out loud that I don't think most people get just how much of the industry's 'strategic and leadership' layer is a mix of self-confident Nostradami and snake oil salesmen.

Much of the industry doesn't really...

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THE FINALS @the-finals.bsky.social · 6d

Update 8.3.0 Full Breakdown
#TheFinals #ReachTheFinals

www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/830

Update 8.3.0 — THE FINALS

www.reachthefinals.com

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Midas de Laat @leveldesign.bsky.social · 6d

So glad we are kicking these off - and would you believe it: our #leveldesign blog actually has before-and-after sliders! We're in the big leagues now. 🥳

#THEFINALS #Iteration #blocktober #gamedev

www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/a...

Arena Updates: A Deep Dive! — THE FINALS

www.reachthefinals.com

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 17d

My local Coop definitely does not have enough customers to justify this

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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THE FINALS @the-finals.bsky.social · 18d

GRAND MAJOR 2025 | CLOSED QUALIFIERS | EMEA
www.youtube.com/live/4W4DOql...

The Grand Major 2025 | EMEA Closed Qualifier | THE FINALS

YouTube video by THE FINALS

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Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 26d

I can also highly recommend recording and storing every playtest you ever do on a project, it’s invaluable for creating content like this.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 26d

The video also shows the most unhinged design document I’ve ever made, an ‘interaction matrix’ spreadsheet we used to figure out where some of the highest value dynamism might be found to help guide our early efforts. That thing genuinely took me like a week and a half to build, never again! :D

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 26d

In this dev video our Creative Director, Gustav Tilleby, talks through that philosophy and process, and what it means for the game that is THE FINALS today. It’s well worth taking a look if you’re interested in dev/design processes.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 26d

To really ensure we stuck with that vision, focused on it and delivered on it we built our own design philosophy for the game which we called ‘dynamism’.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 26d

That created a lot of unique design and technical challenges that we simply would have said ‘no’ to on previous projects, because of the level of risk.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 26d

I've been making FPS games for over 20 years now, but when we started making THE FINALS the ambition was to do a very different type of multiplayer FPS, one that broke new ground and created new types of gameplay.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · 26d

We're releasing a dev vlog today introducing our fans to 'dynamism', the design philosophy that drove the making of THE FINALS. We hope it gives those interested some insight into what it takes to make an crazy multiplayer sandbox FPS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUy...

MAKING THE FINALS | Creating a Dynamism Shooter

YouTube video by THE FINALS

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Ember @ember-energy.org · Aug 29

Wind and solar are the perfect renewable power pairing in Britain💨 ☀️

98% of the time, it is either windy or sunny. Particularly windy days are often cloudier, while very sunny days are usually calmer.

A match made in… Britain! 🤝

https://loom.ly/-pzxBgQ

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Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · Aug 28

Don’t really appreciate your tone

We can’t all be Soviet Union jeopardy champions.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great watch. Worth it for the Nando's story alone! 🤣

/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️

In the first of our 3 videos on MachineGames we explore the critical pre-history of the studio.

How Starbreeze designed The Chronicles of Riddick, The Darkness & Envlave. The trouble with Syndicate. And how id Software & Bethesda saved the team.

WATCH HERE: youtu.be/SAEdFG7_X_w

The Origins of Machine Games (Riddick, The Darkness) - Noclip Documentary

YouTube video by /noclip

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oh fuck off Tony www.bbc.com/news/article...

Blair joins White House meeting with Trump on post-war Gaza

The talks come as Israel prepares to seize Gaza City as a step towards full control of the territory.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · Aug 26

Proportional representation and a more balanced press, as much as Europe has, forces you to collaborate, to negotiate, to find a middle way, because you will not progress without it. Leadership then actually represents a society.

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · Aug 26

...and 'what first past the post' does to your psyche. There's no concept of negotiation, no concept of concessions, no concept of collaboration, no concept of working together. People split into tribes built on shallow principles and they stay there. Now there really is "no such thing as society".

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · Aug 26

As a Brit living in Sweden, everything about British politics and society just feels incredibly surface level at this point. It's about symptoms not problems, it's about optics not substance, it's about now not later, it's about me not us. I think it's a mindset created by sensationalist press....

Matt Lowe @antipop.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks Colin. It's 00:30 here and now I REEEAALLLYYY want pizza! :D Looks so good!

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Aug 23

The laziness and implied bias of the BBC here is extreme - "No 10 did not comment" presumably because the CPS and courts are independent, but there's no attempt to find anyone who would argue the opposite view, just the unchallenged whine of someone who called for asylum seekers to be burnt to death

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 23

what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lucy Connolly says she was political prisoner over Southport post

She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 15

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s