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Samuel Molina

@fukuy.bsky.social

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🎮 100% geek ♥ videogames 🚀 Senior Game Mission Designer 📢 I used to be on YouTube, Twitch and podcasts 👄 Spanish and English posts 📌 https://www.samuelmolina.site/

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Jan 21

Estoy súper contento de como me quedó este taller. Es una charla de una hora sobre dónde buscar trabajo de desarrollo de videojuegos, com afrontar las entrevistas y tests y cómo preparar un buen CV y portfolio. #GameDev
Si quieres trabajar en videojuegos échale un vistazo:

youtu.be/SPoQrH9Jh0o?...

BIG 2024: Cómo entrar en la industria del videojuego

YouTube video by BIG Conference

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

A better world is possible

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 7d

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · 7d

So "the biggest release we’ve had in our 32-year long history of making great games" is not enough to keep the people who helped building such a success???! This is fucking crazy.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 7d

Funcom, the Oslo-based studio behind the recently released Dune: Awakening, has announced it will be laying off staff.

www.gamesindustry.biz/dune-awakeni...

Dune: Awakening developer Funcom announces redundancies

The Tencent-owned studio says it needs to "restructure our teams and focus our resources"

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · 8d

Ambas opciones me parecen interesantes ;)

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · 8d

Estoy en el Meet to Match de @bcngamefest.bsky.social. No dudéis en pedirme una reunión si:

- Queréis tips para vuestro CV/resume.
- Necesitáis ayuda en vuestro proyecto sobre: Game Design, Narrative Design, producción o pitching.

Nos vemos en menos de 10 días!! #gamedev

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19d

"If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it. Their goal is to instill fear, to make you feel helpless, hopeless, to break you down. Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written — the pen is in your hand."

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · Sep 6

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Sep 3

Si te sirve para tener algo de contexto, la última vez que busqué curro de forma activa (2020) apliqué a 32 ofertas en 5 meses, tuve 6 entrevistas, hice tres prueba técnicas y conseguí dos ofertas.
Lo de hacer un seguimiento, aunque sea duro, a mí me parece útil y necesario.

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Aug 25

La gente como loca esperando el 4 de Septiembre para darle a Sliksong mientras yo ardo en deseos de pillar ese día el DLC del Indiana Jones, 'The Order of Giants'.

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using AI for concept art is like: “I want to come up with something no-one has ever seen before, so I’m going to use this machine that can only regurgitate existing stuff after blending it into a lumpy paste.”

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Aug 23

The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Aug 17

It's finally here!! #StarCitizen Patch 4.3.

I worked on investigation missions—my favorite type of gameplay—and thanks to the incredible work from my team mates the atmosphere of these new locations is absolutely spot on.

I hope you enjoy it!

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

Star Citizen | Alpha 4.3 – Dark Territory

YouTube video by Star Citizen

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Esto de hacer tops me parece super difícil, pero bueno, ahí va: "25 videojuegos para conocerme mejor"

Juegos que dejaron un gran impacto en mí y que definen bastante bien mis gustos.

Half-Life 2
Half-Life: Alyx
Team Fortress 2
Portal 2
Shadow of the Colossus
Super Mario World
Journey
Tunic
Inside
A Short Hike
Mass Effect 2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Dragon Age: Origins
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Last of Us
Red Dead Redemption 2
Dishonored
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Psychonauts 2
Tomb Raider
Beyond Good & Evil
The Secret of Monkey Island
The Dig
Day of the Tentacle Remastered

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Based Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic.bsky.social · Aug 3

nintendo graphic that reads:

Mario is Tolerant

"He'll accept anyone or anything at face value. He treats anyone and anything with dignity and respsect. He has seen too many things in his travels to be narrow-minded."

Official Nintendo Character Manual (1993)

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · Jul 27

This is literally what people do when they're not left scrambling for survival every hour of every day. They build communities, create things, contribute. Wikipedia isn't an anomaly, it is a distillation of human nature itself

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Jul 26

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Jul 26

Congrats!!!!

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Jul 25

Con el panorama actual de la industria me alegro muchísimo de que tengáis noticias buenas por ahí. Ole, ole, oleee!!!! 😍

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · Jul 22

I always love when these say “no impact on game xyz.”

Uh huh. Reality:

1. Employees are harder to retain
2. New hires are harder to find (especially good ones)
3. Morale craters for god knows how long
4. Endless layoff gossip in the future

Tell me again how that doesn’t impact development.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Jul 22

Supermassive Games lays off 36 staff.

Directive 8020 delayed to first half of 2026 (was scheduled for Oct 2nd).

No impact on development of Little Nightmares III

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Jul 18

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METR @metr.org · Jul 10

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Toby Venables @tobyvenables.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 8

This is exactly what the internet is for.

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Samuel Molina @fukuy.bsky.social · Jul 10

I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know we had this emotes in the game... 😲

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The Hidden ASL Animations in Star Citizen

YouTube video by MrKraken

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · Jul 7

HEY SEVERAL PUBLISHERS, PICK UP ROMERO GAMES' PROJECT AND THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WILL LIKE YOU. MAYBE SOME YOUTUBER WILL MAKE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HOW YOU SAVED ONE OF HIS FAVORITE STUDIOS. JUST SAYING.

Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · Jul 7

Update (July 7, 2025)

We want to address recent reports regarding the status of Romero Games. These reports have contained inaccuracies, and we feel it's important to set the record straight.
• The funding for our project was pulled, and our game was canceled.
• Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information.
• As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio.
• Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team.
• We've been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we're currently evaluating those opportunities.
We appreciate the outpouring of support and will share further updates as we are able.
Romero Games

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 6

Just absolutely staggering. If even Brenda and John aren't safe from this brutal capitalist recklessness, nobody is.

www.thejournal.ie/100-staff-la...

Over 100 staff laid off as Galway-based Romero Games shuts down after funding cut

The sudden announcement was made after funding was pulled from a major developer, understood to be Microsoft.

www.thejournal.ie

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