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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 6d

every expedition 33 journal is like “sadly, our attempts at kitesurfing into the final boss failed” “we tried dabbing on the nevrons and we’re completely out of ideas” “will we ever be free of this tyranny”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 8d

it's normal to walk around with the fiscal quarter end dates burned into your brain so that you know exactly which weeks to be most anxious about bad industry news, right

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 12d

the marshmallow test for game developers, except every day you come into work there's a big button saying JUST ADD A HOOKSHOT TO THE GAME and you have to exert every single ounce of free will to stop yourself from pushing it

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 17d

i relate hard to your pain i’m so sorry

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 18d

i just think if you’re hot, you shouldn’t have to learn how to parry

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 19d

(holding up tablet) and here you can see the oldest known human writing, it's about one hundred billion years old. it's a message written by a designer to their engineer, begging the engineer to build them something and explaining "it'll be simple"

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 20d

you: what are we having for dinner
game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here.
you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague
game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Sep 7

every JRPG for some reason: …and that’s why on the 17th of the coldest month, all our children must be frozen to death and fed to demons, begging for their lives

JRPG: anyway, here’s a minigame where you can teach a dog how to runway model while some bubbly EDM track plays in the background

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Sep 3

nobody talks about how hard it is to ask your new friend to deliver a message across town and then finish with a mandatory combat encounter when everything goes south afterwards 💔 normalize this!!

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Sep 3

i have a lot of issues trusting folks and being vulnerable with them. i realized recently-- it's because i frankly do not ask them to go on enough quests for me. i need them to go find a gas canister and some food to prove i can trust them. or go kill my rivals' leader in that base over there

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Sep 3

wow i've never had a software feature deliver me so much acute anxiety in such a short period of time

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 31

used to do duolingo for French until I started Expedition 33. now armed with my new arsenal of curse words, i’m well equipped for the Parisian vacation of my dreams

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 29

sometimes i wonder why i don’t have energy for a DnD campaign right now. then i have nights like tonight where i, a foreign queen hosting a banquet, must convince the “flower princess” (my 3yo) that she should eat protein. this is of course so she can prepare for the coming flower war

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 27

every dev team has 1 guy who looks like he would probably stab and/or fistfight you if you met him in a dark alley, but then during some meeting he'll be like "sorry brb, one of my 23 cats knocked over my bonsai collection and it fell into the artisanal tea jar"

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · Aug 26

Travis Kelce originally planned to propose next week, but moved it forward to avoid the Silksong release window.

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 26

her WHAT

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 25

pov: you are on your deathbed. you've lived a good long life. no regrets. your family and friends have all come to pay their respects. they've left now and things are quiet and calm. tim sweeney is also there for some reason. he has something to say to you. he whispers: navmesh needs to be rebuilt

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · Aug 23

Suicide prevention is a very important cause to me, so this year marks the 2nd annual Gamedevs for Suicide Prevention team at the LA (Santa Monica) Out of the Darkness Walk!

If you're in SoCal, come walk with us! Or you can donate to our team.

afspwalks.donordrive.com/team/371158

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 23

“name a better couple than harry and megan” ok what about “player kit designer who wants to build a mantling/climbing system that expects everything to be at right angles, and level artist who wants to build spaces with lots of little curves and bumps and sloped bits”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 19

it depends, but broadly speaking, me like buttons

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 19

"well you're inherently limited by the number of buttons if you're designing for console, so--" wrong

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 19

there are really only two kinds of game designers, philosophically speaking.

- let's try to put this functionality on an existing button

- let's just add another button

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 18

we just posted a role for a Sr. AI Engineer- come work with me, and check out our other jobs too!!

I have to specify this is like "make horses play with beach balls"* AI, not like chatGPT AI.

*there are no horses playing with beach balls in this game. yet

job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteract...

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · Aug 15

fooled em with the tired mom vibe

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