Spellbreak Dev Tracker

No one told me that the most emotionally satisfying thing in my life would be making pancakes in the morning for the kid and watching her double fist and stuff them into her face. Occasionally she offers one mangled carcass up to me and I die.

In a game long ago, @paperraincoat made "Difficulty Potato" as a way for players to select how easy/hard they wanted the game to be.

It's so good even if the sloth is on ogles and not me.

(We also have systems and quest design openings too!)

This team is great and our Boston office is pretty rad too (even if you don't ever have to be there).

I am taking cues from the kid and have favorite utensils for very specific things. I get very sassy if my favorite yogurt-eating spoon or egg-beating fork are not available.

And finally, thank you, co-founders. Joe, @diannuzzelli, @dogles, and @sjsivak. I can’t imagine doing this with anyone else. And if I’m honest, I’d do it again with you in a heartbeat. 10/11

At some point, I’ll do a thread with the history/storytelling of the company filled with goofy anecdotes and pictures, but for now, much like we’ve been doing for the past decade, it’s time to get to work. Thanks again, everyone! 11/11

Thank you, L and J. How you both put up with me and this mad pursuit, I’ll never know, but I love you both to the moon and back. (Also my mother because she wouldn’t let me live it down if I didn’t include her.) 9/11

Thank you, Luck. I’m not so foolish as to think this is all attributable to our hard work and gumption. Serendipitous connections and timing played a non-trivial part in keeping our heads above water. 6/11

Thank you, Friends. For writing what were most assuredly 100% honest reviews of our games when they had none. For letting me scream into virtual pillows and just being there. Extra shout out to the Slack game devs for giving me a second peer group. 7/11

Thank you, Warcraft team. For building a game and team that I’ve been a fan of for nearly two decades (or more if we go back to WC!). Special thanks to @JHight_Gamer, @watcherdev, and @qwik for trusting us to work alongside you and the team. 8/11

Thank you, Investors. @nabeel and @rick in particular for believing in our then zero-experience selves for what seems like forever now. 5/11

Thank you, Players. For the fierce Hug the Sloth leaderboard race. For playing World Zombination and writing hilarious reviews. For keeping me hip with the youths via Streamline/Stream Legends. And for Spellbreak?… Y’all were just the best. 3/11

Thank you, Proletariat team, both past and present. It literally couldn’t have been done without you and working with people I loved is what kept me going. 4/11

In case I get emotional, I won't bury the lede:

@proletariat_inc, the company we started nearly a decade ago, is joining @blizzard_ent to work on the @warcraft team.

To say I’m excited would be an understatement.

Most importantly right now, some thanks are in order: 🧵 1/11

Thank you, Zynga for laying us off and giving us the opportunity and severance to start the company. 2/11

Thanks to the players, friends, and partners we made along the way. <3<3

It was the first big game that I'd worked on that was "ours". Definitely having some feelings today.

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