Spellbreak Dev Tracker

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.

A message from @sjsivak :

Breakers, an update on the future of Spellbreak:

This morning I went to the doctor to have them check out my knee because it's been acting up. After x-rays and an exam, he said, "Well, there's nothing acutely wrong with your knee. You're... just getting old."

🪦🪦🪦🪦

"Yeah - I just want to see how you approach this..."

We then went through red/black trees, hash map collision, and big O. I was SO CONFUSED but really glad I that sweet, sweet undergrad CS degree to help me fake my way through it.

You know, to design games. (2/2)

Hilariously, at one Big Game Company, I was interviewing as a game designer and one of the people interviewing me was a coder, and started off by asking me about graph traversal, and I had to stop him and be like, "Hey, so you know I'm a designer, right?" (1/2)