With tons of free time, started to play the alpha of Asheron's Call, an MMO that some friends had worked on for their summer jobs. Played a LOT of it. During a party, my roommate introduced me to his gf who was a programmer on it, and said, "Dude, show her your character!"
1999 - The luckiest and laziest path that should no one should follow:
Graduated with a fancy CS degree but had no desire to go work in big tech, despite the raging startup bubble. Ended up using my previous summers' internship savings to live off of and just play games all day.
It's tough to get a job in the video #Games industry, so how are people doing it? What year did you break in & how did you do it? https://t.co/1vE0LbseHz
Lazy academia retweeting!
If you have contacts in #gamedev academia please feel free to share "the list" with them. The more students that get access to this the better. https://t.co/RVnNeo8ngA
Looks like it's time to make a Winnie the Pooh game now that it's public domain!
Gonna get so damn twee...
Having a baby is freakishly similar to streaming to a small channel: you largely talk to yourself, trying to stay upbeat and positive with little chat interaction, and then every so often, someone screams nonsense and then sh*ts all over you for no reason.
Kind Words is brilliant! A dash of that and a smidge of pretending to be Peter Dinklage and I'm sold.
Hey Kind Words fans! Please consider this little letter writing adventure game we made. https://t.co/WIzd6d0Ja5
Was just looking through my mp3s and apparently my oldest is from '93 and isn't even too embarrassing!
What's in the recesses of your old timer / hoarder mp3 directory?
WORDS WITH ENEMIES
Finally, all those years of hyper-competitive scrabble will pay off
Babble Royale is now live in Early Access! It's a free to play word game + battle royale hybrid made by me and my dad. Come play! https://t.co/pwqSd1hBb1 https://t.co/6MSFYX7MLK
Promotion day is so full of good feels. Congrats to my many deserving co-workers after a(nother) decidedly weird / terrible year!
Do the kids still say "get that bag"? Cause if they do, do that.
This thread is going to fuel me for the next 3 weeks
So, my mom saw these unlicensed D&D advent calendars for sale from a sketchy Facebook ad site in September. Buckle up.🧵
(Un)fortunately for my newborn, the only "love" songs I can sing from memory are from my college years, so she gets lullabies from @TheMagFields, @Built_2_Spill, and @mountain_goats.
There's no chance this backfires on me at some point in the future.
I mean look at this chunky lad
Annual thicc Thanksgiving holiday gobbler to bless your timeline
While changing a diaper, my wife finally exclaimed, "That's a juicy one, Exile!"
We've done it, @pathofexile!
We welcomed Juniper X. into the world last week. We're all home safe and sound (if seemingly constantly tired and/or hungry) but she's perpetually dubious of everything around her.
I enjoy most of @spiderwebsoft's posts but this one rings extra true (albeit a smidge painfully).
Blog post: Six Truths About Video Game Stories! "I'm not a great fantasy writer. If I was, I'd be writing books nobody buys because nobody buys books anymore. Still, as a writer I'm simply competent. Which, by video games standards, makes me awesome." https://t.co/uoIKN73cSD
Gonna enable this in all custom meetings going forward.
Would you like to forfeit this meeting? 4 out of 5 votes needed. (Unlike abandoning you will not be deducted company rating points or be penalized by not being able to queue for another meeting for a while) https://t.co/upF5DQPH8G
I already regret not making a "woke up and chose violence" joke here.
Woke up in the middle of the night and saw a creepy man peeking his head up from beside our bed. I punched him very hard.
Turns out it was the fan on the bedside table and now my hand hurts and I can't stop laughing when I look at the sad fan on the floor.
Teamwork makes the dream work, people!
The real treasure isn't the scroll, it's the friends we make/rescue along the way 😉 https://twitter.com/ImTigzGaming/status/1443594361359450123
When you find a frost gauntlet just in time to save your teammate from getting exiled! Oh and I stopped myself from reading that scroll when the homie says "I'm getting exiled" @PlaySpellbreak #playspellbreak #spellbreak https://t.co/WPgKku7sbC