Balthazar Auger @baltauger@mastodon.gamedev.place
French game designer from Buenos Aires. I blog at http://balthazar.com.ar and am working on http://timewatchgame.com
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1) You're having design problems due to a solution based upon a compromise
2) You organise a design meeting to resolve the compromise and find a better solution
3) You now have a new solution compromising with the previous compromise
4) goto 1
So when I said I was going to make medals for my team as extra spice for our internal playtests I WAS NOT KIDDING FOLKS!
Balsa (❤️ ) prototype, varnish coat then silicone moulding. Then will come resin casts and final build!
if you use #UnrealEngine #UE4 and are on the code side, you should almost definitely have read this! A lot of the why, how and where, all turned inside out.
https://www.blaenkdenum.com/notes/unreal-engine/
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I am really (not really) fighting an urge to craft custom medals for our next office TimeWatch tournament. Now where's my foamcore board at
I managed to have a superfluous & awkward "Gender" field removed from a gaming habits survey and you should too.
I'm back from #GDC and I don't have the plague! Yay!!!
When you work in a budding game studio in a non english-native country and have the temerity of delegating a seemingly simple task, this kind of stuff happens.
(Feel free to "Sing up" btw, you won't find this pic outside of mastodon and I promise the game is not complete shite.)
Don't shake hands with me if you meet me
I'm happy to announce that I'll be able to add my strain of disease to the all-consuming GDC plague!
Ah, the lovely moment of the year when allergies and influenza combine their powers to make the studio floor resembles a plague ship.
My first Mastodon account was hosted on a french instance which was slowly colonized by Argentinian teenagers tooting public nudes to each other.
How was yours?
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TFW you ask your concept artist to use actual female athletes from the last olympics instead of slutty strippers as reference for "female athlete of the future" and it totally rules https://mastodon.gamedev.place/media/sCmRAMZLhF_aLgUXdYs
Our studio has hired a mathematician to give developers a short refresher course on Quaternions, how cool is that!
There are 16 meetings on your agenda for the week.
You believe that some of those meetings are superfluous and could be replaced with a better process, so you talk to your boss about it.
There are now 18 meetings on your agenda for the week.
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if you have a personal web log, please reply with the url!
an attempt to collect everyone’s blogs - so as to not let precious non-commercial content go unread and unnoticed - is likely the only time i’ll ever ask:
please boost this toot.
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