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A rotating Ascension 10 five streak in Slay the Spire 2 is probably one of my biggest gaming achievements

Extremely excited to share a massive piece I worked very hard on. I talked to FFXIV’s Naoki Yoshida, Warframe’s Rebecca Ford, and ESO’s Nick Giacomini anout what the future of MMORPGs looks like - and how the live service scene has altered that, if at all www.gamesradar.com/games/mmo/ho...

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This actually came up in several interviews, I just didn't hammer it in depth in this more quote/perspective-focused article because I did in the previous article and didn't them want to repeat too much, ha. Power, water, etc, very much in the conversation

What if I told you that all of the Publishing Agreements I have reviewed in the last 6 months (several dozen) included a no gen AI provision, wherein the use of gen AI in development is a material breach, but companies like Epic and EA are still trying to convince us the industry is cool with it

Don't talk to me or my son ever again

This one's still the kicker for me Unreal Nanite? AnimBP? PCG? ControlRig? StateTree? Incredible tech, saved me so much time, I miss it a ton using Godot. Epic sucks! Massively? And I'm still saying this! If GenAI were truly a time savings? You'd have to beat indies off with a stick. And yet,

i said some words in this one too, and they mostly boil down to “genAI and the losers who use it fucking suck”

I got asked about AI in games again! I think we underestimate how, while AI use is more rampant in the East than the West, our protections against it here are dramatically worse.

And yet, for all the figures making that case, literally everyone I spoke to during this reporting had huge, often deal-breaking misgivings about the proposed uses of gen AI in game dev. So it's not meant as some gotcha, but rather a way to counter the incredulous view of, why don't you like this?

We actually softened this phrasing in editing specifically to avoid presenting "AI is good" as a common/default position, but kept the broader angle to directly confront the argument that is being pitched (per first graf) by proponents, which is: gen AI is a good thing for game developers.

Reading (and writing) recent headlines re: layoffs, I want to spotlight this quote from Iconoclasts maker Joakim Sandberg @konjak.org , who, in his argument on the dangers of gen AI, also highlights a recurring, destructive mindset among the people overseeing the people who actually make games.

What do you fucking mean they embroidered all the sprites

Idk who needs to hear this but seriously just take the headache medicine there's no valor in pain

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*