#developer conferences

[fatehbaz]

weekly navel-gazing update: this week is most consequential event in long time. keyword search: "scared" "is it ok to be scared" "beaten and tortured by the ogre"

[thelettergii]

My black and white outfits for the Game Developers Conference aka GDC 2025! Let me know if you spotted me this year!

What a week it’s been! I’ve made a lot of new friends and finally got to meet internet buddies in person, and got to talk to a lot of people I've admired from afar. So many people complimented Sugarplum Cafe’s art when I showed them, and I even got some people to playtest Sugarplum Cafe, including some of the Among Us devs?? Who recognized me from my high fashion Among Us fanart and said they couldn’t stop playing my game????? Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

[fuckyeahsamlake]

Our Creative Director Sam Lake with his Lifetime Achievement Award from the GDCA.

Sam accepted his award last night from Matthew Porretta, the actor for Alan Wake and long-time collaborator with Remedy. "He creates with a giving spirit, he sees people's greatest potential and he guides them to it with ease and enthusiasm", Matthew said about Sam. (X)

[andypantsx3]

unfortunately my body cannot tell the difference between being held at gunpoint and opening my work computer to log in

[northhopest]

7x13: April Fools

The good, the bad, and the wtf-are-we-doing

Lucy Chen wants to be with Tim Bradford. She knows he wants to be with her. They love each other. They know they’re endgame. But she’s not ready to fully forgive him yet.

I've said this many times before and others are picking up on it now: since the beginning, Lucy has trusted Tim with her body but not with her heart. He’s protected her physically since S1, but he didn’t protect her emotionally. He used to be harsh with her, sometimes even mean, yet even then, he always had her back in a life-or-death situation. That hasn’t changed. So she does what she always does—she finds a way to protect herself. She finds an excuse to be close to him. To sleep with him while also sleeping with him. To be emotionally near him. Because if she didn’t wrap it in a joke? She’d be breaking her own rules. She broke them anyway.

Lucy Chen doesn’t do one night stands. She doesn’t give herself away to just anyone. But she knows this version of Tim is willing to do whatever she wants and needs. She has needs—and he’s ready to help her meet them, she trusts him to help her meet them. No questions asked. 

Cue: the world’s lamest April Fools’ prank.

Cue: A terribly written line. 

“So are you gonna keep talking about April Fools or are you gonna take your pants off?”

Some fans *think* they spent the night having sex and didn’t get any sleep. I don’t think they did. This wasn’t about passion. It was about *intimacy.* Lucy used April Fools as a shield. An excuse to sleep with him while also *sleeping* with him. To be close to the man she loves.

Last time they shared a bed, they woke up on opposite sides. This time? I don’t think that happened. This time was warm. Cuddly. Married. In love. They slept in each other’s arms and woke up that way. You can see it all over her face the next day. She’s glowing. She hasn’t had *that* since the breakup. Sex? Sure. But emotional togetherness? No.

The station makeout wasn’t lusty. It was soft. Sweet. Lovey-dovey. Married. The last time we saw Lucy this happy was in S5. 

BUT.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. 

She’s acting like a guy. He’s acting like a girl. In 7x06 and 7x13, she’s leading with her *body*. He’s the one thinking with his *mind.* That’s a flipped script—but it’s also unhealthy. Lucy needs help processing her emotions. And Tim’s usually the one who helps her through them. But she can’t talk to him. So she processes through her body instead.

It’s messy. It’s out of character. It hurts to watch.

And don’t even get me started on the “prank” part of it all.

Lucy has two roommates. She has girlfriends. She has people. Melissa has *said* she headcanons Lucy as someone with girlfriends, a support system. So why, WHY, is she dragging her relationship into the middle of the station’s gossip mill—a place where she’s already been the punchline several times, where Tim has even set her up as the punchline?

This wasn’t a UC kiss in her apartment or 35,000 feet in the air. This wasn’t a laundry room moment with no one around. This was at the station. On shift. Where at any moment anyone with a key could enter that office. It was unprofessional and *so* OOC for both of them.

You don’t prank your coworkers into thinking you’re screwing your ex. Especially not when you’re trying to rebuild your career, your reputation, your *boundaries.* Especially not when everyone knows what your ex did to you. Especially not when you’re a woman of color in a male-dominated workplace where judgment and scrutiny are already at a 12 and cops gossip like 12 year olds.

And *that’s* what really breaks me.

Lucy Chen is one of the very few fully developed Asian American female characters on network television. That means she carries a representational burden—whether Melissa and writers like it or not. Every choice she makes, every plotline she’s given, isn’t just about *her.* It becomes about how Asian American women are portrayed. She’s a piece of the puzzle that countless actresses of Asian descent before her fought for.

So when she’s written as the girl who throws herself at her hot ex and calls it “a joke”—it doesn’t just cheapen her. It reinforces old, tired tropes. It’s a slap in the face to anyone who thought maybe, just maybe, we were finally seeing something new. Something real. Something different. That maybe, just maybe, we’re making progress.

Lucy lusting after Tim wasn’t merely about "whether the dick is good," as crudely put in viewer discussions. For all we know, the dick could be mediocre. But their emotional connection, being IT for each other, is what makes it good. Why reduce the integrity of her character? 

In isolation, hooking up at his house is awful but not the worst thing that could happen. But when she enforces herself as the butt of a joke to the entire station; when she wears a low-cut, heart-shaped, completely unprofessional two piece to work; when Lucy (Melissa) fixes her uniform outside in the hallway, making it clear that she was hooking up; it’s fair to interrogate why everyone involved in Lucy Chen from the writers to wardrobe to the actress undermined her emotional growth, character integrity, and responsible representation.

Because there are so few Asian American women main characters on network TV, Lucy’s character carries an outsized weight in terms of representation. Every choice made—whether it’s about her romantic relationships, her career arc, or how she’s treated by other characters—feels amplified because there aren't enough other portrayals to balance it out.

Let Lucy be messy. Let her be confused. Let her *feel.* But don’t reduce her to a punchline.   And don’t make her the damn architect of her own punchline either (again. See 7x02: food truck scene).

Chenford deserves more.   Lucy Chen deserves better.   We all do.

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[mylove-thresher]

piss coloured piss baby

[lunasdestiny]

Sorry for the inactivity! Been busy with GDC stuff. So far I am having an amazing time! Met so many amazing people in the gaming industry and connected with them.

Also this happened

But yeah I'm just focusing on networking and taking advantage of this opportunity!

[operationrainfall]

GDC 2025 IMPRESSIONS: The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

Publisher(s): XSEED Games; Aniplex Platform(s): PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch Release Date: April 24, 2025 Website The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-, the first completely original in-house game by Too Kyo Games, is a scenario brainchild of Kazutaka Kodaka (Danganronpa series scenario writer) and Kotaro Uchikoshi (scenario writer for Zero Escape series, including for Zero Time Dilemma). Set…

[thebirdandhersong]

house on fire :)

[trivalentlinks]

Let F be a Floer homology theory. For the purposes of this talk, you can assume it's any Floer homology theory you like, and if you don't like any Floer homology theory, then pretend you do like one and assume it's that one

-- a conference speaker

[katiajewelbox]

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[fuckyeahsamlake]

[wormdramafever]

KO_OP's studio director Saleem Dabbous recently shared his presentation about game making cooperatives for the Game Developers Conference (GDC).

Here's my GDC presentation on how @KOOPMode is structured and operated as a ~20 person cooperative! Please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions [x]

if you check this out and think "wow that seems insanely risky fuck that" let me introduce you to every company ever. nothing about the coop structure is more risky than a normal company but a lot of it is more equitable. [x]

coops don't inherently solve any of the risk or privilege required to survive in capitalism. They are another tool to empower workers to own their labour and be more directly in control of their work and to share in the profits of that✌️ [x]

[kamalkafir-blog]

Pope Leo 'concerned' about AI's impact on children

(The Hill) — Pope Leo XIV sounded the alarm this week over artificial intelligence (AI)’s potential impact on young people’s intellectual and neurological development, building upon one of the main focuses of his papacy. The first American pope delivered the message to an annual conference on AI and ethics, part of which took place in the Vatican this week. “All of us, I am sure, are concerned…

[casbitchh]

i emailed my boss saying he needs to talk to the people developing a satellite i’m working on (unpaid) bc they’re giving me too much work and it’s unsustainable please clap