Dad, Game Dev. Staff Systems Designer on VALORANT at Riot Games. Formerly Destiny 2 Systems, Magic R&D.
What's the biggest case of the domino meme in your life?
At 2 my grandfather pirated Atari 2600 so I had dozens.
My other grandpa owned a bar with arcade/pinball machines.
At 4 I could tell you about different platforms’ expressions of a games systems.
Now I make systems for games.
What's the biggest case of the domino meme in your life?
When I was 23, I moved to Reno to be with a guy I met through World of Warcraft, while there I got an entry level position in the finance industry, worked my way up to Senior Underwriter, now I'm a Consultant for a large retirement firm.
Nine Sols is so freakin' good. It gets what's fun about parry based combat (hyper-readability, forgiving windows, with bonuses the closer to perfection) and makes incredible boss fights and traversal environments as a result.
Legendary campaign done and dusted! The best PvE shooter campaign each year remains the destiny campaign. Great on y'all!
Adding "exploration" to a game is super expensive per the gameplay time it adds. Players with a motivation to explore really mean that they want the ability to find things without what *feels* like handholding NOT be given interesting places to explore.
So glad I didn't try to contest mode this destiny raid. The difficulty spikes seem wiiiild. Shoutouts to everyone still toiling.
So proud of all the teams that came together to get this going. Check it out! beta.playvalorant.com/en-us/
Andrew serkis in the roles he was non to play
Can’t wait to see how they pull off the super weapon that destroys spacetime by firing children at faster than light speeds.
And that’s episode one.
Microprose's Master of Magic
what semi-obscure or lesser known game from your childhood do you still think about but rarely find anyone else to talk about it with and/or even helped inspire you to want to make your own games even though once again basically nobody has any idea what the hell you're talking about here I'll start
Introduction and gameplay for Paganitzu, Dos PC game produced by Apogee in 1991 - http://www.squakenet.com/download/paganitzu/4618/Playing through a few leve...
youtu.beShe’s got Belmont blood in her for sure. Someone needs to put the video to Bloody Tears.
The coffee shop this morning was playing in the fallout new Vegas radio. Happy pride.
My dms so far:
3 crypto scammers
2 porn bots
1 friend pretending to be a porn bot
I've been devouring @zitron.bsky.social's Better Offline podcast and it's the most I've heard anyone covering tech and AI making sense in the past two years. Seriously it's an incredible analysis of how monetary interest is mutilating the truth to fool the markets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
How it started, how it’s going
Took my family to Century city mall for the bluey popup and my boy freaked out when I showed him nakatomi plaza.
A year ago today I started at Riot on VALORANT! The team is great, the leadership has impressed me, and I’m honored to get to help shape the competitive future of such a great game. I’m celebrating by flying right down to LA … and promptly taking my family to Disneyland.
My great grandmother who grew up in rural southern Illinois had a few turns of phrase that I still use daily. May you also enjoy them!
“Still on this side of the dirt” - most literally “lucky to be alive” but in a way that indicates you’re too stubborn to die today.
More in 🧵
whenever i hear other people with a southern drawl i immediately perk up and then turn into Daisy Duke when im talking to them. "so where y'all from??? my daddy's from Miss-sippi!"
I could use some well wishes and good vibes this morning if you have any to spare
hades 2 spoiler free review: the first two things you do are confide in a frog and brood at a picture. 100/10
My hot take is that workers at studios who do make a less successful game shouldn’t have their livelihoods taken from them either.
Reaching stuff on high shelves. Dragging heavy things from place to place. And whatever passed for first aid then.
For the first time in my life I have glasses and y'all it's weird. how do you deal?
I've been using kagi.com for search for a few months and it's incredible. No additional ads or weird sponsored links junking it up and the quality of results is better than I remember google doing.
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
Kagi.comJust the best boss music of all time. open.spotify.com/track/6rgIKC...
My first big VALORANT article is live! The team has done some amazing work and I hope folks like it. playvalorant.com/en-us/news/g...
Need more info on how you can get one step closer to playing in the VCT? You’ve come to the right place.
playvalorant.comMy daily afirmation:
Us the Adeptus Swifticus toil to keep the music streaming. Thus we recite the litany
Spirit of eras
Prime this album release
And curse Joe Alwyn
From the tortured poets department
in many ways, Taylor is fueled by hatred, just like Space Marines
Inside of me there are two wolves. And they're both drinking heavily.
It's weird to get a tattoo of something 15 years ago that's relatively obscure and have it be the most discussed thing in social spaces for a whole week.
I’m On my way to get coffee
a challenge for anyone willing
post a selfie of you right now at this moment. no filter, no edit, just shoot and post.
Fuck it, fine.
a challenge for anyone willing
post a selfie of you right now at this moment. no filter, no edit, just shoot and post.
Hey everyone! The Katamari Damacy soundtrack is now up on all streaming platforms so your day is better. open.spotify.com/album/7KHPyc...
Katamari Damacy Series SOUND TEAM · Album · 2024 · 21 songs.
open.spotify.com