Featured in this video: Blizzard doing exactly the shitty thing that we suspected they were doing, and a Ubisoft developer using an example where they can point to a law on the books to stop their bosses from doing shitty things.
I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce]
Submitted 10 hours ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtHPFvQ1Puw
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Pirate Software is a such a twat.
He keeps saying he worked at Blizzard, which is factually correct, but he was a game tester and not a dev; a position he got because his dad worked there. He keeps using his time at Blizzard as some sort of support for his “authority” on the game industry.
He has had a game in dev for like 8 years and the code is written poorly or heavily relies on AI(exact notation style used by AI), sometimes both. Any criticism of his code is dismissed by saying that it is part of the ARG for the game and intentionally done.
He tried to gaslight his dad about him not calling on his dad’s birthday by saying he did.
He doesn’t support Stop Killing Games from an anti-consumer standpoint.
He does “developer streams” where he puts code on screen and doesn’t actually do any coding(IMO because he can’t actually code with real competence, based on examples of his code).
He should just put the fries in the bag or pivot his meta.
Daggity@lemmy.zip 10 minutes ago
Very reminiscent to grumms.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m kind of done talking about him or thinking about him, honestly. But this video is good for getting an inside look at a decent sample size of developers’ opinions, especially on the technical side.
missingno@fedia.io 7 hours ago
I'm honestly a little bit uncomfortable with how much of the discourse around SKG suddenly became focused on dunking on one person. It's a useless distraction from the cause, there's really no good reason to even be talking about him at all. This kind of 2 minutes hate is just never healthy.
False@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Why does anyone care about him in the first place?