Barrett Womack @thederrit.bsky.social

I like games! Writing about games, writing *for* games, production, development, all that stuff.

Current: SUMMONER
Prev: Heathstone, Diablo, Teamfight Tactics, fortyseven, Red Bull Esports

Every year, I start anticipating @danfloydplus.bsky.social's Best Game Animation videos in November. And every year, I'm still surprised and delighted by the absolute gems he finds to showcase.

Dan's knowledge, enthusiasm, and principled takes are unmatched. You owe it to yourself to watch!
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Will!🐀🔞 ➡️ AC 2026 @wkdart.bsky.social
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Evergreen
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heck yeah
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Was watching Gundam when this frame popped up and my brain immediately willed this into existence @maxdood.bsky.social
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Getting a "Your subscription price is going up" message followed immediately by the app freezing is peak 2026
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Fighting game players: "Soul Calibur has too many stance characters"

Real life: www.youtube.com/shorts/XWH-odK0rzQ
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@danfloydplus.bsky.social because you're the only person online I've seen mention SANABI and it's *great*, popping in to let you know they did a full new DLC campaign for free and it's *also* great! store.steampowered.com/app/3996620/SANABI_A_Haunted_Day
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I feel like this is the internet equivalent of "we eradicated polio decades ago but it's been coming back lately"

Pop-ups migrated to on-page in a way that's so much worse than the original issue. Most mobile websites are flatly unusable
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TheHadou @thehadou.com
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Concerns around IP usages in fandom promotions feel made up when the US government is promoting joining Ice with generative AI Halo assets.
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i am error @iamerror.bsky.social
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I am genuinely terrified everyone will forget, or has already forgotten, how different people were 15-20 years ago. Since then, all technological innovation has worked toward the goal of sapping human attention as a commodity and society is far worse for it.
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social
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Given the shitstorm that’s hit the teams behind The Alters, Magic: The Gathering, and Jurassic World Evolution 3 (among other titles), I’d be deeply intrigued to hear why someone would consider it a safe move to use generative AI on their project at this point - let alone go all-in on it.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social
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cringe, as an idea, is a dead end. it’s a means of writing off sincerity and earnestness in pursuit of some ill-defined concept of above-it-all cool. letting it help define online culture was a mistake. if you view everything as cringe, you are living an empty life
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video games aren't political! *your switch 2 costs a suspicious amount of money due to recent bizarre developments in international politics*
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This looks like an incredibly goofy Elden Ring mod
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I got sent this earlier today - the link is unsurprisingly dead but good god. I've been working in and around games for a decade now.

How time flies!
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The only circumstance I'd ever start a podcast is if I got to talk with fun game design people like @joemag.games, @jeffhamilton.bsky.social or @keits.bsky.social about broad concepts like "The Anthropology of Controller Layouts", or "Why Balancing By Numbers Isn't Enough"
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I hope Final Fight gets its Streets of Rage 4 moment one day
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@danfloydplus.bsky.social in case it slipped by you during your Best Of 2024 hunt, wanted to put BlazBlue Entropy Effect in front of you: store.steampowered.com/app/2273430/BlazBlue_Entropy_Effect/

It took the sprite art from BlazBlue and molded/repurposed it to do some really interesting things in a roguelite format.
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Do you ever think about how The Order 1886, a PS4 launch title, is still one of the prettiest games ever made?
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TheHadou @thehadou.com
1y
Hateful ideologies bleed out the potential of the world. May they find no refuge in the people and places important to you.
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MaxDood @maxdood.bsky.social
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Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite & Beyond launches 12-20-24! Keep updated on MVCIB.com for the download link & instructions on release date.

This was a labor of love from nearly 40 people over 8 months of work. All available, for FREE!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXorZjVETFQ
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One of the funny things about legacy game series is that some of them were *never* particularly well-reviewed. Like Ape Escape is charming, but every game in that series is 6s and 7s looking back at review sites.

And ofc reviews aren't everything, but that would *never* fly today
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Dan Floyd @danfloydplus.bsky.social
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Which video game has the best dodge animation?

Yes it's a silly question, just roll with it.
youtu.be/cdu5yLO9lkc
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Write generously for an audience who loves your work, not defensively for an audience who hates it
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This screenshot is good. Like - *so* good. "I want to go back and play this game again" amounts of good.
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How do you organize your Steam Library? Thinking about switching up my system and looking for inspiration.
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Coming across something I've never encountered before: both Metal Slug Tactics and TMNT: Splintered Fate are fun games with in-game UI so unappealing that I don't want to play them.

I can't remember this level of "this UI is gross" showing up in games of this quality before - even smaller indies!
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christinathena 死神 @chhopsky.tv
1y
In honor of the implosion of Phoenix Labs, today's substack is dedicated to the first place I ever heard a cursed phrase I'd later come to know as a red flag: "We only hire seniors"

Read now, and subscribe to become a better game developer.

chhopsky.substack.com/p/we-only-hire-seniors-and-other-mistakes
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After playing FF16 and the FF7R games, the adolescent years of FF12-15 make a whole lot more sense, in retrospect.
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