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Robin-Yann Storm
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Product & UX Designer for Tools, Freelance Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/ Previously Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC. Gets really excited about workflows.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · Aug 31
New video! Old news, new package: AI, Procedural Generation, UGC, in-game trading, Blockchain, and the Metaverse

Why are game developers so adverse to these technologies? The best way to find out is by asking folks who have lived through the history of game development.

youtu.be/CeZ_rcDQg6Q
Old news, new package: AI, Procedural Generation, UGC, ingame trading, Blockchain, and the Metaverse
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 9m
So no more Mastercard and Visa payments, right?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h
OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi
OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December
OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2h
Text Animator, a hugely successful addon for Unity, is now also available for Godot!
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Febucci (Federico) @febucci.com · 7h
🎉 Text Animator for #Godot is out in Early Access! 🎉

We worked a lot to port the majority of the core features and we're looking forward to what you all create (🥹) while we update and ship new things as frequently as we can!! 🔥

Info & link below!
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2h
waaaoooo
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3h
This is the kind of article I wish more game dev students read.

Knowing game history is so important, and doc referencing so many games is what is required for this much info to easily make sense.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d
GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

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building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine
So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3h
It is unbelievable to see people just letting these things happen. Thank you for taking action!
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 4h
Building trust is incredibly time consuming. Losing trust on the other hand, can be achieved very quickly.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 13h
Oooh, what's gotten better about it?
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 13h
All it takes is one application to get worse after you press 'update', and for the rest of our lives we will second guess updating anything ever again.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
Relatable at a hospital or fire department:
“It’s so quiet today”
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
This is frighteningly easy to do
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
It’s agile, but different
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
CEO’s son has ideas
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
Don't need user research
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
That's so smart!! Amazing!
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
That looks gorgeous! The depth is so neat
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d
It sucks
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d
15 loads in 2 minutes, CLEAR
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d
At some point folks are going to walk away, saying it disappoints them. I think google has to look at itself and ask if it's better off this way.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d
Sure, it’s your right and your ability.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d
Searching for legitimate info on any sequel developments, and the first thing you get served is an AI generated fake trailer, along with a button asking if you have watched the non-existent movie.

Completely unreliable, Google is cooked
The Google search page for Constantine 2, showing an AI trailer front and center
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d
Anyway, Constantine is still a great movie. I wonder if we’ll ever get a sequel
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d
Imo a doctor shouldn’t tell a grieving person that their loved one is “As dead as dead can be” but maybe that’s just me. I just can’t believe they’d say that. You don’t always have to be the optimistic one, but even if you have the ability to say that, it just creates enemies.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3d
“Automation can simplify things dramatically, but we must be cautious in its application to avoid the perils of inap-propriate levels of automation.”

This book is from 2010 btw
technology to other domains. Of course it is far easier to say this than to do because each new domain has both a lot in common with others and a lot that is special and unique to itself. So designers face a difficult challenge. They must still deliver people the choices they want and need, reduce the complexity of se-curity, yet maintain conceptual simplicity and safety from error, equipment failures, and deliberate attacks by thieves, terrorists, and pranksters. Automation can simplify things dramatically, but we must be cautious in its application to avoid the perils of inap- propriate levels of automation. The designer's role is difficult, with many challenges. In addition to all the functional, aesthetic, manufacturing, sustainabil-ity, and financial issues associated with the design of products, and the cultural, training, and motivational issues associated with services, the designer has to ensure that the end result communicates properly to those who must use it. This is the role of th
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3d
“The important point for the treatment of complexity is that automation is perhaps the most effective simplifying strategy of all, as long as the function is completely automated by a system that is robust and reliable.”

-From ‘Living with Complexity’ by Don Norman
it would have been had there been no automation at all. Simi-larly, partial automation can be more problematic than either full automation or no automation, because switching between the automated and nonautomated states can add confusion and com-plication. I discuss these issues at length in my book The Design of Future Things. The important point for the treatment of complexity is that automation is perhaps the most effective simplifying strategy of all, as long as the function is completely automated by a system that is robust and reliable. Beneficial Manipulation: Forcing Functions "Forcing functions" are constraints intended to prevent unwanted actions. Forcing functions simplify tasks because no understanding is required: the function forces the intended behavior. It is only if one wants to perform the prohibited action that some un-
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 4d
2. A talk: Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game.

Hardly anyone reads Confluence or wikis, and information gets lost internally all over. In what level was that NPC, how far can a player jump, what was that animation called?
We can solve it, with gyms, zoos, and museums!
Everyone always mentions that people do not read documentation. This is also the case for us as game developers. So what can we do about that? First, it is important not to force everyone to read pages and pages of documentation. Usually, only programmers and other technical folks go through all the effort of reading up on functionality. So what about artists, and designers? Thankfully, solutions already exist: Gyms, Zoos, and Museums. Let’s look at these examples, see how they work, how they can be built, and how they improve the development of your games.
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