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Zag
@geoffkeene.bsky.social
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Design Director / CEO of Deep Field Games 🌌 Lead on Abiotic Factor 👨‍🔬 abioticfactor.com Creator, Designer, Writer of Unfortunate Spacemen 🧑‍🚀 In the far south 🇳🇿
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · Nov 12
Shipped a patch the other week.
Zag is sitting on a rock by a beautiful New Zealand lakeside, working on his laptop. It's absurd, really.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
I didn't mention demos?

What I did say was if you want to get hired making video games, you should show video games and video game experience, above all else.

"Experience" is too vague - just be clear in what you're making. Is it a shooter? A puzzle game? Story-driven walking sim? Labels are good.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
Don't get me wrong!

Multi-disciplinary stuff is great, tabletop experience is great, having a wide range of skills and inspirations is great, having experience doing all kinds of games is awesome. But if you're not MOSTLY designing video games, like... Unreal Engine 5 is the "tabletop" here.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
As I review game designer applications I can only ask game designers to do one thing: plz design games.

Don't design "experiences" (whatever that means), don't just design board games, don't only design card games.

Just make sure you actually design video games. For the video game design role.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
IT HAS SET IN.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
Looks great, fam.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
The ARC Raiders withdrawal has set in.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
boo
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
Agreed, we do some wild stuff. Can't wait for someone to unpack it all.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
I think it's open to interpretation, so...

Still a freak, but like, so is half the dev team.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
SETTLE DOWN
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
Listen we also have guard rails.

In most places.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
You're welcome!

(Glad you're enjoying it.)
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
This is oddly specific.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
Glad you liked it!
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 9d
Alright settle down
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 18d
Jealousy is not a good look
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 18d
free idea after playing Megabonk for 37 seconds

Carmageddon 2 Vampire Survivors-like
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 22d
I would pay a lot for this.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 24d
Stop making it sound like a good idea
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 26d
good.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 26d
Found some fog.
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Abiotic Factor @abioticfactor.com · 27d
Abiotic Factor has been nominated for both “Best Indie Game” and “PC Game of the Year” at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025! 🕹️

Get those scientific digits moving and vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: goldenjoysticks.com

#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
Golden Joystick Awards 2025: Voting is Live!
Your votes will pick the winners in an unpredictable contest
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Playstack Games @playstack.com · 28d
Abiotic Factor has been nominated for both “Best Indie Game” and “PC Game of the Year” at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025! 🕹️

Vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: www.goldenjoysticks.com

#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 28d
If it's doing those numbers with that capsule art it might have serious potential.
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Zag @geoffkeene.bsky.social · 28d
I have some concerns about the implications of all of society being a whale farm, which means everyone else is the content for the whales. If you understand free to pay ecosystems it is... Worrying.
grubb.wtf Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 29d
things are getting more expensive because only rich people are spending. The top 10% of earners ($250k as a household) make up half of all consumer spending in the US. So, everything is being priced for them while Xbox leaves everyone else behind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Top 10% of Earners Drive a Growing Share of US Consumer Spending
Wealthy consumers continue to account for a growing share of US consumer spending, highlighting the lopsided strength of the economy as a slowdown in hiring and wariness among other income cohorts rai...
www.bloomberg.com
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