Rayme Vinson
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Principal Technical Designer @gravitywell . Helped make Call of Duty 4:MW, CoD:MW2, Titanfall 1 & 2, Apex Legends, some Star Wars FPS, and more. He/him.
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Apex, Ping System 🧵
Two of the most important things that led to it going well in development, imo. A quick thread...
EA's Chris Bruzzo tells us why the publisher is making five patents for accessibility tech freely available to other devs - including Apex Legends' Ping System
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I'm on the Star Wars FPS team at Respawn. Some of us live in LA. Many don't. We're playing builds every day, meeting & chatting on Slack and Zoom, brainstorming all the time. It's the healthiest & most collaborative work culture I've ever had. Riot employees can demand better.
NEW: Riot Games is asking employees at its LA headquarters to return to the office, without requiring masks or COVID-19 vaccines, prompting employee fears and even some resignations, according to two current employees and one former employee.
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Apex's final mission in The Broken Ghost chain unlocks TOMORROW, and those of you who see it through this season are in for a treat. There's a few surprises waiting; some you might think you see coming by now, and some you... don't. ❤️
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Sounds like we all immediately slammed capacity for the first hunt of the Season Quest, when it went live. Apologies for the delay!
@PlayApex
should have news when things start to gracefully recover.
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I've been at Respawn since before we were even a company, but now it's my turn to venture out past the farm.
Next Friday will be my last official day here. I've lived four lifetimes & love what we've all done & dreamed & built together.
Thanks to everyone who's been there!💖
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Animators!
The Star Wars FPS team at Respawn would love to work with you. 🦾
We're looking for three new people:
2x Senior AI/Enemy Animators
1x Senior Viewmodel Animator
Links in the thread, if you're interested. 🧵
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Again with the grifting and griefing from this boring lot.
At this point you can assume that anyone they’ve singled out and preyed on - like
@DirtyEffinHippy
here - is a person worth knowing and standing next to. You can ignore the mean losers.
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We’re making a Star Wars FPS! I’ve wanted to shout that out since we first broke ground and it’s been KILLING ME not to. But here we are.
Star Wars is such a fun toy box to run around in and create with and add to. If you want to come play in it with us, we’re ~hiring~.
We’re excited to announce THREE new Star Wars games officially in the works from
@Respawn
. Read more and pass on what you’ve learned:
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A gentle reminder that you only have one more day to get the (adorable? sinister? sinidorable?) bobble-head charm of Ash from the Season 5 Quest before its gone baby gone.
Thanks to all that who followed the story and faced approx 8 million Prowlers in the dark this season! ❤️
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Dearest brand. We've got tons of stuff coming, but it takes a little time. We can't hyper-fry or flash-flambe or crunch-inject or whatever it is you do to your tasty fried birdflesh. This gameplay is hand-crafted using old-world techniques. Eat some chicken, we'll see you soon.👍
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Well. So much for any carefully-laid Season 4 plans. ☠️😭
A bit mortified to learn that someone has already planted a cheap cash grab at the scene of the crime, too. Tsk. Is nothing sacred?? 🙇♂️
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#MyFirstGamesJob
was at Infinity Ward in 2005. We made CoD4. I was 0.00001% critical to the success, but what a ride. MW2 followed (my favorite!), then idiots fired our bosses to control us, so I walked out the door to find them. Respawn formed, we made Titanfall, and now: Apex.
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I don’t think we’ve said this before, but the Titan sword in Titanfall2’s peaceful tutorial area was
@MisterSoupy
indulging my love of Xenoblade’s dynamic title screen.
He was showing me this new area and I was like “….ooh!”, he threw it in for a laugh, and bless him it stayed.
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Sometimes exactly where you are is more important than where you've been. There's a Truth in that.
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Hey
@_moyparra
I have a simple humble request for redoing Caustic’s main lobby idle. 😬
Lil bit of an inside joke between
@Just_Mang_
and I
Lil bit of what's been stuck in my head recently
Caustic render/gif by
@py_bun
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What godforsaken marketing AI cooked up THIS fresh hell?
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Who cares if you’re taking a 3 hour shit and learning how to needlepoint in-between compiles or, I dunno, having an affair with your sourdough starter. Just meet your obligations and it’s good. You’re paid for your output, not raw seconds of your precious human lifespan. Christ.
A study shows people working from home are having sex, dating, taking naps and doing side hustles on company time
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Apex Writers and Trailer teams have been *on* *goddamn* *point*.
Holy hell, now THAT is attention to detail!
Before he breaks the glass, Revenant's model is his human form (the POV is looking through the window). When the glass starts to shatter, the model transforms (for the viewer).
THAT'S how you build a motif, omfg
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This is fan art from two weeks ago. It is very good and the artist is talented af.
Reposting it today for no reason.
Hope people are having fun with new bits today.
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I know, right? We’ve all noticed this happening a lot in… in… huh. Fucking nowhere?
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Steve didn’t give up. Steve protected the diners and the dinners at all cost. Steve we salute you, you dead damn doornail. 💥😭💥
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Hah, this is rad.
And no small feat figuring out client scripting and recreating (?) the server-side logics & protocols.
the Titanfall 2 Northstar client has a custom mode where BT yeets you into the map at the start of every round and it absolutely owns
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Our next big Titanfall2 update will have this Mixtape Matchmaking feature that the team has been working on. Excited to have it in the wild.
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After
@austin_walker
pointed this out on
@More_Civilized
, it became a favorite thing for me to keep in mind as we worked in SW.
As fans it’s easy to take every frame & line as literal & gospel, but who says this Imperial guy was even right?
If Lucas was chill, we can be chill.
Reminds me of a conversation Lucas and Filoni had when they were creating the stealth ship for Clone Wars.
Dave: "But George, no ship that small has a cloaking device..."
George: "...well this one has a cloaking device."
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Tucky’s quest to figure out how
@laurenduca
and co. keep owning him has taken a few unexpectrd turns, I see.
Tucker is exploring witchcraft. "Is this legal? Can you run around casting spells on people? Is there any kind of federal regulation?"
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Apex! Season Quest! ...just what is it?
That's a FANTASTIC question. You little ragamuffin. Well, in this post we have some answers for you.
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I’m on a different project here at Respawn, but cannot imagine going back to in-person-only. We’ve been building a team that couldn’t exist otherwise, and getting so much done. It’s the future. Better lives, better teams, better games.
I spoke to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor director Stig Asmussen about how they made this excellent game in ~3 years, half the time of most modern development cycles, and how Respawn pivoted to allow anyone to work remotely:
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Might be a good time to point out that this is not an official account or affiliated with Apex.
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God we need a streetclothes skin pack so bad. This is wonderful, btw:
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They don’t. They seem to be lovely people, good at their jobs, who are brought in to help shore up writing and are well regarded. That’s it.
The fake narratives are silly and exhausting and now the site’s new owner has bought into them, it sounds like.
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Gibraltar lines for D.O.C. are SO CUTE
I'm dying, I LOVE THESE SO MUCH
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I lived most of my life in awful ignorance on a lot of this stuff. We solved racism like hundreds of years ago, right? We’re good here?
Well. Shit.
Ignorance & bigotry grow like weeds if you let them, and we have to tend the garden. This is one stroke. On to the next.
In celebration of Black History Month, we’re granting all players a Black Lives Matter badge at 8pm PT. It's a small reminder that we must always stand in solidarity with our Black colleagues, partners, family, friends, & players in the fight against racism and social injustice.
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FLUGRUGER airlines! Modern Warfare 2's airliner was so named by Todd Sue, after my sister's tiny dog had to move into our 4-person house and stole everyone's hearts.
Yesterday, 14 years later, we said our goodbyes to Ruger as he fell asleep on our lap one last time. A good pup.
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Finally, Sheila is ready to make her debut in the Apex games.
(Oh and she comes with a free Legend!)
Expert modder Rampart is joining the Games in Season 6. Ready to dance? 😏
Get acquainted with Rampart and Sheila when Season 6 launches on August 18 along with a new weapon, a new Crafting system, and more! 👇
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Dev team is gud. 👍🏼
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Now that we were all mute and anonymous... suddenly we all CARED A TON about the Ping system. At a gut level. What's working, what isn't, what was confusing, what it should say, new ideas.
We made 5 months of progress in two weeks.
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Voice chat: DISABLED
Names: OBFUSCATED
We completely disabled voice chat for a long time. The mics, as the elders say, they did nothing.
And names... we made up a list of random pretend names, and assigned them to you as you joined the server.
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Finally! Everyone gets to hear the man himself speak. He's a big personality, and he's gonna make a big impact, you can feel it.
While some think he’s not ready for the Games, James "The Forge" McCormick is confident his Shatter Gauntlets and full backing from Hammond Robotics will help him make his mark in the Arena. Don't miss this special episode of "Up Close and Personal with Lisa Stone".
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I started a new job over at
@gravitywell
this week! Excited to help build something new with some old friends and fresh faces. Currently drinking from a firehose of information, and overwhelmed in all the right ways. 💖
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Ok! Plane in the air, cruising altitude reached, now let's reconnect to the ol' global network and see how- oh god dammit.
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PROTOCOL <3
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1:
Todd Alderman insisting that it go on the shoulder button (RB/R1), instead of being relegated to dpad hell where fools like me said it should.
"Shoulder is grenade button though, wtf is wrong with you?!?"
I mean the sheer audacity of this man.
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Anyhow. Two simple things that made all the difference, I think.
There's more to the Ping system in Apex, of course, but if I had to send two lessons back to the past, it'd be these ones.
(...oh shit MAYBE I DID.)
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Ain’t can’t shoot straight none, but I can be your invisible medic guy.
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But Apex is a team game. Communication is important. He didn't waver.
And now anyone playing finds that ping button accidentally within N minutes of gametime, so we onboard from there.
Now it's as easy to say "hey lookit that there!" as it is to pull the trigger to shoot.
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Suddenly it's a first-class verb. And we started treating it as such.
That brilliant sunnofabitch.
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@frozenfroh
Nah cause in human form his pet ferret Bosko rides the left forearm, and grabs each orb out of a satchel to toss into HuwmanRev’s ready hand. It’s adorable but extremely extremely expensive (for
@_moyparra
) to animate.
Starting a gofundme to make Bosko be Rev’s heirloom, ama.
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Those dumb names were unique enough that you'd remember "who you played with", but there was no mapping to the actual person. So you played like they were strangers on the internet.
(Did stealing loot and rudeness go up? MAYBE.)
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Development directors! So it turns out good project management is… good? Helpful? Makes the game better immediately? I AM LEARNING SO MANY THINGS. Come make Star Wars shootbangs with us!
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Animators are everything. ❤️
Hey
@jitterbot
I want to have your game babies for always.
LOOK AT THIS.
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Seriously. I keep thinking it goes without saying, but... it’s easy for me to think that when I get none of the harassment. So. For the dopes in the back:
Gate-keeping the concept of “gamer” is one of the saddest dipshit move you can make. Games is games. Let people have fun.
You're a gamer if:
You enjoy easy mode
You play mobile games
You play once a month
You never finish games
You can't "get god"
You only play to be social
You need accessibility
You prefer casual games
You're a gamer if you have fun playing games.
No matter what anyone else says
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2:
We also removed names and voice chat, for a bit.
See at first - in these 60 player tests - it was all Respawn LA devs. We were small!
So everyone knows everyone and is on voice chat b/c of course we are.
If you're not on mic your friends are probably yelling at you to be.
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It is incredible seeing everyone react to the new surprise blue checkmarks with “oh god I didn’t have anything to do with this, I swear!”. I mean I get it and I’d be upset too for sure, but also funny seeing Twitter try to blur the lines of what it means again.
omg they gave me a blue checkmark for being “influential” on twitter. they have simply reinvented the original blue check i’m laughing so hard
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Hello, gamedevs? Lots of AAA studios like
@Respawn
(AHEM COUGH),
@gravitywell
,
@Bungie
, and more are ready for you to live your best WFH life making great games with great teams. Lots of fantastic indie studios were way ahead of the curve & have been doing it since pre-pandemic!
I was chatting about remote work with a recruiter friend today. She said it is the number one requirement mentioned by applicants. She head hunts for tech & gaming, and says remote-friendly companies are bleeding talent from the giants now sending employees back to the office.
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@ApplePodcasts
It's
@More_Civilized
for days. They started as a Clone Wars podcast and have expanded to talking about Andor and beyond and it's been a joy. Consistently insightful and critical and warm. Their
@Patreon
for bonus Q&A and more is well worth it too:
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@JeffGrubb
@imranzomg
@GameOverGreggy
@campfire_design
@Ghostbusters
...sweet baby jebuz thank-you for this website.
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But that's not how people at home are going to play. This game is going to constantly ask COMPLETE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET to be teammates and have fun.
So. Drastic measures were taken.
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I know this is extremely arrogant to say out loud, but my friends and I made a fun shoot-bang and now you can get it for free and I think that’s nifty.
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There is already fan-art of Chapter 1. 😭
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Pssst. Want to xray/rewind the model you're putting together in the Quest screen? Cursor over the icons while holding down any one of these buttons:
rightButton (m)
leftShift (kb)
LT/L2 (gamepad)
RT/R2
It's an amazing model, btw. Our own Kevin Neal is a goddamn treasure.
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There is *so* much detail in the Legend models and animations that I was ignorant of until this mode. Mirage’s jaunty walk! Octane’s legendary has his name on the back in gold letters! Bangalore’s “Viceroy” skin has a saber! I work with very talented people and it is *upsetting*.
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Listen; some ancient deals were made and maybe not exactly everyone is keeping 100% of their eternal soul when they cross planes. Video games, amirite?
how is apex legends so good. how do they keep doing it
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Bittersweet to know that I peaked so early in my career, with naming & writing this dumb, dumb pickup prompt that only existed for 2 weeks.
(We had such a good time putting on The Forge Show together! Our sweet idiot baby-boy, gone too soon, forever pile-drivin' in heaven. 😭)
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Your boy
@tommiecas
the legend.
Not to be overdramatic, but I don't think anything in Apex's storytelling has truly hit as hard as opening up the final chapter of Season 5's quest - after everything that had unfolded - and seeing it was Bangalore narrating. Bangalore, as she went to save Loba.
CHILLS 😭
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Okay new pitch stay with me here:
“This is the true story, of seven Legends, picked to live in a house, train together, and have their lives taped. Find out what happens when Legends stop being polite, and start getting real…”
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My apologies to every on-the-nose foreshadowing ever.
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@iLootGames
@RaeldonTV
Yeah it’s different. There’s no sequence to follow or crazy trick shots to do or anything. It’s simple but unlikely to randomly be done on accident.
Four simple things about you need to be true. If they’re true when you ******, the thing happens (and it’s not subtle).
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Bats are now “wing puppies”. WE REPEAT. Bats are now to be referred to as “wing puppies” in all future communications. Good night and good luck.
#wingpuppies
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“Now that the Clauses are extinct, Santa is romanticized, *deified*. But if you strip away the myth and look at his deeds, the legacy of St. Nick is failure. Hypocrisy, hubris.”
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The talent and sheer heart that goes into these fan pieces - and sometimes how quickly and intensely they manifest - is honestly humbling. You people are amazing, across the board.
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This isn't controversial. Waiting on it won't kill anyone. We can celebrate our toys later and we will. There's a more important conversation to have right now, that's a bit more time sensitive and overdue.
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@TheCartelDel
A shame that it can't meet the sheer energy & joy that its counterpart had a month ago:
For context… this is energy of the RNC Convention 2024 Roll Call 😂😂
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They’ve got all the available Star Wars movies in 4k streaming on Disney+. It’s crazy. You can clearly read the “New York” lettering on the bottom of Luke’s lightsaber, even, just like
@pablohidalgo
prophesized.
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Gonna ugly cry for a man I never knew but who means a lot. We were lucky he was here.
This was amazing.
@chadwickboseman
surprises
#BlackPanther
fans while they say what the movie means to them.
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@BoobsRadley
@JarettSays
Fwiw, the "HERE VIDEO NOW YOU WATCH OKAY" behavior has led me to browse less, not more.
Hopefully they have statistics that say otherwise on average, but for me personally; woof.
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CHANGE NOTHING.
So in the current flight test build, if you swap weapons while doing a melee attack you cancel the animation, meaning you can do stuff like this
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I just. Wat.
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Read all these books hardcore for like three years and ima bout to open my first purple belt library school.
(No; your hobbies don’t need to have some path to a 2nd income, christ. Live your life. Enjoy the sun.)
“Video games a real problem. You know why? Because they’re f**king fun. You do them, and they’re real exciting, but you don’t get anywhere.”
Joe Rogan has described video games as a “waste of time” for 'most people':
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I got to do a bunch of work with the strike team that put the Trident together for Season 7's new map. A lot of fun bringing something familiar-but-new into Apex with a Respawn twist.
(Huh. And it's a damn shame Rampart is up on that ledge instead of down there riding with 'em.)
With Season 7 - Ascension, the stakes are higher on new map Olympus. New Legend Horizon understands the gravity of the situation, and she’s sure to give the other Legends a lift. Plus, build your community with Clubs and more!
Rise to new heights when Season 7 launches Nov 4.
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PlayStation players! There’s a game on sale for two bucks.
A few years back, a team of giants shipped a Respawn 1st-person shooter campaign set in a fantastical and futuristic space-faring world. I humbly submit that it is worth your $2:
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Had a great time this year helping make Apex stuff like Grand Soirée, Dummies Big Day, 3P Mode, the fall of Jimmy “The Forge” McCormick, Quests & PvE, and the Trident.
Then spent the last 2 mo helping the MOH team get their baby out the door.
Glad both teams put up with me! ❤️
A lot of the
#ApexLegends
team is now taking a well-deserved break for the holidays.
It's been a big year for Apex:
- 4 new seasons (2 from home)
- A new map
- Crossplay
- Steam release
- 7 major events
- 12 new LTMs
- 1 killed Legend (RIP Forge)
On to 2021 🥳
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We'll have the option of going back to office spaces. I'll likely keep my workstation at home. I'll feel it out. Flexibility while making sure everyone stays connected & collaborative & never left behind are key.
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Mr. Ismail is correct. And any diversity we’ve managed has been a relief, not a thing forced on us.
Your instincts are correct: the grifters are willfully ignorant and pushing some vile shit.
So the Gamergate ex-dev grifter is back claiming shit about forced diversity leading to funding and let me tell you, not even once in my life have I worked on or with any title that had an easier timing getting funding because it was different, diverse, inclusive, or equitable.
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Hey uh QA is as important as any other department in game production; especially now. And the men & women in those roles are developers.
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Gamedevs! Don't settle for on-site-only studios (ATVI lol). The best support remote work and you deserve it if you want it.
@Bungie
,
@insomniacgames
,
@gravitywell
,
@Respawn
(hi!), and many more are always hiring. Let's come together and make some gaaaames.
Mentioning here for no reason in particular, Insomniac has a bunch of openings and has embraced a WFH environment. I can speak firsthand, having moved from LA to Vancouver and working remote fulltime, it has been life changing for me in a positive way ❤️
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