Sarah Arellano
@TheSugarVenom
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Video game Narrative Designer, Writer, & VO director. Ubisoft | Blizzard | Volition | SEMC. Delightful in general. 🌻
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players: wtf who cares
devs: HOLY SHIT HOW
Judgment (PS4/PS5/Xbox/Stadia, 2019)
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I lose it every time
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Games writing is like:
I write a scene in which a character takes something out of her purse.
Two days later I discover that I caused a shockwave through like six departments.
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This is tough
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It’s no exaggeration to say I’ve dreamed of this job for twenty years. Now I have it. On Monday, I’ll become a World of Warcraft narrative designer.
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@pronounced_ing
1. Dawn is a stalker. Imagine calling someone because they haven't yet lauded you for your good deed.
2. Sonya should've changed the story up a LOT more before sharing it.
3. Anyone who is big mad at the catty texts can throw the first stone.
4. How'd this get into the NYT?
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My ex-husband taught classes in concept design but he couldn’t drive. I’d accepted the sweet narrative between us that I was a beautiful dummy and he a poetic genius. I was grateful to pull my weight however I could so I drove.
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In short, by mid-development on a project, you must consider with care all verbs, lest you make animators cry, and eliminate all nouns, lest you set back production for two full days.
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Project Management: The purse is not on the asset list!
Concept Art: Should it be a basic purse or a couture purse? Is anything else in the purse?
Animation: Does the purse need to move? Do we need a custom animation for her reaching in and removing an item?
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@ToTheMoon500
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@CrippledChic
hahaha the teachers are buying their own damn school supplies. you think the school's gonna pay for cameras?
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Design/Props: Does it need to exist in the gameplay environment or only in cinematics?
Narrative: Wouldn't a woman who carries a purse always have it on her?
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Also: I'm starting to understand why some writers have really big egos
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Life is weird. You keep reaching the last chapter then a whole new book starts.
Don’t know why I said all that. I guess I just wish someone would’ve told me.
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@noxiousneuron
@MK_____813
Teachers buy their own supplies and get paid nothing, people die rather than bankrupt their families when they get sick...
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@lucashoal
@RammJaeger
If he were pro-life, he'd have a sizable monthly donation to Planned Parenthood, an organization that through science-based sex education and distribution of birth control prevents far, FAR more abortions than "put an aspirin tablet between your knees" lawmakers
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@waltercool11
@nypost
It’s already been extensively studied and found to be ineffective. It also increases rates of depression, addiction, homelessness, and suicide in its victims.
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A thing that those “hire fans!” people don’t understand: the question, “But how will it work in German?”
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I've been privileged enough to have mentored a few junior industry people and I always tell them two things:
1: This company needs you more than you need them
and
2: You don't need to be confident that you can DO anything. You need to be confident that you can LEARN anything.
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Me: This character has a really rough voice print. How about we take five minutes, let your throat rest?
Voice Actor: *spits blood into the trash* Nah I'm fine, let's keep going
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Sarah, why do you work in games?
For the possibility that I might make this happen one day
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Why is QA a stepping-stone job in the video game industry? Why can't it be a permanent, well-paid role with advancement opportunities? Aren't there, say, car testers who don't want to go into production or design?
And to what degree might games ship with fewer bugs?
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Narrative design tip of the day: villains think they're right
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@_IndeliblyMe
@pronounced_ing
No, Snoozy, perhaps you didn't read closely. She was motivated because she cared about the suffering of strangers. I know this because she said it repeatedly to everyone she knew, and then had a NYT writer say it to the world.
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One time I asked a guy what video games he played and he said, "mostly I play this one you wouldn't have heard of called Vainglory"
welp
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What’s really wild is, this kind of management makes companies more successful, imagine that
As a millennial manager, this is so so accurate. Boomers, this is the future—and GenZ are everything y’all hate about Millennials, on steroids.
“No, no, as long as you get it done on time, I don’t give a shit” lolol
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@USgamernet
"This is nothing new for the industry."
Yeah guys, this is just... how it's done. You could substitute most game titles into this headline.
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Gameplay designers reading this:
“e l e v a t o r s 😡”
We asked nearly 100 game developers to answer the question: "What is a thing in video games that seems simple but is actually extremely hard to make?"
Their answer? Everything.
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Me, in the writers' room: I just want to announce that I am a fraud, I've faked my way to this moment, you've made a terrible hiring decision
My team: Actually, barks are just hard
Me: *relief*
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I am once again reminding men that they do not have to kill us to go on adventures
Met a dude at the games event last night that got so emotional he openly sobbed while telling us about the narrative in his game.
That narrative: the wife is killed and player has to avenge her.
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This is fantastic storytelling, 10/10
You guys would not believe the roller coaster of emotions I’ve been through
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when your trauma becomes your personality, your abusers win
Victory For Sylvanas ! The justice she deserved since forever ! Words can not describe how happy I am !!
@Warcraft
@TerranGregory
thank you sooo much for this masterpiece ! 😩💙🏹✨
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I ruined our cute narrative and things started to crack between us. Age peeled beauty off of me. First motherhood, then my career, made it impossible for me to be dumb. When he made mistakes, I let him know. When he didn’t take responsibility, rage lit me up.
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@TheEpicDept
In my state, this guy can legally question your child without you present.
If you say you want to remain silent and exercise your right to an attorney, this guy will arrest your child and question them without you in detention.
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Half my 20s & 30s I spent sitting in cars in parking lots, waiting. Sometimes I sat in the back of those classes, learning by osmosis. He learned from me, too, and wasn’t quiet about it.
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My husband sang a particular love song to me for 20 years, and after he left, thinking about that song broke me. Tonight, five years later, I caught myself absentmindedly singing it to the dog. This is healing
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@coil780
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I gave away my soul but I have two interns and an autofill Starbucks card you can have
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I think a lot about that time that someone on the God of War team thought, "But what if the entire game was one shot?" AND THEN THEY ACTUALLY DID IT
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“You have to describe your character in one sentence. As my wife says, Han is in love with Leia, but if he carries a notebook to write poems for her, the design is weak.”
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And now I’m in Tuscany, staying in a villa for a few nights.
I’m trying to relax. The first week of my vacation I checked Teams and emails and stressed, but I want to let it go.
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Her breasts what now
Unsurprisingly, the book's terrible writing from a "proclaimed" writer does not end here 👀 (THE WEDDING PLOT, Jeffrey Eugenides)
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In the US, 40 is year 0 for men & year 100 for women. I was coming up on it.
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The owners of this place make wine and olive oil and their chickens make eggs. The rooster doesn’t know he sounds ridiculous. Bells call locals to mass. There are violently beautiful flowers growing over centuries-old wells.
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Early in that last decade, I started speaking Italian. I don’t remember how that started. The words felt good in my mouth. I felt impressive, doing something my brilliant husband couldn’t do.
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I stopped hanging out in my husband’s classes. I sought out people speaking Italian. I went to Italian markets, bought big cans of whole tomatoes that I’d later crush in my fists over that giant pot.
I waited while he worked. The car was a stifling hot glass aquarium.
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This is MY favorite thing in this update: A LORE BUTTON on the hero page in game!
@vainglory
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After he left, I went to Italy three more times. By then I was crazy, dizzy, lost in love with a new, gorgeous boy who traveled Italy with me. It was so weird. I’d manifested some whole other damn life.
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it’s almost the end of the line for the good doctor. this is probably our last night together.
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Marriages mostly take years to end. Ours took about ten.
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Hey y'all marginalized people who don't apply for things because of whatever, please apply for things, because, just --
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Accidentally threw a Lyra ult down during a 5V5 playtest today. I was panicking and poking any button anywhere. Teammate ran into it, also by accident, and was transported to safety. Everyone congratulated me on my astounding good play.
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I watched calcio, cooked ragu for hours in a giant white pot. I renewed my long-dormant passport. I short-sold our upside-down house, purchased in July of 2008 for $300,000 more than it was worth in September of 2008. I repeated after my pimsleur lessons.
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I’m reading out on the terrace. Watching a little lizard hang out next to burnt tea candles. Listening to the crunch of my dog eating snail shells.
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Men do not need their wives, mothers, and children to die before they go on adventures.
It's the last day of No Nuance November, what's your hottest take about the gaming industry with no explanation?
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@proletariatitty
I’ve lived this and can confirm: it is hell. Like, I can’t bring myself to watch the video hell.
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Everyone in gamedev was in the marching band or theater. I will not accept arguments on this
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Things were dissolving. My poor husband was in love with a gorgeous young woman but he faithfully came home each day to ridiculous, demanding, tired, aging me.
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The last of the
@vainglory
lore is all compiled and in order. Glaive & Ringo: now with NEW ART.
@alexkineticflow
is a boss.
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"QA is Underpaid" is my favorite rotating Discourse Day except for how people in charge of salaries never participate
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(1) Okay so the outpouring of love made me super weepy. I actually can't talk about all of this yet, and I'm going to stay quiet for awhile, and sorry for riling things up - omg I did NOT expect all of this. One thing I have to clear up though:
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I still can’t shake the love but I lost the gorgeous new boy, so I moved out of the States.
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The doctor says I’ll need surgery eventually for the brain tumor, but I’ll be able to work and have a normal lifespan :)
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Working at SEMC was such a fast blur and my memory is so bad that I love reading the Vainglory lore still. It's like someone else wrote it, just for me.
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VO acting is easy, they said
All you do is read out loud, they said
The importance of proper italicized word placement.
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We made it to Italy at last, but it was his vacation, not mine.
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My kid has US History class this year so I just ordered a copy of American Rule by
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Surely the teacher will thank me for this...?
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(3) Thanks to all of you who are the heart of Vainglory. Love you.
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Literally what sex is but sure
Sex is great but have you ever had the luxury of delegating some of your tasks to very competent talent? 🔥
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CAN CONFIRM: Reza is the boy who spoke fire, who Grace named Titus. And YES, he is Samuel's father!
AUGUST DEVELOPER UPDATE: Latency improvements, Worlds announcement & new hero teaser! Check it out now.
#vainglory
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@WessieHale
@NyLow9
@surlybassey
How is that a failure of the airline? Other passengers were asking the kid to switch seats because they (the adults) wanted those first few rows. This is particularly egregious because kids are conditioned to obey adults.
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Happy to finally announce that after I finish a couple of projects for Super Evil, I'll be moving to Illinois to work with the amazing people at
@DSVolition
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I'm going to miss my SEMC colleagues, Vainglory players, and the heroes we've made together so much.
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(2) I do have a benign brain tumor, but it isn't at all life threatening, doesn't interfere with my work, and I don't even need treatment for it yet. My awesome doctor makes me get an MRI once a year to keep an eye on it, that's all! No need to worry about me.
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The lore for the new hero will reveal the truth behind a very old Vainglory mystery. I can't wait.
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Voice Actor: *goes to personal dark place, delivers the line in tears, trembling, blinking stinging forehead sweat from their eyes*
Director: ok, I think I liked C
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My son found an old games store today. I am the best mom ever because I bought him a ($50!!!) used copy of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which he is playing now with absolute joy.
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narrative designers tense up before realizing it’s supposed to be fun
What will you name your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
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@maryknews
Having access gives people (especially younger people or immature adults) the idea that this is acceptable. I had a talk with my 14-year old son about this when I caught him doing similar things online.
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