Video game development

Everything was right from, from the way they organize, to the way they speak, to the games they ship.

And so for somebody to kinda even say anything remotely criticizing was somehow in my sphere of the finished game development was like, "Dude, you went and said that?" And like they were, [laughs] you know, they went out like a viral moment of somebody, you know, willing to, to just say that maybe King, I'm not saying King doesn't have clothes, but maybe King forgot one of his gloves, that kind of stuff.

So, so that, that made me realize that the podcast actually carries a lot more impact than what you feel when you're just, you know, sitting in your office and, and talking shit about games and getting shit from, from all of the co-hosts.

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And uh, I did do a GDC talk about this back in 2020.

Um, so if you're interested in hearing more about what we talk about in this episode, uh, you can look up, uh, Stress-Free Game Development on YouTube, and you'll be able to find that, uh, GDC talk.

I'm sure there's a link in the show notes, so you can-

Yeah

That's two books that are kinda companion books.

Uh, and we also...

Uh, I, I gave a GDC talk back in 2020 called Stress-Free Game Development, um, which is a more kind of a, it's a deep dive into just the DevOps specific angle of all of this stuff.

Um, so definitely recommend checking those things out.

Circling back to sentiment and kind of tracking what the community is saying, do you have a certain tool or a certain way that you gather sentiment and you kind of sift through all the things and define like, okay, this is...

the highest priority? Kind of like if you take an example out of game development, you have your P0s, you have your P1s, P2, and down the road.

How would you kind of track it when it comes to the sentiment that is coming through the community? Because as we know, social media, there's a lot of opinions, there's a lot of sentiment there, positive, negative, neutral.

How do you track all this? And how do you distill what's the most important thing here? It's the

flexibility because obviously if it's not something critical like a release of the game or a patch that we all align on and we agree on the set time, then there's a lot of flexibility and also, right, there's the science part of it where people know when they post like this, you know, then there's the most engagement, right? The post performs the best, right? So we leave that space for them as they're the experts to, you know, kind of take over here.

All right.

How do you balance transparency versus how game development is done in CDPR? We always very often hear or mention that it's sometimes a very chaotic process.

There's a lot of changes, there's a lot of pivots.

I love her so much, and every time I look at her, I feel the exact same feeling that is like that, that drive, that kind of push.

For some people, and recently myself as well, game development is what makes them feel that way.

And yes, of course, when I think about games, there's also the more rational side of loving the medium, or, you know, any hobby for that matter.

To me, games are an expression of human creativity.

It's something that you can't really describe.

After speaking to over 100 game developers for The Indie Diarist, I think I can give it a try.

Because The Indie Diarist is all about you, your games, and what makes game development one of the most human crafts in all of creativity.

But it's also about my own love for games.

Wow.

Announced on August 18th he's retiring from active game development after making games for 44 years.

The important-

Goddamn

Like, I know John's been going for a walking, but I've been sh- just trying to spend more time, um, creating, I guess, without being too specific about what it is I'm working on.

But, like, you know, I wanna, like, um, mess around with Godot a little more and Game Dev, you know, that kind of stuff.

That's good.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm

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I think, I, I think the, my biggest trouble is like I can't approach game, the game dev side of things with like, you know, they say make lots of little things and play around.

I, I just, my brain just doesn't work that way.