Hi Jow Forums. I’m an AAA video game developer. AM(almost)Anything

when can we expect to see a sequel to Akalabeth.

Checked.
What do you think of Todd Howard?

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Ask me some questions. Nothing personal and I'll give you my professional opinion. This thread is not about destroying my career. I like this place and I thought that I could contribute to the discussions happening here by giving you some info about the industry in general. So let's keep it that way and this thread will be fun and informative.

>anyone with access to rpg maker 95 is a AAA video game developer as far as steam is concerned
You must be a big boi

I don't know anything about that. Not avoiding the question, I really don't have any info about this subject.

motive behind the diversity and women in battlefield 5. Who sparked the idea, and projected such a inclusive project.

How anti European are developers

Trips checked. You said you would answer anything and I just fucking asked you something asshole.
What went down inside the industry during gamergate? Did you use voice modulators to because the fear of expressing non-PC opinions?

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yeah why does vidya suck so hard these days? I don't even play much vidya, but that's because practically none of it interests me. What are you guy's doing wrong?

so basically your a qa tester on contract. sounds good bro.

but user, all you need to do is post something like pic related

please tell me more about AAA development.

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So you're full of shit.

This is Jow Forums gamergate was a big deal here. We wanted to destroy the industry with /v/ because it is a bloated mess and full of Jew practices like microtransactions and pre-orders and pay-to win and a million other shit practices.

I have decades of XP. Keeping the details vague of course. But I'm not an indie dev. I'm a AAA that has worked and contributed on major IPs that you have enjoyed and played in the last 30 years. It's somehow narrowing it down, to let's say a hundred of thousand developers. But this this is as much detail that you will get from this question. I'll be very careful in this thread to not post anything that could destroy my career. I'm pro free speech, and the reason I chose to post this AMA is because I think that some of us need to engage with the community. And of course I am not doing that with the approval of my employer. So let's keep the discussion on general subjects.

Why do game devs cater to fan bases that suck their dicks and don't provide useful insight. /vg/ is full of honest feedback and doesn't hold their punches. Both crowds love the game, but carebear faggot redditors and forum warriors are the most toxic thing to the actual longevity of a game.

Also, females ruin everything. I watched a female twitch player on her third alt account today, each of her other ones only made it to 20% of the max level of the game. She is considered a "PRO" content creator. What the fuck is up with that bullshit? Casuals faggots and these roastie bitches thinking the vitriol spewing out of their mouths means anything, while the games they support dies because their kind made player housing and fashion a priority over a real fucking endgame and meaningful grind to channel my autismo powers into.

Nah. Unless your liver is already annihilated from abuse or you take aspirin every day you should be fine.

The paid off jorunos for good covereage and pay-for-hype of shit games was just ONE OF MANY shit practices the industry is full of.

We want to burn it to the ground so only the best devs remain.

If I caught you in a rear naked choke and was killing you at your desk, how would you respond?

if not a LARP, then you are just an ant, inconsecuential slave

this sjw shit is allowed by executives cause controversy makes money

talking to you is like talking to a mcdonalds cashier about the direction of the company

kill yourself

Why did Valve end the Half-Life series after Episode 2?

Do you think the industry is disgustingly bloated and full of jewing? Jewing little kids for lootboxes and shit.
It's disgusting.

What do you do then? Art team, sound, fx, animation?

How popular are your games? Honestly. Are things looking up or grim?

What is your opinion on micro-transactions?

What is your favourite video game ost atm?

amen, i was a assistant prod/ lead producer for 6 years. i didnt know much or control much, and still knew more than the programmers or artists. it was all about deadlines and money, and everyone hated the publisher/suits. i dont know who this punk ass nigga thinks hes jewing rn.

Dear lord I hope you lose your house when the industry crashes you asshole. You wont even admit gamergate fucking happened or how shitty the industry currently is.

I bet you came here to shill EA during gamergate for free.

What is your thought on gamergate. LARPer ?

It's a global trend. There's no conspiracy at play. It's all about money. These decisions are made based on surveys and polls. You guys think that's politically motivated, but it's only partially true. Some devs are really progressives and truly believe this and are pushing an agenda. But the reality is that based on internal studies and focus groups, the big companies think that they can expand the market by catering to different demographics. The reality is that you guys are outnumbered. What started as a hobby for straight white male, is now a global market, that encompass many different cultures and genders. Once the suits realized that, they saw the dollar sign and changed their strategy. This is why the developers are so outspoken about it and they are openly telling you to get fucked. You guys think that the PR department is doing a bad job, but their decision is data driven. And the numbers don't lie. This is why they have decided to shun what we think of the core demographic. The pie is getting bigger and their objective is to expand it.

Makes sense, honestly. Everything nice eventually succumbs to be driven by the $. Also answer me

Why did you come to Jow Forums instead of /v/? This is a mostly alt-right board, while /v/ has relative diversity.

Hs aparanelty a 'AAA dev' which means he should be pro crashing the industry since it will eliminate all his competition.

His just a low level EA shill game-tester. He wants the industry even more bloated so he can get his friend from collage a job as an EA game tester too.

you're wrong there. I refuse to believe that the largest demographic isn't white male.

Post a picture of your own companies demographic pie chart.

Sure, I'll bite and treat this post as 100% serious.
>I see a lot of hatred here about video game developers
The hatred isn't against the developers themselves. People have more of a problem with the shitheads who make the creative decisions to actively push that crazy far leftist agenda. We acknowledge that the developers are (for the most part) great, talented people who just want to make good games. But you are nerds and you've allowed the feminist/communist/far leftist propaganda machine to absolutely walk all over your industry and it got to the point where it's theatening the jobs of the good intentioned nerds too, by creating financial bust projects.
>hopefully I can help dispel some of the myths and falsehoods that are discussed here.
You don't get to come here and call our accusations false. The accusations abotu video games hijacked into far leftist propaganda tools are absolutely correct, you might just have not read enough of them to understand what exactly they are like and miht be offended when we use the blanket term "developers" and immediately side with the bad apples in your team.
>I love the people I work with
That better not be the feminists in your office! They pushed me to the point where I won't buy video games from western developers anymore, unless I have absolutely 100% proof that they aren't doing this shit.
I'm not even asking for right wing propaganda either btw. I'd hate that too. I just want your industry to remain completely neutral. That's the entire point of escapism.

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As a developer, I hate micro-transactions and pre-orders. I really personally hate this segment of our industry and I can assure you that I am actively fighting daily against this trend. Like I've said, I'm making AAA games, not garbage mobile games. I am very happy to see the backlash that is happening now against loot boxes for example.

>What started as a hobby for straight white male, is now a global market, that encompass many different cultures and genders.

Were that image of normies ruining a hobby?

> Guys, 40+ year old women REALLY are the main demographics of gamers, not young white males!
Have you considered that the fat women of HR who mention that kind of studies in internal e-mails and documents are lying, and/or being deceived lije you are by studies considering solitaire and farmville players as "gamers"

fuck forgot about starcraft, regardless. Male dominated.

Seriously, you know the majority of the market for battlefield is exactly that. They didn’t just include it, they’re shoving it down the communities throat.

Which groups/agenda has the biggest influence on the culture of gaming? Whose narrative do you think is getting pushed down our throats and why is it jews and feminists? When do you think this first happened and why?

Just say you are a faggot. It's shorter.

No good design to move forward. They had many proposals. Nothing good enough to move the franchise forward. Some stuff was leaked. You'll be the judge. I think that it was weak personally. And then Steam happened. Valve is a very chaotic and organic workplace. It's hard for visionaries to get traction. Some people tried, and they failed.

The market for battlefield is younng men and pozzing them with a warped WWII outlook is ni the Jews intrest.

Why are you sacrificing your core audience and the longevity of your game to appeal to SJWs who probably barely play? I find it nauseating to pay money just to being talked down to and reminded what I should think about issues - and these issues usually have nothing to do with the game in the first place but are tacked on to placate tumbler retards. It’s immersion breaking and off-putting as fuck. You need to grow a pair and stick with your vision, your industry is fast becoming as irrelevant as cable tv.

How many game developers are actually competent these days?

I haven't seen very many revolutionary new features or mechanics in games recently, and it seems like the quality of games in general is actually going down. Games are more bloated than ever, they all seem to use the same toolkits/engines regardless of the needs of the games they're making, and everyone seems to be focused on the surface details. GTA V is the most recent AAA game I can think of that has a high technical quality as well as design quality. Even now it still looks good, it still handles good. Even walking around the different environments and looking at the NPCs is fun.
Most other new games look great and play decently until someone tries to do something interesting, at which point everything breaks. Note things like cars handling brilliantly until they hit objects, then they ping up as if they have no weight. Guns work until you have to shoot at any respectable range, then they break entirely (shotguns are a great example, they're deadly out to 15 meters then they abruptly stop working.)
This all seems to come from a culture where ideology, surface results and arbitrary quality metrics come above actual depth and mechanics.

Or, in short, when was the last time you saw a dev independently, without being ordered, create a completely new piece of software to do something that was never done before previously?

I quoted multiple people because you all seem like game devs.

have you personally called every single developer at DICE a faggot yet
if not, please explain why and then get onto doing it as soon as possible

1. Do you personally believe that the direction these games are heading is a good thing?

2. Sure you must have heard about the google guy getting fired for saying men and women are different, among other thing. What is your opinion on that?

3. You don't sound like you're one of us. Why is that?

4. What do you think of jews?

Hi Mark

That'd be redundant. Everybody who writes comments on the internet is a faggot.

Yeah right. You are trying to expand into those markets, if you already had them you wouldn’t bother. You will probably fail and lose your core as you try. This is not uncommon when businesses overreach.

We're headed for a split between Hollywood-funded movieo-games for women and so᠌yboys, and actual games for gamers.

Well you inflict change in vidya, media, and every aspect of life... you can only bottle the whole thing up for so long.

>your industry is fast becoming as irrelevant as cable tv.
Preach. I barely play video games anymore desu. I never bothered to get an Xbox One/PS4. I skipped the entire gen. Xbox 360 and PS3 were my last consoles.

Come on user, don't you have anything as proof? Not even a tshirt? Anything like this?

I was hoping to learn some things about AAA development but I'm a little skeptical so far

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name your favorite AAA game you've worked on and what qualified you for the position

AAA games credit hundreds of people so you won't be outing yourself as anything. Don't be gay now. Answer a question.

any games studios you think are doing good work and your opinion on gamergate ?

you are bluepilled as fuck probably thinking Hitler was a bad goy you live in a world of starbuck latte and facebook likes who gives a fuck about your life ? your boss is effeminate just like yourself and your job title is a joke.
>look at me im le aaa video game developer
ill give you a clue you are working for the un and your job is to endocrinate children following the kgb book and the protocols by the letter. yes. it's true all of it. before i leave ill let you know that you unknowingly pushed people further to the reich. you made it happened. enjoy this, i will.

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Where do you think gaming will be in 10 years? Specifically NPC intelligence. Do you think AI advancements will make them way more dynamic or is there some sort of "this is as good as it can get" level.

Do you think in 25 years there could be something like the VR universe in Ready Player One?

>seems like the quality of games in general is actually going down

Do you remember the late 90's where every game had a new mechanic, new story, new setting, new tech.

People who actually like the 'hobby' want these days back. They want all the skinnerbox $179.99 pre order ultimate gold edition garbage nuked from orbit.

Fuck your industry. It was a good pure thing once. Its evil now.

Let me make this clear for you all. I fucking hate SJW. I hate this current social trend that tries to stifle creativity. I'm an artist. I want games to be like what books are. I'm against censorship. I hate social engineering. As a creator, I want to be free to create any type of games that I think I should be able to make. Porn, violence, controversial political material, anything is OK in my book. Games are art. I fucking hate the current trend about sanitizing content and anything that relates to historical revisionist content. I hate Battlefield 5 for the same reasons that you guys hate it. I think that it's a disgrace and I'm not the only one thinking that. Unfortunately, some people at the top have a different opinion. You have to understand that the games that you enjoy now are made by hundreds of people, if not thousands. And most of the time, the people making the game, AAA material, don't agree with the leadership. This is the sad reality and also why many of us are now going indie. We are fed up as much as guys are.

How much dick do you suck on a daily basis?

Not him (clearly), but outing yourself to be one of a few hundred isn't acceptable from his standpoint as typing style is enough to give a person away and narrow things down.
And as far as what qualified him, that would be taking the masses he could be and narrowing it down to a few dozen.
That's just not a good question user.

I've been working on a game DESIGN (not a mere idea) where do I go if I want a studio to actually read it and not just discard it like every others?

I've put the project on hold since it's so brain consuming and for now does not seem to lead me anywhere especially since I asked many studios and nobody replied. That's how it is with those guys. I really think it could be the next big game. Just need some direction desu

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If I was a good enough programmer to program AAA games id probably live that lifestyle too

Why do western games always have ugly chicks in them?

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It's seriously shrinking. Culture is the biggest barrier now. Not skin color. Video game companies are now following the Netflix model, hoping that they will capture the rest of the world. But what they fail to understand, and I know it will sound strange, is that many people around the world fantasize about white people culture. The U.S culture and the burbs and the imagery that comes with it, is one example.

See, this is the kind of post people want to see, that makes us actually think you're human.
Unlike the previous post of yours where you say "So let's keep it that way and this thread will be fun and informative."
Remember where you are. And remember who you are. You're not a corporate drone handling a PR event. Speak your mind as you will.

Now that you mention it I used to watch movies as well, but boy are those days over. Retarded tropes like 100 lb women kicking 250 lb men around just made me roll my eyes too many times. How does this work for Hollywood? Ghostbusters, anyone? Is Star Wars going to be a lasting IP? Hollywood is leading the push agents irrelevancy and the gaming industry follows like the lemmings they’ve become.

I'm a senior software engineer wanting to get into game dev. C++ is not difficult but the art pipeline is.

I love 'asia' style characters, combat, vfx, etc. But there are ZERO american resources to read/digest for that stuff. How do I learn to do what they do so well? I swear they just copy a generic model and rehash a bunch of shit too.

Games like tera, blade and soul, final fantasy, black desert, etc etc. So many similarities but I don't know how to replicate. Halp.

What's with all the cyborg/robot-humanoid trend in games today? It seems like every new game that I see some out is putting in something on those lines. Overusing something gamers clearly don't want.

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dude, go get your dining room table so you have more room for coffee cups and ashtrays.

t. more handsome looking version of op's pic.

fuck you are replying real slow.
>AAA

(((some people at the top have a different opinion)))

Why is the industry fallng to kike propaganda

>the games that you enjoy now
We don;t. That’s our issue, and it will be yours. You don’t see the failure at the point when it actually happens, you see it when the follow up refuses to sell.

You probably honestly believe this schlock too.

Yes, there are a lot of other races, and women exist too. That doesn't mean they play videogames, and it doesn't mean they have to be explicitly catered to to win them over. Battlefield 5 is a perfect example of a company annihilating its core customers in favor of a nebulously bigger group who don't play the games and will never care to play them.

Furthermore, it's fundamentally traitorous behaviour to your own culture, race, and country. Which I have no doubt you don't give a flying fuck about any of which. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. We're not all the same. The importation of millions of foreigners is going to bleed our nations dry, turn them into 3rd world shitholes and balkanize the countries that committed to it. Rather than increasing wealth, you'll have only accomplished destroying your own fucking country.

>I have decades of XP.
>I'm a AAA that has worked and contributed on major IPs that you have enjoyed and played in the last 30 years.
>It's somehow narrowing it down, to let's say a hundred of thousand developers.
Confirmed for not knowing shit about the industry.
There are several hundreds of such mastodons, tops. Not hundreds of thousands. Vidya is run by youngsters. When they get fed with tiny salaries and overtimes, they leave it.
OP, stop larping.

>Hitler was a bad goy
Sends his country to the dark ages for the next 60 years
>not bad

I live in Boston and I know there's a Rockstar Games office about 30 minutes away. I've always been obsessed with GTA and I'm already a developer (web and mobile). How do I get my foot in the door there?

Fuck, is this MatPat larping as a dev for his next video? Crazy feeling now that it's him.

Stop putting niggers and dykes in games you EA nigger.

Sucks to be you. There are smart people who indulge in the diverse problem environment that comes with programming video games.

walk in, look the ceo in the eye and give him a firm handshake

why did gravity rush do so badly?
What kind of mechanical improvements do you think would have benefitted it?

Dude you just got 2 million immigrants in 26 months.
Buy guns, not games. Buy real ammo not lootboxes.

Theres probably 10 people trying to work out what to say somewhere.

>The hatred isn't against the developers themselves. People have more of a problem with the shitheads who make the creative decisions to actively push that crazy far leftist agenda. We acknowledge that the developers are (for the most part) great, talented people who just want to make good games. But you are nerds and you've allowed the feminist/communist/far leftist propaganda machine to absolutely walk all over your industry and it got to the point where it's theatening the jobs of the good intentioned nerds too, by creating financial bust projects.

Look, I've been working in this industry for decades. I feel exactly the same as you do, and so are many of us, if not most. The current trend scares me. I really don't like it. It's fucked up. The only answer I can give you is that many of us are not happy and we are actively working to leave our job and start indie studios and change that. I think that the harder that they push this bullshit, it can only be beneficial in the end. You might see very soon indie developers openly being right wing or shunning this bullshit. It's a process and it takes time, but I personally would like to become indie and cater to your demographic, because we share the same values. Give us some time, and you will see, it will happen. This is how the free market works. Dice and EA have chosen to die on this hill, good for them! We'll fill the blank and come up with content that you guys like. So I'm not too worried.

>I'm an artist
Fuck you.

All you have to do is look at id software being purchased by bethesda/zenimax to see what the industry is all about.

Company turned gay and weak.

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Ok I have a question If a game developer wanted to create a game that's anti-SJW or Right leaning and non politically correct game is he or she allowed to make it without the game being banned and He/She being blacklisted from the industry?

Yes, and then running it via focus groups who aren’t really that interested in the subject but nevertheless have strong opinions.

See my answer below on this subject, the free market will solve this. I am extremely pleased with Steam's answer to this bullshit. Open the fucking gate and let us, creators, create whatever the fuck we want.