chris.james

chris.james

@cignet.bsky.social

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Video Game Designer. CEO/Game Director of @thunderousgames.bsky.social. I aspire to do great things, but not in the Voldemort kinda way. MID/ADC Vancouver, BC ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. ๐Ÿค– Godot - 47% ๐ŸŽฎ Unity - 34% ๐Ÿ› ๏ธGameMaker - 5% ๐Ÿš€ Unreal Engine - 3% โœจ Other - 11%

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What's the secret to Final Fantasy VII Revelation only taking three years to make? A consistent vision and retaining 95% of their staff. I spoke to director Naoki Hamaguchi about Revelation's development, what he's doing next (no more remakes!), and much more. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

bloomberg.comWhy โ€˜Final Fantasy VII Revelationโ€™ Took Only Three Years to MakeDirector Naoki Hamaguchi says the keys were retaining staff and sticking to his vision

Eurovision songs I like this year: The UK, Iceland, Latvia, and Sweden. Also, the final collab song should win! It was easily the best of them all :D The stage this year is absoutely EPIC!

It's oddly satisfying to create your own EC2 T3 AWS server, get Perforce connected to it with Unreal ignore and typeface configs, to upload a greatly reduced filesize Unreal Project - and then delete the github repository. That's my idea of a good Friday night ๐Ÿ˜ธ

I want to start a bit more of a fun thread: What are 3 beloved Video Games that you should have played by now, but haven't yet? 1) Zelda: Majora's Mask 2) Final Fantasy 8 3) Dwarf Fortress *note: This is about games released 5+ years ago. There are too many new-ish games to keep track of. ๐Ÿ’ธ

Did a reorganization of my board games today - wanted to make them easier to get as a I had a lot of smaller boxes / objects in front / covering them. I enjoy every one of these. ๐ŸŽฒ ๐ŸŽฒ ๐Ÿฅฐ Any of these peak your interest?

100% this.

Morgan Lockhart@mizdoomcookie.bsky.social

I hope every laid off dev who poured their soul into a project understands and allows themselves to recognize that you need to grieve after. Like, seriously grieve. It's a loss, a big one, and if you don't process it like grief, it will get stuck inside and rot, like any trauma.

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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

Delaney King (In Yellow)@delaneyking.bsky.social

Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.