Hayden Scott-Baron

I'm Hayden, aka Docky! I've worked on lots of games as game designer. Most of them are here: www.mobygames.com/person/18141... I worked on Planet Coaster, Jurassic World Evo, and even some Lego Fortnite. I've worked for Microsoft, Frontier, Numinous, Ustwo, as well as helping on indie titles.

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Instead of ending daylight saving time, how about switching to Docky Hexatime? 16 hours per day. 16 minutes per hour. 256 seconds per minute. docky.net/hexatime/

Games can be life changing. Remember this is why you are making games.

Am I the only person that hates being sent a YouTube video with no additional information? Just a link. Did you like it? Do you have an opinion? Why did you send it?

An excellent summary of year-round daylight saving time, or simply choosing to live in whatever timezone you feel like. Time is fake and clocks are terrible. I love that some people have try courage to push back against Big Clock.

Are there any game designers with a good homepage? Usually it’s just a few credits and a blog with 3 posts before being abandoned.

@droqen.bsky.social I recently started a list of non-negotiables, which feel so much better than a manifesto or a mission statement. I wonder what your non-negotiables are these days.

Yesss it’s Laura E. Halloween newsletter month!

How do gamedevs name a game?! It seems impossible.

My finest contribution to games. ⭐

When did Playmobil characters become totally badass? Cyberpunk fashion with pink hair and prosthetics? I like that the laser sight can be removed from the pistol. When I grew up Playmobil characters were total dorks.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but; “Big Dawg” is a gender neutral term of endearment

game jam where you only have pencilbox supplies goes hard

Shout out to my first 3D version of Rana from about 20 years ago, long before she appeared in Minecraft.

it’s so great and normal that Steam is randomly censoring games like this for no reason, at the same time as they’re blasting “HENTAI VS FURRY FEST” banners all over the front page, which takes you straight to full-frontal nudity in one click

This marble rolling game looks phenomenal

Fellow indies devs, how many of you have an intentional preproduction process? I recently started tech tests for a new game after several weeks of designing exclusively on pen & paper. I usually recommend against working this way but it’s going nicely.

@gameonysus.bsky.social @patrickklepek.bsky.social playing and enjoying Angel Essence, thanks for your recommendation on the Remap pod!! I wanted to recommend you check out Castle on the Coast. It has some highly permissive wall jumping and strong ‘PS2 dive bar’ energy.

Look at how good this game looks! Always excited to see a new Locomalito game.

Gill Sans is to fonts what Figs are to fruit.

Best explanation I've got is Godot isn't drowning in generational noise. Unreal has layers of conflicting tooling, and there's always a Correct Way of doing something that is theoretically more efficient, but only when done in the big studio way, so you bend your OWN processes in a knot to suit etc

Gertrude has secrets. She’s seen a lot.

I love making stuff that no-one gets to see!!

When the door says "pull" but you're a Stretchmancer 😵 #screenshotsaturday

Yes this is true! This is also why experienced developers and mixed background teams are valuable on projects. An ideal team can pull from all sorts of projects.

One of my favourite moments when designing games is solving a new problem with parts from an abandoned project. It feels like cheating. I’m stealing ideas from myself!!

I think about this all the time!! What’s the subset of my art which is appealing, sustainable, and not undermined by AI dross. Generally it’s the wonky stuff because noone wonks as hard as otherwise intentional humans.

I would like to attend Develop in 2027.

I often have to remind game designers and producers that the ‘little things’ are what makes a good game great.

Karen aka Bitmoo is one of the best artists and you should all hire her for your games. I love the style so much.

This is such a wonderful episode of what is already such a wonderful podcast. Highly recommend.

i recently saw someone post this new browser (browser.horse) and it's made me think for the past few days about how comfortable we are with keeping usability trends FROM THE 90s, despite now being far more knowledgeable about individual needs and use cases. artefacts are still one-size-fits-some

be it saturation or anatomy or motion or lineart or proportions or whatever individual element of a given drawing or painting, if you think to yourself "this might be too much" you are at least 1.5x under where you actually want to be at

I’m so sorry everyone. I think I did this.

This looks great!! I love making UX layer tools to make a fiddly tool fun to use and easy to tweak. When a level art tool is annoying to use there’s simply too much friction to change game content.

Pikuniku 2 is the only game announcement I’ve been excited by this week. I can’t wait. youtu.be/G-llkKMJxjY?...

I have done a lot of gamedev student portfolio reviews over the years. I am often giving the same advice, so to help as many students as possible I am organizing a live digital portfolio review where everyone can watch the feedback. It's scheduled for July 6th: www.eventbrite.nl/e/game-dev-s...

Square should hurry and make this game.

Oeuf v1.4 out now - MULTIPLAYER MAP EDITIN - GIANT NEW MAP OEUF CITY - BUILT-IN STEAM WORKSHOP BROWSER - 30% OFF FOR A WEEK www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnQO...

Please help! I need to repost this. Sony refuse to recover my stolen PSN account (despite 2FA). I’ve lost 19 years of purchases. They won’t help unless I provide the serial number from a old PS3 which broke in 2009. Are there any journalists interested in this story? Anyone can contact Sony?

I would love to not be haunted , some feel like wounds that one is doomed to carry your entire life, that will never fully heal.

I’m very tempted to write a manifesto for this jam.

Speaking as a dev on the other end, it’s always frustrating when a game is sent to a demo event and the recorded feedback from players is sparse. Ideally I want gameplay footage with microphone, but definitely a lot of notes!!!

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