Emir Arkman 🩸 Play Hellkind!

Emir Arkman 🩸 Play Hellkind!

@emirarkman.com

Lead UI Artist at Maverick Games in the day, horror game developer at night. Visuals and music + into THPS, horror and chillies. Play Hellkind! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3583310/Hellkind/ emirarkman.com motamot.co

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We just announced a thing with friends at Maverick Games !

Focus Entertainment@focus-entmt.com

We're proud to team up with Maverick Games to publish #CLUTCH! 🤝 Discover an open-world action-driving game where pro racing meets underground street scene, all across the French Riviera. 🏎️ Hit the gas, this one will slap hard! 🏁

I liked Halo Campaign Evolved but what the hell is happening with inconsistent + super low performance cutscenes and dumbed down enemy AI? The whole thing leaves a sour taste in the mouth really. It is really hard and exhausting to be a fan.

Yesterday hurt. Not because they're numbers on a spreadsheet, but because they're people. Friends and colleagues. My heart goes out to everyone affected. The industry keeps losing incredible talent, and it's exhausting to watch.

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Also the loss of senior talent at id Software... Engines don't maintain themselves. They're carried by people with hard earned knowledge that can't be replaced with a new hiring plan. WTF man. They want a new Doom, Quake yet they fire people who know how to make them happen.

Yesterday hurt. Not because they're numbers on a spreadsheet, but because they're people. Friends and colleagues. My heart goes out to everyone affected. The industry keeps losing incredible talent, and it's exhausting to watch.

Watching thousands get laid off while the people making these decisions walk away untouched is infuriating as always ffs. Industry is in an awful place right now. Every wave of layoffs erases years of experience, friendships, and passion. We keep pretending this is normal now.

UK trains are amazing. Cold weather? Cancelled. Hot weather? Cancelled. Too much rain? Cancelled. For no reason? Cancelled. If not cancelled it is expensive, dirty and always delayed anyway so wtf is this honestly..

Made bunch of portraits for Deadstock - used stock videos and applied Node Machine from SynkitNET. Turned out to be super funky. Contracts are basically side quests from faceless rich people and institutions asking you to make the world worse. #indiegamedev #gamedev

I respect Bungie big time because no other AAA leadership would approve that graphic design vision, iconography or font selection today. That kind of risk-taking is nearly gone. Talk is cheap in pre-pro, then graphic design gets safer and muddier. Thank you Bungie for being better.

I was watching a Hellkind gameplay and streamer said 'she does not know what to feel about the plot because game never told her what to feel about it'. It's like an uphill battle isn't it, what am I even doing here?

Oh no I missed all the dev conference deadlines 😭 If any conferences (wish I messaged Develop:Brighton in time) need a speaker, I’ve got a talk on shipping Hellkind + indie horror marketing ready to deploy and love to be part of it. I should send messages in advance next time.

As you can see again, no one cares about how you made the game or how impressive your code is. It is a product, and only thing matters is if the game is satisfying, is fun to play etc or not. Make the game with blueprints, with store assets.. no one cares - except twitter.