Borut Pfeifer

@borut.bsky.social

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Exec Producer/Creative Director, Neighborhoods https://store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/Neighborhoods/ Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...

In game clip of UI showing a new Auto Repair business moving in called "I Can Fix Him", Women-Owned Auto Repair.

Steam forum comment screenshot reads:

Bollards

This game needs bollards. Also stanchions, flexi-posts, and other ways to cordon off areas. But especially bollards, including permanent bollards, retractable bollards, and automatic hydraulic bollards.

This would add modal filters to the game so that only lightweight traffic can filter through and cars would be blocked off.

But, bollards in particular would also serve a defensive function and prevent out-of-control motorists from ploughing through pedestrians. And particularly chonky bollards can serve double-duty as scupltures, benches, bike racks, or tables.

Imagine a one-lot parklet surrounded by chess tables. But the chess tables are actually bollards. And then you have an event where the residents run a Christmas market in that park, and a deranged motorist tries to rip through them. Boom, smash, the motorist is reduced to a smear of plastiline while the cute clay people in the market blissfully go about their holiday business.

Blackley: Games follow a cycle similar to winemaking or beer brewing. There’s an addictive side to it that takes over. Sometimes, the alcoholic nature of these things is more important to the business than the artisanal side. You see the importance of microbrew beer wax and wane. The pretension of winemaking waxes and wanes. It’s the same thing.

With winemakin,g the intention is to let the grape reach its maximum potential. That’s the job. When you do that you’ll have a superior product. Then you do that and you make a lot of money, business guys move in and want more of it. Then you lessen the quality of the product. The audience gets a little sick of it. Some people start to drink other stuff because it gets them drunk faster. Then the bottom falls out and it’s out of favor for a while to allow the grape to reach its potential. The business is about something else. After that cycle consumers get sick of that and one guy comes out and says, “I’m a winemaker. I’m going to let the grape reach its full potential.” There’s a New York Times article 15 or 20 years later about this great natural wine movement and we’re back to that stage again.

Claymation inspirt scene from a cozy city sim at a farmer's market

Posing chat got a riddle with one word wrong (what happens twice a second, once a minute, never in an entire year, where second should be moment, and the answer is the letter m, but chatgpt doesn't understand letters and words so it repeats the "correct" answer.

Series of city blocks from an isometric view with a clay-based art style, with molded shapes in building contours.

4x4 city block isometric view with a style inspired by Works Progress Administration art

mid century illustration art style ai generated image of a 4x4 block

Desmond from Assassin's Creed in a hoodie from a security camera.

Slide describing two kinds of stress players have, needing to be distracted by engaging in something, or to destress by low challenge environment

Lemons with tentacles