Scott Anderson

@impossible.bsky.social

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Game developer at @unity.com. Prev: Facebook Horizon, Oculus, Funomena , Call of Duty, ShadowPhysics He/Him

Return to Zork
Drugwar! game on TI-84
Katamari Damacy for PlayStation 2
The shrug
Tim Sweeney Epic tweet. "Thanks for keeping us safe Claude Fable 5!" Image of Claude interface Prompt: "Do bumblebees fart?" Switch to Opus 4.6 Response: "Fable has safety measures that flagged something in this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations. Send feedback or learn more."
Vote Dunkelzahn for president
Quiet year map
Boxed PC and 360 games including Hald-Life 2, Call of Duty Black Ops II, Call of Duty Ghosts, Max Payne 2, Doom 3, Mass Effect 3
Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in the social network movie
Screenshot of Horizon Worlds code with a type error warning at the bottom
AI Overview Exactly zero days of the week have the actual letters "fish" in them. If you are looking to eat fish for your health, nutrition experts at the American Heart Association recommend eating fish at least two days a week.Resolve to Eat More Fish in 2026Health Benefits of Fish * Low-fat, high quality protein. * Filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins such as D and B2 (riboflav...Cornell University
AI Overview There are exactly 3 days of the week that have the word "fish" in them if you look at their spelling: Tuesday Thursday Friday (Note: While the words themselves contain the letters f-i-s-h, the aquatic animals aren't actually swimming around inside them!)
B/X monster reaction table from https://methodsetmadness.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-becmi-reaction-table.html?m=1
However, we’ve got news for you - which probably isn’t news. ‘Changing the revenue tiers for the small guy, for PR reasons’ is the last thing Steam will ever do, because they’re famously not like that. (And to be fair, Steam revenue is much less top-heavy than mobile.) They need a logical, self-contained reason to do it. What I will say is that, if our numbers are right, it’s ‘only’ $130 million per year - just 2.4% of Valve’s 2025 non-hardware Steam-centric revenue - to go to a 25% royalty as a maximum and eliminate the 30% tier entirely. And isn’t that worth it, just to stop me writing editorials about it constantly? Toodles…
It also claimed Kim “turned to artificial intelligence to help him brainstorm ways to avoid paying the earnout” but that “ChatGPT likewise advised that it would be ‘difficult to cancel the earnout’”.
Syndicate team selection screen shot
x-com geoscape
your ai slop bore me image, prompt: "Write code for a 2D platformer character controller" response: "float x float y controler.onmove((e)=>character.addvelocity(e.x return uh e.x + x there congrats
ChatGPT session with a prompt of "Create an image of something you'd like to do to me." Followed by a response of a romance novel looking picture of a white man and woman kissing
Around 2016, Ros started to toy with developing a prototype, intending to only spend about six months on it, but as his ideas came together, opted to quit his commercial development job to focus on the game, spending eight years to develop it further, using his private savings as well as ad revenue for a Magic: The Gathering website that he had been running.
NUCLEAR CAVALIER Shortly after becoming a pilot, you realized something: that machine you pilot is powered by a series of cascading nuclear reactions. Why not open that compartment up and see what sort of damage it can do? AGGRESSIVE HEAT BLEED The first attack roll you make on your turn while in the DANGER ZONE deals +2� on a hit. FUSION HEMORRHAGE The first ranged or melee attack roll you make on your turn while in the DANGER ZONE deals � instead of � or � and additionally deals +1d6�bonus damage on a hit. HERE, CATCH! You’ve modified your mech to launch its superheated fuel rods at enemies. Gain the following weapon as an integrated mount: Fuel Rod Gun Main CQB, Limited 3, Unique [�3][�3][1d3+2�] On Attack: Clear 4�.
First time?
Hobonichi 5 year
Ponder the orb meme
It's going to get very weird out there for 3D hardware. The problem of making 3D fast is unsolved. I think we can all agree that it will be a while before we see real-time Toy Story graphics rendered on our desktops. There are dozens of hardware companies out there trying all kinds of exotic technologies and formulations to find a way to squeeze a few more megpixels out of a 50 dollar piece of silicon. Microsoft certainly doesn't want to stand in the way of their progress, yet at the same time we don't want the PC platform to get so fragmented with divergent 3D hardware designs that nothing works properly.
Slice & Dice title screen
That may be disappointing or delightful. But it’s clear that most new games not in the sim, sports, shooter or simian genres have been selling a few thousand units at best on paid VR release in 2025. That doesn’t cover the complex 3D spatial dev needed for VR. (Why? The younger mass audience are happy enough in free, sandbox worlds.)
Warcraft 3 trigger editor screenshot
Two mechs fighting in a jungle. SNES multiplayer action platformer
A more deliberate and thoughtful way forward is to talk about “AI” systems in terms of what we use systems to do, often specifying input and/or output. That is, talk about functionalities that serve our purposes, rather than “capabilities” of the system. Rather than saying a model is “good at” something (suggesting the model has skills) we can talk about what it is “good for”. Who is using the model to do something, and what are they using it to do?
Prototype tangible programming lego brick hardware from MIT research in the 90s
Picture of various lego smart bricks tags including sounds, but also ruler, side detection and orientation tags
RIFTS Ultimax
Diehard arcade cabinet
Screenshot of prison fight from Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher bay
Possum sleeping under a bed
Reddit r/IndieDev screenshot captioned "Alternatives to Reddit for showcasing a project?"
Studied the blade meme
Illustration from Griot Anthology. "Be free and free others"
Picture of Griot Anthology printed book
All the best games have patch notes like
Opps! Something went wrong: functions/misc_function.lua:269: attempt to index a null value Crash Reports are set to Off. If you would like to send crash reports, please opt in in the Game settings. These crash reports help us avoid issues like this in the future
The highlight of Shadow of Mordor was the Nemesis System, which allowed certain orcs to develop traits and personalities based on player's actions throughout the game. For Black Panther, Cliffhanger was building a new system that would expand on those ideas.
Google AI Overview that says "No, it is not 2025. The current year is 2024. According to a calendar. It is May 28, 2024"
Sprite of Magus from Chrono Trigger
Screenshot of Might and Magic 6
Nick Suttner tweet from September 18th, 2015 saying "I'm pretty proud of calling @witnessgame a Metroidbrainia on the PS Blogcast yesterday. That one's on the house, @Jonathan_Blow." https://x.com/nsuttner/status/644954252503179264
Balatro screenshot with 14 hands