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Jeffrey

@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies.

I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · 6d ago

TFW your code to detect corrupt data instead detects several bugs in your code.

...if anyone asks, let's pretend it's a unit test.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · 6d ago

I think #VisualStudio might have just given me an aneurysm.

Ever since they started trying to force the LLM crap everywhere even basic functionality just keeps having an absolute dumb.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 21, 2026

I've always struggled to find books I like and to spend the time reading them, which was made so much worse by an education system that stopped me from reading books I enjoyed and forced me to read books that were incredibly boring.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 21, 2026

I finished listening to Artemis this week.

First off, Rosario Dawson has a great voice and I'd enjoy hearing her do more audio books.

The story had some moments where events/tone stuck out and felt wrong, and the main character was a bit too willing to do a bit too evil of actions, that people were too quick to forgive.

I find myself wishing there was more to continue with though, which IMO is the best benchmark of enjoying a story.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

#Linux #gamedev update:

Life has been a nightmare the past couple months so not much time to make progress. I've been working on automation to easily set up the environment and tools we need on new machines/VMs, including tools that lack proper Linux installers (I'm looking at you #Perforce).

I'm convinced Kubuntu, but with Snap removed and Flatpak added, is the best environment for converts. I wish there was a distro that was this out of the box.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Apologies for the politics. I promise only gamedev and programming related tooting the rest of the month.

(and maybe a couple about Linux)

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

It's not about age verification. "Protect the children" is the fake rallying cry to stop you from questioning them.

It is about censorship, tracking, and spying on you. Look at the number of governments demanding they are given unquestioned access to everything you say and do. Look at the fundamentalist groups doing everything they can to force their warped morality on you.

This is a playbook they've used before; each time gaining more ground. Fight back.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 27, 2026

Help me out, is this a hot take, or luke warm?

Communication via email is such a reasonable accommodation for people with hearing or other issues using a phone that a company not offering it (especially for customer service) should be considered a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act? (And your regional equivalent)

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 26, 2026

The show The Traitors has a lot of issues (and puts on display a lot of societal problems neurodivergents endure daily, crying at NTs dealing with it in a game), but I do find it interesting how well structured it is for allowing the show runners to control and rebalance on the fly while pretending it is preplanned activities or that the players are in control.

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Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey
@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place

Professional game developer. You may know me from a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Medal of Honor, FreeRealms, Genesis Noir, the UE4 commit history, the old PS2DEV/PSPDEV days, or dozens of other games and projects. I now run CrankGames, a small company providing gamedev services to not-as-small companies. I have opinions on gamedev.

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@drakonite@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 26, 2026

FWIW, this rant was apropos of nothing specific happening recently. I've been planning to publicly make the change official for several months.

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