Colin Zarzour

Small Biz Lawyer
Game Design & Sounds
Online Community Growth Marketing
(He/Him)

@vkgamedev @gardiner_bryant not sure how much experience you need but @slimefriend has made some godot stuff

Does anyone have advice about playtesting and shipping a card game?

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2022-11-21

I think that people going to Hive, Koo, or anything similar are missing the point.
Why go to another social network that can be bought by another billionaire?

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2022-11-18

Looks like journalists are also joining Mastodon en masse right now.

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@briechindeyerle i would love to learn more about what kind of stuff you think game comps should be dumping r&d dollars into!

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2022-11-18
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@antimnguyen im here just because im sick of reading "and yet youre reading this on twitter"

Teaching myself how to make cocktails

What in your opinion is the Mastodon meta?

@awstein I didnt know about the distinction, thanks so much for the thoughtful reply :)

Colin Zarzour boosted:
2022-11-08

@colinzarzour And finally, meeting people :D Going to meetups or conferences in your area is a great way to get some advice and hear about positions in the industry. Some Discord servers are also open to people who are trying to get into the industry.
I think I'll write a longer post about all this soon though 😄

Colin Zarzour boosted:
2022-11-08

@colinzarzour Hey! Writing will definitely help, but the first thing here is that games writing and narrative design are distinct jobs (although we often end up doing both). In both cases, it will help to have examples of interactive fiction you wrote (Twine or Ink are great places to start). If you're aiming for narrative design, working on little games with environmental design, or writing up some quests. If it's more games writing, then writing short scripts in different genres. 1/2

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@awstein any advice for how to get into narrative design?

Besides just writing as much and as often as we can, ofc!

@awstein any advice for how to get into narrative design?

Besides just writing as much and as often as we can, ofc!

Colin Zarzour boosted:
2022-11-07

"bikeshedding" is a really useful term to know imho. It happens a lot in game UI and software in general. People find it easier to give feedback on the size of a button but not rethink an entire menu
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshe

Snippet of text from wictionary entry on bikeshedding. The text reads:

Etymology

bikeshed +‎ -ing. The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp and has spread from there to the software industry at large.

@alisynthesis so sickkk whats your process for cleaning?

I have a microkorg with a key that is determined to be a dud

Any recommendations for graphics cards?

Are prices better since the eth2.0 upgrade?

Colin Zarzour boosted:
2022-11-03

@colinzarzour I wrote a tutorial on how to setup OpenGL render window on Win32, and it got featured on flipCode and OpenGL.org. Next thing I knew, a producer from EA e-mailed me asking if I was looking for a job.

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2022-11-03

@colinzarzour I graduated #enjmin then joined Ubisoft for my internship and 15 years later I'm still here 😁

(ENJMIN is a French public organisation that provides a structure of education inspired by film schools.)

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