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I was refering to this btw

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Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Yeah, it's incredibly sad :( It's been the absolute best time of my career, working together with some incredibly talented people and just having a great time making games. Really thankful and impressed that we actually shipped a game of ECHO's size with a tiny team, that was also critically well received (as well as winning a bunch of awards).
Also just sad that the world will never get to see our second game, was really something special.
BTW I'm back at IO again, most of the team has found new jobs, though not quite all.

Sad to see this happen. Apparently there's still a movie coming out based on this.
I hope the devs at Ultra Ultra find new jobs quickly.

YISSSS~~~ 

I was at the Microsoft conference today.  The fanboys they brought in were pumped as shit. They announced or showed a total of 50 games, plus acquisition of 5 studios including Ninja Theory.  They are clearly making a no bullshit effort to restore a strong 1st party development system.  Good for them. I am no fanboy of any platform so I hope it goes well for Microsoft.
Halo Infinite ... didn't show much yet.
Gears 5...sorry but it felt very trope-y despite still having fans who may like this
Devil May Cry 5...fans were getting nerd boners it seems...
Shadow of the Tomb Raider....I love the series so take my money on this one.
Some new PUBG related stuff...
Kingdom Hearts III....had Elsa and Anna from Frozen in it.  "WTF WHO CARES?" you say. Well the crowd went nuts at that and shit my young daughters were pumped to hear about that when I told them and they started asking me about Kingdom Hearts and  now think "wait...maybe this RPG and Zelda thing daddy likes could be cool." So fucking bravo, Square Enix, bravo to you.  While you are at it, throw in Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor (especially Elena cause she is good with a sword and can fight) cause my kids love them too.
Dying Light 2...oh man I am pumped for this. I loved the first game.
Fallout 76 looked very pretty and I suppose if you love Fallout you may love this. I'm supposed to see it up close this week so looking forward to that.
They are working on "some kind of thing that could eventually be a new console" ...big eyeroll as of course they are and have been working on a new hardware iteration of some kind.  Call me with some real news, pls.
At the end they had a cool Cyberpunk 2077 showing that you should read about in the other thread, 
Finally, this was pretty cool:

https://news.microsoft.com/stories/xbox-adaptive-controller/
I got to try it out up close. By itself it is not revolutionary and it seems resourceful gamers (and/or those who care about gamers with special controller needs) have been hacking their way to gerry-rigged solutions for a while...so Microsoft just decided to make it a little easier for them.  As an industry analyst I have no idea how much this will sell, but hey, if it helps people who love gaming but can't use a regular controller due to an injury, brain-injury, degenerative disease or some other reason, good on Microsoft.  I also think that they would be fun to mess around with the way people were interested in with the Kinect years back.  

I know they get a lot of shit for making interactive experiences that people barely consider games, but I really appreciate there's developers like Quantic Dream and the Until Dawn guys doing these types of games, even if it still feels like they peaked with Heavy Rain.
Also great they've moved on to native english speaking actors

Sounds like an OK game.

I'll be there! Come by the IGF Pavilion and say hi  (we're nominated for an IGF Visuals award with ECHO so we've got a booth there)

Yeah man  Hopefully I'll be back at GDC next year 
And thanks! Now I can cross off being nominated for an IGF award from my game dev bucket list (not too sure about the winning part tho :D)

Source 2 was announced in March 2015 and, 3 years later, here we are. CSGO is not (yet?) ported to Source 2 and there is no reason to assume that will happen anytime soon. 
If you're new to level design in general, just go for it. Source SDK is relatively easy to get started in and there's a ton of information/tutorials/games for it out there.
Level design is more than knowing an editor, so any time spent in one is not wasted at all.
 

Yeah man  Hopefully I'll be back at GDC next year 
And thanks! Now I can cross off being nominated for an IGF award from my game dev bucket list (not too sure about the winning part tho :D)

I'll be there! Come by the IGF Pavilion and say hi  (we're nominated for an IGF Visuals award with ECHO so we've got a booth there)

Damn! Too bad I'm not going this year And congrats for the nomination!!

I'll be there! Come by the IGF Pavilion and say hi  (we're nominated for an IGF Visuals award with ECHO so we've got a booth there)