Izuno

Late to this thread.  A lot going on.
I was not close to Zach but I remember him back in the early days of Mapcore. Painful to hear. So sorry to those close to him and his family.

One word: 
engineer.
 
Miss that guy ;(

Man those were the days. 

New job for me, as of August 8th. Senior Material Artist at Playstation Studios Visual Arts
Congrats @celery I have updated the list!

Spent a few years away from management but it gradually pulled me back in ? I'm now the Lead Level Designer on Fable over at Playground Games!

Promoted to senior technical artist a few months ago.

Update:
Welp...I got the Steam Cloud issues sorted. Mouse/KB on PC and Steam Deck controls appear sorted so I can go back and forth for at least Half Life.  Cloud saves also works now which is obviously critical.
(I suspect the Steam Cloud issue was probably user error?  Whatever it works now)
Definitely going to try some more modern games next.

Thanks for the info! I too find the switch to not be that comfortable to use in handheld mode. Glad to hear the deck seems to be better for that.

See image of SD vs. Switch vs. Switch Lite.  I got the Switch Lite for my kid(s) and it's too small for my taste. Also, the regular Switch is more fatiguing than the Steam Deck. The ergonomics of the Steam Deck fit better with adult hands in my opinion. 
 
 

 
ALSO...anyone use Steam on more than one machine, including a Steam Deck? I've been testing out games and for the fun of it I tried the original Gold Source Half Life and would ye not thy knowethest it I'm now 5+ hours into replaying Half Life on it. With that, I can't get Cloud Saves to work between it and my main Steam PC.  And...the control mapping for lefties on PC don't translate well to Steam Deck.  Half Life is a 20+ year old game that obviously was not 100% optimized...but man the nostalgia of playing older games on SD that you know will run smoothly is real.  I am not expecting Valve to do that kind of work to really make it SD optimized, but man would that be nice cause now I want to try going back and forth between SD and my PC and it just doesn't work.  I guess I have to try some newer, SD optimized games.

The Deck is quite big compared to the Switch and heavier too. I will say for as big as the Deck is, it doesn’t feel as heavy as you would think. It’s very manageable.

Update: welp, it has been ordered. Looking forward to more portable Steam action. 

Update: welp, it has been ordered. Looking forward to more portable Steam action. 

Update: welp, it has been ordered. Looking forward to more portable Steam action. 

Welp...just got notified I can now complete my order to take delivery sometime in July.  Guess...I'm going to...do...that.

Welp...just got notified I can now complete my order to take delivery sometime in July.  Guess...I'm going to...do...that.

I played an hour of Death Stranding and gave up.  I didn't hate it, just got busy and distracted and then never got back to it.
Recently played Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga. Definitely exceeded my modest expectations.
However the primary game I'm into now is Horizon Forbidden West. In some ways it's better than HZD, and in some ways not as good. It does feel overall easier but the older I get the less I care about how hard a game is and instead I enjoy how playable a game is without forcing me to work or think too hard.  HFW floats the boat on that.

Respectfully disagree but I don't think you are wrong about the direction they wanted to take the show. I think they ended exactly where they wanted to end.
 

Just finished the final season of Ozark.  
I had some complaints along the way, but in the end it's a masterpiece.

Late to this thread.  A lot going on.
I was not close to Zach but I remember him back in the early days of Mapcore. Painful to hear. So sorry to those close to him and his family.

Late to this thread.  A lot going on.
I was not close to Zach but I remember him back in the early days of Mapcore. Painful to hear. So sorry to those close to him and his family.

I just learned one of our original members, Zach Ford @Zaford20 aka “von ferret” has passed away unexpectedly at the age of 36.
 
For those of you who don’t know him, Zach was one of the original members of Mapcore. Working at Gearbox for most of his career he worked on (among others) Borderlands and more recently PUBG as a Level and Game Designer. 
 
I have so many good memories with Zach, wasting fools in BF2 every night while teaming up in the attack helicopter, playing frisbee in a park in Savannah during a thunderstorm, long conversations about life…
 
RIP buddy. You will be missed.

 

Pretty much.
Also, seems like Bobby's challenges were a real catalyst to this deal happening.
https://twitter.com/benfritz/status/1483627639201878021

Pretty much.
Also, seems like Bobby's challenges were a real catalyst to this deal happening.
https://twitter.com/benfritz/status/1483627639201878021

Got promoted to Senior Level Designer at Splash Damage last month. Ain't that something?

I'm now a Principal Environment Artist at Lightspeed LA (updated the board to reflect it). Last time I started a new job was 10 years ago, this is very exciting!