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[โ€“] krimson@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I watch this dude sometimes, he says he's a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.

Would be nice if he at least admits he's a streamer and not a game dev.

[โ€“] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

Yeah but did you know he worked at Blizzard?

He's been working on that game for almost a decade now, too.

[โ€“] Lemminary@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've also noticed this from watching his stream and the more I learn about the guy the less I like him. He seems to misrepresent and oversell himself quite a bit.

Btw did he tell you about the time he worked at Blizzard, for the millionth time?

[โ€“] JoYo@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 week ago

The job he got through nepotism?

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity that's been implied.

[โ€“] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they're Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won't shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know a few people who used to work for Apple. The reason a lot don't say it though is because if you do people automatically assume you had something to do with whatever feature they don't personally like, and you get berated about it.

[โ€“] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ah, that's completely understandable. Most people don't realize that in a lot of companies, even if you are involved, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that it's a bad idea.

Also it's a big fucking company haha

[โ€“] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember seeing gameplay of Heartbound in like 2017? maybe earlier. it's still not finished?

[โ€“] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I mean isn't it a Deltarune ripoff ??

EDIT: Undertale it is then

[โ€“] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Deltarune didn't exist yet. It's an undertale ripoff.

Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasn't with an (allegedly) entire company around him. He's a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of other's work. That's all he does.

Given that it didn't exist yet, more like an Undertale rip off

[โ€“] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds an awful lot like what YandereDev did when he was still relevant.

[โ€“] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound and he at least does not pretend to be experienced Blizzard game developer.

[โ€“] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yanderedev is always relevant

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

One of the best cautionary tales for developers

[โ€“] underscores@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

"game dev" is a way to put it