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That's pretty impressive. Fair play.

And here I was thinking I was great getting nearly 10k downloads for a stupid android soundboard app.

Yeah I did the same course in the Digital Hub. That game jogged my memory as I definitely heard of that before, I did the course in (2012/2013 I think)

That's a shame, some of the design classes were good.

Is Havok still used? Wasn't that Irish? I know it's not a game but it was used in plenty of AAA games.

To be fair, coding is now in some schools. My daughter had the option of picking a technology module that I'd have KILLED for in secondary school where they learn to code on arduino boards and do some python & java coding.

Really echoing how badly we dropped the ball in Ireland for the tax cuts, I came out of one of the first dedicated game development B.Sc's in 2009 and there was a hunger then to get more game dev going in Ireland. We did have a lot of folks from the universities and gaming companies push for the tax breaks but I think the Great Recession took precedence and within a year of graduating, and no gaming jobs around, I ended up in enterprise software.

Without focusing on specific games though there are areas we're well known for contributing to, like Havok for physics engines, demonware for networking code, the xbox engineering team in microsoft in Dublin is not insignificant and I know a guy who did some good work on the accessibility projects for xbox in there too, and one that stuck out when I was in college was one of the best examples of a niche was a crowd who basically had an asset pack for trees they licenced to game studios. No idea if they are still going or not but apparently they were making a good bundle at the time.

Going the other way there's a one man game made using unreal called "out of action" looks like a Ghost in the shell FPS that I really like the look of, made by a guy called Doku was an character and lighting artist and worked on a bunch of games as well as modding and if a game had a player created side of it's ingame store he'd probably having something in that.

Only actual coding he'd to do was to get the slow mo to work, rest just used Unreals block system, which is probably no small coincidence that

Holy ****, Flashback 2, out November this year.

Fade To Black was..... different. I remember enjoying it but also it wasn't a patch on the original. I'm not sure of the 3d sections in this but definitely keeping my eye on it.

Maybe Microsoft and the CMA can reach some agreement by talking to Joe on Liveline.

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Not that I got far in Flashback or played Fade to Black, but I thought Fade to Black was more a follow up than a sequel, the same way Flashback was a follow up to Another World while others think it's a sequel.



UK say its blocking Microsoft deal

Yes, giving the game away for free to people who subscribe to gamepass instead of charging €70 or whatever per head for it is bad for business. Unless you're a small dev with low sales prospects, or you've got an old game that's already done most of its lifetime sales, or you're the owner of the platform and you're trying to lock more people into your ecosystem. This is why no AAA third party games ever appear on day one on gamepass, whether from Activision or anyone else.

For it to be worth Activision's while, Microsoft would have to pay as much money as all the combined purchasers would have spent to buy the game and they simply would have no chance of making that much back in new gamepass subscribers so it just makes no financial sense. Buying out ABK is a completely different scenario because it's capital expenditure and it's something that they calculate will make a return on investment over many years and across far more IPs than just COD and far more platforms than just console.

The idea that there’s something suspicious about regulatory agencies speaking to each other is pretty flimsy.

Its typical of the GOP these days to turn something routine into a huge issue without any evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever.