Do you follow the people behind the games?

[Screw Danlon]

Are you one of those people who follows game designers/musicians/devs? Or are you more interested in the final product? Or are you more like a sports fan, where you think the team is more important than the individual players?

If you do follow people, are you more likely to follow major names or are you more likely to follow smaller devs? And will you seek out older games by a dev you like now?


I’m one of those people for whom the information just sort of sticks, so when I used to follow games more, I tended to just kind of pick this stuff up. Nowadays, I find myself caring less. If I find a game on Steam that I like I‘ll occasionally go through the company’s bio on Steam to see if I can sort of see a through-line (it makes a lot of sense that the guys who made Satisfactory also made Sanctum), and I still have a few devs I track (Zachtronics, Michael Brough, Tom Francis) because I tend to enjoy everything they make. But for the most part, I think I’ve stopped. That said, when I do have the info, and I know someone likes a certain dev, I like being able to tell them about other projects that person’s worked on in case they want to find them.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Scott Cawthorn was literally the only game dev I followed on an almost daily basis, right up until Ultimate Custom Night was released, then I just stopped giving a shit cause (at the time) I thought the FNAF series was over.

But then he pulled a Kingdom Hearts by releasing books that actually ties with the game cannon and added secrets and answers to the lore for questions that were unanswered about a few things... specifically the survival logbook. Now I just don't care out of principle.

 

[Agarathium1066]

The last 5ish years have taught me to never pay attention to the opinions of creators because they usually spiral into spewing hot takes. It's better to just enjoy the game or music and not "meet" the people making it.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

Nintendo developers mostly. And I guess a few other developers that seem like they enjoy making games because it's a neat job that they have a passion for.

Otherwise I find most developers are using video games as a way to be propagandists or to fill a hole or both. Those people I ignore. Their games also generally aren't as good.

 

[MrTroll]

People who make games should be killed.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Never touch their social media if it isn't 95% about game development and showcasing mods. Tynan Sylvester's Twitter is a good example.

 

[sasazuka]

Not really. I know that Yu Suzuki is responsible for many of the Sega games I like the most, particularly ones involving Ferraris, but I don't know what he's been up to lately. (Checking Wikipedia, oh, right, Shenmue 3. I've never actually played a Shenmue game even though I have a Dreamcast. The original is pretty expensive as far as Dreamcast games go on the secondary market.)

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

I used to follow the works of Suda51 and Swery65. However in recent years Suda has become astonishingly predictable and Swery has taken the woke pill.

When it comes to Western developers all of them are quite frankly fags from the same circlejerk and I see no point in following when all of them think and act the fucking same, which in turn makes their games feel and play the fucking same.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've bought a new release from the past 4 years (I think Doom 2016 is the most recent game on my library that wasn't a gift) so I don't think I'm even keeping up with games anymore, at all.

 

[augment]

If there's something I learned from the .plan file bitchslaps from the time of Quake 3 is that the smartest and most capable software engineers are just as dumb, petty and retarded as the visual artists they mock, and the sound engineers they smoke pot with.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Nope, I became aware of game devs by watching Kojima fanboys acting like massive fucking spergs on Gamefaqs so it turned me off from "following" game devs. Another thing that turned me off was my friend making me watch some Gears of War documentary about Cliffy B. Cliffy B acted like such an insufferable faggot, and by extension my friend seemed like a dipshit for religiously following him.

I can only imagine how lame the people who follow the last of us 2 guy must look.

 

[Granola Grenadine]

Not anymore. Turns out social media is a fine lesson in, "never meet your heroes."

(Case in point, Tim Schafer.)

 

[Safir]

I used to, and I owe a lot to having followed the right people at the right time. These days I mostly check whether the devs are terminally woke, like, I'm not going to buy a game with chomo shit in it or if the dev donates proceeds to looters.

Also a lot of stuff is on discord these days making it too much of a bother to stalk unrewarding to be a fan. I used to waste a lot of money on "content creators" before patreon, but after everyone went "what kind of fan are you that you can't spare X bucks? I know all you bougie whores are guzzling coffee and plucking your eyebrows", I can't even bother to pirate. Discord is patreon except the cost is in wamen-hours instead of real dollars. If that's what it takes to be a fan, fuck this and fuck you.

 

[Endu]

The only person in the video game industry I follow is Marty O'Donnell, best known for composing the (original) Halo music. Now that the series has gone down the shitter, he's not afraid to occasionally talk shit about the current state of the series and is pretty active on Twitter and Youtube.

For example, here's something that he tweeted fairly recently:

He's also a really fucking nice guy who talks to the older Halo fans about behind-the-scenes/easter egg stuff.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

No, never did. Sometimes that stuff does get to me when they're being retards, of course.
Closest I got to this was enjoying the Masters of Doom book.

 

[Slimy Time]

No, never meet your "heroes". Game could be excellent/your favourite and then you find out the designer has some nuclear takes, sours the game.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

why would i want to hear the complaints of some dope that can only speak to computers?

 

[The Real Me]

I follow Toby Fox and Sakurai on Twitter just to get updates on Deltarune and dates for Smash characters.

 

[AMHOLIO]

It's a little complex for me.

Big game publishing people - only if their timeline is focused on game creation and their general life, not politics. I like to know where they end up and what company they're at, sometimes one person can make a difference, sometimes not. Sometimes I follow them on accident if they're an artist who works at a studio. As long as politics aren't there, I'm cool. If there are or they're annoying in some way, I might just stick to a company account for news or just wait for release dates.

Indie game people - it's trickier since their personal account can be their game account or vice versa. They're more likely to explode into "BLM! DIE COPS!" if a big event happens politically. I still want updates on the game but with no other social media account its hard to find news. (Note: if it was a sjw game in the first place I wasn't following it, this is for apolitical games). I end up muting words on twitter due to it.

No name game developers are like indie devs, except I might be friends with them. It's why you see me here blowing off steam sometimes.

 

[Bongocat]

Following game developers is what lead me to the conclusion that I should just pirate everything by default.

 

[Psyduck]

I like to think my vidya comes from a faceless machine that literally shits the software into my pc
I care about enjoying the finished work, everything else it's better to just ignore

Twitter is a fucking disgrace