Borut Pfeifer

@borut

Exec Producer/Creative Director, Neighborhoods Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...

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Borut Pfeifer@borut· Jul 17

So in Neighborhoods we have funny business names, because why not. My wife actually suggested this one, & everybody that see its laughs. But this got banned on TikTok because it "violated community guidelines"...

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Jul 17

All the Cities:Skylines players answering this with "It's a roundabout" 😭🤡 archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Jun 7

While I was confident the game would find an audience, I am pleasantly surprised in finding more fellow bollard sickos on Steam:

Steam forum comment screenshot reads:

Bollards

This game needs bollards. Also stanchions, flexi-posts, and other ways to cordon off areas. But especially bollards, including permanent bollards, retractable bollards, and automatic hydraulic bollards.

This would add modal filters to the game so that only lightweight traffic can filter through and cars would be blocked off.

But, bollards in particular would also serve a defensive function and prevent out-of-control motorists from ploughing through pedestrians. And particularly chonky bollards can serve double-duty as scupltures, benches, bike racks, or tables.

Imagine a one-lot parklet surrounded by chess tables. But the chess tables are actually bollards. And then you have an event where the residents run a Christmas market in that park, and a deranged motorist tries to rip through them. Boom, smash, the motorist is reduced to a smear of plastiline while the cute clay people in the market blissfully go about their holiday business.

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Apr 9

Me reading the news every day.

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Mar 31

He is risen

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Feb 23

If you're wanting to read just one article/interview on Xbox and/or Gen AI in games, this is the one. Lot's of great snippets but this is my favorite: gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

Blackley: Games follow a cycle similar to winemaking or beer brewing. There’s an addictive side to it that takes over. Sometimes, the alcoholic nature of these things is more important to the business than the artisanal side. You see the importance of microbrew beer wax and wane. The pretension of winemaking waxes and wanes. It’s the same thing.

With winemakin,g the intention is to let the grape reach its maximum potential. That’s the job. When you do that you’ll have a superior product. Then you do that and you make a lot of money, business guys move in and want more of it. Then you lessen the quality of the product. The audience gets a little sick of it. Some people start to drink other stuff because it gets them drunk faster. Then the bottom falls out and it’s out of favor for a while to allow the grape to reach its potential. The business is about something else. After that cycle consumers get sick of that and one guy comes out and says, “I’m a winemaker. I’m going to let the grape reach its full potential.” There’s a New York Times article 15 or 20 years later about this great natural wine movement and we’re back to that stage again.

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Feb 22

#ScreenshotSaturday Trying to think of quirky funny traits for people in my neighborhood sim... What should this guy be? A Mansplainer? Gluten-free? World music DJ?

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Feb 15

Keep meaning to do this more... A little #screenshotsaturday

Claymation inspirt scene from a cozy city sim at a farmer's market

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Dec 25

New Christmas Sweater righteous gemstones fans iykyk

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Nov 22

Cozy is such a subjective word... How does my neighborhood sim prototype feel to you? Repost = cozy Favorite = not cozy #screenshotsaturday

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Nov 18

The irony of this clip from this failed genAI game trailer, is that if they had actually used genAI for the text, it would have spelled it correctly:

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Sep 22

Sigh GDC

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Aug 30

A little #screenshotsaturday of the prototype of my current project, a cozy little city sim...

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Aug 7

The notion that you could use the term phD in marketing as a product this is laughable

Posing chat got a riddle with one word wrong (what happens twice a second, once a minute, never in an entire year, where second should be moment, and the answer is the letter m, but chatgpt doesn't understand letters and words so it repeats the "correct" answer.

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Jan 31

A clay texture or claymation inspired look

Series of city blocks from an isometric view with a clay-based art style, with molded shapes in building contours.

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Jan 31

Sort of a WPA art style inspired version

4x4 city block isometric view with a style inspired by Works Progress Administration art

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Jan 31

Sort of a mid century illustrative style....

mid century illustration art style ai generated image of a 4x4 block

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Dec 8

I knew that guy looked familiar but I couldn't place it...

Desmond from Assassin's Creed in a hoodie from a security camera.

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Mar 18

Slide describing two kinds of stress players have, needing to be distracted by engaging in something, or to destress by low challenge environment

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Oct 18

Eldritch lemons

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Oct 11

Curious if anybody has any great examples of design pillars for games? An example would be God of War's Combat, Father/Son, Exploration (those are bulleted out for the team, still kinda generic imo but hey). farm5.staticflickr.com/4860/4607905... blog.playstation.com/2018/12/05/h...

Borut Pfeifer@borut· Oct 11

I'm like aha got to bluesky now I feel like I can post more, only the main reason I don't post is really most of my interesting side thoughts are quasi work related and I don't want it to sound like I'm subtweeting work 😆Sp here's our new kitten (Ruffles) helping me work: