Bryant Francis

@bryantfrancis

Writer: Down With The Ship, Zephon, Endless Space 2 (rbryantfrancis@gmail.com) Senior Editor: Game Developer (bryant.francis@gamedeveloper.com) 📝: www.bryantfrancis.me 🎥:

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Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 14

Don’t talk to me or my Hess son ever again

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 12

This mfer stole my pants

Ellie, a tortiseshell cat, sleeps on stolen pants

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 11

My big pulls from last night

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 9

Naming all the game studios behind Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remastered like I'm Yakko in front of a map

A screenshot showing the many studios behind ASsassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, which include Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Barcelona, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft India, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Philippines, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Shanghai

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 8

Witches and zombies and a guy who says “die well”

Morgan Elsbeth in Shatterpoint minu form

Captain Enoch, a stormtrooper with a gold-plated helmet

Four night troopers. They’re zombie stormtroopers

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 7

Makes sense—dug it up and grabbed a screenshot for anyone who needs it

Community input, policy discussion, stakeholder engagement, town hall style.
Open floor structure for questions, comments, and discussion from all attendees -
meant for a larger audience (50 - 500+ people).

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 5

Finished this book—a fantastic breakdown of a century of complex history. Surreal to reach the end and see more context about events that happened in my lifetime.

A copy of The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine.

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 4

Spending the 4th getting stuck on the Red Line in board game form

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 2

Just to put a pin in this—The Game Business now confirming its mention of Obsidian was a "mistake."

A tweet from The Game Business saying "Obsidian was listed as a company in negotiation with Xbox over potential closure. This was a mistake."

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jul 1

Sonic Adventure 2

Sonic saying "Don't worry Mr. President, everything is under control. Just leave it to us!"

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 30

Fucking dying over here

An Onion headline that says “God horrified to find humans eating sacred, omniscient potatoes”

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 30

holy shit The Onion is so good this month

An Onion story headlined “video game prologue still going.”

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 25

Please forward all queries to my cat-torney

Ellie, a car, sits in front of the onion

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 22

Someone please remind this cat she’s supposed to be the dignified one

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 20

alarm clock currently in search of brain cells

Ellie, a tortoiseshell cat, stares into
Oblivion

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 18

Looks like Epic is doubling down on "Verse is gonna be way better than Blueprints" when it comes to UE6

Hey Everyone. Our aim is to ship Early Access for UE6 by the end of 2027 and Blueprints will be supported in Early Access and the initial UE6 releases, but deprecated in the future.

Deprecation will mean a feature continues to be available without improvements, then is eventually removed. This timeline will be clearly communicated along with ways to migrate projects to Verse.

We recognize the value that Blueprints brought to UE4 and 5, but we strongly believe that Verse will become a more powerful and capable way to create game logic. We’ve already seen both experienced and new programmers create amazing things with Verse that would be challenging to do with Blueprints.

More details and conversations from us around this to come as UE6 Early Access approaches.

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 17

Hey wtf is International Business Times doing the same shitty "pay only if a story gets traffic" model that Valnet is?

Slightly depressing to do this as I hate promoting myself, but I don’t get paid for this article unless it gets a certain amount of views and clicks. If you’re interested in the topic or know someone who might be, feel free to share. It’s my first article for International Business Times, but it’s hard to feel proud when writing as a career is underpaid and under appreciated 😔https://lnkd.in/eHNMRbRM

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 12

Your pitch was pretty good

A post it note defining different categories of sad boy

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 10

Hey Asha what’s driving those storage component prices? I don’t know, is it THE AI TECHNOLOGY YOU PREVIOUSLY IN CHARGE OF???

#3: We are in a hardware component crisis. When I joined as CEO in February, the price we paid for console storage components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory. While the entire industry is facing a components crisis, we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade. We are currently unable to make as many consoles as players want to buy, and we need a new business model and partnerships for hardware as we remain committed to Helix

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 10

Baylan turned Thrawn’s Battle Tactics card against him and popped up to contest a point up on the tower!

Shatterpoint miniatures of Baylan Skoll and Thrawn

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 9

Was surprised to hear Ottilie "wasn't aware" of crediting conflicts at old Telltale, given what I've heard from devs over the years.

In conversations with various Telltale Games alumni over the years, we've heard repeatedly that executive leadership at the studio pressed developers to follow a repetitive formula for each of its games. Some developers have said that formula led to declining interest in its games.

"We didn't really follow that approach," Ottilie said when asked about the making of The Wolf Among Us 2. "We came at this from 'what's the best story we can tell here? How are we going to do that? What's that feel like?'" He said his approach as CEO was to choose the game's creative leadership and then "get out of their way."

"It's not my job to go into the room and second-guess how they want to tell a story," he said, adding that while he is giving feedback and offering suggestions, he avoids being prescriptivist in his approach. He did say that some Telltale design knowledge—like the amount of time players should go without pushing a button onscreen—is still with the studio, but The Wolf Among Us 2 won't be following a familiar roadmap.

On the topic of improper crediting, Ottilie actually said he "wasn't aware" of the company's history with that practice. "From our perspective, [proper crediting] is pretty mandated," he promised. "People get job titles and have descriptions, and that's what they're doing on the game. Their credit will reflect what they're doing on the game."

"My [vice president] of operations will put my head in a box if I try to change that."

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 8

Celebrating by watching the best Star Wars movie

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 8

Hello yes it is true I am 36 today

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 4

Everyone say happy birthday to @carlivelocci.com they have ascended to age 36

Carli with baked goods in front of Michette

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 2

audiences:

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· Jun 1

Thanks to @funambulism.com this quest ended up super chess-themed and I loaded up my brain with all kinds of fancy strategems and gambits

A screenshot of ZEPHON's Imperious Exonaut quest.

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· May 29

If you’ve ever thought “mini painting looks too hard,” this is the before/after on the Ithorian Padawan. Left was done in 30 minutes using 6 colors with barely any fancy technique. The right is the kind of thing you do when you have fun futzing with details. It’s easy to make them look good!

An Ithorian Padawan from Star Wars Shatterpoint

An ithorian padawan from Star Wars Shatterpoint. This one has highlights and details.

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· May 29

Over the moon with how the Padawans turned out. Right is “on model,” left is full “14 year old’s OC doodled in notebook during English class. Wanted to tell the story of an older, more rebellious Padawan racing to save her friend during Order 66!

Two Jedi Padawan from Star Wars Shatterpoint

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· May 29

From my point of view, the Jedi are finally painted.

Ki-Adi-Mundi, Shaak Ti, and two Padawans from Star Wars Shatterpoint

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis· May 29

The Cylons were created by man…