Mata Haggis-Burridge

@MataHaggis

Prof. of Creative & Entertainment Games , narrative & game design, wrote/designed , speaker, he/they, bi/pan. Visibility matters.

Breda, the Netherlands
copperstonesea.com
Joined March 2013
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 28

    In the last week I gently tip-toed over 2,000 followers. Hi everyone! I mostly post about games, research, a bit about equal rights, and generally with a developer-perspective on game creation. I'm also making a new game, and writing for a couple of other people's things!

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    3 hours ago

    Right developers, last-minute call! Doing an article. I'm looking for: PC horror games released November '18 onwards Must be a 'finished game' (ie you can play from start to finish and have a fulfilling experience, eg there is a complete story etc) Tweet or DM me! Please RT!

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  3. Oct 22

    For anyone interested in such things, the sculpt was something like 1.5m tris and went down to 3.6k tris in the retopo process. The mesh loops aren't amazing, but it's not going to animate so it's not a big problem.

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  4. Oct 22

    I think this model is done for now. This was a learning project for me with . This was sculpted, retopo'd, and painted all in the software from scratch. I'm particularly please with the verdigris effect - this is driven by a smart material, so reusable on later models ☺️

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  5. Oct 22

    A tiny team making a game with a giant ❤️

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    This season, Winkeltje delivers the Autumn update with new decorations, new events and objectives, updated UI, item rebalancing, and a lot of fixes. For update notes and more, head to the link below.
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  6. Retweeted
    Oct 21

    A *VERY* common complain we hear nowadays is that comics have gotten "too political" and readers "too sensitive". This interaction is from 1974 in the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu comic book. It is featured prominently in the letters, acknowledging the importance of the topic.

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  7. Oct 21

    On my second trip through The Last Of Us, playing on easy to relax and enjoy the time with Joel and Ellie.

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  8. Oct 21

    Obsessive playing is a symptom, not cause, of wider problems. It turns out that the context of players' lives (I'm guessing poverty, social exclusion, mental health, social challenges) is the big influencing factor in problematic overuse of video games in a 1k participant study.

    Academic research finds no evidence of gaming as a clinical disorder
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  9. Retweeted
    Oct 20

    Games "well, let's not make these animations too fast - they won't be believable". Life:

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    Women's speed climbing record was smashed. Under 7 seconds. Inhuman.
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  10. Oct 20

    I WASN’T JOKING. THE TERROR.
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  11. Oct 20

    A positive article from that's a welcome ray of hope on a wintery politics-laden weekend. Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Being a drag queen healed me’

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  12. Oct 19

    Fear gripped cold fingers around his spine as Boris slowly realised that the votes were coming from inside The House!!

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  13. Oct 18

    Hello queer game dev friends: would like to know more of us. If you're feeling social, say hello to her!

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  14. Oct 18

    It's funny when a conversation about user interface accessibility and procedural botanical growth simulation tools accidentally reveals a Death Metal band name.

    Replying to @MataHaggis
    It's so much better now, but it's sad that because of this I can't use the most awesome term in botany of all time: "apical dominance"!
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  15. Oct 17

    Only women get to (fake) smile on promo shots.

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  16. Retweeted
    Oct 17

    OPPORTUNITY - And a quick reminder of why you need to email your MP and tell them to vote against this car crash of a damn Brexit deal.

    Hi Everyone, Ubisoft Mainz is looking for a UI Designer Intern. Preferably within EU. It'll be a 6-month internship. It's great opportunity to experience working in video game industry. via
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  17. Oct 16

    I'm learning this week. Tonight I had a proper go, and this took about 3 hours to sculpt. My goal was to make a wolf statue which blends influences from Far East lion and ancient Roman wolf statues. There's a way to go yet, but I like it so far and 3D Coat is fun!

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  18. Oct 16

    "My goodness, I'm so glad a mailing-list pop-up blocked me leaving that site. I can't wait to hear more from them!" said no-one ever.

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  19. Oct 14

    Not sure if I've got any theatre fans on here, but the amazing production of Life Of Pi that I saw in Sheffield this year is coming to London June 2020. It's absolutely stunning!

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    Oct 12
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    People who treat producers like they’re not devs probably don’t appreciate medics and healer classes

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    Oct 11

    If you don't have Black employees building your products and your algorithms at the highest levels, you are perpetuating racial bias and suppressing Black voices.

    New paper shows racial bias in automatic hate speech detection. So AI models trained to flag & remove offensive tweets risk suppressing black voices. "African Americans are up to two times more likely to be labelled as offensive compared to others"
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