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Last week, Daedalic #entertainment , the developers of the stealth adventure J.R.R. Tolkien video game The #LordX of The Rings: Gollum, posted an apology for the game failing to “meet the expectations” of players and devs alike. #StanleyCup

osf.io/hrt9v/wiki/hom… Although Gollum being one of the worst-rated games of 2023 on Metacritic is a tough L to hold, it led to a pretty wholesome Twitter thread where a bunch of game devs shared testimonials about the lessons they learned while having fun working on their

speakerdeck.com/leonchastain/r… respective “worst” games.The ongoing convo among game devs was sparked by a tweet from God of War: Ragnarök senior environment artist Danni Carlone. In a quote-retweet of a Video Games Chronicle article about Gollum, Carlone shared a screenshot of

game-penghasil-uang.teachable.com/p/review-game-… Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric’s Metacritic review score of 32 in solidarity with the developers at Daedalic Entertainment. Games are hard to make. Regardless of the score, every project has positives/lessons learned. I display

jobs.drupal.org/company/26538 my ‘lowest score’ game because I’m proud of Carlone wrote in the tweet. “Some things are out of your hands. Be kind to each other.”

BonusXP environmental artist Ashley Rochelle soon retweeted Carlone

pbase.com/caragameapa/in… alongside a screenshot of Aliens: Colonial Marines’ middling 43 Metacritic score—a poorly reviewed project which she had worked on—and encouraged other game devs to share what they loved about working on their own “lowest reviewed #GamePass

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