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Brenda L Romero retweeted
I’m thrilled to announce Knee-Deep in the’90s: The First Person Shooters 🔫 That Defined a Decade!
🎙️Based on new & archival interviews
💾Deep dives into 20+ games
📚Available in all formats
📆 Releases on 12.10 (Doom's anniversary!)
1/4 🧵
ALT Back (left) and front cover artwork for Knee-Deep in the '90s. The back depics the Icon of Sin from Doom 2. The front shows iconic characters from '90s FPS games such as Doomguy, Gordon Freeman, Duke Nukem, and SHODAN.
Brenda L Romero retweeted
Today is our 11th birthday!
We are so grateful for all the support we have received during that time. Here’s to many more years and memories. ❤️
Brenda L Romero retweeted
The 13 Most Influential Games Ever Made polygon.com/most-influential…
ALT The 13 Most Influential Games Ever Made
Brenda L Romero retweeted
'Thank you so much for the best weekend ever': id Software's founders had a great time at QuakeCon pcgamer.com/games/thank-you-…
Brenda L Romero retweeted
What an incredible honor, and DOOM is the only video game on the list! Congrats to DOOM devs, players, modders, and the entire games community. This one is for all of us. Thanks @GenePark @washingtonpost!
I’d like to return to this thread where I referred to the game industry as being a trash fire. Some corrected me to talk about record profits. How about record layoffs? I am fucking bereft at the state of it.
Brenda L Romero retweeted
I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs.
I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history.
The people at id have done a great job moving that legacy forward. DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein are not easy names to carry on, especially in today’s industry. The last few games showed real care, skill and respect for what those worlds mean to people.
A note on digital preservation: id's history is critically important to the history of games. I’ve preserved id’s complete early history from our start at Softdisk through to August 6, 1996, including materials and assets that, as far as I know, id itself no longer has. I hope someone is doing the same for the company’s ongoing legacy (the work, code, assets, stories and the people behind them).
I’m thinking of everyone at id today, and everyone else affected by yesterday’s layoffs. Romero Games was there a year ago. I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you.
Congrats to Ardan on taking over our old (but much loved) space in Galway City centre! Romero Games moved to its new office in Dockgate on Merchants Road in 2023.
As part of its continued growth as an organisation, the team at Ardán is relocating its headquarters from the CREW Hub on Wellpark Road into Galway city centre advertiser.ie/galway/article…
The fact that parts of the industry are reporting record profits while so many developers feel exhausted, uncertain, and disposable only makes the disconnect feel even greater.
What saddens me most is seeing veteran devs leave the industry entirely, taking decades of institutional knowledge with them. Younger devs who grew up loving games and dreamed of making them are wondering if there’s a future for them here at all.
In my 40+ years making games, this has felt like the hardest period to navigate for game devs. It’s difficult to find or hold onto work, difficult to secure funding, and difficult to break through and find an audience. Incredibly talented people are struggling.
Today, the industry is massive, yet in just the last few years, 10s of thousands of devs have lost their jobs, including dozens at my own studio. Almost everyone knows someone who has been laid off, had projects canceled, lost funding, or left the industry altogether.