Damion Schubert

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Creative Director at Boss Fight (a Netflix game studio). Focused on MMOs, RPGS, social systems, monetization. Advocate for putting treasure behind waterfalls!

Follow me for game dev insight, liberal snark, and occasionally fake Magic cards.

Straight white cis male (he/him), imperfect ally (but trying). My opinions in no way should be taken to represent those of anyone else, including my employer.

Websitehttp://www.zenofdesign.com/mastodon/
Personal Bloghttp://www.zenofdesign.com/
Damion SchubertDec 7, 2023
Top 100 Board Games of All Time, 2023 Edition (100-91)
Every year, I prepare a top 100 board game list around this time. I like to do it at this time so that both of y'all that go on and read this content might use it to inform your Christmas shopping. The side effect of all this is that I've managed to add a time-intensive and stressful project with a relatively hard deadline on top of all
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Top 100 Board Games of All Time, 2023 Edition (100-91) – Zen Of Design

Damion SchubertJul 17, 2023

In Which Elon Pays People To Be His Friend
Elon Musk's reign running Twitter has been a cavalcade of failure ever since he walked into Twitter HQ carrying a sink, but even by the very low standards set so far, last week was quite the sight to behold. Let's review, shall we?

Let's start at the beginning. Twitter's pretty broke. Don't just take my word for it.

Twitter is 'skipping rent payme
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In Which Elon Pays People To Be His Friend – Zen Of Design

Damion SchubertJul 7, 2023
Threading the Needle
It's been about nine months since Elon Musk spent $44 billion dollars to shit the bed harder than it's ever been shit on before. In that time, there hasn't been a serious competitor to Twitter's claim as the premier western microblogging service. Sure, there was Post. Mastodon. Spill. Spoutable. Hive. And most recently, BlueSky. But none set the world on fire. There are a lot of reasons why, but a
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Threading the Needle – Zen Of Design

Damion SchubertMay 16, 2023

Dreading Water
I saw that the next Destiny 2 expansion is going to be a mostly underwater zone called Season of the Deep, which prompted this as a response, which most experienced designers saw and agreed with.

https://twitter.com/ZenOfDesign/status/1658129816346849282?s=20

For what it's worth, this goes back years, and I've heard this from at least 3 different candidates referring to 3 different projects, two of which we
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Damion Schubert - @ZenOfDesign.com on bsky on Twitter

“I routinely do lots of job interviews and I ask a lot of lead designer/creative directors what's the worst mistake they ever made and you'd be shocked at how many say 'not killing the underwater levels when we had the chance'.”

Twitter
Damion SchubertApr 24, 2023

A lot of people thinks its just funny that all these celebrities are angry at Elon Musk and are eager to tell him about it, but no. What's REALLY funny is that all these celebrities are angry at Elon Musk and are eager to tell him about it PUBLICLY TO THEIR AUDIENCES OF MILLIONS OF DEVOTED FANS.

It's literally the most influential people on Planet Earth in unison telling tens of millions of potential customers "I WOULD NEVER BUY THIS I'D RATHER HAVE LEPROSY."

Damion SchubertApr 23, 2023

As someone whose managed live software projects with lots of users before, I'm also incredibly amused by the fact we're still on the Blue Checkmark thing. He bought this thing in October. It was the first thing he wanted to do. He promised it'd be implemented and deployed in a month.

It's almost May. We're still on the first thing on the list.

Damion SchubertApr 23, 2023
Elon blew up the largest rocket ship that's ever been constructed last Thursday, and its still nowhere near the most impressive explosion he's been at the helm of this week.
Damion SchubertApr 23, 2023
People ask why I haven't fully quit Twitter yet, and the answer is 'for days like today'. Elon's mismanagement of Twitter is basically watching an extremely slow $44 Billion dollar train crash.
Damion SchubertApr 22, 2023

If you want to know what’s going on Twitter, Elon keeps forcing Dril to have a blue checkmark even though Dril keeps changing his name to make it go away.

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1649895619350364160?s=61&t=so8-mJ-tcmpip3AcYtHtJA

Mr. "Under Review" on Twitter

“now that i have the baneful blue mark, I undertand the pain ive wrought. i was wrong to torment dog coin guys. im jealous of their million's”

Twitter
Damion SchubertApr 22, 2023

It’s Not About Status, Elon. Only Now It Is.

It's been about 48 hours since Elon killed legacy checkmarks in an attempt to convince people, but hopefully especially celebrities, to make the switch. Let's talk about why this is such an awful and in retrospect obviously avoidable catastrophuck.

https://www.zenofdesign.com/its-not-about-status-elon-only-now-it-is/

It’s Not About Status, Elon. Only Now It Is. – Zen Of Design