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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal

@gheeyom.bsky.social
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CEO and Creative Director at Nine Dots Studio I mostly talk about game design, game development, game business, but I delete 90% of my posts before clicking "send".

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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love how "the new ferrari is dull" evolves into "we don't need to obey the tech overlord that are selling a future we don't want" and I'm 100% here for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjX...
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Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore
YouTube video by Design Theory
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My hot take is that focus testing has had exacly zero benefit for the whole medium of video games.
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Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Dear @playstation.com - since, according to the terms you just reminded us all of, I’m NOT buying but merely RENTING digital games for an undetermined and totally arbitary amount of time, you should not be allowed to use the word “Buy” or “Purchase” anywhere.
Halo: Campaign Evolved on PS Store says “Buy this game” under Add to Cart.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's emotionally taxing to see an industry you love and have spent twenty years dedicating a career to implode.
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🔥Christopher Livingston🔥 @chrislivingston.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Survival RPG Outward really roughed you up but that's one of the reasons it was so good. I'm happy to see Outward 2 hasn't softened.
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The sequel to one of my favorite survival games doesn't just respawn you back at home when you die: that'd be way too easy
Outward 2 doesn't pull any punches, and that's just what I was hoping for.
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There's a conversation to be had between developers and gamers about hardware expectations. We're hoping that a light-hearted approach like this is a healthy start: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDe... Reposting is appreciated :)
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WE'RE TRYING OUTWARD 2 ON A POTATO PC! POTATO SPECS PC TRAILER - RELEASE DATE TRAILER
YouTube video by Nine Dots Studio
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
One more AA RPG studio bites the dust. It pains me so much to see Spiders go down like this, they clearly had very talented and creative people in there. Between them and Piranha Bytes, we're losing such unique offerings in the RPG genre. www.origami.ng/spiders-gree...
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Le studio français Spiders (Steelrising, GreedFall) va fermer ses portes
La maison mère Nacon, qui cherchait à vendre cette filiale pour rembourser ses dettes, n'a pas trouvé preneur. Le redressement judiciaire de Spiders va laisser place à une liquidation.
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nine Dots created its own daycare, Les Petits Pixels. What I had not planned, was the ludicrously high baby boom within the company that would follow. During Outward 2's development, we've had THIRTEEN babies, with TWO MORE ON THE WAY. On average, they take 10 weeks of paternity leave.
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is the right way to go. A store that sells shit stains its catalog as a whole. With GenAI looming, things could get even worse if nothing is done to curate games. www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/03...
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'We'll Still Release on Switch, Xbox, and Steam': Dev Responds to Delisting as Sony Axes 1,000s More PS5, PS4 Games from PS Store
Crackdown on shovelware continues
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I am not surprised.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war'
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Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war'
I don't need your attention war.
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We need every country to start regulating against these practices with extreme severity.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
100% agree with this sentiment. Also, stop it with the armchair game devving. Playing demos doesn‘t make you an expert on anything. Indie games in particular should not be playtested to death. Let’s stop perpetuating the worst parts of industrial game development.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik 

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
For 2026 I want to express myself less and listen more. Easier said than done, but I think that it will benefit both my personal and professional life.
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
3 out of 4 children I introduced to 1st person gaming prefer inverted Y axis on controllers. So I'm not THAT much of a freak!
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 27/12/2025
The immortal Carl Sagan in 1995
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.
The Microsoft "stay signed in" window, which is apparently just an exercise in getting you to click buttons for no reason.
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Nazih Fares | Wishlist The Arab League of Misfits @nazihfares.com · 21/12/2025
They really nailed the parody of commercials "produced" by genAI vm.tiktok.com/ZGdmdpKRx/
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Urgentpigeon - Indiegame Content Creator @urgentpigeon.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🎄📆INDIEFIESTA 2025! Advent Calender Edition!📆🎄 13! Lost in Prayer from @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social ! Another less know game that came out this year! A tactical Rpg with an interesting twist : what you kill becomes playable 😮. Recommend for tactical rpg fans🙌 #indiegame #indiedev #gaming
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PlayFront.de @playfrontde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Outward 2 zeigt großes Potenzial – aber die Alpha ist noch hart. Erste Eindrücke und klare Worte im Preview. 🔥 #Outward2 #RPG #Preview
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Outward 2 im frühen Hands-on: Ambition trifft auf raue Realität
Frühe Preview zu Outward 2: großes Potenzial, aber viele Baustellen. Eindrücke zu Gameplay, Steuerung und Survival-Anspruch im aktuellen Alpha-Status.
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CGMagazine @cgmagazine.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"What I liked about diving into Outward 2 was how it immediately felt more like a proper RPG experience." www.cgmagonline.com/articles/previe… #Outward #Outward2 #RPG
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TheSixthAxis @thesixthaxis.com · 02/12/2025
@aransuddi.bsky.social spent some time with @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social playing Outward 2 and talking about how this sequel expands on the original. Simply, it's the Outward experience a lot of you enjoyed. www.thesixthaxis.com/2025/12/02/o... #gaming #videogames #gamenews
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Outward 2 Preview – Doubling down on the Outward concept | TheSixthAxis
The original Outward was well received by players with its offering of an RPG with survival elements, where the world was dangerous and you had to use
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TechRaptor @techraptor.net · 02/12/2025
Aurai shines like new, but remains the same in the developing sequel Outward 2. Read our preview to learn more!
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Aurai shines like new, but remains the same in the developing sequel Outward 2. Read our preview to learn more!
Outward 2 continues the tradition of not holding your hand, but is the brutality just as rewarding as in the original? See how development has progressed in our Outward 2 alpha preview. Read this article on TechRaptor
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de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 25/11/2025
this is mesmerizing
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is...sort of brilliant.
Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab a six pack. And bring your bills, your credit-card statements, your school forms, the streaming services you need to unsubscribe from, the airline miles you need to manage, the expenses app you need to figure out. I’d be throwing the lamest party ever.  

At the heart of this party was a truth that has gone under-acknowledged in recent years: We’re all sinking. We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. 

Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password. Disputing a charge means arguing with a chipper chatbot, or submitting to an hour of brain-melting hold music—call volume higher than expected!—only to be disconnected.
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Thought I'd check in on chatgpt and see if it had gotten any better at game history research. It hallucinated an unreleased "Wizards and Warriors IV" project for NES and when I asked what the source was it made up a tweet by...me.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
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Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This cracked me up (by Justin Charity at The Ringer) www.theringer.com/2025/10/15/v...
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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
healthy self criticism is perhaps the most important skill to develop as an adult. being able to recognize your own strengths & weaknesses and accepting them humbly. it's amazing how little other people's opinions matter once you've decided to critique yourself openly and honestly.
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Gematsu @gematsu.com · 28/09/2025
Outward 2 launches in summer 2026 Outward 2 will launch for PC via Steam in summer 2026, developer Nine Dots Studio announced.
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Outward 2 launches in summer 2026
Outward 2 will launch for PC via Steam in summer 2026, developer Nine Dots Studio announced.
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The risk of traveling to the US used to be a delayed flight or lost luggage. Now the risk is to be detained and possibly tortured for weeks. I am a father of 2, I can't make that bet.
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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Nine Dots survived 2 flops and had been in a precarious situation for 8 years before we launched Outward. Being used to how harsh the market was, I thought that if we sell 250,000 units, then I'll consider this a major success. This is nuts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JY_...
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Celebrating 3 MILLION players for Outward
YouTube video by Nine Dots Studio
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
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Robert / Zeboyd @zeboydgames.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We subvert tropes. We tackle complex themes. We don't design by committee. We certainly don't let ChatGPT write for us. Will you color the voice of Nine Dots with your own? The job market is rough these days for game devs, please share! ninedotsstudio.com/blog/narrati...
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We’re hiring – Nous engageons Narrative Lead/Chef de la Narration - Welcome to Ninedots
Nine Dots is looking for a Narrative Lead to take charge of the narrative team of Outward 2, an open world roleplaying game. In this position, you will be answering to the creative director and will w...
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Signed! It isn't even mentioned in the petition but typically when conservative groups attack pornography, the goal is to extend any representation of anything queer as pornographic as the next step. It's something legitimately worrying even beyond how it affects people in the porn business.
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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Capcom has arguably the best performance out of any video game company in the world. That's not a position from which you're supposed to complain, especially while the industry as a whole is collapsing.
Capcom's stock has gained 200% value in the last 5 years
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Paul Deetman @pauldeetman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
You become more of your best self when someone close to you believes in that version of you.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The way Paradox is handling Bloodlines 2 is huh... quite something. The game was selling itself based on nothing but a name. The OG Bloodlines was a budget title with a very limited scope. They just needed to respect the material they are following up on. How much did they waste on this shit, >100M?
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Gematsu @gematsu.com · 20/08/2025
Triangle Strategy now available for PS5, Xbox Series Publisher Square Enix and developer Artdink Corporation have released turn-based strategy RPG Triangle Strategy for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series for a limited time launch price of $41.99, the companies announced. After September 4, the price…
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Triangle Strategy now available for PS5, Xbox Series
Publisher Square Enix and developer Artdink Corporation have released turn-based strategy RPG Triangle Strategy for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series for a limited time launch price of $41.99, the companies announced. After September 4, the price will change to $59.99. The PC versions is also now available via Microsoft Store.
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Philip Eloy @aegixdrakan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yup. If someone couldn't be assed to write/draw it, why should I be assed to read/look at it? I partake in art because I wanna see the kinds of stories that give me a glimpse into someone's inner world, so I can expand my own!
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Guillaume Boucher-Vidal @gheeyom.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Lost in Prayer launches in Early Access! Everything that kills you becomes a playable character. And you can die to a LOT of things. We got our foundations, but now we need players to guide us so we can build something wacky and filled with emergent stories. store.steampowered.com/app/2849500/...
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Lost in Prayer on Steam
Solve intricate tactical challenges to escape purgatory —through Hell or Heaven — or die trying. When you die (and you will), you unlock a new creature, with a unique skill set and multiple playstyles...
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