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Mark Videon

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Digital products, factories, markets and more. Don't miss a thing. blog.markvideon.dev

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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How many franchises have had as many development team resets as Halo?
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Catch my talk tomorrow at #DevWorld !
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Brandon DeRosier @bdero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Flutter Scene 0.23 is out. Realtime 3D on Flutter's native graphics stack, Flutter GPU and Impeller. No forks. No platform views. Just vanilla Flutter. Global illumination, reflections, compressed glTF/KTX2, and six bundled agent skills that make vibe coding with Scene fun.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
points at sign: THE GAMES INDUSTRY’S CUSTOMER IS THE STOCK MARKET, NOT THE GAMER Live service games are seen as ‘worth the risk’ because when one blows up (Roblox, Fortnite, GTA Online) it makes so much money that it covers all previous failures and more. What gamers say is irrelevant to this.
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Region Locked - Documentary @regionlocked-doco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Not all guests can tell their stories... Here are a few that have been locked up for way too long.. #retro #crt #videogame #documentary
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So the big news: 1. I have purchased my first home 2. The home is in Melbourne Lots of things falling apart notwithstanding, there has never been a more exciting time to be me, new lease on life
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Y2J Jericho Countdown
Alt: Countdown from 10 to 0
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I heard my best friend during my senior years in high school passed away in the last couple of days. To be honest we were estranged but it is nevertheless surreal. We had some great times and I'm sure that he knew that. We brought Game Boys into math class to play Pokémon,
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 01/07/2026
Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
(stone cold Steve Austin voice) I’m talkin capybaras (what) kangaroos (what) wombats (what) platypuses (what) echidnas (what) cane toads (what) Got to be an alternate universe where Australia is an industrial hub for 3D platformers with an animal protagonist
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You may never be able to afford a console again, but I'm sure an ad supported, subscription based cloud gaming service will more than make up for it.
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Glenn Fiedler @mas-bandwidth.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
New article coming Monday mas-bandwidth.com/the-best-thi...
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The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games
Starting today, Amazon GameLift Servers provide network bandwidth in and out of AWS at no additional charge.
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Brienne of Tarth Smiles in Game of Thrones Season 8
ALT: Brienne of Tarth Smiles in Game of Thrones Season 8
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
had a moment yesterday after solving an issue hundreds of thousands of people have been hitting for nearly 2 years
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Bowling: Who Do You Think You Are? I AM!
Alt: Bowling meme: Who Do You Think You Are? I AM!
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Got some exciting news that's too good not to share something with the world but also precarious enough that I'd prefer not to elaborate yet. Nevertheless, vibes are good!
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Phil Spencer was tasked with achieving enterprise software grade returns in a games market where Microsoft is decidedly third of three places. Truly remarkable misunderstanding of the games industry from one of the world's largest companies
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
As far as software goes 2026 is looking as strong a year for video games as I can remember
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If we want to understand the value of the work, we need to understand what the work is. blog.markvideon.dev/the-title-pi...
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The Title Picture: Roles & Responsibilities
Digital products, factories, markets and more. Don't miss a thing.
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
From 2012's E3 Show Daily magazine - archive.gamehistory.org/item/ef9efa… - remember when Microsoft thought the Xbox's Kinect motion controller would be a "watershed moment" for home entertainment? (Nobody gets it right all the time, folks.)
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Like many technologists, one of the ideas I have been grappling with over the last couple of years is - what's the point of this whole thing? blog.markvideon.dev/education-di...
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Education & Digital Systems
Digital products emerge from digital factories. I write about both.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/05/2026
7 months to go
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, blog.markvideon.dev/the-one-abou...
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The One About AI
I have previously made some allusions to the saturation of LLMs in the current moment by comparing it with what happened during the last major hype cycle. Today as a developer it seems every conferenc...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
the tl; dr blog.markvideon.dev/the-story-so...
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The Story So Far
I'm telling the story of software in a manner that does not assume the knowledge of particular technical concepts. The big picture: running software (e.g. an opened app) is a manufacturing process. Wh...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
did not expect that
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I've used the term digital factory a lot and it's probably past due to look at some examples from the real world to ground the concept. Donkey Kong Country (1994), Microsoft Office (2010) and Netflix (2026) blog.markvideon.dev/yeah-but-lik...
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Yeah But Like, What Actually Is The Factory Though
Late last year I presented at a conference, and a while later I received some feedback. There were a couple of things that came up that I was sympathetic to: One was that following the (abstract) conc...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
'Microsoft in games' continues to live in my head rent-free. I think their big problem is managing certain kinds of IP that has a life outside of digital products. The strengths and weaknesses of IP like Forza and Flight Simulator are pretty well aligned with the strengths and weaknesses of MS imo
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I feel like the 2026 Xbox and AI strategy is going to look and sound a lot like the 2013 Xbox and Azure strategy Third-party games are probably not going to do a bunch of custom integrations for the platform in last place, so not sure what gives
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There are so many boutique publishers of books about digital games these days, what a time to be alive @bossfightbooks.com @apwot.bsky.social @thevideogamelibrary.org @wearegamebound.bsky.social @rocketbooksltd.bsky.social Has me dreaming a little dream about opening a little store/museum
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
gotta go fast blog.markvideon.dev/going-faster/
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How Can We Go Faster?
Across previous pieces I broke down delivery into various stages from a commercial strategy to a user's perceived experience. Ideally every stage is executed perfectly, and the flow is linear. If that...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I think most people understand that existing data centres have considerably large energy requirements but the amounts required to support the most ambitious versions of the AI-powered future are eye-watering and almost certainly involve regressions toward a transition to renewable energy
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Finish The Fight blog.markvideon.dev/whats-so-har...
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What's So Hard About Making Games?
Although the group of people who play digital games has arguably grown to be much broader and more diverse over the last two decades, until recently it was a widely held belief that digital games were...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
RE: Allbirds going from sustainable shoes to AI compute
Still from the show Succession - "You are not serious people"
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Lost some good people at work today. Pretty rough
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Allegedly my 50th post blog.markvideon.dev/delegation-o...
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Delegation & Outsourcing
Markets and factories are two examples of widespread recursive patterns in software. There's another prominent pattern that I've mentioned a number of times across various posts, and that is the handshake agreement. The concept behind the handshake agreement is simple - a system (or primitive) needs to trust the output
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
sponsoring Anton - they’re calling it the hot new trend anyone can be part of
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
can someone make LinkedIn without the grift please
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Today I wrote about how people find software and also developer-focused content. A lot of '1+1=2' and '1+1=7' out there. BFFR. blog.markvideon.dev/search-socia...
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Search, Social Media, Discovery, Engagement
Social media is a nexus of many of the topics I've written about. The company formerly known as Facebook has had a major hand in shaping society, digital markets for both physical and digital goods, p...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
On-prem, source control, secrets, bundled content, build pipelines, and so on. blog.markvideon.dev/managing-inf...
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Managing Infrastructure
In the last go around I covered the advent of the public cloud which is effectively a hosting resource for the web. Before the cloud, developers could pay specialised companies for hosting services. T...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Further to this point I wonder if Mass Effect 3 was in production today, to what extent the ending controversy could have been avoided with a generated ending cutscene based on a broader pool of decisions you made throughout the series
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Chewing on what some Gen AI use cases might look like if used relatively tastefully in products we recognise today. Technologists often ask the public to do the imagining for them see Kinect, hybrid compute for Xbox One, PS3 power of the cell.
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The One Where We Juxtapose Software Delivery with Team Austin vs Team Bischoff at WWE Survivor Series 2003 blog.markvideon.dev/grappling-wi...
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Grappling With Expectation
I've made one or two mentions to professional wrestling in previous posts. It's a well that I think we can draw a little more from. To understand how, recall how the general concept of the factory mod...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Have to wonder whether this contributes to a period of time where people drift away from digital spaces. Getting pretty expensive to read procedurally generated complaints and ad copy. Is anyone getting what they want?
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is a good example of why The Project is part of the conversation about digital factories. Streamers contribute to the success of The Project, but they play no part in the design of digital factories or the delivery of the digital product, in this case, the game.
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Today I visited the SA Games Expo hosted by the SA Film Corporation and saw some great stuff.
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’ve travelled to Melbourne for Freeplay stuff a number of times and it has never failed to inspire. Very sad to see this
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Interesting…
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Metroid Fusion is incredibly punishing, if this were the only game in the series I had played I’d probably never touch the seres again
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