Dinga Bakaba 451 (@DBakaba) / X

Dinga Bakaba 451

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Dinga Bakaba 451

@DBakaba

Studio/Co-Creative Director @ Arkane Lyon | Blade, DEATHLOOP, Dishonored, Gray Matter | Capoeira teacher, supernatural dad, into building operas made of bridges

Lyon, France

arkane-studios.com/en

Joined December 2012

Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
May 7, 2024
This is absolutely terrible. Permission to be human : to any executive reading this, friendly reminder that video games are an entertainment/cultural industry, and your business as a corporation is to take care of your artists/entertainers and help them create value for you.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Mar 27, 2024
This might be the funniest game design candy I've seen in a AAA video game in a long time. The display of ingenuity to commit to the bit making the item special by effortlessly breaking "proper UX" rules coupled with the earnest explanation to bring the player along is brilliant!
Chambraigne Socialist
@bombsfall
Mar 27, 2024
shout out to whoever on the design team was like ok before you react let me finish
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
May 7, 2024
Replying to @DBakaba
Don't throw us into gold fever gambits, don't use us as strawmen for miscalculations/blind spots, don't make our work environments darwinist jungles. You say we make you proud when we make a good game. Make us proud when times are tough. We know you can, we seen it before.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
May 7, 2024
Replying to @DBakaba
For now, great teams are sunsetting before our eyes again, and it's a fucking gut stab. Lyon is safe, but please be tactful and discerning about all this, and respect affected folks' voice and leave it room to be heard, it's their story to tell, their feelings to express.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Jun 1, 2023
Right...
David Sacks
@DavidSacks
May 31, 2023
It’s time to admit that Remote Work doesn’t work. WFH Friday is a 4 day work week. Full WFH is a 2 day work week. Every interaction has to be scheduled, which means a lot of information-sharing doesn’t happen. Remote is a great lifestyle, not a way to build a great company.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Dec 19, 2023
My team and I have been living in sheer terror of a leak until announce. When rumors started circulating I had my first physical symptoms of stress in decades and legit had nightmares every night. This type of thing hurts, and Insomniacs deserve our decency care and support RN 💙
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Dec 19, 2023
Last thing I'll say: Games are made by PEOPLE. People that CARE about how their work, the fruit of their gut and sweat and sacrifices get in front of the eyes of those they are making it for: the players. We are NOT PR firms, we are NOT our companies. We CARE about our games.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
May 7, 2024
Replying to @DBakaba
Inside baseball, but if I read "immersive sim curse" from the community, especially from a fellow dev, I swear to God... Please, let's talk about the *real* challenges instead of rehashing irrational anxieties of the past.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
May 7, 2024
Replying to @DBakaba
Even more inside baseball, but with a very, very wide range, as a wise and sorely missed man said: "Please Stop."
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Dec 8, 2023
Thank you so much for watching our announcement! "Let's do a single player immersive sim hybrid with all the shit we love!" "Ok, and let's make it a Blade game, in 3rd person, in our own crazy version of Paris!" And somehow this fever dream fucking happens?! This is surreal.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
May 25, 2023
What's your favorite movie about a guy who sucks
arvo färt
@arvofart
May 25, 2023
What’s your favorite movie about a guy who sucks
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Sep 13, 2021
I hope that the good reviews we are getting will encourage other AAA studios to take creative risks. Let's see this praise as a celebration not of Arkane but of the medium and the rich experiences that we can create with all the work and money. "The bullet is the same, but..."
Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Jan 21, 2024
Yeah, I'm surprised by how quickly this is escalating. I'll try to organize my own hot take-ish thoughts in a thread, separating concept, execution, and dev. First: it's not a Pokemon-like game. Digimon is. And even if it was, so what? (cries in FPS, BRs, Souls, hero shooters...)
Dominic Tarason
@DominicTarason
Jan 21, 2024
Hahah. I have actually lost followers over Palworld discourse. People are losing their minds over this game and getting SO angry and I'm just... confused.
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Dinga Bakaba 451
@DBakaba
Sep 20, 2022
For anyone discovering "DEATHLOOP" for the first time today, here is a🧵 of tips! Very light mechanical spoilers probably. First: just like your man Colt, it's normal to be confused in the beginning. Enjoy the journey of discovery, you'll be a master of the ♾ in no time! 1/13