GamesIndustry.biz is in the doghouse again | Creature Comforts

Bear in mind when the pandemic hit?

All the things sucked, no person may do something, and issues received bizarre. Everybody handled it in their very own means.

For instance, we determined that as an alternative of devoting all of our assets to masking the ins and outs of the video games trade, it could serve our readers higher to handle their psychological well being. By means of exhibiting them footage of cute pets.

And never simply any cute pets, their cute pets.

We figured it could be enjoyable to simply ask some builders to point out us their pets after which we may run a narrative that had like 20 or 30 fuzzy buddies in it. However then we wound up with 457 pet pics that we doled out over six totally different columns all through the 12 months.

And what? It was good.

Whereas the enterprise of the video games trade thrived throughout lockdown, no person was significantly having fun with 2020, and we wanted a break from the distress of the headlines, each as writers and as readers.

We have gotten that very same feeling over the course of 2023, so I believed it could be good to carry again the Creature Comforts column as a year-end deal with. (Extra particularly, I believed it could be good for me, the individual getting paid to spend the day footage and placing the column collectively. However now that it is accomplished, you are welcome to take pleasure in them, too.)

So we requested a few of our developer and PR contacts to ship in their pet pics. Having discovered nothing from the final time we did this, we again underestimated the response. So now we have got no less than two columns’ price of images for you, and who is aware of what number of extra.

For builders who’ve already submitted pics however do not see their furball under, relaxation assured that each canine can have its day in a future column. Cats and different critters, too.

And for these in the trade who have been by no means requested, think about this your invitation.

Anybody received a sheep? I am a canine individual myself, however it’d be nice to get a sheep in the subsequent column. Who does not love sheep?

If you would like your sheep (or different pet) featured, please ship an image – together with the pets’ names and your identify and title – to information@gamesindustry.biz. Make sure that to place Creature Comforts in the topic line.