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Hey, fellow artists!

There's a topic that's on everyone's mind this week. We're saddened, worried and dismayed by the news and footage that reaches us from the Ukraine, and we're anxiously reading reports from friends and peers who live or have family there, fearing for their safety and lives.

We discussed internally what Airborn could do beyond the usual means and decided that we'll make our office space available to Ukrainian game artists. If you're currently stuck in Berlin and can't travel home or happen to be in the process of leaving Ukraine and making your way here, we can offer a desk, hardware if needed, internet access, the usual facilities (e.g., kitchen) and the company of some fellow art weirdos (i.e., us) in case you need to place to go about your work during the day. Know someone like this? Feel free to pass this one. We'll also try to help where we can with bureaucratic obstacles one may encounter or seeing what accommodation options there might be. No hard promises on that though since it's a pretty dynamic situation and we're new to this as well. The best we can do under these circumstances.

What else can anyone do? Stay informed and take unvalidated news from sketchy sources with a massive grain of salt. More importantly, you can help by donating to organizations like the Red Cross (https://www.icrc.org/en/donate/ukraine) and other channels (https://www.inquirer.com/.../ukraine-charities-donate.html) and engage with your local politicians to let them know how important this is to you.

We discussed internally what Airborn could do beyond the usual means and decided that we'll make our office space available to Ukrainian game artists. If you're currently stuck in Berlin and can't travel home or happen to be in the process of leaving Ukraine and making your way here, we can offer a desk, hardware if needed, internet access, the usual facilities (e.g., kitchen) and the company of some fellow art weirdos (i.e., us) in case you need to place to go about your work during the day. Know someone like this? Feel free to pass this one. We'll also try to help where we can with bureaucratic obstacles one may encounter or seeing what accommodation options there might be. No hard promises on that though since it's a pretty dynamic situation and we're new to this as well. The best we can do under these circumstances.

What else can anyone do? Stay informed and take unvalidated news from sketchy sources with a massive grain of salt. More importantly, you can help by donating to organizations like the Red Cross (https://www.icrc.org/en/donate/ukraine) and other channels (https://www.inquirer.com/.../ukraine-charities-donate.html) and engage with your local politicians to let them know how important this is to you.

To everyone who is directly affected by this: our thoughts are with you and we're hoping you and your loved one manage to stay out of harm's way as best as possible.

I am so sad to hear. I was born in Iraq and fleed the war, and I know to this day, that people in that area do not have any safe ground. When we came to Europe, we had hoped that no one, not even our neighbors would go through this. And once again this is happening. It's unfair, it's disgusting and this saddens me beyond. Why? just why in God's name or whomever it concerns does mankind still resolve to war and kill innocent people? Why is the hunger for power so strong that you are willing to sacrifice children, women, and men that have nothing to do with your ego??

Hope there's a solution coming and soon!!!!!

If any game artist makes it out and needs a safe space to be. reach out. We can help in Berlin / Germany. If we have anything, we have space at the studio. We can try to support with finding accommodations and visa stuff. We can certainly offer desk space and a friendly environment where you can at least keep your job running. it aint much, but if we can help. we will.

and if berlin is too close, our folks can likely help you in portugal as well.

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However, a game that's fun to play is a heavily-designed experience.

There are heavily-designed spaces in real life... theme parks, landscape architecture, japanese zen gardens, etc.

So then it's in the details. Fine resolution. Natural wear. No repetition.

That requires heavy computing power and a lot of memory.

The final 15% will take 85% of the effort.