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Nathan Savant

@baldsavant.bsky.social
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words ✍️ Systemic Narrative Designer 🧭 Quest designer and world builder 🧠 Psychology and Sociology in #GameDesign Currently @ Highdive Games "Quest Giving" from CRC Press AVAILABLE NOW!

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 6h
Kyle Rayner with the wisdom
Kyle: But the truth is, depite everything I've been through, and honestly it's a LOT...

...I'm still figuring things out myself.

What I can tell you is you need to decaide who you are without the ring, and then be that same person with the ring.
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
there’s so much beauty in the world it’s a shame that so many dickheads constantly try and distract us from that fact
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 6h
and the republic said we are waiting and the republic said you will ignite the darkness and the republic said you will show us the way and the republic said your blood will feed the land and the republic said your corpse will be our litany wake up. The form is still there.
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 7h
I aspire to one day create a game where I can pitch "grandma who feeds pigeons" as a playable hero.
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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just setting up my skull candles in my basement server room for the pumpkin spice season 💅
adorable skull candle on a pedestal adorable skull candle on a pedestal, this one is has big ol anime eyes. you can see a big ass 1990s computer in the back
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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 20h
Finally the -tober prompt that I can follow to my heart's content
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 8h
Let's all work real hard to make Trump's "Super Intelligence" thing stick so games can reclaim the term AI. Give him this one, it's better for everybody!
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🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social · 11h
Question (please share)! What games industry speaker and/or what topic (games or not!) would make you consider travel to attend a conference/convention? Or as a games industry person, what speaker from outside of games would like to see at a con? Or topics that are not games specific?
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 14h
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 19h
"You could never create a single account on a single Meta service, of which there are many, and you still aren't safe. If you're talking to someone who has installed Muse, Meta could, presumably, access, read, analyze, and upload that information to its services."
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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just in case you did not know what you were looking at
a picture of the sky. a skywriter has written SKY on it.
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Oh no! The AI has gone rogue again! Better pay me a lot of money to protect you from this evil thing with a mind of its own! Don't worry, baby, I'll keep you safe! Aren't you happy you have me?"
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SNAKEMAN @kingserpentico.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 28/09/2026
I try to hammer this home in the unfortunately many conversations I have with non-creative normies about the state of games, animation, etc. They have all been lead to think AI is replacing us, and it’s just not true. The money people have by and large just tossed us aside for a shiny new toy!
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I am so hyped to see this damned film!
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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Surprise Mongol Horde on your dashboard. Defend yourselves against my archers on horseback. If you can. 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: 5 million years ago - a bunch of bedbugs lounge around in a living room, looking totally bored. Panel 2: another bedbug excitedly bursts through the front door and exclaims, “someone invented beds!” Panel 3: one of the bedbugs looks over their shoulder at the other and says, “you’re joking”
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
happy 25th anniversary to whatever this was
RogerEbert.com

Zoolander
COMEDY
90 minutes PC-13 - 2001
Roger Ebert
September 28, 2001
4 min read
There have been articles lately asking why the United States is so hated in some parts
of the world. As this week's Exhibit A from
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 27/09/2026
credit carp
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nonspecifically red @unfixable.place · 27/09/2026
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Control Resonant putting me up against a first boss with deeply unclear hitboxes: "hey, have you heard about dodging?" Like buddy, I regret to inform you that I am not the problem here.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
youtu.be
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
Musk
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is spending all your time policing the terminology other people use to describe themselves really helping you?
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Allie B. - write the infinite @madpierrot.design · 26/09/2026
You should read through all of this (especially as a ttrpg designer, you need to understand level design too) then drop Delaney a few bucks for summarizing this so cleanly.
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HONEYMOSS @honeymoss.art · 22/03/2026
forever relevant 👁️👁️👁️👁️
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 26 1997, Bomberman 64 debuted as Baku Bomberman on the N64 in Japan! Developer/Publisher Hudson Soft made the tough decision to scrap over 6 months of work on the initial version of the game and start fresh after seeing other 3D games/Atomic Bomberman PC already at market!
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/09/2026
vibes
a sign that says THIS IS A (burned triangle) AREA. Who knows what it used to say. it's been burned with acid and fire or maybe magic
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Ale 🍝 @uomopolpetta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Learning a game engine is so funny because at some point you’ll find yourself googling how to destroy children
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brian looking out into the water with the text 
"No sports betting for me please, just the safe and legal thrill Faygo red pop and throwing a car battery into the ocean"
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 16/07/2026
Games Not (Only) By Cis-Dudes 🧵 (list in progress I keep on my phone & pasting here) * Apocalypse World * For the queen * The quiet year * Yazeba’s bed and breakfast * Seven part pact * Kagematsu & A single man * Tales of the Fisherman’s Wife * Steal Away Jordan * A Mending * Field guide to memory
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, but...... But no!!
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Haha, this final week in Montreal is so exhausting I'm gunna fly back to LA and do nothing for like a month-- wait, no, it's Roguelike Celebration in 3 weeks and I'm giving a talk. Oh god. Oh fuck."
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FIX MOJANG BEDROCK ANTI VIRAL SPIRAL @adventurewetpaint.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
True of all game design. Don't care how good your story is, I need to know the fantasy I'm playing out first.
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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[Holds up cartoon sign that reads "will work on nemesis system sequel for food"] kotaku.com/middle-earth...
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Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor And War Coming To Switch 2
Both versions come with all their extra DLC content, and there's a bundle available too
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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Man. It takes an astounding lack of understanding to think that Activision would make a good Halo.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you ever struggle with names when worldbuilding just remember there's a whole massive mountain range called The Rockies
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we need to return to sci-fi book covers being little people in the foreground with immense looming wonders in the background
the cover for The Last Legends of Earth, which shows people fishing in a hamlet of thatch-roof catches while vast sci-fi pylons loom in the background the cover of Shadow of the Torturer which shows Severian walking away from a city of spires some art by Eddie Jones that shows people getting out of a UFO and walking towards a massive gate, beyond which is a blood red moon tiny figures in the foreground observe a giant woman sleeping in a lake of blood
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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