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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I love and miss the Connecticut Greek-style pizza from my youth. I'm not sure you can find it anymore, but this is what real pizza looks like to me.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#Handsoff rally today in affluent, suburban Walnut Creek, CA! Somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 enthusiastic participants, I would estimate.

Panoramic shot of thousands of protesters in the streets of Walnut Creek, CA.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#TeslaTakedown in Walnut Creek, CA today. Getting bigger every week! Must have been at least 500 of us this time. Keep it g(r)owing, everyone!

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

One week from today! Trying out some new things for my workshop this year, which can always be a bit of a dice roll. 🎲🎲 Looking forward to seeing old friends at GDC and making some new ones! #gdc #gdc2025

A colorful graphic explaining that I'm speaking at the Game Developers Conference. My Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop is being held on Monday, March 17 (all day). GDC runs from March 17 - 21 in San Francisco, CA.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Around 300 of us today in Walnut Creek! I was here a month ago and we barely broke 100. Keep it going! #TeslaTakedown

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Berkeley: bigger and louder this time, with mariachi musicians to boot! #TeslaTakedown

Protesters in front of the Berkeley, CA Tesla dealership.

Mariachi band and protesters in front of the Berkeley, CA Tesla dealership.

Protesters with a cardboard Cybertruck (symbolically on fire) in front of the Berkeley, CA Tesla dealership.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

About 150 of us at the #TeslaTakedown rally in Berkeley today. Keep it going!

Protesters outside the Tesla dealership in Berkeley, CA.

“BOYCOTT” written in chalk on the pavement in front of the Tesla showroom in Berkeley, CA.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

And our Congressman, Mark DeSaulnier, joined us!

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Yep! From my book (published in 2014, and not much has changed since then):

When one looks at the writers behind some of the most revered video game stories -- those of Psychonauts, Grand Theft Auto IV, BioShock, Red Dead Redemption, Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain -- a pattern starts to emerge.

The writers on these games possessed a great deal of on-team power and creative control.

In order for narrative experts to be effective on a game development team, they need to be taken seriously and have the political capital to push back against the inevitable resistance that presses on the story elements from almost every direction during the game's development.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It's official! (For the 18th time, in case anyone's still counting!) schedule.gdconf.com/session/stor...

I'm speaking at GDC! Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop, Monday March 17.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

No, *you* just drove 2+ hours round-trip to buy a Star Trek: TNG tricorder.

I’m holding a Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation tricorder from the 1990s.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I grew up on New England Greek style pizza that looked like this. So thin, greasy drippy NYC pizza never did much for me, even after living there (or adjacent) for ten years as an adult.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy 10th birthday to my little blue book! When I finished writing VGS, I didn't have much confidence that it was any good. I just knew it was finally done! Thanks to everyone who's bought it, read it, reviewed it, recommended it, and/or discovered its utility as a chair-balancer and fly-swatter.