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Dan Pearce

@gamedesigndan.bsky.social
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I make games in my pajamas. BAFTA Breakthrough, two time BAFTA award nominee and one time winner. Working on SPACE WARLORD BABY TRADING SIMULATOR at Strange Scaffold Prev: I AM YOUR BEAST, CRDM3, Clickolding, 10 Second Ninja X, Castles in the Sky

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h
My new favourite design choice is the initially bizarre decision to map a really key action, swapping boost modes, on a right stick press but it actually works SO well because it has the feeling on the pad of reaching over to a gear stick. It's SO good.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 3h
felt all my synapses exploding
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 4h
you do not understand how quickly i would grab these moustache handles and yank em
Darius Pax from Star Wars Galactic racer. He's like that diner guy from attack of the clones only he has a big moustache with golden handles on each tip
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 10h
Oh dang. Apparently on top of this being Viktor Antonov's (Half-Life 2, Dishonored, etc) last work, the lead gameplay designer made the *Pathologic board game*. Helps explains why this might be one of the weirdest shooters I've ever played, completely willing to throw all accepted wisdom aside.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 9h
all game development to cease until the industry can agree on whether behavior should have a U in it
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Aron Durkin @arondurkin.bsky.social · 16h
Rare entry level role here folks!
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 12h
shout-out to when a friend got their autism diagnosis and I was like "damn that's crazy because we're so similar and have so many stories from childhood that echo one another even though I'm not autistic at all"
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 12h
Ted Lasso stopped being good overall from season 2 and I'll die on that hill
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 23h
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 15h
The infamous dril tweet that reads "drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"
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Salarez to be 💝 Married 💝 @salarez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a good articulation of why I despised that article going around the other day. I dont know how we can use the words rehabilitative justice in regards to a man that raped a woman in college. College is the only place these women dont even get to report their rape to real cops! What justice?
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I went to Woking today and there was a bronze statue of what appears to be Frank West from the Dead Rising games? Hello??
A bronze statue in front of a church. The statue looks like Frank West with his hands in his pockets
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I appreciate a lot of you shared that article the other day in good faith while processing complex feelings (probably not the right time to be posting fwiw) but, if you did, you're probably someone who should watch this too. youtu.be/qW9CbnoXjFQ?...
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Fear Of holding Jacob Geller accountable, "Restorative Justice" edition
YouTube video by Ophie Dokie
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People talk a lot about how wacky Ace Combat is but simultaneously I don't think any other game has so immersively recreated the feeling of someone explaining board game rules to you while your attention drifts as much as the mission briefings do.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imagine this on a "directed by Greta Gerwig" style t shirt
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
digitalph33r
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Devil May Cry 1's first area is like "Dante is pretty cool, huh? But, before you can get to the action, you're first going to have to familiarise yourself with one of the worst feeling jump buttons on any videogame character"
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Steam Deck is so good. No other modern console can provide this kind of experience.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire for PS2, hosted by Chris Tarrant, being played on a Steam Deck, while watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire, also hosted by Chris Tarrant
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
my housemate's girlfriend had a housewarming so I went in a t-shirt of his face so people would know who I was and it actually worked really well
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I live in Reading where we still for some reason have a Stranger Things themed ghost kitchen that's open until midnight
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
maybe you shouldnt post what you think too much punishment is for a creator who SAed someone when you are still in shock, have barely had time to get through the denial > anger > bargaining stages of grief and victims of SA (who can see what you post) have already had an awful week reading the news
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm going to a housewarming with a bunch of people I don't know well later so I'm looking forward to finally being one of those people who can use Traitors as a social loophole. Just gonna say "Richard E Grant!" and go like this:
That meme of the white haired monkey that looks a bit like a cat shrugging and throwing his hands up
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also, especially as a ton of capital has now abandoned the space with a ton of actually pretty affordable headsets kicking around in their wake, that's arguably more fertile ground for weird hobbyist experimentation, especially as people are forced to look backwards more for hardware to game on.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jennifer Coolidge and James Blunt have kind of similar speaking voices
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Okay fine I'm watching Traitors
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I commented on an Instagram post about Noah Schnapp being in a play in London like "imagine paying to see him" and a bunch of people defending him sure are bringing up whether or not he's a Zionist when I never did.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
getting my head caved in for calling Star Wars Galactic Racer a "road-like"
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
personally I think it should be illegal for games press to post reviews of really good games when I cant play them for three more days
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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow I bet this was not an easy decision, and no doubt they will be taking a financial hit from this. www.lostincult.co.uk/shop
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Shop — Lost In Cult
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's at least a little funny that every big game has been working hard to not have to conflict with GTA 6's release and the result of this is for some reason seems like it will be like 5-6 games that would otherwise be GOTY candidates in most years coming out directly next to it.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ugh. Managed to completely miss this story yesterday. For fucks sake.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*trying to comfort adele* he probably just isn't used to seeing a person try and set rain on fire
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
rolling my eyes back as I make a ring with my finger and thumb and squeeze the contents of six frubes into my mouth at once
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm so fucked up
A man in a VR head set looking at his hands
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a Saving Private Ryan x Saving Mr Banks crossover where the bit is no one acknowledging Tom Hanks playing dual roles
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are you a cis man feeling disgusted at the news? Good. Use that. Talk to your fellow men about what you're going to do to make our industry and our world safer. And then actually do it. You may lose friends or opportunities, but a better and safer industry and world starts with you.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
healing my attention span by watching agonisingly straightforward 1970s documentaries about product launches and this one for coffee has Ridley Scott in it, who they hired to film an ad because of his youthful energy and perspective
Young Ridley Scott looking at a camera in his hands or something
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's wild that Ace Combat has been really good this whole time and no one had any idea
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also it means that, when you need to make a change later, particularly an urgent one, it's so much quicker because you (hopefully) already took steps to make that more straightforward and have a memory of why it's like that.
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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WE MET OUR CROWDFUNDING GOAL Thank you so much for your support! But the campaign is not over yet: 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... Be sure to back SeverLink and expand our development capabilities for more content and mechanics! #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #y2k #indiegame #gamedev
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A rare place in an industry-leading writing team, for the right person 💚
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I gave Ace Combat a proper go for the first time last night with 8. There was a point where the music swelled as I did a high G turn to avoid a missile then angled myself to immediately obliterate four targets at once and, for a moment, it felt like the most important thing I'd ever done.
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
people mistakenly think it was just jesus and the disciples at the last supper because they forget about the guy who did that painting
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just found out ears are connected to the throat?? what the fuck??
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
all of the music in Ace Combat 8 sounds like this btw
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I fuck with thors brother low key
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Pedalboard Games @pedalboard.games · 29/09/2026
We're sending out review keys for The WHEELJAM Collection today. If you're in games press and are interested in covering a game collection that uses no generative AI and largely highlights younger and less tenured developers in the industry, please reach out to hello@pedalboard.games or via DM!
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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
reluctant to hand it to Labour as there are still hard lines that I think they're on the wrong side of but I'm glad to see them announcing multiple policy positions I can see the logic in and actually feel keen to watch them manifest
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Sex and Death at Dark Fryasma @darkfry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whenever I like a movie, I say that it's "Absolute Gameplay" (I respect video games more as an artform)
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