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Jesse V

@jessev.bsky.social
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Writer, Game Designer, sometimes authority figure. I’ve been a journalist, a publisher, a producer, a designer, and more. Attractions, alt controllers, audio games, films, etc. These days I teach at USC Games. Cohost @everydamnframe

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Philip Tibitoski @ptibz.younghorses.com · 28/09/2026
Indies, I need you to know that when someone says they can look past a game's in development lack of polish and envision what a game will be like when it's done, they are unintentionally LYING. Even I fool myself into thinking this is the case each game. It's rarely true.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m seeing it again Saturday. Someone asked me how gross it is, should we eat before or after and I said “it’s not disgusting but let me put it like this: I don’t think very many people went home to fuck after seeing Barbarian”
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you know someone who doesn’t understand why watching Twitch streaming is a thing people enjoy, I highly encourage you to go see Resident Evil in a rowdy theater this weekend. That’s all I’ll say, except that it’ll be better as a shared experience in a theater and you’ll know why I said that.
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Resident Evil 2026
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wish my students knew how good they had it. My dudes, your only job today is to put care and attention and craftsmanship into your art, which by the way, does not need to succeed or satisfy shareholders. You have the rest of your lives to be miserable amd sleepless making 6/10 action games, TRUST.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pitch day in class: My riff: oh my god the star wars roguelike logline is literally just “somehow palpatine returned” - you are the emperor, every run you are trying the same thing, rule the galaxy kill the Jedi . Every run they get you but you can build on it next time.
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Poe Dameron: Somehow, Palpatine Returned
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So much of what is wrong with the games industry right now might be summarized by spending countless years making a game called “Wolverine” but not including any of the moderating redemptive influences in that character’s core story that get in the way of letting gamers play as a meat grinder.
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Landon Noss @landon.wtf · 10/09/2026
Checking in on the discourse
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Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Who is eating sammich in the dark in my systems class why does my systems class smell like a subway
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Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🎶 I saw Noah Nelson drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic’s. And his hair was *perfect* 🎶
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’m teaching a new class this fall and I wasn’t sure if I was really nailing it all summer but I think this class is gonna be good after all.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When I die and arrive in hell I think there’s even money Satan will choose to make hell a flight on Air China
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
One button arcade game about being a sysadmin defending from Gibsonian cyberspace icebreakers-using Godot for the first time, building it in my hotel room while teaching my workshop. It’s using vector art but runs in a sophisticated music system I designed so secretly everything happens on the BEAT
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I made this in the hotel room for the workshop attendees. Hi, by the way, I’m in Beijing. I used Google translate on the text until my student assistants get here to fix it. If it’s wrong please forgive me, native speakers will adjust it before it is deployed. If it’s hilarious please tell me.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Okay I know all the indies are saying this but as a lightweight “just fucking rapid prototype” tool Godot rocks so far. I’ll share some progress since I am going to prove to my workshop attendees this is possible by doing my own project.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One thing every professor I know will of course agree with is the notion that we feel our students are listening to and heeding anything we have said in our classrooms lately.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’m teaching a design workshop for the next two weeks and we’re starting by building this controller. I know. But just wait. I think some remarkable things will come from designing for this controller.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When we talked about doing a new show I died inside knowing I’d have to learn about “clipping” and be good about it this time. I thought it would be a chore but NOPE, it’s my reward. I love the clips. The hard part is choosing! check out @everydamnframe.com there’s lots more #ResidentEvil ahead
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So it turns out our old podcast hosting service and its AI helper were LYING to me and gaslighting me deeply about whether or not they were compressing and altering the audio I uploaded even to their own AI’s specifications. I spend this morning migrating us and finally had proof. 1 is RIVERSIDE.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Seeing both trailers back to back before Spider-Man I think we were wrong to call it #DunesDay when we could clearly be calling it #PughsDay
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I did my 3 miles this morning with hills! I got stuff done promoting my show! My talk that I’m giving at @indiecade.bsky.social’s climate jam soon is a good and useful one about QA and Polishing which I care about so much that I have bullied my program into making it curriculum. Good morning!
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So a fun fact here is that I deliberately cropped the visuals here for this clip because when taping the show we never went back to look at the graveyard sweater, so it became slowly an object of myth in our oral tradition. Really am loving this show. Please subscribe. It’s free and ad-free!
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New show! Really excited to launch this labor of love from three friends and industry professionals who seek to understand precisely how single films transform into engines that drive decade-spanning franchises. And right at the jump I damage my “gamer cred” so enjoy that as well!
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It was a really stressful summer producing this and mentoring students. I got to bring on my best bud from the QA trenches on our first AAA game to teach the team how to get through cert and on the store. Passed first try, 0 issues. Knowing what I know now, I’d do a few things different. But…
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So many fireworks just went off in my neighborhood that i couldn’t help checking CNN
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I feel like this depends on who you are and what happened to you right before you heard it, but on my mind now that I’m older and scared all the time about my creative relevance: “And it’s so easy to be social, it’s so easy to be cool, it’s so easy to be hungry when you ain’t got shit to lose”
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I was saying earlier to someone that the MCU has entered the phase of storytelling the comics did but greed stopped them from training their audience the way comics do: to not feel like following every character and reading every story was crucial to enjoying an event story.
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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Geez I dunno fellas; MAYBE these days the genre may not have the same white-hot box-office appeal as "A Series Of Vaguely Unsettling Rooms" and I may just be a simple country media critic speaking? But I reckon a couple folks DO show up and watch a movie with all those Avengers and X-Mens in it 🤷‍♂️
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Every few months, I ask folks to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Why? Because we live in a world (partially) controlled by mysterious algorithms and rankings. It's not fair, and it's not ideal. But! Your review can get the show in front of more people and help me reach algorithm escape velocity
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Post Games
Video Games Podcast · Updated Weekly · Post Games is an audio magazine about how and why we love video games. Each week, host Chris Plante reports on a new, overlooked, or underappreciated topic in ga...
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
LR: my favorite part of that illustration is how the AI artist is using a stylus on her keyboard
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
me: i must practice the dharma also me:
me telling ai man to khs
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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...
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Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths
I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...
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Clayton “Death” @itsclaybaby.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We all want what Wall-E had, we all want to meet an elegant baddie that is low-key a little scary with it that you can show all your Items to
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MrC Careens Haphazardly Through Time & Space @oldmisterc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I’m on a new podcast that launches in a few weeks but let me just say right now that every time we do an episode I love film all over again and all I want to do is go deep and watch a ton more movies with that love.
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AMC Cinema: Woman in Striped Suit
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I would like to be able to work out and take better care of my body while not falling behind in all the things I need to do to keep my home and feed my kid and I genuinely think that thought (which does not include “find time to have fun”) might be the root of what’s wrong in America right now.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I worked for a publisher during final era of 100% putting media on plastic circles and putting those in plastic boxes that went to stores. Of the $55 you paid at Best Buy then, you’d be shocked how much of that was the manufacture, warehouse, shipping. I suspect GTA VI would have cost $30 more min
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I didn't think this needed to be spelled out (thank you Bluesky), but the point is that even if the prices are the same, companies are making more money per sale now than they were back then, and none of that is passed to the customer
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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
idk maybe people can go back to putting their games in little plastic bags
bag for the game akalabeth featuring the manual inside it for the apple 2. Shows guy about to enter a cave
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This was excellent journalism and well written too.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I just wrote a @mpeg700.bsky.social letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Please implore the governor to save a signature California industry. This form assumes you’re union but you don’t have to be.
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Keep Post Alive: Write to the Governor!
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You’ve cranned your last berry.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And then boy was he ever transparent.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Chances are this post will show up on your feed between news stories about game studios closing or laying people off. I’m grabbing the conch and I’m going to speak now. Ahem. Fuck thousand dollar consoles. Fuck the algorithm. Fuck trying to sell as many copies to scumbags as we can. Instead: 🧵
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Two major disappointments upon waking up from dreams. 1) it seems I’m not nominated for an Emmy 2) I don’t think Hugh Jackman is gonna be coming by later to build a model of Minas Tirith with me
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/06/2026
we don't all get to just do whatever the fuck we want and then make everyone else pay the price for it. moving through the world as someone whose brain (and body! my body gives out sometimes to!) can't always be relied upon means not setting myself up to fuck up other people's lives.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You can, however, make a cupcake.
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Jesse V @jessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Maybe… maybe let it all burn after all.
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