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Jackson Miller

@sovietjazz.bsky.social
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narrative designer, writer, aspiring lich Committee member/tyrannical social media overlord of the IGDA game writing special interest group (SIG) All opinions are the result of consensus reached by the spiders psionically controlling me.

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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maybe I’m crazy, but I interpret “I usually do work outside my assigned duties agree/disagree” as an unspoken “will you cause problems if we try to make you work unpaid overtime”
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One aspect of the modern job hunt I find outright sinister is these “fit assessments” they make you do now. The questions are all couched in corporate speak, but they always read to me as trying to tease out how willing I am to have my labor exploited.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can understand your perspective but at the end of the day, if the game has “Grand Theft Auto” in the title, my biggest priority is that it feels like GTA. To give an analogy- I don’t drink Coke because it’s good, I drink it because it tastes like coke.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I saw this on my steam homepage and immediately started thinking about what a dress-up game for people like me with no interest/experience in that genre would look like. This would be far beyond solo dev scope, but RTS where you design your units dresses?
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Actually I think it’s kind of beautiful anyone can now become that one Fallout: The Frontier dev who leveraged his engine knowledge to turn the NCR quest line into his personal atrociously-convinced 30-hour cinematic epic inspired by the games he played over the weekend.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Few people” you say as I speedrun my BG3 Dark Urge playthrough to get to the Squirrel-kicking scene as fast as possible.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some WB suit is clearly concerned this will impact the TV show and tugged on the leash.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You underestimate my power.
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 28/09/2026
We have a lot of fun at the expense of the French, but honestly, I'm sure it's hard to balance cheating on your 16-year-old wife with a 14-year-old boy while working three hours a day.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FRONT MISSION MENTIONED LETS GOOOOOOO
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whenever I see someone say all country music is inherently reactionary I feel a deep urge to sit them down and make them listen to kristofferson and Johnny cash sing about having empathy for others & fighting the man. (Also my GOAT Willie Nelson singing about how much he loves weed)
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s criminal we never got an animated adaptation of the kaiji Mahjong arc.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Desperate and/or mentally unwell people humiliating and degrading themselves for millions to see? Welcome back Bumfights.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Vampires cannot cross the threshold of your home unless invited.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And dear god am I a better, happier person for it.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The most important thing I think we all need to do is remember this. Remember what Microsoft and Xbox are doing to this industry right now when they try to reenter it in 10-15 years. Do not trust them, do not take their money. Do not invite the vampire across your threshold.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
…Not a crossover I expected today, but sure.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The only explanation I can think of that even kind of makes sense is that a key decision maker was convinced FOMO would boost player numbers and absolutely refused to be persuaded otherwise.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve been wondering for a while if bungie leadership was so shortsighted they never even seriously considered doing destiny 3, or if they just missed their window and by the time they pitched it to Sony the response was “get marathon’s Numbers up first”
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art critics are cowards and looking at pictures of Conan striking cool poses intimidates them.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer > anything Renoir ever painted
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminds me of video game projects I’ve worked on where a feature the programmers couldn’t get to work suddenly starts (kind of) working, and now nobody can touch that code because we’re afraid of breaking it.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Been finding out recently that basically everyone in game writing except for me got their start on AO3.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But what if I only got into game dev because I hate video games so much I want to actively make them worse.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People mainly remember generals as the RTS with all the wacky post-9/11 era stuff you could never get away with today. But it also took a lot of creative swings with its gameplay and faction asymmetry, and it has a baller soundtrack.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My hot take is that people need to stop chasing the peak of StarCraft esports and just make good single player games not hyper-optimized for high skill multiplayer.People forget brood war was never intended to be a competitive game. TBH I think this partly why stormgate failed.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Some existing StarCraft fans will pick this up, of course, but not as many as if it was an RTS. Some will actively shun the game for not being what they wanted. It all just feels like a weird self-own to me. Why make it harder to draw in the existing fan base?
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’d love nothing more than to be wrong, but my instinct says this will end poorly. Ghost Made sense because StarCraft was a hot IP at the time. Trying to reactivate a dormant IP in a completely different genre seems like a much bigger swing than spinning off of something already successful.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Blizzard is apparently making a StarCraft FPS, Something which has famously gone really well for them in the past.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
EA is sitting on a bunch of cool franchises. would do TERRIBLE things to write for a Command and Conquer Red Alert game.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Also this is a VERY SERIOUS project that was definitely NOT conceived as a convoluted scheme to give myself the ability to shill Pentiment on the Game Writing SIG website. Any claims and/or accusations of this put forward by my fellow committee members are definitely false.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Game Writing SIG’s first monthly narrative spotlight is out! Every month I will be talking(ranting) about a different narrative-centric game. For this one I spoke with @antennasunite.bsky.social about his video game/Escape Room hybrid ScribeOS. I’ve got big plans for this series so stay tuned!
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Preparing to yell CRANK FIGHT! CRANK FIGHT! as all the cranks wrestle over the GOP’s shredded remains in a Chick-fil-A parking lot.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t want it to be good because I think it would be kinda funny if Miyazaki disowned his son a second time.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I was in New York for an anime convention two weeks ago and basically spent that whole weekend walking around the Times Square area. It’s shocking these people don’t realize the face being shown on the news could’ve just as easily been them.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Me playing DOOM on my orb.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please stop feed him more energy, he’ll start dumping van pictures on my timeline again.
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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Zero Company is a true XCOM inheritor because I just missed a 95% chance shot
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
HE WAS THE EVIL HOT DOG FROM REGULAR SHOW TOO?!
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Xizor had a hot android named guri who was his bodyguard/assassin/personal assistant. To my knowledge she’s the only human-like droid in the entire EU. I forget if they actually fucked though.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“XCOM but it’s Star Wars” is a game pitch that was carefully designed in a laboratory to prevent me doing anything remotely productive for the next month.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Empire at war still has enough active players that every year or so petroglyph will put out a small update. Also the modding cartel is so well organized it’s indistinguishable from some indie studios.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m in the same boat, but also I would like to once again ask my fellow game devs to please benchmark their UE5 games on non-high end PCs. This optimization is rough.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This game started development years before the onset of the current memory shortage, but I feel as an industry we need to collectively accept and plan for that going forward, we can’t expect everyone to be playing our UE5 games on high end machines. Optimization is more important than ever.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Immediately raiding the local sporting goods store for a full legion panoply then opening a pizzeria so I can say “Ave, true to Caesar” on deliveries.
You bear a a coupon for 30% off breadsticks, yet you do not wear it as a soldier of the west wears it.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ironically that’s kind of the entire message of the book this movie is based on.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Zero Company was designed in a lab to absorb the next month of my life, But with so many steam reviwers complaining about crashes and poor optimization I think I’ll give it a few days.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I merely uphold the proud traditions of my state.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Severe temporal disruption imminent.
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Jackson Miller @sovietjazz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Going to NYC tomorrow for the same convention I went to last year. I’m interested to see if Mamdani winning the election lifted the background miasma of cigarette smoke and human misery.
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