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recovering game director. also VFX on more than one (1+) Jeff Bridges film m.imdb.com/name/nm5226810

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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In my humble opinion, the absolute best adaptation of any movie. Period. @jerryordway.bsky.social would be a legend if this were only thing he’d ever have done in comics.
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stauder @stauder.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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a video game shows a group of people standing around a brick walkway
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just happened upon this while looking at the history of R-rated animated movies and oh... my... god! PAPRIKA is FREE to watch on Youtube! Treat yourself to one of the GREATS- www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Ij...
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Paprika
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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SPINE — This Is Gun Fu @playspine.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
PROTOCOL INITIATING [████████████]... // SOURCE: TENSOR CITY // DATA: 7 DROPS. 7 DAYS // START: APRIL 13 SPINE FULL CONTACT WEEK. STANDBY. #SPINEFULLCONTACTWEEK #PlaySPINE
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
hey folks! Magic the Gathering kindly gave me the chance to write a sequel to my Rootha Squallheart story from a few years ago!!
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Wilhelm Scream Queen @chuckspear.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026
To add to this: It will also make you a better, more empathetic collaborator if you're working with artists. Just by having made the attempt yourself, you'll better be able to communicate -- not only your ideas for the project, but also to understand the needs of your other teammates.
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Nick Popovich @nickpopovich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We're hiring a ✨Senior Game Designer✨ for a new project at Monomi Park! 🍃 Applicants should have strong Unreal Engine experience, be able to own significant portions of a game's design, and the ability to work well within a small team. Is that yoooou? job-boards.greenhouse.io/monomipark/j...
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Senior Game Designer
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Doc Shaner @docshaner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Friendly Neighborhood/Amazing/Spectacular Spider-Man
Drawing of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man jumping over a taxi cab by Doc Shaner.Detail of a drawing of Spider-Man by Doc Shaner.
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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
flashbanged with memories of the twin peaks episode of darkwing duck
darkwing duck sitting casually next to his villain bushroot wrapped in plastic looking dead as hell, like laura palmer
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I’m Aysha, a writer and narrative designer looking for full time and contract work! I’ve worked on Life is Strange, Pathologic, Hiveswap, and Magic the Gathering, to name a few. Hire me while the industry still exists!
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Ashley Ruhl @ashleyruhl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm so excited to speak at GDC with these amazing folks!! Come learn stuff with us!
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
hey folks, a client that owes me quite a bit of money has been very slow in paying me, so I'm gonna struggle a bit over the next couple months. if you've got any short-term editing work, or want to buy one of mine and @llewellynrose.bsky.social's comics, it'd be a big help. ko-fi.com/s/71c6cf0fd1
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Skin Trade - Aysha 's Ko-fi Shop
A doomed fisherman finds a selkie's skin down by the tideline. Art by Megan Llewellyn and story by Aysha U. Farah
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Skunkape @skunkapegames.com · 04/02/2026
Five years after the Inventory closed its doors, this underground social club will reopen on March 5! Poker Night at the Inventory is a high-stakes battle of cards, bets & trash talk coming to Steam, PlayStation & Nintendo Switch. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3897800/...
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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This Alex Raymond panel is like a whole library of cool graphic choices
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Ashley Ruhl @ashleyruhl.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I'm speaking at GDC again! I'll be joining @richardrouse.bsky.social's "Rules of the Game" talk, as well as returning for @toiya.bsky.social's "Q&A for New Writers" panel. I love connecting with narrative design and cinematics folks while I'm out there. Let's hangout! #GDC2026
An image of me but my mouth is a cat face, with the text "I'm speaking at GDC 2026" underneath it
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A fresh one from me! I wrote about fandom, what characters "deserve," lesbians and our desire to Return To The Past. What does it mean to wind back the clock and why does that seem to be *the* thing many folks want from art now? aftermath.site/life-is-stra...
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A Game Doesn't Need To Be ‘By And For Fans’
Life Is Strange: Reunion could be a story that grapples with old choices and mistakes, or it could be one that tells fans and characters they "deserve" stories that make everything OK
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inkle @inkle.co · 21/01/2026
Btw, we've been sharing reviews all morning, but a lot have spoilers in them! TR-49 is best experienced as it presents itself. Set yourself 2 hours. Curl up with an iPad or Deck, if you can. Have a pen handy if you like: definitely a cup of tea, so it can go cold. Trust us. The TR49 has got you.
The image is a screenshot of the machine from the game TR-49. It's a contraption of wires and levers, with a glowing circular screen, and a code-entry window of two letter followed by two numbers. There's a face floating in the glass of the screen.
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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 21/01/2026
Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s incredibly crass to demand certain (controversial) story beats from your writing team, fire that writing team, then throw that writing team under the bus for decisions *they didn’t make* while marketing your new thing. Very crass! Very ick!
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
need a localization editor/proofreader/consultant? here's some stuff i've done adaptation work on, from just basic grammar tweaks to deep story consulting. DM me or hit me up through the form on my website ayshaufarah.com
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dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
dragon warrior vii / psx heartbeat, 2000
boy in green peaking out from the trees beneath an elaborate building with an orange tiled roof
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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a girl with a red bow on her head is leaning over a counter in a bakery
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the haunting of andrea🔜nygw @asaraviapt.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2026, I don't want to see another post about 'layoff-proof" advice. "Here's how your resume can be layoff proof" absolutely not, workers can't change the cash flow of a company or the expectations of studio leadership in a way that is big enough to avoid a furlough/layoff/mass firing.
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stauder @stauder.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
“The boys at the Pentagon really like your work” back when I was doing previs before getting into games. 👀
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
James Baxter is one of the only living animators on planet earth that could make a joke about squash and stretch/follow-through animation this good. I lost my shit at the extreme smear bit when Gumball turns around.
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Storyboard art for How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), dir. Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, MGM Animation/Visual Arts
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Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This year of all years, I don't need a Linkedin wrapped.
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Holy shit I just found out that Gearbox made a plush of Gortys from “Tales from the Borderlands”?? This might be the first time I’ve ever seen official merch of a character I helped create. gearboxloot.com/products/bor...
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Borderlands Gortys Plush by YouTooz
Bring home this adorable ball of sunshine from Pandora!
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
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Eris Montez @erismontez.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Gamers aren’t buying games anymore.” says the triple A gaming studios who have started using AI, cut corners and various amounts of writers and illustrators who made their releases worth playing, and are just reusing and repackaging past titles… 🙄
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 24/11/2025
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a  pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
a couple years ago i had a Magic story come out about a sad detective who gets seduced to the dark side by a necromancer, and they posted it under some random guy's name at first, which I think resulted in fans of my previous work missing it. anyway i like it. apparently it was too gay for Russia
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The Edge of the World | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
A suspicious businessman hires Jacob Hauken to investigate a series of supernatural murders, but his prime suspect is not the true criminal.
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No Context Spider-Man @nocontextspiderman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Stegron the Dinosaur Man points a finger, standing behind Sauron, the Pterodactyl Man.

Stegron: WE want to turn people into dinosaurs

Sauron holds up a hand while facing the same way.

Sauron: yes, yes, “we.”
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Somehow, today marks the tenth (?!) anniversary of the launch of “Minecraft: Story Mode.” It was a bit of a punching bag for the internet and social media back then, but it has unbelievably continued to draw fans all these years later even while unavailable to play in any (official) form.
Key art for MCSM season 1
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stauder @stauder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Hades 2 1.0 out just in time for an 8 hour flight
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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I'm often reminded that Demon Days is a perfect album. I think it hits harder now than it did at release, for me, but I've loved it since day 1.
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Gorillaz - Demon Days Live from the Apollo Theater, Harlem (Full Show)
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Pop Detective @popdetective.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Sound of Music (1965)
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Skunkape @skunkapegames.com · 15/09/2025
Twenty years ago this week, Telltale announced that they'd signed a deal with Steve Purcell to make episodic Sam & Max games. Time flies! In honor of this momentous occasion, all three Sam & Max remasters are on sale on Steam, PlayStation, and Switch. (Sorry Xbox peeps, we'll get you next time!)
Sam & Max, the dog and rabbity-thing crime-fighting duo also known as the Freelance Police, wielding a big gun (Sam) and a baseball bat (Max) from their moving De Soto. This artwork first appeared on Telltale Games' website soon after they announced plans to make episodic games based on the franchise.
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stauder @stauder.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Took the kiddo to see the Demon Slayer Movie. Was basically 2.5 hours of characters standing around angrily remembering things at each other. Kiddo loved it.
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Poster for the hbo tv show Carnivale
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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A few of my favorite of our environment shots from Sword of the Sea Reminder that I'm looking for work as an Environment Artist or 3D Artist 🙂
A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of a sandy landscape with statues and flags submerged in sand. In the distance you can see a temple and a large triangular shaped mountain. A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of a temple with red brick, covered in foliage. There is a half pipe in the center.A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of an ethereal blue landscape with floating islands, a ghostly bridge, and a large triangle structure on top of a mountain.A screenshot of "Sword of the Sea". The image is of two large armored warriors in a frozen landscape. One is buried beneath the snow with only its hand clawing towards the viewer. There is a beam of light coming from one of the warriors eyes.
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
MR SANDMAN…
DC comics’ Sandman with his fedora and mask has in holding his gun and a lantern
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Shaun Finney @shaunfinney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We used to do this with Sam & Max! youtu.be/QplgWcQs2a4?...
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Sam & Max Season 3 Full Bloopers
YouTube video by Cheri
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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
meme of two guys looking out a bus. guy on the left is depressed and looking to the left, because "they're having a meeting without me". he is labeled "associate". guy on the right is smiling and looking at a bright horizon because "they're having a meeting without me". he is labeled senior.

director would wrap back around to the left probably
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Sa-ilent Hill Bajaj @sahilbajaj.dev · 02/09/2025
Hey Y'all, I am still looking for work so, any boosts or leads would be appreciated! I'm looking for contract work as a Narrative Designer & Game Writer but am also open to doing consulting work! Here are some of the games I've worked on but you can find more of my work at sahilbajaj.dev
Cover Art for Private Eye: The Young Heir, a murder mystery game Cover Art for Meena, a Twine Game about a Sand Cat and her dreams.Cover art for ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area, a romance visual novel and dating simulator.Logo Art for the Blackwood Charter, an Escape Room about residents stuck in the past at a Bed & Breakfast
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John Ebenger @johnebenger.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This is the part that gets me as well. Sometimes people will say, “Well AI isn’t going to take Director level jobs.” And I ask them who the hell is going to be Director level when all of us who built our skills over a career end those careers.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/08/2025
As a developer that has been fairly public: we're not equipped to deal with the deluge of abuse and hate that comes our way - and I'm an indie, I'm literally responsible for my own choices. Can't imagine having to stand in that torrent for choices the stakeholders forced despite my objections.
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