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Derek Mattson

@thedmatts.bsky.social
332 followers 98 following 151 posts

game designer, coffee enthusiast, mediocre snowboarder, semi-professional karaoke singer. Principal Game Designer @ Naughty Dog Games: Intergalactic, TLOUII, GoW(2018)

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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a story about this to tell you next time we coffee XD
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just roll with it
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Kid Dancing in Club with Sunglasses
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
☝️👨‍🍳
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They got you huh?
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Corn Kid: I Love Corn!
ALT: Corn Kid: I Love Corn!
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If everyone just lied like airlines do and overestimated ETAs the world would be a better place.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Been a few years since I’ve been. Thanks to the reminder. Been meaning to do the tea time!
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
guessing this was posted after I joined a meeting from zoom from one conference room while everyone else was on zoom in another conference room? 🤣
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
lol we just started a group playthrough in our household as well. Combination of Switch 2, the patch, and it being pretty easy to play in small sessions I suppose?
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Us on our way to get coffee
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Every time this process of getting in and out of this venue makes me ask myself “Do I like this artist this much?”
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Currently in my play 30m to 1hr of Pokopia in bed before passing out era
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sheets looking at a validation error
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Mostly @barn0wl16.bsky.social and I going through each Cine and making sure each version has and entrance that works and hacking in script fixes when we couldn’t do it in animation. Of course lots of other folks took those passes as well. But if there was a tough bug, probably one of us fixed it.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If your partner always remembers to lower the toilet seat. And you really wanna show appreciation or return the favor. If you share a car, start lowering the seat before getting out when you get home. 🚗🤕
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I’ve gotten to that age where you have to schedule doing taxes in the calendar.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We could just have 13 months in a year with exactly 4 weeks in each of them.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yosemite never ceases to amaze.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Had a blast popping by today with infant in tow. Love what these folks have done with the event and am excited to see where they take it!
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The plight of the designer
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Late to this, but really enjoying Dispatch this past week. Forgot how much I’ve missed a well told and executed episodic narrative game. Dispatching is great! Especially talking through who to send on the couch with the fam. Have a couple of episodes left, but trying to… keep up 😭
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
tfw you think a piece of media is only 16 years old but then you realize that’s just when YouTube started taking off and everyone started uploading their content to it 👴👴👴
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GamedevPerkUp 🌤️ @gamedevperkup.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've been busy! Lots of news coming soon; including the date for the 1st Gamedev PerkUp of the year - which will be next month, in February! Stay tuned and hope y'all had a good holiday season! ☕❄️✨
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Twitter is the world’s largest generator of CSAM & non-consensual porn by a margin of about 8000%, and somehow… MSM isn’t even reporting on it. (also includes advice for reporting ‘deepfake harassment’ to police if it escalates to a point where restraining order is necessary) youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ
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I'm angry.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
So good
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
But will Alexa+ know how many r’s are in the word strawberry?
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Nobody tells you that the actual best feature of any smart watch is... 2 factor authentication without having to find your phone
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
iirc am i insane for using this in text chats or are my friends just not with it?
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
words to live by…
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Okay, y’all really decided to join the team didn’t you!?
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Hi was said!
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
@harleigh.bsky.social had the cool idea to use the compass node network instead of raw A* pathing for a closer approximation with less performance cost where the nodes were allowed to be in the level layers required them to be at a lower level than the info we needed to reference iirc.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Robust is a polite way to put a bunch of distance checks based on the max speed the player could go in various states and the total length in time of a conversation with no awareness of nav pathing but I’ll take it XD.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
How did we end up in the timeline where people who don’t know what they are doing make tutorial videos to explain how to do something they don’t know how to do in order to justify doing the task they don’t really want to do in the first place
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is the correct take.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Okay watching Phantom Planet play California in the Hollywood Cemetery is pretty iconic.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Went hiking with our baby for the first time recently. Made sure to take @babystepsgame.bsky.social as we adventure into the world for the first time. #babysteps
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
So beautiful! Glad we finally bit the bullet and didn't wait any longer for them to fix the 1.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
First trip with the kiddo. Finally got to explore north of the PCH closure.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Bird level blockout? bsky.app/profile/thed...
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Not to start up the yellow paint discourse again, but nature uses white to guide birds so we aren’t that far off.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Everyone in the living has been laughing since the moment I moved the left stick forward. Grats on the release! Can’t wait to play more.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Had band practice last night and we had to do at least one crazy train
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Matching fits or bust
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Finally got to say hi to one of my fav Marvel characters and visit sister studio Insom recently.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Fortunately only about 30m waiting for another plane that folks were transferring to this flight from. All this to say, it isn’t one airline. The whole system is broken right now and it needs fixing.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
As you can probably imagine, this delay caused me to miss the next flight in Phoenix in which they once again tried to push me to a flight the next day. After that, I was fed up. Cancelled the flight and booked with another airline out of Phoenix. Once onboard, this flight ALSO GOT DELAYED.
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Derek Mattson @thedmatts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
After boarding the Phoenix flight, it got delayed 3 times while I was on the plane. - first time waiting for paperwork - 2nd time they double booked a seat they let too many people on the plane - 3rd time the checked bag count didn’t match, so they had to figure out why
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