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Alexander Bevier
@alexanderbevier.bsky.social
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Database and process guy working at TPCi! Also, IGDA Game Writing SIG Committee.

Prev. Pokémon Go, Forza, Gunsport, Jurassic World Revealed. Taught @ NYU.

All opinions are my own. He/him
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jacobgeller.com
Hideo Kojima goes to the ballgame
August 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
alexanderbevier.bsky.social
Of course games are art! They come in steel boxes!
August 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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hanoodles.bsky.social
I attended the Burbank Media industry job fair yesterday, where no one was hiring. At the job fair. The fair for jobs.
August 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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abbydenton.com
Went to the Jack Kirby exhibit at the Skirball yesterday and I am still flipping out at these costumes Mr. Kirby designed for a UCSC Shakespeare production in the seventies. Getting to see it in person. We should all dress like this.
Loose layers of bright colors with a cool pink and white embroidered cassock. Like a high contrast painting stepped off the page and into real life!
August 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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durtmchurtt.bsky.social
The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.
July 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
alexanderbevier.bsky.social
Long held that the dream job would be game show host.
imrankhan.bsky.social Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · Jul 30
What job are you extremely unlikely to ever get that you think you would kick ass at?

I think I could book compelling wrestling storylines.
July 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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straycatalyst.bsky.social
Riding my robot unicorn into battle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqJ...
Erasure - Always (Official 4k Video)
YouTube video by Erasure
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July 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
alexanderbevier.bsky.social
Brb blacking out for a bit.
bryantfrancis.me Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.
July 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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seamoosi.bsky.social
just had the shocking revelation that Super Mario 64 has the same plot setup as Silent Hill
July 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
lol
screencaps of whate's in the qupted skeet
July 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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hopcliff.heathcliff.cat
nice argument, unfortunately i have already depicted myself as Switch 2 Keith David and you as Gamecube Jason Alexander
Keith David sitting at a switch 2 display and smiling warmly at the camera like he's having a good time Jason Alexander looking to camera like a cornered animal as he plays a display model Nintendo GameCube.
July 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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stagefatality.bsky.social
"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok"

yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch
goombella from paper mario the thousand year door, book in "hand" tattling on your ass
July 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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kennylauderdale.bsky.social
There was going to be a Spice Girls anime, but they cancelled it. We were fucking ROBBED.
July 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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mrsambarlow.bsky.social
DK Bananza is a superb videogame, damn. Proves my thesis that the Mario team is the true carrier of the Deus Ex torch. The scale, verticality, the THREE DIMENSIONALITY of this game is so far beyond everyone else. I have no idea how their toolkit looks, how they MAKE these things???
July 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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dandock.bsky.social
I know that we all like goofin' on the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon because everything is off-model and the animation is so stilted, but look at this gorgeous art from "The Origin of Spider-Man," the first episode where Ralph Bakshi took over as director:
January 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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chrchristensen.bsky.social
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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paulinaganucheau.bsky.social
some days
July 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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jimmiemyers.bsky.social
I might’ve missed some steps, but here’s a fun Seattle thing this week:

A street artist made a mosaic of a rat saint titled Hot Rat Summer. It got painted over. People got upset. Rules changed and it was restored.

And today someone dressed as St Rat just spoke to city council in character. lol.
July 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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malaclypse.bsky.social
I think a lot about how when Casablanca was filmed, nobody knew who would win WW2.
July 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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gamesdonequick.com
🏁TIME🏁#SGDQ2025 has raised a total amount of $2,436,614 for @doctorswithoutborders.org!!

Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support. 💙

See you at #AGDQ2026!!!
finale crowd shot from SGDQ2025
July 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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danlehner.bsky.social
@smilingnodding.bsky.social every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says "im gonna fuck a hamburger"
July 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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andrewdoull.bsky.social
🧵

Undersigned as well
tuxedocatfish.bsky.social Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · Jul 8
yeah culture is downstream of economy, unfortunately lol. if what you're competing for is money and attention, design is going to warp in the direction of addiction and casino-fication
stuffedwomb.at Stuffed Wombat @stuffedwomb.at · Jul 8
small games by tiny devs finding huge success by dropping all notions of expression and focusing on dopamine delivery has done some sort of heavy damage to whatever I believed in in the 2010s about game design
July 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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maxnichols.bsky.social
I've read 100s of Shigeru Miyamoto interviews; this one is a top five, easy.

A long Iwata, Miyamoto, and Itoi (Earthbound creator) discussion on the nature of creativity, how to cultivate it as a leader, artistic aesthetic, how to collaborate creatively

iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/w...
Itoi: Like yakisoba that's got burnt bits in it. If a big company were to bring out yakisoba, they would talk about how it mustn't be burnt. A rigid conversation ends with the conclusion that yakisoba must never be burnt. But when you keep the conversation rolling, someone says, "It's inexplicable, but that burntness is fragrant and tasty." … But when you follow strict product guidelines in a meeting, you just lop off every imperfection. Miyamoto: Yes, that's how it goes. Itoi: If you don't get past "Yes, that's right," that's what happens. Iwata: Because something without flaws is without character. It doesn't bear its creator's imprint or have any personality. Miyamoto: So sometimes when we're presenting what we've made, we end up saying, "I guess it's okay, right?" And I think that's really unacceptable. … You'll ask the director, "How it's look?" And he'll answer, "It's passable." How could you call something passable? … When someone asks, "How is it?" I think that it takes more courage to answer, "It's pretty good." Itoi: Hmm, that's true. Because "pretty good" means "good.” Miyamoto: Compared to that, "passable" doesn't really tell you anything. Is it 10 percent out of 100? 80 percent? 60 percent? It doesn't even tell you that. "Passable" takes away everyone's responsibility. Iwata: It's unsettling, because at that point the discussion is taking places without any set values. Itoi: Rather than preparing Plans B and C, you should use your time to polish up Plan A, the one you really think is good. You're the same way, aren't you, Miyamoto-san? Miyamoto: Yes. I've never thought of alternate ideas. Itoi: Or, you haven't ever attended a meeting where you had to pitch your presentation so that it is accepted, have you? Miyamoto: No. I was in an environment where I made decisions myself and continually asked myself whether it was truly good or not. Itoi: … If you're constantly worried about what so-and-so will say, the project or team will never grow. … You may think, "What will the customers say?" You may worry too much about these customers you can't see, which shrinks your idea. Miyamoto: I don't know if it comes from not having a boss, but I can't tell if I'm a good boss or not. Itoi: Oh… Miyamoto: For example, staff members who have worked with me for a long time will often come up to me and say, "I thought of something," but about 70% of the time, I say, "That won't work." I know it isn't nice, but I know if that idea was mine I'd decline it too, I have to say it anyway. Sometimes, I think if I don't stop that, I won't be able to help anyone grow. Itoi: Well, part of that can't be helped. Miyamoto: I know, but when I think about it later, I didn't need to be so harsh for about 20% of that 70%.
July 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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planetx.bsky.social
Legend.
In July 1937, Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx arrived at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. The occasion was the opening of a new clubhouse, and an America vs England pro-celebrity doubles match in which Chaplin and Fred Perry were to play Marx and Ellsworth Vines. Chaplin, grimly serious about his tennis, saw Marx step on court with 12 rackets and a suitcase, and inquired what was in it. Groucho asked in turn what was in Chaplin’s. Chaplin said he didn’t have one. “No suitcase?” Marx replied. “What kind of tennis player are you?” Chaplin fumed that he hadn’t come here to be a straight man but it was already too late. After a few haphazard games, Groucho sat down on court, opened the suitcase, and unpacked a picnic lunch.
July 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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philsalv.bsky.social
Reminder: Atari didn't collapse in 1983-84 because their games were bad. It was because they had such unrealistic projections that even their top-selling titles were considered flops

Atari executives peddled the "people hated the games" story to deflect blame for their mismanagement
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · Jul 3
EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to have 100 million players, three times more than the series' best seller

www.eurogamer.net/ea-reportedl...
July 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM