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Alexander Bevier
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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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Hideo Kojima goes to the ballgame
August 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Of course games are art! They come in steel boxes!
August 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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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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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.
August 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.
July 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Long held that the dream job would be game show host.
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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Riding my robot unicorn into battle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqJ...
Erasure - Always (Official 4k Video)
YouTube video by Erasure
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Brb blacking out for a bit.
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
July 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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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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lol
July 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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nice argument, unfortunately i have already depicted myself as Switch 2 Keith David and you as Gamecube Jason Alexander
July 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok"

yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch
July 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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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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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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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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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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some days
July 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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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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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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🏁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!!!
July 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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July 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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🧵

Undersigned as well
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
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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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...
July 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Legend.
July 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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
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