Brannon Boren
@brannonb.bsky.social
I'm a narrative game designer. I worked on Halo, Crimson Skies, FarmVille, The Matrix Online, and more. I play a lot of tabletop RPGs but I could surely be playing more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/brannonboren
This the most wholesome thing I saw today.
$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This the most wholesome thing I saw today.
I would pay money for a DVD of all the cut footage from Rogue One. I just want to see all of the lost scenes (and there are a lot). Maybe that's the next prestige nerd product: Buy the fifty hours of unused footage from your favorite movie.
August 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I would pay money for a DVD of all the cut footage from Rogue One. I just want to see all of the lost scenes (and there are a lot). Maybe that's the next prestige nerd product: Buy the fifty hours of unused footage from your favorite movie.
Unions 👍
Summer of 1889: Inspired by the match girl's strike in the previous year, London's tailors and dockworkers join together in a general strike. The tailors demanded better pay, a 12 hour work day, a limit on overtime, and a 1 hour break for dinner and tea. They eventually won.
August 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Unions 👍
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For those calling the government taking a 10% stake in Intel Socialism, you might want to look up the “merging of corporate and state power.”
August 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For those calling the government taking a 10% stake in Intel Socialism, you might want to look up the “merging of corporate and state power.”
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When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
I warn you this is the start of a long thread about optimism in Star Trek. I enjoy Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but there's been a tonal shift in the show that worries me. There's not enough acknowledgement that the core of the franchise is optimism about the noble potential of humanity.
August 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I warn you this is the start of a long thread about optimism in Star Trek. I enjoy Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but there's been a tonal shift in the show that worries me. There's not enough acknowledgement that the core of the franchise is optimism about the noble potential of humanity.
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Did you know that unionizing the games industry could standardize game crediting? If you worked on a game, you deserve to be properly credited.
I've been negotiating credit inclusion in my contracts, but only this week did someone link me the IGDA Game Crediting Guidelines!
This is a GREAT reference for guidance and negotiation. Sharing it along for anyone else who didn't know this existed!
igda.org/resources-ta... 👏👏 @igda.org
This is a GREAT reference for guidance and negotiation. Sharing it along for anyone else who didn't know this existed!
igda.org/resources-ta... 👏👏 @igda.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Did you know that unionizing the games industry could standardize game crediting? If you worked on a game, you deserve to be properly credited.
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'Hello human, nice to meet you'
July 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
It's a shame that Wizards of the Coast won't sell me a poster/print of this classic D&D cover (and many other wonderful pieces of D&D art).
May 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It's a shame that Wizards of the Coast won't sell me a poster/print of this classic D&D cover (and many other wonderful pieces of D&D art).
People who are in favor of firing the Forest Service aquatic ecologist at Lake Mead to “stop wasteful government spending” will be outraged next year when their kid gets a parasitic infection after swimming.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
March 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
People who are in favor of firing the Forest Service aquatic ecologist at Lake Mead to “stop wasteful government spending” will be outraged next year when their kid gets a parasitic infection after swimming.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
A great thing about early cabinet arcade games was bespoke control interfaces. Lunar Lander's thrust throttle, Missile Command's trackball, Sundance's dual keypads, made the game experience unique.
February 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A great thing about early cabinet arcade games was bespoke control interfaces. Lunar Lander's thrust throttle, Missile Command's trackball, Sundance's dual keypads, made the game experience unique.
Really, Google Maps? Really?!
February 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Really, Google Maps? Really?!
Teen Vogue: Speaking truth to power.
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Teen Vogue: Speaking truth to power.
In case you need a picture of Captain Kirk and Mister Spock beating up a Nazi.
January 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In case you need a picture of Captain Kirk and Mister Spock beating up a Nazi.
And now this will be more widely seen than it would have been if the Post had just published it. 👍
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
www.npr.org
January 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
And now this will be more widely seen than it would have been if the Post had just published it. 👍
The BBC is trying to conserve hyphens so they have enough to last through the year.
January 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The BBC is trying to conserve hyphens so they have enough to last through the year.
Happy Public Domain Day! Singin' in the Rain and Tiptoe Through the Tulips; A Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front; Pandora's Box and Gold Diggers of Broadway; California Here I Come recorded by Al Jolson; the initial versions of Popeye and Buck Rogers, all public domain today.
January 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Happy Public Domain Day! Singin' in the Rain and Tiptoe Through the Tulips; A Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front; Pandora's Box and Gold Diggers of Broadway; California Here I Come recorded by Al Jolson; the initial versions of Popeye and Buck Rogers, all public domain today.
What an image to begin 2025.
January 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What an image to begin 2025.
I'm curious if the designers for Wordle track stats on "most common starting words" and allow that to influence their selection of solution words. I might use it as an engagement lever, knowing that people who hit on their starting word are going to broadly share that on social media.
December 30, 2024 at 7:48 PM
I'm curious if the designers for Wordle track stats on "most common starting words" and allow that to influence their selection of solution words. I might use it as an engagement lever, knowing that people who hit on their starting word are going to broadly share that on social media.