Tomo Moriwaki
@tomomoriwaki.bsky.social
Our shared fiction is our reality, so... let's take better care of it. Long time game designer. Most noteworthy impact: creative director of Spider-Man 2 (2004)
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game developers must realize our only competition is real human relationships. if we can continue to erode those, our market dominance is assured
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
game developers must realize our only competition is real human relationships. if we can continue to erode those, our market dominance is assured
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seemed obvious at the time, but if anyone's curious in 2013 we got official confirmation the jump-between-skyscrapers map is a matrix reference. if the movie came out a year later we wouldn't have gotten this level
"We came back from watching The Matrix, and the “jump program” inspired DM-Morpheus"
"We came back from watching The Matrix, and the “jump program” inspired DM-Morpheus"
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
seemed obvious at the time, but if anyone's curious in 2013 we got official confirmation the jump-between-skyscrapers map is a matrix reference. if the movie came out a year later we wouldn't have gotten this level
"We came back from watching The Matrix, and the “jump program” inspired DM-Morpheus"
"We came back from watching The Matrix, and the “jump program” inspired DM-Morpheus"
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
We are getting old Joe.
Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of my Halo review on GameSpot. (And the video review where I'm *clearly* uncomfortable being on camera.)
Halo Review
Not only is this easily the best of the Xbox launch games, but it's easily one of the best shooters ever, on any platform.
www.gamespot.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We are getting old Joe.
I wonder whether this is a stronger product in Japan or Mexico.
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I wonder whether this is a stronger product in Japan or Mexico.
Happy Halloween
Not only is zombification more common than you may expect—it's also older than you think. And Ophiocordyceps and ants are just one example of this ancient relationship! There are lots more in Rise of the Zombie Bugs, now 30% off from @hopkinspress.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/books/spooky...
www.press.jhu.edu/books/spooky...
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Happy Halloween
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I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...
James Gunn’s American Project
He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.
www.vulture.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...
Going to see this with my daughter. I'm lucky she's into this... otherwise I wouldn't have recognized as quickly how important a development this is for our society.
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Viva Más Vegas
Viva Más Vegas is an upcoming live show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on November 1, 2025.[1][2] It is the fourth and final show of Dimension 20's 2025 Tour and will presumably be set in the A Starstr...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Going to see this with my daughter. I'm lucky she's into this... otherwise I wouldn't have recognized as quickly how important a development this is for our society.
dimension20.fandom.com/wiki/Viva_M%...
dimension20.fandom.com/wiki/Viva_M%...
Yeah, this is my hope. That AI isn't making us stupider it's showing us how stupid we have always been. If you read a lot how can you relate to someone who reads never?
As young people are reading less and relying on bots more, Columbia professor John McWhorter explains why the wrecking ball of AI doesn’t keep him up at night:
Why I’m Not Freaking Out About My Students Using AI
Young people are reading less and relying on bots, but there are other ways to teach people how to think.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yeah, this is my hope. That AI isn't making us stupider it's showing us how stupid we have always been. If you read a lot how can you relate to someone who reads never?
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price www.openculture.com/2025/10/edga...
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price
Edgar Allan Poe’s classic moody-broody poem “The Raven,” none is more fun than The Simpsons’, in which Lisa Simpson’s intro transitions into the reading voice of James Earl Jones and the slapstick int...
www.openculture.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price www.openculture.com/2025/10/edga...
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Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁
Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨
Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌
“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈
Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨
Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌
“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁
Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨
Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌
“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈
Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨
Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌
“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈
Who woulda guessed?
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Who woulda guessed?
I'm such a product of my times that I have to spend active energy to make sense of the effort to preserve the past. My emotional levels are hostile at holding back progress and neutral about keeping old goods. Pretty sure that is an exploitable condition.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm such a product of my times that I have to spend active energy to make sense of the effort to preserve the past. My emotional levels are hostile at holding back progress and neutral about keeping old goods. Pretty sure that is an exploitable condition.
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Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
If everything else was fine this might just be a whatever drama in the government. Instead it is a great example of what we've become.
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR
White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings
The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If everything else was fine this might just be a whatever drama in the government. Instead it is a great example of what we've become.
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8. Let's talk about baculoviruses! This is a group of viruses that infect caterpillars and manipulate their behavior, making them climb, die and then melt into puddles of virus-laden sludge. Gooey caterpillar slurry drips onto leaves, which are then eaten by other caterpillars—creating more zombies
How A Very Clever Virus Kills A Very Hungry Caterpillar
Scientists have found the gene that drives a virus to kill gypsy moth caterpillars in a particularly gruesome way. The virus forces the caterpillars up to the tops of trees, where they melt and rain d...
www.npr.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
8. Let's talk about baculoviruses! This is a group of viruses that infect caterpillars and manipulate their behavior, making them climb, die and then melt into puddles of virus-laden sludge. Gooey caterpillar slurry drips onto leaves, which are then eaten by other caterpillars—creating more zombies
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Hello, Bluesky! If you love thinking, talking, and/or writing about game design, check out our starter pack! go.bsky.app/AsBK784 We're an organization committed to tackling the toughest problems in games and sharing what we learn with the world!
October 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hello, Bluesky! If you love thinking, talking, and/or writing about game design, check out our starter pack! go.bsky.app/AsBK784 We're an organization committed to tackling the toughest problems in games and sharing what we learn with the world!
Glad to get these pics of so many people on the streets I'm so used to seeing day to day.
Oh, and... so comforting to see so many sharing in their concern about the government's subversion of the will of the people.
Oh, and... so comforting to see so many sharing in their concern about the government's subversion of the will of the people.
October 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Glad to get these pics of so many people on the streets I'm so used to seeing day to day.
Oh, and... so comforting to see so many sharing in their concern about the government's subversion of the will of the people.
Oh, and... so comforting to see so many sharing in their concern about the government's subversion of the will of the people.
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In The Wonder Reader, Shan Wang selected some images from the Nikon Small World 2025 contest that reveal a hidden world of color and geometry. Can you guess what you’re looking at before reading the captions?
These Photographs Are Not What They Seem
The naked eye is only one way of seeing the world.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
In The Wonder Reader, Shan Wang selected some images from the Nikon Small World 2025 contest that reveal a hidden world of color and geometry. Can you guess what you’re looking at before reading the captions?
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After you've read the Kind Games paper, why not follow its authors? Some are on bluesky: @danctheduck.bsky.social @joelburgess.bsky.social @drjclau.bsky.social @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
After you've read the Kind Games paper, why not follow its authors? Some are on bluesky: @danctheduck.bsky.social @joelburgess.bsky.social @drjclau.bsky.social @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social
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Check out this interview w/the homie @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social (Spider-Man 2, Medal of Honor, Epic Tavern) on his game design philosophy. Pt 1 from @flarb.com youtu.be/b1nJGv-l4as
#gamedesign #gamedesigner #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #interview #game #hyperkineticstudios
#gamedesign #gamedesigner #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #interview #game #hyperkineticstudios
Tomo Moriwaki: Spider-Man 2, Medal of Honor designer: Why Making Games Is So Hard! (Part 1)
YouTube video by Ralph Barbagallo
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May 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Check out this interview w/the homie @tomomoriwaki.bsky.social (Spider-Man 2, Medal of Honor, Epic Tavern) on his game design philosophy. Pt 1 from @flarb.com youtu.be/b1nJGv-l4as
#gamedesign #gamedesigner #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #interview #game #hyperkineticstudios
#gamedesign #gamedesigner #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #interview #game #hyperkineticstudios
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Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream (MT @profstevegriffin.bsky.social)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream (MT @profstevegriffin.bsky.social)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
