zoe calamar 🦆
@zoeraecalamar.bsky.social
associate writer @ escape velocity (prev: contract writer @ gearbox on borderlands 4, writing intern @ insomniac on wolverine) / cat owner / plushie enthusiast / furtive pygmy
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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
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Using ChatGPT
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Using ChatGPT
Slant rhymes are a rot that we must excise from the music industry
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Slant rhymes are a rot that we must excise from the music industry
ooh ooh me next! my writing career summed up in one image
October 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
ooh ooh me next! my writing career summed up in one image
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If you happen to find my beautiful boy Soos in game, spare his life! Or don’t. (Thank you to my buddy @samwinkler.bsky.social for putting my cat in eternal mortal peril)
September 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If you happen to find my beautiful boy Soos in game, spare his life! Or don’t. (Thank you to my buddy @samwinkler.bsky.social for putting my cat in eternal mortal peril)
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Meet our game in 20 seconds
September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Meet our game in 20 seconds
as a fellow wordplay enjoyer and frequent laugher at my own jokes, i feel extremely represented by harlowe
September 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
as a fellow wordplay enjoyer and frequent laugher at my own jokes, i feel extremely represented by harlowe
Borderlands 4 is out today!!! I still cannot believe I got to work on this project, even in the small capacity I did. The team at Gearbox has cooked up something extremely special, and I’m so honored that my first shipped AAA credit (!) is on a series I love so much. Break free!
September 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Borderlands 4 is out today!!! I still cannot believe I got to work on this project, even in the small capacity I did. The team at Gearbox has cooked up something extremely special, and I’m so honored that my first shipped AAA credit (!) is on a series I love so much. Break free!
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN MENTIONED??????
The voices behind your new Vault Hunters sat down to answer your totally-not-chaotic community questions. 🤪
Check out the Q&A! youtu.be/jDMojROhvKE
Check out the Q&A! youtu.be/jDMojROhvKE
September 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN MENTIONED??????
BORDERLANDS 4 COMES OUT THIS WEEK!!!! I WORKED ON THAT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ALT: a group of colorful cartoon characters standing next to each other with flowers on their heads
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September 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
BORDERLANDS 4 COMES OUT THIS WEEK!!!! I WORKED ON THAT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.
September 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.
house of leaves deserves to be more than just a book
Producers of newly announced Life is Strange TV show say it "deserves to be more than just a game"
www.eurogamer.net/producers-of...
www.eurogamer.net/producers-of...
September 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
house of leaves deserves to be more than just a book
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Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
Portfolio
emmkid.info
September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:
emmkid.info
i cannot believe i’m saying this because i was thoroughly whelmed by manchild and short n sweet was my favorite album of last year but man’s best friend is better than short n sweet by an absurdly wide margin. absolutely fantastic album, holy shit?
August 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
i cannot believe i’m saying this because i was thoroughly whelmed by manchild and short n sweet was my favorite album of last year but man’s best friend is better than short n sweet by an absurdly wide margin. absolutely fantastic album, holy shit?
i think the idea of an immersive courtroom drama thing sounds pretty fun but why on EARTH would they call it THE JURY EXPERIENCE 😭
August 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i think the idea of an immersive courtroom drama thing sounds pretty fun but why on EARTH would they call it THE JURY EXPERIENCE 😭
damn i guess bl4 is going to be the first bl game where i don’t go siren day 1 i think i’m a harlowe girlie
She's taking back what's hers. 👊💥
Watch Harlowe's Official Character Short "Family Reunion" now.
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Watch Harlowe's Official Character Short "Family Reunion" now.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
damn i guess bl4 is going to be the first bl game where i don’t go siren day 1 i think i’m a harlowe girlie
the flipside of this is the person in my building who has an “eraserhead baby on board” bumper sticker. i’ve never met them but i want to be their best friend.
nothing makes me want to rear end a car more than a bumper sticker that says bestie please let me merge i’ll start crying i’m just a girl i’m a teeny weeny baby etc etc
August 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
the flipside of this is the person in my building who has an “eraserhead baby on board” bumper sticker. i’ve never met them but i want to be their best friend.
nothing makes me want to rear end a car more than a bumper sticker that says bestie please let me merge i’ll start crying i’m just a girl i’m a teeny weeny baby etc etc
August 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
nothing makes me want to rear end a car more than a bumper sticker that says bestie please let me merge i’ll start crying i’m just a girl i’m a teeny weeny baby etc etc
last night was a borderlands 2 doomsday trailer (feat. @lucawriting.bsky.social)
August 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
last night was a borderlands 2 doomsday trailer (feat. @lucawriting.bsky.social)
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As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy
Meal Train for The Poprik Family
Alan has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and is undergoing treatment at MD Anderson. He is spending one week as an inpatient to receive chemotherapy, then we will be taking him every co...
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August 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy
borderlands 2 came with the vita i bought to play danganronpa and i was like man that blue girl looks kinda cool maybe i’ll give it a try and then my brain exploded
July 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
borderlands 2 came with the vita i bought to play danganronpa and i was like man that blue girl looks kinda cool maybe i’ll give it a try and then my brain exploded
so when is streaky the supercat coming to the dcu
July 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
so when is streaky the supercat coming to the dcu
one of my friends bought a b grade warrior jar and they are sending me such incredible content with him
July 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
one of my friends bought a b grade warrior jar and they are sending me such incredible content with him