Bastian Thun
@bastianthun.bsky.social
Running communications for @UbisoftMainz - Home of the ANNO strategy game series.
Former Crytek / Bioware / EA
#gamedev #cancersurvivor #queer
He/Him 🌈
Former Crytek / Bioware / EA
#gamedev #cancersurvivor #queer
He/Him 🌈
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Bastian Thun
@bastianthun.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Hey fantastic people! 👋
I am queer #gamedev vet with experience in community, production and marketing; in charge of the communication for Ubisoft Mainz, the home of the "Anno" series.
Besides gaming, I care about art, Japanese culture, my husband and cat children and am an avid equestrian. 🌈 👐
I am queer #gamedev vet with experience in community, production and marketing; in charge of the communication for Ubisoft Mainz, the home of the "Anno" series.
Besides gaming, I care about art, Japanese culture, my husband and cat children and am an avid equestrian. 🌈 👐
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AHhhh Anno 117 is HERE!!! LET'S GO!! #ThanksUbisoft for the key! As someone who has played every Anno game, I'm so EXCITED!!
twitch.tv/smashley
twitch.tv/smashley
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
AHhhh Anno 117 is HERE!!! LET'S GO!! #ThanksUbisoft for the key! As someone who has played every Anno game, I'm so EXCITED!!
twitch.tv/smashley
twitch.tv/smashley
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Anno 1995 saw the founding of Related Designs, which became part of Ubisoft over ten years ago. To date, the studio has released six Anno games. We spoke to studio manager Thomas Pottkämper about the company's impressive history. @ubide.ubisoft.com
www.gamesmarket.global/ubisoft-main...
www.gamesmarket.global/ubisoft-main...
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Anno 1995 saw the founding of Related Designs, which became part of Ubisoft over ten years ago. To date, the studio has released six Anno games. We spoke to studio manager Thomas Pottkämper about the company's impressive history. @ubide.ubisoft.com
www.gamesmarket.global/ubisoft-main...
www.gamesmarket.global/ubisoft-main...
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Big week for our team, waiting for the reviews is always a very tense when releasing a game 100+ people spent years working on it.
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Big week for our team, waiting for the reviews is always a very tense when releasing a game 100+ people spent years working on it.
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
Big week for our team, waiting for the reviews is always a very tense when releasing a game 100+ people spent years working on it.
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Big week for our team, waiting for the reviews is always a very tense when releasing a game 100+ people spent years working on it.
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
Reviews coming in hot. 🔥
#Anno117PaxRomana dropping this Thursday. 🏛️
#gamedev
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Time flies- believe it or not, today marks the 14th anniversary of starting my first gaming job at BioWare in Ireland.
It's been a crazy whirlwind of depressing lows, intoxicating highs, and everything in between, across 6 companies, 4 countries and dozens of launches! 1/3 #gaming
It's been a crazy whirlwind of depressing lows, intoxicating highs, and everything in between, across 6 companies, 4 countries and dozens of launches! 1/3 #gaming
November 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Time flies- believe it or not, today marks the 14th anniversary of starting my first gaming job at BioWare in Ireland.
It's been a crazy whirlwind of depressing lows, intoxicating highs, and everything in between, across 6 companies, 4 countries and dozens of launches! 1/3 #gaming
It's been a crazy whirlwind of depressing lows, intoxicating highs, and everything in between, across 6 companies, 4 countries and dozens of launches! 1/3 #gaming
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When people ask me why I don't post more WIP stuff, this is why
October 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When people ask me why I don't post more WIP stuff, this is why
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The Anno 117 campaign is more expansive and in-depth than its predecessor, with two storylines and unique characters adapting history.
Read our hands-on imressions:
Read our hands-on imressions:
Anno 117: Pax Romana’s Campaign Offers A Robust Historical Narrative
The Anno 117 campaign is more expansive and in-depth than its predecessor, with two storylines and unique characters adapting history.
Read our hands-on imressions:
butwhytho.net
October 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Anno 117 campaign is more expansive and in-depth than its predecessor, with two storylines and unique characters adapting history.
Read our hands-on imressions:
Read our hands-on imressions:
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Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.
Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...
Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...
Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI
Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…
pivot-to-ai.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.
Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...
Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...
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AI is a truly empowering.
First, it defeats capitalism through hyper-capitalism, so we no longer have to work.
Naturally, that means we get everything for free and can finally devote ourselves to creativity as our skills will thrive thanks to AI enabling us to become master of any craft.
(ㆆ_ㆆ)
First, it defeats capitalism through hyper-capitalism, so we no longer have to work.
Naturally, that means we get everything for free and can finally devote ourselves to creativity as our skills will thrive thanks to AI enabling us to become master of any craft.
(ㆆ_ㆆ)
September 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
AI is a truly empowering.
First, it defeats capitalism through hyper-capitalism, so we no longer have to work.
Naturally, that means we get everything for free and can finally devote ourselves to creativity as our skills will thrive thanks to AI enabling us to become master of any craft.
(ㆆ_ㆆ)
First, it defeats capitalism through hyper-capitalism, so we no longer have to work.
Naturally, that means we get everything for free and can finally devote ourselves to creativity as our skills will thrive thanks to AI enabling us to become master of any craft.
(ㆆ_ㆆ)
Every time I see an AI generated AD on YouTube, my body reacts with strong repulsive reactions.
Do most people out there seriously not see or feel that?
It's like populism, where I think "who the F falls for that stupid shit" while the harsh truth is, it works like a charm on the majority of ppl.
Do most people out there seriously not see or feel that?
It's like populism, where I think "who the F falls for that stupid shit" while the harsh truth is, it works like a charm on the majority of ppl.
September 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Every time I see an AI generated AD on YouTube, my body reacts with strong repulsive reactions.
Do most people out there seriously not see or feel that?
It's like populism, where I think "who the F falls for that stupid shit" while the harsh truth is, it works like a charm on the majority of ppl.
Do most people out there seriously not see or feel that?
It's like populism, where I think "who the F falls for that stupid shit" while the harsh truth is, it works like a charm on the majority of ppl.
Service Announcement: Our limited time Demo of #Anno117:PaxRomana will be out later today and run until September 16th.
Perfect opportunity to check out the game before we release on November 13th, happy building! #strategygames #gaming
Find our FAQ here: www.anno-union.com/everything-t...
🏛️
Perfect opportunity to check out the game before we release on November 13th, happy building! #strategygames #gaming
Find our FAQ here: www.anno-union.com/everything-t...
🏛️
Everything to know about the Anno 117: Pax Romana Demo
How long does the demo last and what's the content? All info are collected here.
www.anno-union.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Service Announcement: Our limited time Demo of #Anno117:PaxRomana will be out later today and run until September 16th.
Perfect opportunity to check out the game before we release on November 13th, happy building! #strategygames #gaming
Find our FAQ here: www.anno-union.com/everything-t...
🏛️
Perfect opportunity to check out the game before we release on November 13th, happy building! #strategygames #gaming
Find our FAQ here: www.anno-union.com/everything-t...
🏛️
Back from Gamescom, it was incredibly successful for us, and I met great folks from our community and industry peers.
While gamers experienced an exciting event, the #gamedev talks circled around the same dire strait topics: high risk, missing money, hard to get publishing deals, funding and jobs.
While gamers experienced an exciting event, the #gamedev talks circled around the same dire strait topics: high risk, missing money, hard to get publishing deals, funding and jobs.
August 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Back from Gamescom, it was incredibly successful for us, and I met great folks from our community and industry peers.
While gamers experienced an exciting event, the #gamedev talks circled around the same dire strait topics: high risk, missing money, hard to get publishing deals, funding and jobs.
While gamers experienced an exciting event, the #gamedev talks circled around the same dire strait topics: high risk, missing money, hard to get publishing deals, funding and jobs.
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I caved and bought the full display of Funism Evangelion Figurines at Gamescom. 😖
No regret. They're so well made!
No regret. They're so well made!
August 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I caved and bought the full display of Funism Evangelion Figurines at Gamescom. 😖
No regret. They're so well made!
No regret. They're so well made!
Welcome to Rome! #Anno117PaxRomana
You do WANT to get your hands on our game, so check out our booth 6.1 C021 - it is quite a looker, you can't miss it! #gamescom
You do WANT to get your hands on our game, so check out our booth 6.1 C021 - it is quite a looker, you can't miss it! #gamescom
August 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Welcome to Rome! #Anno117PaxRomana
You do WANT to get your hands on our game, so check out our booth 6.1 C021 - it is quite a looker, you can't miss it! #gamescom
You do WANT to get your hands on our game, so check out our booth 6.1 C021 - it is quite a looker, you can't miss it! #gamescom
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LOOKING FOR WORK 📢⚡
Community Manager (5+ Years experience). Previously at Rebellion, SumoDigitalLtd, and nDreams.
Available for immediate start. Open to FTC, Part-time, and Full-time positions. Available for remote, flexi-remote, or hybrid roles.
Community Manager (5+ Years experience). Previously at Rebellion, SumoDigitalLtd, and nDreams.
Available for immediate start. Open to FTC, Part-time, and Full-time positions. Available for remote, flexi-remote, or hybrid roles.
August 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
LOOKING FOR WORK 📢⚡
Community Manager (5+ Years experience). Previously at Rebellion, SumoDigitalLtd, and nDreams.
Available for immediate start. Open to FTC, Part-time, and Full-time positions. Available for remote, flexi-remote, or hybrid roles.
Community Manager (5+ Years experience). Previously at Rebellion, SumoDigitalLtd, and nDreams.
Available for immediate start. Open to FTC, Part-time, and Full-time positions. Available for remote, flexi-remote, or hybrid roles.
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AI is moving wealth from the people to the super-wealthy at a record pace
August 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
AI is moving wealth from the people to the super-wealthy at a record pace
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This is a passion project from one of my best friends and industry vet.
If you love deck building games, medieval art and fantastic creatures, you need to keep an eye on @wyrm-saga.com and @borb-games.com
With the state of our industry, I kindly ask you to follow and share!
#gamedev #indiegames
If you love deck building games, medieval art and fantastic creatures, you need to keep an eye on @wyrm-saga.com and @borb-games.com
With the state of our industry, I kindly ask you to follow and share!
#gamedev #indiegames
We're going to be in Cologne from August 18th-22nd for #devcom & #gamescom to show our brand new trailer around. If you're interested in catching up, let's meet!
We are looking to connect with fellow indies, influencers & history nerds!
#gamedev #indiedev #dragons #historygames #handcrafted #noAI
We are looking to connect with fellow indies, influencers & history nerds!
#gamedev #indiedev #dragons #historygames #handcrafted #noAI
August 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is a passion project from one of my best friends and industry vet.
If you love deck building games, medieval art and fantastic creatures, you need to keep an eye on @wyrm-saga.com and @borb-games.com
With the state of our industry, I kindly ask you to follow and share!
#gamedev #indiegames
If you love deck building games, medieval art and fantastic creatures, you need to keep an eye on @wyrm-saga.com and @borb-games.com
With the state of our industry, I kindly ask you to follow and share!
#gamedev #indiegames
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This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh?
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
June 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh?
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
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Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month
May 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month
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I'm like this with the PlayStation booting sound.
It's the summer of 2001 and we're playing Vagrant Story in my bedroom. My boyfriend & I are taking turns grinding weapons & reading the official guide book to gear up to beat the Earth Dragon.
We never succeeded. But I married him last week.✨
It's the summer of 2001 and we're playing Vagrant Story in my bedroom. My boyfriend & I are taking turns grinding weapons & reading the official guide book to gear up to beat the Earth Dragon.
We never succeeded. But I married him last week.✨
Seeing/hearing this is still bittersweet.
I'm right back in my bedroom playing Shenmue over winter break during Junior year of high school. It's nice and cool outside. I didn't know it then, but it was one of the best times I'd ever have.
I know I can't go back, but I'll hold onto the memories. ✨
I'm right back in my bedroom playing Shenmue over winter break during Junior year of high school. It's nice and cool outside. I didn't know it then, but it was one of the best times I'd ever have.
I know I can't go back, but I'll hold onto the memories. ✨
May 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I'm like this with the PlayStation booting sound.
It's the summer of 2001 and we're playing Vagrant Story in my bedroom. My boyfriend & I are taking turns grinding weapons & reading the official guide book to gear up to beat the Earth Dragon.
We never succeeded. But I married him last week.✨
It's the summer of 2001 and we're playing Vagrant Story in my bedroom. My boyfriend & I are taking turns grinding weapons & reading the official guide book to gear up to beat the Earth Dragon.
We never succeeded. But I married him last week.✨