Martin Annander
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mannander.bsky.social
Martin Annander
@mannander.bsky.social
Freelance systemic design specialist. Opinions are the brainslug's.

Blog: https://playtank.io/
Was using my thermos mug and realised as I put on the desk that this represents a considerable part of my professional career. I think this was a Starbreeze x-mas present in 2008 or 2009. The Helldivers 2 controller was given to me by Arrowhead earlier this year.
August 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Love this: "AI feels smartest when it handles a situation gracefully that hardly ever comes up. Without that, no amount of clever behaviour will get you there."

Reminded me of this silliness that happened in a prototype this spring:
August 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
First week doing systemic design at Arrowhead Game Studios. Excited to see what this brings.
January 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reading Steve Grand's book Creation: Life and How to Make It, and I'm realising just how great node-based behaviours are for emergence. From Boids through neural networks and onwards will require some further study for future systemic blog posts.
December 1, 2024 at 10:29 AM
I talked about Systemic Design at Coffee Stain North last Friday, and it was awesome!

There are few things I enjoy quite as much as spreading this gospel, through my blog and through talks and workshops.
November 19, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Planning to replay one of the greatest games ever made over the Christmas holidays. I loved this game as a kid, and as an adult I am starting to understand why it still feels different compared to modern CRPGs.

Systems!
October 21, 2024 at 5:49 PM