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Dan Pearce

@gamedesigndan.bsky.social

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I make games in my pajamas. BAFTA Breakthrough, two time BAFTA award nominee and one time winner. Working on SPACE WARLORD BABY TRADING SIMULATOR at Strange Scaffold Prev: I AM YOUR BEAST, CRDM3, Clickolding, 10 Second Ninja X, Castles in the Sky

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · Jun 25

The good news doesn't stop. Maybe consider playing a game about someone telling you to get back in your box and you saying "hell the fuck no."

Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · Jun 25

I Am Your Beast is OUT NOW on @xbox.com and @playstation.com 🐺

Complete with DLC "Support Group" and "Cold Sweat" and all free updates.

www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 19h

When will graphics get better than this

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h

Grey Alien games have such a specific kind of juice and feedback and it's so so good. Just look at this! Ugh!

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1h

New boss music just dropped. Also the boss now curses the cards!

This is Forbidden Solitaire:

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h

I cannot stress enough how much the things in 9-1-1 actually happen and that the show is definitely in on the bit. By making fun of it you are making fun of yourself, it's impenetrable.

Chris Higgins🔜 @higgins.games · 1h

oh, none of this was a joke, ok. ok.

Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h

"Riverdale but firefighters" is also a pretty valid descriptor

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 2h

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

Open Letter to the Executive Leadership at Build A Rocket Boy

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h

all of this is in the trailer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBH...

9-1-1 Season 9 Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by TV Promos

www.youtube.com

Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h

It can't be helped that a geomagnetic storm would happen to strike at the exact moment they go up, causing debris to fall in specifically on Los Angeles, where the 118 precinct is situated.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h

I appreciate that this looks absurd at first glance but what you need to understand is that they only go to space because they save a billionaire from being swallowed by a whale and he sends them up as a thank you.

Adam Gumbert @adamgumby.bsky.social · 2h

Look, I've never watched 9-1-1, I kinda know it's an over the top procedural...

BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! SPACE?!?!

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1h

Hinge! It does actually work some of the time.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 13h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Sam Read-Graves @readgraves.com · 2d

An image I live my life by.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 1d

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daffodil 🇵🇸 @daff.space · Jul 22

Since I got a handful of new followers this past couple months I'd like to remind y'all that I made and released an extreme street unicycling video game last summer and that you should play it

STREET UNi X @street-uni-x.bsky.social · Jul 22

Oh you like Xtreme Action Sports games with tricks and stunts??
Then you should play STREET UNi X:

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1d

Unironically my biggest contribution to pop culture by far

Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1d

Seemingly the entire Mission Impossible: Fallout cast seemed to get asked about my "reloading arms" tweet during their press tour.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 1d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1d

It's like how when The Office came out the premise was that it was a boring dead end job that was so mundane that anyone with ambition would want to escape it, and now it's retroactively become a cosy show about people having secure jobs and community

Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1d

I was just listening to this and thinking "man if Beyond Good and Evil 2 was still in production this would definitely be in a trailer" and then found out it is??
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JIv...

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1d

Might be the most cleverly structured story in any game btw.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is $14.99 on US PSN buff.ly/3Ci2R3j

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 2d

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1d

If you name a video like this I might still watch it but I'm going to make fun of you in my head the whole time.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 1d

Tears of the Kingdom - a Beautiful Disaster
Pacific Rim - a Masterful Disappointment
Westworld - an Ambitious Calamity
S Club: Seeing Double - a Vibrant Failure

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 2d

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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 2d

Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 2d

I still think of your Videobrains talk from yeeeeears back and feel joy any time I'm watching something on Youtube and the quality of your work is brought up