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Erik Robson

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Game Designer/Artist | LFW | Designer/artist @ Valve | Lead Designer @ Double Fine | Lead Designer @ 3DO | Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Portal2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact 25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47

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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · Nov 19

Oh, great. A puzzle. In the bathroom.

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Christina, mother of spiders @aikiwomannc.bsky.social · Aug 6

Freddy: The real treasure is all of the friends we killed along the way.

Jason: That's beautiful.

Leatherface: And the faces we wore.

Michael Meyers: *nods, single tear rolls down mask*

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 57m

Literally made me drop my phone in the toilet out of shock.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 4h

That Rebecca Black sure did like partying on the weekends.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 4h

@thewrongstation.bsky.social Loved Dynamis. Incredible buildup with a conclusion that was dark in a completely unexpected (but foreseeable!) way.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 4h

That was a banger for sure.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 4h

Pretty happy to see that the left has reclaimed frogs.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 5h

Dude that shit is all so jacked up. It’s basically “see what works and roll your own.”

Someone should document it all. If only there were a bazillion dollar company with the resour

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 5h

@acyn.bsky.social Why not post Hegseth’s Trump adoration speech over here on Bsky? I was looking forward to QTing it.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 5h

Tonight I learned that nobody wants to hear your little anecdotes, no matter how poignant or heartwarming.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

Haha

Yeah, same.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

😮

That’s serious business, because MAME is a mess!

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

And that I did. Being a good man, he feigned surprise. I don't remember anything after that - I was awash in the satisfaction of a perfectly-executed plan, which I'll never forget.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

At last he drove down the driveway. This was the moment I'd prepared for. I stood at my chosen spot, from which I could see his reactions walking in but also jump-scare him.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

Blood (presumably mine) all over the house. Objects knocked to the floor. Obvious disarray. I found some fur-like scraps(?!?) and taped them to my face and hands.

And then I waited. Probably a full hour; first frozen, then merely silent, and finally pacing.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

My Dad went out for a thing, and he'd be gone all afternoon, with a relatively specific return time.

That same Famous Monsters magazine had featured American Werewolf in London, and it had blown my mind. (BOTTIN!)

So I carefully constructed a crime scene.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

Epilogue:
What did I, an only child who lived a mile away from any other kids do with my fake blood?

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

But that delivery made it so much more special than it would've been if I'd just pulled it out of a hot mailbox earlier in the summer.

It was the service equivalent of a red carpet! People will BRING YOU THINGS YOU ORDERED?!? Only if you're fancy, I assumed. But there I was, fancy.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

I'm not sure I'd even seen one before, but I was impressed it was able to handle the rough terrain that was "our driveway." (Hardened, awkward mud forms and cattle barriers.)

Because he "needed a signature", he'd driven all the way down to hand me this
1. Little
2. Tiny
3. $3 tube of red goo.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

After about 2 months, I just stopped checking. I won't say I forgot about it, but I'd let go (derogatory.)

Then, one day in late August, a MFING UPS TRUCK drove down the road and parked in front of our house.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

This went on for 2 months. Every day, checking for the blood. Every day, nothing.

My Dad kept reminding me that they'd said, "allow 6-8 weeks for shipping & handling."

It didn't make sense. WTF was there to "handle"?!?

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

Starting, like, THE NEXT DAY, I began walking up to the mailbox every day to check the mail and see if the blood had arrived. School was out so I had the time to do this. The mailbox was a quarter-mile away, mind you - we lived in a tenant house on a sheep farm in rural VA.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

I (between 10 and 11) found one that I could afford with my paltry allowance. I clipped the ad, got my Dad to write a check, stuffed it all in an envelope, and put it in the mailbox. I probably sent that off around the end of a school year.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 7h

I have a whole little anecdote about this specific fake blood.

Some time around 1981-82, I got my hands on an issue of Famous Monsters magazine. (That was an amazing magazine, but I don't want to get distracted.)

It had a HUGE ad section at the end, which all sorts of outlandish products.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 8h

We have this Keeper gif for today, but we don't want to tell you what to think.

We're curious...what do YOU see happening here?

Only 8 days to go until KEEPER launches!
Wishlist it today on Xbox and Steam~

doublefine.com/games/keeper

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 8h

My hometown paper.