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Dan Pearce
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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

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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."
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...
I will infiltrate gen Z/alpha and get them on board with new slang for good and bad. I'm thinking of going with wet and dry, in that order.
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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the breadth of what we get now ui/presentation-wise is so rad and interesting in a way that we did not get back then because publishing a game was like 100000x harder. we're feastin' better than ever (imo!) but the stuff at the top is without a doubt full of capitalist slop rot
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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It seems like he agrees with you bsky.app/profile/cult...
Charlie Cox says nominations for his 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' role should go to Gustave’s motion capture artist

"There's an amazing french actor named Maxence Cazorla who did almost all of the motion capture for that role ... so any nomination or any credit I get, I really have to give to him"
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
You know what it's on me for underestimating just how pathetic this would actually be.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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the lad that does it again has once again, done it
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".

PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ah. Oh no. I have remembered where I hit a wall before, as I have reached that wall.

Phazon Mines.
Despite this, one thing I HAVEN'T ever actually done is finish it. I think the furthest I ever got was making headway into Phendrana Drifts and then running into a difficulty wall with the Space Pirates in Tallon Overworld. Looking forward to getting back there and seeing what's past it.
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Culturally, we are offering after dinner mints less than ever before.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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*Baby Trading. BABY trading! You can trade Organs all day RIGHT now just like nature intended!

store.steampowered.com/app/1507780/...
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator on Steam
Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.
store.steampowered.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Experience hostile takeovers over mimosas and unwind with the Robot Elite hunting our many vagrants!

After that why not jump on the markets and trade their babies' projected futures?

Sequa Lux - where high net worth grants citizenship!

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator: Trading opens in 2026
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
developers for the PS2/Xbox/GameCube playing each others work:
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Metroid looking at a funky alien!
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Sorry I know I'm a few days out from the Game Awards nominations discourse but Charlie Cox getting nominated for his Expedition 33 performance is one of those things that makes me feel legit embarrassed about how immature this industry still is about Hollywood talent.
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I have had a mostly offline couple of days, away from social media and being present with a loved one, and this is a reminder why you shouldn't do that because in that time the Roblox CEO totally combusted and Zohran got Trump to bark like a dog what the fuck
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I've loved working with @tv-neato.bsky.social on this, he's got such good design instincts every time
everyone on a game is a storyteller and the storytellers on Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator fuckin’ despise the incentives of late stage capitalism

also that kid beto is pretty cool
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Literally an all time great gaming memory. Prime is already so full of novel, memorable "oh it can do THIS?" moments by that point and even despite that it's just placed so perfectly for tonal contrast that it manages to hit and feel surprising in a completely new way.
Hearing that music for the first time when you go to Phendrana Drifts 🤌
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It's, a perfect game.
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
inside you:
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I've been working all afternoon after a late start waiting for my boiler to be repaired and all I can think about is how much I want to be playing more Metroid Prime, a game I have already played a lot of over 18 years. It's so good. Fuck.
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Ignore the clickbait title and thumbnail, and I swear you'll be in for a ride

The amount of twists and turns, betrayals and geopolitics is incredible!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef56...
1000 Players Simulate Civilization: Rich & Poor
YouTube video by ish
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Probably won't be a super legible watch to anyone who wasn't there for at least some of it when it happened but I am reminiscing about Hbomberguy's three day stream that raised a third of a million dollars for Mermaids
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXh2...
Hbomberguy's Donkey Kong 64 Charity Stream Highlights
YouTube video by ESYTC
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
gooning but for putting a Q tip in your ear. I dont want to clear the wax, I just want that high
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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on this trans day of remembrance, remember: no one is born a transphobe
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The thing you have to understand, and not a lot of people know this, is that Metroid Prime is one of the best games ever made.
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM