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Leon Scarillaro 👻

@barilleon.com

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Trans type Eeveelution. ENNIE & IGDN-nominated Game & Narrative Designer. M.S. in CompSci. Marvel Mystic Mayhem (NetEase Games), Draw Steel (MCDM), Power Rangers RPG, Triangle Agency, O Captain. they/them. https://barilleon.com 📧 [email protected]

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · Nov 19

Hello, Bluesky! Time for a formal introduction.

I'm Leon Barillaro (they/them), a narrative and game designer for playful mediums. I have experience in Tabletop, Video Games, and Immersive Theater. I love writing memorable characters and tough choices. And - I'm looking for work!

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Leon standing against a blue wall with painted eyes. They have short brown hair and thick rectangular glasses, and they wear a blue blazer

Key art for the MCDM RPG (now named Draw Steel), which features fantasy characters fighting back against a horde of devil people

Key art for Triangle Agency, the Tabletop Role playing game, which features a person in a long brown trench coat holding onto a briefcase and trying to keep it away from a monster with many eyes

Key art for MCDM's The Workshop Watches, which features a torn-apart library, with scraps of paper flying everywhere. One of the bookshelves is a mimic in disguise, and its glowing yellow eyes stare directly at the camera

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 5h

New on the Blog: How I Made For Gregg

Five years ago I had an idea for a game about robots and grief. Last month, it came out. Why? Read and find out.

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For Gregg Postmortem - Barilleon's Web Zone

Or: How it Took Five Years to Make Five Minutes of Gameplay This is a blog post about how I made For Gregg, which you can play for free on itch right now! It takes 5 minutes. It’s probably a shorter r...

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 1h

TBH I do think it's in character for MM Donnie as a young kid who is excited about technology but hasn't really matured enough to consider the major ethical issues with it. Maybe this short will be about that premise (considering the rest of the trailer).

ROTTMNT Donnie would never though

Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 1h

The "You wouldn't download a car" image but the text is replaced with "He wouldn't fucking say that."

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 2h

STUNWIN WHEN I GET YOU

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 2h

"You could just use a different system." I don't want to do that. I want me and my friends to commit game design crimes.

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 2h

Game Jam called "Make It Fit" where we try to force a system to do something that it shouldn't do at all while still maintaining the ethos of the system. Farming mechanics in Blades in the Dark. Orbital Blues dating simulator. Draw Steel store management sim.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 3h

This picture is from Two Thousand and fucking Eleven

A picture of John Pike (the cop) spraying a group of seated protestors with pepper spray during the UC Davis incident back in 2011

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 3h

If you like Gumshoe, TimeWatch once came highly recommended to me:
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TimeWatch RPG

A GAME OF TIME TRAVEL ACTION AND INVESTIGATION BY KEVIN KULP 2017 Indie RPG Game of the Year Nominee, and Winner of the Best Support and Best Production Awards History isn't written by the victors. It...

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 3h

Really funny to me that pretty much every response to this is “Yeah I got a job”

Anyway,

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

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

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

The @guardian publishes the names of Gaza children killed by Israel. 18,457 and growing.

(“Does not include thousands still buried under the rubble”) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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One Frog Games @onefroggames.bsky.social · 5h

Monochrome Heights is available now on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/2336210/...

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 5h

I wrote this the day I released the game and have been sitting on it because it's self indulgent and also kind of makes me look bad (FIVE years? Really?. But I do think it adds some interesting context to the game, and if you're interested in process maybe this will be a fun read for you.

Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 5h

New on the Blog: How I Made For Gregg

Five years ago I had an idea for a game about robots and grief. Last month, it came out. Why? Read and find out.

barilleon.com/for-gregg-po...

For Gregg Postmortem - Barilleon's Web Zone

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 5h

You won’t endorse Zohran but you WILL steal his strategies 🤔🤔🤔

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 21h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 6h

Just watched the new version on the Nintendo app — I was right!

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 15h

Is that a threat

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 16h

I have done A Lot of game design this year

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 16h

Did you peek at my notes!!!! I have been thinking the same thing with regards to delivering on promises.

The sandwich analogy is perfect. I totally get where you’re coming from.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 19h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 18h

Canceling my vacation to write all these blog posts

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 19h

Like when someone says a game does that — what exactly is that game doing to support storytelling that less supportive games aren’t

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 19h

Okay I want to ask you all now.

What does it mean for a ttrpg game mechanism or system to “support the story“ or “support storytelling?”

Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 21h

Sometimes I drop a discussion question in my discord server and then disappear so I have something to read later

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