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Matthew Gallant
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Game Director at Naughty Dog • Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet • Worked on The Last of Us Part I & II, Uncharted 4 • Accessibility tinkerer • ⚜️QC🇨🇦CA http://gangles.ca/
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Inspired by a recent episode of @intothecast.bsky.social, I am playing Parasite Eve.
Screenshot of Parasite Eve. A woman in a black dress aims a pistol at a clown in a dressing room. Dialogue caption: “Man: Ahhhh! Here! Take it! Take everything! It’s all on the counter!”
October 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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My accomplishment for the day 😪
Screenshot from Silksong, Hornet standing next to a dead and disintegrating boss (The Last Judge).
October 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Enjoyed playing through Metal Garden this weekend. Vibey atmospheric indie FPS; great level design, minimalist but flavourful, punches far above its weight. store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...
Screenshot of Metal Garden. FPS view: a player with a sniper rifle overlooks a massive grey dam extending into the horizon and getting lost in the fog. Above them the sky is grey and metallic.
October 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Finally checked out Blue Prince this weekend. Got as far as this this heartbreaking near-run, one gem short of the Antechamber.
A screenshot from Blue Prince. Text on screen: "Select a room to draft", with options "Closet", "Lavatory", "Observatory". The first two rooms fail to connect to the final Antechamber, the third option costs a gem and the player doesn't have one.
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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PSA: a bunch of classic SEGA games are currently free on iOS ahead of being delisted. Never had a SEGA console growing up so most are new to me!
iOS app icons for various SEGA games: Sonic, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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😰
Screenshot of a Wikipedia footnote: “Informational notes: (a) The funicular was later destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944.”
March 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Good signs from the Skin Deep demo.
Screenshot from the Skin Deep demo. A hatch on a spaceship labelled "DEEP FREEZE INSURANCE COMMANDO / UNTHAW IN CASE OF EMERGENCY". Screenshot from the Skin Deep demo. A sign on a spaceship labelled "Sotnick Informational Signage / DO WHAT THE SIGN TELLS YOU TO DO". Screenshot from the Skin Deep demo. A pamphlet for "SKULL SAVER Immortality Device. My Head floats away when I'm about to die. Why die? Defy death with SKULL SAVE and live to see another day." Screenshot from the Skin Deep demo. Tubes in a living quarter labelled: "NUTRIENT TUBE: GREEN FLAVOR / YELLOW FLAVOR"
March 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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🐝❗️
Screenshot of Metaphor: ReFantazio. Three characters in a city at night. Grius says: "There's a hostelry tucked at the back of Sunshade Row: the Hushed Honeybee Inn. We'll talk details once we're there." Screenshot of Final Fantasy 7 Remake. A stage show with dancers and fireworks. A sign in the background reads "HONEY BEE".
January 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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2024 in books read & games completed.
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Book covers aligned in rows and columns: Liftoff: Couch to Barbell, Future Home of the Living God, All Joy And No Fun, Saving Time, Technofeudalism Uncivilisation, Shoal of Time, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Valuable Humans in Transit, Feel Good Productivity Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again, Piransei, 101 Things I Learned in Product Design School, Silent Hill 2, The Wager The Art of Failure, Hell Yeah or No, ADHD 2.0, The Voltage Effect, Dominion Game covers aligned in rows and columns: Diablo IV, Tears of the Kingdom, Game Builder Garage, Octopath Traveler 2, Balatro FF7 Rebirth, The Minish Cap, Stellar Blade, The Lemurian Empire (DLC), Unicorn Overlord Lil Gator Game, 1000xRESIST, Costume Quest 2, Kirby & The Forgotten World, Astro Bot Paranormasight, Slay The Princess, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, The Rise of the Golden Idol
January 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Always excited to see this category announced, congratulations to all the nominees! 👏 www.thegameawards.com/nominees/inn...
Screenshot of The Game Awards website. "Innovation in Accessibility: Recognizing software and/or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience." The nominees are Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Diablo IV, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and Star Wars Outlaws.
November 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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PARANORMASIGHT as the horror inheritor of Phoenix Wright's incredible reaction faces.
Screenshot of PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Subtitled dialogue of Richter shouting: "Kankichiro Iwai!" Three other characters react with exagerrated horrified / shocked looks.
October 28, 2024 at 5:44 AM
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Hard countered by the boss blind 😵
Screenshot of Balatro. The joker card Pareidolia is hovered, showing the text: "All cards are considered face cards". The boss blind is The Mark: "All face cards are drawn face down."
June 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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First Balatro victory! 🃏 Finally managed to get a score engine going with full +chip, +mult, ×mult combo.
Screenshot of Balatro. UI box says "YOU WIN!" with various performance stats on the run.
May 26, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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I knew Rebirth had a lot of minigames but I did not see gourmet mushroom picking coming.
Screenshot of FF7 Rebirth. Close up of a mushroom with UI overlay explaining how to tug and pluck the mushroom’s sides in order. Screenshot of FF7 Rebirth. Cloud kneels, holding a mushroom and cheering the successful harvest. The UI says “Perfect”.
May 2, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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A little easter egg I enjoyed: the Sherlock-like priest having a foil partner named “Crick”. 🧬
Octopath Traveler 2 screenshot. Two characters inspect a crime scene in a church. A text box for Temenos says: “Yes, yes… I do believe I have it figured, Crick.”
April 29, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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Finished Octopath Traveler 2 this weekend. A huge improvement on the first game, adding some minimal interaction between the characters, far more compelling individual stories, and better exploration & dungeons. Also incredible art direction, showing an evolving mastery of the “HD-2D” art style.
Octopath Traveller 2 screenshot. The party of eight faces a giant circular window, backlit by the rising sun of dawn. Octopath Traveler 2 screenshot. A drawing of the party posing happily together, with the text: “Thank you for traveling with us.”
April 29, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Haven't watched the LEC in a while, had to do a double take at the "spooky hood logos" matchup.
LEC broadcast graphic. Team Rogue (spooky hood logo) versus Team Heretics (spooky hood logo).
January 14, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Where have I heard that name before…
Quoted footnote: “On this topic, the sociologist Richard Seymour has called social media a “chronophage,” something that “eats time.”” Screenshot of a battle against the Time Devourer from Chrono Cross. It is a red monster with a crystal on top, with a woman inside
January 7, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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2023 quantified in books read, games completed, and (almost) weekly sketching practice.
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Book covers laid out in rows and columns: The Book of Tea, Wabi-Sabi, Final Fantasy V, How to Keep House Without Drowning, The Beauty of Games No Country for Old Men, Laudate Deum, Master & Commander, The Way of Chuang Tzu, The City & The City Baldur's Gate II, A Distant Mirror, The Climate Book, Realigners, The Creative Gene Good-Bye To All That, In The Shadow of the Sword, A Prayer For The Crown-Shy, 1919, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire A Psalm For The Wild-Built, Disrupting The Game, DARE, Count Belisarius, Of Boys & Men Peace Is Every Step, The Power of Now, Digital Games After Climate Change, The Last Lecture, The Happiest Kids in the World Game covers laid out in rows and columns: Norco, Live A Live, Immortalit, Neon White, Citizen Sleeper Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Escape Academy, The Case of the Golden Idol, Aperture Desk Job Inscryption, Attack of the Friday Monsters!, Crimson Shroud, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, God of War Ragnarok Terra Nil, Dragon Quest, The Spider of Lanka, Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe, Alt-Frequencies Eliza, Final Fantasy XVI, Tchia, Astro: Playroom, Cocoon Chants of Sennaar, God of War: Valhalla, Super Mario RPG, Storyteller, Jusant Bramble: The Mountain King, Venba 40 sketches laid out in rows and columns, drawn in pencil, ink, and digitally.
January 1, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Super Mario RPG was foundational for my childhood love of video games, what a joy to find that it absolutely holds up, thoroughly charming and unique!
The cast of Super Mario RPG takes a bow on stage. White text on a black screen: “SINCE 1996 / Based on the Work of the Original Development Staff.”
December 18, 2023 at 4:29 PM
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Was fortunate to attend the opening of The Last Of Us at Halloween Horror Nights. Lovely getting to meet the cast and peek a bit behind the scenes, amazing & surreal to see moments from the game recreated in detail with real props & sets.
Matthew behind the scenes with two actors portraying Ellie. A rack of prop masks of Infected. An actor portraying a Bloater covered in blood and attacking someone.
September 8, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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Planned on playing Sea of Stars at launch but incredibly tempted to wait for the Quebec Franglais localization now. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/200...
Screenshot of Sea of Stars. A ponytailed character named Garl says: “On descend tu d’abord? Y’a yinque un chemin à partir d’icitte anyway!”
August 28, 2023 at 2:28 AM
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✍️ Been continuing my weekly sketching practice into 2023. A few sketches of the games I've been playing.
A sketch of the main character of Hi-Fi RUSH, a young man in jeans and sneakers with a long red scarf, posed midair with a scrap-metal melee weapon. A sketch of the main character of Pentiment, a scribe at a medieval writing desk. A sketch of the card "Stoat" from Inscryption. He has 1 attack and 3 health, and costs 1 blood to summon. The Stoat has a menacing countenance. An ink sketch of Ifrit from Final Fantasy 16 in profile.
August 20, 2023 at 11:34 PM