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Josh Scare
@joshscherr.bsky.social
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▶️ NOW: Cautionary Tales; game narrative consulting ⏪ PAST: Naughty Dog; co-writer/narrative designer Uncharted 4, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Pt II 🪦 RIP: Crop Circle Games, narrative director 🔗🌳 linktr.ee/joshscherr ❤️ fix your hearts or die
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · Oct 19
Hello, Bluesky! I'm probably best known for my work @ Naughty Dog, where I spent 21+ years helping make Uncharted, TLOU2, & Jak. Prior to that, I worked in feature/tv animation, including a certain RHCP video. Currently doing game narrative consulting, baking, walking my dog, & not sleeping enough
box art for all the games I worked on at Naughty Dog: Jak 1/2/3/X, Uncharted 1/2/3/4/LL, TLOU2 A still from the music video for Californication A picture of some mini-kouign-amann I baked A picture of my dog Rose, a small black pit/lab mix
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 41m
I loved that book; I approve
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 1h
1991: wrote a 10-page essay, a 12-page play, and about half the required journal entries for a semester-long guest writer class the night before they were due coasting entirely on sugar, caffeine, & undiagnosed ADD panic focus; got an A- and heartburn
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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3h
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you. You people couldn't hang with real slackers. finn wokeupchic • 4d It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 2h
but only make it accessible through a high-cost patreon tier
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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 6h
Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h
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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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 6h
tired: go woke, go broke
inspired: bash fash, make cash
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 9h
Kind of glad I don't work for a big publisher any more so I can say things like this is some cowardly bullshit
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h
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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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 10h
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.
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h
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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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d
Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 1d
so sorry 💙
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 2d
By the pricking of my thumbs,
milestone schedule this way comes
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 2d
By the pricking of my thumbs,
milestone schedule this way comes
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 2d
only when the hurlyburly’s done
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 2d
double double toil and trouble, I always say
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 2d
i find the best thing to do when I've done something wrong is to double down, and if that doesn't work, triple down or quadruple down, just keep going down until you've come through to the other side
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
If I hadn’t taken a zillion photos, I don’t think I’d remember anything from the first 3-4 months
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
RIP legend
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
hahaha just realized I quoted you
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
🫡 you can do it
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
also I learned you can avoid him completely and still get to the Citadel (not easy, but)
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
also after a while you can do the run back pretty fast
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
but I’m old and decrepit!
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
That guy took me like 37 tries, no joke
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
a man in a plaid shirt says " it 's not always easy doing the right thing "
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt says " it 's not always easy doing the right thing "
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
I find myself playing either for about an hour at a time or 10 minutes and “nah, not right now”
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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 3d
I came back to it after I'd gotten a bunch of upgrades, but even still, OOOF
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