Nathan Savant
@baldsavant.bsky.social
Actions Speak Louder Than Words ✍️ Systemic Narrative Designer 🧭 Quest designer and world builder 🧠 Psychology and Sociology in #GameDesign Currently @ Highdive Games Coming Soon in 2026 from CRC Press: "Quest Giving"
Spoiler alert the actual developers in the trenches are not the most expensive part of making a game www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...
I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
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Been following this for a long time now and I can FINALLY wishlist Puppy Truck. Fellow lovers of good things should also wishlist it.
Sean Dick @seandick.net · 23h agoIf you like cartoony sound effects you should wishlist my game store.steampowered.com/app/3940440/...
After talking to a young writer last night, I want to remind you all that it's okay to write without an assignment or goal. Write to explore a new technique, get an idea out of your head, or as emotional exhalation. Write for the raw joy of it. For you alone. It doesn't need to go into a portfolio
My new free interactive guide on #Godot Control Nodes and #UI is out!! qaqelol.itch.io/gui My free #Tween guide also gets a new update! qaqelol.itch.io/tweens AND You can now get the All-in-One version, that regroups all my guides + extra features to support me!! qaqelol.itch.io/guides #GameDev
Christophe 🌱@qaqelol.bsky.social · 9mo agoMy interactive tween guide for Godot is out ! If you have trouble using tweens, adding "Juice" or picking the right transition, it should hopefully help! The guide is free and will always be 🩵 qaqelol.itch.io/tweens #Godot #GameDev #Animation #Tutorial #Guide #Tweens
Sometimes, Nintendo's trick is simply that they have such long polish phases that they can design their world based on players' desire paths en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_...
Desire path - Wikipedia
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Hyrule Interviews@hyruleinterviews.bsky.social · yesterdayAonuma on polishing the Breath of the Wild world based on testers’ paths, 2017. Source: Nintendo Everything #Zelda #BreathoftheWildQuote #AonumaQuote nintendoeverything.com/aonuma-on-ze...
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 53. Producer of Breath of the Wild.
QUOTE:
Aonuma: [During Breath of the Wild development] I asked the team to create a tool displaying a map on which the movements of a hundred players would be drawn in real time, with a marking point every hour.
[If I saw] that many people were going to the same place at one time, I asked them why they had gone there. … Often, it was something I’d never thought about or seen in this angle during development, but sounded very funny. It also allowed us to detect locations no one was going to because it wasn’t very practical, in order to modify or add a path, change the topography, make a place more attractive… It was instructive to observe and allowed us to do statistics and make every portion of the world interesting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreib3aq2sbtwpuhbyfbpskcibie4dislvyrowywzlkgosuhjapafafa)
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
“It’s worth understanding that our digital world is fundamentally democratic by design. Anyone has the power to learn, break, hack, and create tools that break predatory technology or tech trends. The only thing stopping anyone is knowledge that it’s possible.”
Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 4d agoplease enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb
Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it."
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 6d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..
hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
This is already over $60,000. Let’s keep it going
United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Hey I've got a book now! It's about quest design and it's on preorder starting the 19th of Aug! You should totally check it out!! www.routledge.com/Quest-Giving...
Quest Giving: A Pocket Guide For Motivating People To Do Arbitrary Things
Constructing a quest, whether it’s for a video game, a fantasy novel, or an escape room, is a complex process that can be intimidating to approach and master. Whether this is your first time, or you’r...
routledge.com
Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Author & Narrator@autumnwolff.bsky.social · last wk.I’m calling everyone out.
Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks
Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.
humans aren't naturally particularly good or bad. the great labor of each of our lives is to *make* ourselves good, and help the people around us do the same so that someday together we can build a better world. Being awful to random people online constantly just drags you & the world the other way
@gigercat.bsky.social · 6d agocontrary to what much of this site believes, your actions (in addition to, and more than your intent) matter and will modify who you are. treating people online like shit will eventually make you a worse person IRL. in order to be good you have to practice at being good.
Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏
"Sorry I can't go to hot topic yet, I used a skip to get into GameStop, so I don't have the double jump."
Palette Swap@paletteswap.site · 6d agoOne shopping mall, soon to be rebranded to “Malltroidvania,” is trying an unorthodox method to stay relevant in a challenging financial climate. paletteswap.site/dif...
"Your game was a smashing success by all metrics! As a thank you, I will be taking all your salaries." www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...
After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones"
Andrew Wilson took home the staggering bonus, alongside his $1.3m base salary.
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AAAA Costa Rica was able to fully reverse deforestation HOPECOREEEE earth.org/how-costa-ri...
How Costa Rica Reversed Deforestation and Became an Environmental Model | Earth.Org
Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped, and subsequently reversed, deforestation. What can the rest of the world learn from the country?
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Hey I've got a book now! It's about quest design and it's on preorder starting the 19th of Aug! You should totally check it out!! www.routledge.com/Quest-Giving...
Quest Giving: A Pocket Guide For Motivating People To Do Arbitrary Things
Constructing a quest, whether it’s for a video game, a fantasy novel, or an escape room, is a complex process that can be intimidating to approach and master. Whether this is your first time, or you’r...
routledge.com
Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Author & Narrator@autumnwolff.bsky.social · last wk.I’m calling everyone out.
it's weird how many online multiplayers don't factor in incidental encounters. I could care less about being able to raid with people or do dungeons together, but existing in the same world where we can bump into each other and have funny moments? Any subscription fee you like.
lincoln carpenter@lincolnhello.bsky.social · last wk.MMOs are sick because of the incidental encounters you have with strangers going about their own business, not because of the prescribed activities you slot yourself into alongside a prerequisite number of players
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
in case it wasn't obvious before now, this is the purpose of AI:
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
