Alessandro Colantonio
@exaliam.bsky.social
Level 34, INFP 🎲 Creative Director ⫸ @rollfest.bracciano 🕹️ Journalism ⫸ @playeritalia, @gamedivisionit 📫 Newsletter ⫸ @colpi.critici www.alessandrocolantonio.com
I was in an izakaya in Tokyo having beers after an interview with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Richter. We were discussing about everything when the conversation turned to Dungeons & Dragons. colpicritici.substack.com/p/quello-che... #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg
Quello che ho capito di D&D dopo un paio di birre a Tokyo
& altri voli pindarici sull'eredità invisibile del GDR che ha plasmato l'intrattenimento e la cultura pop
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I met Hitoshi Sakimoto and Richter at Basiscape's studios in Tokyo, one a legend of video game soundtracks, the other his talented new Italian collaborator. I chatted with both of them about how Basiscape works behind video game soundtracks. www.player.it/interviste/6... #ost #videogames #gaming
Lavorare alle musiche dei videogiochi: Sakimoto e Richter ci spiegano Basiscape | Doppia intervista a Tokyo - Player.it
Siamo stati negli studi di Basiscape a Tokyo per una doppia intervista a Hitoshi Sakimoto, fondatore dell'azienda, e l'ultimo talento Richter
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This hurts so much @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp As Kojima writes about "conveying facts", I'll do my part too
I've already got next Sunday's newsletter ready and I can't wait to send it out. It's an absurd discussion, a flight of fancy that started with a beer drunk in Japan with a legendary video game personality, but it will mainly be about D&D.
When MÖRK BORG appeared in 2020, it looked like a black metal album that had been accidentally printed in the games section. A yellow spot that lit up the shelf. MÖRK BORG was ugly, dirty, and evil. And yellow. Read and subscribe to my substack for free: colpicritici.substack.com/p/mork-borg-...
I have started a Substack where I write reflections, insights, interesting facts, and stories about the world of gaming: colpicritici.substack.com
Colpi Critici | Alessandro Colantonio | Substack
🎯 Dove il gioco colpisce davvero: approfondimenti, curiosità, storie. Click to read Colpi Critici, by Alessandro Colantonio, a Substack publication. Launched 2 days ago.
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URGENT – INTERPRETER NEEDED IN TOKYO Italian 🔄 Japanese OR English 🔄 Japanese I need an interpreter in Tokyo for an interview with some japanese video games personalities. 📅 September 19, 2025 If you know someone, send them to my DMs! Otherwise... please, repost! 🙏 #videogames #tokyo #japan
Last week I had a pleasant chat with @borislavslavov.bsky.social, composer of Baldur's Gate 3 OST and Music Director at @larianstudios.com. An incredible person, deeply connected to the emotions he experiences and conveys to his audience. 👇🏻 www.player.it/interviste/5... (Interview in Italian)
Borislav Slavov: fare musica per le persone | Intervista all'autore delle OST di Baldur's Gate 3 - Player.it
Intervista a Borislav Slavov, autore della colonna sonora di Baldur's Gate 3, un musicista genuino che parla di emozioni e condivisione.
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🎶ALL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD🎶 Take a sneak peek at the Ancient Gold Dragon's stat block from the 2024 Monster Manual through the link below. https://dndbeyond.link/2024-Monster-Manual-Stat-Block-Design
What is haoppening with Rednote/TikTok is mindblowning but I'm unsure to download an app with so restricting rules.
Listening to City Pop music is boosting my skills in planning my Japan tour
it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
Is it weird to anyone else that Sega is much more of a RPG powerhouse than Square Enix these days, which is largely known as an action game developer
Last night I dreamt that the new Linkin Park singer died and I was so sad about Mike Shinoda that I lied in fetal position in my SINK, crying, with hot water flowing. 🫠 I wonder what the fuck that means since I'm not even a LP fan 😂
Talked with PEGI and they do not see anything wrong Balatro being rated 18+, nor with EA sports FC (and similar games) having a 3+ rating Blaming EU laws, blaming storefronts, waiting for the future. Sitting on their hands I thought some good might come of this, this sucks
Listening to the BG3 unreleased soundtracks that Larian's Advent Calendar gifts today, I can't understand why they have not been officially released. 🤯
I wrote about my process editing and "localizing" Mediterranea Inferno, the winner of Excellence in Narrative at the 2024 IGFs. Mediterranea's script was written by a non-native English speaker, and working on it was the most rewarding experience of my career to date! blog.arden.rip/editing-and-...
editing and "localizing" mediterranea inferno
Half-diary, half-postmortem about editing Mediterranea Inferno, a game written in English by a non-native speaker.
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Watching Doechii Tiny Desk performance on repeat since days
Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Larian Advent Calendar 2024 is here now ❤️ advent.larian.com
A Very Larian Christmas
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Intergalactic: woke! A bald woman in space Meanwhile, some previous sci-fi:
Astro Bot, Metaphor and Balatro deserve all that they got. I just wished Unicorn Overlord made it as best Strategy.
An entire industry waiting for a single cog to turn (GTA). AAA market is saturated and in crisis 'cause it's constantly copying itself, unable to foster new ideas 'cause it's too risky in a world where F2P games rule by slot-machine mechanisms consuming players' only real currency of value: time.
So another day, another politician blaming video games for violence. Someone explain me this weird equation by which video games turn people violent but can't turn people Pokémon trainers or space dwellers 🤔
tired of this blaming video games for violence thing. I've been playing angry birds for years and I don't even smack stuff
