Sam Winkler
@samwinkler.bsky.social
Narrative Director, Borderlands 4 at Gearbox Software | Prev: Lead Writer, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands | BL3 | BL3: Guns, Love, and Tentacles | Non-canonical lore item | He/him.
Currently in the endgame stage of an eBay bidding war where I no longer care about getting the lot, I just need the other guy to bleed
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
Wake Up, New Movies with Mikey on a new Benoit Blanc movie! Also, hi hello. nebula.tv/videos/filmj...
FilmJoy — The Many Layers of Wake Up Dead Man
Benoit and Mikey are back once more! Experience a dark and devilish dive into the macabre world of the modern world. Video essays for the soul of mankind!
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My favorite part of Unwrapped is when a company spokesperson has to take an interview from within the Product Cathedral
Our heartfelt anime-themed driving game, Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World, is OUT NOW on PC/Xbox--and we did a singalong to prove it!! 🚶Hit pedestrians with your magic truck ⚔️Pay the soul debt you owe to the buff elf girl living in your head 🚚GO store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...
An enormous congratulations to each and every developer that worked with me on Strange Scaffold's very first driving game. (I'll tag them throughout the day.) This was one of the most challenging games that I've ever made, but I'm grateful for all of these talented devs for sticking the landing <3
Strange Scaffold@strangescaffold.bsky.social · last wk.Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! Is OUT NOW on Steam and XBOX Series X|S Send pedestrians to another world to pay your soul debt to a buff elf girl who lives in your head in our OVA sized isekai driving game 🚚💨 store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/... www.xbox.com/en-us/games/...
Every extant publisher who sold games on CD-ROM in the 90s should have to tithe yearly to Cyan
Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · last wk.Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc
Everyone’s asking what Nolan’s next big thing is when his business isn’t even done. He’s obviously gonna follow up with the Telegony which ends with Telemachus and Telegonus reenacting this song over the credits
Narrative rarely gets to be the high level decision driver outside of very specific kinds of projects and a lot of what narrative ends up doing, especially on larger projects, is unpacking the implications of decisions on emotional engagement
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
If someone out there still owns KaZaA, I’ll take my product placement money in EverQuest gold
GDC Festival of Gaming@officialgdc.bsky.social · 4w agoCall for submissions for GDC Festival of Gaming 2027 are now open! We're looking for submissions that span the entire game ecosystem from production to audio to business and marketing. Check out more info for each track and how summits are evolving! https://gdconf.com/call-for-submissions/ #GDC2027
Wild Bastards (followup, but not sequel to Void Bastards) is a hugely underrated game, IMO. A cartoon space-western roguelite FPS with a ton of very varied playable characters and a great sense of humor. It's very different from its predecessors and people wanted more of the same, but it's good!
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The spiritual successor to the award-winning game Void Bastards, Wild Bastards is a roguelike strategy shooter with heart-pounding FPS action, mod management, and a tactical campaign. Saddle up and le...
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so so SO excited that the Vault Hunter I got to write has been announced!! I can’t wait for folks to play Loveless!!!
gearboxofficial.bsky.social@gearboxofficial.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is Loveless, the Hacker. Equipped with the highest-end cybernetics, Loveless also shares her mind with a digital virus of her own creation. She joins the rest of the Vault Hunters alongside Story Pack 2.
Hell Will Scar You. Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is releasing Fall 2026. 😈 store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
That’s Saros beaten. Absolute feast of a game. Unbelievable visuals and sound unifying the tightest and best-feeling combat I think I’ve ever encountered. Right now it’s my GOTY. If you own a PS5, I really can’t conceive of a reason not to get it.
There is nothing any developer can do to avoid right-wing ideologues, no level of acquiescence that will stave them off if they choose to target you, because they will just make shit up wholecloth! They're like CinemaSins looking for any reason to ding that bell; the "sin" is made-up post hoc.
Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive.bsky.social · 3mo ago“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.
“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.
LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS
All the Alpha Centauri dialog was written in a strange fugue while rereading Dune while listening to the soundtrack for Les Miserables :D
Hey, my first game, a surreal visual novel set in a near-apocalyptic Texas, is on sale for 25% off. In 2026 it is cheaper than like half a burrito. You should get it, so that I can keep making cool stuff for you.
KM is looking for work!@kellymerka.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey!! It's the Steam Spring Sale and Interstate 35 is 25% off! You should check it out!!
Dune 2: Paul's confrontation with the emperor to the sound of waves crashing in the distance, after two film's worth of equating water with life and death. Paul can hear the ocean of death he's about to bring. Dune 3: Trailer opens with Paul feeling the water on his hands.
simultaneously my most and least egghead academic opinion is that we have actual political treatises at home and we should simply let art be art
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 5mo agoInteresting how much of the criticism of both Sinners and OBAA is identical. "Politically muddled without a clear and simple message, and more fun and interesting to watch than groundbreaking." I dunno, maybe you guys are going to movies for the wrong thing?
Just told the entirety of the Silent Hill 2 plot to my mother, who shook her head and said “he shouldn’t have done that”
a man with a beard and scarf around his neck is saying `` as written '' in a dark room .
ALT: a man with a beard and scarf around his neck is saying `` as written '' in a dark room .
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Al Yankovic@alyankovic.bsky.social · 5mo agoHappy #Oscars Day! Why wait? Congratulations to Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Buckley, Sean Penn and Amy Madigan.