There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).
It's here! It was such a great honor to be able to sit down and chat with @thefargo.bsky.social about WoW, Hearthstone, and the craft of worldbuilding. I'm so excited to bring you this conversation: I had a lot of fun having it, and I hope you'll enjoy listening!
youtu.be/ZpGT3BL57jg
The “conspiracy theory” meme from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where a character is pointing at a messy wall of notes and photos with arrows drawn on them. Except that the character is Nintendo’s Luigi, wearing his white gloves. I spent entire minutes photoshopping this, so I hope you appreciate it.
Good morning BlueSky! I was drafting this post yesterday when the news of more #layoffs hit, and I couldn’t find the heart to finish. But I’m going to plow through. What’s going on in #gaming right now? Let’s look at some charts and data. A 🧵!
Screenshot of The Sims 2. A mustached gentlemen in a pink tuxedo jacket is having a cocktail on the deck of his shabby house. This is Bufus, the subject of today’s thread.
Friends of BlueSky! It is time to introduce you to Bufus, a fascinating gentleman I met 20 years ago. Bufus is a Sim, and he taught me a lot about open-ended #videogames and #emergence. I hope you’ll come to love him as much as I did in this short #GameDev Thread 🧵 about #TheSims.
Standards Lowered For Second Search Through Fridge -The Onion
Standards Lowered For Second Search Through Fridge
Cropped photo of the 1958 movie poster for The Blob. Menacing red text reads: “Indescribable… Indestructible! Nothing can stop it! THE BLOB.”
Yesterday I posted a #GameDev thread from @maxnichols.bsky.social that described a game’s possibility space as its “surface area.” I like this analogy because it more accurately describes a game’s scope. Let me explain in this thread 🧵, featuring #GameDesign, Will Wright, and #TheBlob.
Image of a book on a table. The book is “Spelunky,” by Derek Yu, published in 2018 by Boss Fight Books. The cover features an image of an eggplant. Very mysterious!
Screenshot of the PC version of Spelunky, with its original pixel art. Our cave explorer hero is jumping around a procedurally generated level. A damsel is awaiting rescue in the corner, while bats and snakes lurk below…
Happy Monday, #GameDev crew! Nestled on my bookshelf is this treasure from #Spelunky dev Derek Yu ( @mossmouth.bsky.social ), published in 2016 by Boss Fight Books ( @bossfightbooks.com ). A short thread 🧵 about why I love this book and reference it often:
Dense handwritten notes on lined paper. It reads: "What if that's what wizardry is? We have the tools and talent to create whatever we dream, but to actually create it is a deep well of banal tasks and esoteric understanding. It is not power that limits a wizard: It is patience."
Found in my #GameDev journal for 2-19-2023:
"What if that's what wizardry is? We have the tools and talent to create whatever we dream, but to actually create it is a deep well of banal tasks and esoteric understanding. It is not power that limits a wizard: It is patience."
The dirty little open secret to writing is that no one will ever know, nor care, how many drafts of a thing were written - people will only ever care about the crafted thing, and will, despite all knowledge to the contrary, assume it came out fully formed that way. No one thinks about shit drafts.
I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.
Lots on info on how the World
of Warcraft sausage was made in this thread!
10 year old Dave “Fargo” Kosak sits in front of the TRS-80 CoCo that was his very first computer. #BabyFargo #BabyGameDeveloper #1983
Two months before he got his first computer!
A faded 1983 polaroid photo, showing a pair of cakes on a platter: A gigantic yellow Pac-Man and a blue ghost. There are icing dots arranged around the platter.
A faded 1983 polaroid of a young Dave Kosak, blowing out the candles on his Pac-Man birthday cake. He is wearing a red and blue 1970s-style shirt with white dagger collars. The wallpaper in the background has a ridiculous print that was popular in the 1970s.
A faded 1983 Polaroid photograph of a birthday party. A young Dave Kosak is excitedly opening up some Star Wars: Return of the Jedi action figures. There is wood-paneling in the background. You can't get more 80s than this. You just can't.
A faded 1983 Polaroid photograph of a birthday party. A young Dave Kosak is excitedly holding up a pair of Underoos. We have hit peak 1980s.
Pac-Man was my first game obsession. Here's Polaroid photos of my 10th birthday party: October, 1983. This is not a scene from Stranger Things! Note the clothes, wallpaper, wood paneling. I am excitedly opening Return of the Jedi action figures and a pair of Underoos.😅 #1980s #Nostalgia #Videogames
gl1t3r and Meeko (a Birman cat) are snuggling in a bed with dark green flannel sheets.
My little Man Crush Meeko. My little teddy bear. 🧸❤️
Vanilla World of Warcraft box art poster, signed by all developers present at the launch event.
20 yrs ago, @thefargo.bsky.social hand carried this poster at the vanilla World of Warcraft launch event at Fry's. #Warcraft #VanillaWoW #Poster #Autographed #WoW
An extreme close-up of the Warcraft cosmology chart, illustrated by hand. This image shows Azeroth in the center, labelled "Reality," as well as the "Emerald Dream" and "Shadowlands," which are represented as twins to the main world.
World of Warcraft is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary! To commemorate, here are some of my original notes and drawings surrounding the creation of the #Warcraft cosmology. #WorldOfWarcraft #Wow #GameDev #Worldbuilding
