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Taymoor, King of the Pirates

@darkestcrow

Pronounced “Thaey-mur”. Live Lead Game Designer on Civilization VII at Firaxis. He/him. Opinions are my own. Live by design. Do good recklessly.

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Every person I have asked this question to has referenced this tumblr post

12.03.2026 17:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was interesting. We can talk about it later, I took notes.

10.03.2026 05:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Day of the Devs was very cool, I love trying out indie games. Good start to GDC so far, now to go check out these gardens everyone is talking about…

09.03.2026 01:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll also be at GDC this year! We should say hello in person lol

09.03.2026 00:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have only looked at two areas, I basically stop playing whenever it tells me something will finish tomorrow

08.03.2026 23:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Buddy, what?

08.03.2026 23:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Heading to GDC this year, first time ever. Anyone got any tips/tricks to get the most out of it?

02.03.2026 16:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pokepia having a Prop Hunt was unexpected, but incredible use of Ditto

27.02.2026 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the way to convert an audience is to have a focus on quality that survives repetition and appreciation of possibility space, which nobody is prioritizing these days, on the publisher *or* audience side.

12.02.2026 01:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It stills astounds me that no business decision makers have yet learned the lesson that you cannot create a Live Service audience, you can only convert an existing audience into a Live audience. There is no steel in the iron mines, that takes infrastructure.

12.02.2026 01:38 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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why is game dev feedback always kinda like this

03.02.2026 17:26 👍 281 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 3

andy cohen's "am i excited about 2026? [pregnant pause] yeah. i... yeah. i mean, what's the alternative?" is the realest thing i've seen all night

01.01.2026 04:49 👍 1135 🔁 156 💬 3 📌 7

The latest development on UK Mexican food is that Mexican-themed Churro stalls are all over the place. The churros are decent. Unsure if it’s a Christmas thing or not.

28.12.2025 01:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s only if we almost die. Which we won’t, because we’re better. But also now I actually have to try.

09.11.2025 10:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Field trip time

09.11.2025 10:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s waiting for you and also we’ll play multiplayer soon. Lotta tweaks in this one

03.10.2025 07:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The positive reception around this last Civ 7 patch has been a moment of relief I didn’t know I needed this badly.

03.10.2025 06:54 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Bethesda should return to its fucking around and not giving a shit roots tbh

17.09.2025 19:36 👍 603 🔁 84 💬 14 📌 2

Alright I get “wine-dark sea” now

13.09.2025 19:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm gonna put all 4 of these in Civ

03.09.2025 05:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On one hand, all these new "maybe the real punk was community and kindness" articles infuriate, because, yeah, that was always the point. On the other, maybe people will finally get it.

22.07.2025 05:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

submission dates for GDC and PAXU are the same day and adding two things to my to-do list that overlap a little did more psychic damage than I was prepared for.

16.07.2025 04:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It will make you thousand annie

15.07.2025 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As someone who writes TTRPG rules, you are not alone. Its astonishing how much goes into writing something that no one understands.

14.07.2025 05:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So much of my job lately has been changing a bunch of 20s in an excel sheet to 10s, and then back to 20s two days later, before deciding on 15 like its an epiphany of the highest order.

10.07.2025 08:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Elon is about to see the biggest twitter activity day as we all follow the shitstorm and if its enough positive reinforcement, we can Skinner Box our way into a complete republican schism.

05.06.2025 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spider-Man confronts the humanoid-dinosaur villain Sauron, who is riding on a triceratops. 

Spider-Man: "A lot of skills are surprisingly transferrable"

Sauron: "I don't want to transfer skills, I want to design video games"

Spider-Man confronts the humanoid-dinosaur villain Sauron, who is riding on a triceratops. Spider-Man: "A lot of skills are surprisingly transferrable" Sauron: "I don't want to transfer skills, I want to design video games"

12.01.2025 18:03 👍 1963 🔁 376 💬 11 📌 29
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The original Creator and Director of Final Fantasy Tactics, Yasumi Matsuno, shared a message with the fans about the new game!

04.06.2025 23:24 👍 1185 🔁 426 💬 15 📌 76
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bringing back my favorite SRPG post with the FFT remaster announcement

04.06.2025 21:47 👍 677 🔁 289 💬 5 📌 0

Damn that’s delightful

04.06.2025 05:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0