My favorite novel. I think Iโve read it more than any other book. Enjoy!
18.11.2025 21:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@briangomez.bsky.social
Video game exec, game designer, producer, and writer based in Scotland. Creative Director at 4J Studios. BAFTA Scotland committee member. Former EP of Jurassic World games at NBCUniversal. Former Disney Imagineer. Horror genre expert. Recovering goth.
My favorite novel. I think Iโve read it more than any other book. Enjoy!
18.11.2025 21:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I think The Criterion in St Andrews needs to hire this crow to perch on their sign full-time.
#scotland #StAndrews #corvids
Iโve been so busy making Reforj, I didnโt even notice we dropped a title update teaser last night.
#reforj #indygames #scotland #gamedev
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Last light of the day on Kinnoull Hill.
#scotland #perth #autumn
Iโm overachieving on NYT Puzzles this morning.
01.11.2025 10:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy Halloween! Whatโs your favorite horror game? Whatever it is, chances are the 50 horror game creators (including yours truly!) featured in Terrorbytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming probably dissected it, layer by bloody layer!
terrorbytesdoc.com
You think thatโs bad? You should hear the way some product managers talk about their player base in F2P gamesโฆ ๐ฌ
30.10.2025 18:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The story told around WDI is that Walt coined the term because his dogs would follow him around the house if he showed them a hotdog. The โdumb hungry dogsโ bit is news to me. Not saying it didnโt happen, but also never heard it put that way while I was at Disney.
30.10.2025 17:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0At Walt Disney Imagineering, the equivalent was what John Hench had dubbed โthe weenieโ โ using a landmark and environmental storytelling to lead the guests towards the main attraction.
30.10.2025 13:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Over the summer, our lead designer and I did a live stream and Q&A for our game in early development, Reforj. If youโre into open world survival games, I hope youโll add it to your wishlist and visit us on Discord.
#reforj #gamedev #indygames #MadeInScotland
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Marshmallows on a skewer roasting over a fire in an antique Godin wood burning stove.
Toasting marshmallows on the wood burning stove. For breakfast.
#autumn
Fungi spotting around Dunkeld today.
24.10.2025 15:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My view, right now.
#autumn #scotland #dunkeld #hermitage
Any chance weโll ever see a vinyl repress of Year Zeroโฆ?
14.10.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope on vinyl, beside a signed copy of Budgieโs biography, Absence
Tonightโs entertainment: Reading a signed copy of Budgieโs biography while listening to his first album as a Banshee.
#budgie #siouxsie #postpunk #goth
Procrastination, taking the guise of a sleeping black cat draped across my computer keyboard.
For some reason Iโm finding it very hard to get any work done tonightโฆ
12.10.2025 19:57 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My part-Latina daughter just complained that living in Scotland has turned her โDaniel Radcliffe white.โ I wonder how it came to be that Radcliffe is her benchmark for a pale complexion?
12.10.2025 14:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It doesnโt seem that bad, actually. More than 10% of players are getting to the end of the game (or what I assume is the end โ Iโve not played it.) When I worked at Disney and Universal, I got to regularly see retention data and that looks like a pretty common drop off.
12.10.2025 08:04 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Feeling kinda fungi today, so I took a walk to Maspie Den in Falkland.
#scotland #fungi #mushrooms
If youโre at the Games Day at the Big Real event in Dundee today, find me during the breaks and say hello! (You can also get a chance to play Reforj!)
#gamedev #indygames #dundee #reforj
Reforj looks pretty good on a 9k wraparound screen. I wish everyone could play it on one of these!
18.09.2025 11:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A black cat seated at a kitchen table, giving the photographer some brutal side-eye.
My cat is having none of my shit today.
25.05.2025 09:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mark your calendar, grab some popcorn and tune in to the first ever official Reforj stream on Thursday 8th May at 3pm BST!
Join Tom, our lead designer, plus Joe and Nathan for a guide to Reforj, a tour of its mechanics and a live Q&A.
Tune in here:
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Thanks, I hope you get a chance to play it soon! We just launched our pre-alpha test two days ago.
02.05.2025 21:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Writing a GDD is having the hard conversation, even if itโs with yourself. As soon as you need to explain a system, loop, mechanic, etc. to another person (even if that other โpersonโ is just your design journal) you discover things โ edge cases, exploits, contradictions, etc.
02.05.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0From a former Disney colleague, Armando Soto: โIf you find yourself on a project with an unclear vision energy devoted to changing or clarifying the vision is going to be more productive than solving all the endless problems and progressing with an unclear vision. Have the hard conversations.โ
02.05.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Go without a GDD and you get the Roomba production methodology: head off blindly in any direction, run into a wall, pivot, repeat.
02.05.2025 20:55 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We've had some overwhelmingly positive feedback from the Reforj Pre-Alpha! We're already working on shipping the first fixes and planning the next update.
Sign up now for a chance to become a Pioneer: reforj.game
Iโm really enjoying Prowlโs in-depth feedback and coverage of REFORJ. Every bit of feedback is helpful, positive and negative alike (but this one does have a lot of nice things to say!)
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Following the outdated and lifethreatening decision over transrights from the UK Supreme Court ,as a sector we owe it to our friends, colleagues and the transcommunity to speak up for change.
Please sign this openletter from the cultural sector to the EHRC
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