David Gallaher

Making Our Barks Meaner Than Our Bites or "Writing the Words That Make Worlds Feel Alive" by David Gallaher When I got the call to write for Ghost Recon: Wildlands, I wasn’t crafting sweeping monologues or weaving intricate plot twists—I w...

If Sisyphus were a game writer, he wouldn’t be pushing a boulder up a hill—he’d be hammering out variations of “We’re under fire!” until his keyboard wore thin.

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My dad was in the news last night and I'm incredibly proud of him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYWY...

From Boss Battles to Behaviorism by David Gallaher In the late ’90s, I was grinding away in the Marvel Entertainment. Long days, bad coffee, and answering thousands of e-mails a day.

You don’t teach people by pouring facts into their heads — you make them build the damn map themselves.

From hot stoves to dragon hoards, this is how learning theory comes alive when the stakes are real and the table is yours.
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so great

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

Optimize for Surprise by David Gallaher There's a split second before the knife hits the table..

How to Optimize for Surprise

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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

That is a good way to start the day

Get the hell off of substack

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Was visiting my folks today, went to trivia tonight with my dad. They used Chat GPT to write their questions and got the answers wrong. We left after the first round of drinks.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following Trump budget cuts The Corporation for Public Broadcasting had long provided federal funding to local public radio and television stations across the country.

Well, fuck: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The Sky Is The Limit by David Gallaher Throughout college and deep into grad school, I drove a maroon ’92 Saturn SC..

The time I worked on a concept car:

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Spotify
- pays artists fuck all money and destroys the industry
- puts millions of dollars into joe rogan's pocket, helping to decimate the political landscape
- started to create and flood it's service with LLM crap to further oust musicians
- winds up directly funding drone warfare via it's CEO

Happy to have you back

Shit On My Happy by David Gallaher Last month, I finished the first draft of my novel. That sounds more triumphant than it felt.

We don’t get better by being praised.
We get better when someone dares to shit on our happy.
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The Company You Keep by David Gallaher Open up YouTube and type in “motivational speech” and you'll be buried alive within seconds..

The truth behind the company we keep: www.linkedin.com/pulse/compan...

Yup.

Closed down community hubs for vulnerable people re-opened by former staff Northampton legend Alan Moore has donated cash to the team to get the hubs up and running again.

My wonderful amazing dad doing what he always does. ❤️

One of those, I can probably help with

A sepia poster with a background of a brain texture reading “Art made by no one means nothing” and “please use your beautiful brain” in smaller text at the bottom.

Yearly remake of this poster.
My feelings against generative AI remain the same, if not constantly reignited.

Yes. That one. Yes.

It was, perhaps, my favorite this season

Ivor - Everlasting YouTube video by Ivor

My nephew Ivor [16 years old] just produced one his first music videos: "Everlasting": www.youtube.com/watch?featur... -- it's very Johnny Marr, if that's what you're into.

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Folks, I beg you...

Please stop using Gen AI images for everything, we have public domain AND Creative Commons stock images on places like Pexels.

Like Waterflowing Downhill: Accessibility, Ease, and the Elegance of Inclusion by David Gallaher There's a principle I return to again and again when I think about game design..

Like Waterflowing Downhill: Accessibility, Ease, and the Elegance of Inclusion: www.linkedin.com/pulse/like-w...

Criminalized = Loss of voting rights!

Image of Jen holding a real version of the comic book in French and posing with a fake version of the book in English. The cover is in Émilie Rouge’s signature teals and salmon pink.

Panel featuring engineer and designer Jerry Lawson, a Black man with a goatee and mustache. He dreamed and created the first interchangeable cartridges for video games

Panels featuring women in games (both white women in this example) including Amy Briggs with her historical romantic adventure, Plundered Hearts, and Jane Jensen joining Sierra On-Line in 1991 and making detective games based on the French quarter of New Orleans called Gabriel Knight.

Panels about Tōru Iwatani, creator of PAC-man. He is a light skinned Japanese man with short black hair. PAC-man was originally called Puck-man but the name was changed for fear of graffiti change pick to ‘fuck’. The game sold 4,300,000 arcade cabinets in a few years!

Happy Book Birthday in English to @jeanzeid.bsky.social + Émilie Rouge + @amandameadows.bsky.social + me!

The Age of Video Games: A Graphic History from Pong to VR and Beyond is out from @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social!

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It's fun, to be sure...