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Greg Spyridis

@gspy.bsky.social

Narrative Designer @ Obsidian. Writer, Professional Nerd, Saucy Storyteller, and the Shameless Goofball You Want Invited to Other People's Parties.

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I've honestly never been this proud of a game I've worked on.

It turned out awesome.

30.10.2025 03:47 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Everyone be safe, have fun, find solidarity in your fellow Americans, and generously apply talc before you get dressed.

By the time you realize how moist it is inside your wombat costume, it'll be far too late to do anything about it.

18.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He remains my favorite ADA of the series.

Or, at least, of the 5 or 10 seasons I watched.

15.07.2025 06:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Outer Worlds 2 - Full Direct | Xbox Games Showcase 2025
YouTube video by IGN The Outer Worlds 2 - Full Direct | Xbox Games Showcase 2025

Honestly, I'm damn impressed with what our @obsidian.net team and Microsoft whipped up for this show. It's both entertaining and a great ad for the game.

If you like engaging RPGs steeped in satirical humor, give it a watch.

youtu.be/jjzWwXTL2LU?...

09.06.2025 02:46 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's the kind of night that has me awake at 03:35, earnestly pondering whether I hated The Last Jedi or Rise of Skywalker more.

04.06.2025 10:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally tried Warhammer 40k @tacticusgame.bsky.social. Enjoyed the primary gameplay loop and cute graphics.

Was confused by the complete lack of narrative.

But the aggressive monetization totally ruins it. I don't understand why casual games demand you either give all your money or none of it.

19.05.2025 04:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pondering terrible choices with high degrees of life-shortening risk - and all I can hear is Dennis Leary saying, "Yeah, but it's the ones at the end! Those years suck. You can have those years!"

15.05.2025 06:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Steam was compromised.

Update your passwords, even if you use 2FA.

And if you're using the same password on multiple sites/apps, stop it. You know better than that.

It's not 1997 anymore.

15.05.2025 04:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As I'm enjoying #Avowed, I keep wondering what it'd take to get Obsidian to do a full historical combat game?

Oh! You play Andreas' sibling, avenging his death after the events of #Pentiment, hacking, slicing, and shooting your way across 16th cent Europe!

Whaddya think, @jesawyer.bsky.social? 😆

20.02.2025 05:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Critical rule for creatives: Don't get attached to your work.

Today, I deleted several pages that I loved and replaced them with something far less entertaining, but that served the story exponentially more.

It felt like slamming my nadgy-bits in a car door, but it was the right thing to do.

08.02.2025 19:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I will only use my powers for good.
I will only use my powers for good.
I will only...
Bah! Who am I kidding?

04.02.2025 03:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I want to run an RPG campaign where every session starts with chaotic combat filled with terrifying monsters - and then becomes a purely roleplay experience focused on the adventurers working through their horrific PTSD.

24.01.2025 23:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wasn't the last one just a few years ago?

21.01.2025 04:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We've got an honest to goodness trailer! With gameplay and jokes and words that sound smart but may or may not be real!

13.12.2024 11:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My Friday at GDC is shockingly open!
Who feels like connecting in actual, non-digital, supposedly real life?

21.03.2024 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#GodzillaMinusOne did not disappoint. I haven't enjoyed a #Godzilla movie that much in a long time.

That said, it's a huge reminder that you should make your protagonist at least a little likable. I haven't rooted so hard for someone to be eaten since I watched The Walking Dead.

03.12.2023 01:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spent half the night coveting the lifestyle of writers in the early 20th century. Super fancy bars, drinking yourself close to death in Southern European hotels, being an ex-pat in the south pacific.

Then I realized I work remote and could totally do it... I'm just a damn coward.

10.11.2023 06:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Get a bidet.
Good for you, good for the environment.

07.11.2023 03:42 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Write a horror movie synopsis of a non-horror movie.

Garfield: A monstrous, rage-filled cat psychologically tortures a man while obsessively plotting the murder of a kitten he deems too pretty to live.

01.11.2023 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Okay, I'm not into GunPlay-- heck, I may never have watched a full episode of Gundam--but if I find these files, I just might start.

19.10.2023 02:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had the realization that trying to find the discipline to write for your side project after a 9 hour day of writing for your main project is exactly like trying to stab yourself in the thigh.

That's it. I don't know why or how it might be a deeper metaphor--I just know it's true.

17.10.2023 06:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"And we should try doing it to the car's GPS, too!"

14.10.2023 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In a way we've literally never seen before. Part of me is excited to see the historical perspective on this 20 years from now.

14.10.2023 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you're going to play a game on Friday the 13th in October...

14.10.2023 01:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I will pay one of you five shiny new dollar bills if you'll come over and set up an IV of coffee feeding directly into my veins.

29.09.2023 07:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can you call it lounge wear if you can't slouch, stretch, or breath in it?

29.09.2023 07:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's it like to be a professional writer?

I spent 4 hours iterating on the name of a hotel and I still got it wrong.

28.09.2023 04:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pro Tip for RPG game writers: Never, ever stop and figure out how little of your work any single, individual player will see. Once you realize that person only experiences 14% of your content, those giant branching dialog trees feel way less worthwhile.

14.09.2023 17:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maintenance

07.09.2023 04:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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