zoe calamar 🦆

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

STUNNING

Using ChatGPT

Slant rhymes are a rot that we must excise from the music industry

capcom get this woman on the ace attorney team STAT

ooh ooh me next! my writing career summed up in one image

You’re all listening to the sweet sweet sounds of #GETBRENT

My orange cat, Soosie, sleepily humoring me as I pose him next to his bounty quest in game

An image of Soos the Pangolin in game

If you happen to find my beautiful boy Soos in game, spare his life! Or don’t. (Thank you to my buddy @samwinkler.bsky.social for putting my cat in eternal mortal peril)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Meet our game in 20 seconds

she is also a certified cutie patootie and is rapidly climbing the ranks of my favorite vault hunters. literally every line out of her mouth makes me smile and chroma accelerator is a top tier action skill, holy shit

as a fellow wordplay enjoyer and frequent laugher at my own jokes, i feel extremely represented by harlowe

Borderlands 4 is out today!!! I still cannot believe I got to work on this project, even in the small capacity I did. The team at Gearbox has cooked up something extremely special, and I’m so honored that my first shipped AAA credit (!) is on a series I love so much. Break free!

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN MENTIONED??????

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BORDERLANDS 4 COMES OUT THIS WEEK!!!! I WORKED ON THAT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

film and games both have the potential to tell incredible stories, they just excel at different things and that is okay! it does not make one better than the other!!!

the best scene in life is strange (imo) is talking down kate on the roof precisely because it’s a game! taking away your rewind for the first time ever adds SO MUCH WEIGHT to everything, you feel so powerless and you just can’t capture that the same way on film.

sometimes things are made in the medium they are because that medium is best suited for the needs of that story, not because it couldn’t be a movie so they had to settle for the next best thing

house of leaves deserves to be more than just a book

WHAT THE FUCK????? emma i am so sorry oh my god

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.

I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:

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Huge

but how can your tiny woman hands even fit around a game controller?????

i cannot believe i’m saying this because i was thoroughly whelmed by manchild and short n sweet was my favorite album of last year but man’s best friend is better than short n sweet by an absurdly wide margin. absolutely fantastic album, holy shit?

like yes!!!!! i’ve always wanted to spend my free time at jury duty!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think the idea of an immersive courtroom drama thing sounds pretty fun but why on EARTH would they call it THE JURY EXPERIENCE 😭

damn i guess bl4 is going to be the first bl game where i don’t go siren day 1 i think i’m a harlowe girlie

the flipside of this is the person in my building who has an “eraserhead baby on board” bumper sticker. i’ve never met them but i want to be their best friend.

THEY TOOK “DON’T LET ME HAVE ANY RIGHTS” SERIOUSLY I GUESS