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Studio Narrative Director at Guerrilla: Horizon Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West, Horizon Call of the Mountain, Horizon Lego Adventures. Book Guy: fantasy, sci-fi, westerns and especially crime. Poetry too!

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Also: Credit to Ben Schroeder, Anne Toole, Ari Martinez, and Annie Kitain for their work on all these characters!

14.03.2025 21:03 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thx for the posts 💕 Good points re: Alva/Zo/Petra, but their (partially) oppositional stances to their tribes provided hooks that made it easier. Beta and Seyka were hardest bc of their importance to Aloy. We didn't do a perfect job but we sure tried hard! #HorizonForbiddenWest #HorizonZeroDawn

14.03.2025 21:02 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

You're not the only one.

14.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had this edition growing up. Brings back memories!

14.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love this. Great shots. I'm curious - which of these characters do you think was hardest to write/edit? (Not counting Aloy.) #HorizonZeroDawn #HorizonForbiddenWest

12.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 7    📌 1
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She was mostly working on her abs.

12.03.2025 02:26 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wish I could say!

27.02.2025 04:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amazing shot! Reminds me of one of the poems Demeter referenced in #HorizonZeroDawn:

Watching the river
through a window of trees...
spring rain falls

--Kobayashi Issa

#HorizonForbiddenWest

25.02.2025 14:46 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

This is how I feel about monday mornings. #HorizonForbiddenWest

24.02.2025 02:30 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is so freakin' awesome. It's like my childhood on two shelves. I must have read A Tolkien Bestiary, in the lower left, a thousand times. Goes without saying that Tolkien is a huge influence on #HorizonZeroDawn and #HorizonForbiddenWest. (And all sci-fi/fantasy games!) Bravo. #booksky

21.02.2025 22:02 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Great pics! Working on Tilda's bunker was one of my favorite experiences of #HorizonForbiddenWest. If you ever in Amsterdam, you can see the actual pieces at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social.

21.02.2025 19:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That spot went through many troublesome iterations during development. It's great to see it looking so vivid!

21.02.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

😍😍😍

20.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This reminds me of some early concept art for HZD that I loved. Great shot! #HorizonForbiddenWest

20.02.2025 13:39 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Hey where in the game is that exactly?

20.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

🤩🤩🤩

20.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi. I joined Bluesky in search of new horizons. Greetings to all! #HorizonZeroDawn #HorizonForbiddenWest #BeyondTheHorizon

15.02.2025 20:06 — 👍 82    🔁 3    💬 17    📌 0

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