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Writer & Lead Designer of Minerva's Den, Gone Home, Tacoma. Currently working on something new.

Portland, OR
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Steve Gaynor
6 years
Hey there! Want handcrafted updates on @GoneHomeGame , @TacomaGame , and all future things Fullbright? Sign up for our newsletter! It's the most fun way to find out about what we're up to. We'll thank you... and your inbox will thank you! ✌️✉
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please share your most embarrassing game dev crimes. Mine: all the scripting in Gone Home is contained in 2 gigantic uScript graphs, bc I didn't know about interlinking many smaller graphs at the time. It's only 2 bc the first one started running too slow to navigate. Your turn.
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oh man, a tumblr of nothing but production artwork and line tests from Akira:
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They let us make our own Unity error popup windows and that was their first mistake
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christ alive if '80s Japanese electronics in maroon lacquer finish ain't an aesthetic
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For people that need something about hope and love right now: We've made @GoneHomeGame free this weekend on @itchio .
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I apologize to everyone who's had to work on a port of that game lol
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check out my new gamer mouse
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when U & your friend are just sitting next to each other silently scrolling through
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holy shit
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Thank god this is what I saw when I hit the eject disc button after digging my PS2 out of storage for the first time in a decade
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the bathroom graffiti narrative... it's very, very good.
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This is such a literal dril tweet it's amazing @seanspicer
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Gamecube: Resident Evil 4 PS2: Resident Evil 4 Xbox 360: Resident Evil 4 PS3: Resident Evil 4 Xbox One: Resident Evil 4 PS4: Resident Evil 4 PC: Resident Evil 4
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NES: Mega Man 2 SNES: Zelda: Link to the Past GameBoy: Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins Playstation: Metal Gear Solid N64: Zelda: OoT Game Boy Advance: Metroid: Zero Mission Dreamcast: RE: Code Veronica PS2: Final Fantasy XII GameCube: Zelda: Wind Waker cont...
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whichever kid did this has a bright future as a very mediocre video game narrative designer
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when you want your soup a little spicier but also you're an edgelord
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lmao
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re: gerrymandering: "No democracy in the world outside of the U.S. allows the elected politicians to draw the lines." Did not know that.
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North Carolina is “no longer considered to be a fully functioning democracy.”
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@ericholmeslive INVISIBLE WASHING MACHINES IN THE SKY is the most Earthworm Jim thing I've ever heard hahah
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I'm sorry WHAT
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Having been separated quite early in his life from his half-brother Testikles, his mood has been unstable ever since. He never felt as secure than with his own kin, so he deals with the separation by breaking things. Testiklos the Nut is now available in #AssassinsCreedOdyssey !
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It's happening folks. We're in the era where weird indie games are starting to use PS1/N64-fidelity graphics, which means more games are coming in this style, and I'm so fucking psyched
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huh. Wonder why these beans are the ones that aren't sold out
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Hey, you noticed ;) Thanks, @NintendoAmerica for being so cool about letting us include these in the Switch version of Gone Home ✌️💖🎮
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The server at this restaurant has probably my favorite Simpsons tattoo I've seen, and was kind enough to let me share it with you all. I'm just going to keep walking forward going like this...
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Portland bringing the satirical anti- @uber ads, and I am HERE for it
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when u gotta make sure the player doesn't leave without the powerup
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me, playing Far Cry 5: are these really big eggs... or really tiny toast 🤔
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When it's 9:03 pm & u hear something in the cabinet
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battle royale games are so popular because they let players live out the exciting fantasy of 100 people being allowed to gather in the same place
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my mom is cleaning out my old room & I would've cut ALL of these from Gone Home for being way too on-the-nose 1993. Like are you kidding me
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when KK Slider stands up he is WAY too nude
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@bfod The scene for the entire house in Gone Home is called Frontporch.unity because I started out thinking the house would be multiple scenes but nope
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So Edinburgh is literally Yarnham...
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still thinking about the time I ate an edible and thought "wow this isn't doing anything" and then literally the next second thought "what if they made a TV series called The Simpsons 2 and it was the same characters from The Simpsons but they were all slightly different"
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oh my god, miyazaki, get them
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@glassbottommeg I mean, sliding doors in Gone Home are just drawers with a different mesh, turned on their side. I feel you lol
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2017: The Year They Figured Out How to Make All the Games Good. "We just release amazing shit every week now haha. Fuck you" --devs in 2017
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yo anybody wanna see a pic of a guy whose game is officially through Cert?
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historical accuracy blah blah if this key art of basically Emily Blunt dual wielding in a trench coat doesn't get you hyped as HELL to get in there and fuck some scrubs up idk what's wrong w u
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"I'm 92 years old. So what am I doing here? As a Purple Heart veteran of WW2 I have seen up close what fascism can do. And we must stop it."
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I regret to inform you all that video game graffiti is leaking into the real world again
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✊✊✊ 👦
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"Yo you know why I got this codename right" Yeah we kn "YO IT'S BEC-- Dude. We GET it. "YO CUZ I SMOKE WEEEEEEEEE http://t.co/8tpGPojNQs
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YO this church steeple retrofitted to be a cell tower is THE most cyberpunk thing I've seen in MONTHS
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this stuff about System Shock 1's procedural MIDI soundtrack is so freaking cool
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lol when ur at the fam's house for Thanksgiving & u glance up & see the source image for a photo ur more used to seeing in ur own game
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Hey Steve are you excited about your game coming out in less than 48 hours?? Uh huh!
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this is the most Dark Souls-ass etching from 1870 you're gonna see today
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brain, out of nowhere: it's Parasite Eve not Parasite Steve me: what? brain: I dunno man me: OK, posting
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Ahh that's a pretty good one, wonder what the full piece of art it comes from isooooHhhh ssHhHiiITttttt
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who leaked this
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I will only care about Fallout 76 if it’s really a new game from @fullbright about walking around a vault and learning about our gay boyfriend
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this is still one of the best & most relevant gaming comic strips lmao
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this is the new aesthetic for abandoned video game environments
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The tree He escaped his cage Yes YES The tree is out
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me every time I look in our pantry
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While making Gone Home (released pre-ACA) we got to choose between health care & funding our game. This was not a good choice to have.
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If you want a summary of my policy endorsements, here it is
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Sean Hannity just presented this agenda as a negative
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Y'all.. in just one week... @GoneHomeGame is coming to @Nintendo Switch! I spoke to @Variety , looking back on what Gone Home means to me 5 years later:
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twf u get digitized into the online by a motherfuckin cackling gator
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Wow, today is SIX YEARS since @GoneHomeGame was released 😭 In that time we've put it out on.. kind of everything (Win/Mac/Linux, PS4/XB1/Switch, iOS)... so thank you, everyone who's played our little game, wherever you've played it ❤️🏚️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩
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well it's called 'scream shitting' now
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mom: what's that internet thing called, "scream shitting"? me: ... me: shitposting? mom: SHITPOSTING.
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someone just retweeted my first ever tweet, reminding me what my first ever tweet was, and I'm living
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*slams a Dew* hell yeah
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heyooooo, whats up gamers
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shoutout to retail and service workers who've had to listen to Christmas music literally 8 hours a day for the last month, we're pullin for you, you're almost there, you got this
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@mmalex a bug in Black & White made me cry-- my Panda was affected by a bug where if you completed a level with the shrinking curse on it, it would just keep shrinking forever :( I had to watch something I loved slowly shrink into nothing and there was nothing I could do about it :(((
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👏HEY👏NERDS👏GUESS👏WHAT👏 Now that @TacomaGame is shipped... TONE CONTROL SEASON 2 IS COMING! Featuring @graylish @Harvey1966 @hentaiphd @kinucakes @HelloCakebread & more... Airs twice monthly, starting Dec 1. Now's a great time to catch up on S1...!
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occasionally I remember how wild it is that Nintendo actually let us put official SNES game art in the Switch version of Gone Home. Thanks Nintendo
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@HTHRFLWRS the Unity project name for Gone Home is "House_Test"
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every parenthetical read in Ron Howard Arrested Development narrator voice
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they got the only person in all of Portland, OR who's never heard of, much less seen a pig to paint this window mural and I am so happy
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ah so THIS is why someone should have any political experience at all before becoming president of the united states. Interesting.
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if you've ever wanted to make your own game first-person game in the vein of Gone Home/Firewatch, this is a really great Unity toolkit
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when the art team won't make u a chandelier so u just gotta make it out of BSP
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man, these gifs make Control by @remedygames look like it absolutely fucking rips
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@kingreza @_Stralor Things I know about programming: 1. It's how you make computers do things 2.
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also my daughter was born like 5 days ago but we all know that's not what twitter is about lol
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tfw you work with computers for a living
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I live with this every day of my life
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@laurenduca guess what dolphins are Lauren. That's right. Immigrants, from the sea
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sad to report, I'm dead now. Cause of death: these pictures of Gillian Anderson 🤯⚰️
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of all the fake soda brands in video games, how has there never been one called Vertical Slice
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Got new PR shots taken with @zusty , rt if u are Here for the Aesthetic
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@mmalex I absolutely did lmfao. In my freshman year of college apartment at 3am thinking I lost my mind lol
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can an ad campaign be goty
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hey @twitter did u see about WoW Classic. Just think, Twitter Classic nobody has 280 characters & I see everybody I follow's tweets in order
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btw, for context:
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The hours before launch at the Fullbright office.. testing the game, biding our time, making faces... Here we go, team...!
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y'all, I've got good news and bad news... the good news is, you can get both our games, @GoneHomeGame & @TacomaGame , for a grand total of $15 in the Steam Summer Sale right now the bad news is, there is no fucking bad news, git u some
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"I'm not owned! I'm not owned!" I shout, attempting to fly away as wild dogs viciously assault my Nude Ass
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Portland color palette really just looking like a 2008 Xbox game
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@oysterFAKE now THIS is true game development
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wh.. what....
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just realized how I'm going to rewatch the rest of this nonsense
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watching Veronica Mars and The Good Place back to back and the fact that these photos were taken like 13 years apart makes me assume Kristen Bell is some sort of ageless witch or immortal being
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Congrats to @ja2ke @chrisremo @vanaman on shipping a new Half-Life game, and to @idlethumbs readers circa 2010 who will appreciate this asset being in the first level of the new Half-Life game.
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Day before launch day, repping our roots..
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groupon is short for grey poupon
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