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josephknowles.bsky.social
Games, narrative design, much else besides. Helsinki 🇫🇮 He/him/hän
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Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there đź’Ş

submitted 13 days ago • 257 comments

Aki Kaurismäki (with scenes from his film "The Man Without a Past") - BOTD

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I've learned (and I am still learning) how to run a game studio for the last seven years doing both creative and biz. Here's a list of guidelines that work for us and might be useful for others that were lessons I've incorporated with our experience and guidance from others. 🧵

submitted 58 days ago • 15 comments

Don't just listen to players. If given the option, they'll optimize the game out of their games, and the story out of their stories. It's our job to filter information and data and feedback into good work, and while we'll sometimes miss it's better than blindly following surveys.

submitted 58 days ago • 35 comments

Make this permanent.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

EU nations should do this too

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s crossword in The Atlantic is to be commended for the entry on 11-Across, clued as “Low quality machine-generated content” 👏👏👏 www.theatlantic.com/free-daily-c...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Finns do the best forest art but people don’t even know

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 94 days ago • 681 comments

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 96 days ago • 174 comments

It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media

submitted 97 days ago • 76 comments

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

submitted 116 days ago • 89 comments

Oh there’s a new musical biopic about Robbie Williams? Huh, sounds fun, maybe when it comes to strea— Wait, he’s played by a CGI chimpanzee? This is suddenly the only movie I want to see. Like, immediately

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

tl;dr: AI CEO doesn't understand why daughter turned the AI features of the AI toy off, because he doesn't understand how play works His entire business model is being confronted and destroyed by the innocence of a child and he lacks the emotional intelligence to see it.

submitted 116 days ago • 17 comments

Saw FLOW last night night, and all I'll say is GO SEE IT. May be the best animated film of the last year. Magical, thought provoking, and the critters, while silent and not photoreal, are absolutely full characters you can feel. It also didn't hurt that Cat looks a LOT like our new kitten.

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

submitted 470 days ago • 184 comments

I have lost the ability to tell if news organizations are actually this out of touch, this uncaring about fact-checking or context, or if this is an editorial agenda to terrify the people who would benefit most from universal healthcare, the elderly.

submitted 133 days ago • 98 comments

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

submitted 133 days ago • 19 comments

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submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

submitted 148 days ago • 236 comments

I adore FLOW, the stunning Latvian animated feature out today. Top 10 of the year for me. A dialogue free movie starring animated animals about community vs. individualism, about seeing ourselves as part of a whole. Here’s 4-star review for RogerEbert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/flow...

submitted 151 days ago • 11 comments

Hello 👋 I’m a game narrative designer living and working in Helsinki. Here for my games friends and general friendly vibes. This place is a good scroll so far. For the algorithm: Ursula K. Le Guin Becky Chambers Aki Kaurismäki Beach Boys Solarpunk Stereolab Nintendo Moomin Ghibli Trek

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments