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Writer, Director w/ @nickfolkman.bsky.social • Now: Senior Writer @ Riot Games • Prev: Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank, Miles Morales, MASSIVE CHALICE • voice on @scriptlock.bsky.social • Rep: Rain Management
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I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

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How dare Nintendo put in a great lil slow jam for when you set up the Switch 2, and yet still deny us eShop music

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Hello hello! We're back with @blendogames.bsky.social & @lmichet.bsky.social this week to talk earnestness in storytelling, working w/ external writers, when to overexplain things, deranged subreddits, and in this clip, making a comedic immersive sim! scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...

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I saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button again last night. Never gets old.

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I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

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The Three States of Employment: - Laid Off - Waiting to be Laid Off - Executive

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It's rare that I see an entry-level writing job in games so I wanted to share that Media Molecule is hiring a writer. www.brightnetwork.co.uk/graduate-job... On site in Guildford.

submitted 44 days ago • 6 comments

It’s true! We’re looking to add a new writer to the team. (Onsite here in Finland only.)

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

ICYMI we put out a new GDC Grab Bag episode this week! You can listen to amazing guests like @vincentperea.bsky.social talk about simplification, and how a great entree can be just as memorable as a nine-course meal. scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

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I've actually used/quoted a line from this on multiple occasions: "We could take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will."

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🚨New episode!🚨 Got to talk with a bunch of folks and ask hard-hitting questions like “who’s your favorite person you’ve ever worked with?”

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In honor of Val Kilmer, I recommend everyone watch the commentary for Kiss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, where he spends the entire time name dropping celebrities for a contest on his website

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When I hear people describe themselves as content creators.

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📝🔒📌

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I do love my chosen profession, but lately

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Some great stuff in this 2010 interview with Alex Garland after working on his (so far) only video game (Enslaved: Odyssey to the West) "It's not important for everyone to understand storytelling, but it's important for them to respect it." web.archive.org/web/20101007...

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

Rewatched The Wrong Trousers last night for the first time in years and would like to retroactively give it the cinematography Oscar for 1993

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Script Lock’s moved over to Bluesky and we’ve got a new episode out! (I promise it wont be another six months before the next one 😎)

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Put this quote up on the damn wall of every writers room.

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With every passing year I’ve become more convinced that this scene from Burn After Reading is the best thing the Coens have written

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

How many game studio CEOs make it 30 years with the company they founded? It’s been three years since my time at Insomniac but I still miss his daily AMAs. A genuinely good dude (and a great host on the Game Maker’s Notebook)

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In 2009, @raquellaneri.bsky.social got the scoop on David Lynch's top-five sandwiches. Unsurprisingly, it's delightful. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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If you live in LA, please read this. Feel free to share. Me and a few friends watched the Coalition For Clean Air webinar last night about toxic ash. There was a lot of important information in there, but it was 2.5 hours long. We summarized it into this doc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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RIP David Lynch. Everyone has their favorite Lynch-isms, but I keep going back to his raw reaction to watching the ending of It’s a Wonderful Life.

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“We’re seeing a way of life disappear, to be replaced with something else—who knows what. There will be rebuilding and regrowth, but what’s gone can never be replaced.” www.rogerebert.com/mzs/whats-go...

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