zacho.bsky.social
Senior Game Designer II, World of Warcraft
Blizzard Entertainment
I like dogs, writing books, making games, and all things creative. Especially if they help make the world a better place and give people some much needed levity.
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Hey! I know that guy! His stuff keeps wiping me because I suck at gaming!
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I seriously would love an illustrated world book all in this art style. It just reminds me so much of some of the old Art of the Dark Crystal books I used to keep around (thematically similar).
The Watcher Trees came out great and are so close to how I saw them in my own head when reading them.
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Love the colors! Fantastic sense of depth and scale.
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Legendary.
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That City of Graves is just peak. Fantastic work. I feel like I need to have that up on one screen while reading the last few chapters.
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Haha. You guys worked some techo-witchcraft that day.
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The day Warlords of Draenor launched I was panicking trying to find the bug that was causing servers to crash. Then the Lead Gameplay Engineer and Lead Server Engineer showed up at my desk at the same time and I nearly threw up.
Some limits you learn only when thousands of players hit it at once.
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There are so many bugs that I lost sleep, meals and weekends to. I go onto the fansites to find more information about what might have caused the issue that perhaps might have been outside of what QA could find and would sort through the hatred to find one silver bullet answer.
Bugs eat my soul.
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Well I certainly appreciated the entire series. Your approach to extrapolating the direction of cultures is an inspiration. Both enjoyable and helpful when I'm trying to approach creating a very non-human culture. Greatly helps reformat how one thinks about approaching some of these fiction tropes.
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Your book helped one of my coworkers navigate their arachnophobia before the game we were making had arachnophobia mode.
We were building a spider-centric zone in World of Warcraft that was centered around the Nerubian Culture. Half my team had read your book and were big fans (myself included).
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I've spent more energy than I would like to admit trying to come up with a table top system that can have the same range of fantasy/sci-fi options without making a player in the group feel like they are going to get wiped by power gamers if they get all "bully mode" on them.
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Rifts.
The entire Table top RPG by Palladium had so many cool magic and technology systems in it. The core rule book had it so your starting character ranges could be a Vagabond (bum) all the way up to a Hatchling Dragon. It was in no way balanced and was intended for groups who were okay with that
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Big plus one to this. I am very jealous of that game for this feature (among others) as it opens up so many possibilities for how to diegetically interact with the environment without going through the UI. I would want to use this for soooo many hidden features or effects if it were more easily done
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Still a fantastic game and a fantastic science fiction.
Very dated from a usability standpoint. I would kill for a quality of life improvement pass to that game. I would legit buy it again. Beyond Earth didn't really scratch the same itch or explore the same amount of science fiction.
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Smudge refuses to play with her food.
Bandit, on the other hand, is always down to give good mornings to bestest friend orcs and others.
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No. Smudge often refuses to acknowledge the others. She is very rude like that.
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I fully expect you to weasel in a local story at some point in the future. Still, so glad you got to do this. You've been a champion for the haranir for so long it is great to see what you do with them.
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Oh hell yes! This is amazing.
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That was a gift from a World Builder I think after Ansurek's palace got turned into a Delete Me cube one day making the entire Azj-Kahet zone look like it was worshipping "the Cube".
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I am blown away! This is absolutely adorable and I love everything about it. Well done.
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You are far better at keeping your Goodreads list up to date than myself. I'm tempted to go through and start doing a mad update as well given how many audible books I've burned through recently with commutes and all.
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I needed this movie when I was little. So glad the next generation has it.
And this is a downright iconic drawing. Well done.
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I love this energy so much.
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Oof. The gentleman with the horns is making me rethink some life choices. Absolutely stunning.
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I feel this in my soul.
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I love these pieces. The city shot is exceptionally compelling.
Also welcome to the party!