All the Alpha Centauri dialog was written in a strange fugue while rereading Dune while listening to the soundtrack for Les Miserables :D
Posts by Sam Winkler
Guilty!
Genius vibes
some say he's still waiting
Hey, my first game, a surreal visual novel set in a near-apocalyptic Texas, is on sale for 25% off. In 2026 it is cheaper than like half a burrito. You should get it, so that I can keep making cool stuff for you.
Dune 2: Paul's confrontation with the emperor to the sound of waves crashing in the distance, after two film's worth of equating water with life and death. Paul can hear the ocean of death he's about to bring.
Dune 3: Trailer opens with Paul feeling the water on his hands.
Gator Raid World Event #comedypodcast #movies
simultaneously my most and least egghead academic opinion is that we have actual political treatises at home and we should simply let art be art
Just told the entirety of the Silent Hill 2 plot to my mother, who shook her head and said “he shouldn’t have done that”
MARATHON VENDOR: You have no rights. You are a fetid creature, born into agony. Neither the day you were conceived nor the day you are murdered will be remembered. Smash three security cameras on Perimeter and you may be useful a single time before God strikes you down.
ME: aye aye captain haha
My teachers always said I had trouble focusing
Time to update my professional photos
Clears chicken easily. Meatball depends on the meatball
Write between the lines - how to write video game stories in a distracted polarized media illiterate world
Last exciting talk of GDC ✨ Writing Video Games in a Polarized World ✍🏼 I’m in the worst spot for photos but will do my best to NOT spoil
Oh hell yeah
Ah we can finally say that @jfg.land and I had the real priviledge of working on narrative preproduction for several years on @marathonthegame.bungie.net ; it has an incredible narrative team, and a very special game that takes its narrative very seriously, in a fresh way that honors its unique past
A picture of Zoe and I at our GDC panel, chatting!
Just did my debut GDC talk with the wonderful @zoeraecalamar.bsky.social, and wow, it was so neat! We had an incredible turnout, and even answered questions/talked with people for an hour afterwards. Thank you GDC! Here’s to many more of these.
✨GDC AWARDS✨
✨LIVE at 6:30pmP on TWITCH✨
I’m hosting (and writing and producing ET CETERA) the ceremonies tonight and I can’t wait. What an honour.
See you there—OR you can watch LIVE on the @officialgdc.bsky.social Twitch!!
twitch.tv/gdcfestivalo...
“Man, what a fantastic demo. I feel like these devs really get it.”
Thank you @ironpineapple.bsky.social for checking out our demo! 🍍 Good job on figuring out the rusty sword exploit (no apology necessary <3 )
youtu.be/4VyfUq2ZHBE?...
I’m the ace of spades (highest rated talk of 2025) in the GDC card deck!! 😭😭😭😭
Taking a cue from @hollynielsen.bsky.social this international women's day, celebrate *me*, a not-corporation, by playing my games, rating them, and hiring me and all of my friends 🔪
you wake up. it is 2007. you are wearing urine starched cargo shorts and a tshirt depicting the tazmanian devil cartoon character in a b-boy stance. you are the number one xbox 360 achievment hunter in the world. gamepro magazine is on the horn, want to fly you down to vegas to meet carmen elektra
Absolutely fucking obsessed with wikigacha
Headed to GDC next week! Psyched to see a bunch of you.
sunsofcarcosa Badge image. Feb 3 my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit 5 minutes later: only in death does duty end my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it