Matthew Gallant

@Gangles

☰ Game designer at Naughty Dog, software engineer, Canadian abroad

Santa Monica, California
gangles.ca
Joined November 2007
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  2. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    Revealing spoilers carries a high price 'round here...

    11:45 AM - 29 Mar 2016 · Details
    48 retweets 127 likes
  3. Mar 28

    Hah, unintentionally got the romantic ending in my first playthrough of Moon Hunters [spoilers]: 💕

  4. Mar 28

    Been a big fan of for carrying podcasts around, but their web interface often pauses mysteriously / needs constant refreshing :(

  5. Mar 27

    Lovely sunny day to be out and about in Los Angeles. Between Easter & Nowruz, seems every neighbourhood is putting on a little event.

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  6. Mar 26

    A rather grisly loading screen tip from the end of the Legacy of the Void campaign :|

    3:05 PM - 26 Mar 2016 · Details
    1 retweet 3 likes
  7. Mar 25

    Enjoyed this little shout-out in Firewatch. Go Big Horns! 🐏

    1 like
  8. Mar 22

    One of my favourite talks this year, particularly the method of arranging islands using gradient descent.

    Slides for my talk "Forging the River of " from are now up at
    2 retweets 1 like
  9. Mar 21

    You can’t re-lock the supply caches in Firewatch. What about bears! 😰

    10 likes
  10. Mar 18

    Hooray! 🐾🎊

    Every journey must come to an end.
    1 retweet 7 likes
  11. Retweeted
    Mar 18

    Stage shot of the presentation and I gave at Experimental Gameplay Workshop today.

    3:00 PM - 18 Mar 2016 · Details
    4 retweets 11 likes
  12. Mar 18

    Player feedback (placeholder particle & audio, screen shake) belong earlier in prod’n. It’s not polish, it’s pizzazz 🎉 –

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  13. Mar 18

    Some of Rocket League’s success due to luck; echoing ’s “buy more lottery tickets.”

    10:49 AM - 18 Mar 2016 · Details
    11 retweets 14 likes
  14. Mar 18

    Pro players / streamers show new players what is possible in Rocket League, demonstrate that it isn’t “random”.

    1 retweet 3 likes
  15. Mar 18

    All the cars in Rocket League have simple box collision. Lots of fake physics tricks to make ball/car interactions more predictable.

    2 retweets 7 likes
  16. Mar 17

    Marxism is a useful lens for historical game design because it’s deterministic. – Chris King (Paradox Interactive)

    1 retweet 2 likes
  17. Mar 17

    “Stories are reductive. Stories are the most effective form of data compression I know.” –

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  18. Mar 16

    Developer spouses getting some shout-outs at the IGF. About time!

    3 likes
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    • Emily Short
      @emshort

      interactive narrative, dialogue systems, the Versu project. she/her

    • James Elrick
      @Saber0307

      QA Tester for Naughty Dog.

  20. Mar 16

    Darkest Dungeon is an RPG “about the sword arm, not the sword.” –

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