Video game writer, narrative designer, educator. Cuphead, SW Battlefront, 40+ more. Ex-Marvel. He/him. I’m not using Twitter anymore. Find me on Bluesky.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Joined February 2015
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Hi, #MeetTheDev! I’m Evan Skolnick, a former Marvel writer who’s been in game dev for over 18 years now. Primary writer on Cuphead, Concrete Genie, Star Wars: Battlefront, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, others. Regular GDC presenter and game writing professor at #CogswellCollege.
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I've just finished creating my first game in RPGMaker Mv and it is a horror, puzzle, and mystery game where you must search for a way out of an underwater facility after waking up with no memories.
Game Page Link:cocoacha.itch.io/deep
#gamedev #indiedev #IndieGameDev
I don't think I'll be on here much longer, so please find me in the sky that is blue. "EvanSkolnick" over there. Hope to see you!
Okay, I’m only on Season 2 of Succession, but I HAVE to know: does Roman ever find any clothes that fit him?
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Writers and artists standing up to AI are the modern-day Luddites—and for all our sakes, we’d better hope they win.
I've been researching and writing about the Luddites for oh 3-4 years, and it's a good time to discuss the parallels and the stakes, which get higher every day.
Would it be unreasonable to expect everyone working at #YouTube to know what the "Tube" part of the name actually means?
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On the left, Republican Senator Mike Lee feigns outrage during the State of the Union when President Biden suggests that some Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
On the right, Mike Lee says he wants to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Face ID has suddenly stopped working on my iPhone. I’m going to be optimistic and assume the problem is with my phone and not my face.
AI writers will never be as good as us human writers because they simply take what’s already out there and regurgitate and recombine it in different ways and — oh, shit.
Hey #gamedev, and level/mission designers in particular! Are level design docs (LDDs) still a part of the planning process at your studio? If so, what form(s) do they usually take? (Word doc, wiki, etc.) If not, what kind of plan is in place before you jump into the level editor?
Another 100 handwritten postcards ready to go, this time headed to Georgia voters to support Senator Warnock in the runoff next month.
I exhausted my blue pen in this bunch, while learning that Georgians overall have much more interesting names than Californians!
#Warnock2022
This Sunday I’ll be playing drums in front of an audience for the first time in over 25 years. Interestingly, this gig is turning out to be a lot like the kind of work I find myself doing as a game writing/narrative design consultant. A #gamewriting 🧵
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Video footage of Chuck Schumer blocking Mitch McConnell from taking back the Majority tonight.
