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@meghna.bsky.social
@betterthemask
narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | FIND ME ON BSKY: bsky.app/profile/meghna…
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    Dec 18, 2024
    so the reality is…I am much more over at the other place. see you there?
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    Nov 5, 2022
    if you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Nov 10, 2023
    To my great regret, I will not be presenting the Best Storytelling award today as the organisers would not permit political statements. Here's what I would have said, and my message explaining my reasoning for withdrawing. #ceasefireNOW
    Hello everyone. I’m Meghna Jayanth, I’ve worked as a narrative designer for over a decade now on games like 80 Days, Sable, and Thirsty Suitors - which launched just last week. 

We make games to dream with our players - we invite them into our fantastical worlds when they need a refuge from the real, we let people step into other lives, other realities. This year’s shortlist demonstrates the capacity video games have to tell stories that are strange, thrilling, engaging - but most importantly, human. 

We’re here to celebrate video games - but we are all also human beings who live in the world, and it’s impossible to ignore that while we celebrate here a genocide is taking place in Palestine, supported by our government. In the spirit of our shared humanity, I ask everyone here tonight to join me in calling for a ceasefire now. Not in our name.  

Every game is an act of love, to players we might never meet. I couldn’t be prouder to introduce the nominees for Best Storytelling.
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    Golden Joysticks
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    Nov 3, 2023
    We are honored to have narrative designer Meghna Jayanth presenting an award at the @GoldenJoysticks on November 10, 2023. Get ready for an unforgettable night! @betterthemask #GoldenJoystickAwards
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Aug 28, 2019
    An anon account has been naming abusers in the games industry. Alexis Kennedy is one of them. I can't speak to the motives of the anon, but Alexis is a well-known predator in the games industry. I have been warning people about him for years.
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Oct 1, 2022
    disco elysium ascending through the squid game cycle of our current torment nexus era
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    May 22, 2023
    AI is the solution to a problem that exists only in the minds of execs and money men - that what players want is infinite slurry, produced with utmost predictable efficiency
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    Shannon Liao
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    May 22, 2023
    SCOOP: Activision Blizzard is testing out its own generative A.I. internally. "Prepare to be amazed," Allen Adham wrote in an email, despite employee skepticism. my first byline with the New York Times: nytimes.com/2023/05/22/art…
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Oct 3, 2022
    apologies for all the times I made fun of Bioshock for rudimentary and unrealistic moral choices
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    No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
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    Oct 3, 2022
    NEW: A new investigation reveals that Dr. Oz conducted studies that killed over 300 dogs, including an entire litter of puppies by injecting expired drugs directly into their hearts. jezebel.com/dr-oz-s-scient…
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Oct 1, 2022
    pretty much every video games news story rn boils down to the corporate vandalism of human creativity, art, leisure, time & dignity
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Aug 10, 2023
    BG3's actually done some great spacious narrative design work teaching the player to trust the systems through amusing & dramatic failure outcomes, tempting them away from save scumming without designing in hostility to it - it's *persuasive design* rather than *punitive design*
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    IGN
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    Aug 9, 2023
    Baldur's Gate 3's huge launch has reignited the age-old debate about save scumming. bit.ly/3KybA2A
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Nov 4, 2021
    Dinosaurs welcoming the asteroid
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    Game Developer
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    Nov 4, 2021
    EA calls NFTs and blockchain games "the future of our industry" in earnings call gamedeveloper.com/business/ea-ce…
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Dec 9, 2021
    male employees stole their lactating colleagues’ breast milk at Blizzard
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Jul 6, 2018
    "Nobody at ArenaNet is safe from the hand of reddit" Every single one of us working in the games industry should be concerned by this decision. But our concern needs to lead to action. This is just one of the reasons why we need unions.
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    chrishanel.psd is now only on bluesky
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    Jul 6, 2018
    Replying to @tha_rami
    Well done, ANet, you've successfully emboldened some monsters
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Feb 29, 2024
    the deluge of industry-wide layoffs is an opportunity for c-suites everywhere to push through unpopular policies. make workers feel precarious & fearful and use that uncertainty to reduce their options. even if you aren’t laid off, the layoffs affect your rights.
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    @meghna.bsky.social
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    Jul 24, 2018
    Twitter banning people for inciting violence against elves while actual Nazis remain untroubled on the platform is peak 2018
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    C. Supreme
    @NicciHowe
    Jul 2, 2018
    I’m back! What happened to Fenris was so awful that Twitter banned me for a day just for describing it. I was forced to delete the tweet to regain access to my account. #DragonAge @BioMarkDarrah @BioWareProblems @bioware @Mike_Laidlaw @davidgaider @PatrickWeekes
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