Matthew Gallant

@gangles.bsky.social

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Game Director at Naughty Dog • Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet • Worked on The Last of Us Part I & II, Uncharted 4 • Accessibility tinkerer • ⚜️QC🇨🇦CA http://gangles.ca/

A demon scans the horizon. Text bubble: "Why are we demons who belong in the world of darkness and dankness cursed to live in this world of violent sun...?"
Screenshot of Silksong. White text on a black background: "Game completion, percentage 100%, time 63h 48m 17s"
A screenshot of the UFO game selection screen, sorted by "most played". The top three are Party House, Velgress, and Paint Chase.
Book covers: The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, Glad We Met by Steven Rogelberg, Situational Awareness by Leopold Aschenbrenner, Outer Order Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin, The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth, Quiet by Susan Cain, Play Nice by Jason Schreier, The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant, Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō, Ravelstein by Saul Bellow, The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre, Gilgamesh by David Ferry, How a Game Lives by Jacob Geller
Screenshot of Parasite Eve. A woman in a black dress aims a pistol at a clown in a dressing room. Dialogue caption: “Man: Ahhhh! Here! Take it! Take everything! It’s all on the counter!”
Screenshot from Silksong, Hornet standing next to a dead and disintegrating boss (The Last Judge).
Screenshot of Metal Garden. FPS view: a player with a sniper rifle overlooks a massive grey dam extending into the horizon and getting lost in the fog. Above them the sky is grey and metallic.
A screenshot from Blue Prince. Text on screen: "Select a room to draft", with options "Closet", "Lavatory", "Observatory". The first two rooms fail to connect to the final Antechamber, the third option costs a gem and the player doesn't have one.
iOS app icons for various SEGA games: Sonic, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage
Screenshot of a Wikipedia footnote: “Informational notes: (a) The funicular was later destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944.”
Screenshot from the Skin Deep demo. A hatch on a spaceship labelled "DEEP FREEZE INSURANCE COMMANDO / UNTHAW IN CASE OF EMERGENCY".
Screenshot of Metaphor: ReFantazio. Three characters in a city at night. Grius says: "There's a hostelry tucked at the back of Sunshade Row: the Hushed Honeybee Inn. We'll talk details once we're there."
Book covers aligned in rows and columns: Liftoff: Couch to Barbell, Future Home of the Living God, All Joy And No Fun, Saving Time, Technofeudalism Uncivilisation, Shoal of Time, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Valuable Humans in Transit, Feel Good Productivity Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again, Piransei, 101 Things I Learned in Product Design School, Silent Hill 2, The Wager The Art of Failure, Hell Yeah or No, ADHD 2.0, The Voltage Effect, Dominion
Screenshot of The Game Awards website. "Innovation in Accessibility: Recognizing software and/or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience." The nominees are Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Diablo IV, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and Star Wars Outlaws.
Screenshot of PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Subtitled dialogue of Richter shouting: "Kankichiro Iwai!" Three other characters react with exagerrated horrified / shocked looks.
Screenshot of Balatro. The joker card Pareidolia is hovered, showing the text: "All cards are considered face cards". The boss blind is The Mark: "All face cards are drawn face down."
Screenshot of Balatro. UI box says "YOU WIN!" with various performance stats on the run.
Screenshot of FF7 Rebirth. Close up of a mushroom with UI overlay explaining how to tug and pluck the mushroom’s sides in order.
Octopath Traveler 2 screenshot. Two characters inspect a crime scene in a church. A text box for Temenos says: “Yes, yes… I do believe I have it figured, Crick.”
Octopath Traveller 2 screenshot. The party of eight faces a giant circular window, backlit by the rising sun of dawn.
LEC broadcast graphic. Team Rogue (spooky hood logo) versus Team Heretics (spooky hood logo).
Quoted footnote: “On this topic, the sociologist Richard Seymour has called social media a “chronophage,” something that “eats time.””
Book covers laid out in rows and columns: The Book of Tea, Wabi-Sabi, Final Fantasy V, How to Keep House Without Drowning, The Beauty of Games No Country for Old Men, Laudate Deum, Master & Commander, The Way of Chuang Tzu, The City & The City Baldur's Gate II, A Distant Mirror, The Climate Book, Realigners, The Creative Gene Good-Bye To All That, In The Shadow of the Sword, A Prayer For The Crown-Shy, 1919, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire A Psalm For The Wild-Built, Disrupting The Game, DARE, Count Belisarius, Of Boys & Men Peace Is Every Step, The Power of Now, Digital Games After Climate Change, The Last Lecture, The Happiest Kids in the World
The cast of Super Mario RPG takes a bow on stage.
Matthew behind the scenes with two actors portraying Ellie.
Screenshot of Sea of Stars. A ponytailed character named Garl says: “On descend tu d’abord? Y’a yinque un chemin à partir d’icitte anyway!”
A sketch of the main character of Hi-Fi RUSH, a young man in jeans and sneakers with a long red scarf, posed midair with a scrap-metal melee weapon.