Jeff Tanton 🔜 Gamescom

@jefftanton.bsky.social

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Founder @ Sassy Ghost Ltd Indie dev. Former Studio Creative Director at Mediatonic/Epic - Fall Guys, Murder by Numbers, Foul Play. He/Him

Séamas O'Reilly, an author, (no, me neither) ploughs the same furrow: "Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it," he writes.
Gandalf. He has no memory of this place.
A Terry Pratchett quote from Unseen Academicals: “The thing about football-the important thing about football-is that it is not just about football.”
The logo for the Fall Guy film. It is tall, stacked lettering with a falling guy in the middle of the ‘A’
A protest in parliament square, April 2025. A trans flag flutters against a blue sky and Big Ben.
The title card for the Netflix animated series Carol and the End of the World. A middle-aged woman sits astride a Harley at night on an empty woodland highway. She peers into the middle distance dynamically.
Original Slippy the frog on SNES box cover art. Frog knows the ins and outs of a moshpit.
A Twitter exchange: Jonathan Blow: Sometimes you see huge missed opportunities. Like, I kinda wish Fall Guys had been made by Hitbox Team (makers of Dustforce). Devolver Digital Replying to @Jonathan_Blow Such a missed opportunity. They really blew it.
Mr Burns is excitedly telling a suspicious Barney Gumble that he is riding the bus.
Sonic (the Hedgehog) is in Spring Yard zone and soaring past a brightly lit sign reading "POPE"
A chart describing the general team 'vibe' at key points across development. It is a rollercoaster, and everyone gets really sick at least once.
Marketing shot for cairn, Avaa climbs an overhang against the gorgeous backdrop of a setting sun.
A photo taken from within the London anti-facism demonstration
The fail screen from BBC Micro educational game Granny’s Garden. A witch’s face appears in profile in beautiful/horrifying big blocky EGA pixel art. A banner beneath reads “ha! Now I’ve got you!”
Super Hydlide Genesis/Megadrive box art featuring a knight and a fairy who is definitely legally distinct from Zelda’s fairies okay
A picture of Oslo harbour late afternoon in February. Taken from the Munch gallery.
A scene at a lunch in Manor house. One of the maids drops a tray. The player is invited to steal a key in the resulting kerfuffle.
A pristine Lindt chocolate bear, and one with superficial damage.
A robin perches on a branch like its posing for a million Christmas cards
A tv floats above a body in a green hued room
A picture of Diddy Kong Racing with the multilayer error “Lost All Children”
Pillar endurance with Enkh-Orgil and Adiyasuren
At some point, I suggested we all do the "Ape handshake." Nobody knew what that meant, so we just sat there in silence,
Tom Daley, gold medal Olympian, scrubbing his back with a looter in the shower during the Celebrity Traitors
Nate, the protagonist of the game Baby Steps, takes one more step towards a distant, mist-shrouded mountain
Jim from Baby Steps. Smiling. Unblinking.
A mass of people in Regent Street, marching in opposition to Trump’s state visit to the UK
A view through a wide angle camera lens, it is focused on a round wooden table with an ouija board resting on it. Blood pools on the floor and across a rug in the background. It’s all totally normal and fine.
The 2000 Reading Festival line-up - headliners include Oasis, Pulp, Stereophonics, Muse and Queens of the Stone Age
A posterized image of a suited woman pointing a camera directly at the viewer. Around her, figures pass by each way - paying her no attention.
A screenshot of the old Atar game Mountain King. A pixelated stickman stands in the dark bleak depths of a 2D platforming cavern while a green pixelated spider 3 times his size barrels towards him
A super verbose old Atari print advert “Don’t watch tv tonight. Play it!” where small font copy dominates at least half the page.
My stupid face in a Fall Guys t-shirt on launch day
A sky news banner showing size-mismatched pictures of Corbyn, Sultana, and Starmer.
Snow White with a speech bubble encompassing the quote skeet
Album cover for Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
A blue tiger demon attempts to correct a fallen plant pot
An image from Spotify showing the Final Fantasy 12 track “On the Riverbank”
A discord chat reads: [Unknown/Anon Poster] Ahhh - that's not so good Let me see if I can fix that, it should be an easy fix [Jeff Tanton] (thumbs up) If all else fails, my first plan "hide the wallet in his chest cavity" also seemed to do the job
A duck and two cute ducklings moseying
A post of mine referencing a painted image of Columbo: “My brain immediately conjured a Columbo game in the style of Hotel Dusk and now it won't consider anything else”
What can I say about this week in British politics that hasn't already been said about getting kicked in the head by a horse?
12 songs • 35min 2 songs • 1hr 11min
Trans and LGBTQ+ flags flying during todays protest in parliament square, London
A shot from the Frieren anime. Glass shards flying in front of an anime character’s face - foreshadowing something
Four of many, many, wonderful examples of Fern from Freiren doing a pouty face.
A cherry blossom tree in full bloom on a sunny morning in Greenwich park
A diagram showing how the clamping mechanism on a Trolley reaches beneath the road and just grabs a big cable moving at speed. Yeeting the omnibus out of there. It’s mad stuff and we’ve been focusing on entirely the wrong Trolley Problem.
A portion of a review of Murder By Numbers from a clown anti DEI website : “Not Recommended Contains overtly pro-DEl, subtly anti-white, and subtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features a divorced WOC actress who solves multiple mystery cases with help from her gay friend. - Her ex-husband is white.” ‘Subtly pro lgbtq+ messaging’ has been highlighted