Matthew Allen

@mtallen.bsky.social

1407 Followers 731 Following

He/Him Worked on a couple of lord of the rings games, and some shooters, tried to do some cool shit at EA, failed Currently `unannounced studio` GM @ Wizards of the Coast with some very talented people Occasionally I make and release music.

A picture of Frank Gehry's Mopop musem in Seattle during the summer.
A screen grab for a Magic the gathering Deck badge from untapped.gg showing a mono black deck playing Ugin, Eye of the Storms and alonside Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong. It shows a 79% winrate over 14 games. (11-3)
A screen shot of the confirmation page for ordering a subscription to the brilliant table top focused magazine Wyrd Science. It says "Thank you for your order!"
The magic card 'ponder' with spider man art from comic book legend Jean Giraud AKA Moebius
a screen shot from a slack conversation First line (posted 2 minutes ago): What other accounts do you want Second line (posted just now) from Matthew Allen: NONE Third line (posted just now) from Matthew Allen: ITS PERFECT A Kermit the frog nodding emoji has been added to this comment by one user
A screen shot from the steam game page for Solium Infernum showing 388 hours played
A photo during Nine Inch Nails Seattle concert during the song Copy of A. The photo is of a stage with large projected copies of the the lead singer trent reznor, which in realtime were delayed by a quarter note and overlayed on top of what was bein played live.
A meme image taken from the comic book The Watchmen, of Dr. Manhattan on alone on Mars. There are 3 panels. Text of panel 1: It is 1990. I am 18. I am going to a Nine Inch Nails concert tonight. Text of Panel 2: It is 1993. I am 22. I am going to a Nine Inch Nails concert tonight. Text of panel 3 It is 2025. My daughter is 22. We are going to a Nine Inch Nails concert together tonight.
Two hex maps for the TTRPG Mythic Bastionland. One is just handdrawn terrain icons with no marup, the other has GM markup for all the cool shit that could happen.
A closed copy of the RPG mythic bastionland sitting on my desk.
A picture of me at 17 years old in 1989 using a very old Apple Mac and one of the first (if not first) versions of Adobe illustrator in 1989. There are floppy disks.
Two black labs who were asleep on a rug and are now looking at the camera
A wall of E3 awards from 2017, for the video game Shadow of War
A screen shot showing a single round of 128 match from this years Wimbledon. Taylor Fritz, 5th ranked player in the world is taking on Mpetshi Paricard, a brilliant young freanch player who beats the living shit out of every ball he hits, at 7:00 AM Pacific time.
An illustration for the Magic The Gathering card Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, by Mark Tedin.
A wikipedia list of the best games of 2014. Including Alien: Isolation, Destiny, Hearthstone, Mario Kart 8, Shovel Knight. Shadow of Mordor is nowhere to be found despite winning all but 1 of that years major Game of The Year awards.
A screen shot of a shitheel of a user already being blocked for me by some random MAGA list.
A red badge shape with a metal as fuck looking goat illustration and the words "GOAT DEPOT" under neath on the badge
A screen shot of a slack conversation From Wes Saulsberry. He posts "It ends with GBC" GBC is a green badge emoji which stands for "green build culture". He then posts a screen shot of our UnrealGameSync interface and a Sea of passing green builds. under that are 52 different emojis from team members soluting the screenshot.
3 Panels from the Watchmen comic book used as a meme format. All 3 panels are of Dr. Manhattan, a naked and fit bald blue man, on the planet mars. In panel one Its a close up of his head. The texts reads "It is 1990. I am 18 years old. I am buying tickets to see Nine Inch Nails." In panel two we pull out and he is walking alonga desolate martian field. The text reads "It is 1995. I am 23 years old. I am buying tickets to see Nine Inch Nails." In panel 3 he is sitting on a martian rock. The text reads "It is 2025. I am 52 years old. I am buying tickets to see Nine Inch Nails."
Val Kilmer in the 1985 movie Real Genius
Me hanging out with Stef Sharp Cosplaying the Eltariel from Shadow of war
The trophy case at Monolith Productions, circa 2020? Showing a bafta, a bunch of dice awards, a GDC award and just generally a bunch of cool stuff
A 3/4 view image of an Elektron machinedrum SPS-1 mk2 uw+ on a white background. Also known as my favorite synthesizer of all time, on a white background.
A screenshot of a large blue exercise (yoga) ball
A screen shot of 8 likes on mark's post. At this time he has not posted any music for these likes.
A black and white image which states: Get to know my music taste, for every like i will post one song i love
A small black dog with a funny haircut
An American black lab looking at the camera while lounging on a chair.
A screenshot of the realtime playlist for the Seattle radio station KEXP, showing an Autechre track from Confield, "Sim Gishel", playing at 3:04 pm. The track is 7 minutes of broken beats and very weird polyrhythms. The DJ after playing it mentioned that he "Hoped he didnt loose to many people in that set"
A picture of me wearing my Roland 808 shirt
A screenshot of the "Blocked Post" UI from bluesky
a video still from the musical collaboration between BABYMETAL and ElectricCallboy.
The fate card "Gate Wraith" from the game Arcs. Text reads GATE WRAITH find the way ... Reunite ... Make whole ... --- Another Path to Power --- Collapse gates to create Passages into the central area of the map, the Twisted Passage, and then Control it. You may abandon your flagship to replenish your fleet. The Twisted Passage is a space-time anomaly that connects the map in new, strange ways and brings ships back from the dead. Complexity: ***
A picture of the board game a Arcs by Leder games
The band Red Fang on stage in Seattle
A picture of an unopened copy or the boardgame Arcs along with the miniature pack, leaders and lore card deck, and the GIANT campaign version of the game in a very large box.
A screen shot of an email subject line that says "Your Arcs order has shipped"
A picture of the board game Sidereal Confluence box, still in shrink wrap.
The album cover for New Order's Power Corruption and Lines.
The cover to the comic New Mutants #19 which introduced the Demon Bear.
screen grab from a team fight tactics tool that examines your win and loss streaks. Text reads: "Has a 69% chance to place bottom 4 again after placing bottom 4"
A screen shot of my blue sky feed just showing me the same awesome post from Captain Sulu, over and over again.
A medium sized black lab curled up in a Chihuahua sized nap ball. Also side eye.
A screen capture of the lyrics from the Nine Inch Nails song Piggy, that say "Nothing can stop me now, 'cause I dont care anymore'"
Waiting in Queue Current Position: 4280 Approximate wait time: 1m
The cover of the album Daydream Nation from Sonic Youth
You can't be demoted from this tier.
A card image from the game Old King's Crown.
A screenshot of invites with what looks like AI generated names attached
Some classic jungle
The same goofy ass Chihuahua looking contemplative in the sun
A goofy ass Chihuahua on it's back looking at the camera
An older female Chihuahua who looks like a god damn lemur.
A screenshot of the album "In on the Kill Taker" by Fugazi.
4 Invite codes available.
A picture of Embasa brand chipotle peppers in Adobo sauce
A perforce changelist named "HERESY"
Lucille Bluth: "I mean its one Flowchart, Cat, how complicated could it get?"
This puppy sleeps through bad documentation takes.