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Dave Kosak

@thefargo.bsky.social

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Writer, game designer, and creative-at-large. Game development consultant. Previous roles: Co-founder of GameSpy, Narrative and Quest Lead for World of Warcraft and Hearthstone at Blizzard entertainment.

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Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello BSky! I'm a #GameDev refugee from the Ex-bird site. You might be familiar with my previous work on World of Warcraft or Hearthstone. I'm most proud of the Mists of Pandaria expansion and development of the Hearthstone Dungeon Run. I also co-founded GameSpy - anyone else that old? :)

Promotional art for the game "Fabledom:" A charming scene where a prince is down on one knee offering a bouquet of flowers to a princess who is on horseback. A stylized castle is in the background, along with some ... flying pigs? It's a cute game you should play it!

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · 23h

Hail to the King, baby.

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This is hypnotic!

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If you listen to the full track she sings, “Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya…” at some point. (I just learned this last year and had the same reaction!)

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One time I was having a spicy coffee with Howard Schultz and I said, “hey man you should add some pumpkin to this. You know, for Fall.”

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Yes.

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If you’ve never played Big Pharma, it is SUPERB. My favorite of this genre. It makes great use of tight space.

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“They vibe odd” is exactly it!

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The first rule of FightApp is: we don’t talk about FightApp.

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My local museum had Susannah Clarke’s notes and hand-drawn Piranesi maps for a little while! It was super cool.

Hand-drawn Piranesi map by Susannah Clarke.

Museum exhibit of the original Piranesi manuscript by Susannah Clarke.

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For a small monthly subscription fee a machine can lose your mind for you.

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · 4d

HAD to!

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He’s channeling some real Carl Sagan vibes with this one!

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · 16d

Awwww look they gave him a tunnel!

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · 21d

It’s like… so important, and takes SO much time, and when it works perfectly it’s basically invisible to players. 🥹

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · 28d

“We HAVE to take away the jack, and obsolete all your headphones, to make your phone thinner.”

“… what’s this bump on the end of my phone?”

“That’s for your camera. We made it thicker for your camera.”

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Sep 18

Sims is always a Jenga game of mods until it crashes. “What?! Why now?! The alien was about to visit my vampire’s toilet store!”

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Sep 15

Wooooohooo!! 🙌🏼

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thanks for all the photos!

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yesterday morning I slept in past my cat’s breakfast time, so… he scruffed me! He firmly bit the back of my neck, dug his paws into the bed, and … pulled!

The sheer chutzpah of this ten-pound beast trying to bodily haul a 160-pound human out of bed by the neck to get his breakfast! 🤣😼

Extreme close-up of a very fluffy and opinionated Birman cat with a pink nose.

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Sep 14

I’m curious now too! Goodfellas doesn’t have a literal record scratch, but it’s my favorite time it was used in action. “Ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted to be a gangster…”

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Sep 13

Those Altairs in the right look mint!

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Sep 8

These are great questions, and we still hadn’t answered them back when I was on the team. We were leaving the “Earth Mother” pretty nebulous at the time!

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Aug 30

👀 👀 👀

Dave Kosak @thefargo.bsky.social · Aug 29

A love story in three words. There’s love, there’s lust, there’s anger, forgiveness, tenderness, it’s all there.