Sam Cast
@samcast.games
Creative/Game Director, Lead Writer and Head Inspector at The Bureau of Fantastical & Arcane Affairs @hipflask.games
Writer, Game Designer, and enjoyer of video games!
Writer, Game Designer, and enjoyer of video games!
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Sam Cast
@samcast.games
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Worked my ass off on this, I promise it's a fun watch!
Excellent Wisdom from Naj as always!
If you attended or plan to watch my AdventureX talk on positioning, here's a thread with some supplementary thoughts:
You can easily use this framework to position yourself. Like I said in the talk, if you don't take control, you will be positioned whether you like it or not...
You can easily use this framework to position yourself. Like I said in the talk, if you don't take control, you will be positioned whether you like it or not...
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Excellent Wisdom from Naj as always!
Kindness is free, empathy is free, gratefulness is free. But just because they are free, doesn't make them easy. The present if beautiful, but it can be hard to pay attention to sometimes.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Kindness is free, empathy is free, gratefulness is free. But just because they are free, doesn't make them easy. The present if beautiful, but it can be hard to pay attention to sometimes.
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I will never EVER in a million years get over hearing a voice actor read things I wrote. Holy shit.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I will never EVER in a million years get over hearing a voice actor read things I wrote. Holy shit.
Worked my ass off on this, I promise it's a fun watch!
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Worked my ass off on this, I promise it's a fun watch!
reposting here :)
Check out the brand new trailer for our game: The Bureau of Fantastical and Arcane Affairs🐉
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
reposting here :)
It's a shame that the games industry at large does relatively little to support and celebrate junior and early career talent. I feel like future class, while imperfect, was one of the few high profile things that shined a light on a part of games that is often left in the dark.
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's a shame that the games industry at large does relatively little to support and celebrate junior and early career talent. I feel like future class, while imperfect, was one of the few high profile things that shined a light on a part of games that is often left in the dark.
Played a few hours of RV there yet. It's fun, but honestly, I feel like the further you get, the more cracks in the gameplay loop show the sort of simple sandbox puzzles become more about levers and switches. Of course, for $7 it doesn't matter lol.
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Played a few hours of RV there yet. It's fun, but honestly, I feel like the further you get, the more cracks in the gameplay loop show the sort of simple sandbox puzzles become more about levers and switches. Of course, for $7 it doesn't matter lol.
Shoulda called it the war of art.
November 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Shoulda called it the war of art.
Went to the Witcher concert tonight. I hope that one day I can make a game that has the impact on people that those games had on me.
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Went to the Witcher concert tonight. I hope that one day I can make a game that has the impact on people that those games had on me.
Minimalist design is bullshit.
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Minimalist design is bullshit.
New blog on Tech Writing: samcast.games/blog/on-tech...
On Technical Writing: From the Desk of the Bureau #1 — Sam Cast
A blurb about my lessons working on BFAA, specifically in regard to the art of tech writing
samcast.games
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New blog on Tech Writing: samcast.games/blog/on-tech...
Enough strawmen on linkedin to build the first pigs house.
September 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Enough strawmen on linkedin to build the first pigs house.
The coolest thing about game dev so far is just how much I learn. It feels like everyday I pick up something new or get to see something in a new light. I love it.
September 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The coolest thing about game dev so far is just how much I learn. It feels like everyday I pick up something new or get to see something in a new light. I love it.
Have been banging my head against a game writing problem for 3 full days, and finally cracked through today. Top 10 feeling.
September 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Have been banging my head against a game writing problem for 3 full days, and finally cracked through today. Top 10 feeling.
Accordingly to their press release, the conference previously known as GDC is going to drop prices significantly this year and drop the summits and core concept. That seems like significantly bigger news than the rebrand.
September 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Accordingly to their press release, the conference previously known as GDC is going to drop prices significantly this year and drop the summits and core concept. That seems like significantly bigger news than the rebrand.
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Things have been slow on our marketing front, but I think this next trailer is really something fun, can't wait to show it to y'all.
September 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Things have been slow on our marketing front, but I think this next trailer is really something fun, can't wait to show it to y'all.
It is NEVER your responsibility to tell people to give up on their dreams.
September 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It is NEVER your responsibility to tell people to give up on their dreams.
Going to start re-reading: A Playful Production Process, my favorite book about game design. I'll maybe start posting some of my key takeaways in a thread here, mostly just to keep myself accountable. Or maybe I won't, who knows.
September 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Going to start re-reading: A Playful Production Process, my favorite book about game design. I'll maybe start posting some of my key takeaways in a thread here, mostly just to keep myself accountable. Or maybe I won't, who knows.
It's very interesting to me that games that struggled to gain significant traction commercially will still sometimes have a large impact on the medium and the Dev's that make games. 1/X
August 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's very interesting to me that games that struggled to gain significant traction commercially will still sometimes have a large impact on the medium and the Dev's that make games. 1/X
Small bit of early grey-boxing today
August 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Small bit of early grey-boxing today
The cruel reality of life is that one day 20 years from now you will wake up and remember more of what you didn't do rather than what you did.
August 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The cruel reality of life is that one day 20 years from now you will wake up and remember more of what you didn't do rather than what you did.
Convinced people only put desert levels in their games because they feel obligated to.
July 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Convinced people only put desert levels in their games because they feel obligated to.
June 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Gonna get a baggy sweater and stare out a high-rise window like I just got cheated on in an early 2000s R&B video.
June 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Gonna get a baggy sweater and stare out a high-rise window like I just got cheated on in an early 2000s R&B video.