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thomasmahler

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thomasmahler

@thomasmahler

CEO | Creative Director @wickedgame @moongamestudios Designer and Director of Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and No Rest for the Wicked

Vienna, Austria

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Joined June 2008

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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Feb 1
I have to say, I'm just so incredibly grateful these days! 👍 Just a couple of weeks ago we were still preparing everything for No Rest for the Wicked Together's launch and I was already mentally preparing myself for something to go awfully wrong considering that Multiplayer
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
May 7, 2024
To everyone whose been pestering me for years about why we didn't allow Moon Studios to get acquired by a big publisher... That's why. I've lived through the 90s and saw what happened when smaller studios got acquired by EA. Never again 🤣😂
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 19, 2024
I never retweeted anything from Elon before because I’m a game designer, but I very much agree with this statement. The problem with DEI isn’t in its principle, but in the way it’s being implemented. Years before DEI became a thing, we had Quentin Tarantino, a white director,
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Oct 19, 2024
DEI kills art
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 9, 2024
Replying to @alyssa_merc and @xIngenue
Hey Alyssa, You're apparently a journalist from Kotaku - So I'm guessing you haven't worked in actual game development yet. Let me try to explain the thing you posted about, which I'm guessing was from that hitpiece from a few years back. Yes, I'm guilty of what's stated in
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Upending the Tea Table
Upending the Tea Table is a phrase used to describe when someone, usually Shigeru Miyamoto, steps in toward the end of a game's development to suddenly and radically change its direction. This often...
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 13, 2024
I’m still every now and then getting questions on whether we force DEI stuff into the games we’re making, so let me make it clear once and for all: Absolutely Not. I find that entire approach perverted. I’m an artist, I would rather quit than have someone else tell me how we
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 9, 2024
Replying to @alyssa_merc and @xIngenue
I don't know who you are.
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 9, 2024
Replying to @xIngenue
I’m the director behind both Ori games and I don’t know who you are and how you were affiliated with Ori…?
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 9, 2024
Replying to @itsnotfoof @alyssa_merc and @xIngenue
I don't know her and I prefer to be nice to strangers - she's working in the industry, so she ought to know how these processes work and I had a few minutes to spend 👍
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 9, 2024
Replying to @xIngenue
That could explain it👍 I didn't want to cause you any trouble - I just saw you posting that you worked on Ori and I had no idea who you are. Since you're calling people names online, I thought it was important to inform people that you never actually worked for Moon Studios
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
May 14, 2024
I already know I might get myself into trouble once again by posting this, but I just replied to @MauriceWeber42, a German journalist who is affiliated with the German outlet 'Gamestar'. I do think it's especially important these days that we always remind ourselves to try to
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
May 7, 2024
To everyone at @ArkaneStudios and @TangoGameworks who just lost their jobs: @moongamestudios is always looking for rockstar devs that are hungry and passionate and would love to contribute to @wickedgame! Feel free to send your resume to [email protected] If you're
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Nov 2, 2024
I grew up in the 80s - even as a young boy back then, I always thought TV shows were low-effort trash. Because every show back then was trying to be as politically correct as possible. Every show was about happy families, always trying to paint a perfect picture, always being
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Oct 9, 2024
Replying to @BYUPhillySports @alyssa_merc and @xIngenue
I don't always win every argument either, I wish I would 😂
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thomasmahler
@thomasmahler
Jan 25, 2025
I know some people always want me to join the console warring, but I strongly believe that @XboxP3 has the right approach. We decided a few years back not to make @wickedgame under Microsoft because back then we couldn’t have shipped it for PlayStation and Switch and since we
Shinobi602
@shinobi602
Jan 25, 2025
New Xbox Interview with @gamertagradio | Phil Spencer On Xbox first party games: "We love our platform and our hardware but we're not going to put walls up where people can engage with the great games our studios are building(...)our games will show up in more places, no
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