game designer
Joined June 2009
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26 Sep 2025
We made a new game. It's called Q-UP. It's a coin flipping eSport. There's a free demo available! store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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Frank Lantz retweeted
Jun 12
and the game comes out next week
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Jun 12
This is the American history they refuse to teach children in schools.
Jun 11
this is from the James Garfield level in my game. you play as James Garfield in it. if you use a harpoon gun on a sorcerer, it will yank them toward you
goblinAmerica comes out June 17.
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Frank Lantz retweeted
May 14
open-sourcing a 3D gen toolkit for Claude Code
input image → environment, meshes, physics, lighting, & audio
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We updated the Universal Paperclips merch store and added some hot new items. How do I buy ad space on moltbook? universal-paperclips-shop.fo…
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20 Dec 2025
Announcing The Hacker Update. A brand-new hero with their own unique way of playing Q-UP. Help the Hacker escape the game before being deleted by QA! Steal skills from the other heroes!! Misspell common English words!!!
Also: Q-UP IS ON SALE FOR 25% OFF
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17 Nov 2025
I wonder if they take write-ins...
17 Nov 2025
Your nominees for Best Esports Game at #TheGameAwards:
🏆 Counter-Strike 2
🏆 DOTA 2
🏆 League of Legends
🏆 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
🏆 Valorant
🗳️ Vote Now: bit.ly/tgavote
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8 Nov 2025
q up?
5 Nov 2025
Can insights from Quantum Physics re-invent how we think about history?
Coming soon from Slavoj Žižek 👉 Quantum History
In this work, Slavoj Žižek traces a path from the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality.
Pre-order: bit.ly/47qNuTh
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Frank Lantz retweeted
7 Nov 2025
If anyone else is playing Q-UP, please add me on Steam: mitchellfchan
Also, you should be playing Q-UP
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5 Nov 2025
The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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Frank Lantz retweeted
30 Sep 2025
I have played Q-UP and it is the future of gaming.
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The most important cultural/aesthetic conversation that can happen within contemporary art is the interplay between the Felt Protocol described in @JonAskonas “New Control Society” and @flantz’ description of games as “the art form of instrumental reason” in The Beauty of Games.
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27 Jan 2025
Fractal Block World, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Games Again franklantz.substack.com/p/fr…
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Frank Lantz retweeted
24 Jan 2025
Over in the group chat someone pointed ChatGPT Operator at the Paperclip game 🤣
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Frank Lantz retweeted
11 Jan 2025
Around 1989, I had videotaped some kids playing a coin-op video game—one actually playing, and two or three others cheering and kibbitzing. At one point, one of them said "Yikes!"
I showed the tape at the Xerox Parc Interaction Analysis Lab group meeting, ->
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Frank Lantz retweeted
17 Dec 2024
AI has mastered chess, poker & Go. So why do we keep playing? Frank Lantz (@flantz) is a game designer who's spent his career thinking about how technology is changing the nature of games — & what we can learn about ourselves when we sit down to play them. Listen to his conversation w/@taylor_owen here:
tgam.ca/Lantz
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