A game designer, producer, and director who had a hand in developing games like System Shock, Terra Nova, and Flight Unlimited, Seamus Blackley is best known as the "father of the Xbox" after proposing and spearheading the creation and design of the Microsoft console's first iteration. Blackley left Microsoft in 2002, but he was recently invited back to Microsoft HQ for a visit by Xbox's new CEO, Asha Sharma.
In a recent series of posts on Bluesky describing the "amazing—and yet very bizarre—experience of going to Xbox HQ as a visitor," Blackley shared the most important thing he did during his return to the Microsoft fiefdom: Gathering some wild yeast. You know, for bread.
