Just Drew It!

feeding the entire world economy into a woodchipper to create super mario but one of his feet looks weird

Congratulations to my friend @joeytainment.bsky.social and my wife @amandameadows.bsky.social on this hilarious and brilliant new book! Proud of you both. 💖

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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Please…. I’m begging you… if your game has a dialogue choice… and all the answers say the same thing in a different way…. You can just remove the dialogue choice……

A holiday gift from my studio! 🤖💖

We gather here at PEACOCK SQUARE, 2-4 PM PT TODAY to celebrate the life of a once vibrant game industry, killed far too soon by greedy bosses. Wear your mourning fit, and join us for a candlelight vigil in front of The Game Awards, because THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD! actionnetwork.org/events/the-i...

This is the ultimate form of Jack Welch economics. Instead of maintaining employees and quality to build reputation and value, you just keep exanding and building stock value while removing your core like a Jenga tower til you collapse

The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed! Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn

His children will go without Switch 2's this Christmas

POW is a wonderful animated short by @joeytainment.bsky.social about a Native American boy who is brought to a powwow by his family, but all he wants to do there is charge his game console. You have a favorite Christmas special. Make POW your yearly Thanksgiving watch. youtu.be/dOTuVqdwu8Y

Take a Fun Audit! It’s more fun than it sounds!

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

Join us! Let's make the game industry better for workers.

Continue to awaken dateable objects.

game developers must realize our only competition is real human relationships. if we can continue to erode those, our market dominance is assured

I’m alive! And I hate it!!!

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point

Most of my job is writing dialogue for murderous robots.

I'm proud to be a union game developer and I got to click a little box that says as much.

‘Special thanks’ is for people’s dogs and cats. Not for people who spent five years of their lives actively developing a videogame for you

I look forward to every issue of ChoiceBeat. Not a lot of publications are talking about HyperCard in 2025!

Narrative Design sometimes... when you are organizing files, localization work, prepping lines and barks for voice actors.

Heeyyyy I'm the trailer narrator for season three of Worst Movies Ever Played: www.faustiannonsense.com/worstmoviese... Thanks to @geoffreygolden.bsky.social !

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

Maddie won.

My friend @geoffreygolden.bsky.social made a game that's this EXACT mood. geoffreygolden.itch.io/fymp

Hi again! Are you a studio or individual looking to hire Narrative talent for your games project? Good news! This great big Starter Pack below is brimming with Game Writers & Narrative Designers who are looking for work right now! I hope it helps you find somebody really special 🥰💛

The three types of game dev job listings

The president’s latest public appearance has drawn concern over his health due to his body rapidly flashing red. paletteswap.site/different-co...

Yeah, no. I'm a contractor, I write for games, and sometimes that means writing 100% of a game's text. I'm a valuable part of the team! Contractors aren't just "support", they deserve to be credited (and treated) better than this

It's Friday, which means a new installment of Equip Story from @geoffreygolden.bsky.social! (My favorite post is still his discussion of the Muppets at Disney) www.equipstory.com/muppet-funer...

Very excited about my Gen Con haul! I bought solo TTRPGs, card games, a board game, an autographed Magic the Gathering card and finger puppet with hand rods!

Settling in at Gen Con.

I got to concept, co-design, and write a dynamic dialogue system with thousands of lines of commentary, so the robot announcers can make fun of you when you get slaughtered right after acquiring a power-up!

Itch's new content policy is: 1. We can't tell you what violates the rules. 2. If you violate the rules, we take all your money. Not just the money from that work, ALL your money from EVERYTHING you've ever made. I don't care how much of a smol bean Itch is, this is not a viable platform.

This please. It doesn't have to be elaborate, just hearing "I like this" or "this is so cute" really is nice and makes my day! I don't know how or why people started thinking it was annoying or insincere to give compliments but it's not. Artists like knowing if people resonate with things we make.

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"How lovely, then, for noobs and old-timers alike to have this visual chronicle sorting out its sometimes-chaotic evolution, from an author, illustrator and translator whose love for the medium — and nostalgia for its sundry eras — shines through virtually every panel." -Colin Dwyer, @npr.org

the muppets take the means of production

I’m grateful to have contributed to such a fantastic game. Congratulations, @shing.bsky.social! 🎉 🐦

Mass layoffs affecting thousands of workers. Cancelled development cycles sweeping years of hard work under the rug. We have seen time and again how little the worker matters to corporate leadership. 🪶 Sign & share the first step for change: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...