Skin Deep ($11.99) - an immersive FPS, to the degree of 'sneezing can alert guards'. you're the 'insurance policy' on a starship, and the means of protecting it against pirates is wildly inventive (and goofy as hell). a fantastic comedy stealth sandbox. store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Skin Deep is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale. If you want to see a thread of bizarre, unexpected tricks and Gamer Shit you can do with the game's immersive sim mechanics, check out this thread I posted last year: store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Skin Deep is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale. If you want to see a thread of bizarre, unexpected tricks and Gamer Shit you can do with the game's immersive sim mechanics, check out this thread I posted last year: store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

New blog post: a long one going over my approach to running story breaking sessions with video game writing teams. azhdarchid.com/how-to-run-a...

For your perusal: Skin Deep is 40% off for the next two weeks and it contains what I believe to be some of my finest work store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Skin Deep's a gem. An immersive sim that heard everyone's fears about being violent, and solved it by making the bad guys immortal cartoon mooks who will probably hurt themselves MORE if you don't kick their asses for them. Also the writing is fantastic and funny. Some Venture Brothers notes to it.

New blog post (and sliding into email subscribers' inboxes too, I have not forgotten about you). About "that talk" at Narrascope; the application of choice mechanics in games; trying to rescue some context. azhdarchid.com/you-must-fre...

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

Figured I would make this clear - my "main" gig is now Blendo Games, where I'm handling both narrative and production. I've updated most of my public pages to indicate that Blendo is my "day job"! But my time at Blendo varies between full and part time. I'm still available for freelance thru 2027.

Excited to announce our friends at @kleientertainment.bsky.social will be co-stewards of these Blendo titles: Atom Zombie Smasher, Thirty Flights of Loving, Quadrilateral Cowboy We're part of Klei Fest 2026 -- check it out! klei.gg/KleiFest2026

@jesawyer.bsky.social I'm the one who told you about the very strange bike ride yesterday... I have a link to the next one now, if you haven't yet located it yourself. It is my favorite ride of the year and I think the best one anyone can do in LA

Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Wav Tool For browsing/searching through all of your audio assets. Loads: wav ogg mp3 flac opus This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep development. Free 👉Download blendogames.itch.io/blendo-wav-t... 👉Source code github.com/blendogames/...

Get it with The Banished Vault for a nice bundle discount! store.steampowered.com/bundle/68748...

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

After years away I have returned to writing about video games with a piece for Remap about the less immediately obvious problems with DLSS 5

Hey yall - unfortunately the rest of the very, very talented wanderstop team was laid off today and the studio shuttered. I'm no longer in need of work, but please, hire these peeps in the thread below! They're all absurdly good at what they do.

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6! Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future. PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6! s.team/a/3350750

It's the Spring Sale on Steam! Demonschool is 20% off!!! You should please buy it if you have not. It's no exaggeration to say the more people buy the game, the more we'll be able to do with it in the future. So tell your friends as well! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

Huge thank you to Inkle for putting together this massive book!!! I wrote an essay about how your game is going to need *end to end* editorial late in dev and it's completely ordinary for it to be an unshippable mess until that happens

I will be at GDC. Get in touch if you'd like to hang out, or if you'd like to give me two million dollars. Either is fine

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday! Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced. … AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

Let Me Ruin Players' Lives For You

I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams. brunodias.dev/bio

For more on this, vide Michet 2024 blog.lauramichet.com/why-you-shou...

Contacted my reps to tell them the only people I'm voting for or donating to in the next election are ICE abolitionists and people who prosecute and cage ICE goons

It's Atom Zombie Smasher's 15th anniversary! 🎉 To celebrate, we: 1. MADE A BLENDO GAMES MERCH STORE Store is live and open for orders! Shirts! Stickers! blendogames-shop.fourthwall.com 2. UPDATED THE DANG GAME Various additions, improvements, and fixes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/550...

Pathologic 3 is out!!! I did localization editing on it, with several of my friends. We polished the English language game text. If you've ever been interested in Pathologic, you can start with this one - no need to play 2 first. (But you should play both!!!) store.steampowered.com/app/3199650/...

Additionally, Skin Deep got IGF Honorable Mentions in: - Excellence in Audio - Seumas McNally Grand Prize Wow! The Skin Deep music was by Priscilla Snow @ghoulnoise.com and the soundtrack is available here: ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com/album/skin-d... The folks who made Skin Deep happen were INCREDIBLE

Skin Deep is nominated for the IGF EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN award! I'm so proud of what we made. Skin Deep's designers: - Suzanne Will @binarypartitioned.space - Tynan Wales - Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social Skin Deep credits: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre... IGF noms: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

😌 www.polygon.com/pathologic-3...

just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away

did you know? did you know? pc gamer's immersive sim of the year is on sale until the 6th of january and it is my wholly unbiased opinion that you should play it store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

If you use generative AI to "explore ideas" you are mentally weaker than even the smallest child. If you feel that you need generative AI to "structure your thoughts" you lack the confidence of an 8 year old. If you feel shame about your diminished inner world, you should. You're bad at daydreaming

Skin Deep ✨ BEST IMMERSIVE SIM OF THE YEAR ✨ Thanks PC Gamer! 👉Get it! store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S... 👉Skin Deep was made by insanely talented crew of folks; this game only exists because of them: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre...

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

If I ever get to a point where I'm constantly relitigating the same sophomoric philosophical questions that obsessed and animated me in my early career, yelling into the void as the world moves on, birthing countless new delights which I am simply too withered to enjoy... just drop an anvil on me

Wrote briefly about my work on Young Suns on my blog (where I have posted every day for over a year) blog.lauramichet.com/i-wrote-for-...

I did some contract writing on this game! Got to write a handful of extremely weird and cute characters. You should check it out!!!

Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg

Just realizing I COMPLETELY forgot to post about this on Bluesky - Possessors came out this Tuesday, and I wrote for the game! It's been great to see people speaking positively about our story. I wrote about it here: blog.lauramichet.com/possessors-h...

Skin Deep (Blendo Games, 2025)

I've played an early build and this was very fun!! Excited to check out the final version. Congrats to Bruno for the tremendous effort of getting this whole thing put together and polished!!

The layoffs have come for me and time at Heart Machine will be wrapping up at the end of the month. If you're looking for a Technical Artist with experience in Houdini, Unreal, Unity, Python, VEX and C++, lets chat. 🫡 (portfolio updates incoming) randireynolds.artstation.com

My time at Heart Machine has sadly come to a rather abrupt end. I was there for almost 6 years, & had been working on Breaker since summer 2020. It was a pleasure working with them! Now, a new chapter begins.

After 7.5 years, my time making music & sound at @heartmachine.bsky.social is ending w/ the recent layoffs. I'd love to keep pushing boundaries -- please reach out if you think I can help solve your audio problems, especially if you're doing something artistically wild. RTs appreciated 🙏

The Terrible Layoff Beast has come for me and I no longer work for Heart Machine. It was a good team, I'm sad I won't get to work with them anymore. If you're looking for a game designer, I'm available for full time gigs and consulting. I'm pretty OK at it. I'll have more info to share in a bit.

I playtested an early build of this and it rules

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings