Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

One issue generally overlooked in the whole screenwriter vs gamewriter, discussion is time. Beyond anything to do with training, ability, style etc is the amount of time screenwriters get to invest in a script. Whilst there are time pressures on any writer, the vast amounts of script that- 1/9

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

🩸ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT🩸 I can now share that I’m the voice behind Nastya in Watcher of Realms! Massive thank you to my wonderful agents at @voicefox.bsky.social for getting me the gig, @soundswilde.bsky.social for being an amazing voice director, and the brilliant team for bringing me on!

🎮 Do we give enough credit to the teams who shape our favourite video game characters? @inel.tv reminds us it’s not just about the voice actor, but the incredible collaboration of writers, animators, and developers. 🎧 Tune into this week’s #ReadyAimFirePodcast! #GamingCommunity #VoiceActors #GameDev

She’s directed the voices behind your favorite games — now she’s joining us LIVE! Join us for a special episode of SkillsHub On Air with guest star Kirsty Gillmore, acclaimed Voice & Performance Director & Casting Director behind titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, Valorant, & Synapse!

We’ve got a BIG one this week… 👑 The amazing Inel Tomlinson is our next guest on the ReadyAimFire podcast! 🎧 Catch the episode dropping soon. #GamesIndustry #VoiceActors #ReadyAimFire @ineluctablequak.bsky.social

#AdvX25 is over halfway sold out after 20 hours, despite more tickets available than ever before! They're flying out fast, especially the one-day tickets, so get yours quick! adventurexpo.org We have also freed up some weekend concession tickets. Please check your eligibility before purchasing!

Hey #ScreenshotSaturday here's a snippet of the epic explosive arcadey action that awaits folks at PAX in just over a week in Rogue Eclipse! Featuring: 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome #pcgaming #gaming Wishlist Here! bit.ly/4bRLumD

US games folks, especially those of us that are of marginalized identities. @baftagames.bsky.social US Breakthrough application deadline has been extended! www.bafta.org/programmes/b...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

‼️ New Mythmatch Trailer ‼️ Mythmatch is a Greek myth anti-capitalist merge game and we've been selected to be part of the #tinyteams2025! 🏹 Challenge the Gods 🏹 Inspire the Mortals 🏹 Rebuild Ithaca. 🐐 Avoid the Goat Poop www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMYB...

Build and nurture the perfect little zen garden retreat🌻 - craft garden dioramas - add hills, rivers & ponds - add a mix of decorations - rake sand patterns - no timer, no stress - just tranquil & meditative creativity The game is called Dream Garden 🪴 by @campfire-studio.bsky.social Links below👇

🚨 NEW DEMO ALERT 🚨 Mythmatch is releasing a new Content Creator Demo for #tinyteam2025 from @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social. If you're a content creator and want to check it out, hop into my DMs! Support games from small teams!!

Vampire Therapist is available at its deepest discount ever for our anniversary! You won't find therapy this cheap anywhere else. Tell your friends... especially the ones who need therapy (which is all of us these days)!

Developing video games in this day and age be like

G’day! Huge congratulations to Dave & the Powerhoof team for the release of The Drifter! It was a joy to do the casting for an Aussie game, the characters are so fun & compelling and the story will keep you hooked. Must-play if you like point n click thrillers! #castingdirector #indiedev

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

The inaugural Performance Track at @developconference.com was a success! Huge thanks to fellow advisory board members @kishhh.bsky.social Randall Ryan @thejaneperry.bsky.social Josh Weeden @soundcuts.bsky.social Tandem & all our speakers! Let’s do it again next year! #castingdirector #director

🚨SUPER RARE SELF-PUBLISHING SUPPORT🚨 We’ve got space to take on a couple more games over the summer 😎 Looking for gamescom outreach? Support announcing or launching your game in the next few weeks? 📧 kris@ futurefriendsgames.com What we do: futurefriends.lol/self-publish... Games we worked on 👇

Call for a voice actor! We’re looking to cast a female actress for our next game. Vocal age 25-35, Northern England accent, preferably Mancunian, incl. Pakistani and Indian Mancunian accents. That’s you? Then send a sample to [email protected], marked “casting call”. Paid gig, ofc <3 RTs!

Thank you too to @soundswilde.bsky.social for being an invaluable peer mentor to me during this Voice Direction / Production adventure! I learned SO MUCH from her 😊

What’s the emotional cost of great storytelling in games—and who protects the actors? 🎭🔊 Voice director @soundswilde.bsky.social opens up about creating safe spaces for vulnerability. #VoiceDirection #KirstyGillmore #Gaming #Actors #Podcast #Performance

It’s here! The @readyaimfire.bsky.social team made me feel so welcome, thank you for inviting me to share my experience as a #voicedirector for games!

🌈 For Disability Pride Month, @nothingwithoutus.bsky.social is running portfolio reviews to help disabled & neurodiverse devs break into games! We’re looking for volunteer reviewers in: 🎨 Character Art 🌍 Environment Art 🎙️ Voice Acting Want to help? DM me! 💌

Six HUGE announcements from @futurefriendsgames.com in the #WholesomeDirect tonight & @womenledgames.com show‬🔥 Inc. TWO brand new titles, published by your best friends (us) Shout if you want to grab a code, sign up or want to know more 🧵 below inc. Steam links & trailers (Plz share) Let's go👇

‼️ New Mythmatch Demo ‼️ We got rejected from all the summer showcases so just dropped our new demo! AND we've created a Steam page for it! store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/... So if you haven't played yet, enjoy this new polished version! And if you enjoyed it before, please leave a review!

Hey #PitchYaGame! Mythmatch is an anti-capitalist merge game about the power of community over authority. ⚡ Challenge the Gods ✨ Inspire the Mortals 🏚️ Rebuild Ithaca 🫂 Find Your Match New Demo on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

The ‘First Class’ update is here! Lots of quality-of-life improvements, polished art and animation, updated and improved puzzle logic, and an overall smoother gameplay experience. At 20% off, there has never been a better time to climb aboard! 🎫 store.steampowered.com/news/app/170...

I am going to be creating a prototype of a new (secret for now) narrative game this year. I need to find two people, both UK-BASED (sorry): a freelance dev and a freelance illustrator. If interested in working with me (and if you have a clearly REAL profile to screen for AI), do DM me.

Jonathan Joss, known for King of the Hill and Parks and Rec also played Robert Rainwater in Cyberpunk 2077. He was a great actor and my heart goes out to his family and partner. May homophobes rot and burn.

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

@developconference.com is coming up & I'm delighted to be a speaker on the Casting panel for the brand-new & very shiny Performance Track 🎤 🎭 🎮 Early Bird passes on sale til June 4, get an extra 10% off with code VPBTJB Register here: developconference.ecreg.uk/reg #ImASpeaker #developconf

Brilliant, that’s all of my future casting briefs for Scottish female characters sorted

Our Kickstarter for Hawthorn is live! Please support our cozy, co-op, sandbox game! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nea... #Kickstarter #Crowdfunding #bootstrapped #passionproject #cozy #rpg #indiegamedev

Almost time for OVC 2025 UK! I’ll be there Sat May 17 doing TWO panels: 2pm Talking all things #MOCAP w @voicefox.bsky.social 3pm You’re Hired! (Or Not): The Real Talk on Casting Tickets www.onevoiceconference.com/one-voice-co... #director #voicedirector #performancedirector #videogame

Please support and share this Kickstarter project so you and I can protect the town of Windermere! Hawthorn the game!! Help us bring VO to the charming characters in this cool new world. 🦉🦦🐭 playhawthorn.bsky.social www.PlayHawthorn.com/crowdfunding #videogame #videogames #startup

My friends (who are also some of my fave game devs) are making an ADORABLE indie game and I get to join the cast of woodland critters! 🐿️🦔🦝🦡🍂🌰🌾http://www.playhawthorn.com/Crowdfunding

Delayed BAFTA Game Awards post! I had a pleasure of being on the jury for Performer in a Leading Role and getting to attend the Nominees party and the awards. Huge congratulations to the #MetaphorReFantazio team & all winners, thanks @baftagames.bsky.social team for making it an amazing time!

Day 2 GDC let’s go

Sometimes my job is wow goosebumps you are the character I’m so proud of the magic we’ve created 😭🔥🤩 and sometimes it’s why does daylight savings start/end on diff days in diff countries I have 7 time zones to schedule across oh no 😭🫠

#VoiceActors: We want to hear your auditions! Love seeing the variety still coming in. All shares are appreciated and welcome! #CastingCall #VA #Ireland

Exciting @developconference.com news! A brand new Performance track aimed at voice actors, performers and narrative teams has been added. The deadline is approaching! Submit your talk here: www.developconference.com/get-involved... #DevelopConf #performance #directing #casting #acting

Meet Keelan, the newest addition to 'The First Descendant' season 2! Thanks to @soundswilde.bsky.social, @winternatters.bsky.social and Nexon for having me onboard for this looter shooter! You can play now, free on PlayStation, Xbox, & PC! #TheFirstDescendant www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jLV...

An Open Letter to Meta www.outmaking.games/meta-open-le...

Helly R, you coward!! Dylan sacrificed seeing his son for you! #lumon #mdr

I had a lot of fun designing the audio for laser hazards in the narrative fps game Luna Abyss store.steampowered.com/app/1933000/... Here's a thread about using FMOD, a spline tool and some creative processing.

Hire Sarah, can confirm she’s amazing at her job! #gameaudio

I talked to the BBC about some of the challenges we're up against as game developers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy Black Friday! Here are some awesome indie video games that you should buy for your friends, family, and enemies www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...