I just signed a contract to start work in 2 weeks 🎉🎉🎉 Its been almost 8 months since I was made redundant, there's been 59 jobs applications, 36 interviews, 3 different offers and *finally* I get to do Brand work on games again 💖 And I'm moving to Brighton! AND it's my Birthday this week!!!

It turns out doing pickleback shots at 3am, when you are very much not 22, will almost kill you. I have never been this hungover.

At the point of 'using up food before a holiday' that I'm having blue cheese, dates, and vegan hotdog sausages for breakfast ✌️

I just had a delightful interview with some bloody lovely people and now I get to go and walk the dog with the warm and fuzzies having chatted with awesome people about creative fun stuff 💖

I just got rejected for a job I was really excited about and I now have 2 hours to get myself together before my next interview for another role that initially rejected my application but has now changed their mind 5 months since redundancy and counting 🫠🫠🫠

Luke warm take but I just finished Clair Obscur and it was fucking fantastic

Why does Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a film I put on as a JOKE, have an absolutely stacked cast?? Also, I would unironically LOVE to play an RDR2 dlc where you hunt down Vampire Bandits. It's the only logical follow-up to Undead Nightmare.

Interviews were actually lovely today 💖

The only reason I was able to get a job at a studio was because it was during COVID and relocation wasn't mandatory. When you don't have the safety net of asking parents for money it makes you risk averse. You are acutely aware of what resource scarcity is - because you probably lived it

The previous tenants moved out of next door and I watched them spend 3 full days cleaning that place from top to bottom. Today I was woken up by builders drilling off all the plaster inside the house at 7am Landlords can be such scumbags I swear.

I've walked the dog (v early to avoid the sun) painted fences, done a food shop and showered NOW I can sit and enjoy SGDQ and play a bit of Clair Obscur and have an iced coffee as a little treat

*me dripping in sweat after walking the dog for an hour in the heat* Ooh yeah I'd love a cup of tea

Waiting for my car service and just heard a woman say that electric cars aren't safe for women with no further explanation COME BACK I HAVE QUESTIONS

Think I might buy myself a Switch 2 when I finally land a job As a little treat

You could have given me millions of guesses and a million years I would never have predicted the ending to 28 Years Later Mind. Blown.

I'm sure Day of the Devs is going to knock it out of the park especially in comparison to whatever the fuck that was Geoff But it's past my bedtime.

Wondering about the amount of money Epic shelled out just for SGF Seems like they are still trying to make the Epic Games Store a thing 🤷‍♀️

Someone put the tiniest obstacle in the way of me going to the gym today so now I'm sat in my PJs trying to work out how to stop being a vampire in Oblivion ✌️

I'm not sure how my airport delay has resulted in me buying tickets to see all three LOTR films in concert at the Royal Albert Hall next year but I'm not mad about it

Every year I'm the one sending all these reminder posts out. And every year I realise at the last minute that I haven't actually applied yet. Get your applications in folks 💖

Finished off South of Midnight this morning and what a beaut of a game. The visuals, story and MUSIC was stunning. The best advice I saw was kick the difficult down low so you can get through the combat as quick as possible and just enjoy the story and world 💖

We've smashed through the first season of FROM this week. It's like horror Lost (and not just because Harold Perrineau is in it) Excellent levels of weird creepiness and having no idea what is going on!

⚔️ OBLIVION ⚔️

Finally well enough to post about how BLOODY COOL it was to go to the @baftagames.bsky.social awards last week 💖

I'm finally starting to feel a bit better after being ill since WEDNESDAY (unacceptable) So obviously it's time to try Blue Prince

Me leaving my very unwell partner and needy dog to hop on a train to London to have fun with games pals 👋

So incredibly excited to be going to the @baftagames.bsky.social awards tonight with the amazing @limitbreak.co.uk crew 💖 If anyone needs any extra sparkle tonight my dress *sheds* glitter so just come and give me a hug (consentually)

I have met some of the *best* people because of this awesome scheme so you should come and be a mentor, or a mentee, or both 💖💖💖

Would like to report that in the year of our lord 2025 I have just paid for something using my phone for the first time 🎉

OK so I've been made redundant. I'm officially unemployed. What do I do now??

Limit Break is BACK FOR 2025 BABY 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Indiana Jones was such a good time. It felt like one of the films and the fact that I can pick up guns and do not want to shoot them because bashing Nazi's over the head with them is SO MUCH MORE FUN 👌 v. good fascist bashing simulator

@baftagames.bsky.social from home 💖💖

The Sims and it's lucky there was a word limit on the poll because I could have waxed lyrical about it for aaaaaaages

I'm booting up my old gaming laptop because I'm going to have to give my work one back soon, and you can tell I was given the emails-and-powerpoint-only potato-laptop at work because this old ROG boy is LIGHTNING fact in comparison

Aaaaah now the F1 season is back I must perform the time honoured tradition of refusing to pay stupid amounts for Sky Sports and therefore ignoring my phone until Channel 4 deign to show the highlights

I DID THE THING The veil is guarded Really stoked to play literally anything else this weekend 😂

Happy round up the women in the office for a social media photo day to all who celebrate

You can tell how fantastic Monolith's nemesis system was because I am *still mad* at Ortha the Puny. I played that game a decade ago and I still remember the name of that sodding orc. That randomly generated NPC has had more impact on me than so many brilliantly created antagonists.

I might just start carrying a selection of cheap headphones to quietly hand to people who watch tiktoks on their phone at full volume on a packed train at 7.30 in the morning

Reason number #3 I've been rejected for a role this month: 'It seems like you have too much communications-related experience' ** NOTE that I would genuinely like to thank everyone who bothers to send a rejection email because it's so much better than being ghosted 💖

Applied for a job with a mandatory 'expected salary' section. Received an auto rejection for 'expected salary outside of range' So I emailed asking about the salary banding Apparently that is confidential but I can amend my expected salary if I want Like *EEER* GUESS AGAIN ...... WHAT?!

Well this week has been a WEEK A humungous thankyou to everyone who's reached out to ask how I am, sent jobs my way, and anyone who just generally said lovely things about me and my work. You have kept me sane more than you can know 💖

If anyone has any tips and tricks for how to get through redundancy - or knows of any roles available for someone who has a decade of Marketing experience and a mortgage to pay, I would appreciate it ❤️

Glad to have finished working on the big screen so I can play on the little screen

Me and my VERY VERY old Switch have been waiting for this news for so long Soon he will be able to rest

If anyone has the pleasure of staying in Travelodge's as much as I do (I know - I'm so lucky) can you tell me why they *all* have the same electric radiator that makes the loudest electrical sounds CONSTANTLY On a related note if anyone wants a rec for earplugs - the Sleepy Panda Silicon ones 10/10

Hearing colleagues talking about their teenagers calling the games I love (like AC, TLOU, HZD, GOW) "slow old people games" is ...... a feeling 🫠

Ooh first 5am start of the year Defrosting my car in -2°C to then drive 120 miles to work What a January TREAT 🫠🫠🫠

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia. Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)