The entire Blackwell series is 70% off during the Steam Winter sale! Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on. Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/6377/...

Unavowed is 70% off during the Steam Winter Sale! Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York. It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer. store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...

As a followup to this, it now does things like produce movie-script-ish PDFs, Word docs, and a nice packaged searchable HTML file. (Answers the question "can you send me the script to read?" when you know you only have fine-for-you-but-too-convoluted-for-laypeople Ink syntax)

Wow I am completely failing my *use Bluesky* roll today.

I published a hopefully helpful tool for you if you're working with Ink and dialogue lines. It uses Ink + some extra markup and helps with production stats, recording scripts, localisation, line statuses and those bits and pieces of production. wildwinter.medium.com/dink-a-dialo...

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

If the book "The Design of Everyday Things" had been written by Don Nordmann, would we all be thinking about afjordances?

at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.

I hope everyone noticed that when we first meet the paladin in the recent D&D movie he is literally saving a cat?

How many Leibowitzes can you tickle? I can tickle four.

All these grok things remind me of nothing more than the Arnold Rimmer song… youtu.be/E4TLto-nKfU?...

A quick update - I've altered my simple mini-storylet-and-JS example to support multiple maps and locations. With it you can very easily put together a mini map-based story game using Ink. Hope it's useful to someone! wildwinter.medium.com/map-based-in...

i owe so many video game designers an apology

Solo devs and very small teams often have this inherent cringe about the idea of making people pay $20 or $10 or even $5 for their little game and I can't emphasize enough how much you have to grab that cringing impulse within yourself and strangle it to death

The Nighthawks demo has arrived! During Steam Next Fest, seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. Your second life begins tonight! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

“Changing narrative is easiest”

I saw this and immediately thought, this film has got me written all over it.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

The Steam Autumn sale has BEGUN! All our games are up to 70% off until October 6! store.steampowered.com/developer/Wa...

Is a Swedish pleasure house where a wide variety of different entertainments are on offer a smörgåsbordello?

"We would listen to the swashbuckling fisherman, and his tales of herring-do."

Dutch late night TV has its take

Amen to this thread. Game writing is so often panicked patching and working around. Many, many scripts go straight to recording without polish or solid editing. Time to revise and edit shouldn't be a luxury, but it so often is.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 176: Don't underestimate your reader. Give them space to imagine; to dream. You don't need to tell them everything; just the things they need to know.

Have decided that there are two types of people. Those who, when sneaking from point A to point B, imagine the Mission Impossible theme tune as their soundtrack. Those who, when sneaking from point A to point B, imagine the Pink Panther theme tune. (And then young people, obviously.)

Venn diagram

TIL that the French for "dropped in at the deep end" is "plongé dans la marmite".

As you get older you realise it's Maslow's Hierarchy of Knees.

Finally got around to watching Flow - what a great movie! www.youtube.com/watch?v=82WW...

That is a wrap for Igor: Unplugged. 4 performances of the story that started out as a short musical film and ended up as a stage show in Stockholm. The first time I've written music and lyrics for a movie. And now the first stage musical I've directed. Now sleep.

Brian is just *so* good.

3 shows down! Now a week in Köln for Gamescom reasons, then the final show!

I was being terribly specific. And now I have worked for two of those companies. Weird.

The Participatles The Sisters of Apathy The Sox Pistols The Wobbling Stones Uptotheankles Purple Preokay Sprout "Eh?" Leppard Blank Sabbath

I didn't expect to spend some of this morning listening to Adrian Edmondson singing the words of The Lonely Goatherd to the tune of Coldplay's Fix You. But there you are.

I have experienced Georgian food for the first time (thanks to Rachel) and OMG! The cheese! The garlic! The fresh baked bread full of cheese and garlic and egg! 100% better than Swedish food. Astounding! *dies of carbs*

Hey bro I don't wanna sound like I don't trust you but I can't help but notice that you're acting as a friend and guide to our party yet you aren't in the box art

In Stockholm this August? Come along to a short comedy musical I wrote about Igor, Dr. Frankeinstein's assistant. Live on stage! teaterverket.se/igor-unplugg...

Goooooood morning, Bluesky! CD PROJEKT RED is hiring two more writers for Cyberpunk 2. Come tell razor-sharp stories with my talented crew! #games #writing We need an Expert Writer jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED... And a Senior Writer jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

just fyi if you are a writer who is both a) willing to move to China and b) at all competent, you have an exceptionally good chance of being considered for this role. this is a Real Writing Job, and very stable work

Why hasn’t someone in Cerne Abbas started a fashion brand called Tommy Hill Figure?

First show down...

A meditation on the artificial nature of those who claim to be above us in the class system. Or something.