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Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department
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Alexa Ray Corriea
about 7 hours ago
Game Dev Heroes nominations are still open -- would love to see some unsung heroes and quiet folks doing the work get recognized for their efforts. Get in there and tell them about your people!
gamedevheroes.co/nominations/
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2026 Nominations – Game Dev Heroes
https://gamedevheroes.co/nominations/
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Video Game History Foundation
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New collection announcement: We're live at GDC... 1989! We've digitized 21 hours of talks from the third ever Computer Game Developers' Conference, now available for free in our digital library 🔊
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I want a cat in my life. I can’t own a cat right now. I need the cat distribution system to kick in
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
3 days ago
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/12/london-san-francisco-and-beijing-achieve-remarkable-reductions-in-air-pollution
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Someone is going to write the next game narrative that wrecks people. Maybe that someone is you. 💖 Enrollment is open for our game writing masterclass — professional development for people who are serious about the work. Registration closes Tuesday.
courses.thenarrativedept.com/mc1-spring-2...
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Be the game writer your team can't live without
The Narrative Department's Masterclass One is 8 weeks of professional development for game writers — the writing chops, the ability to work across disciplines, and the community that leads to great ca...
https://courses.thenarrativedept.com/mc1-spring-2026
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Kate Gray
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it's a lovely day on Earth and you are a naughty UFO
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Timothy Snyder
2 days ago
1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
3 days ago
NO lightsaber duel or space dogfight in Star Wars will ever go as hard as Stellan Skarsgård going: "I’ve made my mind a sunless space ... I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them ... I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see ... So what do I sacrifice? Everything!”
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This explains more than I wanted explained to me
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Tim Onion
3 days ago
I wrote about Kat.
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Kat.
https://benhiiv.beehiiv.com/p/kat
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I just got back from GDC, and I have feelings 🎮 new post: what if the hard part is actually the point?
www.thenarrativedept.com/blog/hard
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What If This Is Supposed To Be Hard?
The industry is hard. It's always been hard. But you chose a career in a medium that's designed to be hard — and that's not a coincidence. A love letter to game developers, and a r
https://www.thenarrativedept.com/blog/hard
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆
4 days ago
Great moment here between Michael B. Jordan and Leonardo DiCaprio after the Oscars. It looks like Michael is sobbing. What a moment.
#Oscars
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#MichaelBJordan
#LeonardoDiCaprio
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chris
4 days ago
crazy there are two michael jordans that are good at stuff
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Marisa Kabas
5 days ago
how is he good at everything
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Dave Karpf
4 days ago
Got mad in the newsletter about a lot of things this week. But all of the things are really just the same thing: We can have nice things, or we can have comfortable billionaires. This should not be a hard choice. Bullet Points: How government ought to work
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bullet-poi...
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Bullet Points: How government ought to work
We can have nice things or we can have comfortable billionaires. We cannot have both.
https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bullet-points-how-government-ought-to-work
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Kai Ryssdal
5 days ago
My girlfriend lives in Canada
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Co-signing (from bed)
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The San Francisco Standard
7 days ago
Happening now: The Bay showed UP for Alysa Liu’s celebration rally in Oakland 🤟🥇
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Hey party people! If you’re looking for the The Narrative Department Meetup (starts at 1:46), look for this! Yes it says 9, big time, and in tiny letters next to the door it says Community Room 1. Please spread the word!
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Hey GDC! TND is meeting up in Moscone today: see you there!
www.thenarrativedept.com/see-you-at-gdc
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See You At GDC - The Narrative Department
https://www.thenarrativedept.com/see-you-at-gdc
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Bill Smiley
10 days ago
Folks...this picture of Linda Hamilton and Bryan Cranston from an episode of MURDER SHE WROTE. I didn't think it was possible for two people to look this 1986.
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TND is at GDC and that’s what’s up. Come by the Yerba buena jail I mean park on Tuesday!
www.thenarrativedept.com/see-you-at-gdc
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See You At GDC - The Narrative Department
https://www.thenarrativedept.com/see-you-at-gdc
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Mark Hamill
10 days ago
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history.
#AccountabilityIsComing
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Yay Alexa!!!
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eric stirpe
11 days ago
Not at GDC this year, but here’s a couple scraps of free advice on networking for new folks:
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11 days ago
Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?
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derek guy
11 days ago
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
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Minilla Jovovich 🍉
11 days ago
Dunno why people are down on that God of War set pic, I think Kratos and Atreus look great
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
13 days ago
A beautiful tribute to Kristi Noem.
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Witty Volkova
17 days ago
one of my favorite bits of film knowledge is that in no country for old men, Javier Bardem was memorizing most of his lines phonetically, he didn't really speak English. He said it probably helped his performance come off as so cold and convincingly psychopathic. Dude won an Oscar for that role
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Andrea Blythe
17 days ago
Hi! Since it's
#WomenInHorrorMonth
, I updated my list of horror movies directed by women. I'm sure there's still a bunch I missed, but the list has 385 movies, from 1913 to the present. So, plenty to choose from.
letterboxd.com/andreablythe...
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Women in Horror
A compilation of horror movies that have been directed or co-directed by women. Please let me know if I misses any. Thanks!
https://letterboxd.com/andreablythe/list/women-in-horror/
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Nick Portnell
19 days ago
The real green menace.
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Tim Onion
19 days ago
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
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Havoc
20 days ago
Radiohead has issued a statement responding to the Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized use of their song "Let Down" in a recent social media video.
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Carl Quintanilla
20 days ago
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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Ginny Di
20 days ago
Did you know falconry was one of few medieval sports that both men & women were welcome to participate in? Peregrine falcons were a popular bird for ladies because they're small. Also, they apparently hunt by PUNCHING OTHER BIRDS OUT OF THE SKY WITH THEIR CLOSED FISTS. Pic from D&D in a Castle 2022
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Guys like this do not care what I think. They DO, however, care what soldiers and veterans think. I love this guy for calling these clowns out. Thank you sir
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Stella (Official)
21 days ago
FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.
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derek van vliet
21 days ago
this still happens a lot tbh
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Andrea Blythe
21 days ago
Hey, friends. I've got a new essay up on Infinite White Space! It's all about how the choice between focusing on a single thing versus trying to do all the things...
andrea-blythe.beehiiv.com/p/figuring-o...
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Essentialism Vs. Maximalism
Or, How can I possibly steer this ship, when it's powered by ten distracted octopi, all of whom are just as confused as me about where we're going
https://andrea-blythe.beehiiv.com/p/figuring-out-how-to-steer-this-ship-powered-by-ten-octopi-each-just-as-confused-as-me-as-to-what-dir
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Tim Onion
21 days ago
The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.
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Hi hi! New article, yay! I've been on a lot of Zoom calls with narrative directors lately. What I'm hearing is... not what the headlines are saying. I wrote about it here:
www.thenarrativedept.com/blog/the-fil...
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The Industry Isn't Broken. It's Filtering.
The games industry contraction isn't random — it's a filter. Here's what studios are actually selecting for right now, and how serious writers are using this moment to get ahead.
https://www.thenarrativedept.com/blog/the-filter
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Memento Mori
22 days ago
Watch what they are attempting 😏
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24 days ago
oh word???? no shit????? for real????????
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