Eight hours to go and £3.5k to the stretch goal where I have to write some more. Donate if you want to make my life a little harder and/or get EXCELLENT STUFF.

Every writer learns soon enough: Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.

A goal I never thought I’d hit any time soon - we are moving into our first ever non-rented-home! We will have a couple of weeks to set things up or do stuff before we need to move. Any advice on stuff to do with new place first, or shifting from renting to owning mindset etc?

But Doctor… I -am- Lightning McQueen

my tip that I'm sure many writers will find objectionable: TV Tropes is a great resource. It's just a catalogue/dictionary! Tropes are not bad, they are human creative tools; relatable story hooks. If you're stuck writing something, find other examples of similar tropes, and see what they did!

And yet when Iron Man did this at Christmas and made those suits so he could multitask, Gwyneth Paltrow clearly felt less connected and not in fact more connected, to her company’s founder. Makes you think.

Kill Jester got brought up explicitly in more than one narrative design meeting i've been part of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKo...

It's been 23 hours since we and @sunsetvisitor.studio announced Prove You're Human, and it already has over 40,000 wishlists. People *want* narrative games that tackle difficult and human subject matter, and both of our studios will keep bringing them to you. Thank you for making this possible!

Pokémon Champions is a little bit addictive and good

Final Fantasy VII

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm extremely tempted to improve my old writing when I'm permitted to do so. I wonder if there's any interesting articles, writeups, reflections on this kind of George Lucasing & any thoughts people have about what the boundaries should be for this kind of thing

Any UK video game conferences or tabletop events -- especially if dev-focussed or lots of creators going -- people are going to these days? I used to love going to Develop Brighton, Feral Vector, Rezzed etc -- but my attendance has become sporadic. I want to go to Dragonmeet this year

But we already had Jim Henson’s Labyrinth

Good Friday, AKA the day of sudden freelancer confusion about why no-one is answering any emails

I wrote a well-received undergrad essay purely analysing prologues. The, er, fact I had not been able to read much more of the books in question, was beside the point...

For those who have moved from Substack to other platforms or ways of doing newsletters -- where did you go, and how did it go? I'm worried about deliverability issues (when I used mailchimp, it links to your own email a lot / hits spam, whereas Substack doesn't seem to do this as much).

Some days, everyone in this GIF is me (Homer especially)

This being said, I think a lot of execs have this precise insane take on the industry. A source of much woe

Storm UK Gold

Anyone good at map making? Apply here -> cubicle7games.com/blog/cartogr... (I write for Cubicle 7 as a freelancer, but no affiliation to this posting)

Everyone in Scotland just buying all the fuel today it seems.

Transphobes are “this is more of a comment than a question”, incarnate. Consuming their lives for nought but the pain of all involved. Such lack of humility to feel like you don’t understand a group of people, & jump to insisting the worst instead of realising that “not understanding” would be OK

Good day so far — fixed a chapter of my WiP, prepped some work for a client game, fixed a race condition in my own game, and just found out I passed a writing test for a project I’m really excited about 😎

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

Pikachu wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer

A while ago I asked for any thoughts on comedy in games. I am now looking for thoughts on comedy UI and UX in games. What is the funniest font? Has a menu ever made you laugh? Any interesting pieces on all this?

The good wolf is winning the fight at the moment, having been fed Pokopia and two intensive improv courses

It’s absurd to claim that Elden Ring has a bad narrative — its form of storytelling may not be one you enjoy, but there’s clearly Something It Is Trying To Do that, judging by fan interest, it very much succeeds at. Wishing a story were totally different is asinine

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

THE MARTIAN 2 oh no, I got left on mars by myself… again?

At several points during Project Hail Mary I just burst into tears

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

Like Tartuffe the Spry Wonder Dog, I just finished UCB’s inaugural Edinburgh improv class @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social

looking for some narrative juice this weekend? Most of our games are on a discount right now - with 80 Days for less than a bus fare.

I went to hang out with owls on my birthday and all I got was a General Radahn t shirt

I am taking a day off for the first time in 2026 (yes, I know…) m.youtube.com/watch?v=EgAZ...

I'm in this if you want to hear my ramblings also!

Did you check before emailing someone if the mad taint of their newfound strength meant they were in a place to receive that information? If they had been abandoned by the greater will?

hi! i'm the Community Manager for Black Tabby Games and Sunset Visitor. you might assume from my job title that i'm quite comfortable with socializing... but i struggle with it pretty often! if you do too, here's a handy article for navigating GDC (Great Difficulties with Communicating) 💖

I wrote one on Heavy Rain and interactive twists

Guys it turns out that exercise really does help with depression??

I had NO idea about the meme but discovered after I told my wife a former-tumblr-user) about this amazing thing and she started inundating me with wolf gifs

The fire fades, and the Lords go without Thrones

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Wol... - I just came across this for the first time and the final line hit me like a freight train

Kelson in 28 Years Bone Temple is I think one of my all time favourite characters in anything

At this game accelerator I'm part of, we got shown GANTT charts and had to work on GANTT charts and my brain has never hurt so much at trying to squeeze my existing ways of doing things through the playdough grinder. (But in a good way)

Thoughts on gender and language

I'd vote for the X-Men a third time if I could