Goosebumps of the year: the roar from the audience at the FOTR release trailer

Cleaning out for move and found this notebook where I tracked the amount of perfect pelts I needed in Red Dead 2 and the perfect example of both why I stopped playing it and what a fucking nerd I am

Replaying Dragon Age Veilguard (for some reason, I have diffuse itchings I don’t know how to scratch) and using the photo mode to peek at unreachable areas. I just found this corpse in Dmeta’s crossing, placed in a very suspicious pose on a … giant wheel of cheese. I salute you, whoever did this.

I still think it’s absolutely bonkers that I get to say ”I make video games” when people ask me what I do for a living. Like, is this even real?? Wtf

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Do you think Noah Wyle has played a doctor for so long now that he could actually function as one

The daily struggle of being a narrative designer is literally convincing people you are, in fact, a designer

Really excited, terrified and proud of this one! åEver since Gabriel Knight Mysteries as a kid, detective games have been my absolute favorite game genre. Now, this is obviously constricted to the world and story of Dune, but to be the designer on our own investigation has been SUCH a joy. Check it!

Books read in August: Mirja Unge - Hundnätter Andrey Kurkov - The Stolen Heart Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune

Games played in August: Coral Island Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Best Served Cold Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream Tales of the Shire Finished: Eriksholm! Wow, my first fully finished game this year 😅 13 sneaky hours I thoroughly enjoyed.

“This story deserves to be more than just a book.” That’s how stupid this sounds.

Happy birthday Dustborn ❤️ My first game release and my first job in the game industry, this game and team forever holds an incredibly dear place in my heart.

Thanks for the kind words @ewords.bsky.social ❤️- now obviously there are a bunch more talents behind this content and I’ll make sure to share this with them! Glad to hear you’re enjoying it and hope we wont disappoint in the upcoming chapters:)

We’re hiring! We’re looking for a mid-level writer to join our narrative team in Oslo. jobs.funcom.com/jobs/6280058...

Omg you guys I actually finished a game this year

Books read in July: Mizuki Tsujimura - Lonely Castle in the Mirror David Lindsay - Voyage to Arcturus Usually read a ton more but I mostly worked and didn’t particularly enjoy any of these books so it was… slow. What did you read?

Games played in July: Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream Palia Islanders: New Shores What about you?

Is everyone’s mom fully delusional or only mine? Today she said not only does she NOT have bad hearing and I’m the problem for mumbling too much, but also that her state-issued hearing aid was a «pedagogical experiment» to trick grandma into getting one too.

Two girls playing around the bridge where I’m taking a swim talking: Girl: Would you rather be a spider or a fish? Girl2: Spider. Girl: Why? Girl2: Because less people would try to eat me and I would get to eat all the time. Awesome reasoning.

Listen I know the heat wave in Scandi right now is a joke to most, but remember- buildings here are built to RETAIN heat. We don’t have aircon. Our bodies are confused. We don’t know how to dress for this weather. So I’m just asking if it’s ok if I sleep in the shower. With the water running.

Why does Palia have a chokehold on me

On my free time, I like to stalk all the VO recordings for the next chapter of Dune 😎

Mark Snow, a true legend. The X-Files soundtrack marked my entire youth and I still have the theme as a ring tone to this day<3

Books read in June: Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye Kaliane Bradley - The Ministry of Time Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 Uketsu - Strange Pictures Jack Finney - The Body Snatchers Very much in reading mood during the summer. You’re up!

It’s time for the June recap! Games played: Clair Obscur: Exp. 33 The Thaumaturge The Alters Potionomics Raft Outer Wilds Subnauitca Dune: Awakening Palia Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Blue Prince I was obviously suffering from the «zapping» disorder this month. Nothing quite fit. What about you?

Do you ever have this feeling that you have this itch to play a very specific game, but none of the existing games fit what you’re looking for and you realize that that game actually doesn’t exist? It’s so damn…itchy

My first commemorative Funcom release coin 🥹 Here’s to many more!

"Dune: Awakening is an excellent survival MMO that brilliantly captures life on Arrakis, usually to its benefit." - @ign.com www.ign.com/articles/dun...

[1] I sat at my desk and cried today, watching CohhCarnage play through content I’ve worked closely on, him and the chat openly praising it. I didn’t know this feeling, and I realized I hadn’t allowed myself to feel anything for the lack of it after the Dustborn release.

Home after 2 days of Spillkonventet - a Norwegian games conference for devs. Always leave feeling so excited both to keep creating and playing games. It’s so great to see the industry share experience, knowledge and failures while cheering eachother on. Support and transparency, what a thing <3

We were talking about getting tattoos to mark games released. I’m not really big on tattoos (I have none) so I thought, well, maybe just get a «D» for both Dustborn and Dune and then keep only working on games beginning with a D? Dream projects being Ditcher, Dass Effect, Dragon Age & Dishonored 😎

Man no one told me working on live games was harrowing af 😅

Streaming services that do not show a trailer when hovering over title or even opening the title - what are you even doing?

Restaurants who use generative AI to fill out images on their menu...WHy? It looks plasticky at best, it decreases trust because you're not showing your own product, and like, it's okay if not everything has an image, just tell me WHAT THE INGREDIENTS ARE.

What a wild thing to be part of 🥹

Yesterday was the 1 yr anniversary of defending my Bachelor paper, and ALSO the pre-release of Dune: Awakening! To think that I’ve had the opportunity to be part of 2 game releases since my graduation in under a year is wild as it is, watching Dune unfold makes it even wilder. So grateful, so proud.

May was a slow month on the play and read front. Played in May: Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 Blue Prince (none finished) Books read: Elsa Morante - History Italo Calvinho - If on a winter’s night a traveller

Books read in April: Rachel Cusk - Outline Benjamin Stevenson - Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Games played in April: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Blue Prince Monster Hunter: Wilds The Case of The Golden Idol Finished: 0

I just finished Act 1 of Clair Obscur and ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ARE YOU SERIOUSSSSSSS

I don’t think any game prologue has left me so devastaded as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

I’m in Italy. Overheard some 20-ish Americans in a store. Girl: «I don’t get it, what is a euro?» Guy: «It’s like.. their dollar, but it’s like, 6 dollars here are like 8 dollars at home»

Books read in March: Shirley Jackson - We have always lived in the castle Frank Herbert - Children of Dune Mieko Kawakami - Breasts and Eggs

Soo, games played in March: Monster Hunter Wilds Wanderstop Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Towers of Aghasba The Case of the Golden Idol Assassins Creed Shadows Somerville Carmen Sandiego Urban Myth Dissolution Center Finished: Tape 1 of Lost Records Somerville

So excited for this teaser and all my friends at @redthreadgames.bsky.social - go wishlist!

Having once worked as QA flipped a switch in me. I recently had an allergic reaction to niacinamide and just realized I have since reproed this 3 times with separate products just to be sure, and am know actually SATISFIED that I have an allergy with a 3/3 repro rate. Now, where do I file this JIRA…

Books read in February: Peter Temple - The Broken Shore Deborah Levy - The Cost of Living Michael McDowell - Blackwater (#1-6)

Games played in February: Metaphor: ReFantazio Eternal Strands Kingdom Come Deliverance II Path of Exile II Urban Myth Dissolution Center Games finished: 0 What about you?