humanity rocks

There is no world in which you're prepared for how incredible this is

Imposing

Sure, writing for a videogame that is gonna experienced by millions of people is great, but have you tried writing a niche fiction that is gonna be read by exactly twenty people and get a single comment that can be summarized as "aswghghggddf"

lotta things can make you think about what we've collectively accomplished but none quite like getting high-resolution shots of Our Planet and The Solar System from People Who Are Currently There, Right Now

my sister asked me "are there any games on the ps1 like pound" and i was like "what the hell is pound??????" and

Stockholm is a perfectly pleasant and safe place to be but man I would kill to be back in London. I didn't even live there that long but it still feels like home.

'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' - Dorothea Tanning (1943)

A Case of Conscience (1958)

Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you.

"You’ll work with a diverse team. We have elves, magicians, and even a multi-hyphenate creative barista from Bushwick. So this really is a job for a unicorn who works well with others. We don’t want a lone wolf."

this is a) very funny; b) an excellent summary in several sentences of my chapter in Procedural Storytelling in Game Design; c) one of the few good April Fools jokes I will accept

Looks like it's time for my annual reminder that dating sims/romantic games are not a joke genre, and any person/developer/site who thinks they are is only showing their lack of awareness/experience with them: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/category/_da...

Game dev is really just you saying “Man I love video games SO much that I think it’d be sick if I played them 10x less than I want to”

#megastructure Hey! We've been coordinating with couple megastructure developers and put together a megastructure game bundle. Here it is! store.steampowered.com/bundle/69609...

I wrote him for one panel and understood the assignment.

Netflix Lists Self Hosted Polycule Plex Libraries As 3rd Largest Competitor Behind Amazon Prime Video and Poob

If I were to make a Star Trek I would focus it around a race that has just entered the Federation, and now needs to learn how to behave in a Federation-appropriate way while also dealing with like, complex feelings about cultural assimilation

[sighing] it does matter whether the writing in a video game is good or bad

Oh it's Localization Discourse Week? Time to repost my old article on the topic then: www.eurogamer.net/how-language...

Hark! There's a planet! It is a land before suffering or hate. The sunrise glows solemnly over its arid mountains. We could find a friend there, perhaps.

NarraScope 2026 registration is ‼️OPEN‼️ NarraScope is @iftechfoundation.org's hybrid conference! In-person and online options are available, and this year it's in Albany, NY: narrascope.org/register/

A really lovely article on the Kaleidoscope essay book, from @clert.bsky.social. And humbled to be mentioned directly alongside a lot of the other wonderful and talented creators in the collection.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Ord. is amazing. Thanks for showing me the way @iamleyeti.bsky.social. store.steampowered.com/app/1079000/...

The team behind Beast Breaker broke the industry wall for first unionized studio and I'll be forever grateful for that. Go buy the game!! Extremely fun, was incredible on the Switch and proceeds from this go directly back to the OG devs as well

Get HORSES, Mediterranea Inferno, and Saturnalia together for $18/16€ until next week www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qYh...

Electonics were more trustworthy when they were translucent, because you could look inside them so they didn't dare do anything weird

happy 12th anniversary of me taking the photo for wikipedia's article on the toast sandwich. my true legacy

I just discovered Yunyun Syndrome but I bet I will be hearing nonstop about it in three months youtu.be/YA3F5XTnOwA?...

I just discovered Yunyun Syndrome but I bet I will be hearing nonstop about it in three months youtu.be/YA3F5XTnOwA?...

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

In the books Howl lets his family think he is an indie game developer rather than admit he is a wizard.

How do you turn a vast text game like Fallen London into a TTRPG? We've spent a year working with @magpiegames.bsky.social to do exactly that. In May, backers will get the first look at the full PDF of the game (and you can still back, actually). What have we learned?

I wouldn't even have known about the TV show if half my bluesky timeline wasn't posting "do not watch it" screeds. surely this is counterproductive if you want people to ignore it

I'd like to apologise to all the new people who followed me expecting hot narrative takes: I'm NDA-bound to an unannounced project, folks. I am here to show my 40k minis and grumble about books I dislike. You won't find any wisdom in these tweets

Bella no you don't belong in the trash

The short answer is that RPGs especially are transformative spaces, which need a lot of weaponised empathy to pull off. Longer answer... hoo boy, I wanted to sketch or write on this shift but fuck it, we ball 🧵

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

Leftfield remains one of the best places to show weird or noncommercial or is-this-even-a-game games

Me every time I get drunk and I end up inflicting lore dumps on friends

I feel like we should call the idle wealthy taking on criminal enterprise just to feel something "Stede Bonnet Syndrome"

Get 15% off on the Narrative Kaleidoscope today (or all this week? we honestly don't know) with the code NARRATIVE15 www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope (Discount on print costs; authors still get full royalties)

Sudden urge to play something Dragon Dogma-like. Any recommendations that does NOT have Soulslike elements? I just want to wander a cool world; I don't wanna git gud and die 4759492 fighting the same boss

Interview with the Vampire when was 12.....

Everyone is raving about Project Hail Mary and its adaptation but if the protagonist were a woman you would have called her one of the most insufferable Mary Sues of all time

This could be the next Fate/Grand Order