The #darksouls composer, Motoi Sakuraba, is going to be a guest composer on Soverain! The Kickstarter has also hit €71k with 9 days to go and will now be voice acted!! Check it out below youtu.be/XFIJaGAOV00?... #indiegame #sakuraba #rpg #fireemblem

Went to see #frieren in concert last night! It was magical

I've been rereading #naruto as a nostalgia hit and it slaps. Teen soldiers refusing to be emotionless tools of war and exploring what it means to be a failure. It introduced so many great characters and concepts but then just left their arcs behind quickly. Hinata being a great example...

Watching #dandadan and thinking wow what a sweet charming show and then episode 7 hits you like a freight train and you're crying

It's been a wild few days seeing @beyondgood.bsky.social blitz through its #kickstarter goals and now past its first stretch goal as it hits €40k. Seeing how excited people are is inspiring to me and a credit to the hard work the team has put in so far www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon... #indiegame

Soverain, our Tactical RPG inspired by Fire Emblem successfully funded on Kickstarter in just 12 hours thanks to all of you! 🙏💙 We’ve now reached €37K and are getting closer to €40K to unlock even more exciting rewards and stretch goals! Every share helps the project tremendously! ⚔️

This is Soverain, our tactical RPG inspired by Fire Emblem. We’re building something we hope players will never forget. Kickstarter launches next month, we need your support more than ever! 🙏 #FireEmblem #JRPG #indiegame #pixelart

It's been a long time coming but the game I got my first video game writing job on is now up for Kickstarter funding. What's wild is that it's almost half way there after two hours!! It's inspired by games like Fire Emblem and you can support the project here www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

Non work related but still very cool thing happened. I got to sing at the Royal Albert Hall for the performance of Return of the King. A great way to celebrate turning 30

Another @godotwildjam.bsky.social #gamejam down! This was a fun one and my first time doing something more comedic in tone and fully voice acted. Such a cool feeling to hear you words come alive performed by talented people outism.itch.io/highway-67

Hey all, I'll be at Pocket Gamer Connects London next week! If anyone wants to say hello and chat narrative design, drop me a line #PGCLondon #PocketGamer #GameDev #IndieDev

God I love fire emblem three houses. I don't think a game has ever been better designed to cure my seasonal depression #videogames #FireEmblem

Did another game jam recently, this time doing dialogue for this fun, spooky Halloween game! outism.itch.io/waltz-of-the... I took some inspiration from Hades where you only get quick dialogue from the gods that also isn't a conversation but you need to establish character and sprinkle in some plot

One of my fellow C4 screenwriting alumni has written a book! www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Say-Yo... Nina is such a talent, go check it out!

A new addition to the list of Games with Perfect Cover Art

One day I want to do a text based game focussed on corporate language over emails. Today I found myself writing 'Thank you for the insight into your working processes. I'll make sure to align our correspondence going forward'. That's not how a human being talks and I gave myself the ick #andor

Ran into Shadowheart at the post office a few days ago! Even god's favourite princess needs to use royal mail. I love how Shadowheart's narrative weaves a storyline about chronic pain and memory into the game and Jennifer English brings her to life in such amazing detail. I was very starstruck

Another game jam completed and this time we placed #3! I was just doing writing for this one and I finally put that classical civilisation degree to good use. Finding quotes for the power cards and writing a Homeric introduction for a fully voiced cutscene :) outism.itch.io/sisyphus-rev...

One of the coolest things to come from the latest game jam was watching superstar streamer @aleisdoran.bsky.social play our game! She brings the characters to life so well and it's such an invaluable experience watching someone play. You can watch the edited stream here :) youtu.be/NIjmN92-sko?...

Judge feedback for Pirate Software Game Jam 16 is in! Very pleased with it and excited to hear the results on the 18th. It would have been nice to make the game a bit longer or perhaps added in an 'endless' mode as they said but I don't think that was possible in the time frame.

Pirate Software Game Jam 16 done! You can play our entry here. The theme was 'You are the Weapon' so we thought it would be fun if instead of getting in the mech you are the mech... I love robots and retro futuristic HUDs. I will not be taking any further questions. outism.itch.io/heart-of-steel

Currently working on our game for Pirate Software Game Jam 16 but we've also gone back to Mansion of Mirrors and incorporated some feedback about the game. For narrative design/writing that involved making one puzzle a bit tougher but spreading out more clues across the game for the final puzzle

Another month another game jam! We were each given a secret santa who gave us each an individual request for the type of game they wanted this xmas. Sadly, a lot of us got ill and couldn't work on the game but I think we had a pretty good go at 'Christmas Vampire Survivors' itch.io/jam/secret-s...

this game has no business being so good for a first time game jam

Took on a narrative design role in a game jam for the first time and we came 1st for the @godotwildjam.bsky.social! Coming up with puzzles was very fun but working with such a talented team made it even better. You can play the game here: yamimao.itch.io/the-mansion-...