I'll be at AdventureX next weekend. Give me a shout if you are around and want to chat!

Counterpoint: Absolutely fucking not.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

Baby pigeon mystery. My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...

I use Siri to add groceries to my shopping list, and to distinguish between 'items for the next big shop' and 'items I need ASAP', I stick an exclamation mark at the end. So, sometimes my todo list looks like I'm due to write a hit musical about milk.

I've been getting back into Oxygen Not Included, and have finally built the ultimate machine: a counter which increments each in-game day and shouts at me when I've played too long and should take a break.

Hello #pitchyagame! Mandrake is a rural life sim with a playfully responsive narrative. 🌳Grow plants! Here that's quite a magical feat 👭Befriend neighbours, human or otherwise 🍃Fish, gather, delve in the wilds ❔Uncover mysteries your family left behind Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3710210/...

From now on, the emails generated by Fallen London will be from 'Fallen London'. The enigmatic Mr 'messages' has met its end. Who was Mr messages? Shhhh.

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980

I would like to get this account to a thousand followers by the end of the year. That feels like a level where I'd have comparable reach to the 6k I had when I left Twitter Follow me for indie game marketing and business, and honestly, sexy rat talk

And did those legs, in antique land Stand upon desert's lone sand plain And was the cold visage and lip Its sneer of cold command so vain And did the pedestal, half sunk Still speak of works all now bowed down And Ozymandias, king of kings Forgot but for his dark, wrecked frown

"May I?" he asks, and he holds out a paw, his claws beckoning. He kisses the back of your hand. The self-declared Prince of All Rats has the manners, bearing, and ambition to rule – and a personal interest in your acquaintance. Will you help the Fifth City to accept his claim?

It’s here! ’The Prince of All Rats’, Fallen London‘s Exceptional Story for November, was written by yours truly. I hope you enjoy the seduction of our self-styled prince!

Every time I get jumpscared by some new crevice in which a corporate has shoved GenAI in the stuff I use daily, they should have to pay me 10,000 pounds.

I spend like 2 minutes on here, and am reminded that it's nice to feel connected to people and reach out. And then I spend 3 more minutes on here and I'm just caught in the swirl of utter misery that is the world.

If you missed the lightning talks, they're now up on the WGGB's Youtube channel! Thanks again to @kimmacaskill.bsky.social , @flipdock.bsky.social , @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social . @rosebehar.bsky.social , Colin Harvey, Ben Sabin and our sponsor @articydraft.bsky.social youtu.be/FnUpmq5Z-1g?...

*pinches nose* love to spend more and more of my time figuring out how to keep all the vital tools in my life usable at even the most basic level.

No wonder squirrels can’t afford houses if they’re splashing out on Gail’s croissants.

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

it's not FOR us

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Members and non-members are invited to this set of lightning talks on the specific needs of different game forms, featuring the wonderful @kimmacaskill.bsky.social, @flipdock.bsky.social, @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social, @rosebehar.bsky.social and chair Ben Sabin!

Laura is the funniest writer I've ever worked with, and also the most Professional From Pathalogic to Skin Deep, you could let her loose on just about anything imo!!!

Buy our videogame it's on sale it has good jokes store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is HALF PRICE during the Steam Autumn Sale! Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. What lies beneath the soil? Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

DID YOU SEE THIS? We announced a new game! Please: 🔁 SHARE 📝 WISHLIST Those things massively MAAAASSIVELY help us out. Thank you to everyone who has shared/ wishlisted already! store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... 🌍💀

We're making Mandrake, a rural life sim set in a beguiling new world inspired by British history and folklore. Now we're not in the Fallen London universe (Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies), we had the opportunity to add sunshine! And trees! 😮 🧵 #wishlistwednesday

@silent0siris.bsky.social 3x50 base-building day done! I’m glad that’s over!!

Team Cherry, I stg

As someone prone to rumination and trying to figuring out 'the right answer', absolving from having to form a settled opinion about everything that passes before my eyes has been deeply freeing.

oh i should probably put hornet tools here too #silksong

Baby bird *finishes hatching* Sorry… am I in a bowl of sticks? Am I in a fucking bowl of sticks a thousand feet off the ground right now, yes or no

Finally, the issue where my desktop randomly bluescreens shortly after booting has been resolved! (Microsoft made the crash screen black.)

Fun fact: this is how Spock defeats the Enterprise's computer in the classic Star Trek episode "Wolf In The Fold"

Hey UK, my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse novel is on sale on Kobo. It's about being lost, trying to find the best version of you (literally), the mysteries of our parents, neuroparasites, murder and features two of my favourite characters I've ever written in Dom and Amber

It’s grey and raining and miserable outside and I am SO happy about it.

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

samuel makes only good decisions and also he definitely learns from them. he died in the law furnace 4 times #fallenlondon #estival2025

Strangely enough I still adore my husband. (Though it does remind me of a line by Lindy West: “You might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out.”)

PEAK might be great @babelfishwars.bsky.social

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He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

Round, round, he is round

Decided to do Couch to 40k. Day 1 you're on the couch, and at the end your mind is trapped in a dead, decaying body sitting on a golden throne, unable to communicate, as all of humanity is encompassed in a fascist empire that is ironically doing everything you tried to prevent in order to save them.

Firefox has done me the bold discourtesy of signing me out of absolutely everything after the latest update. It's like someone coming in and hiding everything on your desk.

Never mind the fire, don't forget to get your tickets for AdventureX 😄 #AdvX25

I have so far stubbornly avoided age verification on any platform, without much consequence, though I'm increasingly feeling I do, in fact, want access to my Bluesky DMs again.

A little squat PR, as a lunchtime treat (170kg).