I promise you if you use AI in any phase of your game development I will never buy that game, nor any other game you, or your studio, makes. Zero exceptions.

So my laptop is way too heavy to lug around in this heat, plus the battery feels about ready to give up the ghost. Techno-gurus of Bluesky! Recommend a good writing laptop, emphasis on lightweight and battery durability? Doesn't need to do anything fancy, just let me wriiiiiite

👋 Hello #gamedev! ✍️Sr Narrative Designer (10 published games) looking for new projects! 💻I've worked RPGs, Metroidvanias, VR, FPs, Portal-style puzzlers, narrative games... 🎖️...done quest design, dialogs, VA direction, barks, branching dialog... ✉️Hit me up: www.victorojuel.org RTS appreciated!

I guess the cat's out of the bag! I had a lot of fun pretending to be a snotty professor, can't wait to see how it came out!

Well then, I'm a year older now I guess? Let's see if I can do something worthwhile with this next lap around the sun.

🚀 Mythmatch launches March 13th on Steam!! 🚀 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Make a home Play the demo now and continue your progress in the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

For all fans of IF, there's an event coming in April (18-19) to coincide with the London Games Festival. For excited possible attendees - mark your calendars. For those who might want to run a workshop, or exhibit, here's the form - forms.gle/j3AEMs24iKvU... Deadline:Sunday 8 Feb Shares welcome

Go get this magnificent game!

I guess the cat's out of the bag! I had a lot of fun pretending to be a snotty professor, can't wait to see how it came out!

At this rate, we Europeans might as well start looking into an alliance with China. I've never liked NATO but not in my wildest nightmare would I have dared cast the US (as soon as the 2020s, at any rate) as an actual military threat to Europe. (So kudos to Ken Macleod and his Fall Revo books?)

Slightly Diminish a Game. Heaven’s Piggy Bank by @inkle.co

Slightly Diminish a Game Manslaughterer's Belief: Pretty Unpleasant Journey

Everyone is making looking-for-work posts, so...! I'm open for short-term or part-time narrative design work. My most recent credits are quest design and scriptwriting in Cabernet (currently Very Positive on Steam!). I also have tech narrative creds, especially in GMS 😎 Portfolio in bio~

So we're contemplating war with the US. www.eldiario.es/1_c4d35f

Watching Robin Hood (1973) with the FaH: "MAID MARIAN A vixen" ...fair enough.

Free workshop, 23rd January. Shares welcome. Unaffiliated. www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-d...

De alguna forma, sigue casada conmigo.

!!! TR-49 trailer is now live !!!

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Always trust the US to do a coup with whatever excuse. Whatever you thought of Maduro (and personally I dislike him), this is a crime against democracy and the US is a fascist state.

2025 was an improvement on 2024 merely because I didn't have another dad that could die again. I'm hoping to be able to hold 2026 to higher standards. Happy New Year!

Going into 2026 like

"Leggings are not outerwear" 15th century edition (Galleria Nazionale, Perugia)

Going into 2026 like

🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐 An episodic sci-fi hypertext game ✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future ✅ Solve a murder across article edits ✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed] ⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian ⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer ▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app ▶️ More info: neurocracy.site

Estas dos chicas en tetas tienen más valor que el resto de la "izquierda" española 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.eldiario.es/1_c36e15

Alguien debe estar trabajando ya en el capítulo piloto de Anotop.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Ah man. Back to work and having a severe case of the post-con blues.

See you later, London, stay weird.

Without giving too many details, I was also lucky enough to be part of a wonderful dev team invited to a certain party at a certain place...

Gutted that I couldn’t attend this one 🙃

Really heartfelt and inspiring talk by @thepixelhunt.bsky.social and @wednesdays-game.bsky.social, didn't do it justice in this thread but I can only type so fast...

Let's get depressing! (Or, "The Gamedev 2025 Experience"🥰)

A lot of really good stuff about good procgen narrative in Stark Holborn's talk on the development of Shadows of Doubt, but lemme just focus on the "fuck AI"* slide: * (my wording, not hers. Because, well, fuck LLMs)

Day 2 of #AdventureX2025! Sagar Beroshi on how to cut content without dying in the process (my words; grim reaper imagery might have had an influence). Really clear insights and super mellow energy from this guy. Loved his previous talk (advx 2023?) on history lessons for game dev.

The voice of Guybrush Threepwood, doing the Guybrush method.

At #AdventureX2025, with Jon Ingold dropping pearl after pearl of storytelling wisdom, can't wait to rewatch this one a few times.

First man in. #AdventureX2025

We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

So I'm going to #AdventureX2025, who's gonna be around? 🫶

Why, hello again.

So I'm going to #AdventureX2025, who's gonna be around? 🫶

It's been a month?

There are a lot of great conversations about branching narrative under this post: bsky.app/profile/vict...

The UN has been good for nothing except symbolic gestures since Iraq War 2, but at least we have the gesture. (Alt text: video of UN delegates walking out on Nazinyahu) www.eldiario.es/1_c0ce12?utm...

Ari singing "Hit the road, Jack" 😍🥰

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT 🏆My #indiedev interactive fiction "The Ivory Calico" took 1st place at this year's IntroComp! 🤩 🖱You can play it online at the competition website: introcomp.iftechfoundation.org 🧵 Let me explain what's it about and how it fits the #ProjectShamus cinematic universe (😜)... ➡️🧵 1/?

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT 🏆My #indiedev interactive fiction "The Ivory Calico" took 1st place at this year's IntroComp! 🤩 🖱You can play it online at the competition website: introcomp.iftechfoundation.org 🧵 Let me explain what's it about and how it fits the #ProjectShamus cinematic universe (😜)... ➡️🧵 1/?

One thing I've learned about the US lately: apparently it's not okay for some people to get shot.