Done Dune. Dune done.

Today's "writing research you wouldn't want read out in court": trying to find out what kind of materials you could make a blade from instead of metal and ending up with the "undetectable stash knives" related search

Painful but true. "May the Fourth Be With You" was originally a Tory campaign slogan, coined for Margaret Thatcher on election day in May 1979...

Done Dune. Dune done.

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

You know what? She needs a friend. A jester gnome who plays the kalimba

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

A gnome girl! She plays gameboy

Alien (1979): Patches by Ron Cobb

An old fella at the library complimented the stickers on my laptop, partly because "these devices all look the same, so you can recognise yours"

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

#dkgame 🎮 #gamedev: I went to yesterday's Dev ➤ Test ➤ Repeat at Raw Power Labs' offices in Copenhagen mads.blog/dev-test-rep... #indiedev #indiegamedev #denmark #software #testing #dkgame

they're friends 💜

I worked on this with Bjørn (and a ton of others who may or may not have blue sky accounts) - its a lot of fun and you should play it 🐌

❤️ 130 games were developed by 650+ people at NGJ2026 ❤️

this is an exceptionally pleasing tweet to choose to parse literally

I should be better at posting stuff from my #DnD games. Here's a map my player got last session!

"All authors are using Al now" This is true! Big Al down the pub gives surprisingly insightful feedback on manuscripts

Rereading Dune right now and I'm really glad someone couldn't just irrevocably shift the balance of power in a society by threatening to cut off access to the one resource that society relies on in real life

Frank Herbert's Dune

Ahoj. Since I am a proponent of "right fit for the write job," here is a starter kit for people who do Game Narrative. @me if I've missed you — just have to be a not-shit person and have a writer/ND track record — or want to be taken off the list go.bsky.app/FwZqzcz

Hi y'all, My name is Sahil Bajaj and I am a Narrative Designer and Game Writer from Dubai. I have previously worked with Sweet Baby Inc and Veritable Joy on things like the Blackwood Charter Escae Room and ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area alongside some NDA stuff. #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

frankly romantasy is currently footing the bill for the rest of us by keeping a crumbling publishing industry afloat a while longer and you don't have to read the stuff to appreciate that it's bringing in readers who will eventually want to read more things, perhaps even in different points of view

TONIGHT from 6PM til late we will be springing into OX184 for yet another GameDevEd! Come meet and socialise with game developers of all experience levels from in and around Edinburgh :) #scotgamedev

On the one hand, I agree with @rangedtouch.bsky.social's point that these tech psychos haven't necessarily misread the Lord of the Rings in naming their companies, but on the other it's very funny that they call Palantir employees hobbits since a Palantir famously did this to Pippin

Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person

Kinda of galling that, out of all the recent professors working at the University of Kent, Matt Goodwin has a higher profile than Nobel Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah

❤️ Artist Spotlight ❤️ Curious to know more about the off-the-charts talented artist that created the logo of Nordic Game Jam 2026? Kira Rasmussen is a scifi horror and fantasy enthusiast, as well as a graphic storyteller, illustrator and comic book creator based in Copenhagen.

lmao

Knock knock Who's there? Elon Musk Elon Musk who? Finally! You're part of the jury pool

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

🎉🎨 Nordic Game Jam 2026 Art Reveal 🎨 🎉 We couldn’t wait any longer before showing the beautiful logo that represents us for 2026, as we continue to host the largest game jam in the nordics - and this art encapsulates it perfectly! #NordicGameJam #NGJ2026 #NordicGameJam26 #gamejam

Give us a day off like when the arseholes get married.

I know people are getting mad at this but if you remember for a moment that 50 years ago was 1976 it is a lot funnier. Happy Days first aired in 1974, beginning the era of modern literature

Today in writing research: trying to work out what, if anything, antifreeze proteins smell like

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

Hah, he calls out the pub I worked in at university for their STP crimes

Charles I: how about the lamb and flag? Are they open at this time Laud: parliament has said they won't pay for another lads night out sire Charles: but God- Laud: they've also requested you stop saying "god invented lager" as if that means anything

That time I recreated the Pokémon intro using only stock footage.

Both the projects I'm currently working on (Sea of Rifts and the Scarlet Republics TTRPG) get a write-up here

This one was a genuine rabbit hole, very fun to research and write. I did not expect "underwater basket weaving" to connect to basically every social issue of the mid 20th century

This email chain is not real. It’s a very well written parody – “Thank you good sir” is the cherry on the cake. Immaculate characterisation, voices and plotting in three lines. It’s fake, but whoever wrote this could probably write a damn good comic novel.

Hey I’m Margaret, an experienced game programmer / generalist (13 years game industry exp) currently looking for work! I’ve adapted to many different tech stacks in my career, and would like to find a team to work with in the EU (remote) or in Berlin (hybrid/on-site) on a full time long term basis.

A kind reminder that just about all larger women in games organizations are shite and and often ran by clout chasers or worse You'd be best served supporting your local initiatives

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

I participated in Jams of the Timescape vol. 2, where we made Ancestries for the fantasy ttrpg DRAW STEEL. Together with Yaron, I made an ancestry where you get to play a monstrous Bredbeddle, a headless giant looking for a new head. Check it out here - it's free to download! #drawsteel #jott2

Very funny listening to this episode just after reading Snow Crash, which is also about dominionist evangelicals, the Tower of Bable, and VR

This guy is a pretty quick milkshake duck, if you're interested

He should have stuck to Stevenson's vision