I'm at the Northeast Game Devs Christmas party at Four Quarters #Newcastle; if you're here, look for the blue hair and say hi!

Indie team Outlaw's Vengeance is looking for Senior Level Designer to work on their debut stealth and parkour action game inspired by Assassin’s Creed and Dishonored. 📅 Contract ✅ UE5 💵 4,000 USD pcm 🤠 remotegamejobs.com/jobs/outlaw-... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #indiedev #UE5 #remotegamejobs

I suspect this Christmas market stall is not nearly so funny to Brits But I am, as always, actually a twelve year old boy disguised as a forty-something woman 🤣🤣

Morning, bitches! Remember, "the creator that made the <popular thing> which then became the backbone of an entire corporation, who then fired said creator and they died in poverty" is not some wishy-washy story, it's a very real warning. Make, and own, your own art.

I love this conference. It’s the only one I’ve been to where everyone genuinely cares about the same bits of the games that *I* care about. This year was bigger but still had the roomful of friends feeling it’s always had. Hugely grateful to the organisers.

Adventure X Saturday - come and meet your favourite developers! Adventure X Sunday - come and meet the husks of your favourite developers!

Preach, @starkholborn.bsky.social

Amazing.

The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25

It was a great talk! @jon.inkle.co

this thread is unbelievable

it gets even better

welcome to 80’s fuckboy fall please dress accordingly

I'll be at the #AdventureX narrative games convention this weekend (not as keynote speaker this time, just an attendee 😄) -- ping me if you'll be there. Do you need a game narrative lead, director, designer, or writer? Hit me up! #AdvX25 #AdventureX2025 dreadpiratekhan.com

@adventurex.bsky.social Just packing (so excited!) Question: is there a coat check at the Hub building? 😅

Bovril really did have some unbeatably Victorian weird-grim advertising slogans. I somehow get Alan Moore vibes off these.

Over 200 Rockstar staff have written to management in support of unfairly fired union members. We have published more details on our website, although we have not yet released the exact contents of the letter: www.gameworkers.co.uk/rockstar-ope...

This one's dedicated to all my short monarchs 😙

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

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.

AI can't do that. It can't understand the words or the characters it's "voicing." It can't understand your intent and has no intent of its own. You need a real actor to do this.

Anyone who's known me for any amount of time knows my joints are all f'ed. Just now, on the sofa, I straightened my leg and my left knee made such a loud noise that it startled the cat awake from a dead sleep.

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

imagining the cleaning lady standing in shock as all seventeen fall one after the other through the door of a cupboard which could surely never have contained them in the first place

In case anyone has never seen the commercial that Terry Pratchett said inspired him (sort of) while writing Good Omens:

"well what if he was the democratic nominee?" uh what if he wasn't? is everyone else on earth dead? find a better guy

Husbeast, discussing his Rogue Trader team: So until we're in a less haunted area, I've given my psychic a shotgun. It's amazing how good a tradeoff it can be -- between mystical powers and running around with a big stick. It's-- Me: It's simpler, yeah. Like... Occam's Big Stick.

My partner had never heard of Godsmack Which rendered me gobsmacked

Today in #adhd struggles, I, a grown-ass woman, left my house with one shoe completely untied

Calling all #gamewriter, #narrativedesigner, #gamevoiceover, and storyteller type #gamedevs -- if you can get yourself to London for a weekend in November, tickets for the fab narrative-driven game conference #AdventureX are now on sale! They tend to sell out, so jump on it! 💃 www.adventurexpo.org

Husbeast, yesterday evening: I think I need a new pair of poultry shears; these are getting really worn out. Husbeast: ...I think that's the most middle-class thing I've ever said. Me (the werewife, obvs): Well then, you married correctly, because *I* want to upgrade our mortar and pestle.

Slightly diminish a band: Cherry Squeezin' Daddies

"Antisocial behaviours in games aren't a problem"

Voice is not the future of interaction Voice as an input is imprecise and error prone Voice is noisy, easily disrupted by environmental factors, and lacks privacy Even in Star Trek when they want to get real work done they use a UI interface Shouting "computer" is only for basic tasks

(squelching) continues its run as best closed caption description. Give me (squelching) and I will watch your show.

Last week I was left unsupervised at a tea shop. I regret nothing. <smugly sips Crème Brûlée black tea>

It's rare I see a Music Composer job opening, and I believe I know a fair few of those. #gamejobs www.twine.net/projects/b8w...

My HOA is out of hand. Just got a note that I'll be fined $250 if I don't trim my beard and lose 20 lbs

I love how little dirt they can find on this guy.

art.

Writers...

enormous fumble, absolutely legendary

It is a goddamn travesty that Amazon canceled the Wheel of Time series. Just finished the third season of an excellent show whose loss I will mourn. #wheeloftime

When killing your darlings, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Expressions are weird.