Five years after the Inventory closed its doors, this underground social club will reopen on March 5! Poker Night at the Inventory is a high-stakes battle of cards, bets & trash talk coming to Steam, PlayStation & Nintendo Switch. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3897800/...

This Alex Raymond panel is like a whole library of cool graphic choices

I'm speaking at GDC again! I'll be joining @richardrouse.bsky.social's "Rules of the Game" talk, as well as returning for @toiya.bsky.social's "Q&A for New Writers" panel. I love connecting with narrative design and cinematics folks while I'm out there. Let's hangout! #GDC2026

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

A fresh one from me! I wrote about fandom, what characters "deserve," lesbians and our desire to Return To The Past. What does it mean to wind back the clock and why does that seem to be *the* thing many folks want from art now? aftermath.site/life-is-stra...

Btw, we've been sharing reviews all morning, but a lot have spoilers in them! TR-49 is best experienced as it presents itself. Set yourself 2 hours. Curl up with an iPad or Deck, if you can. Have a pen handy if you like: definitely a cup of tea, so it can go cold. Trust us. The TR49 has got you.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s incredibly crass to demand certain (controversial) story beats from your writing team, fire that writing team, then throw that writing team under the bus for decisions *they didn’t make* while marketing your new thing. Very crass! Very ick!

need a localization editor/proofreader/consultant? here's some stuff i've done adaptation work on, from just basic grammar tweaks to deep story consulting. DM me or hit me up through the form on my website ayshaufarah.com

dragon warrior vii / psx heartbeat, 2000

2026, I don't want to see another post about 'layoff-proof" advice. "Here's how your resume can be layoff proof" absolutely not, workers can't change the cash flow of a company or the expectations of studio leadership in a way that is big enough to avoid a furlough/layoff/mass firing.

“The boys at the Pentagon really like your work” back when I was doing previs before getting into games. 👀

James Baxter is one of the only living animators on planet earth that could make a joke about squash and stretch/follow-through animation this good. I lost my shit at the extreme smear bit when Gumball turns around.

Storyboard art for How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), dir. Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, MGM Animation/Visual Arts

This year of all years, I don't need a Linkedin wrapped.

Holy shit I just found out that Gearbox made a plush of Gortys from “Tales from the Borderlands”?? This might be the first time I’ve ever seen official merch of a character I helped create. gearboxloot.com/products/bor...

at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.

“Gamers aren’t buying games anymore.” says the triple A gaming studios who have started using AI, cut corners and various amounts of writers and illustrators who made their releases worth playing, and are just reusing and repackaging past titles… 🙄

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

a couple years ago i had a Magic story come out about a sad detective who gets seduced to the dark side by a necromancer, and they posted it under some random guy's name at first, which I think resulted in fans of my previous work missing it. anyway i like it. apparently it was too gay for Russia

Somehow, today marks the tenth (?!) anniversary of the launch of “Minecraft: Story Mode.” It was a bit of a punching bag for the internet and social media back then, but it has unbelievably continued to draw fans all these years later even while unavailable to play in any (official) form.

Hades 2 1.0 out just in time for an 8 hour flight

I'm often reminded that Demon Days is a perfect album. I think it hits harder now than it did at release, for me, but I've loved it since day 1.

The Sound of Music (1965)

Twenty years ago this week, Telltale announced that they'd signed a deal with Steve Purcell to make episodic Sam & Max games. Time flies! In honor of this momentous occasion, all three Sam & Max remasters are on sale on Steam, PlayStation, and Switch. (Sorry Xbox peeps, we'll get you next time!)

Took the kiddo to see the Demon Slayer Movie. Was basically 2.5 hours of characters standing around angrily remembering things at each other. Kiddo loved it.

A few of my favorite of our environment shots from Sword of the Sea Reminder that I'm looking for work as an Environment Artist or 3D Artist 🙂

MR SANDMAN…

We used to do this with Sam & Max! youtu.be/QplgWcQs2a4?...

Hey Y'all, I am still looking for work so, any boosts or leads would be appreciated! I'm looking for contract work as a Narrative Designer & Game Writer but am also open to doing consulting work! Here are some of the games I've worked on but you can find more of my work at sahilbajaj.dev

This is the part that gets me as well. Sometimes people will say, “Well AI isn’t going to take Director level jobs.” And I ask them who the hell is going to be Director level when all of us who built our skills over a career end those careers.

As a developer that has been fairly public: we're not equipped to deal with the deluge of abuse and hate that comes our way - and I'm an indie, I'm literally responsible for my own choices. Can't imagine having to stand in that torrent for choices the stakeholders forced despite my objections.

One of my favorite Telltale memories is being at the mall across the street for lunch and seeing George just casually walking into Kay Jewelers.

Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire “SWING TIME” (1936) dir. George Stevens 🎬 #RKO #RadioPictures #filmsky #moviesky 💃🏻🎶

Early films used more mobile camera work than many people give them credit for but they also sometimes used other trickery, like faking a zoom-like effect by wheeling a piece of the set toward the still camera, as we see in the Méliès film THE MERMAID

Night of the Hunter (1955) is full of memorably dreamlike and theatrical compositions:

New episode of All My Maidens! Featuring @rcktpwr.bsky.social and @stauder.bsky.social. This week we're talking about Ranni the Witch! Topics include: the value of missable content, empyreans, Ranni's gang, and killing a bunch of guys so you don't have to marry your brother. check it out!

Hey, Universe. I’d like a book of Calvin and Hobbes watercolors and nothing else. I know it’s a limited demographic, but, please?!

FY2024 was the most profitable in history for the video game industry It also saw the most layoff waves, and highest known layoff headcount in recent history. Lets do the math. Who wants to guess where all the money is going?

Surprise! The TRON: Catalyst first hour demo is out now on steam! Go go go! (And wishlist, obvs) store.steampowered.com/app/3025590/...

I am an award-winning game writer and narrative designer with 6+ yrs' experience and I am looking for full-time, freelance, and contract opportunities. I have worked in mobile, indie, and AAA and I have implementation, scripting, and puzzle design experience. gisellemakesgames.com

I will own this: I yearn for the day when I can just delete my linked-in entirely.

Quick PSA: Multiversus is getting delisted on the 30th, but if you download and log in before then, it will remain available as an offline/local multiplayer game.