Recently, fellow game writer and narrative designer Konstantine Paradias reached out for a chat on all things narrative. It's such an honor and a pleasure to sit with your peers and discuss the trade at length. Enjoy the video everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2f...

Ok I laughed

Ok, so, once more: If you can count it, it's "fewer". If you can't, it's "less." Example: "I need fewer apples to finish this recipe than I thought." BUT "I have less patience than I used to."

“Forbidden advent calendar” lol

I wrote this huge, 3,000-word or so deep dive into the state of game actors’ contracts in the UK, which is a hot mess of exploitation, AI clauses and chaotic rate calculations. And no one read it. But you really, REALLY should. www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

We might have a winner

Probably gave an arm for science

adding ‘artisanal flaming’ to my hobby list

in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.

I learned something today. Which is how this website should always work btw

This if your friendly reminder to put more than one video game book on your 2025 Gaming Gift Guide.

More than inspiration, writing a book requires discipline. There are days I feel highly driven, only to get nowhere. Similarly, there are mornings I feel off, yet end up making massive leaps. If you want progress, don’t trust your feelings. Trust discipline ✍️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

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I want one on my roof too while we're at it. Excellent question.

If the world is supplied with 100% renewable energy, 50% of the global shipping traffic will be eliminated, coal oil and gas no longer needs to be transported #endfossilfuels #oilkills #COP30

Leave it to history professors to warn of long-term effects of AI use. ‘Students [who use AI to write or improve their papers] are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.’

Wowzers. A game I worked on two years ago but wasn’t officially announced in what felt like forever is finally seeing daylight. Godspeed PUBG Black Budget! store.steampowered.com/app/4077740/...

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Amen

What happens in the video game world often happens in the wider world later - which is why anyone interested in the impact of AI should be looking at what's happening in games right now. We're seeing lines being drawn about what is and isn't culturally acceptable www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army

Krafton's CEO allegedly used ChatGPT to tell him out to get out of paying Unknown World's cofounders

A new Harvard study—the first large-scale comparison of Amazon, UPS & FedEx drivers—shows what worker power really means: 🔴 Amazon: ~$19/hr, no raises, high turnover. 🟢 UPS (union): ~$35/hr, steady wage growth, long careers. Same job. Different power. Full study → buff.ly/rpn6H5E

Youll never hear about AI “replacing” C-suite jobs

Once you see it...

Funny I don’t remember this episode

Autocorrect, 18th century style.

What they never tell you about freelancing for multiple clients at the same time.

Microsoft announces that 20-30% of the code for some projects is written by AI while they're in the middle of being eviscerated for pushing multiple updates that have been causing instability, crashes, and even bricking people's PCs. I wonder if these two things are related 🤔

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999: "Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.

It's so funny that I can often spot an AI-heavy game from a mile off just because of the color palette in a tiny thumbnail image. The Shit N' Piss miasma has sunk deep into the bones of all the image generator engines.

Funny how “LLM” is quickly replacing swearwords like “twat”, “douchebag”, as in “what the f** are you talking about, you LLM”

There is for sure a marketing gap. It’s not that narrative games don’t sell, it’s that a lot of publishers aren’t set up to sell them. It’s a lot easier to blame the marketplace or devs for an issue than to give their marketing teams the resources they need to get it done.

Just muted the word 'baseball' to save my feed. To Americans, I'd say there's other stuff in need of your attention, if you don't mind me being frank.

Hey I know rhat book….

Remember when Grok was only something Heinlein readers knew about and oh. I get it now.

A Japanese organisation representing Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Studio Ghibli, and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorised use of their IP. (Read more: Automaton)

Hey I know that book…

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Oh look, another day full of the consequences of a finance/tech company thinking video games would be easy money, have no idea how to make video games, blame their developers for predictable failures, and give up on it and shatter many people's lives.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

As a dutchie, I appreciate the thorough copy editing here 😂