January in books

Are you a writer or narrative designer attending GDC? For the first time, GDC is hosting a Narrative Portfolio Review Workshop! I've assembled a literal dream team of Senior/Lead narrative folks to review portfolios, so bring your materials! Deets: schedule.gdconf.com/session/narr...

December in books

The plot thinnens. With a 93 Metacritic score, the award-winning Divinity: Original Sin 2 is now yours to play on Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5! Upgrade for free or begin your adventure today and prepare for what lies ahead. youtu.be/_K_vKMo7DEI?...

Apart from a few execs and directors whose names get out there? Everyone. Everyone in game dev doesn't get enough appreciation for what they do.

#BaldursGate3 #Halsin Master Halsin carving a wood duck🦆

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November in books

just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

Me: Wanna rewatch the Mummy with me? Husband: Sure, but didn't we rewatch it fairly recently? Me: I don't see how that's relevant.

Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards! And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈

Is there a term for when you see a post you like, but realise it was posted mere seconds ago so don’t like it immediately for fear of seeming over-eager?

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

"I code so others can dream." Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer. Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...

Office Thanksgiving potluck is approaching so time to practise making misshapen baked goods

I’d be out of work

RELISH IN THE SCREAMS OF YOUR ENEMIES! HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

When you involve producers in social events you wind up added to WhatsApp groups called bug men just for the purpose of going to see Bugonia.

inside you there are two wolves

Beanbag looks like an upset cyclops walrus

입힘ㅋㅋㅋ

October in books (2/2)

October in books (1/2)

Visually sumptuous and heartfelt performances, but some questionable adaptation choices, 3/5

Frankentime

Someone’s confused by the clocks changing

Met a celebrity in Berlin over the weekend. Smaller than I expected, didn’t look like she could swallow a lawyer seated on a toilet.

Ballerina AU Lae'zel + shadowzel #bg3 #Lae'zel #Shadowheart #Shadowzel

OPPORTUNITY - Respawn - Narrative Design Intern Unaffiliated. Shares Welcome hitmarker.net/jobs/respawn...

Update to the update: being spoiled at her grandmother’s house for the weekend

Looked inside; everyone was needy and love-starved

The Baptism of Shadowheart 🌙 #JamieArt #bg3 #shadowheart

The OTHER project at CDPR's Boston studio is hiring a Lead Writer. (FT, onsite preferred) Come work with a very chill and creative team on Project Sirius ✨️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

September in books

this is jen’s first EVER award nomination in games 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️ so proud of her vote for jen, ben & expedition (throw in a lies of p overture vote while you’re there too 😉) !

Physical miniature finishing-

Update: on the mend and enjoying the blandest of chicken broths to keep her hydration up

Ginnie has gastric distress this week and desires sympathy & well wishes

A combination of two portraits I did this year ❤️ On the right features @aliona.bsky.social and the Simon Cowell of squirrels herself Corinna. On the left, we have Jennifer English, gods' favorite princess Shadowheart, and her writer @johncorcoran.bsky.social! Each one took about 60 hours to complete

For those of you playing on Steam Deck, Baldur’s Gate 3 now also features a native Steam Deck build! Running natively on the platform, you should now see a better framerate, lower loading times, and smoother gameplay 🙌

Reading behind a pillar to try and dodge performative male accusations

One of the coolest jobs on the planet opened up at our Warsaw studio. Be a lore master for The Witcher ✨️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

Better half back from her business trip to India with an array of new snacks:

And not to go all Levar Burton on you hoes but I just spent the whole day reading a book and I’m fairly certain the world would be a better place if more people did that

I have played games with amazing cinematic pieces written by games writers. I have watched abysmal pieces of cinema written by screenwriters. I have cleared up game projects that were systemically destroyed by the ego/ignorance of writers who moved into games without learning the medium. I have had-

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

I’ve ran the numbers and have concluded that my dog gets more food and better drugs than I do

The hunt is on! Hollow Knight: Silksong is available now on all platforms, including day one on Xbox Game Pass!