I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams. brunodias.dev/bio

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

This months Archetype is here, and we have the brilliant @konstantinosd.bsky.social examining Skyboxes through the lens of Half-Life 2. Enjoy diving into this one.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

it's never too late to grab some free clip studio brushes ko-fi.com/s/1909d49cfc

bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture

I was thinking after the music biopic chat yesterday about how the underlying assumption of tech and capital seems to be that culture has stopped, it’s a solved problem. Every innovation has been made, every style invented and trope named, and the old will always provide higher returns than the new

When I open a can of cat food and some gets on my hand

I'm looking to speak to voice actors/voice directors for a feature I'm working on. If you're an actor/director interested in chatting about your work, or a PR with an opportunity to talk to some actors, get in touch at [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

"support indies" has become an annoying catchphrase that ignores a lot of material factors but i also understand why it's caught on among the normie youtuber game playing crowd, because this is the alternative presented by what's left of the mainstream.

I'll be speaking alongside Milly Gunn, Maddalena Grattarola and @kurainisei.bsky.social at the Goldsmiths Game Library Night on February 20th, 6-8pm! The topic is games preservation, tickets are free, get them here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gam...

we excel when we use game design as meaningful abstraction, not by trying to literally render inferior 'interactive' films where you click through your chores so you can see more lore. low poly low res UI-driven games are a form of resistance now

What if there was a website that regularly covered indie computer games outside of Steam, including experimental works and interactive fiction virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/i...

#DERELIKT will release this year - a narrative retro FPS inspired by Alien Resurrection, Doom 3 and System Shock 2. 🪐 #screenshotsaturday #ps1 #psx #hauntedps1

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, @nictringali.bsky.social and I talk with @meredithgran.com about her new game Perfect Tides: Station to Station, as well as making comics, satisfying endings, and the power of time and place. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them. It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!

You don't need Deus Ex (ugh) remastered, just buy it for a buck and play it in 800x600 with fixed lipsyncing, unfiltered textures, and brightness way down 😌

Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.

The issue with parties like Labour in the UK and the Democrats in the US is that sincerity has been trained out in favour of managerial triangulation towards an imaginary median voter. What Mamdanis show is that voters don't really exist until a politician actively gives them something to vote for.

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

We’re so excited to announce our Story-Rich Showcase! Our official showcase runs during the Summer Game Showcase 2026 timeframe, dedicated entirely to story-rich indie games with first looks, reveals, trailers, release dates, and dev-led storytelling 💝 More details soon! 🚶storyrich.games

I wrote "The Soft Truth" 8 years ago but tbh it feels really fresh and prescient to me now. Probably my best work medium.com/@leighalexan... (it may prompt you to subscribe for free, but you can skip that)

90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off

He is normal He can be trusted

A rare bit of games crit from me, on Many Nights a Whisper and trying to get at what a “poetic” game might be 👇

swen seems like a decent dude... he might just need to get off the computer for a bit also, his assumption that this scoring system if implemented would result in a lessening of his anguish and not, say, his biggest haters getting millions of upvotes, reminds me of this thing i wrote in a blog

First launch of 2026! Delighted to be playing roles such as “big snake” “sexy lift” and “Glushh” for Size Five Games! Silly, weird, with a cast of very famous and funny people!

Replay for the morning crowd: I have launched a Patreon to do Visible Zork 3, followed by all the rest of the Infocom games. One per month. There's an associated Discord for game discussion as we run through them. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-... www.patreon.com/VisibleZorker

We're launching a website. Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers. jank.cool If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too! *Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408

Very soon I will be ✨available for work✨ If you’re interested in who I am and what it is I do/have done then here’s a little introduction thread about myself and my work.

It's time for a NEW adventure! Come watch as @shirokumahi.me and I ACAB our way through this real-time procedural adventure in the grim, racist cyberpunk vision of Los Angeles, 2019 as only Westwood Studios could deliver in 1997. It's BLADE RUNNER time! youtu.be/Gm9sfSo5_M8

a gentle - but very serious - reminder to try and migrate as much of your data and as many of the web services you use as possible to platforms outside the US. Especially if patreon/newsletter subs or go fund me etc are part of your income. (1/3)

The games industry has a long history of glorifying and normalising military violence. A blurring of “war and play” that both militaries, militaristic organisations and the games industry benefit from. This has been happening before digital games existed, but has been amplified massively by them.

For all fans of IF, there's an event coming in April (18-19) to coincide with the London Games Festival. For excited possible attendees - mark your calendars. For those who might want to run a workshop, or exhibit, here's the form - forms.gle/j3AEMs24iKvU... Deadline:Sunday 8 Feb Shares welcome

The mere possibility of hiring Alexis to give your sci-fi story a desperately needed punch-up is one you should embrace right now! Her contribution to Neurocracy sent its narrative sprawling in some genuinely wild directions ✨ Check it out here why not: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/01/Pulau_Bahru

He's ready for his haircut

Hey! I think this'll probably be one of the games of the year. It's been described as being 'relatable millennial content' and it kind of is? But if that doesn't sell the game to you, you should know there's a bunch of other reasons to love this game, I thought I'd mention a couple quickly.

First review of 2026 is live and it's for a good 'un -- an exquisitely esoteric database mystery from @inkle.co. Shades of Sam Barlow, naturally; I was also reminded of Benjamin Labatut's "nonfiction novels", The Maniac and When We Cease To Understand The World. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

This is what it feels like watching UK politicians reacting to him too. We've literally mobilised troops against him and Keith is still mumbling about Respectful Discussions

Whenever I hear devs or other creatives who do worldbuilding say they *have* to use ch*tGPT to help with their lore bibles because no human could possibly collate such a huge and complex world… I glare in historian

Gee. Shocker. #Krasnov leaks critical info to his Daddy, Putin. I'm so shocked. 🤦‍♀️

My "vegan" cat coming to feast on my corpse

medium.com/@simonchris1... My queer, Hegelian space detective story is now available on Medium. Any feedback is welcome!

As a Venezuelan I hope that none of you ever find yourself in a position where you need to bargain with an authoritarian to save your people because the rest of the world abandoned you www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/a...