Absolutely can confirm

Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work! Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching. I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums

I'm currently doing contract work but I'm still looking for more – contract or full-time. I'm a narrative designer, writer, systems designer, and game designer with a decade of game dev experience, on projects ranging from indie games, to IP support for a major studio, to interactive video.

man I dunno this is just off the top of my head, probably missed some things

I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

My co-editor wraps up our issue on IF with an interrogative and expansive essay on the ideological underpinings of desktop interfaces. Really rewarding and complex work.

A dear friend was kind enough to capture their vibes in this wonderful drawing ❤️

Absolutely can confirm

A colleague from Ubisoft Mainz and I did a stream last week about Technical Art from Ubisoft Dusseldorf. It is intended to be an introduction to the discipline, its fields and a brief discussion about its reach. It is now up on Youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QjM...

London, Halloween night 2025. #photos #london

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

Looking for some tips: Does anyone have experience with NavLinkCustomComponent? We’re trying to make AI use doors (locked / unlocked) and have encountered some issues. Suggestions appreciated!

RIP Adam Greenberg He was the superb cinematographer who shot Near Dark (watch it!), Terminator 2: Judgment Day and, of course, The Terminator, which means he’s responsible for one of my favourite shots in cinema that also coined a new genre for its film:

recently acquired a video mixer from a second hand shop and i've been having one hell of a time making stuff with it, especially doing feedback loops and cool distortions

Got some very weird work coming up, so I'm building a system to convert Metahuman heads to low-poly assets with baked lighting and texture data. From there I'll clean up and paint over the textures by hand to add characterization and such Doing some real sicko shit and it's deeply pleasing

After years of hearing about how this one puzzle "killed adventure games," it was time to track down and bury that myth... Go read my latest for Endless Mode about Gabriel Knight 3, gaming in the year 2000, and how more games need Cat Mustache puzzles...

For Halloween I've published Part I of a new two-part horror story unlike anything I've ever put online before. It's violent, gross and sexually explicit about organ meats, among other things. Read at your own risk, or don't! medium.com/@leighalexan...

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid. KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play. brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

Been obsessing over The Séance of Blake Manor this week, which is such an expertly written murder mystery deduction game. Really in awe of the way it can build this twisted, supernatural world but still deliver deeply human storytelling with the big occult mystery. www.polygon.com/the-seance-o...

ICYMI: No Escape has launched its content plan for 2026! We’re moving away from covering AAA games and towards bringing you thoughtful coverage of indies of all stripes. - We’re bringing the magazine back - We’re starting a podcast - We’re commissioning more writers noescapevg.com/content-note...

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

gonna make an FPS where releasing the crouch button while in a crawl space causes you to bump your head and take critical damage. no toggle.

I played this, finally, last month and it is so so good. Really good folk horror, really good depictions of weird village life, lovely art and voice work. One of the best modern point and clicks imo.

<sighs in Neurocracy> In the year 2031, brain implants known as "neural colloids" are first tested on children without their knowledge or consent, resulting in multiple fatalities and a quick cover-up by the company that makes the implants You can guess where this is going (1/2)

Hi! My friend Natalie is having a really hard time supporting her kids right now. It would make me so happy if you could donate to help her keep going: gofund.me/17705d028

The best Splinter Cell game? An all-time great? On the latest episode of @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social we dig into Chaos Theory. www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

>be me >get asked for new yorker interview >they say it's not with chotiner when i ask if it's with chotiner because legally they'd have to tell me if it was with chotiner if it was with chotiner >meet for interview >chotiner

My feed is lit up with the psychological terror of baseball (everyone wants to die?) so it's time for me to plug the wild story of himbo slugger Charlemagne Cabrera ⚾ Click ahead in the revision history to see why he keeps dying and then not dying! omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/06/Charlemagne_Cabrera

Friends choose your so-called "critics" carefully. Its not a binary. If people do circular citations and happen to never cite the women who laid the groundwork for decades and pay the price, there's a problem.

If you're looking for a talented and dedicated web developer, stop looking right now because this is it! This is the one! Seriously, Omnipedia only works as smoothly and intuitively as it does because of Ambient.Impact's amazing work. Hire themmm 😤

PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam

I consulted on this wonderful spooky almost Mignola-style game that really immerses itself in Irish history in the best way, I’d highly recommend it. Also a great Halloween detective mystery that really does ask you to do considerable detective work

Reminds me of this classic from a few years back:

So I thought I’d set up a ko-fi as a few people have asked if I have one. Might be nice to have a way for people to send over a few quid if they’ve found my work helpful/interesting and feel like doing so (never an obligation or expectation for anyone to do that though) ko-fi.com/drholly

<sighs in Neurocracy>

Tune in to @roguelike.club in 3 hours for my talk about the analogy between physics and procedural generation! We'll see how generators can be solid, liquid or gaseous and why –just like Maxwell's Demon– designers are underrated little guys. 🍵🫖

Mars Express is that increasingly rare sci-fi movie that lets its tropes, both familiar and unfamiliar, exist in its world without the need to explain them over and over, trusting you to put the pieces together on the go and thereby making you feel that much more involved in the action

Neurocracy If you wanted more out of your conspiracy board than a family tree, Neurocracy has you diving into Wikis and bulletin boards to figure out what's next. pyrofoux.itch.io/neurocracy

I ran a session on PCG for keepsake games at Dagstuhl earlier this year, and as part of that @junevamp.bsky.social, @dipikarajesh.bsky.social, @mtrc.bsky.social and I made our own keepsake game, A Sending! You can download it for free on itch: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/a-sending

Folks! I’m looking for an illustrator to do some in-game artwork for an unannounced project on a contract basis in November. Feel free to shoot me a DM with your portfolio if you’re interested! Must be based in the UK, and absolutely no AI 🌟

Ngl the Neurocracy Discord server hitting 451 members feels correct 😏

Well well well if it isnt the Blowjob Brothers

Imaging going in for Brain Surgery like "I used to be able to play guitar like Hendrix" and then sitting there being awful and making them tool around in your shit for hours until you can fucking shred on the operating table and then getting up off the tables and eating a Mentos with a wink.

thought about new boot goofing again and the much funnier bit that follows it

-"Smile, Pato" -"I am smiling"

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