My September (I was holding a weapon towards @bysameng.com that‘s why he looks like that)

I'd love to see game dev unions focus on advocacy for policy changes so groups like @gumbonyc.bsky.social can purchase group health insurance for members. A lot of game devs are freelancers / contract workers, esp. these days where w2 jobs are scarce. For some, it's literally life and death.

He’s not bluffing

I came on Here, after a very long time, to say: I hate video game genres they make no sense GOODBYE

I'm re-listening to Little Simz's GREY Area and... it's a perfect album

Yippee!!

People will literally throw gender reveals, mutilate their intersex kids’ natural genitalia, and tell their three-year-old girls to cross their legs to be lady-like but insist they don’t do “gender stuff” — bih! You’re locked in a gender prison!

Guys I’m so excited about going to NarraScope this weekend (you can still get online tix!). @shelbymoledina.bsky.social and I have been cooking up a great talk on writing for short attention spans (wouldn’t know anything about that) and I’m a judge on the showcase! narrascope.org/schedule/#ta...

Sorry, I just found out Murder, She Wrote rocks and cannot be disturbed until I’ve finished all the seasons and movies

Education is quite literally rebellion. If we don’t continue to train ourselves to do things that machines are imitating admirably, not only will we be replaced, we will be taken out of the broader conversation entirely when it comes to politics, art etc. Those things shouldn’t be run by elites.

Bruh we need an overhaul on this shiz. I don’t want to scroll recipe sites and then get sent back up to the top as soon as I ACTUALLY get to the recipe

this is the first pride month i have gotten to actually enjoy since coming out of the closet in 2020 and i just want to say: • it gets easier • the lights burn brighter when there’s so much darkness • take hold of your community and love everyone in it • happy pride, everyone

This game is super cool!

Many diasporic Jews want to ascribe humane or rational states of mind to Israeli settlers… unfortunately, widespread state propaganda, generational trauma, and devout adherence to an exceedingly exclusionary and tribal religion has led to this. youtu.be/lrdldVhfbaU

Narrative News June 25 out now! Check out resources, jobs, and a coupla thots on working as a professional narrative designer open.substack.com/pub/narrativ...

This actually happened to me

Happy pride!! Special love to all my trans loved ones and friends 💜

Saw the most off-duty Star Trek officer shirt ever today

MoMA PlayStation 1 outing with Corn 🤙

Write something…. Hm. No, I don’t think I shall.

AI will be so very bad for humanity — for our ability to do, create, act. A major part of rebelling against what is to come is to be better than the machine. Do what it cannot. Hone your craft! Be original! Be less derivative and more experimental! Subvert known patterns! Explore!

Libraries are a pillar of our communities, and Brooklyn Public Library needs our support to meet this moment. I just sent a letter to City leaders urging them to invest in our libraries. Will you join me? It only takes a minute: bklynlib.org/standup

The one thing the right and the left can unite on: the NYT sucks lol (I say this as a subscriber)

Respectfully, the issue of anti-semitism at this moment is as important as the issue of anti-German sentiment at the time of the Holocaust. During a genocide, the perpetrator must still be stopped regardless of infractions against them. Having said that, we can only learn to stop the hideous swing/

if anyone cares to know, i wrote the majority of this live merge game -- it's a supernatural mystery game with a story in the vein of buffy/supernatural/x-files mixed with Gilmore Girls quippiness. it's honestly fun as hell play.google.com/store/apps/d...

awe lol! more like potatoes of the indie dev scene

So excited to be a part of this, truly inspiring to play the games!

At one point in my writing life i would have thrown up thinking about someone watching me write in real time. Now there's always like five people in my docs at any given time

People treat being bad at reading like a learning disorder and being bad at math like a moral failing (they're both learning disorders)

Friends, there is so much talent in narrative indie games. Asked people who read Narrative News to submit their work from the past year, and ho boy did they deliver #gamewriting #narrativedesign open.substack.com/pub/narrativ...

Yellow paint? What are games, an aesthetic medium that uses composition, shape and colour to guide the eye and orient the player while leaning on a shared language and common grammar to expedite understanding and facilitate meaning and entertainment?

Too much gamedev advice is dispensed assuming the end goal is a commercially viable game and maybe that's a problem? Making a financially load bearing game is so close to impossible that maybe setting that as the end point for all game development is creating wildly unrealistic expectations

Bruh I am so inspired by the Amazon and Starbucks workers striking. Consider the behemoths they’re up against. Even just organizing has made the seemingly impossible into reality. So sick

I don’t know where I was or when but this photo is courtesy of the talented and off-platform Cornell Ward

Hey all, in my upcoming Narrative News newsletter I want to feature narrative focused projects from indie creators! Please hmu or reply if you have one! #gamedev #narrativedesign

Life is so beautiful (coffee and Cornell)

So much of game criticism right now is about some level of realism or coherence within a fantasy world when none of that matters. You used to play Chrono Trigger and you’d run into a talking frog and it wouldn’t be a thing, he’d just be a frog who talked in Medieval English. You’d go ok and have fun

Ubisoft layoffs right before the holidays… god. When will it end?

Bluesky is so dope but tbh I think it bodes really badly for society/the world at large to have a left wing Twitter (Bluesky) and a right wing Twitter (X)

This never worked on X but, pls share narrative design opportunities with me so I can include them in my free newsletter! Thx bb gals

Gilmore Girls is a masterclass in characterization

Thanks were gived, gluten was conspicuously absent

What do you call it when you post on Bluesky? Is the equivalent of a tweet a blue? “I just blued”?? Surely not

A lady said she saw me on the subway writing in a strawberry notebook so she wanted to share a spritz of her strawberry perfume. Kismet, she said. I can report it smells heavenly. Folks, I LOVE NEW YORK

Hands up if you like video games

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