Running a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians today. I usually give people some tiny swords to hold on to after character creation introductions. Couldn't find my usual stash, so I had to get British about it

Got adopted by a roaming pack of feral lesbians, Castlefest still good

*Raymond Vermeulen@crapcyborg.bsky.social · 3d ago

Having a wander around Castlefest, come say hi if you spot me! #castlefest

Having a wander around Castlefest, come say hi if you spot me! #castlefest

Just impulsively ordered one of the new fancy samsung foldy phones, some stupid good weekend deal I don't think I've bought a flagship in... ever? This'll be a change from the budget pixels, been on those since the nexus 4.

My pixel 7a phone is on its way out and everything new looks like fucking awful AI infested shit. Same with windows 11 I'm going to have to learn two new tech ecosystems aren't I ugh

Paid off last week's London & Brighton trip, booked hotels for next year's dev brighton, booked trains to London for october & november Not the funnest paycheck ever

Wickworks is hiring a Technical Writer/Editor to help make Lancer Tactics’ in-game text shine! 🛰️ Remote, Contract 📝 2+ years XP 🎲 Deep Lancer TTRPG knowledge a must Work with @wick.works and apply:

Wickworks is hiring a Technical Writer/Editor

We’re looking for an experienced technical writer who can help make our in-game texts shine.

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I'll be here all weekend, if anyone wants to talk bleedy roleplaying shit or beat me up Miiiight try organizing something cool shortly before AdvX, watch this space

AdventureX@adventurex.bsky.social · 2w ago

This year’s schedule and lineup of incredible talks and panels are live! Visit adventurexpo.org for details. Join us at #AdvX26 in London on 7-8 November to hear from @sallybeaumont.bsky.social, @theexaminedgame.bsky.social, and more amazing gaming pros. Keynotes coming soon! Follow for updates

A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org

The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition

Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.

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The irony is I don't think discs are that great of solution to preservation on the game side these days anyways. Patches and DLC basically made them a moot point in most cases. I hate to say but the best case for digital persvatuon is storing that shit on a hard drive somewhere.

This Sep I'm leading an online interactive workshop on game writing and narrative design, hosted by CULT Cymru! Join me in speedrunning the game writing process, from creating a design document to choosing the right structure & tools through to a finished work in 3 hours. (Link below 🔽 )

Some lads dressed in English flags square up at us on the street, "you lot look like you support Palestine" Fucking lol

Ready to fuck up a million pancakes with other narrative peeps at dev brighton narrative breakfast! Kind of How did I end up running an early morning thing again

Took a few fire shots with Pixless camera at Dev Brighton today

Rocking the queer pirate fit at Develop today, come say hi!

so like are we gonna discuss why people love to say games writers can/should be swapped out but would never say that about a games artists or programmer and how games writers have a lot more women and people of color than other disciplines orrrrrr

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Dev:Brighton babies!!

Submitted a small prototype/demo/trailer/vibe to #toxicyurivnjam crapcyborg.itch.io/two-girls-st... Very much tried to just have fun and create some stuff with this instead of stress over things, almost succeeded, and got friends to create too! Woo. Proper 1.1 release and thoughts soon I'm sure

Two Girls Stuck Somewhere Stupid by crapcyborg

Two girls enter. One leaves. This will not do.

crapcyborg.itch.io

Took mental damage from seeing tonight's gyoza translated as "japanese style ravioli"

Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com

Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail

Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.

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new game release: Radiator Forever, a new ongoing re-remastered collection of all my experimental gay games, all in one package!... still free ($0), now on Steam + Steam Deck verified Info + links on my blog (SFW): www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/07/radi...

Radiator Forever is "Gay As A Service" + its debut July 2026 Update is Rinse And Repeat, Now On Steam

Design notes for Radiator Forever, my new all-in-one collection that will contain all my gay games... Eventually. Now Steam Deck verified!

blog.radiator.debacle.us

I'm on a panel at Develop next week! Wednesday 15th at 4.30pm "Developing Characters For Performance - A Writers’ Panel" alongside Sagar Beroshi, Vicky Wheeler, Daniel Bowditch, and Amy-Leigh Shaw! @sagarberoshi.bsky.social @diveamydive.bsky.social www.developconference.com/conference-p...

Every decade of my life I have watched Major Kusanagi sexily fall off that damn building in a new way and you know what: I bet it'll still get my ass the next time, too

Behind every "solo dev success story" is usually a partner working 9-5 for years to pay the bills.

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w ago

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

My best advice for any game devs recently laid off is to keep in touch with your closest coworker friends, do a group call at least once a week, share job postings in the chat, hype each other up, and just generally look out for each other.

I missed something like 4 important end of academic year milestones of students & colleagues because the train has not been running for more than a week. Never affected by an outage this badly before. Feels bad man.

It’s hard to overstate how different everything in this industry felt three years ago.

Devs only do this work out of passion, and players only want to buy games made with evidence of developer passion. If your only passion is money and the stock market, get out of games and go sell oil or beer or cars or some other boring shit. GTFO. We don't want you.