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Ed Fear

@edfear.co.uk

Big gay. He/him. Game director, writer & narrative designer, ex-Mediatonic/Epic. Prev: Murder by Numbers, Hatoful Boyfriend, Heavenstrike Rivals, The Swords of Ditto, many more. LGB with the T🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. ゲームディレクターやシナリオライター　パズル探偵スカウトなど。日本語OK!

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Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 4d ago

Jeff is a big part of the reason that Murder by Numbers ever existed, so if you liked that, you are morally obligated to wishlist this. Oh and Fall Guys I guess, if you're into deeper cuts.

Jeff Tanton - Wishlist OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY 📸👻🪣@jefftanton.bsky.social · 4d ago

OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY - a deductive 📸, paranormal 👻, job-sim 🪣 - Investigate sites of recent horrors - Solve the mystery of what occurred there - Clean all traces of it away so nobody finds out Golden Idol x Power Wash Sim Releasing in 2027 - wishlist now store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/...!

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 2mo ago

Terrible that Anne Widdicombe might have been murdered. I'd much rather she'd survived until the rapture, so she could be left behind and have to witness God tell her she got it all wrong and that, actually, being a shiteheap to so many people under the guise of 'faith' was not what it was all about

Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!)@oneofmoo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 2mo ago

Sometimes when you're learning Japanese you see a word and you're just like 'ugh! of COURSE that's what it is! what a logical language!' yesterday's example: 通気口 tsuukikou pass through + air + opening = air vent

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 2mo ago

the pulsing X on top of the heart is such a beautiful touch. what a gift for this to be the last thing I see as I lie clutching my chest on the floor, vision narrowing to a pin-prick focused on that X, bigger, now smaller, now bigger again; beating just as my heart seizes. game over

Alex McG@spydak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 3mo ago

ALERT ALERT! I have a new most surprising place I've had the classic, "Excuse me, I've got a script for a game, can you make it for me?" approach. Grindr.

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 5mo ago

Guess who thought the LGF Self Publishing Toolkit conference day was today, and just walked into an Amazon Business event. It was on Tuesday. 😫

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 5mo ago

This story of how Yoko Taro designed the world map for the original Drakengard makes me feel SO SEEN. As does the section header, "No Interest in Worldbuilding". (From the lovely new book The Wor[l]ds of Yoko Taro)

There were other mid-project orders too. I remember being told to name the towns and make a map. Up until then, I'd been using real names like France and Germany for the countries in the game. Then they told me to come up with original names. Their reasoning was something about unique worldbuilding and original place names being part of Enix's identity as an RPG maker.But that didn't really click with me. In the end, I fudged it by giving things random names like the Silent Forest or the Temple on the Ocean. For the map, I literally took a real map of Europe, flipped it upside down, and handed that in!
Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 5mo ago

WORK KLAXON! (Very small) paid gig! Are you: * A concept artist with demonstrable environment experience * Based in the UK * Available for one or two days next week If so, ping me your portfolio! ❤️ xoxo gossip girl

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 5mo ago

I swear to the highest of highs, Vodafone: I will find every person who enabled and developed this shitheap of a chatbot, and I will erase them. Not kill them, no -- I will so comprehensively destroy them that there will be no trace of them ever having existed, even in their dearests' memories.

A conversation with Vodafone's completely useless chatbot, TOBi, in which it says it's sorry it hasn't been able to help me, asks if I'd like to speak to an agent, and then when I say yes -- PICKED FROM A LIST OF YES OR NO, NOT EVEN TYPED -- it says it can't understand, because it's a piece of shit that deserves to be slung into the cold, dark, merciless void of space.
Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 6mo ago

This game is so good - massive congratulations on making it to launch, Moo and team! Hugely compulsive, tight writing, and fun characters. Highly recommend it to anyone who liked Murder by Numbers and wants something compelling and cosy.

Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!)@oneofmoo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🏹🏹🏹 Mythmatch is OUT NOW on Steam! 🏹🏹🏹 AND there's a 20% launch discount! 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Make a home And it's Steam Deck Verified!! store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 6mo ago

I love flip/foldable phones but fucking hell they are still SO flaky. Now the touchscreen of my Z Flip 6 isn't working, and it seems like it's a pretty common issue. And fixing them is expensive too - might make more sense to just buy a new mid-range phone instead

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 6mo ago

The other day I thought about how I hadn't been to an office in over 2 years and... it made me really sad? I really miss it. I know that's not what you're supposed to say but, man. I would kill for an office! And colleagues! 😭

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 6mo ago

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 6mo ago

On Monday I sent a plea to the client who owes me $24k for months and months of work, owed to me since September, saying that if they do not pay me by the end of the month I will lose my apartment and that they should show some humanity and pay the invoice They of course have not paid the invoice

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 6mo ago

Hey Ren'Py peeps, please get on this, I still need to find a narrative picross game that scratches the itch that made me make MbN. (After all, I never actually got to experience MbN as a player, so it remains very much unscratched 😭) (This is the true cost of 'make the game you'd want to play')

Storm/Naoimh@stormstrom.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I recently released some code for a simple picross setup in Ren'Py - it's missing a few features, but I'd be happy to tidy it up from suggestions if it's useful to anyone - I really enjoyed Murder by Numbers! naoimh-murchan.itch.io/renpy-miniga...

Ed Fear@edfear.co.uk · 6mo ago

It's such a shame we never got to do a sequel to Murder by Numbers. I learned so much in the process, and made so many mistakes that only became obvious in hindsight. The team suggested some great ideas in the retrospective. Would those fixes have convinced people who thought the mix didn't work?