Laura Michet
@lmichet.bsky.social
Extremely good at bicycling a medium distance at a medium speed. Narrative/Production at Blendo Games. I mostly don't post here. You can see my blog, where I post every day, at blog.lauramichet.com
The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...
This is as good an excuse as any to re-share the Quadrilateral Cowboy trailer I got to help make with @derek-lieu.com @chrisremo.bsky.social and @erinyvette.bsky.social a decade ago. Still proud of it! youtu.be/S_IVvhSX2tY
Quadrilateral Cowboy release trailer
YouTube video by Blendo Games
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Brendon Chung@blendogames.bsky.social · 2d agoQuadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏
Quadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏
Save 63% on Klei Cyberpunk on Steam
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A deeply under-appreciated game: store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine on Steam
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
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Rebekah Valentine@duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2w agoIf Kentucky Route Zero is the Great American Novel of video games, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is the Great American Short Story Collection
i can touch the tip of my nose with the tip of my tongue I have written or edited 20 separate commercial videogames i have "rolled credits" on a tamagotchi i have been posting one blog post every single day on blog.lauramichet.com which is why i rarely post here. i will hit two years on sept 12
Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2w agoweird accomplishments: likely have written more iambic pentameter verse, commercially as work-for-hire, than anyone else alive on Earth taught myself calculus in my thirties for narrative design reasons At one point an employer gave me a very thoughtful gift of a print of the Stan Kelly "sicko".
late night post: I wrote a fairly long article quite awhile ago (auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...) on why you might submit to the Independent Games Festival. Today I present something a bit more specific: Advice on navigating the submissions interface and common pitfalls auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...
A quick guide to the Submissions Interface for The Independent Games Festival (IGF) – AURAMBLES
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This page is fantastic. It's a "best hits of game narrative blogging" and it can teach a student more about narrative design and production best practices than many university programs will bother to. I am also very proud to report that my writing is on it several times
Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2w agoA 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
Thank fucking god. Going back to my tomb to sleep in the cobwebs
"England vs Norway this weekend in Miami" is like a hex a witch casts. Neither team will leave Miami alive
Skin Deep ($11.99) - an immersive FPS, to the degree of 'sneezing can alert guards'. you're the 'insurance policy' on a starship, and the means of protecting it against pirates is wildly inventive (and goofy as hell). a fantastic comedy stealth sandbox. store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
Skin Deep is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale. If you want to see a thread of bizarre, unexpected tricks and Gamer Shit you can do with the game's immersive sim mechanics, check out this thread I posted last year: store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
Save 40% on Skin Deep on Steam
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...
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Laura Michet@lmichet.bsky.social · last yr.This is a type of pro move
Skin Deep is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale. If you want to see a thread of bizarre, unexpected tricks and Gamer Shit you can do with the game's immersive sim mechanics, check out this thread I posted last year: store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
Save 40% on Skin Deep on Steam
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...
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Laura Michet@lmichet.bsky.social · last yr.This is a type of pro move
New blog post: a long one going over my approach to running story breaking sessions with video game writing teams. azhdarchid.com/how-to-run-a...
How to Run a Story Breaking Session
Writer's room technique: How to lead a meeting to break a story as a group.
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For your perusal: Skin Deep is 40% off for the next two weeks and it contains what I believe to be some of my finest work store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
Save 40% on Skin Deep on Steam
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...
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Skin Deep's a gem. An immersive sim that heard everyone's fears about being violent, and solved it by making the bad guys immortal cartoon mooks who will probably hurt themselves MORE if you don't kick their asses for them. Also the writing is fantastic and funny. Some Venture Brothers notes to it.
suzanne@binarypartitioned.space · last mo.For your perusal: Skin Deep is 40% off for the next two weeks and it contains what I believe to be some of my finest work store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
New blog post (and sliding into email subscribers' inboxes too, I have not forgotten about you). About "that talk" at Narrascope; the application of choice mechanics in games; trying to rescue some context. azhdarchid.com/you-must-fre...
YOU MUST FREE YOURSELF FROM THE TYRANNY OF "MEANINGFUL CHOICES"
Not really a response to a Narrascope talk so much as the talk is an alarm letting me know it's time to have this conversation again.
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If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.
Figured I would make this clear - my "main" gig is now Blendo Games, where I'm handling both narrative and production. I've updated most of my public pages to indicate that Blendo is my "day job"! But my time at Blendo varies between full and part time. I'm still available for freelance thru 2027.
Excited to announce our friends at @kleientertainment.bsky.social will be co-stewards of these Blendo titles: Atom Zombie Smasher, Thirty Flights of Loving, Quadrilateral Cowboy We're part of Klei Fest 2026 -- check it out! klei.gg/KleiFest2026
Klei@kleientertainment.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe’re celebrating 20 years of Klei with our largest publisher sale to date ▶️https://klei.gg/KleiFest2026◀️ Save up to 90% on Klei developed & published titles + new game updates, trailers and special announcements.
@jesawyer.bsky.social I'm the one who told you about the very strange bike ride yesterday... I have a link to the next one now, if you haven't yet located it yourself. It is my favorite ride of the year and I think the best one anyone can do in LA
Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Wav Tool For browsing/searching through all of your audio assets. Loads: wav ogg mp3 flac opus This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep development. Free 👉Download blendogames.itch.io/blendo-wav-t... 👉Source code github.com/blendogames/...
Get it with The Banished Vault for a nice bundle discount! store.steampowered.com/bundle/68748...
Save 21% on Amberspire + The Banished Vault on Steam
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🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750
After years away I have returned to writing about video games with a piece for Remap about the less immediately obvious problems with DLSS 5
Remap Radio@remapradio.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe reimagined faces of Nvidia‘s unfortunate DLSS 5 rollout drew a lot of attention, but there were loads of other less eye-catching but equally major errors on display argues @brunodias.bsky.social remapradio.com/articles/dls...
Hey yall - unfortunately the rest of the very, very talented wanderstop team was laid off today and the studio shuttered. I'm no longer in need of work, but please, hire these peeps in the thread below! They're all absurdly good at what they do.
Ivy Road@ivyroadgames.bsky.social · 4mo agoUnfortunately, we've got some bittersweet news: today we must share that Ivy Road is closing its doors due to being unable to secure funding for our next project. Read more via our blog post at www.ivyroad.fun/studioupdate...
Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6! Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future. PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6! s.team/a/3350750
It's the Spring Sale on Steam! Demonschool is 20% off!!! You should please buy it if you have not. It's no exaggeration to say the more people buy the game, the more we'll be able to do with it in the future. So tell your friends as well! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
