Applications for Insomniac's summer intern program are now live (including for a story intern)! Come get direct hands-on experience working alongside our devs on the (imo) pretty exciting stuff we're making now! insomniac.games/careers/

Careers - Insomniac Games

To create games that have a positive and lasting influence on people’s lives.

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absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

One of it not the strongest Weekly Shonen Jump author comment I've ever read.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 9mo ago

We should use social media the same way manga authors write about their week aftermath.site/weekly-shonen-...

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

Kerry Howley@kerryhowley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

Game writing internship! There are very specific criteria so make sure you read the information. Not affiliated. Shares welcome. job-boards.greenhouse.io/crystaldynam...

Game Writer Intern

Hybrid - San Carlos, CA

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Pairing Yuri and Nhi together was exactly as much of a blast as we thought it'd be! SO much fun to record, and we still have a lot more eps coming down the road 🔥

Script Lock@scriptlock.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy holidays! We've dropped down the chimney w/ the INCREDIBLE gifts of @yurilowenthal.bsky.social & @nhitendo.bsky.social! We talk auditions, working w/ directors, relationships w/ studios, and more -- and here they are talking about imposter syndrome: scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/yur...

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

bushido blade, development shot, level design (1996) archive.org/details/ultr...

If you’re at FREAKON in Melbourne today, come see @maxfolkman.bsky.social and I talk about the most humiliating moment in our lives during the micro talks at 1PM! 👀👀👀👀👀👀

hate to say I told you so www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last yr.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

god help me, I've gotten into magic the gathering

this article rocks

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last yr.

Zach Helfand writes about fact checking at The New Yorker. “A joy of the job was that you became an expert for two weeks on some subject you’d never thought much about—rocket science, foreskin, sand.”

Asked my daughter what she thought of her first viewing of THE THING and got this in response.

Apologies to the excited airport security worker who thought he was meeting the Property Brothers until he realized he was just meeting us

On Wednesday evening, developers began to notice their games were being unceremoniously delisted or outright removed from Itch.io. Itch's founder says it's the direct result of a financial censorship campaign from Collective Shout, an org with ties to anti-porn groups www.wired.com/story/steam-...

Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship

A conservative group is targeting payment processors as “a weapon” to get adult games deindexed in storefronts. Even games that have nothing to do with sex or abuse have been caught in the dragnet.

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Given the 616 pages, I'm assuming this is just the cine scripts, which is really cool! One day tho I hope the larger studios start publishing/posting their gameplay scripts too b/c they're the bulk of the player experience, much more unique to our medium, and sooo much more useful to learn from

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last yr.

The Last of Us: Part I and Part II Scripts hardcover book is up for preorder on Amazon ($66.63 - 616 pages) buff.ly/yaIkruk "This volume contains the script from both The Last of Us Part I and The Last of Us Part II, as well as the DLC, Left Behind"

hey what's up. we are actually hiring a Whole Bunch of writers now www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📣 We’re Hiring Narrative Designers! | Alexandra Rance

📣 We’re Hiring Narrative Designers! 📣 Our close-knit creative team in Beijing is looking for two narrative designers to help us create original casual mobile games — the kind with engaging stories, c...

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Dropped a new ep of @scriptlock.bsky.social yesterday w/ @karriebear.bsky.social & Ros Dachtler! 🔥 Lots of great discussions around who/what taught them the most about storytelling, things they've had to unlearn, changing games in response to fans, and more! scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/kar...

Karrie Shao & Ros Dachtler | Script Lock

We're over halfway through 2025 and we've got Karrie and Ros in to talk about breaking into games via Craigslist, what Ros has been up to since working on Battlefield 1, who/what taught them the most ...

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This is his time.

the yakuza fanbase figured out years ago that as long as they don't care how similar a game looks to its predecessor, they can play a brand new game that's an instant banger roughly every two years or so, often with pretty good spin-offs on the off-years

Imran Khan@imrankhan.bsky.social · last yr.

Related, I see a lot of gnashing of teeth at how similar Ghost of Yotei looks to Tsushima. Like, yeah dog, Tsushima came out in 2020. Do you -want- every game to take eight years? Sometimes iteration is the cure rather than a symptom.

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

To anyone being hit by layoffs today, It's not you. It's them. It isn't your fault. It's theirs. You didn't do anything wrong. They did. They fucked up. Not you.

IM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW IM ORDERING A PIZZA IM NOT GOING TO THE GYM TOMORROW MORNING WE’RE PARTYING ALL NIGHT LONG

[Somber David Attenborough voice] He's the last member of the DK Crew.

For folks with a negative reaction to Mexican flags at LA protests, a little familiarity with the history & culture of California--and LA in particular--might change your mind. These protests are to protect local communities, not to appeal to white people watching from afar. They are organically LA.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last yr.

It should be obvious that most of the people criticizing the use of the Mexican flag during protests intensely misunderstand California politics and culture.

ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger. From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say LA County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone.

ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger

From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say Los Angeles County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone. Over the past three days, ...

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