Amy Stevens

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

my pumkin he is everything

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

Finally updated my website after letting it die when I killed my adobe subscription. Kind of regret deciding to do it myself on neocities. The whole make my own site idea seemed great when I was unemployed, less so these days, but, hey, it's done. I exist on the world wide web once more.

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? me, a writer: yes. in the trade we call that a line break

I wish I could do text formatting on here. Maybe I should go back to tumblr lol

What if you arrived home and found a stranger had commandeered your house? This is Not Your House is a super neat little VN. Great concept, wacky branches. Third person prose with second person choices is jarring but beyond that this is fun and scary. store.steampowered.com/app/3139140/...

Rolled credits on Blue Prince last night! An absolute bonkers set of runs saved at the last minute by a dining room I forgot about. Not sure if I'm happy to leave it here, or if I want to go after the rest of the puzzles...

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

I know a lot of games folk pan it, but I loved Bandersnatch and am really sad to see it go. Wish I could buy it on DVD or something.

This is everything to me

I kinda went silent on here after I asked a "how do you deal with this narrative design thing" question and got a whole load of "well I'm simply good at my job so this isn't a problem" replies. Gonna try and be less sensitive and post again 😅

I'm looking for beta testers for my latest twine game! A boyfriend was all you ever wanted, or thought you wanted, at least. But when your love spell goes wrong, you find yourself face-to-face with soulless husks, perfect parasites and jellyfish that grow teeth. Shoot me a dm if interested ❤️

A full aurora ring over a bay in Iceland #bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #light #travel

You've been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner Co: 🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner 🚀 Access everything about everything that players have done in the most important game of all time, straight from Yarn. yarnspinner.dev/mesaves

Finally cancelled my adobe subscription! Moved to Affinity. Dunno if that means my website is going to go dark, but it was outdated anyway.

Just played Sweetpea by @sophiades.bsky.social. Beautiful stuff. The claustrophobic atmosphere is so perfectly gothic, and text effects are used masterfully to make the game feel like a living text. sophiades.itch.io/sweetpea

Avoid the part of any writing advice that includes "never" or "always." Sometimes you want a filter word, or an adverb, or passive voice. They're tools, and specific in their use. Be conscious of what you're doing, strive to improve and make elegant, but keep the tool for later. You WILL need it.

Tried this on some lunch break writing and got two sentences in before I'd forgotten what I'd already written 😂. I think this is a really interesting technique, I'd encourage writers with a better memory than me to give it a shot!

Set here

Replaced a light fixture today. Unreasonably proud of myself. Maybe I'll retrain as an electrician when the whole games industry collapses.

Going ghost hunting in an abandoned masonic lodge tomorrow night. Absolutely no idea what I'm going to make of it...inspiration for horror writing, maybe?

I wish twine had spell check. I put words in the right order, I don't know how to spell them that's like a whole different discipline.

It's been a solid 2.5 years now that text and image generators have been a problem and despite near constant claims of 'unlocked potential and democratized creative expression', there hasn't been *one* hit novel, undeniable piece of art, an example of work that people establish a fandom over.

What are people using for streaming music these days? I want to listen to albums more than playlists and be able to see my collection of music over being recommended new stuff. I briefly left Spotify for CDs + Winamp but ended up back on it because I did like the variety and ease of streaming.

Sunday morning writing time 😊 finished the outline for this feature so onto actual writing!

Writing is really hard, actually.

Sunday mornings ❤️☀️

I had pasta cooked in a wheel of parmesan cheese at the market today. 2025 is peaking early for me I fear.