Ed Fear

Very honoured to be working on this game as its writer! Dungeon Automata, by Japanese indie developer @gunzee2.bsky.social, is so stylish and unique - it's been a lot of fun helping bring his vision to life. AND YUZO KOSHIRO IS DOING THE SOUNDTRACK!!! Demo is on Steam now!

Listening to the Harvestella soundtrack for the first time in forever and, MAN it makes me sad this game sunk without a trace. Easily my favourite game of [whatever year it came out I can't be bothered to look]

Speaking of Ace Combat X - hilariously, the review is still up! The first writing I ever did for money. I was so scared before writing it that I got drunk to quieten the inner critic. Crazy that this still survives, yet games I've written don't exist anymore. www.pocketgamer.com/ace-combat-x...

Literally one of the funniest game writers/designers/developers around, which absolutely sickens me to say, so you'd be an idiot not to fill his opening.

FUCK I love Ace Combat 8 so much. The only other one I ever played was X on PSP, which I loved (and reviewed many many years ago) but good god Lemon it's one of the most exhilarating, arse-clenchingly tense games I've played in a VERY long time.

I did ask Tim Sweeney if I could have the rights back to Murder by Numbers, hoping he'd be an eccentric billionaire and be like "yeah have them for £1" but he wanted a plan and a team structure and I couldn't be bothered. now with all this AI stuff I wish I had them even more :(

It's times like these I'm glad they shitcanned me

Re-joined a team I haven't worked with for a few years, and got a temporary shock from my old slack avatar:

i lied i modeled SCOUT instead sue me (don't) www.newgrounds.com/art/view/xub... #picoCAD2 #lowpoly #murder-by-numbers

このゲームのライターとして携わることができて、本当に光栄です！以前から日本のインディーズ開発者と仕事をしてみたいと思っていたので、この機会を逃す手はありませんでした。これからもたくさんの機会があるように！ Steamで体験版が配信中ので、ぜひプレイしてみてください！

What do you do when you're in a creative funk? When you don't know what to do, or which direction to go in? Because BOY am I there right now, but I'm determined to not let it last much longer.

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.

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/...!

are there any outlets out there looking for a control resonant reviewer? i've sat down with the 2h press demo and interviewed two project leads, if that's of any interest... hehe... relevant links below 🔽

Earth Must Die (Steam) w/ 10 more games is $12 on Humble No More Robots Bundle buff.ly/WEnHDKa #ad

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

Mythmatch is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch ❗❗ 20% Launch Discount ❗❗ Our narrative-rich, Greek myth, anti-capitalist merge game is available now on the eShop! Americas: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... Europe: www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/... Please repost to help spread the word!

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

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

Time, once again, for my favourite concatenation

Ohhhh this is going to be dangerous!!!

Never thought the day would come where they'd announce a new Xenoblade game and I'd just feel "meh"

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.

Never thought the day would come that I'd have a Xenosaga game in my Steam library - let alone that it'd be Pied Piper!

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

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.

The Guardian does amazing work in the data visualization field, and this is a great way of demonstrating an issue I didn't even know existed.

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.

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

Like game music? Right now Square Enix Music's YouTube channel is doing a live guitar performance livestream to celebrate their 4th anniversary. I'm loving it! youtu.be/AwMBe2axi5o

hahahaha definitely haven't just seen something that's going to turbocharge my insecurities for a good few years. nope.

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! 😭

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.

Wait, Anna Camp is a lesbian now? It's nominative determinism gone mad!!!!

Mythmatch in Steam Next Fest is Live! It's a narrative-rich, town-building match-3 game! store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/... The demo will be live all week, but the first two days tell Steam how much to show it so please 🎮 Play the Demo! ✅ Wishlist the Game! 📢 Spread the word!!

This piece was SO fucking good - the perfect balance of erudite analysis and barely-contained fury.

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')

my baby out in the wild 🥹🥹🥹

Every day I have at least a two hour period where the overwhelming narrative in my head is, "oh my god, what are you doing, you're SO in over your head. you're FUCKED." new tactic I'm trying: let it speak. let it raise my heart rate, and make my stomach sink. and once it's done, simply say: "No."

Today's learnings: as much as professionals might warn otherwise, turns out using the word 'cum' in your studio's announcement post is pretty good for stickiness. Here's hoping for virality! 🙏🏻

Wrote two low-quality jokes for the bio, so I'm taking the rest of the afternoon off. That's how this self-employment thing works, right? (Please do follow @emanationgames.bsky.social, there's lots to, er, come.)