Murderblonde

Oh crap forgot intro post! I just leapt into talking about random stuff! That's me. I like videogames, I've been doing writing and narrative and design on em 20+ years, also I love gardening and orchids and cooking and gluten free baking (Celiac disease BLOWS). I have a rad fiancee & 3 cats. TA-DA

Say you're a game developer without saying you're a game developer

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

3 games: Our Wonderland (free) Our Life: Now and Forever (Mostly free) Oneshot I found these games randomly with no context and no info past what the game page showed. Each of these has completely blown me away

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

Well in honor of Spooky Season: store.steampowered.com/app/1114650/... If you like Earthbound style RPGs, the general fun vibes of stuff like Nightmare Before Christmas or the Halloweentown movies, and some meme-y humor, you'll enjoy this.

If any of y'all liked the King's Field games or aesthetic I recommend Lunacid. Fantastic game with excellent atmosphere. store.steampowered.com/app/1745510/...

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

This is definitely one of those days where the argument to get out of bed is largely given by my cat and how he needs food. It's a good argument to this soulcrushing bullshit if even only briefly

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

i think the games industry should have studios that exist

Don’t know how to say it other than, creatives are currently enduring an Era of Punishment from rich people who just despise people with functioning brains.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Me: Gosh is there anything better than creating optimal, elegant, beautiful solutions for problems? I love it! A bunch of clowns, apparently: hahaha let's throw a bunch of money into a furnace, buy up all the RAM and GPUs and just fuckin' brute force everything HONK HONK

I got a job at The Body Shop (the lotions/makeup store) the summer when I was 17. I kicked ass at it, but after 2 weeks the person I'd replaced decided they didn't want to quit & move to Tucson after all. And with not enough hours, they let go the least senior person - me. Over the phone, no less!

Yay for interviewing from home but also the last 10 minutes before the interview starts are the most fucking excruciating things ever

I've switched tactics from calling "llms are sentient beings" nitwits stupid to agreeing with them and saying "yeah!! Furbies too!!!" and they get so much madder lmao

A thing that I think is always worth remembering is that The Game Awards voting panel is comprised entirely of well over 100 press outlets worldwide and that its votes are an outcome of what it is - an averaging of the most mainstream opinions on games in every country and language

AI execs: “Our product is going to kill you 🥰😘” the general populace: “we don’t think you should do that” AI execs, dancing on a yacht powered by orphans: “Yooouuurre gonnnaaa diiiieee🎶🎵” everyone else: “i really don’t like this” AI execs, frolicking atop a mountain of skulls: “Why so hostile??”

Hi! Aftermath is a video games website where the writers own the company. We're almost entirely funded by readers, so if you'd like to join the thousands of subscribers already supporting independent games media, you can learn more/sign up below! aftermath.site/aftermath-subs...

even if you sign up for free (there's a free tier!) you're still helping us out

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

I am thrilled to announce that "A Structure of Sympathy for Video Game Characters: Lena Raine’s Music for Celeste and Chicory: A Colorful Tale" is out in the Journal of Sound and Music in Games. For the next month, the article is available for free from online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/article... @lena.fyi

I made a gofundme because being homeless is going to kill me. Please spread the word that two of our great living artists are begging for money so they can finally get their lives back. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bache...