Sally 🔜 AdventureX

Absolutely thrilled to reveal what we've been up to - bringing years of narrative tooling experience to a brand new platform that supports the whole studio. We've seen first-hand how valuable well-designed narrative tools can be, and are really excited to share what we're building 🧡 tarinoi.com

I stay sane even with all that’s going on by putting more effort into encouraging and engaging with art then I do talking about the shit that corporations are doing. They want you to have no hope or joy to make their moves easer. Don’t let them take joy from you without a fight.

Play in the dark.

The Westness brooch-pin formed part of a Viking-Age grave disturbed by a farmer at Westness, Rousay, Orkney, #OTD in 1963. It is silver decorated with gold, amber and glass. The grave contained the remains of a young woman and newborn child. 📸National Museums Scotland

Any marketing/PR people attending AdventureX this year? Asking for... reasons. Would love to meet up at the event and chat. Reach out to me if so. dave at wadjeteyegames dot com.

Distraint messed me up a bit (complimentary) so I haven't played Distraint 2 YET, but I will. When I've stopped hiding behind this cushion. (I was briefly a debt collector! Never thought THAT would be my weakness.)

Me when I saw that a London bonfire night event has a giant TV screen of a bonfire

artworks with autumn vibes 🍂

South Terrace, Cork city centre: polypody, heart's tongue and maidenhair spleenwort ferns spring from a damp old brick wall. If your eyes are open to it, we're surrounded by the relics of our lost natural rainforest heritage.

If big game publishers just want number to go up, fire everyone and just invest it all in mutual funds or something. If you don’t want to actually make a product, and you don’t want to build a business around making a product, just liquidate your assets and stop pretending you want to make anything.

Like if I were a major shareholder I would be livid. This is wonton destruction of these publishers’ most precious assets. It’s like literally setting fire to millions of dollars of property and equipment. It’s wildly irresponsible and self-sabotaging.

and even if we were in a world where layoffs meant two dozen new indie studios overnight, the drones who parrot this nonsense would ignore their games for not being AAA quality

I'm not sure governments are fully-prepared for a world where thousands of people are left both unemployed, and whose skills are suddenly non-transferable.

me in any game with good/evil choices: I am some kind of benevolent saint. not a hair shall be harmed on these NPC heads me in any city management sim: unless

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

Just watched a guy straight up steal a pair of plates from the gym, if you're wondering how feral the Brits are today.

We're looking for a graphic designer/illustrator to join the Hello Sunshine team for a few months, starting ASAP. There are a lot of artists here looking for new opportunities so I'd be super grateful if y'all could share this call with your followers! www.redthreadgames.com/graphic-desi...

This is good crediting 💖

I'm sure there are still a lot of people out there that don't know we're working on a weird point and click adventure with deduction mechanics that owes as much to What Remains of Edith Finch as to Return of he Obra Dinn (but probably easier 😅) So, wishlist and make some noise!

Looking forward to digging into the life of Joseph Bell, whose medical, observational and detective skills inspired Conan Doyle, and who also grew tired of the fame it brought, fearing it overshadowed his actual accomplishments in medicine, forensics, criminology and improving medical standards.

After the Fire

The UK release of 'You Can See Everything' is Nov 20??? This is nonsense 😡

Found a folder of oil rigs. Not sure what I was researching?

Carrie Extended Universe where she moves to another town and does the same thing like a psychic Reacher

The way people pick each other up when they fall down in the mosh pit is why I’ll never lose hope for humanity.

Highlight of the season when @helleborezine.bsky.social arrives 🖤

*lays off a thousand programmers* Wow, programming is hard!

"I Shall Name the Dead" is just beautiful. Really enjoying the demo. "A city within the city, magical-realism, investigate the uninterred and uncover their names... burn matches to purify dialogue choices, or allow [The Worm] to get closer." store.steampowered.com/app/4881350/...

Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.

What should go in the Big Menu? Inspired by @rystorm.com 's article reminding us that Sensible Defaults Do Not Exist, and that tool UIs should be customisable for different workflows, swap in the controls and shortcuts you need, and swap out the ones you aren't using right now #tooldesign #indiedev

Ticket's bought for tonight's town hall pop up cinema screening of Murnau's Nosferatu, with live cello score. If I was a vampire, newly moved into the area, I'd harvest fresh, but healthy aged, blood by pretending to host a pop up cinema screening of Murnau's Nosferatu, with live cello score.

This is a fascinating read about how almost all critical web-based infrastructure is kept going by only a small handful of volunteers. We depend so much upon so few people. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Got some Environment Art contract positions coming up soon, so watch this space awesome Unreal environment art people (EU timezones)!

These are the gifflar the Nordics are hiding from us.

This trailer! 😍 Movie version when?

Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.

Relatedly, I firmly believe the fastest way to improve your worldbuilding tools is to make your tools engineer sit next to a Worldbuilder for a day and just watch them use it. Worldbuilders are used to suffering in silence. Sometimes, tools engineers need to experience shame.