Khan

I'm at the Northeast Game Devs Christmas party at Four Quarters #Newcastle; if you're here, look for the blue hair and say hi!

Indie team Outlaw's Vengeance is looking for Senior Level Designer to work on their debut stealth and parkour action game inspired by Assassin’s Creed and Dishonored.

📅 Contract
✅ UE5
💵 4,000 USD pcm

🤠 remotegamejobs.com/jobs/outlaw-...

#gamejobs #gamedevjobs #indiedev #UE5 #remotegamejobs

A website description of the Newcastle Christmas market stall "Fudge Packers", alongside a photo of some of their "uniquely flavored" fudges

I suspect this Christmas market stall is not nearly so funny to Brits

But I am, as always, actually a twelve year old boy disguised as a forty-something woman 🤣🤣

@heyitsdora.com Aloha! I can help.
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I enjoyed every minute we had!

Morning, bitches!

Remember, "the creator that made the <popular thing> which then became the backbone of an entire corporation, who then fired said creator and they died in poverty" is not some wishy-washy story, it's a very real warning.

Make, and own, your own art.

I love this conference. It’s the only one I’ve been to where everyone genuinely cares about the same bits of the games that *I* care about.

This year was bigger but still had the roomful of friends feeling it’s always had. Hugely grateful to the organisers.

Adventure X Saturday - come and meet your favourite developers!

Adventure X Sunday - come and meet the husks of your favourite developers!

Thaaaaaat's where I knew him from!

Game dev Stark Holborn at her AdventureX 2025 presentation, standing in front of a slide reading "Using Gen AI to replace creativity is to replace magic with sterility".

Preach, @starkholborn.bsky.social

Amazing.

Chart showing m to f dialogue proportion

The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25

It was a great talk! @jon.inkle.co

Silk underlayers kept me alive during my years in northern Europe -- and they're both soft and super lightweight

I went for substance over style and brought a lightweight puffer instead of my rather dashing winter raincoat.....

<stares into mirror> Who *am* I

Booooo

Right. Okay. Made the correct coat decision, then.

Yay! I always enjoy chatting to you there.

Silk? Great thermal layer

this thread is unbelievable

it gets even better

A young Patrick Dempsey in the movie can’t buy me love. He has show curly brown hair and a red button up shirt with a black diamond pattern.

A young rob Lowe in the 80’s. He’s wearing really tight jeans, has a cigarette in his hand and wears a white T-shirt with the sleeves cut off. He cocks his hip out or the side dramatically

Young James spader and Robert Downey jr in the movie tuff turf. The pic is in black and white. James wears sunglasses and a leather jacket, rdj has on an 80’s pattern button up shirt

A young Michal j fox in a publicity photo. We can see him and his mirror image. He’s wearing blue jeans and a leather jacket but no undershirt

welcome to 80’s fuckboy fall

please dress accordingly

You're a star, thank you!

I'll be at the #AdventureX narrative games convention this weekend (not as keynote speaker this time, just an attendee 😄) -- ping me if you'll be there.

Do you need a game narrative lead, director, designer, or writer? Hit me up!

#AdvX25 #AdventureX2025
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@adventurex.bsky.social Just packing (so excited!)

Question: is there a coat check at the Hub building? 😅

Nineteenth Century advertising image reading “THE TWO INFALLIBLE POWERS: THE POPE & BOVRIL”

Nineteenth Century advertising image proclaiming “BOVRIL BY ELECTROCUTION” portraying two stupefied oxen about to be electrocuted by men in frock coats, somehow in human-shaped electric chairs.

Advertising image proclaiming “The important thing is IT MUST BE BOVRIL…Bovril is British to the Backbone”

Bovril really did have some unbeatably Victorian weird-grim advertising slogans. I somehow get Alan Moore vibes off these.

Over 200 Rockstar staff write to management in support of unfairly fired union members - IWGB Game Workers 220 letters signed by staff members at Rockstar, the studio behind the Grand Theft Auto series, were delivered to management at the company last week, demanding that the 31 employees fired are immedia...

Over 200 Rockstar staff have written to management in support of unfairly fired union members.

We have published more details on our website, although we have not yet released the exact contents of the letter: www.gameworkers.co.uk/rockstar-ope...

This one's dedicated to all my short monarchs 😙

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

AI can't do that. It can't understand the words or the characters it's "voicing." It can't understand your intent and has no intent of its own. You need a real actor to do this.