Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer

The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed. His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods". Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a cmpany that says it will do no evil. Brilliant work as always Kojima! [picture of kojima, watermark of @mediocre_mason on tiktok]

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Finished up a contract, and the client paid straight away. On to the next thing!

I still have slots available for this month. So if you need any game writing or copywriting, get in contact. ✨

holy shit guys (real)

Some feedback to PR folks that certainly wasn't asked for but hey: I find that I'm way more likely to redeem a Steam key and look at a game when it's sent to me directly via email than when I need to click through to some other site. Especially if you write "key enclosed" without enclosing a key.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!

Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced.

… AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

Yes! I wonder how much time we spend reinventing the same stuff. I'm so grateful things like Ink exist at least.

However, this has happened many times over to me and industry colleagues for GaaS games which live or die by how cost effective it is to add new content.
Tooling and how you design the content of you game is vital but especially so in live service.

The extra "lol" on this is, even when I've been in early project stages, narrative tooling gets budgeted and then put off. For a vertical slice, it's annoying but possible to do things by hand. So I get why this happens.

A few folks asked me to blog about narrative tools a while back and I'm still not done because it's all a mess.

I agree with this so much. This results in many studios bodging it, implementing something without narrative input or shoving things in late. It's also very frustrating when mentoring new narrative designers because there's no one place to direct them to learn.

Happy birthday!

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Front page of the spec for the scripting language we came up with back in '89. This became the foundation for Virtual Theatre, and all the Rev games that followed😎 #indiedev #coding #brokensword

The first proof of the dust jacket / hardback version of The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope has arrived! It is a thing of beauty! @jon.inkle.co

Social graphic featuring games I have worked on including Gears Tactics Yooka-Replaylee, and Dirty Bomb.

New year and new pinned post! Looking for game writing, world-building or narrative design for your project? Let's talk.

I have a bunch of samples right here!
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Happy to chat perm & contract/freelance work. From consulting to bigger gigs.

With the current hardware shortages we're unlikely to see any new hardware soon. This is a shame because I feel there needs to be a new Switch with a boop button.

I'm a sicko who absolutely loves coming up with ideas for this kind of stuff. Enormous respect for every environment artist I've worked with who has enabled me.

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Women only want ONE THING (late-night grilled cheese)

"Everyone should get a portable dinosaur," she paused then added "it's just common sense."

INTERNSHIP ROLES 🎨 Come work with us at Rebellion on exciting games.

If you have a cool art portfolio but 0 industry experience under your belt, you should apply.

- Concept Art Internship wrkbl.ink/dK6mBOJ
- Environment Art Internship wrkbl.ink/3jsfWAQ
- Weapon Art Internship wrkbl.ink/3IgFN8X

A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

A little thread about animating walk cycles in adventure games:

I've always tried to find the sweet spot between frame count and speed. You don't want to sacrifice character speed in favor of too smooth an animation. But I've always wanted to get my walk cycles to look natural. (🧵1/6)

Every Saturday Roxie likes to give a nice little lecture. She'd love to make a Powerpoint, but there just isn't time.

Lindy learned to shapeshift when they were only eight months old.
Sometimes you just need to be a puddle.

Emmett and Lily had heard about a human habit called queuing. They were certain if they did this for long enough they would somehow get treats.

You have to be careful if your shadow wanders off while you're playing to get it back before you head inside for dinner.