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Donate to Don’t let us die too Save Heba and what’s left of her family, organized by Reem Abushaban Hello, I’m Reem, the voice behind this fundraiser. Today, I’m… Reem Abushaban needs your support for Don’t let us die too Save Heba and what’s left of her family

Please help Heba and her family if you can:

www.gofundme.com/f/Help-hebas...

Know any women, nonbinary folks, or trans people (around Montreal) who want to make their first video game? Applications for the Pixelles Make Games program are open!

It's free! And no experience required 🙌

More info: pixelles.ca

Meal Train for The Poprik Family Alan has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and is undergoing treatment at MD Anderson. He is spending one week as an inpatient to receive chemotherapy, then we will be taking him every co...

As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy

Remember they told Jews to shower in gas chambers?

Now they tell starving Palestinians to collect food aid - then machine gun them down.

All those years we wondered how a holocaust could happen.

Now we know.

All those years you swore you'd have done something if you could have.

Now you know.

Every time an app I use offers me a discount if I switch to annual billing I start wondering exactly how they're planning to fuck up their service with AI

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

This is a great review, the Wages of Fear has been recommended to me many times but I never got around to watching it - maybe I will now! Also, are you on Letterboxd?

big fish~

What a week for DEAD MONEY issue #1!

In our first week on KICKSTARTER, as of this writing, we’ve hit 135 backers, and have just crossed the 4k mark, which lets us do a Spanish ver (in PDF).

Campaign:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

Newsletter:

buttondown.com/Jesse_Scoble

HeartLoop Games - Call for Musician / Audio Designer HeartLoop Games is looking for a musician and audio designer for contract work on our combat-focused game! High-energy, breakbeat-driven music with funky samples and an upbeat, playful vibe. Chopped v...

Hello friends!

My team is looking for a musician / audio designer for contract work on our combat-focused game!

We're looking for music that's catchy, energetic, featuring chopped vocals, funky rhythms, and a seamless mix of hip-hop, electronic, and funk.

Thanks for the deft moderation Jesse, this was lots of fun!

I had an amazing time at this panel, speaking with industry veterans and a great audience. And while I don’t know which way games is going and my place in it, I’d like to be able to do another one someday

Heading to MontrealComicCon today to moderate "Narrative Nightmares & Lessons Learned" with Tanya Short @kitfoxgames.com, @jillmurray.bsky.social @shomatic.bsky.social at 3:00pm!

...and to chat up DEAD MONEY. :)

Please help if you can - aid is already scarce, and thanks to disgraceful tactics, trying to acquire it on the ground is often dangerous

Looks like Elon isn’t Gretchen Wieners - he’s Janis Ian

I sometimes feel this is precisely because most execs don’t (or won’t) create anything themselves and so they resent those who can and will. No one seems to hate game devs more than the people running the industry.

Meanwhile in North America we stripmine artists’ talents, use them every day to survive the prison that this planet is, and are then outraged when they ask for a living wage and job security

Let’s stop calling them layoffs. They’re wage suppression tactics at best.

If you’re in North America, PLEASE consider joining @videogameworkers.bsky.social. We cannot allow these robber-baron execs to keep doing this to our profession and art form. We deserve dignity.

Unemployed workers and freelancers/contractors are all welcome in our union. We MUST fight back.

I’ll be at Comic Con this weekend at a panel with some great industry folks!

If you’re a leftist group, stop using AI images in your promotional materials or social media. Theft is not a good look for your cause.

Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism

Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women

Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism

By Jennie Kermode

I would love to know this as well!

If Bleak House feels like swimming through molasses, I think three words of Finnegan’s Wake might kill them dead.

Every time I think my nerves can’t take more bad news…

There is an almost direct correlation between the days I volunteer and the days I am able to read the news and not fall into a pit of despair.

Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games NarraScope 2025 at Drexel University is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.

🎉 It’s a @narrascope.org weekend! 🎉
We’ve seen so many amazing talks so far this year, and today, it’s OUR turn!
Catch Tristan J Tarwater and Camerin Wild (www.linkedin.com/in/camerin-w...) in ⏰ EXACTLY FIVE HOURS ⏰ for “Lost & Found: Converting TTRPG Experiences into Video Games”
See you there! 😘

It’s so hard even staying motivated to find work as a narrative dev in an industry that seems to actively hate us.

Also there are so many people (rightly) pushing back against unpaid tests but I was recently asked to do an extremely predatory test (~ a month’s work in a week) and when I asked fellow game writers for advice was told that if I don’t do it, someone else will, because that’s just the industry now.

It’s both hilarious and horrifying that we all know EXACTLY which company this is. Have we all gone through their recruitment “process”? Should we form a support group?