@gothbosscat.bsky.social
🎮 Games Industry Consultant & Podcast Host 👩🏻💼 Work with me: https://www.gothboss.co.uk
NEW: the IWGB has filed formal legal claims against Rockstar after it says the company refused to meet to discuss bringing back fired developers.
"Rockstar has declined to meet with the IWGB, leading the union and barristers to issue formal legal claims on behalf of the Claimants."
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
From Half-Life 2 mods to Bloodlines 2, with Dan Pinchbeck
New ep just dropped! This conversation with Dan Pinchbeck, co-founder of The Chinese Room, was fascinating! We cover everything from half-life 2 mods to most of their games, layoffs, the Sumo acquisition, burnout and of course Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2!
www.youtube.com/@gothboss
#gamedev
Me dressed as a goth Pennywise the clown
Happy Halloween! 🖤🤡
31.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of me holding the book Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Very, very late to the book party with this one, but grabbed it off my ever growing TBR pile this morning and it is *brilliant*. I struggle reading novels because I lose focus & my mind wanders, so it’s always wonderful when something grabs my attention like this.
(Piranesi is another one I love)
This week’s podcast ep is finally up after wrangling technical issues after that AWS outage! It’s a longer format of the talk I gave at Games Talks Live last week:
How to Future-Proof Your Game Industry Career
youtu.be/ezwXUbo34uc
I am definitely biased but tonight’s Startup Meetup in Edinburgh was my favourite one yet. I had a great time interviewing Maurizio to hear about his impressive career from Realtime Worlds to Jagex, selling his startup (Cloudgine) to Epic, and now working on a new startup using Unreal in the cloud 🤩
21.10.2025 22:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mediatonic founder launches new group of studios under the banner Skeleton Crew
20.10.2025 20:02 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2AWS outages are a good reminder to not leave podcast editing until the afternoon before it’s meant to drop. Tomorrow’s ep gonna be a bit delayed because muggins here relies too heavily on browser-based tools for everything 🙃
20.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alice? Misadventures? Tarot cards? Wonderfully eerie piano-based OST? Habromania looks so good!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/236...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3677050/...
If you've not had a chance to sign this yet, please do
17.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
So many spooky-cute games this autumn. This one called Gloomy Eyes came out a few weeks ago and has such a lovely art style: store.steampowered.com/app/2667950/...
16.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pic of stage at Games talks live, screen front centre, overhead ornate scrollwork on ceiling, speaker and lectern to picture right, white popup banner with sponsors logos to the far right, orangey reddish lighting
Pic of stage at Games talks live, screen front centre, overhead ornate scrollwork on ceiling, speaker and lectern to picture right, white popup banner with sponsors logos to the far right, orangey reddish lighting
Pic of stage at Games talks live, screen front centre, overhead ornate scrollwork on ceiling, speaker and lectern to picture right, white popup banner with sponsors logos to the far right, orangey reddish lighting
Pic of stage at Games talks live, screen front centre, overhead ornate scrollwork on ceiling, speaker and lectern to picture right, white popup banner with sponsors logos to the far right, orangey reddish lighting
As usual the @scotgamedev.bsky.social #GamesTalksLive were excellent, still time to catch them in #Glasgow tonight and online! sgda.co.uk/gtl for more details. Amazing speakers, including pals @gothbosscat.bsky.social @petergreeves.bsky.social #Games #Scotland #Scottish #VideoGames #GameDev
16.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0once again I need help with some research for my novel! I need to speak to women born between 1979 and 1981. If that is you, and you don’t mind chatting to me about 90s clothes, books, TV, etc, please let me know!
15.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 0 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0Games Talks Live tonight was great! Thanks to everyone who came up and said nice things about my talk. I’ll also be at Dundee tomorrow and Glasgow on Thurs.
P.S. sorry to anyone else who wanted to chat tonight; I bailed early to save energy. You’re welcome to DM if we didn’t get chance to chat 😌
Data science time!
Most games heading into #SteamNextFest have between 10 and 100 followers. That's like between ~50 (low estimate) and ~1500 (high estimate) wishlists.
But you probably know that already. Anything you want to see?
Plus Trevin's book is available to pre-order: The Game Needs to Change: www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...
14.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trevin's Book recommendations (part 2)!
4. Ideas Arrangements Effects by the Design Studio for Social Intervention: amzn.to/477DpJx
5. The Transformational Framework by Sabrina Culyba: amzn.to/4n446Vt
Trevin's Book recommendations (part 1)!
1. Design for the real world by victor Papanek: amzn.to/43d7nKK
2. Design when everybody designs by ezio manzini: amzn.to/3KKd2lh
3. Designs for the pluriverse by Arturo escobar: amzn.to/4nMxzV3
Episode cover image with photos of Trevin and me over a black background. It has the title "Can game design change the world" in white text with a red highlight.
Can game design really change the world? 🎮
In this week's ep of The Goth Boss Podcast, I chat to @trevinyork.bsky.social about Game Design For Change and hear about projects that are having a real impact on the world.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@gothboss
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6ZPydcl...
The last few people I've dated I met via friends or in person at events. That's definitely my preferred way now. Apps-wise, I mostly met people on Feeld, but that app (like the rest) is a nightmare most of the time 😅
10.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A point-and-click parody of Les Miserables? Where could I register my interest for such a thing??
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
#IndieGame #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #LesMiserables
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
Games Talks Live Logo. It says the name of the event in white and orange on a purple background.
I'm speaking at Games Talks Live next week! It's always a great event. If you'll be there, please do say hello! We will be touring 3 Scottish cities over 3 nights!
Tues 14 - Edinburgh
Weds 15 - Dundee
Thurs 16 - Glasgow
The full speaker list and and tickets are available at www.gamestalks.live
Unity have had a really tough few years. People keep asking me if they should still use for their games or move to a different engine. I popped some thoughts in the latest podcast ep.
📺 Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/-BuWqvu6lvw
🎧 Audio versions available on all the usual places!
#gamedev #unity
Yessss!
07.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moshi monsters artwork showing lots of different monsters.
P.S. We're still on the look out for a Lead Unity Developer to join the Mind Candy team and help bring the updated Moshi Monsters game to life!
Job spec here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Now this is a bit excessive if you ask me, but here we are.
My already discounted bundle – at half the price. I'll do the math for you: all my tools for only 30% of their original price!!
assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...
It includes...
Good morning from Unity, I guess. If you’ve released a Windows/Linux/macOS game in Unity recently, might be worth patching unity.com/security/sep...
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