Raquel de Miranda

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I had so much fun reading a few of the essays already and they're so rad! Just tiny little snippets of delicious narrative wisdom. The sort of thing too niche and too small to get featured on a conference, but insanely valuable

Anyway, mine's about writing biographies, the quick and dirty way

I want Animal Crossing with the Nemesis System

I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred…... I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred paym...

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.

All Will Rise needs YOUR help!🥹

If you cant financially a share is always appreciated!❤️

We are fully funded BUT its typical to put lower KS goals and leave the meat for stretch goals💸

A game that showcases ACTIONNALBE means to bring the ultra rich to court 🔪⚖️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

My (smol) essay in this is "Interactive Fiction Games and Stand Up For Kids: How I Learned to Write Comedy For Kids"

Where I go talk about my experience making Interactive Fiction for kids how *you* can make kids laugh with your writing.

I was, shall we say, “slightly resistant” to receiving help after this money was stolen from me, but I’ve been sufficiently cowed by friends privately chewing me out for shame and pride. Dylan has kindly offered to do this for me, and many others have wanted to help directly. Options in replies.

We have a saying in France about his politics, which we call "le En-même-temps", aka "at the same time", which means that anything he says, he will do the opposite while keeping some semblance of public image while still exerting the exact opposite in practice.

That's *exactly* the feeling 😆

Also, look at this INSANE lineup. It's hard to not feel like one of those bands in a smaller font on a big music festival poster.

Really don't know what to say, think, feel, or do anymore.

They will displace around 800K+ people, and maybe potentially invade (like they weren't illegally occupying parts of the country for decades).

Truly maddening how bloodshed and war have become a staple of our existence.

I'm very grateful for the opportunity to be amongst all these wonderful people.

There's a lot of lovely stuff in here for everyone.

A copy of the book "The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope" on a wooden table with a little potted plant on the side.

Plus, look what just arrived in the mail! Perfect timing!

hello. please look at this incredible list of authors whose craft advice you can get for less than $20. I’m in this and still completely amazed by how good the quality is

"You will write good barks" in a white sans-serif font on a black background, surrounded by the candle emoji in a circle arrangement.

game writer prayer circle

What is this book? A wonderful little pile of secrets.

Woooooh! 🎉🎮
This book is a delight. The format itself is playful, low-pressure and inviting, and it's pack full with gems and insightful, bite-size commentary. And: affordable!

Honored to have contributed with a small note on Economy as a Narrative Tool, a subject near and dear to my heart... 👀

I think my top 10 advice are (no particular order):

1) Don't bring your A Game to a project unless you have a solid contract and/or you have a proven record that both parties can handle conflict in a mature way. Don't waste years of your life for the sake of people who obviously don't respect you.

And most importantly: don't get yourself stuck in several of those situations at the same time!!! 🫠

Anyway. There blows my wisdom. Hope that helps somebody!

(Bonus one: on larger teams, careful about what your client is telling/not telling the rest of the team, and the messy friction that this can cause without you quite understanding why. It doesn't even have to be mean-spirited or willful, but miscommunication can get REAL bad when freelancing.)

10) Talk with other freelancers and ask stuff. Ask about their rates. Ask what their working conditions look like. It's SO easy to get completely isolated while freelancing, and just blindly feel your way around stuff other people have navigated already.

9) You need to do side stuff for you!! Stuff that makes you feel creative, fulfilled, skilled! Not even for an audience maybe, just for you. Something really cringe!
You need to do that. For me.

(mostly for you and your own sense of control while dealing with uncontrollable outcomes)

8) Speaking of signing up for stuff: sometimes there's no contract. This can happen on small interventions, but if you're on a project for longer than 3 months without a contract, it's not looking good. What happens to your work if you're dumped? To your credits? Who knows! Who knows.

7) This seems really basic, but if you're trying to put up clear boundaries or ask for a clear job description, and getting clarity on that is somehow impossible, it's not going to get better with time!! You will end up with way more responsability than you ever signed up for.

6) I think the maximum amount of projects a narrative freelancer can take at once is 2 projects + a smaller project (like classes or consulting). Anything above that will seem doable until it isn't.

Part time work doesn't mean the project takes half the space of a normal project in your brain.

5) Of course it depends on your finances, but honestly, if it's not working for you, hit da bricks. Better to do it cleanly ahead of a real problem than when things are already on fire and you're burned out and your patience is at a solid -70.

4) If a client condescends to you/seems to navigate you by default (or hired you for... suspicious reasons let's say), chances are they'll be comfortable putting you in real shoddy situations down the line.

3) If you don't *immediately* set up clear boundaries regarding free labor, expect free labor to become your new normal. Bringing up the issue of free labor once you're technically already owed weeks of work *will not* end up well.

That includes spontaneous meetings/grading btw! Those rack up fast!

2) Physical injuries! They exist! If you are doing some traveling for a job, you may be liable to physical injuries that will hamper your ability to work! Is your employer/client doing their utmost not to put you in needless physical danger? No? Can you negociate an alternative? No? Hmmm...

I think my top 10 advice are (no particular order):

1) Don't bring your A Game to a project unless you have a solid contract and/or you have a proven record that both parties can handle conflict in a mature way. Don't waste years of your life for the sake of people who obviously don't respect you.