I have been in the industry for eight years at this point and am figuring out directions and where I want to go next. Not at GDC because it can't ever compare to my true industry loves, AdventureX and Feral Vector.
Affleks
Thank you! 🥰
A selfie of me in a bathroom mirror. I have rainbow hair which reaches halfway down my chest, and am wearing a dress with various space patterns on it - planets, rockets etc.
Hello #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!
I'm Jonathan (they/them). I'm currently working as a producer at an art outsource studio where I've been working on [redacted], previously I worked at Team17 on... So many titles, including Overcooked! 2, Monster Sanctuary, Killer Frequency, and Yoku's Island Express.
At the minute, Lorna Rose-Treen has done some brilliant character compilation shows, then I'm very fond of John-Luke Roberts' Chaucer etc
Oh, you will know when you get to it. Enjoy!
Have you got to the opening credits yet? Because that was when I was fully onboard with it.
Pokopia is the first game that's made me want a Switch 2. I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying it.
A LIST OF WORDS FOR COOL.
A DUDE THINKING SOME SERIOUSLY DEEP THOUGHTS.
THE BEST HOODIE OF ALL TIME
MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MACHINE. A "CUTE CATBOY" AND BEANS.
SO THIS SHIT RULES. youraislopbores.me
There's so much great talent attached to this show that it's made me actively excited to seek it out. Not big names, but a lot of brilliant people who deserve this opportunity to shine.
Should there be a Zelda on here? Layton: Unwound Future? Yakuza 0? Lots of good games.
9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors Journey Portal Nier Tombi 2 Control Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Another Code: Two Memories Super Mario Galaxy 2
These are in no particular order and I'm sure they'll change tomorrow. But can you understand why I have no idea what I actually enjoy in games.
And other terms that feel like slurs.
A selfie of me. I am leaning slightly forward with my arms on the sink counter. My rainbow hair is re-dyed, and is bright and vibrant, starting with red now at the top and cycling through the colours. I am wearing blue jeans and a black tank top.
Phantasmal and resplendent.
Oh, a new Cartoon Saloon film, amazing!
Delighted to learn after how this weekend's gigs went that apparently I now do right wing comedy.
I am grateful that a lot of comedians are making their specials available for free on YouTube, but I struggle to understand how that works financially, it feels like it must be taking a big loss in the hopes of selling more tickets for the next tour.
This song won an award* at the Fringe last year and I've finally found where to put it in my show this year.
*Best Song at the ACMS Awards which are totally legitimate awards and not based on a random number generator
There's a theatre that keeps advertising Chloe Petts' new tour, Big Naturals, but they keep calling it "Chloe Petts: Big Fat Naturals" which I don't really enjoy the vibes of.
Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person
This is true
An elderly woman came up to me after the gig tonight and hugged me and said thank you for my set because she's gay and maybe comedy is okay.
t4t
If you use generative AI to create environmental details, you will rip the soul out of video games. Yes I am being dramatic but also I am very serious
I think we might be the reason people are painting roundabouts, but also... Isn't multiculturalism and diversity brilliant? My life is so much richer for having so many people from different backgrounds and experiences in my life.
Occasionally I gig with my friend Shugufta and I love it because 1. She's brilliant and 2. She lives near me so she gives me a lift. And what that means is a woman in a hijab carpools with a flamboyant queer in an electric vehicle to a historic English city to go and tell them our opinions.
"Are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
(To my mind, the most perfect joke ever in a sitcom.)
PROTIP: pop a credits list at the start of whatever design doc/ database setup you've got going on, and add people who help you out as you go. It makes things a LOT easier at the end, especially if those names rack up over a long period of time.
A stage with a red curtain backdrop, on which the words "Paul Merton & Suki Webster's Improv Show" is projected. There are four chairs set out, two on either side of the stage, along with a keyboard.
I think this is the first time I've seen Paul Merton live? Apologies to my own improv troupe whose show I'm missing for this.
