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Avec un nom pareil, je vais être obligée d'essayer... 🥲

✨ HYPNOS' DEMO IS OUT ✨

The #SteamNextFest has come... Time to enter our lovecraftian megastructure fever dream.

Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams.
Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mountain.
Embrace your destiny.
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It was an absolute JOY to work Dead in Antares 🥳💫

@cindyadb.bsky.social, @iamleyeti.bsky.social & I wrote the dialogues with real love for the brilliant pre-existing characters and story.

If you like turn-based strategy, colorful Sci-Fi, questionable puns and poignant drama, this is for you! ❤️

freelance

Our special correspondent @laurelinewho.com just got back from the #ParisGamesWeek!

The Games Made in France booth was full of gems - let's showcase our favorite French discoveries of the week 🎮🧶👇

Une citation importante, en effet, dont voici la VF en avant-première

Valable là-bas comme ici, alors comme aujourd'hui.

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I cannot yell about this enough. So many times I've seen an idea with lots of potential get thrown out because it wasn't "perfect" initially, only to be replaced with another underbaked idea, when we could have taken the same amount of time to reflect upon, tighten up and grow the first idea more.

One issue generally overlooked in the whole screenwriter vs gamewriter, discussion is time.

Beyond anything to do with training, ability, style etc is the amount of time screenwriters get to invest in a script.

Whilst there are time pressures on any writer, the vast amounts of script that-
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From the Void - Otherworldly Game Localization — The Fundamental Question of AI in Game Development: Why? - From the Void "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should"

When someone aks what we think about the use of AI, the first question that comes to mind is always:

But why? Why would we, or anyone really, want to use it?

Here's @mittovac.bsky.social's piece about this very topic. Please share to anyone who needs to read this ⬇️
fromthevoid.net/blog/ai-in-g...

Blocky white handwriting on a black background. It reads: Say no to generative AI art. Buy art from real degenerates. -Joe Wos

Have you supported your local degenerates today?

Well, it finally happened. Someone trained an AI on my voice, and used it to generate narration for their YouTube video.

Feels pretty bad! Don't like it!

I've submitted a privacy complaint with YouTube - hopefully they'll take it down soon.

Appelons un chat un chat : cette campagne de réedition de notre livre Années 80 est avant tout une campagne de sauvetage de notre société.
J'ai très envie de passer les mois qui viennent à bosser sur une nouvelle formule de JV plutôt que de pointer au chômage.

fr.ulule.com/generation-j...

As I start getting ready to unleash my consultancy business for game devs and publishers, I figured I'd start a dedicated Bluesky list including some friendly faces you might know. Ping me to get added and do repost this if you can go.bsky.app/MAZEBwd

Narrative mercenary (design & writing) here :)
Thank you for this!

I think @iamleyeti.bsky.social could perhaps want to be included too? 👀

Trying to fit the character limit on mobile games be like

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ouais ouais baguette camembert tout ça

petit rappel à toustes les narrative designers et auteurices francophones qui écrivent ET en français ET en anglais :

bah vous assurez en fait
bien joué
gg (gros gâteau)

BLACKSHARD IS OUT! 🥳🥳🥳

A dreamlike journey into uncharted liminal spaces awaits. You will roam strange places, endless corridors and unreal architectures...

Are you ready to cross the threshold?
➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...
OST by @alt236.bsky.social & @al9000music.bsky.social 🤍

O U I.

Any streamer / journalist / content creator interested in weird walking simulators, liminal spaces and brutalist megastructures around here?

Asking for a friend 👀
(please contact us)

I don't see the wrong here

On the importance of ✨localizing your game title✨

'Ta mère' literally means 'Your mother' in French.
Thing is: on its own like that, out of any sentence or context, saying 'ta mère' to someone is a solid way of telling them to f*** off.

Probably not the initial intention here.

GDC? Nah I'm

Gonna
Demonstrate against
Conservatism

(join your local women's day march!)

This also works if the 'company' is, in fact, you.
Freelancers are definitely not safe from burning out.

Please rest, you're actually better at your craft when you're calm & happy.

(Message sponsored by the permanent sticky note on my desk desperately trying to protect me from myself)

Comosite image showing the protagonists of 4 Nova-box games, from left to right: Daphné from Along the Edge, Rowan from Seers Isle, Alice from Across the Grooves and Nora & Sam from End of Lines

Dear bsky friends,
as you may know, there's a Visual Novel Fest currently ongoing on Steam. Nova-box is part of it.

To celebrate, most of our games are currently on sale.

You know the drill, please follow the link to learn more:
store.steampowered.com/developer/no...

Our walking sim BLACKSHARD is participating in this #SteamNextFest!

Come get lost in the labyrinth, roam forgotten liminal spaces and uncover metaphysical mysteries...

Demo available now 🖤🚪 store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

The #SteamNextFest is on, and BLACKSHARD's demo is LIVE 🌠

Come get lost in our metaphysical walking sim made by 2 devs, and uncover the mysteries of forgotten liminal spaces...

Ready to enter the labyrinth?
🚪 store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree: