There are a bunch of wonderful essays in here & it's a great resource for writers at any level wanting to learn more about writing for games. You can find my essay "Enhancing Romance Through Interactivity" on page 376. Thank you to @jon.inkle.co and @inkle.co for giving me the chance to contribute!
📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!
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100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...
ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!
Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced.
… AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.
Don't miss the news that an Israeli missile destroyed an Iranian girls' primary school, murdering at least 25 girls between 7 and 12 years old. At this point it might just be muscle memory for the Israeli military.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...
I wish we saw more video games adapt classic novels. I want to see what a AAA version of a Jane Austen novel would look like dammit!
I have an article in this on writing interactive romance 👀
Lots of interesting-looking articles in here that I can't wait to read through!
I have insomnia and I love how almost every article on how to sleep better starts with how dangerous it is to not get enough sleep, as if stressing over these kinds of things isn't what makes it difficult to fall asleep in the first place.
An old calico persian cat look toward the camera.
Had to put down my dear Missi this week since her kidney disease had been getting worse & it was time to let her go. She's been a part of my life since I was a kid & I miss her so much, but I also take great comfort in the fact that she got to fall asleep peacefully while eating her favorite snack ❤️
Got some awful news today. 2026, I really don't like you.
I do believe things will get better. They have to. But it's heartbreaking to watch atrocities happen constantly and knowing that things are going to get even worse before it gets better.
These days it feels like I'm just going around waiting for the next horrible thing to happen and having no clue what to do about it. I try doing what I can, but it feels so little against the horrible things going on all over the world.
Sky Daddy by Kate Folk
The Compound by Aisling Rawle
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
Star Wars: Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear by Alexander Freed
Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
Out of the Woods by Hannah Bonam-Young
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Crash Test by Amy James
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
My favorite books of 2025 (in no particular order).
Finally gotten into a proper routine where I work on my game one day a week. Turns out the secret was motivating myself the same way I do my cats. With snacks.
Wake Up Dead Man
The Legend of Ochi
Cover-Up
Superman
Mickey 17
The Ugly Stepsister
Frankenstein
Lost in Starlight
My favorite movies of 2025 (in no particular order).
Some wonderful games nominated here. Especially in the story category.
The Darkest Files
The Séance of Blake Manor
Hades II
Consume Me
Expelled!
Wanderstop
My favorite games of 2025 (in no particular order)
Andor Season 2
The Residence Season 1
Paradise Season 1
Pluribus Season 1
Didn't watch a lot of tv shows last year, but here are my favorites from 2025 (in no particular order).
Just finished up the last work of the year for my clients, so now I look forward to catching up on some amazing games during my Christmas break. Even though I probably won't be able to play even half the ones I want because there's just too many interesting games out there.
A spider graph of the kinds of games I've spent the most time playing on Steam in 2025. In order from highest to lowest: Turn-Based Combat, Cyberpunk, Visual Novel, LGBTQ+, Cats, Investigation.
My steam replay of my most played games in 2025. 42 games played in total, 583 session, 777 achievement, 41 new games. Metaphor: ReFantazio: 14%, Cyberpunk 2077: 9%, Star Wars Outlaws: 8%, Avowed: 8%, Hades II: 7%.
I wish Steam would wait with the replay until the year is actually over, but I'm proud to continue my streak of having "cats" as one of my most played tags every year.
I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for
It’s not Larian’s fault but it chaps my ass that because they’re Larian they can have a trailer with a full on orgy in it in the middle of the Game Awards and meanwhile adult content in games everywhere else is getting cracked down on left and right.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
Why do all these apps want to wrap my year before the year is even over. Don't do the month of December dirty like that.
