The index of authors is insane: here's the index of authors in full. Each person was asked to write a short piece about one specific thing they care about. The result is a book about EVERYTHING.
(And it's affordable, < $20 paperback)
📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!
www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope
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!
I got to write a little something for this!
There is a ton of expertise and insights from all across games packed in the book, so be sure to check it out!
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.
mockup of a spread of a zine in DL format showing the posters for "Let the Right One In" on the left and "Candyman" on the right. Under each poster is a short review I wrote after watching these films.
A poster for the album "il n'y a pas d'ailleurs" by the band trait d'union. The poster shows a man pulling a hood over his face. Above him is the band logo, as if it was leaking on his face. At the bottom is the tracklist of the album. All these elements are set in white against a gradient of dark pinks and purples.
A mockup showing the front and back cover of my bifold zine "Apparitions in the Mirror Maze". The cover shows a warrior lost in a dark labyrinth, he's coloured in yellow which makes him stand out against the black and white background. The back cover shows a statblock for the boss of the dungeon, placed in a frame covered in black ooze.
A mockup for the interior panels of the trifold "Mad Cow Mad World" by TerryHerc. The background of the trifold is a deep red, the text is set in cream-coloured frames. The cover shows the black silhouette of a cow, its head covered in a whiet substance dripping against a red textured background.
I have some openings in my schedule and I could use the work so if you need help with a small design project (illustration, trifold, booklet, poster...), my DMs are open!
Check out my portfolio for more past work: jeanverne.design
❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors.
400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises.
If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!
ai could cure cancer and make paraplegics walk on water and it still genuinely i dont think could hold a candle to the fact it's single-handedly in just a few years shattered the idea that things you see with your eyes and hear with your ears are Real. it's unwinding base Reality for the avg person
in addition to all the like clearly documented things that are bad about LLMs-masquerading-as-AGI or whatever, i think the emotional response on some level is about billionaires colonizing like... art and opinions and like our ability to think at all
they want your brain to need a subscription
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
To any junior devs reading the discourse, don't let anyone tell you crunch is necessary. Don't fall for it. Long term crunching is dangerous for your physical & mental health, full stop. Great games are not made because of crunch, they are made in SPITE of crunch, and it is NOT sustainable. Period.
Wednesdays is ALSO nominated for IGF Audience Award!
You can vote for us (or any other cool game) here:
informa-tech.formstack.com/forms/igf202...
It only takes 5s and your email WONT be collected for anything.
*endless screaming*
Ppl who are not Venezuelan listen up:
You will start hearing stuff about Venezuelans wanting this or participating or something. These are deranged claims.
Make no mistake, the Venezuelan govt is corrupt and evil but this isn't it. This is just more evil happening on my country that helps no one.
Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
明けましておめでとう🎉🎍
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
A) expressing ideas is literally the fucking job
B) if you can’t communicate it with doodles, words, or messy photoshop, the idea isn’t fully baked and you need to explore it more, not use the plagiarizing lie machine that poisons neighborhoods to do the thinking for you.
Also, as someone who worked on HORSES and has also made porn games + comics: I really don't appreciate when people put down one thing I made to uplift the other! Especially considering no one at Santa Ragione *ever* framed it in these terms when we were discussing the Steam ban
I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).
Big fan of the new Austra single and its, what I can only describe as, harmonic edging youtu.be/T5foC-AaDUk
No.
Fixed 😭 it only took a week, lots of nerves, and 70 bucks worth of hardware I hopefully have to never use again
Looks like a firmware update might have bricked my computer 🫠 it's been about a week of new, daily tech problems, so it'd be nice if something just worked for once
the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person
In unrelated news: continuing the mantra of "if i just chip away at enough things, i'll eventually finish one thing"
Little did I know that in less than a decade we'd get pretty much to that exact thing.
So, uh, guess the writing was on the wall
