The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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God I love being edited.
Is that a kink?
Edit a person once and you improve their work. Edit them a dozen times and you correct their character.
(I still studiously apply dashes, en dashes and em dashes in text messages after years of corrective editing by @babelfishwars.bsky.social)
📖 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!
This looks great — backed it like a shot. Great pitch, fascinating setting and situation, gorgeous art, and I’m desperate to see the card-based social conflict system in action.
That is INCREDIBLE. 🤣
Oo! thank you!
Oo! that looks super-nice!
It is! Feels very much like the original show, but the new roles for the core three of the original cast are really interesting.
I assumed this was a realm-level threat for a ruler to have to deal with in King Beowulf.
A picture of the cover of Levi Roach’s Empire of the Normans.
If I’ve learned anything from Levi Roach’s ‘Empire of the Normans’ it’s that under no circumstances should you say to some Normans: “Hi lads - having a bit of a problem, would you mind helping out?” bcos in 10 years you’ll lose all your bishoprics and have to learn new French words for anything nice
I regret my unnecessary sideswipe against these underestimated birds.
Do we want one to be prime minister, though?
A quote from a Guardian article, reading “ Second, Starmer did not give any indication that he intends to change the way he governs.”
Dude, *pigeons* learn faster than you.
These twats crying and appealing to racist conspiracy need to be mocked mercilessly and without pause.
Feels like ‘family voting“ would be a hard thing to prove or disprove after the fact, and so makes good fodder for conspiracy theories.
This issue broke me in half.
Our game is SO PRETTY.
An absurd deal for my favorite-favorite FitD game. Honestly folks, don't sleep on this.
In my defence, Tomb Raider: the Last Revelation was what got me through writing up my dissertation.
I dedicated my Master’s thesis to Lara Croft.
That was *ridiculous*.
A user review of the video game Sunless Sea on Steam. A red thumbs down. Not Recommended 98.4 hrs on record Posted: 12 February Well. I like it and I hate it.
a classic sunless sea review; it could be exactly the same and have gone the other way
Cropped art by Jimmy Makepeace of the Mongol nomad Goatskin standing at combat ready, a friend at her back, as the disembodied head of a statue spews violet light from its eyes. Overlaid are captions. Along the top reads "Just Launched on Backerkit. New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 is live" Along the bottom reads "Share this post to unlock bonus stories".
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So great to see New Edge on the verge of funding after only a day. The sheer obsessive, handcrafted joy that they put into everything they make is infectious.
Please, please, please find & support small publishers doing stuff you love! It's how we fight the slop.
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New Edge Sword and Sorcery are crowdfunding their 2026 issues! I cannot recommend this magazine enough – great, genre-pushing writing in every issue, from a huge range of exciting , talented voices.
It captures everything I love about the genre and pushes it in whole new directions. Pure joy.
The first opportunity to play Mandrake will be at New Game Plus, on the 16th and 17th of April!
We'll be there, hope you can join us. 🌱
We'd really like to hear what fans of rural life sims make of the dialogue system we're using in Mandrake. Is that you?
A lovely glimpse of Mandrake’s narrative here – how conversations with other characters looks and works, how your character’s traits affect it, and more.
Working out how to write Failbettery narrative in a rural life sim wrapper has been very challenging!
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