Carrie Talbot

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

yall every try being offline for most the day? feels good. suspicious

Marker illustration of a grey and white tabby cat. Their name is Foglight, and they are a warrior of Shadowclan.

Commission information for the previous commission. It says “Play the game, find out your Warrior Cat” with a list of steps to generate a random cat from a table. A similar-looking cat called Fawnheart is attached to the sign - by pure chance, they rolled the same coloration.

For the first time in many years, I am doing tableside commissions! I have a little game where you can make a Warrior Cat and I’ll colour it for you and give you a clan sticker.

(By pure chance, the first one I did looked the same as my demo, haha.)

If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to start building your indie shit

a sign that says save the date in orange letters ALT: a sign that says save the date in orange letters

SAVE the DATE - Game Narrative Networking - London, UK

Evening of Friday 3rd October... details and booking to follow next week. Watch this space *

Shares welcome.

*You enter the internet. Do you -
A) Stare at the screen in hope?
B) Open a new tab to join the other 278 you have open?
C) Panic?

Wow, congratulations!

Amazing, congrats!

I’m fundraising for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity with my lovely hubby (not pictured, this is Cheese not my husband) We’re running the Great Scottish Run 10k next month - any and all support would be appreciated 🫶

www.justgiving.com/page/rach-th...

The Hearth and Harbour on Steam Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews out...

AHOY!

Check out and please WISHLIST our next tile on Steam, set in the same universe as The Pale Beyond.

store.steampowered.com/app/2528170/...

i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it

After two years of development, Heroes of the Seven Islands is OUT ON STEAM 🎉
#gamedev #indiegames

Congratulations, Ellie!

Ben's doing a big walk for SpecialEffect Help Ben Jones raise money to support SpecialEffect

Hello!

I'm doing a 25km walk on October 3rd to raise money for SpecialEffect - www.justgiving.com/page/ben-jon... - if anyone fancies donating, there's my page link! SpecialEffect do amazing work so please support if you can <3

The Interactive Fiction Competition

The annual Interactive Fiction competition is open! 82 entries from the short and silly to the less short and serious, with a couple written in ink, alongside Twine, Inform and all the rest:

ifcomp.org/ballot

a painting of a cat sitting in a book shelf

a painting of a cat walking on a kitschen counter

a painting of a cat sleeping in a drawer

a painting of a cat sitting in a plant pot

These are the pages for January-April in my "Cats in Weird Places" calendar, available for pre-order right now at www.djamilaknopf.com/store

Today's my birthday so I'd love it if you played this game my dad described as "unpleasant."

Benjamin Reeves Is Incredible Ben Reeves narrative designer and writer

I was a Firaxis narrative designer/writer and lost my job today. Any help sharing leads on new opportunities would be great!

Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co

Picture of the GoFundMe campaign linked above.

Talking of (bob)cats, my good friend and teammate's cat Sage has been going through hell lately.

The family opened up a GoFundMe page because they need help paying the mountainous vet bills. It would mean the world to me if you could help them out!

gofund.me/0c7f1019

You can get $15,000 in funding (plus mentorships) for your thinky game. No strings attached. You still have plenty of time before the deadline to start making a new prototype and apply with it.

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Yesterday I went to a neat little "draw on tables" pub night, it's really freeing to draw bigger formats and just going with a flow/not minding too much about what you're doing.

Bring on winter. I am ready to hibernate.

Yen 💜
#TheWitcher

an artist walking through an abandoned, overgrown building

If you're interested in my little adventures and more in-depth, long-form updates, I have a Patreon www.patreon.com/djamilaknopf and a newsletter www.djamilaknopf.com/newsletter

a stylized nighttime 3d render, where a person with a very large wind-shielded boom mic is recording a humble cricket.

now recording...

Herdling trusts the player to guide an expanding group of fantasy creatures to their mountain home. Along the journey, players will name, pet, feed, play with, and care for each of these individually unique animals.

Herdling is one of the most special games I have played for this account.

A painting of the Elven city of Rivendell, built on a waterwall. A tiny fellowship crosses the waterfall on a great arched bridge.

Rivendell - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper

My vision of the city of Rivendell, complete with a tiny fellowship crossing the bridge as they embark upon their journey.

✨ Prints avaiIable ✨

Congratulations on the book launch!

Ooh, these look really cool! ✨