Yay, Tin Can Radio Hour(s)!

I've started Red Dead Redemption 2 and blimey, these outlaws are chatty. Like, they're all the strong and extremely talkative type. I think narrative games are often closer to radio than film. The experience is more like listening to an audio serial than watching a western.

Listen to my big face tell you about distancing information given to that player from “developer voice”

If you own a car you can take things to recycling centres, but if you don't (and I don't) you're screwed.

My choices are to hoard rubbish in my house, or put it into black bags even though I know it's recyclable.

Reminder to anyone who doesn't live in Birmingham that we're still 14 months into a bin strike here.

The second biggest city in the country hasn't had household recycling collections for 14 months. It's all going to landfill.

There’s also a very prolific community of interactive fiction authors publishing fun and inventive work on platforms like Hosted Games. I promise you these are infinitely more enjoyable than anything AI could spit out at you.

ROSEWATER is a critically-acclaimed IndieCade-nominated Wild West epic adventure!

Travel across the frontier with 5 companions, solving puzzles and making choices that make the journey uniquely yours!

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BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

This means diehard point and click fans can be a bit lukewarm, but it opens up a player base who aren't into old school point and click games. I managed to appeal to visual novel folks, for example!

Interesting! I think this is why I'm leaning away from strongly marketing my games as point and clicks.

My aim is not to have anything overly obtuse and have multiple paths so the player doesn't really get stuck, and to focus on narrative and characters rather than item hunting.

Honestly I'd probably give my games three out of those four!
Their primary focus is on story, but using some point and click mechanics to do it, and then I've always thought Point and Click was a subgenre of adventure game.

The Museum of Everything on Steam The Mona Lisa is missing! Sleuth through a sprawling space museum, read the past through psychic abilities and unravel an interstellar art caper in this cosy, gas‑lamp mystery.

My new in-development game now has a Steam page! Wishlisting if you're interested is much appreciated <3

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"It's a cosy mystery game. Not a cosy game, although cosy game fans will like it. It's actually an adventure game. No, not an adventure story, it's a mystery story, but an adventure game."

Me navigating game genres and narrative genres using the same words in different ways.

It's so frustrating to have a 16 year old kindle that's still working as well as it did on day one, except Amazon have abandoned it.

There are ways and means of course, but you shouldn't need advanced tech knowledge just to keep legally purchasing and reading books on a device you own.

Hello! I'm looking for a queer horror artist for an anthology short (6-8 pgs)! This is paid work and the rate will go up based on crowdfunding.

New creators welcome! Please DM ME with your PORTFOLIO. Final pages will be due in two months.

I'll contact my choice in the next two weeks. Thanks!

Went with a bunch of gut feelings on this!

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Signed up! I love newsletters.

Yes! That's what I really wanted Picard to be!

It was one of the things which inspired me to make a video game about a different famous character having a mystery solving retirement 😁

(And just to be clear, I'm talking about post-release, when you are finished and can't really change anything fundamental. Playtesting and player feedback on prototypes is a totally different kettle of fish.)

It's much better to get critique from peers, but that needs to be a targeted dialogue where you can explain what specifically you'd like feedback on, what you were trying to achieve, what issues you already know about etc.

Indie game creators could take a page (teehee) from the world of books.

Authors are often advised not to read reviews, they are meant for potential readers, not you, and even positive ones can mess with your head. They are also often talking about personal taste, not craft.

A good place to start is his infamous Tay Bridge Trilogy:

The Railway Brige of the Silvery Tay
www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/...
The Tay Bridge Disaster
www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/...
Address to the New Tay Bridge
www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/...

I encourage people to look up and enjoy his poetry. It's so earnest and endearing and unintentionally funny, generally inspired by whatever newspaper articles interested him.

I always really feel for him, he was convinced he was a Great Poet, but often he was just being strung along by trolls and bullies who found his amaturish work and demeanor amusing. I'm pretty sure today he'd get an autism diagnosis.

I'm so happy to find out that 19th century lolcow and "worst poet in British history" William McGonagall supported Women's Sufferage! And wrote a poem about it!

Picard on his vineyard solving philosophical mysteries on Earth, of course!
Think Columbo, but it's Captain Picard.

I remember looking at games that had something in the 'awards' section of their Steam pages and thinking "That's so cool, shame I'll probably never have anything to put there.
But now my awards section is looking really dapper!

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If my own experience is anything to go by, they enjoy feeling like they want to crawl up walls like a lizard.

Aww c'mon just let my little computer people living in the fictional Edwardian era smoke their tiny, tiny pixellated pipes.