Thank you Kate, that's very kind. I read your piece as well - microbranching enjoyers unite!
(in my head, where everything needs a label, I used to call this 'expressive choices' but microbranching has a much nicer ring to it)
My essay from The Narrative Kaleidoscope is now on my blog.
1. Read it.
2. Think 'wow I wish there was a book with a 100 more cool essays about game writing'.
3. Buy a book with a 100 more cool essays about game writing (link in the post).
www.narramblings.com/narramblings...
Anticommunists: THEY'LL HAVE YOU LIVING IN CRAMPED HIGH RISES WHERE YOU'LL BARELY BE ABLE TO MOVE!!!!!
Actual Capitalists: Live in sheds you whiny cunts we have houses to sell and keep empty
Yassss!!
Love narrative-driven games? Games that you can complete in less than 30 minutes? Plants? Irish made? Games that you don't even need to download?!
Then I think you'd like From the Ground Up, a game I made in 7 days about living and beyond.
unaminh.itch.io/from-the-gro... #gamedev #indiegames
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
100%! It's like using a thesaurus.
House hunting in Dublin be like:
1. Sent an email last night about a viewing.
2. Reply this morning: viewing today but there's a bid already at 25k over asking.
3. Go to a viewing 4 hours later: bid already at 40k over asking.
Normal country.
'it's a hard time to make money'
may I recommend perhaps getting a real job
If an AI was a good creative co-brain it would say; this bit’s shit; that’s weird; you wrote that metaphor already; who talks like that?; wow the snarky girl suddenly got polite; who cares what a tree looks like; bored now!; that rhymed, cut it; what does this add?; you spoilt the joke…
Ira Glass had good words about that too:
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. [...] But your taste [...] is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.
Give me your most 2026 story.
No, that's too 2026.
Oh, every one is always nostalgic for the geocites era web but when somebody actually makes a platform that crashes every 10 minutes, suddenly everybody wants future technology, I see how it is.
we know
Sorry I yelled “FINISH HIM” at your son’s circumcision
ceos pissing on your neck and saying "piss is the future"
Is there a more yank thing than converting to Catholicism to tell the pope he's wrong.
Hall of fame level of not getting it.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
The box art for Portal, featuring a stick figure diagram of someone falling through a portal.
The box art for Mirror's Edge, featuring its protagonist Faith, a young Asian woman, in front of a white city scape.
There's this influential first person game from the mid-2000s that's a short but very tight experience, isn't gun focused, has unique gameplay mechanics, is all about platforming, only received one massively expanded sequel, and has an ending theme song called "Still Alive."
No wait, there's two.
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back
Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
Sorry to hear you're going through this.
I played Devotionalia and used the Twine guides and just wanted you to know your work is great and meaningful!
yer man is out there salivating to the prospect of nuking a country halfway across the world while we're all circling back and sending emails.
capitalism and office jobs are fucking farcical
Donald Trump is one of the most evil men in history and if you think "a whole civilization will die tonight" is in any way defensible I hope you have the life you deserve.
I found out recently that the "death to America" thing is intentional mistranslation, and the phrase would more accurately be translated as "down with America" which of course sounds way less extreme.
Anyway death to America.
Current status.
The NarraScope 2026 schedule is out! Including our keynotes from @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @meredithgran.com!
A replica of Thomas the Tank Engine being transported on a large flatbed truck. It’s strapped down in multiple places and the face portion is covered by a large black bag
Thomas gets taken to a black ops site
legend