Very excited to announce I'll be part of the GDC Experimental Games Showcase this year!! #GDC
schedule.gdconf.com/session/expe...
Showing off my experimental narrative Discord bot game, "Telegrams from the Choir Train"
Super humbled to be among this crowd with this weird project.
Very excited to announce I'll be part of the GDC Experimental Games Showcase this year!! #GDC
schedule.gdconf.com/session/expe...
Showing off my experimental narrative Discord bot game, "Telegrams from the Choir Train"
Super humbled to be among this crowd with this weird project.
It's December 1st, so this is your semi-annual (i.e. when I remember) reminder that I wrote an Advent Calendar! And you can read it!
bjarke.it/christmas2018
It's a story about friendship, hope, noise, and, disturbingly, Christmas.
I know Unity (C#), Python, ink, some C++ (learning Unreal atm), and interactive narrative.
I am very flexible and open to relocating to almost anywhere in the world for the right job.
I am also open to postdoctoral researcher or the right faculty position!
Shares appreciated!
About me:
🎮 +4 years’ experience in game dev (narrative design, programming, UX)
🐉 PhD-level research on storytelling in live-service games
📝 Efficient writer with technical chops.
💬 Great communicator and teamwork skills
Looking for: Narrative designer, UX researcher, technical designer, and more.
Hey friends!
After taking a time off after PhD, I am now seeking new opportunities!
My skill set is diverse, so I'm seeking a range of positions (thread), but in short:
If you need someone with 🖥️technical skills who knows how 🐉narrative affects 📡communities, I am interested in chatting with you.
Thank you! It really was "amazing" ironic timing. Tho, reflecting, this kind of story by itself also tells you something about these kinds of experiences haha. There were multiple times my research trajectory changed because of *industry nonsense*
I Am a Doctor Now!
Little blog announcing my dissertation is now published and readable!
(And i have not been posting here so this also serves as the announcement that I am a PhD now lol)
bjarke.it/article/i-am...
Neurocracy was a major inspiration for my thesis work and a super cool project!
If you have interest in interactive, communal narrative absolutely do not miss this.
A banner screen to announce NEUROCRACY 3.0, which is superimposed over the image of a man's eyes in a dark red hue, with filaments that resemble neural pathways emanating from his left eye
On July 16, join us for the launch of
🌐 N E U R O C R A C Y 3 . 0 🌐
✅ A fresh live run of ten episodes on omnipedia.app!
✅ New stories and systems from amazing writers!
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome!
More info: talk.omnipedia.app/t/neurocracy...
#scifi #epistolary #hypertext #TTARG
Oh hey IM on this panel!!?
Yeah I'm at PAX!
Im taking about destiny's fiction and it's community narrative!
This all said, I WILL be a GDC the rest of the week! Hanging out in the park and nearby.
If anyone wants to chat about experimental communal narrative games, live-service games or trains, hit me up!
There's also now an itch page ! chronologist.itch.io/telegrams-fr...
It has no downloadable files because this game has nothing downloadable, but an itch page makes it feel more official! It's a "released video game"!
I Released a Game! (two months ago)
While everyone is at GDC I was busy finishing up some final touches and a blog for my game "Telegrams from the Choir Train" bjarke.it/article/i-re...
I explain why I think of this game as a "communal tamagotchi".
i would love to say hi!
Congrats on launch!! I'm excited to dig in
Thank you!! Yeah it was super fun to be a part of :D
And I should also make sure to promote the whole book itself, which is full of other great writing on Destiny, covering a ton of aspects from insightful character studies to essays on Destiny's PvP and World's First Raid Races.
Truly, very excited to be part of this collection!
I wrote a Book Chapter!
About Destiny!
playstorypress.org/books/the-ps...
It's called "Guardians Make Their Own Fate" and its about how Destiny's narrative themes are echoed in its community history, covering events in the narrative, community, and marketing over the last 10 years.
Out Now!
A three armed woman in a prison jumpsuit with a mullet walks in handcuffs along a metal walkway away from armed guards in futuristic, padded armour and helmets that completely hide their faces. Behind the woman the title "IT EATS PLANETS" is emblazoned in bright red. At the bottom the author's name "Samantha Mackenzie Greer" is written in red too. In the background is a landing pad with a large, well used helicopter with fumes falling from its exhaust pipe. Above them is a dark sky of green clouds though a parting reveals the void of space where a ringed gas giant is silhouetted against a red sun.
A blueish, gloomy derelict factory floor with an avalanche of garbage in the foreground and sides of the frame with a sliver of floor space guiding the eye under a concrete bridge and past heavily graffitied columns, to a large, towering machine and altar at the centre. A person in a poncho sits there, waiting beneath the collapsed ceiling where far above we can see towering pipes of extraction criss crossing to form a dark, steel sky.
A comic page. A vertical panel on the left side which depicts a mysterious person in a poncho coming down the steps of a trench and alleyway carved out of rock, covered in graffiti and with pipes criss crossing above. On the right are a panel of this person rustling under their poncho and a second panel show them looking up some small orange case with a relieved smile, held in the hand of a previously concealed third arm. A third panel shows them concealing this object, their attention drawn to something off panel.
IT EATS PLANETS is now publicly available to read!
A queer, sci-fi comic about heists, ancient evil and fighting to survive on a dying planet. New pages every Thursday.
Please kindly check it out, give it a read and share it
🔴 iteatsplanets.com 🔴
I don't know why, but I was honestly excited to post my first ever patch notes for a game I made (and also very terrified to break it). Makes it feel like a real thing?? It now has... history.
Patch notes!! Patch notes are cool bjeck.github.io/CRC-RITU/imp...
game designers!!! the day is here! Polaris 2024 reports are released: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/
and my group's is about how and when and why you might want to make your game's characters less obedient to the player's whims: polarisgamedesign.com/2024/enrichi...
splash image for the game "Telegrams from the Choir Train". It shows a collage of images evocative of trains and digital corruption. It has text that says "Manage Freight through a Telegraph wired to frail binary Gods". The word "frail" is crossed out. There are two black marks, as if the paper has been digitally burnt. - Salvation Through Faith -
*The sky bleeds the color of paper.
Clutching her small, precious bag, an excited passenger hears the singing. It's time.
Choir Train 74 has arrived.*
Telegrams from the Choir Train is OUT NOW!
Play in YOUR DISCORD SERVER right now! bjeck.github.io/CRC-RITU/ind...
I acknowledge it was a really weird day to do this on.
Hope everyone manages ok, either watching in dread or hiding from it all. I've used this mostly as a distraction.
Tho, I won't exactly say playing this game provides a reprieve from the terror of capitalist oligarchy.
splash image for the game "Telegrams from the Choir Train". It shows a collage of images evocative of trains and digital corruption. It has text that says "Manage Freight through a Telegraph wired to frail binary Gods". The word "frail" is crossed out. There are two black marks, as if the paper has been digitally burnt. - Salvation Through Faith -
*The sky bleeds the color of paper.
Clutching her small, precious bag, an excited passenger hears the singing. It's time.
Choir Train 74 has arrived.*
Telegrams from the Choir Train is OUT NOW!
Play in YOUR DISCORD SERVER right now! bjeck.github.io/CRC-RITU/ind...
Special thanks to all the people who helped make this game happen!
@quakefultales.bsky.social, Andrew, Ryan, Jason, Kyle, (i dont think the rest are on bsky, plz correct me folks!), all contributed either writing, design or programming help.
And thanks to all who playtested and gave feedback!
Hey it's a super cool project I wrote a story for coming out next week!
I love the setting and the vibes Bjarke created for this and I'm super excited to see it go out to more people!
(and of course enjoy the particular story I wrote for it too!)
ANNOUNCEMENT!
my game is releasing on Monday!
"Telegrams from the Choir Train" is an experimental narrative game about managing freight through a telegraph wired to frail binary Gods.
It is played entirely inside YOUR DISCORD SERVER
Releasing Monday January 20th!
bjeck.github.io/CRC-RITU/ind...
ok scary announcement time
sorry if that was rambly, i dont really do this much haha. But wanted to say this somewhere and felt too small for a blog? but ended up writing more than i expected anyway lol