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narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | FIND ME ON BSKY: bsky.app/profile/meghna…
- if you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth
- To my great regret, I will not be presenting the Best Storytelling award today as the organisers would not permit political statements. Here's what I would have said, and my message explaining my reasoning for withdrawing. #ceasefireNOW
We are honored to have narrative designer Meghna Jayanth presenting an award at the @GoldenJoysticks on November 10, 2023. Get ready for an unforgettable night! @betterthemask #GoldenJoystickAwards - An anon account has been naming abusers in the games industry. Alexis Kennedy is one of them. I can't speak to the motives of the anon, but Alexis is a well-known predator in the games industry. I have been warning people about him for years.
- disco elysium ascending through the squid game cycle of our current torment nexus era
- AI is the solution to a problem that exists only in the minds of execs and money men - that what players want is infinite slurry, produced with utmost predictable efficiencySCOOP: Activision Blizzard is testing out its own generative A.I. internally. "Prepare to be amazed," Allen Adham wrote in an email, despite employee skepticism. my first byline with the New York Times: nytimes.com/2023/05/22/art…
- apologies for all the times I made fun of Bioshock for rudimentary and unrealistic moral choicesNEW: A new investigation reveals that Dr. Oz conducted studies that killed over 300 dogs, including an entire litter of puppies by injecting expired drugs directly into their hearts. jezebel.com/dr-oz-s-scient…
- pretty much every video games news story rn boils down to the corporate vandalism of human creativity, art, leisure, time & dignity
- BG3's actually done some great spacious narrative design work teaching the player to trust the systems through amusing & dramatic failure outcomes, tempting them away from save scumming without designing in hostility to it - it's *persuasive design* rather than *punitive design*Baldur's Gate 3's huge launch has reignited the age-old debate about save scumming. bit.ly/3KybA2A
- Dinosaurs welcoming the asteroidEA calls NFTs and blockchain games "the future of our industry" in earnings call gamedeveloper.com/business/ea-ce…
- male employees stole their lactating colleagues’ breast milk at Blizzard
- "Nobody at ArenaNet is safe from the hand of reddit" Every single one of us working in the games industry should be concerned by this decision. But our concern needs to lead to action. This is just one of the reasons why we need unions.Replying to @tha_ramiWell done, ANet, you've successfully emboldened some monsters
- the deluge of industry-wide layoffs is an opportunity for c-suites everywhere to push through unpopular policies. make workers feel precarious & fearful and use that uncertainty to reduce their options. even if you aren’t laid off, the layoffs affect your rights.
- Twitter banning people for inciting violence against elves while actual Nazis remain untroubled on the platform is peak 2018I’m back! What happened to Fenris was so awful that Twitter banned me for a day just for describing it. I was forced to delete the tweet to regain access to my account. #DragonAge @BioMarkDarrah @BioWareProblems @bioware @Mike_Laidlaw @davidgaider @PatrickWeekes
