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aspiring narrative designers & game writers: let's talk about barks, and-- if you're not familiar with this term--why you might want to have them in a writing portfolio. (thread) many

i have a policy: i never write feedback about someone (to their manager, to their peer, etc) which i haven't already given that person directly in some form. it means

in the marginalized genders channel at work we had a convo about "struggling not to cry during tense meetings or 1:1s." it turns out many folks do this, including me!

been reading more books on management & leadership lately, but i detest the way so many of them are framed-- as missives from the top level of execs about "what

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree: ONE: You're writing ultimate ability

i used to believe i couldn't be a designer because the other aspiring designers i knew were men who got raised on blizzard games & star wars while i was

kinda boggles my mind that this pandemic SHOULD be *the* moment for VR, the moment when there's a really obvious global use case. and in this time where that portion

one of the hardest diplomatic skills i think game designers should learn is how to ask your team for assets to support a prototype when you don't have full confidence

been talking to a lot of new grads and even high schoolers recently and realizing how stark the generational divide is on breaking into games. things really have changed so

a good rule of thumb if you’re a dude in games: if there’s a guy you work with that a bunch of your nb/women coworkers appear to avoid hanging around

Here is the game industry recipe: Take a mix of people that is 90% cis men, most of whom faced a lot of abandonment and rejection and hurt and isolation

continuing my Star Wars binge by rewatching ep VII now that i remotely understand what Star Wars is. for a world so obsessed with balance in the force where everything