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Joannes Truyens
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IGF-nominated "experimental dungeon master" of
@Neurocracy2049
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Earthplaythroughline.comJoined December 2010
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Joannes Truyens
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Hi there! 👋 I'm Joannes, a UK-based writer/narrative designer looking for work 👍 I'm especially interested in speculative fiction, interactive stories, and worldbuilding 🙏 I made the award-winning sci-fi wiki game
@Neurocracy2049
🏆 More info and links down the thread 👇
A photo of Joannes Truyens speaking about the development and community release of @Neurocracy2049 at the 2022 AdventureX conference in London
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Freya C
@Spdrcstl
i think i'm good at writing dialogue for games - i think it's a difficult subgenre of games writing and i'm proud of getting better at it over years - and it makes me immensely depressed to see studios look to replace that skillset with poor quality AI generate parser gameplay
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swamp appreciator 🦟
@mulberrythief
Rail workers tried to strike over the exact conditions that led to this. Congress stopped them. Now there’s a media blackout on the disaster because it’s catastrophically bad and politicians + the Wall Street owned rail corporation are clearly to blame.
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Frank Castiglione
@CastiglioneFrnk
This may be one of the largest ecological disasters in US history. There were roughly 100,000 gallons or 1,000,000 pounds of Vinyl Chloride leaked, spilled and burned at #EastPalestine crash. Acid rain and Phosgene will decimate the zones ecology.
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This is still one of the coolest things I did last year 🤩 Completely missed that my talk is now on YouTube. I can't bear to look, but you're totally allowed and encouraged 😎👉👉 🎦 youtube.com/watch?v=S6wdWI
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Joannes Truyens
@playthroughline
Speaking at @AdvXConf about @Neurocracy2049 (which probably wouldn't exist as it does without @AdvXConf) was an absolute highlight! ❤️ Amazing crowd, amazing event, just... thank you all 🫵😎👍
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Ed Smith
@esmithwriter
Our book about the entire Metal Gear Solid series, tons of Funland issues and a big collection of Heterotopias, with all profits going to LGBTQ+ charities. Available now.
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Bullet Points
@BulletPointsVG
Together with our @SupercultureNet pals, we put together the Better Magic Bundle, which includes Okay, Hero, @FunlandMag #1, and @HeterotopiasZn #1-9, with all profits going to LGBTQ+ charities in Canada, the US, and UK: itch.io/b/1714/supercu
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Joe Wintergreen
@joewintergreen
there really is no defense if you're at all aware of the context of this game... it's like the "do you return your shopping cart" basic-humanity test but more so, all you have to do is not play a video game. it's harder to play a video game than to not play it
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doc | visiting LA at the end of the month
@docsquiddy
Yes, you are a bad human being if you buy a video game, sending money directly to a woman who has gleefully stated, publicly, here on twitter, that any time you spend money on her she uses it to hurt people. You are voting with your wallet, you are saying bigotry is good.
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ali
@yazaleea
hello, waking up to an automated itch dot io tweet about
@Disaster_Duo
made my day! feel free to check this out if you haven't yet (shameless self promo 💛) and i'll love you forever
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itch.io
@itchio
Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency: Two disastrous detectives investigate your recent memory loss in the mysterious fantasy city of Falaisant. pyrofoux.itch.io/defective-agen
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Holly Nielsen on strike
@nielsen_holly
OUR GAME IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY ✨You should play it!! 💰 It’s free!! ⭐️ Rate it five stars!! 🤔Find out why a physics-based puzzle game has a dedicated narrative designer and writer (which is me)!!
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Devolver Digital
@devolverdigital
Devolver Tumble Time mixes all your favorite characters, monetization methods, and engaging ads in the perfect physics-based puzzle game! Out now, tumble for free! App Store: devolver.link/ttaa Google Play: devolver.link/ttgp
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Quinns
@Quinns108
We just released a big, big new video from People Make Games. Valve isn't just one of the most influential companies in gaming, it's also one of the most secretive. Under condition of anonymity, we spoke to Valve staff about how the company really works.
youtube.com
Working at Valve: 'A Fearless Adventure' or 'Lord of the Flies'?
What's it actually like working for Valve Corporation? Over the last few months, People Make Games has interviewed 16 current and former Valve employees abou...
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Gena-mour Barrett
@SmileGena
my theory is that as each of the apps have warped into one, slowly turning users into content creators without them realising, the act of posting feels like “creating content” rather than sharing something with friends, which makes the act feel extra performative.
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@buhlesrevenge
i get so embarrassed for no reason after posting on social media, like why am i showing my life😭
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Oliver Darkshire 🌈
@deathbybadger
as someone who used to enjoy his work, this is another one of those JKR situations where continued and unrepentant material harm (in this case, tithing to the Mormon church) is being done, so alas one can't both have pro-queer principles and also be throwing him money
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Gretchen Felker-Martin
@scumbelievable
Brandon Sanderson affirming the LDS church's institutional homophobia on his personal blog. My two cents, we've tolerated this guy in SFF for far too long.
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mike cook
@mtrc
Hey everyone! If you've got 15 minutes to spare, come play a game, tell us what you found in it, and help Florence do some exciting research. RTs appreciate too, of course 💜
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Florence Smith Nicholls
@florencesn
Call for Participants! We are conducting a study on player responses to generative archaeology games! All aged 16+ welcome! 🕹️Play a game 📝Give us your interpretations ✨Contribute to the future of games research! Take the 10 min survey here: tinyurl.com/4yjpfs8h
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Old Windows style interface on a vaporwave grid background with the title Call for Participants! Play a digital archaeology game and give us your interpretations! Take the survey here: https://tinyurl.com/4yjpfs8h
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NEUROCRACY
@Neurocracy2049
Happy to announce that #Neurocracy has been selected as part of the
@ExpGameWorkshop
at GDC 2023 ‼️ We're unable to physically attend, so we'll be presenting a video on the game's past and future, which we'll make available to all after the session 🤗
schedule.gdconf.com
Experimental Game Workshop
The Experimental Game Workshop Showcase which has featured games like Baba Is You Braid Untitled Goose Game and Card Shark is back for its 21st year at...
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Holly Nielsen on strike
@nielsen_holly
I was approached by
@dezeen
to write about the metaverse; so I wrote about how digital spaces have social value, but metaverse promises emulate the increasing privatisation of space and obsession with ownership we struggle with in the physical world:
dezeen.com
"Metaverses will be the digital equivalent of huge empty cities without character or community"
Digital spaces can create communities but the ownership-obsessed metaverses envisioned by tech companies are uninspiring, writes Holly Nielsen.
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everest
@everestpipkin
An honor to be shortlisted among these works, much less to receive this award. It means the world to me, truly. Anonymous Animal lives at anonymous-animal.neocities.org and you can play it next at the hour, in about 25 minutes. Ask a friend to meet you there.
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NewMediaWritingPrize
@NMWPrize
Anonymous Animal by Everest Pipkin (@everestpipkin)!!! Enormous felicitations to Everest for this amazing work of new media literature! It's an honour well-deserved.
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Joannes Truyens
@playthroughline
‼️ This is tonight at 8pm GMT ‼️ Do join us for an evening of celebrating creativity and innovation, an absolutely stacked field of contenders, and a tiny talk from yours truly ✌️😎
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NewMediaWritingPrize
@NMWPrize
The #Unconf23 culminates #NewMediaWritingPrize awards! Register now for the announcement of the winners of the Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize, the @wonderboxpub Opening Up prize, the @FIPPWorld Journalism prize, and the @WritingMagazine Student prize! eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-media-wr
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Abandoned Building Influencer
@bombsfall
In shocking twist the magical computer intelligence that does things previously thought to be possible only through squishy human subjective decision making actually requires massive amounts of exactly that
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Billy Perrigo
@billyperrigo
🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found (Thread) time.com/6247678/openai
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