Josh
@joshmlabelle.bsky.social
Writer & Narrative Designer || Creative Director on Disney Dreamlight Valley ||"Hunter: The Reckoning - Day for Night" coming 2026 || "A Crown of Sorcery & Steel" out from Choice of Games || 1st place IFComp 2020🏆|| Opinions my own || www.joshlabelle.com
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Josh
@joshmlabelle.bsky.social
· Oct 9
Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...
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Just announced! I've been working on an interactive novel in the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise!
Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.
store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...
Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.
store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...
I'm gutted to hear about the loss of Catherine O'Hara.
Dreamlight Valley is one of the only video games that she lent her voice to (quite possibly the first as well?) and we were all so incredibly excited to have her as our Sally.
What a career. Absolute legend.
Dreamlight Valley is one of the only video games that she lent her voice to (quite possibly the first as well?) and we were all so incredibly excited to have her as our Sally.
What a career. Absolute legend.
January 30, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I'm gutted to hear about the loss of Catherine O'Hara.
Dreamlight Valley is one of the only video games that she lent her voice to (quite possibly the first as well?) and we were all so incredibly excited to have her as our Sally.
What a career. Absolute legend.
Dreamlight Valley is one of the only video games that she lent her voice to (quite possibly the first as well?) and we were all so incredibly excited to have her as our Sally.
What a career. Absolute legend.
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shakespeare was on fire writing the history plays and im not afraid to say it. in henry IV part 2 the king laments that his son will take the throne and "commit the oldest sins the newest kinds of ways" which goes absolutely crazy
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 AM
shakespeare was on fire writing the history plays and im not afraid to say it. in henry IV part 2 the king laments that his son will take the throne and "commit the oldest sins the newest kinds of ways" which goes absolutely crazy
I'm so curious to see how they ride this sincerity/taking-the-piss line in the next few years. It's such an artistic knife edge -- you can see how there's peril in falling too far to either side.
January 26, 2026 at 3:57 AM
I'm so curious to see how they ride this sincerity/taking-the-piss line in the next few years. It's such an artistic knife edge -- you can see how there's peril in falling too far to either side.
There's a kind of fear that one might do something beautiful, which the artist must sabotage within the art itself. With Geese, it feels like their talent & range of influences is pushing the tension to a breaking point they genuinely don't know how to resolve & that is so artistically exciting.
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 AM
There's a kind of fear that one might do something beautiful, which the artist must sabotage within the art itself. With Geese, it feels like their talent & range of influences is pushing the tension to a breaking point they genuinely don't know how to resolve & that is so artistically exciting.
I once had a kooky visual arts professor who looked at my end-of-semester work, shook her head solemnly, and told me I had a "complicated relationship with beauty" and should "take a dance class".
I feel like that complicated relationship with beauty is such an endemic trait I see in Gen Z artists.
I feel like that complicated relationship with beauty is such an endemic trait I see in Gen Z artists.
January 26, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I once had a kooky visual arts professor who looked at my end-of-semester work, shook her head solemnly, and told me I had a "complicated relationship with beauty" and should "take a dance class".
I feel like that complicated relationship with beauty is such an endemic trait I see in Gen Z artists.
I feel like that complicated relationship with beauty is such an endemic trait I see in Gen Z artists.
Then another question comes up: is the impulse to sing in this way an artistic virtue of the work or is it a limiting affectation that he'll eventually shed? Or is it possible that what makes the music so interesting is the very fact that this is currently unresolved?
January 26, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Then another question comes up: is the impulse to sing in this way an artistic virtue of the work or is it a limiting affectation that he'll eventually shed? Or is it possible that what makes the music so interesting is the very fact that this is currently unresolved?
That tension feels connected to another - which is that Winter pretty obviously has a conventionally beautiful voice and is a technically skilled singer but uses his instrument in some extremely *weird* ways. Once you realize that, you're left with a question: why is he choosing to sing this way?
January 26, 2026 at 3:34 AM
That tension feels connected to another - which is that Winter pretty obviously has a conventionally beautiful voice and is a technically skilled singer but uses his instrument in some extremely *weird* ways. Once you realize that, you're left with a question: why is he choosing to sing this way?
There's a very interesting tension in Geese/Cameron Winter of whether you become great artists by embodying the quirks of your generation or by transcending them and I like that the tension is so far genuinely unresolved; anyway that SNL performance rocked
January 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM
There's a very interesting tension in Geese/Cameron Winter of whether you become great artists by embodying the quirks of your generation or by transcending them and I like that the tension is so far genuinely unresolved; anyway that SNL performance rocked
George Harrison's vibe in the Beatles Anthology whenever Paul does something goofy is "ugh you're going to embarrass me in front of Bob Dylan and the other Traveling Wilburys"
January 25, 2026 at 4:17 AM
George Harrison's vibe in the Beatles Anthology whenever Paul does something goofy is "ugh you're going to embarrass me in front of Bob Dylan and the other Traveling Wilburys"
Thanks, Luna! That's wonderful to hear. Truly made my day.
January 23, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Thanks, Luna! That's wonderful to hear. Truly made my day.
This live concert where the piano had a bunch of busted keys and Cameron Winter had to transpose a bunch of his songs into other keys on the fly and perform them that way is pretty amazing. I'm bullish on this guy being the real deal.
youtu.be/pUIj2pB_1S0?...
youtu.be/pUIj2pB_1S0?...
Cameron Winter - Live at St Matthias's Church, London, 24/04/2025
YouTube video by roustghoti
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This live concert where the piano had a bunch of busted keys and Cameron Winter had to transpose a bunch of his songs into other keys on the fly and perform them that way is pretty amazing. I'm bullish on this guy being the real deal.
youtu.be/pUIj2pB_1S0?...
youtu.be/pUIj2pB_1S0?...
Pleased to share that I'll be giving a talk at GDC this year!
Looking forward to hopefully chat with some mutuals at my first GDC.
schedule.gdconf.com/session/brin...
Looking forward to hopefully chat with some mutuals at my first GDC.
schedule.gdconf.com/session/brin...
Bringing Narrative to 'Disney Dreamlight Valley' | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming
TheGDC Festival of Gaming program blends expert insight with interactive formats designed to spark ideas, sharpen skills, and connect communities.
schedule.gdconf.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Pleased to share that I'll be giving a talk at GDC this year!
Looking forward to hopefully chat with some mutuals at my first GDC.
schedule.gdconf.com/session/brin...
Looking forward to hopefully chat with some mutuals at my first GDC.
schedule.gdconf.com/session/brin...
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Lord of Light — Jack Kirby, 1978
December 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Lord of Light — Jack Kirby, 1978
Being a Canadian in Paris during what is apparently for them a fairly significant snowfall event has been a lot of fun. Snowball fights everywhere. People intentionally sliding down the icy streets of Montmartre. Dogs going apeshit trying to eat the snow.
January 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Being a Canadian in Paris during what is apparently for them a fairly significant snowfall event has been a lot of fun. Snowball fights everywhere. People intentionally sliding down the icy streets of Montmartre. Dogs going apeshit trying to eat the snow.
They make a wild contrast with the only other bird in the cemetery, jet black carrion crows
January 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
They make a wild contrast with the only other bird in the cemetery, jet black carrion crows
Apparently (at least according to the source I read) they've spread across most of Europe now but ALL of them originate from the two airport escapes in France which is bonkers
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Apparently (at least according to the source I read) they've spread across most of Europe now but ALL of them originate from the two airport escapes in France which is bonkers
Today on a visit to Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, I learned that Paris not only has wild parakeets but they all seem to have originated from two incidents of pet parakeets escaping from the airport and that is extremely wild.
January 4, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Today on a visit to Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, I learned that Paris not only has wild parakeets but they all seem to have originated from two incidents of pet parakeets escaping from the airport and that is extremely wild.
I love being on vacation in a different time zone because my brain does this weird magical thing where I think about the people I know back home and go: "Ha. For them, it is 5 o'clock. Anxious fools. They don't know that I am in the future where it is 11 o'clock and everything is fine."
January 4, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I love being on vacation in a different time zone because my brain does this weird magical thing where I think about the people I know back home and go: "Ha. For them, it is 5 o'clock. Anxious fools. They don't know that I am in the future where it is 11 o'clock and everything is fine."
The key thing is the coherence of those yesses/nos. To me this is where my home city of Toronto really fails. While I dearly love it and there's much to recommend it, it's said yes and no to a lot of things over the past 60 years that don't really add up to a cohesive experience walking around it.
January 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
The key thing is the coherence of those yesses/nos. To me this is where my home city of Toronto really fails. While I dearly love it and there's much to recommend it, it's said yes and no to a lot of things over the past 60 years that don't really add up to a cohesive experience walking around it.
I've only visited European cities a couple of times now, but each time I've been struck by how incredibly subtle design choices affect how you feel in a space, and most of those choices come down to what you say yes but mainly what you say no to.
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I've only visited European cities a couple of times now, but each time I've been struck by how incredibly subtle design choices affect how you feel in a space, and most of those choices come down to what you say yes but mainly what you say no to.
It's pretty wild how much this album cover now just looks like a Gen Z bedroom pop album thumbnail on SoundCloud or something. The camera's not even much of a giveaway since it looks so aesthetically retro. Like I think you could trick a few people with this.
December 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It's pretty wild how much this album cover now just looks like a Gen Z bedroom pop album thumbnail on SoundCloud or something. The camera's not even much of a giveaway since it looks so aesthetically retro. Like I think you could trick a few people with this.
It's very good, but I bet almost every other season 6 and season 7 disc is in contention here.
December 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It's very good, but I bet almost every other season 6 and season 7 disc is in contention here.
This Christmas, every family will be supplied with Billy Preston to break the tension and maintain good vibes at their festivities
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This Christmas, every family will be supplied with Billy Preston to break the tension and maintain good vibes at their festivities
11. Blizzard - Dove Ellis
Ellis' debut album; his voice is unbelievable. Like if an Irish Jeff Buckley fronted a folk rock band. I'm very interested to see what this guy does next. He could be huge.
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
Ellis' debut album; his voice is unbelievable. Like if an Irish Jeff Buckley fronted a folk rock band. I'm very interested to see what this guy does next. He could be huge.
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
Dove Ellis - Pale Song (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dove Ellis
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
11. Blizzard - Dove Ellis
Ellis' debut album; his voice is unbelievable. Like if an Irish Jeff Buckley fronted a folk rock band. I'm very interested to see what this guy does next. He could be huge.
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
Ellis' debut album; his voice is unbelievable. Like if an Irish Jeff Buckley fronted a folk rock band. I'm very interested to see what this guy does next. He could be huge.
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
10. Absolute Batman
This is not a comic book run that I expected to like, but something about how far it goes into being ridiculous and how unafraid it is to be dumb ended up appealing to me a lot. Honestly that's a theme with a lot of the stuff I loved this year.
This is not a comic book run that I expected to like, but something about how far it goes into being ridiculous and how unafraid it is to be dumb ended up appealing to me a lot. Honestly that's a theme with a lot of the stuff I loved this year.
December 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
10. Absolute Batman
This is not a comic book run that I expected to like, but something about how far it goes into being ridiculous and how unafraid it is to be dumb ended up appealing to me a lot. Honestly that's a theme with a lot of the stuff I loved this year.
This is not a comic book run that I expected to like, but something about how far it goes into being ridiculous and how unafraid it is to be dumb ended up appealing to me a lot. Honestly that's a theme with a lot of the stuff I loved this year.