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George 🕊️
@thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
Senior Writer @ Failbetter Games, working on Mandrake and Fallen London. Bird-botherer, arrow-flinger, and lifter of heavy things. he/him
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Counterpoint: Absolutely fucking not.
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:

forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I use Siri to add groceries to my shopping list, and to distinguish between 'items for the next big shop' and 'items I need ASAP', I stick an exclamation mark at the end. So, sometimes my todo list looks like I'm due to write a hit musical about milk.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I've been getting back into Oxygen Not Included, and have finally built the ultimate machine: a counter which increments each in-game day and shouts at me when I've played too long and should take a break.
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Hello #pitchyagame! Mandrake is a rural life sim with a playfully responsive narrative.

🌳Grow plants! Here that's quite a magical feat
👭Befriend neighbours, human or otherwise
🍃Fish, gather, delve in the wilds
❔Uncover mysteries your family left behind

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3710210/...
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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From now on, the emails generated by Fallen London will be from 'Fallen London'. The enigmatic Mr 'messages' has met its end. Who was Mr messages? Shhhh.
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I would like to get this account to a thousand followers by the end of the year. That feels like a level where I'd have comparable reach to the 6k I had when I left Twitter

Follow me for indie game marketing and business, and honestly, sexy rat talk
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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And did those legs, in antique land
Stand upon desert's lone sand plain
And was the cold visage and lip
Its sneer of cold command so vain
And did the pedestal, half sunk
Still speak of works all now bowed down
And Ozymandias, king of kings
Forgot but for his dark, wrecked frown
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"May I?" he asks, and he holds out a paw, his claws beckoning. He kisses the back of your hand.

The self-declared Prince of All Rats has the manners, bearing, and ambition to rule – and a personal interest in your acquaintance. Will you help the Fifth City to accept his claim?
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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It’s here! ’The Prince of All Rats’, Fallen London‘s Exceptional Story for November, was written by yours truly. I hope you enjoy the seduction of our self-styled prince!
"May I?" he asks, and he holds out a paw, his claws beckoning. He kisses the back of your hand.

The self-declared Prince of All Rats has the manners, bearing, and ambition to rule – and a personal interest in your acquaintance. Will you help the Fifth City to accept his claim?
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Every time I get jumpscared by some new crevice in which a corporate has shoved GenAI in the stuff I use daily, they should have to pay me 10,000 pounds.
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I spend like 2 minutes on here, and am reminded that it's nice to feel connected to people and reach out. And then I spend 3 more minutes on here and I'm just caught in the swirl of utter misery that is the world.
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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If you missed the lightning talks, they're now up on the WGGB's Youtube channel! Thanks again to @kimmacaskill.bsky.social , @flipdock.bsky.social , @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social . @rosebehar.bsky.social , Colin Harvey, Ben Sabin and our sponsor @articydraft.bsky.social
youtu.be/FnUpmq5Z-1g?...
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
*pinches nose* love to spend more and more of my time figuring out how to keep all the vital tools in my life usable at even the most basic level.
Microsoft: Let us add another layer of accessibility and security issues to your computer, come on, it'll be fun
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
October 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
No wonder squirrels can’t afford houses if they’re splashing out on Gail’s croissants.
October 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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damn. hoping it at least signifies something
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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it's not FOR us
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Members and non-members are invited to this set of lightning talks on the specific needs of different game forms, featuring the wonderful @kimmacaskill.bsky.social, @flipdock.bsky.social, @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social, @rosebehar.bsky.social and chair Ben Sabin!
Shaping your game narrative - 15 October

Join our expert panel of games writers/narrative designers for this free online series of talks + Q&A, sponsored by @articydraft.bsky.social

Non-members welcome too!

Find out more + register:

forms.office.com/pages/respon...
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Laura is the funniest writer I've ever worked with, and also the most Professional

From Pathalogic to Skin Deep, you could let her loose on just about anything imo!!!
Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!
October 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is HALF PRICE during the Steam Autumn Sale!

Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.

What lies beneath the soil?

Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM