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George 🕊️
@thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
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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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gilespink.bsky.social
Counterpoint: Absolutely fucking not.
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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hazelmonforton.com
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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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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jon.inkle.co
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
thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
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
thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
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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failbettergames.com
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/...
Mandrake's lead piece of art. An androgymous figure stands in a copse of rhubarb, sickle in hand, a large, magical-looking flower in front of them. The trees behind them are in shadow. A house is in the distance, past a river, over the bridge. Text reads: MANDRAKE. A lovely bit of woodland with a dark edge to it, trees twisting and roots curving improbably overhead. In a cage of roots and flowers, a pair of pupilless white eyes glows. Gnarled hands grasp the roots. A small figure stands stoic before the captive. A lovely garden with neatly kept, pebble-bordered beds. Different plants and flowers grow in each. A figure is maintaining them. A grumpy, white-haired white man in a green hunting cloak and carrying an ornate shotgun talks to you, reluctantly. Text in a conversation panel reads: He does not speak. It looks like it's up to you to break the ice. "Greetings," you say. "I've just moved into the village. I'm-" "Morgan. Morgan Mandrake." He grunts. White-haired Man: "There's a lot of stories about the Mandrakes. That their sorcery bent the world in half, and it's never been the same again. That their follies sank Oleas beneath the waves." Conversation options follow: 1. That was a long time ago. 2. Well, I'll try not to do that. 3. Old tales can't be trusted. They are a bed of exaggeration, mistakes, and falsehood. Any truth is buried deep. 4. I'm not going to repeat my family's mistakes.
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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failbettergames.com
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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sardonicus.eu
A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980
a bright and colourful map of Wales
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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itshannahflynn.bsky.social
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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jameswallis.bsky.social
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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failbettergames.com
"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?
A portrait of an upright, humanoid rat with three heads. It wears regal purple, with a frilly collar at its central throat. Its little ratty hand rests on its tail, which is draped across its lap.
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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hazelmonforton.com
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!
failbettergames.com Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 13d
"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?
A portrait of an upright, humanoid rat with three heads. It wears regal purple, with a frilly collar at its central throat. Its little ratty hand rests on its tail, which is draped across its lap.
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
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
thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
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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flom.bsky.social
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
thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
*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.
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28d
Microsoft: Let us add another layer of accessibility and security issues to your computer, come on, it'll be fun
tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 28d
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
thewizardlockwood.bsky.social
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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ceej.online
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
shakespeare.lol William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Oct 10
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
it's not FOR us
edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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flom.bsky.social
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!
writersguildgb.bsky.social Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · Oct 7
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...
Photo of the speakers from left to right: Kim MacAskill, Will Aryitey, George Lockett, Rose Behar and chair Ben Sabin
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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ghoulnoise.com
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!!!
lmichet.bsky.social Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · Oct 7
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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lmichet.bsky.social
Buy our videogame it's on sale it has good jokes store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
Save 25% on Skin Deep on Steam
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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wadjeteyegames.bsky.social
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