Danny Salfield Wadeson
@dannysw.bsky.social
madquills.com. Vegan against fascism. Lead Narrative Designer @ Lucid Games on [???] - 10+ years making stuff: Harold Halibut, Röki, Dying Light 2 + more
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Devlog 1 - The Origin Story (why I decided to start writing my own solo TTRPG) - madquillsgames.substack.com/p/devlog-1-t... - if you're interested to follow along as I design and test it.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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Steam bans an artistic, daring indie game release citing some ridiculous indecency rules. Whilst the platform is as we all know, flooded with cheap porn.
Solidarity with Santa Ragione, the sooner devs find a way to move away from the monopoly of Steam the better.
www.eurogamer.net/its-extremel...
Solidarity with Santa Ragione, the sooner devs find a way to move away from the monopoly of Steam the better.
www.eurogamer.net/its-extremel...
"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban
You might not immediately recognise the name Santa Ragione, but the independent Italian studio has been creating bounda…
www.eurogamer.net
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Steam bans an artistic, daring indie game release citing some ridiculous indecency rules. Whilst the platform is as we all know, flooded with cheap porn.
Solidarity with Santa Ragione, the sooner devs find a way to move away from the monopoly of Steam the better.
www.eurogamer.net/its-extremel...
Solidarity with Santa Ragione, the sooner devs find a way to move away from the monopoly of Steam the better.
www.eurogamer.net/its-extremel...
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It's Itch Creator Day.
I'm running a sale: itch.io/s/170833/bla...
#ttrpg #stockart #bsnm #creatorday #indierpg
I'm running a sale: itch.io/s/170833/bla...
#ttrpg #stockart #bsnm #creatorday #indierpg
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's Itch Creator Day.
I'm running a sale: itch.io/s/170833/bla...
#ttrpg #stockart #bsnm #creatorday #indierpg
I'm running a sale: itch.io/s/170833/bla...
#ttrpg #stockart #bsnm #creatorday #indierpg
I already didn't buy Ubisoft games, but I'm excited to extra not buy Ubisoft games: www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-boss...
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide
Ubisoft boss believes generative AI is as big a revolution for games as the shift to 3D, as tech is embraced company-wide.
www.eurogamer.net
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I already didn't buy Ubisoft games, but I'm excited to extra not buy Ubisoft games: www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-boss...
Solo TTRPG devlog 2: Designing an alternative to 'everything wants to kill you or die trying' Encounter systems
AKA Adapting the OODA Loop for procedural alien creature encounters!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What do you think - is this an interesting approach? Anything I'm missing?
AKA Adapting the OODA Loop for procedural alien creature encounters!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What do you think - is this an interesting approach? Anything I'm missing?
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Solo TTRPG devlog 2: Designing an alternative to 'everything wants to kill you or die trying' Encounter systems
AKA Adapting the OODA Loop for procedural alien creature encounters!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What do you think - is this an interesting approach? Anything I'm missing?
AKA Adapting the OODA Loop for procedural alien creature encounters!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What do you think - is this an interesting approach? Anything I'm missing?
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
I have just learned about the symbiosis of Goby and Shrimp. The shrimp makes a burrow in the sand they can both live in - in return, the Goby warns the blind shrimp of danger while outside the burrow. This is everything.
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I have just learned about the symbiosis of Goby and Shrimp. The shrimp makes a burrow in the sand they can both live in - in return, the Goby warns the blind shrimp of danger while outside the burrow. This is everything.
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The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
Normalise citing the main writers in game reviews of narrative led games.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Normalise citing the main writers in game reviews of narrative led games.
Woah I missed this! Krumit's Tale is a super addictive, strategic and goofy in all the best ways dungeon-deck-crawler-builder that also happens to have words by me - it'll be so at home on the Switch!
Excited to share that Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale is coming to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4/5 on September 25!
Shoutout to the team at indienova for bringing this dream to life.
Nintendo Switch (10% sale) www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
PlayStation store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Shoutout to the team at indienova for bringing this dream to life.
Nintendo Switch (10% sale) www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
PlayStation store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Buy Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
www.nintendo.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Woah I missed this! Krumit's Tale is a super addictive, strategic and goofy in all the best ways dungeon-deck-crawler-builder that also happens to have words by me - it'll be so at home on the Switch!
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Text size that can be made larger, especially in menus. Small text size in menu heavy games genuinely harms my experience as I can't fully sit back and chill when I play it.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Text size that can be made larger, especially in menus. Small text size in menu heavy games genuinely harms my experience as I can't fully sit back and chill when I play it.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
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Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Devlog 1 - The Origin Story (why I decided to start writing my own solo TTRPG) - madquillsgames.substack.com/p/devlog-1-t... - if you're interested to follow along as I design and test it.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Devlog 1 - The Origin Story (why I decided to start writing my own solo TTRPG) - madquillsgames.substack.com/p/devlog-1-t... - if you're interested to follow along as I design and test it.
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Some were sick, on leave, or on paternity leave
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Some were sick, on leave, or on paternity leave
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
Utterly impossible to satirize.
Rich people used to build concert halls and fund public spaces and give generously to charity.
Partially out of guilt. Partially because they wanted to do something good or put their name on something that would last.
Partially because they knew the lower classes would eat them if they didn't.
Partially out of guilt. Partially because they wanted to do something good or put their name on something that would last.
Partially because they knew the lower classes would eat them if they didn't.
MrBeast Is Opening A Theme Park In Saudi Arabia This Month
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Utterly impossible to satirize.
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perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Congratulations to and solidarity with my NY brethren. Keep that good shit up.
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Congratulations to and solidarity with my NY brethren. Keep that good shit up.
And/or bricks the project entirely.
NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
How poor leadership slows down game development
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
And/or bricks the project entirely.
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NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
How poor leadership slows down game development
How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
I can’t promise i’m smart but i do try to be kind and the rest is absolutely true haha
in ~17 years, the writers and narrative designers have consistently been the kindest, smartest folks I've worked with in game dev.
they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time.
diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.
they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time.
diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I can’t promise i’m smart but i do try to be kind and the rest is absolutely true haha
When you think about how thoughts work, it's pretty crazy.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
When you think about how thoughts work, it's pretty crazy.
This was my game of last year. Do not sleep on this folks.
Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them.
To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
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To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This was my game of last year. Do not sleep on this folks.