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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · 12h

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!

Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 3d

Our entire catalogue for like $10, I don't know what to tell you! store.steampowered.com/bundle/6109/...

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 2d

WGGB Free Online Gamewriting Talks, 15 October, 7-8.45pm (GMT)

Shares welcome! Grab your tickets now!

Shaping your game narrative

Every game has different writing needs, so how do you figure out the best approach? In this set of lightning talks-

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Microsoft Forms

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 27d

Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io www.eurogamer.net/queer-develo...

A red prohibition sign overlaid on the Steam and itch.io logos. Images of heavily pixellated games are visible in the background.

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · 27d

Join us on Saturday Oct 11th for a group play of various IFcomp games! If you've submitted a game and want us to play it, give us a shout - it's always fascinating to see other people play your game live.

www.meetup.com/oxford-and-l...

Play IF Comp Games Together - Digitally!, Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 2:00 PM | Meetup

Find Meetup events so you can do more of what matters to you. Or create your own group and meet people near you who share your interests.

www.meetup.com

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The Game Accessibility Conference @gaconf.bsky.social · Sep 5

Speaker announcement📢

The full lineup for GAConf USA 2025 is now online, including lots of previously unannounced talks - from FC26 to the Nhuad controller, from AbleToPlay to South of Midnight!
gaconf.com/schedule

Sept 29th - 30th, registration at gaconf.com
#gamedev #indiedev

GAconf, IGDA-GASIG. Advancing accessibility for disabled players. Hybrid online & Archer Hotel, Redmond. September 29th - 30th 2025. TIGA awards winner, CIPT awards winner, MCV Develop awards finalists, EN awards winner, Business Awards UK winner.

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Aaron A. Reed @aaronareed.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎃🍁🍂AUTUMN SALE!🍂🍁🎃 All my books and games are on sale for one week only to celebrate the impending arrival of cooler days and pumpkin lattes.
RPGs: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
50 Years of Text Games: if50.textories.com
Subcutanean: subcutanean.textories.com
Cool swag: aaronareed.net/store/

Screenshot of DriveThruRPG showing the Downcrawl Deck and other recent RPG titles at a 20% discount.

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SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · Sep 2

Many of the talks from this year's @narrascope.org are up! There's real variety here, perfect for writers, designers or anyone interested in narrative games and how they're made.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

NarraScope 2025 - YouTube

youtube.com

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks to @coreybrotherson.bsky.social , @writingstudio.bsky.social , James Chew and @marygoodden.bsky.social for the wonderful panel!

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · Aug 26

For anyone who couldn't make it to the WGGB's panel on navigating a career in games writing, you can now watch it online! Whether you're an aspiring or established writer, it's a difficult time in our industry, so it's all the more important to talk about it.

youtu.be/fcOXhmTk1tM?...

Navigating a career in videogames writing

YouTube video by Writers' Guild of Great Britain

youtu.be

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Cara Cadaver <3 @dirtlord77.bsky.social · Aug 5

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game.

It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM

Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

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joannes @playthroughline.com · Jul 15

🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐

A serialised murder mystery that unfolds across weekly updates to a futuristic Wikipedia, with players debating theories in a TTRPG-like dialogue that influences the story

‼️ Episode 1 launches TOMORROW‼️

Please signal boost if you can, we rely on word-of-mouth more than anything 🙏

NEUROCRACY by pyrofoux, Playthroughline

Solve a murder in the future by diving into its Wikipedia

pyrofoux.itch.io

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · Jul 15

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

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The Lost Land of Bahia Blanca - Visual Novel RPG in Development @libromancystudios.bsky.social · Jul 1

If you're in the fight against totalitarianisms, neo-fascism and are probably progressive and/or leftist, you're gonna love this project.

Brought to you by a queer led team mainly based in Argentina and inspired by one of the worst dictatorships our country has suffered.

The Lost Land of Bahia Blanca - Visual Novel RPG in Development @libromancystudios.bsky.social · Jul 1

PROLOGUE AVAILABLE - The Lost Land Of Bahía Blanca

🦇Vampire Dictatorship + Factions
📚Visual Novel with Light RPG + Point and Click Mechanics
👵Elder Woman Protagonist

libromancy-studios.itch.io/the-lost-lan...

The Lost Land of Bahia Blanca - Prologue by Libromancy Studios, Perpetua Peralta

Save your family amid a vampire dictatorship in this Visual Novel RPG

libromancy-studios.itch.io

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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · Jun 30

ATUEL is out NOW on Steam & Google Play for free! 🙌✨

🌄 Explore dreamlike landscapes
🦊 Shapeshift into different animals
📻 Listen to real testimonies

Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game about the climate crisis.

Help us out with a RT! 🙏

store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...

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Danchi Days 🌻DEMO OUT NOW!🌻 @danchidays.bsky.social · Jun 29

Danchi Days has cozy and heavy themes in its story - but it's not the first game to do so! Come read about 5 games with similar thematic blends, from Harvest Moon to Animal Crossing!
danchidays.substack.com/p/danchi-day...

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · Jun 25

Atuel launches on Steam and Google Play in less than a week! 🎉 🎊 🎏

Wishlist the game and help us get the word out with a repost 🙏✨

Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · Jun 9

ATUEL IS COMING TO STEAM & GOOGLE PLAY ON JUNE 30TH! 🎉🙌✨

This free re-release of our award-winning surrealist documentary game about climate change comes with localization to 7 new languages and full controller support! 💬🎮

Wishlist it now! 🙏💕

store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...

Atuel on Steam

Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina.

store.steampowered.com

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Jun 22

'Support composers not war' is a no-brainer.

I know Bandcamp doesn't have some mainstream artists, but for a fan of VG soundtracks, it's heaven.

A screenshot of my Bandcamp account showing a few of the albums I've bought

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · Jun 18

If you haven't already purchased tickets, there's still time!

I'll be part of the Local IF Meetups Supergroup panel on Saturday (remotely), with Destina and I representing the Oxford and London IF meetup. The rest of the time I'll be trying to take in as many other cool talks as I can!

NarraScope @narrascope.org · Jun 17

⌛Time is short to purchase an online NarraScope membership and join us for the 2025 conference this coming weekend! Sales close at 11:59 ET on June 18: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

NarraScope 2025

NarraScope brings together writers, developers, and players in support of adventure/narrative games and interactive fiction.

www.eventbrite.com

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · Jun 17

narrascope 2025 is this weekend! I helped jury this year’s talks and love how wide-ranging this year’s schedule is.

Online registration is still open today and tomorrow: narrascope.org

Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games

NarraScope 2025 at Drexel University is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.

narrascope.org

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · Jun 18

Credit Where Credit’s Due - Help needed for one last push!

If you missed this, or haven't had chance yet - take the moment today, we're almost there!!

To move our videogames credits campaign forward the WGGB’s Videogames Committee needs just a few more responses-
www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y97DHN3

Videogame writers and credits

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

www.surveymonkey.com

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anima interactive @anima-interactive.com · Jun 13

The journey begins. Take Us North is a narrative-driven game inspired by real-world stories that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border.

Back it now on Kickstarter and help humanize migrant stories: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tak...

Take Us North

A narrative adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border

www.kickstarter.com

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · Jun 7

The river is a god & they killed her. It’s time for ordinary people to hold them to account.

Excited to share the first trailer for our new game about dead gods & taking billionaires to court — All Will Rise 🌏⚖️✨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQa...

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