Fergus Doyle
@mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social
Brittunculus. A frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe. Something Yorkshire in the state of Denmark. I write games and sometimes I put them online.
Narrative Designer, Sea of Rifts: https://www.seaofrifts.com/
Website: https://mrfergusdoyle.com
Narrative Designer, Sea of Rifts: https://www.seaofrifts.com/
Website: https://mrfergusdoyle.com
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Fergus Doyle
@mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hey, I'm Fergus! I don't think I ever did an introduction post, so here we go. I'm a British Narrative Designer/writer type who's been living in Copenhagen for nearly 4 years now.
Until recently I've mostly been working on my own interactive fiction stuff and game jams (mrfergusdoyle.itch.io )...
Until recently I've mostly been working on my own interactive fiction stuff and game jams (mrfergusdoyle.itch.io )...
If deezer's payment model is to be believed, it might have been easier for me to just send Viagra Boys a fiver every month this year
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If deezer's payment model is to be believed, it might have been easier for me to just send Viagra Boys a fiver every month this year
One of my favourite critics discussing one of my favourite books on one of my favourite podcasts!
Academic, critic, and prolific podcaster @ckunzelman.bsky.social joins for a far-ranging discussion about how cli-fi, sci-fi, and personal & political connections to the environment intersect in Ned Beauman's @clarkeaward.bsky.social-winning VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER. Bonus hog sighting.
A Meal of Thorns 38- VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER with Cameron Kunzelman
Academic, critic, and prolific podcaster Cameron Kunzelman joins for a far-ranging discussion about how climate fiction, science fiction, and personal and political connections to the environment i…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
One of my favourite critics discussing one of my favourite books on one of my favourite podcasts!
If Norway (which is apparently an EU member state) wanted to do this, they'd just invade Scotland
Finally, someone is coming for the Norwegians, and not a moment too soon
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
If Norway (which is apparently an EU member state) wanted to do this, they'd just invade Scotland
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Another way that genAI is fucking up the humanities. Extemporaneous essays don't have any real learning outcomes (apart from to prove the student hasn't cheated) and they don't prepare students to write academic articles if they want to go beyond undergrad. Just more rote learning
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Another way that genAI is fucking up the humanities. Extemporaneous essays don't have any real learning outcomes (apart from to prove the student hasn't cheated) and they don't prepare students to write academic articles if they want to go beyond undergrad. Just more rote learning
Had a great time with the cool games, interesting talks, and nice people at @adventurex.bsky.social over the weekend - who knows, maybe next year I'll actually post about being there before the event. Huge thanks to the organisers, hopefully they're enjoying some well-earned rest
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Had a great time with the cool games, interesting talks, and nice people at @adventurex.bsky.social over the weekend - who knows, maybe next year I'll actually post about being there before the event. Huge thanks to the organisers, hopefully they're enjoying some well-earned rest
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That’s a wrap on AdventureX 2025 🎉 Thank you to everyone - Attendees, Exhibitors, Guests, Volunteers and all who helped make this event great 💙
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
AdventureX
Videos from AdventureX: The Narrative Games Convention.
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
That’s a wrap on AdventureX 2025 🎉 Thank you to everyone - Attendees, Exhibitors, Guests, Volunteers and all who helped make this event great 💙
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
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Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
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I've pulled beauty from the jaws of creation and yet still you all forget my power
October 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I've pulled beauty from the jaws of creation and yet still you all forget my power
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Mind Diver goes on its first sale!
20% off as part of the amazing AdventureX festival. Tons of other incredible narrative games are also featured!
Get Mind Diver here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Check out AdvX here:
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
#gamedev #gaming
20% off as part of the amazing AdventureX festival. Tons of other incredible narrative games are also featured!
Get Mind Diver here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Check out AdvX here:
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
#gamedev #gaming
Mind Diver on Steam
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the vict...
store.steampowered.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Mind Diver goes on its first sale!
20% off as part of the amazing AdventureX festival. Tons of other incredible narrative games are also featured!
Get Mind Diver here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Check out AdvX here:
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
#gamedev #gaming
20% off as part of the amazing AdventureX festival. Tons of other incredible narrative games are also featured!
Get Mind Diver here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Check out AdvX here:
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
#gamedev #gaming
Reading Foucault's Pendulum and wondering when @devintoshea.bsky.social is going to do a QAA episode about it
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reading Foucault's Pendulum and wondering when @devintoshea.bsky.social is going to do a QAA episode about it
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We're at G-Star! Come and see our booth in the indie showcase if you are, by some chance, in Busan
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We're at G-Star! Come and see our booth in the indie showcase if you are, by some chance, in Busan
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Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.
We're at G-Star! Come and see our booth in the indie showcase if you are, by some chance, in Busan
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We're at G-Star! Come and see our booth in the indie showcase if you are, by some chance, in Busan
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Haha funny to see this on the timeline whilst I'm literally currently sat in the building in the 1st picture. :)
I wrote my book at my local library (not in the picture), did my launch parties at the British Library and the said local library so yes - huge love to libraries, Danish or not. 💛
I wrote my book at my local library (not in the picture), did my launch parties at the British Library and the said local library so yes - huge love to libraries, Danish or not. 💛
@eu2025dk.bsky.social is underway and we’re shining a spotlight on Denmark's long-standing reputation for great libraries 📚
Denmark’s libraries aren’t just about books, but also about culture, community, and innovation 💡
Find out more 👉 link.europa.eu/JnBWtt
Denmark’s libraries aren’t just about books, but also about culture, community, and innovation 💡
Find out more 👉 link.europa.eu/JnBWtt
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Haha funny to see this on the timeline whilst I'm literally currently sat in the building in the 1st picture. :)
I wrote my book at my local library (not in the picture), did my launch parties at the British Library and the said local library so yes - huge love to libraries, Danish or not. 💛
I wrote my book at my local library (not in the picture), did my launch parties at the British Library and the said local library so yes - huge love to libraries, Danish or not. 💛
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"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
The danish for spooky (or uncanny) is "uhygge" - not cosy
In Swedish: 'oväder'.
See also
Weed, ogräs, 'un-grass'. Monster, odjur, 'un-animal.'
See also
Weed, ogräs, 'un-grass'. Monster, odjur, 'un-animal.'
one of my favorite icelandic words is "óveður" ("storm") because its literal translation is "unweather" which absolutely fits the vibe of your typical icelandic storm
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The danish for spooky (or uncanny) is "uhygge" - not cosy
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I've been pretty excited for Sea of Rifts as a big fan of Sunless Sea and Dredge! Love to assemble a motley crew.
We just released the demo for Sea of Rifts, our systems-driven naval roguelike RPG!
Take the helm as Captain, assemble a motley crew, and engage in tense, ship-to-ship combat as you explore a shattered reality. RimWorld meets Sunless Sea, with a dash of Dredge thrown in ⛵🐙
youtu.be/qh2nfllI8fg?...
Take the helm as Captain, assemble a motley crew, and engage in tense, ship-to-ship combat as you explore a shattered reality. RimWorld meets Sunless Sea, with a dash of Dredge thrown in ⛵🐙
youtu.be/qh2nfllI8fg?...
Sea Of Rifts Demo Release Trailer
YouTube video by Out of Bounds
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I've been pretty excited for Sea of Rifts as a big fan of Sunless Sea and Dredge! Love to assemble a motley crew.
Oh hey, my great-granddad was a keeper on that lighthouse
‘The Irish landscape whispers tales of the past’: a trip beyond the blarney in far-flung Donegal
‘The Irish landscape whispers tales of the past’: a trip beyond the blarney in far-flung Donegal
Our writer explores the cliffs, beaches and villages of the Gaeltacht area of Donegal and sees the landscape afresh through the Irish language
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Oh hey, my great-granddad was a keeper on that lighthouse
The lakes poets would all do great on bluesky, except Wordsworth, who'd be a LinkedInfluencer
Percy Bysshe Shelley: So pleased my wife's novel is remembered in so grand a manner as this, what is it called, photoplay? I wonder how I fare in this world of the morrow?
(Opens BlueSky)
What the f
(Opens BlueSky)
What the f
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The lakes poets would all do great on bluesky, except Wordsworth, who'd be a LinkedInfluencer
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The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
November 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
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Here's a shot I worked on for the #Dinolords 🦖 #closedalpha 👾 #trailer 👀
I don't really have anything smart to say about it, I'm just generally mostly glad with how it turned out. 😄
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games #rts #arpg #3d #fun #steam #dkgame #medieval #vikings #dinosaurs #england
I don't really have anything smart to say about it, I'm just generally mostly glad with how it turned out. 😄
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games #rts #arpg #3d #fun #steam #dkgame #medieval #vikings #dinosaurs #england
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Here's a shot I worked on for the #Dinolords 🦖 #closedalpha 👾 #trailer 👀
I don't really have anything smart to say about it, I'm just generally mostly glad with how it turned out. 😄
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games #rts #arpg #3d #fun #steam #dkgame #medieval #vikings #dinosaurs #england
I don't really have anything smart to say about it, I'm just generally mostly glad with how it turned out. 😄
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games #rts #arpg #3d #fun #steam #dkgame #medieval #vikings #dinosaurs #england
Finished Saint of Bright Doors yesterday (everyone should listen to @catacalypto.bsky.social's book recs) and he makes a formal move about 3/4 of the way through that made put the book down for a minute. An incredible, terrifying novel.
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Finished Saint of Bright Doors yesterday (everyone should listen to @catacalypto.bsky.social's book recs) and he makes a formal move about 3/4 of the way through that made put the book down for a minute. An incredible, terrifying novel.