Reposted by Alanah PearceCounting Cards @countingcardsmusic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There is a school thought on writing that says "writing is only interesting if people are arguing" that leads writers to force characters to act contrary to thier personality. Alanah here is highlighting what I think is a better way to think about writing characters. Now I really want to see this. 1657
Reposted by Alanah PearceKreez @ctkreez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This explains so much about why I really liked this movie. Bryan had agency in his own film, despite his bad decisions under stress. It really helps to feel like the character is relatable throughout, while also maintaining enough distance to remember you’re still in the audience & having fun. 3453
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hiiiii new video about how Resident Evil completely avoids the “dumb horror character annoys the hell out of people by making dumb decisions” problem with what is generally my #1 tip for new writers! youtu.be/V3I0GL5QZBk?...youtu.beResident Evil & the Dumb Protagonist ProblemYouTube video by Alanah Pearce 1129123
Reposted by Alanah PearcePunkdefied @punkdefied.com · 29/09/2026I know I am a broken record because I keep saying how seemingly every @playwatchlisten.bsky.social episode is great, but this was a candid and wonderful conversation. @alanahpearce.bsky.social and @mikebithell.bsky.social did a wonderful interview / chat with @timoflegend.bsky.socialyoutube.comTim Schafer on leaving Xbox & the future of Double Fine | Play, Watch, ListenYouTube video by Play, Watch, Listen+ 0526
Reposted by Alanah PearceLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks! 7441269
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️. 87373178
Reposted by Alanah PearceAlanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The next screening of GODMOTHER is at Monster Fest in Melbourne, AU, on October 3rd! I’m super excited to come home to present the movie to Aussie audiences, and do a Q&A afterwards :D. Get tickets here: www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mf26-g... 925211
Reposted by Alanah PearceAdHoc Studio @adhocstudio.com · 23/09/2026Heard some of you couldn’t make it… The full recording of Dispatch: Off the Clock with the Z-Team from Comic-Con is now on YouTube 🎥 Watch it NOW! ➡️ bit.ly/sdccrecording 313928
Reposted by Alanah PearceThe Pungeon Master @masterpungeon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I am so gutted that I won't be able to make it to this screening of Godmother. I urge you if you are down in Melbourne for #MIGW26, PAX or are just a resident of our lovely southern state, check it out. 0172
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The next screening of GODMOTHER is at Monster Fest in Melbourne, AU, on October 3rd! I’m super excited to come home to present the movie to Aussie audiences, and do a Q&A afterwards :D. Get tickets here: www.cinemanova.com.au/films/mf26-g... 925211
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The feature film I produced sold out all four theatres at its debut festival in under an hour 🥹❤️. Very excited for (some of) the rest of the world to get to see Godmother tonight, from first time feature director John Veron (@ibetterbefunny.bsky.social)!!! 1334417
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The conversation around 2026’s TGA winner is extra weird because GTA 6 will likely not make the cut-off lol. The game comes out on November 19th - the entire voting process is usually completely done by then. 3245035
Reposted by Alanah PearceJames Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 05/09/2026Also, required watching from @alanahpearce.bsky.socialyoutube.com5 *SECRET* Prompts for ChatGPT to Improve Your Life!YouTube video by Alanah Pearce 0522
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026After we stopped recording this episode Mike and I both basically went 'well that's the most useful episode of this show we've ever recorded' hahaha. 722214
Reposted by Alanah PearceDerin Halil @derinahalil.bsky.social · 04/09/2026After 10 years of AAA Gamedev, Oh man how all the nails are hit on the head! Especially the last one 😅 0573
Reposted by Alanah PearceRodrigo Alem FernánDeath 🎃 @rodf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I've been watching a lot of Alanah's game dev "behing the curtains" videos as of late and they are all very insightful and on point. VERY welcomed in this current industry landscape. And yeah, you have a hard time switching off the "dev" brain when playing. Which makes it a hard hobby to have. 2593
Reposted by Alanah PearceGargaj @gargaj.umlaut.hu · 04/09/2026I just recalled one more thing regarding this (again, excellent) video: the "making it ruins the game for you" part is true in that every story reveal is spoiled the moment you go into preprod, but it's also really hard to turn off your developer sight for a game you only saw as data for so long. 🧵 3758
Reposted by Alanah PearceWill N Rogers @willnrogers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a wildly accurate peak behind the curtain. If you want to know a bit about how your favourite games are made, give it a watch 18717
Reposted by Alanah PearceBurhan @burhanplays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Alanah skillfully condenses some complex game dev truths in this one. Great video to share with people curious about our industry. 08011
Reposted by Alanah PearceBrian Kunde @noworldfortmrrw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Great video busting a lot of myths about game dev (and why "just make an indie!" is not the solution to recent layoffs). 0706
Reposted by Alanah PearceUFO Citybusters @iankumohara.bsky.social · 31/08/2026solidly informative 40,000 ft view vid today on the sweat equity that goes into dev 0523
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026For my newest video I took people's assumptions about game development and... addressed them! Including why crunch actually happens, how much money game developers make, and the unique way that making games 'ruins them' for you: youtu.be/WnfKzdTUjtw?...youtu.beI fear we have misunderstood game developmentYouTube video by Alanah Pearce 26873183
Reposted by Alanah PearceAlicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @aliciahaddick.com · 31/08/2026The feature also went online late last week, which I missed due to some work commitments It's a very cool feature, with comments from @alanahpearce.bsky.social and Hiyori Iwakawa from Toei Games!gameinformer.comMultimedia MaturationIndie games and diversified media, not triple-A blockbusters, are the next gaming-to-movie adaptation boom, and Japan is leading the way - Game Informer 0342
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 26/08/2026MICK GORDON x WARHAMMER RAHHHHHH (I have been keeping this a secret for months) 1742431
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Also, while we can’t promise anything bc money, happy to share that we have had a plan in place to bring the game to physical discs since long before the events of ~this year~, and we still have every intention of doing so! 929730
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thanks for FOURTY THOUSAND wishlists on Layers Deep! There are only three of us makin this lil game and it's crazy to think that 40,000 people have interest in playing it. Thank you ❤️🧅. 1230822
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026As much as I’d love this to be true, it’s fundamentally not how the stock market works. The stock market does not “react to customer retention” - it is very specifically focused on projected YoY growth. Existing customers are useless unless they can be converted into growth. 2154634
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 19/08/2026points at sign: THE GAMES INDUSTRY’S CUSTOMER IS THE STOCK MARKET, NOT THE GAMER Live service games are seen as ‘worth the risk’ because when one blows up (Roblox, Fortnite, GTA Online) it makes so much money that it covers all previous failures and more. What gamers say is irrelevant to this. 472722650
Reposted by Alanah PearceSteven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I dunno how to tell you this... but... @alanahpearce.bsky.social is not a dude 1236816
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 18/08/2026DOUBLE EXCITED to share: @watchgodmother.bsky.social is having its *WORLD PREMIERE* at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas next month. This is the exact festival we wanted, and what a way to kick off our festival run! fantasticfest.com/film-guide 1214014
Reposted by Alanah PearceCameron Burns @camburnspsp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Happy to have been a small part of this very cool film made by some incredible people. Keep your eyes out for this one. It’s dope. 0592
Reposted by Alanah PearceWesley Copeland @wesleycopeland.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Holy fucking shit! This poster is gorgeous! 1622
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Huuuuge thank you to The Wrap for our official @watchgodmother.bsky.social First Look! After working on it for nearly two years, people are going to see this movie soon… Exciting! www.thewrap.com/creative-con...thewrap.comJacksepticeye and Alanah Pearce's Horror Movie 'Godmother' Gets First Look | ExclusiveGodmother, a new horror movie from creators Sean McLoughlin, aka Jacksepticeye, and Alanah Pearce, has its first look. 533347
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 17/08/2026just found out conneticut has been spelled connecticut this entire time devastating 424527
Reposted by Alanah Pearce🏴Yon🏴 @4threset.bsky.social · 01/04/2026"This is Dispatch, what is your emergency?" #dispatch #robertrobertson #yonart @adhocstudio.com 5679182
Reposted by Alanah PearceSeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Aight. Let’s start passing some laws about not firing people to replace them with AI. And unions. Maybe we get some of those. 118724
Reposted by Alanah PearceAny day now. @just-eirik.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Fantastic video! It highlights why it’s so frustrating to see people voting against their best interests. The very weak employee protections in countries like the US is surely thanks to people voting for the party that cares about the rich, not them. 011819
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I spoke to Japanese game devs/industry professionals (including Shuhei Yoshida) about the U.S. games industry layoffs, and why they aren’t happening in Japan. It is both very simple and very interesting, imo! youtu.be/npmohif-jj0youtu.beI asked Japanese Game Devs why they aren't being Laid OffYouTube video by Alanah Pearce 13720101
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity. 2633061012
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The sound of home 😭. Also, in no small part because I am obsessed w this, we’re having @emaudible.bsky.social on @playwatchlisten.bsky.social this week to talk all about video game sound/foley! EXCITED! 72235
Reposted by Alanah PearceStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steamyoutu.beRideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 GamesYouTube video by PlayStation 11572993021
Reposted by Alanah PearceCaperCube @capercube.com · 11/08/2026A fun side note, all of the character animations are done in-game. I wrote some tools to help us record controller inputs and used our game's event and key bind systems to control the camera and a bunch of other things 412325
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 11/08/2026LAYERS DEEP DEVLOG! Three of us are making an indie Metroidvania about an onion (@layersdeep.bsky.social), here’s what we’ve been up to… and why we declined a genuinely good offer from a publisher we liked, even in these trying times 😬🫠. youtu.be/zZHH5DxWwZY?...youtu.beA Very Scary Layers Deep Dev UpdateYouTube video by Layers Deep 425927
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I have worked on my fair share of horror at this point and yet I am freaking myself out so much writing the FAITH screenplay that I am sometimes having trouble getting to sleep. So, that’s something. 122564
Reposted by Alanah PearceOneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 08/08/2026There are no video games without video game developers. Trillionaire corporations will continue to treat devs as line items on a balance sheet unless we fight back. Join us on August 18th to #SaveGameWorkers, as we rally across nine studios in the US and Canada. More location details to come soon. 0427230
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’ve been saying this for the last three years - Big Video Game is 1000% pushing towards an all streaming future. People acted like “This Is An Xbox” was the dumbest idea of all time, but it was actually just M$, once again, trying something a little too early. They’re all gonna do it. 46739105