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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My best birthday present so far is that one of the coolest things I ever worked on launches on my birthday! It was an honor to work on Pokémon in *any* capacity, let alone to write some fun stuff for the TCG Live's 30th Celebration content! If you log into the app, check out the catchphrases :)

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The research from the beginning of my career is cited in here, a part of a long history of the harassment created in deprofessionalized studios with "casual" atmosphere. As we enter an age of all these laid off devs making their own game studios, we have to stay vigilant, or history will repeat.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Heartbroken about Dolly Parton's passing. A true example of how to show up for the people who need it. donate.imaginationlibrary.com Donate to the Imagination Library in her honor. Carry on her legacy by making sure that every child can always have wonderful books to call their own.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Writer Reviews Books Her Child Makes Her Read 10 Times A Day: If I Were A Dog Starts strong but bombs on the last page. My bone would be bumpy? A+ Tongue would be rough? A+ "If I were a dog, I would love to see a cow jump over the moon" EXCUSE ME!? What dog thinks that!?!? I'm so tilted. 3/10

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been saying for ages-- as soon as a few rich people realize the business to be made from all the gamedevs out of a job and hungry to make good things, we will have the funds for the next golden age.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There's still a lot to fix with GDC, but these price changes on passes are a huge win.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Writer Reviews Books Her Child Makes Her Read 10 Times A Day: Tad and Dad Adorable book about dad frog and tadpole that won't let him sleep. Wholesome, well written, makes me feel things. Isn't really a "moral" of the story, because the point is just getting through the night with the kiddo. 9/10

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I know so many people who need this fund. Please consider giving. Thousands are out of work, and every dollar is another bit of relief for someone who needs it.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Writer Reviews Books Her Child Makes Her Read 10 Times A Day: The Rainbow Fish The moral is good. Don't be selfish, share with others, you get friends. But why does the rainbow fish have to *rip his own scales off* to do that!? That's his skin! We shouldn't have to hurt ourselves to be liked. 7/10

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Nick Felker @felker.dev · 20/07/2026

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Odyssey was an utter triumph. Run to the theater to see it if you haven't. A lot of classical literature struggles in modern adaptation, but Nolan's Odyssey grabs the story's connective tissue by the throat and bangs it into you every scene like a war drum. Quite literally, given the music.

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

PSA from your friendly neighborhood bookseller: a lot of bookstores are currently finalizing their big Fall '26 orders, so now would be a great time to preorder any new releases coming out in September - December with them. An example from this past week:

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Gotta nip this in the bud: These games are not unaccounted for. The ICS's collections were owned by the Computerspielemuseum and the USK ratings board. They still own them. This museum project is on the cusp of shutting down, but the games themselves are not going to a dumpster

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy Summer @gamesdonequick.com to all who celebrate! (It's me) Nothing makes my game dev heart happier than watching people play games in wild, broken, "unintended" ways to raise money for charity, especially one as important as @msf.ca.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My heart is with everyone laid off today. The heartbreak and grief of losing your studio is hard to put into words. You're not just losing a project - you're losing the creative ecosystem you made your home. If any writers laid off today want to have someone look over their samples, I'm here.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Husband likes to ask absurd questions at the start of dinner. Today's edition: "You're dead. You can see any statistics about your life. Which ones do you want to see?" The speed with which I said "Total creative writing word count", lol What numbers about you are you looking up?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Founders wouldn't be shocked by the abolition of slavery, though perhaps more by equality and integration, and ditto for women. Nor even by technological progress as much as we might think. Such ideas were not unknown to them. But they would be flabbergasted and astonished by an American pope.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

250 years ago, Americans rebelled against one tyrant, then became different tyrants in what they built next. Let's go back to our roots and rebel against tyrants, the true American pastime, but let's not make their mistakes either. What we build after must be for everyone.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

All of the *gestures broadly at games news lately* sucks, but I'm gonna get up today and I'm gonna work on my own game stuff. And help my friends making their scrappy game stuff. and just make games because making games makes me happy. FTE, contract, hobby level. Any of it.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Absolutely devoured Yes, Your Grace by @braveatnight.bsky.social this weekend and was blown over by it. What a powerful game about sacrifice, endurance, and hope. I picked it up on the Switch sale for only 6 bucks and now wish I had picked it up at full price.

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ariella @agbouskila.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gutted for my friends tossed out of Bungie, Compulsion Games, and whoever else just hasn't hit the timeline yet. The people responsible for this are sitting in their C suites getting tax breaks and golden parachutes for destroying your lives. God, I hope we can do something about that soon.

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 25/06/2026

We all deserved so much better than this.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Continuing to Love Island to bond with the SIL, and I've decided Love Island and Bridgerton are telling the exact same story. Should X girl be with Y boy or Z boy? Are these two a good match or are they just following the societal expectations that they should be in relationship? It's the same.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am so happy for and about Congressman-elect Lander.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

✨ Hello! My name is Jen. 📝 🎮 I'm a game writer/narrative designer of 11 years. 🌲 I'm local to Seattle. 🎭 My favorite games have emotional, dramatic stories. 🧁 🧶 🧝‍♀️ In my spare time, I bake, knit, and LARP/make LARPs. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ♀️👨‍🦽 🧑🏾 The best games are for everyone! Have fun here and be nice!

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

When I can't sleep these days, I've just been writing random snippets of spicy romantasy / fantasy erotic literature and then chucking it into small communities, and I feel like it's been the best thing for me as a writer in ages?? I needed to ship something so bad. And in a way, this is shipping.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So I like to talk about sociological storytelling a fair amount, and a frequent question I get is "Isn't that just worldbuilding / environmental storytelling? Why does it need its own terminology?" Which is fair! Game Narrative has enough jargon we don't agree on! But this is what does it for me:

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hey, are you employed and upset about what's happening to your game dev friends but your company doesn't have any openings? GO BUY AN INDIE GAME FROM YOUR WISHLIST. That's the only way to save the industry.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In an effort to bond with my sister-in-law, I've been watching the new Love Island season (not my usual media diet) and as someone who writes romance a lot, looking at it from a lens of romance media is really interesting. Despite being unscripted, it feels far more contrived.

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Finally making time for Arco and loving it! I finished Act 2 the other night and it has me thinking a lot about how truly, there are no bad narrative tools, just bad executions of them. False choices have a bad rap, but Arco uses them masterfully to show the power of an oppressor on a >>

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I am slowly returning to bsky! Mostly to use this space to talk about narrative in games and other works of storytelling. So tell me what you've been playing/reading/watching recently and how it's making you think!

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026

No Kings includes Draft Kings

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

If you think the Super Bowl is too woke and the Grammys are too woke and the AEW Dynamite crowd is too woke and the Oscars are too woke maybe it’s actually a you problem.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

amazing that every time i bring this up people are unaware of it. he really got away with it

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I have become a bog witch that only says things on any social media platform when the stars align and the moon is full, but just to make sure this is clear: Fuck ICE Fuck Trump Solidarity to Minnesota Never be afraid to unplug and focus on the small ways you can resist around you, friends.

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 26/01/2026

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 19/01/2026

Weird criticism to level at a play about a historical time period in which every single female stage role was performed by a person with a penis

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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

If being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked already

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I feel like an internet groundhog these days that emerges every few months, doom scrolls for all of a few minutes, sees the shadow of our crumbling society, and then goes back down under into obscurity. In case you need it - you're doing your best in hard times, and that is all you can do.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This one is resonating today. #Andor

Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma “They [meaning the Empire] don’t even bother to lie badly anymore.” Mon replies “I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 04/01/2026

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

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