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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 09/06/2026

Never thought the day would come where they'd announce a new Xenoblade game and I'd just feel "meh"

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 29/05/2026

ALERT ALERT! I have a new most surprising place I've had the classic, "Excuse me, I've got a script for a game, can you make it for me?" approach. Grindr.

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 29/04/2026

Never thought the day would come that I'd have a Xenosaga game in my Steam library - let alone that it'd be Pied Piper!

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 16/04/2026

Guess who thought the LGF Self Publishing Toolkit conference day was today, and just walked into an Amazon Business event. It was on Tuesday. 😫

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 08/04/2026

This story of how Yoko Taro designed the world map for the original Drakengard makes me feel SO SEEN. As does the section header, "No Interest in Worldbuilding". (From the lovely new book The Wor[l]ds of Yoko Taro)

There were other mid-project orders too. I remember being told to name the towns and make a map. Up until then, I'd been using real names like France and Germany for the countries in the game. Then they told me to come up with original names. Their reasoning was something about unique worldbuilding and original place names being part of Enix's identity as an RPG maker.But that didn't really click with me.

In the end, I fudged it by giving things random names like the Silent Forest or the Temple on the Ocean. For the map, I literally took a real map of Europe, flipped it upside down, and handed that in!

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 02/04/2026

WORK KLAXON! (Very small) paid gig! Are you: * A concept artist with demonstrable environment experience * Based in the UK * Available for one or two days next week If so, ping me your portfolio! ❤️ xoxo gossip girl

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 02/04/2026

I swear to the highest of highs, Vodafone: I will find every person who enabled and developed this shitheap of a chatbot, and I will erase them. Not kill them, no -- I will so comprehensively destroy them that there will be no trace of them ever having existed, even in their dearests' memories.

A conversation with Vodafone's completely useless chatbot, TOBi, in which it says it's sorry it hasn't been able to help me, asks if I'd like to speak to an agent, and then when I say yes -- PICKED FROM A LIST OF YES OR NO, NOT EVEN TYPED -- it says it can't understand, because it's a piece of shit that deserves to be slung into the cold, dark, merciless void of space.

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 31/03/2026

The Guardian does amazing work in the data visualization field, and this is a great way of demonstrating an issue I didn't even know existed.

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 13/03/2026

This game is so good - massive congratulations on making it to launch, Moo and team! Hugely compulsive, tight writing, and fun characters. Highly recommend it to anyone who liked Murder by Numbers and wants something compelling and cosy.

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 07/03/2026

I love flip/foldable phones but fucking hell they are still SO flaky. Now the touchscreen of my Z Flip 6 isn't working, and it seems like it's a pretty common issue. And fixing them is expensive too - might make more sense to just buy a new mid-range phone instead

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 06/03/2026

Like game music? Right now Square Enix Music's YouTube channel is doing a live guitar performance livestream to celebrate their 4th anniversary. I'm loving it! youtu.be/AwMBe2axi5o

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SQUARE ENIX MUSIC COVER SPECIAL LIVE - Guitar -

YouTube video by SQUARE ENIX MUSIC Channel

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 04/03/2026

hahahaha definitely haven't just seen something that's going to turbocharge my insecurities for a good few years. nope.

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 04/03/2026

The other day I thought about how I hadn't been to an office in over 2 years and... it made me really sad? I really miss it. I know that's not what you're supposed to say but, man. I would kill for an office! And colleagues! 😭

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/02/2026

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 03/03/2026

Wait, Anna Camp is a lesbian now? It's nominative determinism gone mad!!!!

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Mythmatch in Steam Next Fest is Live! It's a narrative-rich, town-building match-3 game! store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/... The demo will be live all week, but the first two days tell Steam how much to show it so please 🎮 Play the Demo! ✅ Wishlist the Game! 📢 Spread the word!!

Steam Next Fest banner for Mythmatch showing a start date of Feb 23rd and ending on March 2nd.

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This piece was SO fucking good - the perfect balance of erudite analysis and barely-contained fury.

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Hey Ren'Py peeps, please get on this, I still need to find a narrative picross game that scratches the itch that made me make MbN. (After all, I never actually got to experience MbN as a player, so it remains very much unscratched 😭) (This is the true cost of 'make the game you'd want to play')

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It's such a shame we never got to do a sequel to Murder by Numbers. I learned so much in the process, and made so many mistakes that only became obvious in hindsight. The team suggested some great ideas in the retrospective. Would those fixes have convinced people who thought the mix didn't work?

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 28/01/2026

my baby out in the wild 🥹🥹🥹

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If you've got the money, and you fancy a good laugh*, please do help my dear darling Dan out by buying his really rather brilliant game** ASAP. * No laughs guaranteed, especially if you're a humourless twat ** I haven't played it yet but have played most of Dan's games, and they're brilliant.

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 14/01/2026

Every day I have at least a two hour period where the overwhelming narrative in my head is, "oh my god, what are you doing, you're SO in over your head. you're FUCKED." new tactic I'm trying: let it speak. let it raise my heart rate, and make my stomach sink. and once it's done, simply say: "No."

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Today's learnings: as much as professionals might warn otherwise, turns out using the word 'cum' in your studio's announcement post is pretty good for stickiness. Here's hoping for virality! 🙏🏻

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Wrote two low-quality jokes for the bio, so I'm taking the rest of the afternoon off. That's how this self-employment thing works, right? (Please do follow @emanationgames.bsky.social, there's lots to, er, come.)

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guess who just very hurriedly registered a new BlueSky account

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 07/01/2026

My new 'studio' is called Emanation Games. Why? An emanation, in esoteric theology, is an overflowing of pure divine power; an outpouring of creation. But also, because it also sounds like it could be about cum. That's the duality I want to represent. Intellectual and puerile. Temporary logo:

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2025 was shit. In the last half of the year, I had four days of paid work. FOUR. So I decided: fuck it. I'm making my own work. Since October, I've been setting up my own solo studio and working on a game prototype. I'm having the time of my life, and it's coming along pretty well!

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 07/01/2026

Why have Square Enix not made a remaster of Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy?????? Also just shove Xenogears in a PS1 emulator and put it out for $30 for fuck's sake.

Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 23/12/2025

Anybody want a profoundly meaningless paperweight?

A grotesquely large and heavy "shield" that marks the ten year work anniversary of one Ed Fear, who apparently made some truly "Unreal Games," despite having only worked there for a year.

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 16/12/2025

it's getting to the point where I'll have to put a mute on the word AI, because jesus christ y'all love a rant huh

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 17/11/2025

That feeling when you go, "oh, okay, let's tackle this small task to start off the day," and then you realise it depends on functionality that you never actually implemented, and that'll need to be tested, and it touches another feature which you never tested properly, and then the whole day's gone

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Ed Fear @edfear.co.uk · 06/11/2025

Horrible news, and - what - only a year since the last set of layoffs there? Despite how much I respect a lot of Japanese developers, I don't think I could ever work for the Western arm of a Japanese business because you will *always* be the first to get the chop.