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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hello! Are you a press outlet who covers creative writing or/and games? Would you like a press release about the exciting second edition for Writing for Games, one of the most popular game craft books on Taylor & Francis’ roster? Hmu! Contact @ Hannahnicklin dot com 💜

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Matthieu H. @boulapoire.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

"One of the most important things you can ask yourself when designing a choice system is ‘how do we make the selection and the reaction sufficiently divergent?’ (...) The space between the action and the response becomes a part of the performance." www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...

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Performing Peter: South of the Circle and Fuzzy Choice — Gamers with Glasses

How do game designers make player choices feel meaningful? Hannah Nicklin, author of Writing for Games: Theory and Practice , describes here how the act of choosing allows players to perform a charac...

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm wrapping up my time with Cardboard Computer on their unannounced game in early November, & I have some capacity again! If you're looking for consultation or longer term support from an expert game director, narrative designer & writer, drop me a line 💖 contact [at] hannahnicklin.com

A calling card style image with a picture of a white woman with blonde hair and glasses speaking at a conference. The card otherwise reads:

HANNAH NICKLIN
Creative Director, Narrative Lead/Designer, Senior Writer
12+ years' experience in interactive story + games

• 4 games shipped as Lead (PC, console, mobile)
• Original and existing IP
• Loc, VO, various engines + middleware
• PhD in Interactive Arts
• Masters & BA in Play/Screenwriting
• GDC IS Advisor, BAFTA Juror, TGA Future Class 2020
• Author of Writing for Games: Theory & Practice

Netflix's Unhinged; Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione; Saturnalia; Die Gute Fabrik, Night School, Cardboard Computer, Santa Ragione.

Based in: United Kingdom
Work in: Remote, CET-PST
LinkedIn.com/in/hannah-nicklin
hannahnicklin.com

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just had the truly blessed experience of finishing a punnet of grapes having found zero duds. Crisp, sweet and refreshing to the last. I think this is the first time this ever happened to me? Truly what a day.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm interested in both short and long term, part time and full time projects. I can teach, direct, consult, and support your game's storytelling as a 'full stack' narrative designer and writer; comfortable in engine, tools, visual scripting and more!

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's been super thrilling to support Cardboard Computer to horizontal story as part of an extended pre-pro, & otherwise I'm fresh out of narrative design on Netflix's horror-thriller UNHINGED, adding a bunch of things to my XP, incl. end-to-end VO, from draft to detailed technical implementation 🛠️

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some things are beyond measure also. Even between two people. Give me bread but give me roses too. And ‘rose’ has a different definition per person.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The uk’s gambling industry revenue is more than tv, film, publishing, videogames, board games, and theatre combined. And I think that’s probably a bad thing. (I looked all these figures up from reliable industry body sources at 2025 revenue)

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Revenue (or any money measure like GVA) is only a useful measure if you’re trying to lie convincingly to government about why your field deserves tax breaks and/or favourable legislation.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Revenue is one of the least interesting and useful measures of a field’s worth. It can be socially important, culturally important, health & wellbeing important, intellectually important, and also importance doesn’t always mean ‘the best’, a Saturday 5 a side is a really important piece of culture!

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 05/10/2026

GDoCExpo was four days. The work is year-round. No-fee showcases. Paid speakers. No-strings grants and scholarships. Spaces to build a career. We're at $17K of our $25K goal to break even & keep it going! If the Expo meant something to you, help us close the gap. 🙌🏾 gamedevsofcolor.org/donate

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two essential people to read and follow, who speak from both professional expertise, and having worked in the belly of the beast.

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Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not a bug, but an essential feature.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aw thanks buddy 🩷 it has been great seeing you from strength to strength!

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hello! I’m getting ready to announce the release date of WRITING FOR GAMES second edition! I’d love to put some reader quotes in the press kit/on the website. Would you like to feature? Reply if you’ve found the book useful and a name you’re happy to be attributed via. 💛

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you! Can I credit this to the name you use here?

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! Can I attribute it to the name you use here?

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a thin linguistic existence US musicians persist within. Flourish more! Latin some! Compound your terms!

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here I am! I remember distinctly taking this on my doorstep of the house share I lived in. My work was only 3 days a week and I budgeted £15 for food each week. Lots of baked potatoes and home made bread. 2 decades ago!

A 22 year old round white woman with black eyeliner, blue eyes, and dark brown-red died hair in a scruffy bob

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The Bishop Of Hobb-ins @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Jank: Desire within the Miasma Loved this incredibly timely piece from Hannah Nicklin on Jank. Also, play Eliza. Technology isn’t magic, it’s made, built. And if we want, we can build something different. We are offered the mechanic and the luddite as dual spectre: friendly ghosts to help us see…

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Jank: Desire within the Miasma

Loved this incredibly timely piece from Hannah Nicklin on Jank. Also, play Eliza. Technology isn’t magic, it’s made, built. And if we want, we can build something different. We are offered the mechanic and the luddite as dual spectre: friendly ghosts to help us see both the making and the unmaking of the apparatus of technological capital. Obligatory link to…

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I lived in Wolverhampton for a bit! I was 22, worked for feminist devising theatre company Foresight, went to London weekly for the RSC Young Writers’ Group (cheapest trains only, eating marmite sandwiches in the Natural History Museum to keep warm & kill time) now my ebook is in the uni there 💜

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The lighting in the World Champs winner’s interview booth is frankly an insult to their efforts. Please.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In terms of things you consume squash is a drink also. A liquid fruit concentrate you dilute. Pretty much every child drinks squash here.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I like my language lawless and incomprehensible

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh wait they made a squash for babies

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not according to Wikipedia I think??

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m watching The Americans for the first time and I just learned Americans call squash ‘raquet ball’. Is there no end to the perfidies they will commit with the English language??

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching «How to Blow Up a Pipeline» and wondering why we haven’t seen more direct and dramatic sabotage of big oil/chemicals/data centres yet? See also Woman at War. Both killer movies.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

United Tech & Allied Workers (a part of the Communication Workers’ Union) AI Workers Inquiry 2026, from the executive summary, their policy essentials. techworkersinquiry.org/ai/

The emerging policy directions are:

Transparency alone would not be enough; workers need meaningful consultation and negotiation over AI deployments.
AI use must not be mandatory; workers need legal protections from detriment for refusing AI use, and employers limited in AI-driven management decisions.
Safeguards against AI externalities; strong regulations to ensure the AI we build does not harm people and planet.
Stop the brain drain; establish and defend AI-free learning pathways for junior and graduate workers.
Workers get the final say; bake in collective bargaining over AI at work.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Back in the 2010s a UK company made a bunch of audio-only mobile games. The horror game set in the pitch dark was particularly fun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Sa...

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Papa Sangre - Wikipedia

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm working on so many cool little consults at the moment, really interesting experimental games/storytelling which I really hope make it and grab attention!

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Or also whose handwriting was it or also whose data was not featured but also it’s all still enjoyable nonsense

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fair enough! Data recovery places are in most cities though, and I think it’s only £200… if the pleasure of organising isn’t a factor I’d say that’s def worth the time it would take to recollect. Otoh there’s something to say for clean slates!

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is distressing! A forensic data person might be able to help?

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is very clear and useful to explain to pals who are worried about AI safety claims what the actual worry should be - global financial collapse (aside from environment, stolen work, it not actually doing what they claim etc) newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar

On the economics of AI.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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