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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This weekend is the first weekend in a while where I really feel like I can weekend freely, so now that the weekend is here I'm going to weekend the hell out of this weekend like I've never weekended a weekend before. Have a lovely weekend!

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Narrative design is the way you look tonight.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I put a (corporate-made) 🌈 Pride shirt through its first wash and every single one of the colours came off.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Recruiting characters is my absolute favourite thing in games.

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Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) @gcapconf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Writers and Narrative designers - kick off GCAP by meeting your fellow writers at the writers room networking hour, and forge some friendships to lead you through the rest of the conference! In the lead up to GCAP, we're bringing you a new itinerary each day. ow.ly/M35S50ZPrcN

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Writing/editing up a storm this week, and it's just about everything i can manage. Seems I'm officially in a low social media bandwidth phase.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's no secret it's a hard time for many in games right now, and Take This is here to help! Join us on Monday, 21st Sept at 5pm PT | 8pm ET for a FREE workshop for game developers navigating Burnout while impacted by layoffs. Sign up now → givebutter.com/takethistalk...

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Managing Burnout for Game Developers

This workshop will equip developers impacted by layoffs with the knowledge and skills to tackle burnout and support their mental health.

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Remote Game Jobs @remotegamejobs.com · 13/09/2026

Rebel Wolves is looking for Lead Writer to join their Narrative Team. The debut title, The Blood of Dawnwalker, a AAA dark-fantasy RPG have already sold over 1 million copies days after launch. 📅 Full-Time 🌍 Warsaw or Remote (core hours 11am - 3pm CEST)

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fatal Frame/Project Zero teaches us that evil otherworldly shadow creatures from a dark dimension can be defeated by taking photos of them repeatedly at unflattering angles using a quirky old hipster camera. But what many people might not know is that this trick works on regular humans too.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm mostly just surprised we haven't popularised a shorter term for CCTVs.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

9 to 5 💔 We had only just finished watching the Orville last month, and seeing there the boundless warmth she brought with her everywhere was simply joy. What a queen.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Novelist: The cup was full once. Warmed by a joyous past. Beloved in the beauty of a bright future. But then came the hands, the lips, the obscene gulping. Take, take, take. Until the cup became half of everything it was. And nothing.

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deantak.bsky.social @deantak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Exclusive: It's official. Compulsion Games has successfully pulled off a management buyout and is no longer part of Microsoft. gamesbeat.com/compulsion-g...

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Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive

Compulsion Games, the maker of compelling gamers like South of Midnight, has pulled off a management buyout and is now separated from Xbox.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Petals fall softly On our cups of tea, as we Drink to caged tyrants.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sometimes I forget how absolutely delightful Olivia Colman is in Secret Invasion.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did not realise that so many of my formative memories came from Practical Magic.

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AFNarratives @afnarratives.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

Games would be in a lot better place as a medium if games narrative was considered a structural core like programming instead of gorilla glue and masking tape to cover up other problems

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hard as things are, I remain very grateful for the people who've been in my sphere of life, whether they're here-to-stays or recurring guest stars or one-brief-but-lovely-episode passersby. Who knew that, much like many old JRPGs, life is full of random encounters. 💜

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As my #jobsearch enters a 2nd year, I'm looking beyond games too. RTs appreciated! If you're a charity/organisation supporting social causes, let's chat. I can do: ▪︎ content + copywriting ▪︎ documentation + editing ▪︎ cross-disciplinary comms ▪︎ texts w complex specs ▪︎ any storytelling work #hireme

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/08/2026

Brenda Romero's beautiful 'Chasing Lilacs' is a personal history told through the lens of gaming: aftermath.site/chasing-lilacs/

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What is that thing where the way you communicate adjusts to partially and reflexively imitate your conversation partner

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Narrative design is ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🆗️

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I hope one day Final Fantasy gives us an Old Ifrit smoking a pipe, world-weary from countless evocations to burn out of a body capable of land-searing infernos—now dimmed, wrapped in warming shawls, thick smoke, and the amber-gold lines of embers holding back one last burst of primordial flame.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Provolone through all 4 years of university in Savannah were my happiest years of cheese.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This morning I am a bed for two cats. It is a glorious morning.

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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Saturday morn arisen After a night full of rest Now comes time to watch Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest 😌☕️

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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 23/07/2026

From a database to a full-fledged bible! ✨🕺 We've collabed with @eddcoates.bsky.social on the Game UI Bible, a 500+ page hardback adventure through the UI/UX of loads of your favourite games 🎮 Let us entice you with a limited signed bookplate by Edd himself and more below 🔗👇

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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 20/07/2026

The whole design team are on the chopping block. I worked with all those being let go and they are an incredible people and skilled artists. Anyone looking for any designers?

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Spooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm looking for one or two guest writers for THE DUNGEON THAT TOPS YOU. You'd be writing a room on the third floor, where all reality breaks down around The Dungeon's desires. You are, preferably, a trans horny freako who likes writing fucked up smut. You will be paid. Be nice if I know you already.

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Brotherwise Games @brotherwisegames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The record-breaking Cosmere RPG is looking for talented freelancers to join our design and narrative teams! Apply! 👇🔗 Core Design Team Member: bit.ly/3RvTFjH Open Call for Freelance Narrative Writers: bit.ly/3R6hzCd Applications are open now and close on August 5th. ⚔️✨

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy Develop Conference to those who celebrattend it!

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It just makes me happy that I can walk to a nearby 🇬🇧 grocery store and find a piece of 🇮🇩 home.

From right to left: on one corner of a stove is a small silver pot with pale yellow instant noodles steeped in boiling water, beside it a white ceramic bowl with seasonings in the middle of it and a silver fork balanced against its top rim, and beside that an opened packet of Indomie Mie Goreng with its sauce/seasoning packets torn open and depleted in preparation for a modest breakfast.

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Frank J. Barbiere @fjbarb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I was unceremoniously laid off from my games job yesterday. I know I'm hardly alone out here, but any shares/recommendations would be great. 10 years in games (Ruined King, D2: Warmind, Darksiders Genesis, Behemoth) plus 20 years in comics (Marvel/DC/Image/everywhere). atlasincognita.com/portfolio

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Gravekeeper Failure 🪦 @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"We're doing a remake of the video game industry! New features include:" * Treating studios like creatives, not tech companies * Everyone being able to join a union * People being able to work in the environment they feel happiest/most productive in * Treating folks like individuals, not numbers

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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Is there another games industry I can join? I think this one's broken.

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Where WONDER MAN really hits for me is the fact that Simon has one shatteringly loud calling that demands he die in a cape (behind a queue of dozens) but also has another calling, softer, from even deeper than his bones, nurtured by his father's words — and he picks the quieter one. He chooses art.

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Chloe "Scare-Bot Scramble" Adams @addamschloe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This. Five years of my career are on games that don't exist anymore and four years are on games that were never allowed to exist. 😮‍💨

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Few games have captured the pure wonder and excitement of swapping your favourite PS1 game disc into the console whilst a game is running in order to extract a magical pet from it. Monster Rancher, you beautiful miracle.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 25/06/2026

It is selfish, I am aware. But every time another one of these massive stupid pointless industry layoffs happens I think: fucking hell, now I have to compete with THESE absurdly talented people for the same jobs too

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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Aside from watching the (first) Neo VS a Thousand Smiths fight scene over and over again on DVD and memorising Smith's lines, I remember spending many afternoons rolling on grass emulating Morpheus as he cleaved the Twins' car. Frickin hell what a gloriously fun film.

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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

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