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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy.bsky.social
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Lead Writer at Maverick Games. Podcasts with Crate and Crowbar. Lapsed tv writer. Traditional roguelikes, free jazz, weird fiction, yacht rock, neurodiversity, figuring it out. he/him.

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Arise, Sir Jon 'Log' Blyth..."
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Her: daddy, what's your favourite musical Me: well... (sings all of One Day More) Her: no
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"...this city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I really enjoyed quite how hard the demo went
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
jesus this book
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A terrifyingly good impression.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ticked a big item off the bucket list by presenting at the @roguelike.club preview event last night on story structure! Hopefully something of value buried within my wittering. Thanks v much for having me, @apepers.bsky.social, Kawa and everyone else! youtu.be/M6v2CnTJKrE?...
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Roguelike Celebration 2026 - Preview Event
YouTube video by Roguelike Celebration
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More people need to play! It sometimes seems like it's only @mrsambarlow.bsky.social, @rodneylives.bsky.social and me talking about Shiren and it's a big ol' crazy pot of joy
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For a moment i got really excited because it looked like there is a pissed off footballer called 'Debby Error'.
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
youre gonna have to answer to my two fists: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'll be chatting about story structure and roguelikes here in a few minutes www.youtube.com/live/M6v2CnT...
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Whoaaah, you seeing this shit @mrsambarlow.bsky.social?
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So i think Splatoon Raiders might be one of the very best games i've ever played, and i'm not kidding.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Burnhouse Lane is the A Dark Song of videogames. So excited for this.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Delighted to announce I'll be one of the speakers at the preview event for the legendary @roguelike.club with a talk titled "Don't Save The @: What Roguelikes Teach Us About Story Structure" Details here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I would never eat a battery farmed naan. That's just inhumane.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A reminder that C4's show 'Naked Attraction', where they point at people's genitals and go "oooh" is also sold as 'science', so their factual unit is hardly a storied institute of Galilean iconoclasm.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Great eclipse earlier. Ignored all the PC bollocks about not using naked eye. Incidentally if anyone is interested in the meaning of life i have just worked it out via maths.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It is frankly embarrassing how much more love, care and attention has gone into Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie compared to the Moana live action remake.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A discussion on A Mortician's Tale on @crateandcrowbar.bsky.social was huge moment for me on my journey into game dev. I never knew there were games like that, & I'd never heard anyone talk about games quite like @philippawarr.bsky.social did - and still does! Loved this chat.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
are there any bands that have a better run of side 1 track 1 per album than this
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Man Dances with Lamp
ALT: Man Dances with Lamp
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
tagging hp lovecraft, realised this is the game that finally reveals what the world would be like if the human mind *was* able to correlate all its contents.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
All of Ever Decreasing Circles
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trailer voice: "In the kingdom of the Blorkos..."
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"The maverick trillionaire pondered this. Could it be possible? Was he somehow...disliked? Did somewhere a person exist who doubted his genius? No. It could not be. He crafted his riposte & launched it with deadly accuracy. "I know you are", he replied archly. But what am *I*?" A masterful gambit."
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Chris and Chad are absolute masters of transmitting all that is uncanny, unholy & wrong in a way that feels so uniquely *right*, and having playtested one of the scenarios here, i can attest that it was every bit as inspired, deranged & hilarious as everything else they do.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Chris and Chad are absolute masters of transmitting all that is uncanny, unholy & wrong in a way that feels so uniquely *right*, and having playtested one of the scenarios here, i can attest that it was every bit as inspired, deranged & hilarious as everything else they do.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Fred Willard's 'Hey Wha Happened?'
ALT: Fred Willard's 'Hey Wha Happened?'
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Me, sitting in a meeting room at Two Brothers pictures, central London: so the show is called 'Pizza Detectives'...
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So Angel Down by Daniel Kraus just won a Pulitzer Prize, and I honestly cannot wait to read it. However, I hear it's written in one long unbroken sentence, and so my immediate thought was "sure, but does it use any words of more than one syllable" @fruishfruish.bsky.social
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If tim powers, patrick o' brien & julia davis got trapped in the pirates of the carribean ride whilst shrooming...
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
All of The Binding Of Isaac on sale for £3.70 in Steam Sale is insane. 1000s of hours worth for basically nothing...
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So judging by the demo, Rhythm Heaven/Paradise Groove is shaping up to be another superb machine for joy.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Masterpiece.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Where my gozu (cow)heads at
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The @pentadact.com blog post vibes are strong in this one
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Oh hey it's literally one of the best games ever made for £3.50 store.steampowered.com/app/1178790/...
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Save 80% on Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate on Steam
The Classic Roguelike Wanders Onto Steam! Adventure with Shiren the Wanderer and his sidekick Koppa, the talking ferret, through a world filled with cunning monsters, deadly traps and countless treasu...
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It was a silly one because i'd had three (3) gins in a tin but i also think we gave Bond a really good seeing too. Also, pls press gang your children into servitude on the high seas to get Marsh and Jim's amazing Gold Teeth: teethrpg.itch.io
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Feel so very honoured to have spent the last 3 years as Lead Writer on this incredible game, and am especially proud of the amazing cast of characters we've created. Thanks so much for having me @maverick-games.com & @flawlessc0wboy.bsky.social!
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
007 First Light is an absolute triumph of storytelling, the kind of franchise launching knockout that most studios across kinds of media can only dream of, and it will be a terrible shame if IO Interactive don't get to make a bunch more of them.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Here it is! Here's Clutch! I can say it out loud now! youtu.be/mnTawB_pN6Q?...
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Welcome to CLUTCH // Official Reveal
YouTube video by Maverick Games
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
15 mins to reveal of what i've been doing for the last 3 years
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
At this point, its not so much a question of 'beating' the heat, it's more about following it into hell & installing an antimatter singularity into its nest to expunge it from this & all other possible points in space & time simultaneously to usher in an eternity of lifeless thermodynamic neutrality
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Ah, my specialist subject: The Piano Teacher, The Coffee Table, Sporloos, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Breaking The Waves, A Simple Plan, Safe, Snowtown, When The Wind Blows, Fat Girl, Happiness, The Death Of Mister Lazarescu, Naked, Beasts Of No Nation, The War Zone, The Nightingale, À l'intérieur
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Bobbie once told me a terrifying story about his mate getting possessed by a rabbit. I think therefore we should all help him finish his insane looking horror movie www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/genesis-fe...
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Genesis Feature Film
Our horror feature film, Genesis, is 98% complete. We have 2 days shooting left and are looking for final backers to get us over the line.
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"I know a place that's sweeter than sweetness itself. In this sweet place, earthly doughnuts are sour as poison - you'd spit them out, you would!"
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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
feel like shit just want her back
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