iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm a strong collaborator, receptive to feedback and willing to ask questions if I don't feel 100% secure that I know what I'm doing. I can follow a brief but am more than capable of taking things in new and exciting directions if (and only when) given the license.

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

So embarrassed to admit that yeah this is exactly how I think when I'm buying games

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

My 2025 list: > Wrote and helped launch "Cash Cleaner Simulator" 💵 🫧 > Moved out of my parents place to a flat in Edinburgh 🏠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 > Wrote for another (NDA) game and helped put together the pitch deck for it ✍️ 👀 > Made enough progress (re)learning Welsh to have a full conversation with my niece ☺️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Have just this moment learned about Rick from Kirby Air Riders and will now be undergoing a transition to a "Rick-First" Bluesky account/personality

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Knowing that Guardian is canonically learning Welsh makes me so stupidly happy and just saying if Bungie are looking for a Welsh speaking narrative designer/writer to lend a hand... dyma fi 👀 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Had this happen literally the other night at a gig, not for the first time mind. It sucks, of course, but *I'm* proud of my work, and that doesn't change if the asker hasn't heard of it. I love my job, I want to do it forever, a young me would be so excited to hear we made it this far.

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Demonschool is so so good. A very late contender for my GOTY. Can't remember the last game to make me smile/laugh as frequently as this ✨

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Sometimes a successful day is just making a lovely chickpea curry

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

am I gonna keep reposting this cute Cloud in a dress from last year ? you bet I will

fanart of Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 Remake, wearing a cute dark green and grey dress, with bows in his hair holding the braids
he's holding flowers against his chest, blushing, frowning, very happy but will never admit it

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

You there. I want you to say, aloud, at some point today "I'm really glad I'm good at..." And then you're gonna say something you think you do pretty well. If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..." And if you can't do either?

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Evenings when the air is warm and still 🍂 2. When a friend uses a mannerism you know they picked up from you ✨ 3. The smell of onions being fried 🧅 4. A pet coming in from another room looking for you 🐾 5. Ice cream from a van 🍦

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I can't do Danganronpa 2 again bro I've already been hurt so much

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Very interested in Borderlands 4 but trying to save money right now so playing through Borderlands 3 (which I happened to have for some reason) and I got to say it's so much better than I had got an impression of 🤔

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Spent all day clearing out all the Bokoblin camp near my flat, it was hard work but at least that's that problem solved!

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My mum once lost me in a M&S for such a long time that they literally brought the shutters down so nobody could leave. The entire time I was hiding in a clothes rail because I was embarrassed to be wearing my Thunderbirds costume and sash (that I had insisted on wearing). youtu.be/0--uidwYlZQ?...

youtu.be

OFFICIAL TRAILER | Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Collectors Edition Blu-ray

YouTube video by Gerry Anderson

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Seeing all this love for Superman and I truly feel I must have seen a different movie 😅 It was fun don't get me wrong but nowhere near what people are saying

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This whole thing with the Alters is how I found out Expedition 33 also used and shipped with gen AI "placeholder" art, before patching it out. Placeholder art doesn't need to look good or read well... it's a placeholder. These companies are trying to legitimize this shit and getting caught out.

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Look, I'm a junior dev, I'd bite your hand off for the chance to work on something like this. I also *really really* enjoyed playing E33. But this is not and should not be seen as the blueprint for a successful game studio 😅 I've worked on multiple games like this that will never see the light 🥲

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Finally reading Battle Royale by Koushun Takami and while I knew it had at least inspired that genre of game I didn't realize it's practically a seminal text for that specific mode of game design holy moly

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Just rolled credits on Sorry We're Closed ❤️ Trying to find the words to describe it and the best I've got is "If Russel T. Davies got to make Resident Evil" ??? Is that anything ??? Look it was very hot, very stylish and very gender Also features one of the all time low poly rats 🐀

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PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Summer Forest 'Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!' PlayStation Stewart Copeland

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Trans Women are Women. Trans Men are Men. That's all there is to it. I'm sorry for everything this world is trying to do to you, because it is so much better for having you in it. ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Took part in the last edition of this. Couldn't recommend it more! It gave me the opportunity to meet and share a creative space with a wonderful and diverse group of writers from a number of disciplines and styles. Since the course I've felt more in control of my writing, and inspired to write! ✍️

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Orin 🚀🦏 @orinoxide.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Choosing hope for the same reasons Waymond chooses to be kind.

Stills from "Everything Everywhere All At Once".

Waymond Wang: "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through everything."

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

reposting this iconic @joshmlabelle.bsky.social tweet over here because it came up today

a tweet which reads “We’ve assembled 100 people with ADHD and 5 people with no soft skills to manage them, and given them a simple goal: make an impossible amount of money. We call it the games industry, and we think it’s going to work great”

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Gonna do the "for every like I post a game I love" but just put Prey (2017) for every single one

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Just rolled credits on Pentiment. Played with a friend (we took turns giving each character a unique voice). Some of the most fun I've had with an RPG in a long time. For anyone seeing this who missed Pentiment when it came out (like me), do yourself a favor and play it. Wonderful wonderful game ☺️

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

So was anyone going to tell me Game Maker Studio was this dope or was I supposed to just find it out for myself? (I was told many times.)

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

I'm making a bunch of resolutions this year, but at the core of them is to try and cherish the media I consume a bit more. It's so easy in this age of "content" to pick up, finish, put down and move on from media with little regard, and creators deserve more than that. So here's to 2024 📖 🎶 🎮 📽️

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Anyone know of any Welsh/Wales Based Game Dev meetups going on? Or any that will be in the new year? One of my resolutions is going to be to interact more with the wonderful people I share an industry with but Wales is a little out of the way it seems 😅

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

I reckon it's about time someone made a really good Thunderbirds game I am also available if someone would like to do that

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Game devs, please read this open letter and join me in signing. Penned by members of the game awards Future Class, the letter calls for the game awards/video game industry to break its silence on the ongoing genocide of Palestinians: t.co/SpG5vOfd9z

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Open Letter to The Game Awards

Dear Emily Bouchoc, Geoff Keighley and the whole The Game Awards team, We are writing you this letter as members of the Game Awards Future Class, supported by our peers in the industry. In the past y...

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Feel like Pokémon is cheating as much as Persona or Final Fantasy would be but regardless: four of my favourite RPGs

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

It was called "Phoenix Flame" and it was an awful self-insert story about a young boy who discovers a sword buried beneath the cathedral in St David's, I illustrated it myself and though I don't remember exactly, there's a non-zero chance the main character dressed like Skulduggery Pleasant 😅😅😅

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I have revamped my portfolio! If you're looking for someone to take your game's story to the next level, you can check me out here: thomasallanmartin.carrd.co Like what you see? Contact me via e-mail at... thomasallanmartin [at] Gmail [dot] com I'm open to all work, short or long term!

thomasallanmartin.carrd.co

Tom Martin - Narrative Designer

The one page website for Tom Martin. A brief overview of who I am, what I'm up to and why you should let me write your video game.

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Sad I can't be at AdventureX this year ✨ The whole list of speakers is filled with incredible talent (I'm especially jealous of those getting to see Chella and Gary) 😭 But I hope everyone going has a phenomenal time and I hope in the coming year I can be a bit more social and meet some of you irl ❤️

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

My heart goes out to the people at Bungie and all those affected by ongoing job cuts across PlayStation 💔 Some incredible people are losing their jobs because of mismanagement by those higher up, who will no doubt see their salaries increase and profits soar 🤬 You all deserve so much better ❤️

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

For me one of the chief creative tragedies of a writer/creative using AI (ChatGPT etc.) is that to get anything good out of it, the prompt you will have had to have written probably demonstrates that you're more than capable of writing something descriptive and evocative. You don't need the machine!

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Tom ～★ @wormonastring.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

🚨 Narrative Designer/Writer looking for work 🚨 I'm staring down at an empty schedule and so I'm looking for work! Why me? You'd be getting a writer with: ✨ 3+ years experience in the industry at all key stages of game production, from conceptualization to commercial release.

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