Category: Writing

25th July 2025
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Sticky Widows, Worm Hotels

Some of Antibes is noticeably upsetting; Caen is downright alarming.

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14th April 2025
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A Comedy of the Sun

Minor spoilers for Travelling at Night, inconsequentially minor spoilers for Book of Hours!

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15th April 2024
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GUEST POST: “See what surfaces in sleep…”

More from the translators of Baldur’s Gate 3!

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13th March 2024
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GUEST POST: Boris & Mikhail on translating BOOK OF HOURS into Russian

What’s it like translating a complex literary game like BOOK OF HOURS?

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6th October 2022
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Lore of Babylon

How do you know if someone’s read The Silmarillion? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

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29th July 2022
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To Superintendent Wynford, of Nocturnal Branch —

“It certainly tastes like birth.“

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29th June 2022
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Reverend Timothy Speaks, Part One

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20th June 2022
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Slouching Tiger, Missing Dragon

A 21st-century Kafkaesque nightmare of boy bands, ‘sang wenhua’ and games.

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6th June 2022
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Tabriz, January 1866: My dear nephew –

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19th April 2022
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The Little Grey Cells

The best detective games pare back their mechanics to an absolute minimum: the player’s mind.

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8th March 2022
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You Gotta Have Faith

Chinese gamers live in a forbidden city. Can plucky indie devs (that’s us) sneak inside its walls?

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7th February 2022
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Here’s Looking At You, Kid

“It’s James Bond fanfiction written by nerds”. Guess the genre?

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13th January 2022
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Gather Your Arty

You’ve probably heard the phrase “art imitates life”.

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16th December 2021
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Dangerous Play

Friedrich Nietzsche was a brilliant man whose most famous theory, the Übermensch, has wrongly linked him to Nazi and fascist ideology.

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3rd December 2021
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Nov #2: Xianyang

Announcing The Locksmith’s Dream, a series of invitation-only live events coming in 2022.

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12th November 2021
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Tend & Pretend: the Secret Life of Gendered Games

Is this Dark Souls in a dress?

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18th October 2021
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Making games for a living is almost certainly going to throw you into situations you never expected. When it does, your best hope is to have a clear idea of who you are and what you stand for so you can weather the storm.

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3rd September 2021
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The Church of Merch

Step into the church of the merch and take a pew with me.

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