Anna Megill
@annamegill.com
Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 at @CDPROJEKTRED • Fable • CONTROL • Dishonored: DoTO • Avatar: FoP • Guild Wars 2 • Award-winning game writer & author • The Threshold Kids are my fault, sorry • www.annamegill.com
Caretaker of HiMirri.bsky.social
Caretaker of HiMirri.bsky.social
Pinned
Anna Megill
@annamegill.com
· 29d
Hullo! I’m Anna Megill, a veteran video game writer & author. I write big, fancy AAA games like Fable, Control, Dishonored: DOTO, & Avatar: FoP. I’m currently the Lead Writer on Cyberpunk 2 for CD PROJEKT RED. I live in Boston with my shy baby kitty Mirri & run The Discord for Interactive Narrative
Reposted by Anna Megill
Reposted by Anna Megill
Katsuhiro Otomo, homenagem a Escher
February 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Katsuhiro Otomo, homenagem a Escher
Reposted by Anna Megill
LOOK how close Mirri is to sitting in my lap! She's right under my writing desk 😲 It's a first for us!
February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
LOOK how close Mirri is to sitting in my lap! She's right under my writing desk 😲 It's a first for us!
"Fascist techbro fuckwads stole what we wrote, and then ticks and leeches like Coral Fucking Hart are happy to drink the blood those monsters have already stolen from us."
Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS
Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …
terribleminds.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
"Fascist techbro fuckwads stole what we wrote, and then ticks and leeches like Coral Fucking Hart are happy to drink the blood those monsters have already stolen from us."
Oh Emma. So sad to hear this 💔
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Oh Emma. So sad to hear this 💔
Hey, Happy to help a new writer! I actually wrote two books on breaking into games, if you're interested www.annamegill.com/books
Anna Megill's Game Writing Guide — Anna Megill
Anna Megill writes books about game writing and narrative design, mostly for AAA games. A games industry veteran, she offers tips, advice, and mentoring for aspiring writers from all disciplines. She ...
www.annamegill.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Hey, Happy to help a new writer! I actually wrote two books on breaking into games, if you're interested www.annamegill.com/books
Oh my god they're putting out more food for the halftime show. I'm going to die
February 9, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Oh my god they're putting out more food for the halftime show. I'm going to die
I'm at a superbowl party just for the snacks.
I'm so full.
I'm so full.
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
I'm at a superbowl party just for the snacks.
I'm so full.
I'm so full.
Reposted by Anna Megill
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
Oh wow. They should've at least told you
February 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Oh wow. They should've at least told you
It wasn't much of a dispute 😅 I made my case, they agreed with me, and we went for the more thoughtful climax.
A good game story isn't just go go go. You have to leave space for emotions to expand and for players to process what's happened. Most writers get that instinctively
A good game story isn't just go go go. You have to leave space for emotions to expand and for players to process what's happened. Most writers get that instinctively
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
It wasn't much of a dispute 😅 I made my case, they agreed with me, and we went for the more thoughtful climax.
A good game story isn't just go go go. You have to leave space for emotions to expand and for players to process what's happened. Most writers get that instinctively
A good game story isn't just go go go. You have to leave space for emotions to expand and for players to process what's happened. Most writers get that instinctively
My first and only creative dispute on Death of the Outsider came when I pushed for a moment of ma after Billie kills The Outsider. I thought it was important that she (and players) had a few beats to process what they'd done and how they felt about it
My piping hot take on PLURIBUS is that it’s one of the most Ghibli-esque shows on TV today, and people who think its pacing is too slow ought to really sit with and examine why they feel that slow pace = bad.
Its first season has several minutes worth of “mā”, and is much stronger for it, IMO
Its first season has several minutes worth of “mā”, and is much stronger for it, IMO
February 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
My first and only creative dispute on Death of the Outsider came when I pushed for a moment of ma after Billie kills The Outsider. I thought it was important that she (and players) had a few beats to process what they'd done and how they felt about it
I'm so glad it's useful for you! My book came out right before the games industry collapsed in flames. If I wrote it now, with all I've seen the past two years, I'd underscore how wildly hard it is to find work these days. I hope you're hanging in there & not blaming yourself. It's a tough market!
February 8, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I'm so glad it's useful for you! My book came out right before the games industry collapsed in flames. If I wrote it now, with all I've seen the past two years, I'd underscore how wildly hard it is to find work these days. I hope you're hanging in there & not blaming yourself. It's a tough market!
❤️❤️❤️
Finished reading The Game Writing Guide by @annamegill.com. Fantastic advice + insights here that I think is genuinely helpful for finding work in game dev!
If you're not in the writing niche within games, I still think there's value in this book wrt interviews, portfolios, career development, etc.
If you're not in the writing niche within games, I still think there's value in this book wrt interviews, portfolios, career development, etc.
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 PM
❤️❤️❤️
Reposted by Anna Megill
Wanna support the Game Dev Feed? Maybe you just want raw game dev content with no ads? You can support us on Patreon!
If you're already a patron, don't forget to connect your Patreon and Bluesky accounts to Graze to remove ads! ❤️
If you're already a patron, don't forget to connect your Patreon and Bluesky accounts to Graze to remove ads! ❤️
June 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Wanna support the Game Dev Feed? Maybe you just want raw game dev content with no ads? You can support us on Patreon!
If you're already a patron, don't forget to connect your Patreon and Bluesky accounts to Graze to remove ads! ❤️
If you're already a patron, don't forget to connect your Patreon and Bluesky accounts to Graze to remove ads! ❤️
Reposted by Anna Megill
February 7, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"I have a few notes..."
"I have a few notes..."
"Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work."
Stop. Back up. You just came through that door. No don't look at that, you know that's there. Look at the ground. They always look at the ground. Now, what does the player see? What do they understand right now?
Stop. Back up. You just came through that door. No don't look at that, you know that's there. Look at the ground. They always look at the ground. Now, what does the player see? What do they understand right now?
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Attention spans are shorter than that."
"Attention spans are shorter than that."
February 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"I have a few notes..."
"I have a few notes..."
That final shot of her little brown chicken feet in the air is too much
February 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
That final shot of her little brown chicken feet in the air is too much
Cold and snowy here too. Bundling up just to play video games on the couch all day
February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Cold and snowy here too. Bundling up just to play video games on the couch all day
Reposted by Anna Megill
I think it's perfectly understandable that many people feel a deep sense of resentment and disenfranchisement for the time capitalism has stolen from them, but the answer is not to embrace capital's machine that pretends to show you an inner life you aren't having.
February 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I think it's perfectly understandable that many people feel a deep sense of resentment and disenfranchisement for the time capitalism has stolen from them, but the answer is not to embrace capital's machine that pretends to show you an inner life you aren't having.
Of course it's really humans. It's not much different from that Facebook ant colony, is it?
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Of course it's really humans. It's not much different from that Facebook ant colony, is it?
Besides, you have to suck at something to enjoy the pleasure of getting better
February 7, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Besides, you have to suck at something to enjoy the pleasure of getting better