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
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Anna Megill
@annamegill.com
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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
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Katsuhiro Otomo, homenagem a Escher
February 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Katsuhiro Otomo, homenagem a Escher
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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."
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.
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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
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
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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
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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! ❤️
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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..."
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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.
I'm relearning this lesson with my new crochet hobby. I crochet for the act of doing it--the joy of it--not because I especially need a bunch of badly engineered blankets
A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case
February 7, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I'm relearning this lesson with my new crochet hobby. I crochet for the act of doing it--the joy of it--not because I especially need a bunch of badly engineered blankets
I just learned about moltbook and wooww, that's some dystopian cyberpunk stuff happening there huh
www.moltbook.com
www.moltbook.com
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
www.moltbook.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:45 AM
I just learned about moltbook and wooww, that's some dystopian cyberpunk stuff happening there huh
www.moltbook.com
www.moltbook.com
I'm sick over the destruction of the Post. My hometown paper. Reading the Books section every week was a touchstone of my youth and directly led to my becoming a writer. I'll miss it forever
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis, "who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all, did not join the Zoom" about the staggering cuts.
The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
www.theatlantic.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I'm sick over the destruction of the Post. My hometown paper. Reading the Books section every week was a touchstone of my youth and directly led to my becoming a writer. I'll miss it forever
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the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
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I feel like we need to be asking the question: "God, doesn't this suck?" about these desperate attempts to make AI-gen goddamn -anything- more often.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
February 4, 2026 at 11:48 AM
I feel like we need to be asking the question: "God, doesn't this suck?" about these desperate attempts to make AI-gen goddamn -anything- more often.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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I love seeing people's pets when I'm looking at apartment listings. Like, yes, please model how my own cat would look sitting in that window. Perfect, thank you
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
I love seeing people's pets when I'm looking at apartment listings. Like, yes, please model how my own cat would look sitting in that window. Perfect, thank you
I love seeing people's pets when I'm looking at apartment listings. Like, yes, please model how my own cat would look sitting in that window. Perfect, thank you
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
I love seeing people's pets when I'm looking at apartment listings. Like, yes, please model how my own cat would look sitting in that window. Perfect, thank you
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The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
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Preorders for the LitJoy set of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea open tomorrow, Feb 4th! Ships in the fall. These editions contain dozens of annotations written by me & beautiful art by multiple artists. (I made Patsy Lascano's endpapers my desktop wallpaper.) litjoycrate.com/products/the...
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Preorders for the LitJoy set of The Night Circus & The Starless Sea open tomorrow, Feb 4th! Ships in the fall. These editions contain dozens of annotations written by me & beautiful art by multiple artists. (I made Patsy Lascano's endpapers my desktop wallpaper.) litjoycrate.com/products/the...