Cara Ellison
@caraellison.bsky.social
I’m from Scotland, live in Scotland, and write and design the stories for videogames. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
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Cara Ellison
@caraellison.bsky.social
· Nov 25
BAFTA Breakthrough profile: Cara Ellison
"Your game's story or narrative, even if it's not a traditional narrative, is the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up"
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Honoured to be part of the 2025 @bafta.org Breakthrough Programme and represent Scotland with some of the most talented people I’ve ever met
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this year I put one foot in front of the other, and only look one step ahead, because if i look too far ahead a monster is there and if i look it in the face too soon im not prepared enough to face it. so. one step only each time, and really look at the step?? school of foddy
January 6, 2026 at 1:22 AM
this year I put one foot in front of the other, and only look one step ahead, because if i look too far ahead a monster is there and if i look it in the face too soon im not prepared enough to face it. so. one step only each time, and really look at the step?? school of foddy
watery bint with a sword-ass regime
January 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
watery bint with a sword-ass regime
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work with me?!
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Game Designer (Project Based Role)
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January 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
work with me?!
I didn‘t enjoy Stranger Things as much as to be a big fan, but I am getting a little bit annoyed by how far from Spielberg it has gone into King, and how far it has gone from gentle subtext into constant and repeated plot information with no stage business to soften it
January 4, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I didn‘t enjoy Stranger Things as much as to be a big fan, but I am getting a little bit annoyed by how far from Spielberg it has gone into King, and how far it has gone from gentle subtext into constant and repeated plot information with no stage business to soften it
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❄️WINTER SALE!⛄️
There’s still time to get up to 85% in our MASSIVE Winter Sale!!
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MetaQuest:
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#SteamWinterSale #Steam #SteamVR #MetaQuest #MetaQuest2 #MetaQuest3 #VR
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
❄️WINTER SALE!⛄️
There’s still time to get up to 85% in our MASSIVE Winter Sale!!
Steam:
bit.ly/Steam_Firepr...
MetaQuest:
bit.ly/TheRoomVR/Me...
bit.ly/GhostTown_Me...
#SteamWinterSale #Steam #SteamVR #MetaQuest #MetaQuest2 #MetaQuest3 #VR
There’s still time to get up to 85% in our MASSIVE Winter Sale!!
Steam:
bit.ly/Steam_Firepr...
MetaQuest:
bit.ly/TheRoomVR/Me...
bit.ly/GhostTown_Me...
#SteamWinterSale #Steam #SteamVR #MetaQuest #MetaQuest2 #MetaQuest3 #VR
Armando! My love!
Officially revealed: The contestants in series 21 of Taskmaster
Officially revealed: The contestants in series 21 of Taskmaster
Including the second US-based comedian
dlvr.it
January 4, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Armando! My love!
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It’s now up. Enjoy, and Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
It’s now up. Enjoy, and Happy New Year!
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i’m excited to get back to work tomorrow. imagine that.
we’re going to make dead static drive so good. we’ve had such good feedback & have such a lovely discord community who want the best for the game. what more can a gal hope for?
you can join if you want to follow along: discord.gg/ahaAVrBnc
we’re going to make dead static drive so good. we’ve had such good feedback & have such a lovely discord community who want the best for the game. what more can a gal hope for?
you can join if you want to follow along: discord.gg/ahaAVrBnc
Join the Dead Static Drive Discord Server!
Check out the Dead Static Drive community on Discord - hang out with 513 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:46 AM
i’m excited to get back to work tomorrow. imagine that.
we’re going to make dead static drive so good. we’ve had such good feedback & have such a lovely discord community who want the best for the game. what more can a gal hope for?
you can join if you want to follow along: discord.gg/ahaAVrBnc
we’re going to make dead static drive so good. we’ve had such good feedback & have such a lovely discord community who want the best for the game. what more can a gal hope for?
you can join if you want to follow along: discord.gg/ahaAVrBnc
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Once @quinnae.com and I were on a panel together and she described the work as being like getting David to emerge from a smooth block of marble. it goes chip by chip—and you may not see the work completed. OBAA to me is a visualization of that idea. You can abandon the work but the work never ends.
December 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Once @quinnae.com and I were on a panel together and she described the work as being like getting David to emerge from a smooth block of marble. it goes chip by chip—and you may not see the work completed. OBAA to me is a visualization of that idea. You can abandon the work but the work never ends.
happy Hogmanay everyone. I tried my best this year and I hope to try my best next year too. I hope that I made something you enjoyed or even loved and I will try again next year too!
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
happy Hogmanay everyone. I tried my best this year and I hope to try my best next year too. I hope that I made something you enjoyed or even loved and I will try again next year too!
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having pals round for hogmanay
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
having pals round for hogmanay
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It's the Suzie Izzard bit about Americans renovating things to look how they did "over FIFTY years ago!", but with English men who are like, "over FIFTY miles away"
December 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It's the Suzie Izzard bit about Americans renovating things to look how they did "over FIFTY years ago!", but with English men who are like, "over FIFTY miles away"
it’s always very funny to me when a man with a very posh english accent goes on a ‘journey’ to ‘discover the ancient archeology of the Picts’ mate you drove fifteen minutes over the border and looked at a rock my grandma has had in her garden all her life
December 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
it’s always very funny to me when a man with a very posh english accent goes on a ‘journey’ to ‘discover the ancient archeology of the Picts’ mate you drove fifteen minutes over the border and looked at a rock my grandma has had in her garden all her life
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An actually good modern billiards game would make about one trillion dollars
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
An actually good modern billiards game would make about one trillion dollars
something that bothers me is that game markets that target like 50 & 60 plus demographics (the people with the MOST disposable income who are buying tank, lifestyle and farm style sims like crazy bc they’re the only games that market to them) have been completely abandoned on the innovation front
December 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
something that bothers me is that game markets that target like 50 & 60 plus demographics (the people with the MOST disposable income who are buying tank, lifestyle and farm style sims like crazy bc they’re the only games that market to them) have been completely abandoned on the innovation front
is ted danson immortal
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
is ted danson immortal
some of the US and UK opinions on Italian food are dated dependent on when italian immigrants landed there which is super interesting, like the chicken parmo in Middlesbrough is an italian immigrant food no Italian would happily claim (but it’s delicious)
omg italians used to cook pasta "for hours" until "very soft"?? cooking pasta firmly wasn't common until mid 1800s, and "al dente" appears only after WW1?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_dente
![For centuries in Italy, the ideal pasta was very soft, and chefs such as the 15th century chef Martino da Como, who recommended cooking pasta for hours to achieve the desired firmness. The resulting pasta's softness influenced how it was served. At the time, the leading physicians of Italy followed Hippocrates and Galen, who maintained contraria contrariis curantur ('opposites cure opposites'). As a result, they recommended pasta be served with dried spices and pepper, as well as cheese,[10] particularly the dry, aged varieties.[11] Such a soft pasta was slippery when eaten with the hand, and historian Massimo Montanari credits the pasta's firmness with promoting the uptake of forks in Italy.[12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxre4hdvxmps2ontfyzegzo5/bafkreib3ofbj4kzieq4rn5h3jqffd4544eq2pvkbu3snrnoppyhz7zylzm@jpeg)
![Records of pasta being cooked for shorter lengths and to harder textures arrived in 17th century Naples.[13][14] At first, these were restricted to fresh pasta, and it was not until the mid-19th century in the area that cooks are recorded taking a short cooktime and firm texture for granted for all pastas.[13] Despite this development, the term al dente remained unused; historians Silvano Serventi and Françoise Sabban [fr] write that before World War I, the term "was unknown".[15] In the years since as the term has gained prominence, the idea of cooking pasta al dente has entered the Italian national identity.[15] Internationally, the phrase was spread through restaurants in the second half of the 20th century.[16]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxre4hdvxmps2ontfyzegzo5/bafkreifzxxoooawivza3wcnmhj4mfm3rerjzmwuq5vjbztnhxijboconr4@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
some of the US and UK opinions on Italian food are dated dependent on when italian immigrants landed there which is super interesting, like the chicken parmo in Middlesbrough is an italian immigrant food no Italian would happily claim (but it’s delicious)
blubbing watching judi dench realise she is, fully historically speaking, Shakespearean royalty again. she named an oak tree after him and then learned he is basically family to her. the whole thing is so nuts
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
blubbing watching judi dench realise she is, fully historically speaking, Shakespearean royalty again. she named an oak tree after him and then learned he is basically family to her. the whole thing is so nuts
Instead, could I make a book recommendation? NEON NOIR by Woody Haut is the central text of all this. I’d rather you read the experts instead of a 21 year old idiot
as a MASSIVE Hammett and Chandler fan, McBain, all that…. can I read your dissertation??
December 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Instead, could I make a book recommendation? NEON NOIR by Woody Haut is the central text of all this. I’d rather you read the experts instead of a 21 year old idiot
is An Inspector Calls the platonic form of all of these ??
Christie’s mysteries were always very much like ‘you already know all of these rich people in the room are guilty of cruelty but the court jester will make at least one of them pay’ but seeing Class be applied to US detective stuff in this form is very fun for me personally
December 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
is An Inspector Calls the platonic form of all of these ??
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never forget gorgeous women can be stupid bitches too. rest in peace i guess you beautiful lunatic
December 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
never forget gorgeous women can be stupid bitches too. rest in peace i guess you beautiful lunatic
If you’ve read my book you’ll know it took Blendo a good ten years to culminate in Skin Deep & I think about having ten years of investment for it to marinate and prototype into existence, even something the press describes as ‘small’ or ‘indie’ and not ‘AAA’ www.eurogamer.net/games-of-202...
Skin Deep was this year's reminder that it's a privilege to recognise a developer's handwriting
Skin Deep was one of the great games of 2025 - here's why.
www.eurogamer.net
December 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you’ve read my book you’ll know it took Blendo a good ten years to culminate in Skin Deep & I think about having ten years of investment for it to marinate and prototype into existence, even something the press describes as ‘small’ or ‘indie’ and not ‘AAA’ www.eurogamer.net/games-of-202...
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an emphatic fuck yes to all this: www.eurogamer.net/games-of-202...
Skin Deep was this year's reminder that it's a privilege to recognise a developer's handwriting
Skin Deep was one of the great games of 2025 - here's why.
www.eurogamer.net
December 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
an emphatic fuck yes to all this: www.eurogamer.net/games-of-202...