Darby McDevitt
@darbymcdevitt.bsky.social
Game Developer, Writer, Occasional Musician
Follow for music clips, literary quotes, Assassin’s Creed lore.
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Follow for music clips, literary quotes, Assassin’s Creed lore.
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The Halter
Combining the inventive worldbuilding of Philip K. Dick and the elegiac longing of Raymond Chandler and for fans of Ready Player One and Rabbits, T...
www.simonandschuster.com
Happy to announce that my debut novel, The Halter, is now available for preorder.
You’ll find it at all major online outlets, but if you can pre-order it from an indie shop near you, please support your local folks instead.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
You’ll find it at all major online outlets, but if you can pre-order it from an indie shop near you, please support your local folks instead.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
Happy to announce that my debut novel, The Halter, is now available for preorder.
You’ll find it at all major online outlets, but if you can pre-order it from an indie shop near you, please support your local folks instead.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
You’ll find it at all major online outlets, but if you can pre-order it from an indie shop near you, please support your local folks instead.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
The Halter
Combining the inventive worldbuilding of Philip K. Dick and the elegiac longing of Raymond Chandler and for fans of Ready Player One and Rabbits, T...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Happy to announce that my debut novel, The Halter, is now available for preorder.
You’ll find it at all major online outlets, but if you can pre-order it from an indie shop near you, please support your local folks instead.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
You’ll find it at all major online outlets, but if you can pre-order it from an indie shop near you, please support your local folks instead.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
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D’Angelo's gone?? 😩
Voodoo was one of the soundtracks to my early 20s, goddamn. R.I.P and, as ever, fuck cancer.
youtu.be/8fNtipp5RLs?...
Voodoo was one of the soundtracks to my early 20s, goddamn. R.I.P and, as ever, fuck cancer.
youtu.be/8fNtipp5RLs?...
D'Angelo - Devil's Pie
YouTube video by kordtyb
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
D’Angelo's gone?? 😩
Voodoo was one of the soundtracks to my early 20s, goddamn. R.I.P and, as ever, fuck cancer.
youtu.be/8fNtipp5RLs?...
Voodoo was one of the soundtracks to my early 20s, goddamn. R.I.P and, as ever, fuck cancer.
youtu.be/8fNtipp5RLs?...
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STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.
September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.
"His body is vigorous. His mind is childish. His soul has been almost completely neglected."
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"His body is vigorous. His mind is childish. His soul has been almost completely neglected."
Allison Russell - Springtime (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Allison Russell
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Little thread of talks about writing and interactive narrative I've done, so I can pin it here:
First up - Sparkling Dialogue from Adventure X; how to make interactive conversations that have flow and meaning to them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRf...
First up - Sparkling Dialogue from Adventure X; how to make interactive conversations that have flow and meaning to them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRf...
AdvX 2018 - Jon Ingold - Sparkling Dialogue: A Masterclass
YouTube video by AdventureX
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October 18, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Little thread of talks about writing and interactive narrative I've done, so I can pin it here:
First up - Sparkling Dialogue from Adventure X; how to make interactive conversations that have flow and meaning to them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRf...
First up - Sparkling Dialogue from Adventure X; how to make interactive conversations that have flow and meaning to them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRf...
@norsebysw.bsky.social Hey Jackson! Nice to see you here.
September 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@norsebysw.bsky.social Hey Jackson! Nice to see you here.
"Ah, the French" - Orson Welles REMIX
YouTube video by placeboing
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September 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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So the service that's been hosting my blog for almost 20 years is shutting down. I just ported all my content over to a new service, which is a shit way to spend the day, but at least its up and running again. Might take me a while to get all the functionality back up. www.clicknothing.com
Click Nothing
design from a long time ago
www.clicknothing.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So the service that's been hosting my blog for almost 20 years is shutting down. I just ported all my content over to a new service, which is a shit way to spend the day, but at least its up and running again. Might take me a while to get all the functionality back up. www.clicknothing.com
The wee ones making new friends in Victoria.
August 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The wee ones making new friends in Victoria.
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An update, I just preordered it at the book store website, so its very easy to get, at least here in Germany :)
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
An update, I just preordered it at the book store website, so its very easy to get, at least here in Germany :)
Found some 13 year-old notebooks, and discovered a few pages of discarded Black Flag narrative concepts.
-Sages I called Seers.
-The Observatory was The Reservoir, and had a very different function. Re-reading this I know why I changed it.
-Assassins had the key to the Reservoir.
-Sages I called Seers.
-The Observatory was The Reservoir, and had a very different function. Re-reading this I know why I changed it.
-Assassins had the key to the Reservoir.
August 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Found some 13 year-old notebooks, and discovered a few pages of discarded Black Flag narrative concepts.
-Sages I called Seers.
-The Observatory was The Reservoir, and had a very different function. Re-reading this I know why I changed it.
-Assassins had the key to the Reservoir.
-Sages I called Seers.
-The Observatory was The Reservoir, and had a very different function. Re-reading this I know why I changed it.
-Assassins had the key to the Reservoir.
Cover reveal! My debut novel - "The Halter" - drops in February 2026 from Diversion Books.
August 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Cover reveal! My debut novel - "The Halter" - drops in February 2026 from Diversion Books.
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Today on Ancient Office Hours, actor Magnus Bruun, (voice of male Eivor in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla), chats about the rich history/mythology of Scandinavia, playing Cnut in "The Last Kingdom”, and share some behind-the-scenes stories from working on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Today on Ancient Office Hours, actor Magnus Bruun, (voice of male Eivor in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla), chats about the rich history/mythology of Scandinavia, playing Cnut in "The Last Kingdom”, and share some behind-the-scenes stories from working on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!
Found a couple candid snaps from the floor of the Valhalla mo-cap shoot, back in March 2020.
July 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Found a couple candid snaps from the floor of the Valhalla mo-cap shoot, back in March 2020.
Thirteen years ago I saw this fellow in Quebec City and decided that a character I was writing for AC4 should be distantly related to him. So that’s the lore-accurate, deeply underwhelming truth behind Olivier’s lineage.
July 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Thirteen years ago I saw this fellow in Quebec City and decided that a character I was writing for AC4 should be distantly related to him. So that’s the lore-accurate, deeply underwhelming truth behind Olivier’s lineage.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
May 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
P'tit Belliveau - Income Tax (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by P'tit Belliveau
youtu.be
May 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the 2025 Latinx Storytellers Conference as part of this year’s faculty!
🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW with Early Bird pricing ending on May 31. Get a $100 discount!
Register at the @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social site!
🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW with Early Bird pricing ending on May 31. Get a $100 discount!
Register at the @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social site!
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the 2025 Latinx Storytellers Conference as part of this year’s faculty!
🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW with Early Bird pricing ending on May 31. Get a $100 discount!
Register at the @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social site!
🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW with Early Bird pricing ending on May 31. Get a $100 discount!
Register at the @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social site!
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I know it seems a bit trivial right now but I had the pleasure of chatting with Magnus Bruun last weekend for Ancient Office Hours podcast. I did want to take a moment to celebrate the joy. We chatted about his character Cnut in The Last Kingdom and playing male Eivor in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!
January 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I know it seems a bit trivial right now but I had the pleasure of chatting with Magnus Bruun last weekend for Ancient Office Hours podcast. I did want to take a moment to celebrate the joy. We chatted about his character Cnut in The Last Kingdom and playing male Eivor in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!
Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno (Full Album) 1977
YouTube video by Antonio Torres
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM