David L. Craddock - Author/Filmmaker
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Author and journalist experienced in writing short- and long-form features about game development and industry culture. Contact: davidlcraddock82@gmail.com
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Welcome! Follow the links for info about my work.
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📮Newsletter: davidlcraddock.substack.com
💻Portfolio: dlcraddock.journoportfolio.com/select-sampl...
📚Books: www.amazon.com/stores/David...
📮Newsletter: davidlcraddock.substack.com
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Whenever I worry I might have too many active projects (currently one documentary and five books at various stages of completion), I think about David, the most prolific writer I know by miles.
It's time for the annual Chronicles of Craddock! Around this time every year, I look back on the previous year's #writing projects and give updates on new ones. You can read Chronicles of Craddock 2025 here: davidlcraddock.substack.com/p/chronicles...
Chronicles of Craddock: 2025
Looking back on 2025 and ahead to 2026's projects.
davidlcraddock.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Whenever I worry I might have too many active projects (currently one documentary and five books at various stages of completion), I think about David, the most prolific writer I know by miles.
It's time for the annual Chronicles of Craddock! Around this time every year, I look back on the previous year's #writing projects and give updates on new ones. You can read Chronicles of Craddock 2025 here: davidlcraddock.substack.com/p/chronicles...
Chronicles of Craddock: 2025
Looking back on 2025 and ahead to 2026's projects.
davidlcraddock.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 AM
It's time for the annual Chronicles of Craddock! Around this time every year, I look back on the previous year's #writing projects and give updates on new ones. You can read Chronicles of Craddock 2025 here: davidlcraddock.substack.com/p/chronicles...
It’s not officially 2026 until I’m playing Animal Crossing New Horizons 3.0.
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
It’s not officially 2026 until I’m playing Animal Crossing New Horizons 3.0.
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Happy New Year from the team at Bitmap Books!
Stay tuned for news on our upcoming books in 2026 📚
Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter: www.bitmap.news
#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #HappyNewYear2026 #booksky
Stay tuned for news on our upcoming books in 2026 📚
Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter: www.bitmap.news
#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #HappyNewYear2026 #booksky
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Happy New Year from the team at Bitmap Books!
Stay tuned for news on our upcoming books in 2026 📚
Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter: www.bitmap.news
#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #HappyNewYear2026 #booksky
Stay tuned for news on our upcoming books in 2026 📚
Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter: www.bitmap.news
#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #HappyNewYear2026 #booksky
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Thanks @shacknews.com for naming Dispatch Game of the Year for 2025! 🥂
December 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Thanks @shacknews.com for naming Dispatch Game of the Year for 2025! 🥂
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Shacknews Top 25 Games of the Year 2025
Shacknews Top 25 Games of the Year 2025
With the end of 2025 mere hours away, the Shacknews staff reveals their top 25 games of the year.
dlvr.it
December 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Shacknews Top 25 Games of the Year 2025
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I spruced up my game dev interviews book to do a 2nd Edition which was included in a StoryBundle "best of" collection. (Thanks as always @davidlcraddock.bsky.social)
December 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I spruced up my game dev interviews book to do a 2nd Edition which was included in a StoryBundle "best of" collection. (Thanks as always @davidlcraddock.bsky.social)
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Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
🎮 Shipped a game!
💬 Published seven long form interviews at The Comics Journal!
🥧 Baked 30 pies!
📚 Read 75 books!
✊ Refused to let the bastards grind me down!
🎮 Shipped a game!
💬 Published seven long form interviews at The Comics Journal!
🥧 Baked 30 pies!
📚 Read 75 books!
✊ Refused to let the bastards grind me down!
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
📝 landed an agent
📚 turned in 3 manuscripts to their publishers
✍️wrote a long read for @shacknews.com
🎬 wrote/directed another documentary
😱 conquered some fears
📝 landed an agent
📚 turned in 3 manuscripts to their publishers
✍️wrote a long read for @shacknews.com
🎬 wrote/directed another documentary
😱 conquered some fears
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
- Published a chapter/essay with HarperCollins
- Launched a Twitch channel and made affiliate
- Started uploading clips to YT, got 74,000+ views
- Learned a ton, conquered some fears, etc.
- Published a chapter/essay with HarperCollins
- Launched a Twitch channel and made affiliate
- Started uploading clips to YT, got 74,000+ views
- Learned a ton, conquered some fears, etc.
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
🎮 Shipped a game!
💬 Published seven long form interviews at The Comics Journal!
🥧 Baked 30 pies!
📚 Read 75 books!
✊ Refused to let the bastards grind me down!
🎮 Shipped a game!
💬 Published seven long form interviews at The Comics Journal!
🥧 Baked 30 pies!
📚 Read 75 books!
✊ Refused to let the bastards grind me down!
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
📝 landed an agent
📚 turned in 3 manuscripts to their publishers
✍️wrote a long read for @shacknews.com
🎬 wrote/directed another documentary
😱 conquered some fears
📝 landed an agent
📚 turned in 3 manuscripts to their publishers
✍️wrote a long read for @shacknews.com
🎬 wrote/directed another documentary
😱 conquered some fears
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
- Published a chapter/essay with HarperCollins
- Launched a Twitch channel and made affiliate
- Started uploading clips to YT, got 74,000+ views
- Learned a ton, conquered some fears, etc.
- Published a chapter/essay with HarperCollins
- Launched a Twitch channel and made affiliate
- Started uploading clips to YT, got 74,000+ views
- Learned a ton, conquered some fears, etc.
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
🌠 Went through several rounds of IVF with lots of disappointments
🌠 Wrote over 550,000 words of fiction
🌠 Published a digital fanzine
🌠 Took a screenwriting course and wrote my first screenplay
🌠 Went through several rounds of IVF with lots of disappointments
🌠 Wrote over 550,000 words of fiction
🌠 Published a digital fanzine
🌠 Took a screenwriting course and wrote my first screenplay
December 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
📝 landed an agent
📚 turned in 3 manuscripts to their publishers
✍️wrote a long read for @shacknews.com
🎬 wrote/directed another documentary
😱 conquered some fears
📝 landed an agent
📚 turned in 3 manuscripts to their publishers
✍️wrote a long read for @shacknews.com
🎬 wrote/directed another documentary
😱 conquered some fears
Me: I’ve got three books out to publishers, all of which need edits next year, plus one about to go on submission. I will not be writing a new book in 2026.
Also me: Well that’s a good idea. Maybe I’ll just…
Also me: Well that’s a good idea. Maybe I’ll just…
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Me: I’ve got three books out to publishers, all of which need edits next year, plus one about to go on submission. I will not be writing a new book in 2026.
Also me: Well that’s a good idea. Maybe I’ll just…
Also me: Well that’s a good idea. Maybe I’ll just…
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Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling?
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
The History Of The Word "Metroidvania" And How It Spread
YouTube video by Critical Kate (of A Critical Hit!)
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling?
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
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I may have played a small role in this upcoming documentary 👀
Subscribers also can get a sneak-preview of the upcoming "The Fate of Castlevania" documentary! And more previews to come throughout January!
www.patreon.com/posts/ready-...
www.patreon.com/posts/ready-...
Ready For My Show: Merry Castlevanimas | Brian Clark | One Million Power
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December 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I may have played a small role in this upcoming documentary 👀
Working with a certain someone on something special for #MortalKombat🐉🩸fans.
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Working with a certain someone on something special for #MortalKombat🐉🩸fans.
The @shacknews.com Hall of Fame Class of 2025 is live! Come celebrate the games, developers, and tech that made this year’s class so memorable. www.shacknews.com/article/1471...
Shacknews Hall of Fame: Class of 2025
The Shacknews Hall of Fame Class of 2025 celebrates one of the industry's most beloved consoles as well as a host of people, technology, and games that defined the year 2000.
www.shacknews.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The @shacknews.com Hall of Fame Class of 2025 is live! Come celebrate the games, developers, and tech that made this year’s class so memorable. www.shacknews.com/article/1471...
If Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, I hope I'm contagious.
December 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
If Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, I hope I'm contagious.
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Got some cool books in the mail today 😃
Final Fantasy V by @kohler.bsky.social
GoldenEye by Alyse Knorr
@bossfightbooks.com
Final Fantasy V by @kohler.bsky.social
GoldenEye by Alyse Knorr
@bossfightbooks.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Got some cool books in the mail today 😃
Final Fantasy V by @kohler.bsky.social
GoldenEye by Alyse Knorr
@bossfightbooks.com
Final Fantasy V by @kohler.bsky.social
GoldenEye by Alyse Knorr
@bossfightbooks.com
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I designed a new game called Card Miner with an online leaderboard. Discover cards and form poker hands while you dig and delve!
It needs a desktop browser to work right now
Let me know how deep you can get in the mines! I'm curious to see how far someone can go
vintagecomputing.com/cardminer/
It needs a desktop browser to work right now
Let me know how deep you can get in the mines! I'm curious to see how far someone can go
vintagecomputing.com/cardminer/
December 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I designed a new game called Card Miner with an online leaderboard. Discover cards and form poker hands while you dig and delve!
It needs a desktop browser to work right now
Let me know how deep you can get in the mines! I'm curious to see how far someone can go
vintagecomputing.com/cardminer/
It needs a desktop browser to work right now
Let me know how deep you can get in the mines! I'm curious to see how far someone can go
vintagecomputing.com/cardminer/
Mortal Kombat's gore may have been the hook that sparked interest, but the series didn’t survive because of violence. It's still relevant because it evolved.
Go back to MK's origins in my book, Long Live #MortalKombat🐉: Round 1. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Go back to MK's origins in my book, Long Live #MortalKombat🐉: Round 1. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Mortal Kombat's gore may have been the hook that sparked interest, but the series didn’t survive because of violence. It's still relevant because it evolved.
Go back to MK's origins in my book, Long Live #MortalKombat🐉: Round 1. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Go back to MK's origins in my book, Long Live #MortalKombat🐉: Round 1. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
That Balder Side Sword video is the gift that keeps on giving. It has everything: a rare weapon; me fumbling rolls while fighting Artorias; and fire. Everybody loves fire.
December 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
That Balder Side Sword video is the gift that keeps on giving. It has everything: a rare weapon; me fumbling rolls while fighting Artorias; and fire. Everybody loves fire.
Rocket Jump, the Shacknews flagship #longread, turned 8 this week! Read about the making of the Quake trilogy complete with quotes from John Romero, John Carmack, and more developers. www.shacknews.com/article/1011...
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rocket Jump, the Shacknews flagship #longread, turned 8 this week! Read about the making of the Quake trilogy complete with quotes from John Romero, John Carmack, and more developers. www.shacknews.com/article/1011...
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High praise this week for DDR by @jordanferguson.bsky.social & Jessica Doyle.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/219148771-dance-dance-revolution
www.goodreads.com/book/show/219148771-dance-dance-revolution
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
High praise this week for DDR by @jordanferguson.bsky.social & Jessica Doyle.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/219148771-dance-dance-revolution
www.goodreads.com/book/show/219148771-dance-dance-revolution
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There is absolutely no right price for transphobia.
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There is absolutely no right price for transphobia.
If you're still looking for the perfect gift for the reader/gamer in your life, check out some of the holiday specials I'm running on my books!📚 All $2.99 for Kindle.
🕹️Arcade Perfect: www.amazon.com/dp/B07XCDZZ12
👾Monsters in the Dark: www.amazon.com/dp/B09FH8W6KQ
🕹️Arcade Perfect: www.amazon.com/dp/B07XCDZZ12
👾Monsters in the Dark: www.amazon.com/dp/B09FH8W6KQ
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you're still looking for the perfect gift for the reader/gamer in your life, check out some of the holiday specials I'm running on my books!📚 All $2.99 for Kindle.
🕹️Arcade Perfect: www.amazon.com/dp/B07XCDZZ12
👾Monsters in the Dark: www.amazon.com/dp/B09FH8W6KQ
🕹️Arcade Perfect: www.amazon.com/dp/B07XCDZZ12
👾Monsters in the Dark: www.amazon.com/dp/B09FH8W6KQ
Happy 32nd birthday to #Doom! Two years ago, I interviewed @johnromero.bsky.social and John Carmack about the game for its 30th anniversary. Celebrate today by watching the video, especially if you missed it live in 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAk...
December 10 - DOOM's 30th Anniversary Stream with John Romero, John Carmack, and David L. Craddock
YouTube video by John Romero
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Happy 32nd birthday to #Doom! Two years ago, I interviewed @johnromero.bsky.social and John Carmack about the game for its 30th anniversary. Celebrate today by watching the video, especially if you missed it live in 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAk...
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In a weird way, I think in America, Sonic kinda distracts from how important Sega is in the grand scheme of things
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In a weird way, I think in America, Sonic kinda distracts from how important Sega is in the grand scheme of things