Josh
@joshmlabelle.bsky.social
Writer & Narrative Designer || Creative Director on Disney Dreamlight Valley ||"Hunter: The Reckoning - Day for Night" coming 2026 || "A Crown of Sorcery & Steel" out from Choice of Games || 1st place IFComp 2020🏆|| Opinions my own || www.joshlabelle.com
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Josh
@joshmlabelle.bsky.social
· Oct 9
Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...
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Just announced! I've been working on an interactive novel in the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise!
Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.
store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...
Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.
store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...
It's pretty wild how much this album cover now just looks like a Gen Z bedroom pop album thumbnail on SoundCloud or something. The camera's not even much of a giveaway since it looks so aesthetically retro. Like I think you could trick a few people with this.
December 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It's pretty wild how much this album cover now just looks like a Gen Z bedroom pop album thumbnail on SoundCloud or something. The camera's not even much of a giveaway since it looks so aesthetically retro. Like I think you could trick a few people with this.
This Christmas, every family will be supplied with Billy Preston to break the tension and maintain good vibes at their festivities
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This Christmas, every family will be supplied with Billy Preston to break the tension and maintain good vibes at their festivities
I still check in on Twitter on occasion and recently it's started defaulting me to the algorithmic For You timeline. While I'm served a pretty diverse range of ideologies by it, one thing that unites everything I'm shown is how savagely and casually mean-spirited it all is.
December 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I still check in on Twitter on occasion and recently it's started defaulting me to the algorithmic For You timeline. While I'm served a pretty diverse range of ideologies by it, one thing that unites everything I'm shown is how savagely and casually mean-spirited it all is.
One like = one great game/movie/show/album/thing that I loved from 2025. Let's go!
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
One like = one great game/movie/show/album/thing that I loved from 2025. Let's go!
Setting myself a goal to get my father-in-law into Geese this holiday season. Wish me luck. I think I've got a full-proof plan.
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Setting myself a goal to get my father-in-law into Geese this holiday season. Wish me luck. I think I've got a full-proof plan.
Every time I visit family and the TV is on, I find out they're still searching Oak Island for that money pit. How many seasons could this possibly take?
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Every time I visit family and the TV is on, I find out they're still searching Oak Island for that money pit. How many seasons could this possibly take?
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at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
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This is such a powerful image
November 8, 2023 at 5:16 PM
This is such a powerful image
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Saw this and momentarily thought Rachel Brosnahan had gotten engaged to Ernie.
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Saw this and momentarily thought Rachel Brosnahan had gotten engaged to Ernie.
I had the pleasure of seeing this performed live by the TSO recently. It sticks out as a top live music experience.
They also performed selections from Romeo & Juliet, including Dance of the Knights. That's long been a fav piece and was incredible to hear in person.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGgq...
They also performed selections from Romeo & Juliet, including Dance of the Knights. That's long been a fav piece and was incredible to hear in person.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGgq...
Prokofiev – Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 (Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev)
YouTube video by EuroArtsChannel
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I had the pleasure of seeing this performed live by the TSO recently. It sticks out as a top live music experience.
They also performed selections from Romeo & Juliet, including Dance of the Knights. That's long been a fav piece and was incredible to hear in person.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGgq...
They also performed selections from Romeo & Juliet, including Dance of the Knights. That's long been a fav piece and was incredible to hear in person.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGgq...
If you're trying to get better at writing interactive dialogue, it's hard to beat the Shadowrun games by Harebrained Schemes as a reference point. Every dialogue has some element of conflict and tension, and some interesting choice about which way you push the relationship with the NPCs.
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If you're trying to get better at writing interactive dialogue, it's hard to beat the Shadowrun games by Harebrained Schemes as a reference point. Every dialogue has some element of conflict and tension, and some interesting choice about which way you push the relationship with the NPCs.
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Trapped with your terrible family today? Not cool enough for the cousin walk? Try text adventures! Text adventures: they let you ignore people you don't like!
Tower Behind the Moon
You are already an archmage–can you become an immortal? Use magic and cunning to thwart rivals, fight demons, and outwit gods so you can join their ranks.
www.choiceofgames.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Trapped with your terrible family today? Not cool enough for the cousin walk? Try text adventures! Text adventures: they let you ignore people you don't like!
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Remember: no matter what game you're working on, you'll end up making about 25% of it in the end. The key is to choose the correct 25%.
#gamedev #indiegame
#gamedev #indiegame
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Remember: no matter what game you're working on, you'll end up making about 25% of it in the end. The key is to choose the correct 25%.
#gamedev #indiegame
#gamedev #indiegame
I spent the first day of my post-expansion launch staycation getting a ton of writing done on my side-project, then building backlog Lego sets while rewatching A-tier Buffy eps (School Hard, The Wish).
The last part is really reminding me how much story we used to be able to pack into 44 minutes.
The last part is really reminding me how much story we used to be able to pack into 44 minutes.
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I spent the first day of my post-expansion launch staycation getting a ton of writing done on my side-project, then building backlog Lego sets while rewatching A-tier Buffy eps (School Hard, The Wish).
The last part is really reminding me how much story we used to be able to pack into 44 minutes.
The last part is really reminding me how much story we used to be able to pack into 44 minutes.
Wow, this is wild. It has to have been much, much harder to code this way and I can't imagine this protects against 90% of typos.
The typo protection is so broken in SNES Family Feud that the real fun is improving comedy answers.
So long as the letters that would spell your word are in the right order, it doesn't matter what's between them.
So for example, if I'm trying to get SHOWER, I can write SHOot WaltER In The Face.
So long as the letters that would spell your word are in the right order, it doesn't matter what's between them.
So for example, if I'm trying to get SHOWER, I can write SHOot WaltER In The Face.
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Wow, this is wild. It has to have been much, much harder to code this way and I can't imagine this protects against 90% of typos.
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Disney Dreamlight Valley: Wishblossom Ranch is rolling out on all platforms now!
It's time to get your yee-haw on.
www.pcgamer.com/games/life-s...
It's time to get your yee-haw on.
www.pcgamer.com/games/life-s...
Disney Dreamlight Valley's Wishblossom Ranch DLC is as whimsical as the game gets
There's a new home to find in Wishblossom Ranch.
www.pcgamer.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Disney Dreamlight Valley: Wishblossom Ranch is rolling out on all platforms now!
It's time to get your yee-haw on.
www.pcgamer.com/games/life-s...
It's time to get your yee-haw on.
www.pcgamer.com/games/life-s...
Geese are doing a From The Basement version of Getting Killed and it releases tomorrow on one of the most stressful days of my year. The universe does love me.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Geese are doing a From The Basement version of Getting Killed and it releases tomorrow on one of the most stressful days of my year. The universe does love me.
Frequently, when looking through digital storefronts trying to decide on a new game to play, I find myself describing in my head the exact game that I want to play, and honestly underneath all the intellectualizing, it's almost always just Mass Effect 2 that I'm describing.
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Frequently, when looking through digital storefronts trying to decide on a new game to play, I find myself describing in my head the exact game that I want to play, and honestly underneath all the intellectualizing, it's almost always just Mass Effect 2 that I'm describing.
This Irish guy who's been opening for Geese doesn't even have an album out until next month but his voice is absolutely unbelievable and the songwriting is really strong. This has been a really great couple of years for music, man. Music! It's good again!
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
Dove Ellis - Pale Song (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dove Ellis
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This Irish guy who's been opening for Geese doesn't even have an album out until next month but his voice is absolutely unbelievable and the songwriting is really strong. This has been a really great couple of years for music, man. Music! It's good again!
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
youtu.be/HrWvDv4ESIo?...
One weird thing I've had a lot of cause to think about in game narrative is: "what is the minimum you need for something to feel like a story?"
I think it's tough to make three "beats" feel like a real story. Not impossible, but four beats is much easier.
I think it's tough to make three "beats" feel like a real story. Not impossible, but four beats is much easier.
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
One weird thing I've had a lot of cause to think about in game narrative is: "what is the minimum you need for something to feel like a story?"
I think it's tough to make three "beats" feel like a real story. Not impossible, but four beats is much easier.
I think it's tough to make three "beats" feel like a real story. Not impossible, but four beats is much easier.
Man, Dispatch is so good. Really exciting stuff. So great to see a narrative game where they made so many good choices about where to put the focus and the dispatching mini-game is so fast and fun and generates so many funny moments.
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Man, Dispatch is so good. Really exciting stuff. So great to see a narrative game where they made so many good choices about where to put the focus and the dispatching mini-game is so fast and fun and generates so many funny moments.
I've spent most of today listening to Beethoven piano trios and would like to boldly state: Beethoven, he was very good
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I've spent most of today listening to Beethoven piano trios and would like to boldly state: Beethoven, he was very good
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Tiny Book Shop is a LOT of fun, and very wholesome. When the customers don't like the books I recommend, I get so mad. When they do the little dance that means they do like it, I get so happy. That's the power of Games.
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Tiny Book Shop is a LOT of fun, and very wholesome. When the customers don't like the books I recommend, I get so mad. When they do the little dance that means they do like it, I get so happy. That's the power of Games.