Marianne (Moth) Cassidy
@mothshaped.bsky.social
Potential fire hazard. Writer at Remedy Entertainment. Previously at Saber Interactive (Hellraiser: Revival), & Fishlabs. They/them 🪰✶
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People get hung up on "I don't know how to write a good review" but honestly you don't need paragraphs of analysis and observations. Don't compare yourself to a journalist. "I loved it!" or "I had fun" are equally valid reviews, AND matter just as much to the Steam algorithm to support game devs!
Sometimes it is so easy to write a review 💜
December 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
People get hung up on "I don't know how to write a good review" but honestly you don't need paragraphs of analysis and observations. Don't compare yourself to a journalist. "I loved it!" or "I had fun" are equally valid reviews, AND matter just as much to the Steam algorithm to support game devs!
I think it'd be fair to say I had the opposite of a restful Christmas break, but hey, such is life.
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I think it'd be fair to say I had the opposite of a restful Christmas break, but hey, such is life.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Got a fist bump from Kristian Nairn (Hodor) while on a night out in Belfast
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Got a fist bump from Kristian Nairn (Hodor) while on a night out in Belfast
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Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
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these metaphors are getting kinda heavy handed
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
these metaphors are getting kinda heavy handed
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
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I wrote a Your Guide to Farscape story a few years ago and I'm always so happy to see folks get into the show, which I love a lot. Talked to Brian Henson of Jim Henson Company for this as well. This was such a labor of love: www.ign.com/articles/201...
April 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I wrote a Your Guide to Farscape story a few years ago and I'm always so happy to see folks get into the show, which I love a lot. Talked to Brian Henson of Jim Henson Company for this as well. This was such a labor of love: www.ign.com/articles/201...
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Christmas would be such a good time of year if it weren't for the various horrors
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Christmas would be such a good time of year if it weren't for the various horrors
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They need to add hero limits to Disco Elysium. I’m sick of queueing up and being the only Kim on a team of five Harrys
![r/DiscoElysium 3d
i tried to edit my save file and broke the damn game
[Disco Elysium screenshot with five Harry icons]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z4llsx425l4htoylyyx6iam3/bafkreigeiow7rb3igj4bpav5cztvhkqhprrj2vi75onmkfrxh27fdiqp5i@jpeg)
April 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
They need to add hero limits to Disco Elysium. I’m sick of queueing up and being the only Kim on a team of five Harrys
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I had a lot of issues watching The Game Awards this year as there were no individual warnings for the trailers to give me a heads-up whether they were safe or not.
Seizures can kill, please put warnings on. I don't want to die just cause you didn't put a warning that it might kill me, pls.
Seizures can kill, please put warnings on. I don't want to die just cause you didn't put a warning that it might kill me, pls.
One final report from me before the holiday – I spoke with disabled players who noted this year's Game Awards caused seizure-like symptoms and migraines. Some reveals like Divinity caused approximately four hours of pain. Read more here:
accessgranted.ghost.io/live-perform...
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Live Performances and Trailers Cause Seizure Effects and Migraines at The Game Awards
Disabled players discuss the negative impacts of flashing lights during this year's The Game Awards.
accessgranted.ghost.io
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I had a lot of issues watching The Game Awards this year as there were no individual warnings for the trailers to give me a heads-up whether they were safe or not.
Seizures can kill, please put warnings on. I don't want to die just cause you didn't put a warning that it might kill me, pls.
Seizures can kill, please put warnings on. I don't want to die just cause you didn't put a warning that it might kill me, pls.
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Absentmindedly paused Taskmaster to check my phone, prompting my 60yo mum to read this subtitle aloud upon entering the room.
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Absentmindedly paused Taskmaster to check my phone, prompting my 60yo mum to read this subtitle aloud upon entering the room.
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Found a black silk scarf in a charity shop today and I think I'm going to make it my entire personality for 2026
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Found a black silk scarf in a charity shop today and I think I'm going to make it my entire personality for 2026
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I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
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If you really need to waste some water for your ideas, you can also do “staring at the wall” in the shower.
Instead of using GenAI to generate ideas, may I instead suggest "Staring at a Wall." Your mind will wander and probably have more relevant, fleshed out ideas than anything an LLM can generate. Join the "Staring at a Wall" movement today.
December 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you really need to waste some water for your ideas, you can also do “staring at the wall” in the shower.
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I wrote an article about dialogue choice as part of a narrative designer’s toolkit *aside* from branching, instead considering how choice can invite us to *perform* a character.
My case study is South of Circle’s beautiful fuzzy meaning-making (using symbols instead of words). 💜 Give it a go!
My case study is South of Circle’s beautiful fuzzy meaning-making (using symbols instead of words). 💜 Give it a go!
We're just over the moon to be sharing this with you: the one and only @hannahnicklin.bsky.social on South of the Circle and how developers use in-game choices to give players space in which to perform the story.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...
Performing Peter: South of the Circle and Fuzzy Choice — Gamers with Glasses
How do game designers make player choices feel meaningful? Hannah Nicklin, author of Writing for Games: Theory and Practice , describes here how the act of choosing allows players to perform a charac...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I wrote an article about dialogue choice as part of a narrative designer’s toolkit *aside* from branching, instead considering how choice can invite us to *perform* a character.
My case study is South of Circle’s beautiful fuzzy meaning-making (using symbols instead of words). 💜 Give it a go!
My case study is South of Circle’s beautiful fuzzy meaning-making (using symbols instead of words). 💜 Give it a go!
Back in England for less than an hour and already full of Greggs
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Back in England for less than an hour and already full of Greggs
Getting all the black hair chopped off today. Truly the end of an era. Everyone say bye-bye 💇🏻♀️➡️🧑🏻🦰
December 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Getting all the black hair chopped off today. Truly the end of an era. Everyone say bye-bye 💇🏻♀️➡️🧑🏻🦰