Fergus Doyle
@mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social
Brittunculus. A frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe. Something Yorkshire in the state of Denmark. I write games and sometimes I put them online.
Narrative Designer, Sea of Rifts: https://www.seaofrifts.com/
Website: https://mrfergusdoyle.com
Narrative Designer, Sea of Rifts: https://www.seaofrifts.com/
Website: https://mrfergusdoyle.com
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Fergus Doyle
@mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hey, I'm Fergus! I don't think I ever did an introduction post, so here we go. I'm a British Narrative Designer/writer type who's been living in Copenhagen for nearly 4 years now.
Until recently I've mostly been working on my own interactive fiction stuff and game jams (mrfergusdoyle.itch.io )...
Until recently I've mostly been working on my own interactive fiction stuff and game jams (mrfergusdoyle.itch.io )...
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AI can't take my job as a writer because I don't even have one
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM
AI can't take my job as a writer because I don't even have one
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he did it he made his brand worse. we didn't think it was possible but he did it.
The YouTube phenomenon known as MrBeast has partnered with the LDS Church on philanthropy, and church President Dallin Oaks says he hopes lower missionary ages will lead to lower marriage ages.
Latest from Mormon Land: YouTube’s MrBeast partners with LDS Church; spate of new new stakes created
The YouTube phenomenon known as MrBeast has partnered with the LDS Church on philanthropy, and church President Dallin Oaks says he hopes lower missionary ages will lead to lower marriage ages.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
he did it he made his brand worse. we didn't think it was possible but he did it.
I always associate The Waste Land with a library copy I read at University where a previous scholar had annotated the line "Winter kept us warm" with "This is odd, winter is cold"
April is the cruelest month, but it’s January so we should be all good.
We are joined by @eclecticradical.bsky.social to discuss T.S. Eliot’s 1922 modernist masterpiece, “The Wasteland.”
We also discuss Eliot the guy…less of a masterpiece as a human being unfortunately.
We are joined by @eclecticradical.bsky.social to discuss T.S. Eliot’s 1922 modernist masterpiece, “The Wasteland.”
We also discuss Eliot the guy…less of a masterpiece as a human being unfortunately.
January 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I always associate The Waste Land with a library copy I read at University where a previous scholar had annotated the line "Winter kept us warm" with "This is odd, winter is cold"
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!
Wait, people don't like the ending of Snow Crash? I know it's kinda pat but so are Gibson's (even if they have a bit more of a sting in them than Stephenson) but compared to the Diamond Age, I thought Snow Crash's ending worked pretty well
January 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Wait, people don't like the ending of Snow Crash? I know it's kinda pat but so are Gibson's (even if they have a bit more of a sting in them than Stephenson) but compared to the Diamond Age, I thought Snow Crash's ending worked pretty well
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Advert, Cyclists’ Touring Club Gazette, May 1882: “Cyclists ride 100 miles ... without fatigue by the use of
BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES,
Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of [cocaine].”
BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES,
Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of [cocaine].”
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Advert, Cyclists’ Touring Club Gazette, May 1882: “Cyclists ride 100 miles ... without fatigue by the use of
BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES,
Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of [cocaine].”
BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES,
Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of [cocaine].”
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It's time to start shouting about EDJAM 2026!
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
January 3, 2026 at 9:11 PM
It's time to start shouting about EDJAM 2026!
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
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Doing work planning for the next six months and looks like I'll have slots available for freelance work, esp around Feb-April. So if you need someone to write STUFF or do narrative /story consulting, HMU!
Things I've worked on over past few years (and am not NDAd about) include!
Things I've worked on over past few years (and am not NDAd about) include!
January 2, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Doing work planning for the next six months and looks like I'll have slots available for freelance work, esp around Feb-April. So if you need someone to write STUFF or do narrative /story consulting, HMU!
Things I've worked on over past few years (and am not NDAd about) include!
Things I've worked on over past few years (and am not NDAd about) include!
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The list of what we've previously covered on Shelved by Genre is:
Book of the New Sun
The Earthsea Cycle
A Unit on Junji Ito
The Herald Mage Trilogy
Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Dr. Bloodmoney
Brown Girl in the Ring
A Unit on Alan Moore
An array of Hallmark movies
Book of the New Sun
The Earthsea Cycle
A Unit on Junji Ito
The Herald Mage Trilogy
Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Dr. Bloodmoney
Brown Girl in the Ring
A Unit on Alan Moore
An array of Hallmark movies
How is this the first time I find out you're on a podcast that talked through the whole Earthsea series?!
January 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
The list of what we've previously covered on Shelved by Genre is:
Book of the New Sun
The Earthsea Cycle
A Unit on Junji Ito
The Herald Mage Trilogy
Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Dr. Bloodmoney
Brown Girl in the Ring
A Unit on Alan Moore
An array of Hallmark movies
Book of the New Sun
The Earthsea Cycle
A Unit on Junji Ito
The Herald Mage Trilogy
Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Dr. Bloodmoney
Brown Girl in the Ring
A Unit on Alan Moore
An array of Hallmark movies
Stephenson predicted no legs in the Metaverse
January 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Stephenson predicted no legs in the Metaverse
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For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Cansei de Ser Wurzels
Cansei de Ser Wurzels
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Ol’ Dirty Pony Club
Ol’ Dirty Pony Club
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Stiff Little Buzzcocks
Stiff Little Buzzcocks
December 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Cansei de Ser Wurzels
Cansei de Ser Wurzels
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One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?
![A comic for the Guardian by Stephen Collins on New Years Eve 2024. Script as follows:
1
THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him.
Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading:
OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England
FAN 1:
That’s Harry Styles!
FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]:
Can I have a selfie, Harry?
2
FAN:
What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry?
3
HARRY STYLES:
Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘
4
*FSHW*
[Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM]
5
[We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it]
6
[Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles]
[Legend on screen]:
ARTIST ELIMINATED
HOLLAND:
Goddamn it
7
HOLLAND:
Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT?
8
HOLLAND:
Tim Davie!
TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]:
Y-yes Jools?
HOLLAND:
Who’ve we got left for this year?
10
TIM DAVIE:
The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond
HOLLAND:
Almond *again*?
11
TIM DAVIE:
We’re running out of artists to call, sir…
M-must we keep killing… so many…?
HOLLAND:
You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it…
12
HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]:
Must be eliminated](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiafp3a2py3i5qz3lw3bwk3zrjnjnwxmm72tonf47xx67ilulotrtu@jpeg)
December 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?
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Ah, 28 December: 146th anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster, which tragically took the lives of 59 people – and rather more happily gave the world ‘Sir’ William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous work
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Ah, 28 December: 146th anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster, which tragically took the lives of 59 people – and rather more happily gave the world ‘Sir’ William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous work
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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a rather idiotic last-minute christmas card i whipped up in the style of military corporate promo material - merry christmas everyone
December 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
a rather idiotic last-minute christmas card i whipped up in the style of military corporate promo material - merry christmas everyone
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December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.
December 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.
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I have co-founded a game development company!
Glitchfjørd Games is now a real thing, we have a logo and we have been working on our first game throughout autumn. Super excited to show much, much more in the new year to come.
Merry Christmas, folks!
Glitchfjørd Games is now a real thing, we have a logo and we have been working on our first game throughout autumn. Super excited to show much, much more in the new year to come.
Merry Christmas, folks!
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have co-founded a game development company!
Glitchfjørd Games is now a real thing, we have a logo and we have been working on our first game throughout autumn. Super excited to show much, much more in the new year to come.
Merry Christmas, folks!
Glitchfjørd Games is now a real thing, we have a logo and we have been working on our first game throughout autumn. Super excited to show much, much more in the new year to come.
Merry Christmas, folks!
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And down with all kings but King Ludd!
The Luddites smashed machinery (like textile frames) because that machinery was robbing them of their livelihoods, much like generative AI does. The rich machine owners blocked factory workers from getting legal protections and got richer while workers got poorer. Sound familiar?
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
And down with all kings but King Ludd!
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Happy Steam Winter Sale!
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy Steam Winter Sale!
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
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Not every AAA game needs to be 80+ hours long and take 7 years to make and sell ten million copies to hit “targets.” We don’t need to keep doing that.
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Not every AAA game needs to be 80+ hours long and take 7 years to make and sell ten million copies to hit “targets.” We don’t need to keep doing that.
The all-male sales team at an old job had the bright idea of pretending they'd hired a woman by making a fake LinkedIn account with a generated pfp. A few weeks later they sent us another photo. We assumed it was another fake, made fun of it, and then met her in person the next monday.
A new agency worker has been recruited at work... I've never actually seen her, but she does randomly pop up in the Teams chat to say things like 'Great productivity this week, team' and 'Love the positivity, team'.
I'm calling it.... She's AI. 😂
I'm calling it.... She's AI. 😂
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The all-male sales team at an old job had the bright idea of pretending they'd hired a woman by making a fake LinkedIn account with a generated pfp. A few weeks later they sent us another photo. We assumed it was another fake, made fun of it, and then met her in person the next monday.
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