Ross Alexander (he/him)
@theroguester.bsky.social
Senior Narrative Designer - LOOKING FOR WORK
Previously: Avalanche Studios #rage2 #thehuntercotw #contraband
Amateur Rugby Player, Cyclist & Hill Walker
Recovering Potato Addict, prone to relapses.
Previously: Avalanche Studios #rage2 #thehuntercotw #contraband
Amateur Rugby Player, Cyclist & Hill Walker
Recovering Potato Addict, prone to relapses.
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While Graphic Design and basic art skills may be firmly outside of my wheelhouse at the moment, I did have a lot of fun coming up with this logo and self-portrait. I'll be putting it on my portfolio and website. It might not be flashy or refined, but it's undeniably hand-made. Still better than AI.
Scotland wasn't messing around today. An outstanding 22km walk was absolutely what I needed to clear my head today.
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Scotland wasn't messing around today. An outstanding 22km walk was absolutely what I needed to clear my head today.
I feel like things may be worse in the states, but this is far from encouraging. Heads-up, folks. We'll "crawl through hell" together.
aftermath.site/video-game-r...
aftermath.site/video-game-r...
Trying To Get A Job In Video Games Right Now Is Like Crawling Through Hell - Aftermath
The application process has become a dehumanising, demoralising grind
aftermath.site
October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I feel like things may be worse in the states, but this is far from encouraging. Heads-up, folks. We'll "crawl through hell" together.
aftermath.site/video-game-r...
aftermath.site/video-game-r...
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there could not be a better metaphor
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
there could not be a better metaphor
It's been a rough ol' time of late.
Avalanche Studios Group has announced it will close its Liverpool studio, as well as reduce the workforce at its Malmö and Stockholm studios.
www.gamesindustry.biz/avalanche-st...
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Avalanche Studios Group announces closure of Liverpool studio
In addition, the group plans to reduce the workforce at its Malmö and Stockholm studios
www.gamesindustry.biz
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's been a rough ol' time of late.
What a treat this was.
September 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
What a treat this was.
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10/10, no notes
September 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
10/10, no notes
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please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice
September 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice
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Hey! I have no idea how to do this, I’ve never made a List or Starter Pack before, but:
⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk!
⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!
⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk!
⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!
September 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hey! I have no idea how to do this, I’ve never made a List or Starter Pack before, but:
⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk!
⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!
⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk!
⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!
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Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.
It took me a few weeks to finish Witcher 3 when it came out in 2015. I loved it. A serious contender for my best game of all time. Then I sold my console, lost my save file, and the DLC came out. It's taken me this long to finish Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone. Ten years to properly finish it.
September 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It took me a few weeks to finish Witcher 3 when it came out in 2015. I loved it. A serious contender for my best game of all time. Then I sold my console, lost my save file, and the DLC came out. It's taken me this long to finish Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone. Ten years to properly finish it.
While Graphic Design and basic art skills may be firmly outside of my wheelhouse at the moment, I did have a lot of fun coming up with this logo and self-portrait. I'll be putting it on my portfolio and website. It might not be flashy or refined, but it's undeniably hand-made. Still better than AI.
September 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
While Graphic Design and basic art skills may be firmly outside of my wheelhouse at the moment, I did have a lot of fun coming up with this logo and self-portrait. I'll be putting it on my portfolio and website. It might not be flashy or refined, but it's undeniably hand-made. Still better than AI.
Also, Glen Tilt is lovely. Even when it's raining.
September 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Also, Glen Tilt is lovely. Even when it's raining.
During a long walk today, I had the idea of making myself a logo for my website and portfolio. After a good bit of research, I think I'd like to do something stylised, with a cartoony self-portrait and my name in a retro badge. For the life of me, I couldn't draw my own teeth. Nightmare.
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
During a long walk today, I had the idea of making myself a logo for my website and portfolio. After a good bit of research, I think I'd like to do something stylised, with a cartoony self-portrait and my name in a retro badge. For the life of me, I couldn't draw my own teeth. Nightmare.
Nothing exemplifies the sunk cost fallacy more than the spider who decided to build it's web between my wing mirror and car door. It keeps working away, then scrunching up when my car goes over 20mph. 😄
June 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Nothing exemplifies the sunk cost fallacy more than the spider who decided to build it's web between my wing mirror and car door. It keeps working away, then scrunching up when my car goes over 20mph. 😄
There is currently an advert in the UK from Paddy power (an online betting site) that makes fun of budget airlines being "bloodsucking ghouls" and the hypocrisy makes me laugh bitterly every time I see it.
June 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
There is currently an advert in the UK from Paddy power (an online betting site) that makes fun of budget airlines being "bloodsucking ghouls" and the hypocrisy makes me laugh bitterly every time I see it.
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It's not often you hear me praising a Conservative politician...
Very well said @kitmalthouse.bsky.social 👏👏
Very well said @kitmalthouse.bsky.social 👏👏
June 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It's not often you hear me praising a Conservative politician...
Very well said @kitmalthouse.bsky.social 👏👏
Very well said @kitmalthouse.bsky.social 👏👏
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Once again I remind people that laws should not be your guiding heuristic on how you view or treat others.
Laws are built on the biased and often bigoted sensibilities of the powerful.
Empathy and basic decency (as defined in a way not dependent on anyone's legal status) are a better foundation.
Laws are built on the biased and often bigoted sensibilities of the powerful.
Empathy and basic decency (as defined in a way not dependent on anyone's legal status) are a better foundation.
April 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Once again I remind people that laws should not be your guiding heuristic on how you view or treat others.
Laws are built on the biased and often bigoted sensibilities of the powerful.
Empathy and basic decency (as defined in a way not dependent on anyone's legal status) are a better foundation.
Laws are built on the biased and often bigoted sensibilities of the powerful.
Empathy and basic decency (as defined in a way not dependent on anyone's legal status) are a better foundation.
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Israel commits a terrible war crime. The evidence for the crime is overwhelming. The Israeli state issues a pack of lies, which the Western media eagerly laps up. In some cases, the lies are comprehensively debunked, but the rebuttal is given inadequate coverage or simply ignored.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
April 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Israel commits a terrible war crime. The evidence for the crime is overwhelming. The Israeli state issues a pack of lies, which the Western media eagerly laps up. In some cases, the lies are comprehensively debunked, but the rebuttal is given inadequate coverage or simply ignored.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
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"An assault on the creative spirit led by the chronically boring" is my new favourite way to describe Generative AI.
The rise of AI resembles a kind of inverse workers revolution; an assault on the creative spirit led by the chronically boring.
They think that, in teaching the artist’s tools to dream, they have nobly seized the means of production but have just, instead, created an endless nightmare factories.
They think that, in teaching the artist’s tools to dream, they have nobly seized the means of production but have just, instead, created an endless nightmare factories.
March 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"An assault on the creative spirit led by the chronically boring" is my new favourite way to describe Generative AI.
Hong Kong is frickin' awesome. That's it. That's the post.
March 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hong Kong is frickin' awesome. That's it. That's the post.
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you don't, in fact, have to shove screencapped posts from twitter with terrible fucking takes into our faces here. if we wanted to hang out with a bunch of nazis (like some of you evidently do) and see this kind of shit, we'd still *be on twitter*
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
you don't, in fact, have to shove screencapped posts from twitter with terrible fucking takes into our faces here. if we wanted to hang out with a bunch of nazis (like some of you evidently do) and see this kind of shit, we'd still *be on twitter*
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A theme I've been hearing recently, talking to people who worked on games that took 6+ years to make, is that they always made calls thinking they had much less time. Then the game kept slipping, but they were still stuck with those old calls. So six years of development is never *really* six years
March 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A theme I've been hearing recently, talking to people who worked on games that took 6+ years to make, is that they always made calls thinking they had much less time. Then the game kept slipping, but they were still stuck with those old calls. So six years of development is never *really* six years
If you're a fan of the rugby, keep an eye out for ya boi at the anthems. Perthshire rugby will be unfurling the Guinness 6N banner before the game.
February 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If you're a fan of the rugby, keep an eye out for ya boi at the anthems. Perthshire rugby will be unfurling the Guinness 6N banner before the game.
Any image of despair can become a narrative design post if you try hard enough.
January 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM