Carrie Talbot
@carrietalbot.com
Writer for games and other stuff. Born in the wrong era.
Working on something TBA ✨
Prev: Wrote some cool romance stuff for The Ouroboros Express (Steam) @ Small Loan Studio | Former games journo
Working on something TBA ✨
Prev: Wrote some cool romance stuff for The Ouroboros Express (Steam) @ Small Loan Studio | Former games journo
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RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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yall every try being offline for most the day? feels good. suspicious
September 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
yall every try being offline for most the day? feels good. suspicious
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For the first time in many years, I am doing tableside commissions! I have a little game where you can make a Warrior Cat and I’ll colour it for you and give you a clan sticker.
(By pure chance, the first one I did looked the same as my demo, haha.)
(By pure chance, the first one I did looked the same as my demo, haha.)
September 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
For the first time in many years, I am doing tableside commissions! I have a little game where you can make a Warrior Cat and I’ll colour it for you and give you a clan sticker.
(By pure chance, the first one I did looked the same as my demo, haha.)
(By pure chance, the first one I did looked the same as my demo, haha.)
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If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to start building your indie shit
September 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to start building your indie shit
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SAVE the DATE - Game Narrative Networking - London, UK
Evening of Friday 3rd October... details and booking to follow next week. Watch this space *
Shares welcome.
*You enter the internet. Do you -
A) Stare at the screen in hope?
B) Open a new tab to join the other 278 you have open?
C) Panic?
Evening of Friday 3rd October... details and booking to follow next week. Watch this space *
Shares welcome.
*You enter the internet. Do you -
A) Stare at the screen in hope?
B) Open a new tab to join the other 278 you have open?
C) Panic?
a sign that says save the date in orange letters
ALT: a sign that says save the date in orange letters
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
SAVE the DATE - Game Narrative Networking - London, UK
Evening of Friday 3rd October... details and booking to follow next week. Watch this space *
Shares welcome.
*You enter the internet. Do you -
A) Stare at the screen in hope?
B) Open a new tab to join the other 278 you have open?
C) Panic?
Evening of Friday 3rd October... details and booking to follow next week. Watch this space *
Shares welcome.
*You enter the internet. Do you -
A) Stare at the screen in hope?
B) Open a new tab to join the other 278 you have open?
C) Panic?
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I’m fundraising for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity with my lovely hubby (not pictured, this is Cheese not my husband) We’re running the Great Scottish Run 10k next month - any and all support would be appreciated 🫶
www.justgiving.com/page/rach-th...
www.justgiving.com/page/rach-th...
September 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’m fundraising for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity with my lovely hubby (not pictured, this is Cheese not my husband) We’re running the Great Scottish Run 10k next month - any and all support would be appreciated 🫶
www.justgiving.com/page/rach-th...
www.justgiving.com/page/rach-th...
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AHOY!
Check out and please WISHLIST our next tile on Steam, set in the same universe as The Pale Beyond.
store.steampowered.com/app/2528170/...
Check out and please WISHLIST our next tile on Steam, set in the same universe as The Pale Beyond.
store.steampowered.com/app/2528170/...
The Hearth and Harbour on Steam
Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews out...
store.steampowered.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
AHOY!
Check out and please WISHLIST our next tile on Steam, set in the same universe as The Pale Beyond.
store.steampowered.com/app/2528170/...
Check out and please WISHLIST our next tile on Steam, set in the same universe as The Pale Beyond.
store.steampowered.com/app/2528170/...
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i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it
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September 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Hello!
I'm doing a 25km walk on October 3rd to raise money for SpecialEffect - www.justgiving.com/page/ben-jon... - if anyone fancies donating, there's my page link! SpecialEffect do amazing work so please support if you can <3
I'm doing a 25km walk on October 3rd to raise money for SpecialEffect - www.justgiving.com/page/ben-jon... - if anyone fancies donating, there's my page link! SpecialEffect do amazing work so please support if you can <3
Ben's doing a big walk for SpecialEffect
Help Ben Jones raise money to support SpecialEffect
www.justgiving.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hello!
I'm doing a 25km walk on October 3rd to raise money for SpecialEffect - www.justgiving.com/page/ben-jon... - if anyone fancies donating, there's my page link! SpecialEffect do amazing work so please support if you can <3
I'm doing a 25km walk on October 3rd to raise money for SpecialEffect - www.justgiving.com/page/ben-jon... - if anyone fancies donating, there's my page link! SpecialEffect do amazing work so please support if you can <3
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The annual Interactive Fiction competition is open! 82 entries from the short and silly to the less short and serious, with a couple written in ink, alongside Twine, Inform and all the rest:
ifcomp.org/ballot
ifcomp.org/ballot
The Interactive Fiction Competition
ifcomp.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The annual Interactive Fiction competition is open! 82 entries from the short and silly to the less short and serious, with a couple written in ink, alongside Twine, Inform and all the rest:
ifcomp.org/ballot
ifcomp.org/ballot
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These are the pages for January-April in my "Cats in Weird Places" calendar, available for pre-order right now at www.djamilaknopf.com/store
September 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
These are the pages for January-April in my "Cats in Weird Places" calendar, available for pre-order right now at www.djamilaknopf.com/store
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Today's my birthday so I'd love it if you played this game my dad described as "unpleasant."
You are conducting a performance review of Gregg Pendleton, your direct report. The other party is the GenAI-powered software trying to replace you. Also, Gregg died last week.
If you got 5 minutes, I'd love for you to play my free twine game about grief: For Gregg.
barilleon.itch.io/for-gregg
If you got 5 minutes, I'd love for you to play my free twine game about grief: For Gregg.
barilleon.itch.io/for-gregg
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today's my birthday so I'd love it if you played this game my dad described as "unpleasant."
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I was a Firaxis narrative designer/writer and lost my job today. Any help sharing leads on new opportunities would be great!
Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co
Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co
Benjamin Reeves Is Incredible
Ben Reeves narrative designer and writer
benreeves.carrd.co
September 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I was a Firaxis narrative designer/writer and lost my job today. Any help sharing leads on new opportunities would be great!
Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co
Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co
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Talking of (bob)cats, my good friend and teammate's cat Sage has been going through hell lately.
The family opened up a GoFundMe page because they need help paying the mountainous vet bills. It would mean the world to me if you could help them out!
gofund.me/0c7f1019
The family opened up a GoFundMe page because they need help paying the mountainous vet bills. It would mean the world to me if you could help them out!
gofund.me/0c7f1019
September 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Talking of (bob)cats, my good friend and teammate's cat Sage has been going through hell lately.
The family opened up a GoFundMe page because they need help paying the mountainous vet bills. It would mean the world to me if you could help them out!
gofund.me/0c7f1019
The family opened up a GoFundMe page because they need help paying the mountainous vet bills. It would mean the world to me if you could help them out!
gofund.me/0c7f1019
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You can get $15,000 in funding (plus mentorships) for your thinky game. No strings attached. You still have plenty of time before the deadline to start making a new prototype and apply with it.
We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉
The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org
The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
You can get $15,000 in funding (plus mentorships) for your thinky game. No strings attached. You still have plenty of time before the deadline to start making a new prototype and apply with it.
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
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Yesterday I went to a neat little "draw on tables" pub night, it's really freeing to draw bigger formats and just going with a flow/not minding too much about what you're doing.
August 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Yesterday I went to a neat little "draw on tables" pub night, it's really freeing to draw bigger formats and just going with a flow/not minding too much about what you're doing.
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Bring on winter. I am ready to hibernate.
August 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Bring on winter. I am ready to hibernate.
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If you're interested in my little adventures and more in-depth, long-form updates, I have a Patreon www.patreon.com/djamilaknopf and a newsletter www.djamilaknopf.com/newsletter
August 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If you're interested in my little adventures and more in-depth, long-form updates, I have a Patreon www.patreon.com/djamilaknopf and a newsletter www.djamilaknopf.com/newsletter
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Herdling trusts the player to guide an expanding group of fantasy creatures to their mountain home. Along the journey, players will name, pet, feed, play with, and care for each of these individually unique animals.
Herdling is one of the most special games I have played for this account.
Herdling is one of the most special games I have played for this account.
August 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Herdling trusts the player to guide an expanding group of fantasy creatures to their mountain home. Along the journey, players will name, pet, feed, play with, and care for each of these individually unique animals.
Herdling is one of the most special games I have played for this account.
Herdling is one of the most special games I have played for this account.
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Rivendell - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper
My vision of the city of Rivendell, complete with a tiny fellowship crossing the bridge as they embark upon their journey.
✨ Prints avaiIable ✨
My vision of the city of Rivendell, complete with a tiny fellowship crossing the bridge as they embark upon their journey.
✨ Prints avaiIable ✨
August 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Rivendell - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper
My vision of the city of Rivendell, complete with a tiny fellowship crossing the bridge as they embark upon their journey.
✨ Prints avaiIable ✨
My vision of the city of Rivendell, complete with a tiny fellowship crossing the bridge as they embark upon their journey.
✨ Prints avaiIable ✨