Danny Salfield Wadeson
@dannysw.bsky.social
madquills.com. Vegan against fascism. Lead Narrative Designer @ Lucid Games on [???] - 10+ years making stuff: Harold Halibut, Röki, Dying Light 2 + more
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Devlog 1 - The Origin Story (why I decided to start writing my own solo TTRPG) - madquillsgames.substack.com/p/devlog-1-t... - if you're interested to follow along as I design and test it.
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The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
Normalise citing the main writers in game reviews of narrative led games.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Normalise citing the main writers in game reviews of narrative led games.
Woah I missed this! Krumit's Tale is a super addictive, strategic and goofy in all the best ways dungeon-deck-crawler-builder that also happens to have words by me - it'll be so at home on the Switch!
Excited to share that Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale is coming to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4/5 on September 25!
Shoutout to the team at indienova for bringing this dream to life.
Nintendo Switch (10% sale) www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
PlayStation store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Shoutout to the team at indienova for bringing this dream to life.
Nintendo Switch (10% sale) www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
PlayStation store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Buy Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Woah I missed this! Krumit's Tale is a super addictive, strategic and goofy in all the best ways dungeon-deck-crawler-builder that also happens to have words by me - it'll be so at home on the Switch!
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Text size that can be made larger, especially in menus. Small text size in menu heavy games genuinely harms my experience as I can't fully sit back and chill when I play it.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Text size that can be made larger, especially in menus. Small text size in menu heavy games genuinely harms my experience as I can't fully sit back and chill when I play it.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
Honestly think this is like 50% of why I didn't complete KCD2.
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Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Devlog 1 - The Origin Story (why I decided to start writing my own solo TTRPG) - madquillsgames.substack.com/p/devlog-1-t... - if you're interested to follow along as I design and test it.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Devlog 1 - The Origin Story (why I decided to start writing my own solo TTRPG) - madquillsgames.substack.com/p/devlog-1-t... - if you're interested to follow along as I design and test it.
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Some were sick, on leave, or on paternity leave
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Some were sick, on leave, or on paternity leave
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
Firing workers on medical or parental leave, without pay, right before Christmas?
That’s beyond unethical, it’s vindictive.
Morale in the studio is collapsing
Remaining employees are terrified, demoralized, and afraid to speak or act.
Utterly impossible to satirize.
Rich people used to build concert halls and fund public spaces and give generously to charity.
Partially out of guilt. Partially because they wanted to do something good or put their name on something that would last.
Partially because they knew the lower classes would eat them if they didn't.
Partially out of guilt. Partially because they wanted to do something good or put their name on something that would last.
Partially because they knew the lower classes would eat them if they didn't.
MrBeast Is Opening A Theme Park In Saudi Arabia This Month
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Utterly impossible to satirize.
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perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Congratulations to and solidarity with my NY brethren. Keep that good shit up.
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Congratulations to and solidarity with my NY brethren. Keep that good shit up.
And/or bricks the project entirely.
NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
How poor leadership slows down game development
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
And/or bricks the project entirely.
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NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
How poor leadership slows down game development
How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
I can’t promise i’m smart but i do try to be kind and the rest is absolutely true haha
in ~17 years, the writers and narrative designers have consistently been the kindest, smartest folks I've worked with in game dev.
they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time.
diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.
they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time.
diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I can’t promise i’m smart but i do try to be kind and the rest is absolutely true haha
When you think about how thoughts work, it's pretty crazy.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
When you think about how thoughts work, it's pretty crazy.
This was my game of last year. Do not sleep on this folks.
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To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This was my game of last year. Do not sleep on this folks.
The atmosphere in Arc Raiders is so good. And I love the way they sell the feeling of being in the underground city just through menus and UI - super immersive and economical. No big empty social hub needed. And the level design is so intricately done. Big fan after a few hours.
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The atmosphere in Arc Raiders is so good. And I love the way they sell the feeling of being in the underground city just through menus and UI - super immersive and economical. No big empty social hub needed. And the level design is so intricately done. Big fan after a few hours.
This and death at all costs to the ‘£ per hour of gameplay‘ calculation. Utter madness. Renders art (or good old fashioned entertainment) down to abstracted economics. Thats how filler jockeys like Ubisoft want you to think.
heard on a game podcast just now, that a 15 hour, single player game is maybe not long enough.
We have to get past this idea as developers and audiences.
A game will be, and should be, just as long as it needs to be for *what it is*.
We have to get past this idea as developers and audiences.
A game will be, and should be, just as long as it needs to be for *what it is*.
November 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This and death at all costs to the ‘£ per hour of gameplay‘ calculation. Utter madness. Renders art (or good old fashioned entertainment) down to abstracted economics. Thats how filler jockeys like Ubisoft want you to think.
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Mervyn Peake sounds like the name of a guy who writes fantasy novels set a sprawling and ruinous Gothic castle
November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Mervyn Peake sounds like the name of a guy who writes fantasy novels set a sprawling and ruinous Gothic castle
Golly, Seance of Blake Manor really is good isn’t it? Proper detective fantasy. Takes three minutes to be totally immersed and wracking your brains… wonderfully put together.
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Golly, Seance of Blake Manor really is good isn’t it? Proper detective fantasy. Takes three minutes to be totally immersed and wracking your brains… wonderfully put together.
Alabaster Dawn demo: Lovely pixel art, fast, satisfying and responsive combat, gripping prologue. Decent writing too. An RPG to watch.
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Alabaster Dawn demo: Lovely pixel art, fast, satisfying and responsive combat, gripping prologue. Decent writing too. An RPG to watch.
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This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
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So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.
Please share :)