Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
@haraldhagen.bsky.social
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✍️ Game Writer + Narrative Designer, to the great disapproval of my cats. Based in Yorkshire. He/him.
🎮 BG&E2 ▪︎ Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows ▪︎ The Stillness of the Wind ▪︎ NEO Scavenger ▪︎ etc.
💼 haraldthehagen.com
✍️ Game Writer + Narrative Designer, to the great disapproval of my cats. Based in Yorkshire. He/him.
🎮 BG&E2 ▪︎ Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows ▪︎ The Stillness of the Wind ▪︎ NEO Scavenger ▪︎ etc.
💼 haraldthehagen.com
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Welcome!
I'm a game writer and narrative designer from 🇮🇩🇧🇻, now UK-based. Over the past decade, I've worked freelance on a bunch of cool games, including the ones below.
Indie/AAA, sole writer/team co-writing, joined early/recruited late. All sorts of shenanigans.
Feel free to connect and say hey!
I'm a game writer and narrative designer from 🇮🇩🇧🇻, now UK-based. Over the past decade, I've worked freelance on a bunch of cool games, including the ones below.
Indie/AAA, sole writer/team co-writing, joined early/recruited late. All sorts of shenanigans.
Feel free to connect and say hey!
Holy hell, what ungodly right does Demonschool have in being this damn stylish to behold and this damn satisfying to play?? IT'S SO GOOD.
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Holy hell, what ungodly right does Demonschool have in being this damn stylish to behold and this damn satisfying to play?? IT'S SO GOOD.
Reposted by Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
narrative design is giving Storm's omega-level weather powers a clip size so that after 12 attacks she has to 'reload her wind'
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
narrative design is giving Storm's omega-level weather powers a clip size so that after 12 attacks she has to 'reload her wind'
narrative design is giving Storm's omega-level weather powers a clip size so that after 12 attacks she has to 'reload her wind'
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
narrative design is giving Storm's omega-level weather powers a clip size so that after 12 attacks she has to 'reload her wind'
Why do the portion sizes of hot chocolate not scale up as you age? This is absurd.
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Why do the portion sizes of hot chocolate not scale up as you age? This is absurd.
Reposted by Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
Fundamentally there is no difference between someone who outruns wisdom and someone whom wisdom outruns.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Fundamentally there is no difference between someone who outruns wisdom and someone whom wisdom outruns.
Fork me, I really should have gone to AdventureX!
Instead I'm trying to pull off a last day miracle for ArcJam. Weeeeee
Instead I'm trying to pull off a last day miracle for ArcJam. Weeeeee
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Fork me, I really should have gone to AdventureX!
Instead I'm trying to pull off a last day miracle for ArcJam. Weeeeee
Instead I'm trying to pull off a last day miracle for ArcJam. Weeeeee
Leave it to Life to pick a moment when you want to just hide as a blob on the wall and yank you toward human connection instead.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Leave it to Life to pick a moment when you want to just hide as a blob on the wall and yank you toward human connection instead.
Marj the Grandstanding is still just doing what she always does.
Moving on from that, have a lovely weekend, gang!
Moving on from that, have a lovely weekend, gang!
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Marj the Grandstanding is still just doing what she always does.
Moving on from that, have a lovely weekend, gang!
Moving on from that, have a lovely weekend, gang!
R E S I L I E N C E
What a cool damn theme for the ArcWeave gamejam this weekend. Stoked. Pumped. Hyped.
GOOD LUCK, FELLOW JAMMERS!
What a cool damn theme for the ArcWeave gamejam this weekend. Stoked. Pumped. Hyped.
GOOD LUCK, FELLOW JAMMERS!
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
R E S I L I E N C E
What a cool damn theme for the ArcWeave gamejam this weekend. Stoked. Pumped. Hyped.
GOOD LUCK, FELLOW JAMMERS!
What a cool damn theme for the ArcWeave gamejam this weekend. Stoked. Pumped. Hyped.
GOOD LUCK, FELLOW JAMMERS!
The beginning is nigh! Gonna be a weekend of jamming for me. Hell yeah.
We partnered with @game-writing.com to organize the Most Spectacular Arcjam Ever!
🔥One theme.
🔥72 hours.
🔥Endless storytelling possibilities.
Read all about it and join the jam now:
blog.arcweave.com/igda-game-wr...
#gamejam #narrative #interactive #writing #gamedesign #gamewriting
🔥One theme.
🔥72 hours.
🔥Endless storytelling possibilities.
Read all about it and join the jam now:
blog.arcweave.com/igda-game-wr...
#gamejam #narrative #interactive #writing #gamedesign #gamewriting
IGDA Game Writing SIG partners with Arcweave for a 72h narrative game jam
Join the Game Writing SIG Arcjam. Create your interactive story and build your game narrative portfolio. Free participation, tools, and prizes included.
blog.arcweave.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The beginning is nigh! Gonna be a weekend of jamming for me. Hell yeah.
Reposted by Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.
come over.
come over.
July 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.
come over.
come over.
Reposted by Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
Isn't it funny how when AAA development asks "how much can we do" and when indie dev asks "what should we do", both are responses to the same pressures of value-giving.
It's just that where one aims to builds big, the other chooses carefully where to dig deep.
It's just that where one aims to builds big, the other chooses carefully where to dig deep.
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Isn't it funny how when AAA development asks "how much can we do" and when indie dev asks "what should we do", both are responses to the same pressures of value-giving.
It's just that where one aims to builds big, the other chooses carefully where to dig deep.
It's just that where one aims to builds big, the other chooses carefully where to dig deep.
Very excited down to the molecular level 😬
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Very excited down to the molecular level 😬
As a tropical golem, I've decided Mid-November is a pretty good time to turn the heating on.
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
As a tropical golem, I've decided Mid-November is a pretty good time to turn the heating on.
"Nobody to challenge me. Nobody to exclude me. Nobody to trap me with expectation or accountability. Nobody to disappoint me. Nobody to disappoint. Nobody to make me feel shame or guilt. Nobody to tell me 'no'. No one. No one."
They're selling you their own dreams, and it's the saddest grift.
They're selling you their own dreams, and it's the saddest grift.
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"Nobody to challenge me. Nobody to exclude me. Nobody to trap me with expectation or accountability. Nobody to disappoint me. Nobody to disappoint. Nobody to make me feel shame or guilt. Nobody to tell me 'no'. No one. No one."
They're selling you their own dreams, and it's the saddest grift.
They're selling you their own dreams, and it's the saddest grift.
Reposted by Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
love me some old-time music www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...
IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES
YouTube video by Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
love me some old-time music www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...
Hi there I'd like to order the jumbo discourse with medium fries
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Hi there I'd like to order the jumbo discourse with medium fries
Gosh, I hope that GDC rebrand is going well.
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Gosh, I hope that GDC rebrand is going well.
Reposted by Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
Morning, bitches!
As an artist, the inherent need to create must overcome the fear of showing others what you create.
Embrace each day like a mariachi player asked to be a background actor on The Next Generation...with full access to craft services.
You never know what art might live forever.
As an artist, the inherent need to create must overcome the fear of showing others what you create.
Embrace each day like a mariachi player asked to be a background actor on The Next Generation...with full access to craft services.
You never know what art might live forever.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Morning, bitches!
As an artist, the inherent need to create must overcome the fear of showing others what you create.
Embrace each day like a mariachi player asked to be a background actor on The Next Generation...with full access to craft services.
You never know what art might live forever.
As an artist, the inherent need to create must overcome the fear of showing others what you create.
Embrace each day like a mariachi player asked to be a background actor on The Next Generation...with full access to craft services.
You never know what art might live forever.
Horrifically accurate.
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Horrifically accurate.
Re-stigmatise wealth hoarding.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Re-stigmatise wealth hoarding.
Reposted by Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
Only one more sleep to the #GRAwards and GaMaYo at WX in Wakefield - a reminder that the event will reveal The Best Indie Game Made in The North sponsored by @xsolla.com @gamayo.bsky.social shows just some of the amazing games that will be on show at the event - can't wait!!!
#indiegamedev
#indiegamedev
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Only one more sleep to the #GRAwards and GaMaYo at WX in Wakefield - a reminder that the event will reveal The Best Indie Game Made in The North sponsored by @xsolla.com @gamayo.bsky.social shows just some of the amazing games that will be on show at the event - can't wait!!!
#indiegamedev
#indiegamedev
How my mind straight up exploded. Biggest concern is how three-cueing seems to throw wide the gates for bias to warp literacy.
If your method of reading a text asks you to fill in blanks yourself in lieu of clear context clues or correction, subtle prejudices can quickly become self-reinforcing.
If your method of reading a text asks you to fill in blanks yourself in lieu of clear context clues or correction, subtle prejudices can quickly become self-reinforcing.
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
How my mind straight up exploded. Biggest concern is how three-cueing seems to throw wide the gates for bias to warp literacy.
If your method of reading a text asks you to fill in blanks yourself in lieu of clear context clues or correction, subtle prejudices can quickly become self-reinforcing.
If your method of reading a text asks you to fill in blanks yourself in lieu of clear context clues or correction, subtle prejudices can quickly become self-reinforcing.