Sonny Chadwick
@sonnychadwick.bsky.social
Writer talking all things video games 🎮
Completed a great course today created by Dariush Derakhshani on story and narrative development for video games.
I've come away with valuable insights on story planning and game design documents that I'm excited to apply in my own projects!
coursera.org/share/bb85a5...
I've come away with valuable insights on story planning and game design documents that I'm excited to apply in my own projects!
coursera.org/share/bb85a5...
Completion Certificate for Story and Narrative Development for Video Games
This certificate verifies my successful completion of California Institute of the Arts's
coursera.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Completed a great course today created by Dariush Derakhshani on story and narrative development for video games.
I've come away with valuable insights on story planning and game design documents that I'm excited to apply in my own projects!
coursera.org/share/bb85a5...
I've come away with valuable insights on story planning and game design documents that I'm excited to apply in my own projects!
coursera.org/share/bb85a5...
Yes! Even Anniversary is almost 20 years old now, I think it can only be a good thing to remind people what made the series so great while pushing it forward.
Hopefully the two games will bring more people to the remastered collection too, because your work still holds up man @cnhyv.bsky.social.
Hopefully the two games will bring more people to the remastered collection too, because your work still holds up man @cnhyv.bsky.social.
Aha! We get best of both worlds... 🇮🇳🦖
Rawr!
She's back apparently.
Personally I'd prefer exploring new lost worlds than another remake/remaster/reimagining of something we crafted under intense duress in the 90's. Fingers crossed, eh.
Dinosaurs will always be cool though...
She's back apparently.
Personally I'd prefer exploring new lost worlds than another remake/remaster/reimagining of something we crafted under intense duress in the 90's. Fingers crossed, eh.
Dinosaurs will always be cool though...
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Yes! Even Anniversary is almost 20 years old now, I think it can only be a good thing to remind people what made the series so great while pushing it forward.
Hopefully the two games will bring more people to the remastered collection too, because your work still holds up man @cnhyv.bsky.social.
Hopefully the two games will bring more people to the remastered collection too, because your work still holds up man @cnhyv.bsky.social.
What a wonderful way to honour the unmatched afterlife of Doom, cheers @bai.dev!
Introducing DoomScroll - an endless feed of thousands of user-made Doom WADs from the last 32 years, all playable right in your browser.
Our goal was to make decades of work from one of the most creative communities in gaming history more accessible and visible to everyone.
Our goal was to make decades of work from one of the most creative communities in gaming history more accessible and visible to everyone.
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
What a wonderful way to honour the unmatched afterlife of Doom, cheers @bai.dev!
Pretty attractive recruitment ad, even if Star Wars games don't have the most reliable history of actually getting made.
Last night's biggest surprise was Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, led by Casey Hudson, who directed KOTOR (and Anthem). Exciting news for lots of people... but Lucasfilm says the studio was founded this year, which means that 2030 is an *optimistic* guess. Maybe it'll be a PlayStation 7 game
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Pretty attractive recruitment ad, even if Star Wars games don't have the most reliable history of actually getting made.
1/2 Catching up on the Game Awards, and, honestly, a new Tomb Raider with OG Lara and a remake of TR1 is is the best announcement of the whole event.
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
1/2 Catching up on the Game Awards, and, honestly, a new Tomb Raider with OG Lara and a remake of TR1 is is the best announcement of the whole event.
Saddened to hear that Jim Ward passed away today. Ratchet & Clank wouldn't be so singularly, joyously funny without him. Rest easy, Captain.
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Saddened to hear that Jim Ward passed away today. Ratchet & Clank wouldn't be so singularly, joyously funny without him. Rest easy, Captain.
There's only one SHADOW drop I want to see tonight. Sega, do your thing.
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There's only one SHADOW drop I want to see tonight. Sega, do your thing.
1 second of Momoa as Lobo is enough to prove that it's perfect casting.
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
1 second of Momoa as Lobo is enough to prove that it's perfect casting.
Have a renewed appreciation for @druckmann.bsky.social and @grosstastic.bsky.social after listening to the director's commentary in the Last of Us Part II: Remastered. The big takeaway is how important secondary characters are to pushing the growth of the protagonists forward (shout out Owen).
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Have a renewed appreciation for @druckmann.bsky.social and @grosstastic.bsky.social after listening to the director's commentary in the Last of Us Part II: Remastered. The big takeaway is how important secondary characters are to pushing the growth of the protagonists forward (shout out Owen).
Congratulations to fellow Brit and Funhaus legend @rahulkohli13.bsky.social, well deserved and the game looks f*cking badass!
December 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Congratulations to fellow Brit and Funhaus legend @rahulkohli13.bsky.social, well deserved and the game looks f*cking badass!
The rise in AI generated content mentioned in this report isn't a promising sign, but I do wonder if we will see an overcorrection in favour of hand-crafted console and pc games. Perhaps that will come in the wake of GTA VI's release.
This data is saying that the video game industry is going to "recover" in the next 5 years
But *actually*, it says that MOBILE revenue will recover, while PC and console games will fully stagnate
so that's fun!
www.gamesindustry.biz/boston-consu...
But *actually*, it says that MOBILE revenue will recover, while PC and console games will fully stagnate
so that's fun!
www.gamesindustry.biz/boston-consu...
Boston Consulting: Games market to recover from pandemic slump in 2026, revenue to hit $350m by 2030
Mobile in-app purchases are behind a massive 37% of that, too
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The rise in AI generated content mentioned in this report isn't a promising sign, but I do wonder if we will see an overcorrection in favour of hand-crafted console and pc games. Perhaps that will come in the wake of GTA VI's release.
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So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
Read this book! It's a brilliant cautionary tale about what happens when a game studio gets too big. No one provides better insights on the reality of the industry than @jasonschreier.bsky.social, and I certainly feel more equipped to head into the fray knowing how messy things can get!
The ebook version of my book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment is on sale for just $4 today, or about 0.00000000482% of what it cost Netflix to buy Warner Bros.! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...
Play Nice
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for t...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Read this book! It's a brilliant cautionary tale about what happens when a game studio gets too big. No one provides better insights on the reality of the industry than @jasonschreier.bsky.social, and I certainly feel more equipped to head into the fray knowing how messy things can get!
Great video from @charalanahzard.bsky.social on this story, she's treated it with the nuance it deserves as always. Challenging art should be allowed into the world so it can be freely judged.
Here's my video about @santaragione.com's HORSES, and why it being banned from Steam sucks even if you aren't interested in *this particular game*. Video games as a whole deserve better!
youtu.be/G-7r9pL0Hqo?...
youtu.be/G-7r9pL0Hqo?...
Yes, Steam banning indie game "HORSES" matters.
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Great video from @charalanahzard.bsky.social on this story, she's treated it with the nuance it deserves as always. Challenging art should be allowed into the world so it can be freely judged.