Sophie Short
@sophieswriting.bsky.social
game writer and narrative designer by day, dice-rolling gamer gremlin by night
(she/her)
based in south-west UK 🏳️🌈🌿✨
(she/her)
based in south-west UK 🏳️🌈🌿✨
wake up babe it’s time for your biannual insatiable urge to start rewatching Lost from the start but never finish it
February 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
wake up babe it’s time for your biannual insatiable urge to start rewatching Lost from the start but never finish it
ubisoft, remaster The Dog Island (2007) and my life is yours
people will speak about a game they played as a kid with the same reverence that they might a great song or novel, about how it engrossed them totally and completely. They may even tear up talking about it. and then you ask what game it was and it was Spongebob battle for bikini bottom
January 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
ubisoft, remaster The Dog Island (2007) and my life is yours
sophie-coded characters
January 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
sophie-coded characters
reached a point where I’m now watching YouTube guides and checking tracker websites for my KDA, marvel rivals has me in a chokehold 🫣
January 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
reached a point where I’m now watching YouTube guides and checking tracker websites for my KDA, marvel rivals has me in a chokehold 🫣
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Creativity is like a houseplant, not an endless well. You need to seek out sunlight, water, and nutrients in art, shows, music, experiences, and more to tend to it. And just like plants it has its dormant and active periods and you may not seem improvement for some time.
January 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Creativity is like a houseplant, not an endless well. You need to seek out sunlight, water, and nutrients in art, shows, music, experiences, and more to tend to it. And just like plants it has its dormant and active periods and you may not seem improvement for some time.
did i buy book 3 at 2am on release day, even though I didn’t really enjoy book 2? perhaps-
i’m in too deep now, see y’all on the other side 🫡
i’m in too deep now, see y’all on the other side 🫡
January 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
did i buy book 3 at 2am on release day, even though I didn’t really enjoy book 2? perhaps-
i’m in too deep now, see y’all on the other side 🫡
i’m in too deep now, see y’all on the other side 🫡
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No one has yet been able to answer my fundamental question: why should anyone bother playing through a story that no one bothered to write?????? Players want and DESERVE good story crafted by artisans, not AI slop.
My thoughts and opinions are my own but my thoughts are this absolutely sucks:
www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/...
www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/...
Microsoft has filed a gaming patent for "crafting and altering game narratives" using generative AI
A new patent filed by Microsoft purports to demonstrate how game designers and players alike can alter a narrative experience using generative AI.
www.windowscentral.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
No one has yet been able to answer my fundamental question: why should anyone bother playing through a story that no one bothered to write?????? Players want and DESERVE good story crafted by artisans, not AI slop.
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let David Lynch’s spirit infest all of us with more power to be unapologetically weird as all hell
January 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
let David Lynch’s spirit infest all of us with more power to be unapologetically weird as all hell
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You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017
January 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017
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First post is up:
open.substack.com/pub/ptrtlrwr...
Repost and tell your friends if you think they'll be interested! 😊
open.substack.com/pub/ptrtlrwr...
Repost and tell your friends if you think they'll be interested! 😊
January 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
First post is up:
open.substack.com/pub/ptrtlrwr...
Repost and tell your friends if you think they'll be interested! 😊
open.substack.com/pub/ptrtlrwr...
Repost and tell your friends if you think they'll be interested! 😊
So glad they kept Peter Stormare in it, his sections in the game always had me so on edge!! Also very interesting how they’ve decided to adapt the branching narrative mechanic into a plot device. Thoroughly looking forward to watching this when it’s released at home so I can hide behind a pillow 🙂↕️
January 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
So glad they kept Peter Stormare in it, his sections in the game always had me so on edge!! Also very interesting how they’ve decided to adapt the branching narrative mechanic into a plot device. Thoroughly looking forward to watching this when it’s released at home so I can hide behind a pillow 🙂↕️
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Last month we responded to the Government's consultation on copyright and AI
Now - as part of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition - we are urging all our members to write to their MP to safeguard creative rights in AI
Use the special online tool here:
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP
Now - as part of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition - we are urging all our members to write to their MP to safeguard creative rights in AI
Use the special online tool here:
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP
Safeguard Creative Rights in AI
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk
January 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Last month we responded to the Government's consultation on copyright and AI
Now - as part of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition - we are urging all our members to write to their MP to safeguard creative rights in AI
Use the special online tool here:
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP
Now - as part of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition - we are urging all our members to write to their MP to safeguard creative rights in AI
Use the special online tool here:
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP
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Periodically sharing my SW UK dame dev pack, still has space so if you’re game dev adjacent give it a 🔂 so everyone wins 🫶 comment to be added
January 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Periodically sharing my SW UK dame dev pack, still has space so if you’re game dev adjacent give it a 🔂 so everyone wins 🫶 comment to be added
The new Meta policy changes are self contradictory at best and unashamedly homophobic/transphobic at worst.
How can you call gender and sex protected characteristics in your first paragraph and then go on to say that you allow insults of mental illness if it’s because someone’s gay/trans???
How can you call gender and sex protected characteristics in your first paragraph and then go on to say that you allow insults of mental illness if it’s because someone’s gay/trans???
January 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The new Meta policy changes are self contradictory at best and unashamedly homophobic/transphobic at worst.
How can you call gender and sex protected characteristics in your first paragraph and then go on to say that you allow insults of mental illness if it’s because someone’s gay/trans???
How can you call gender and sex protected characteristics in your first paragraph and then go on to say that you allow insults of mental illness if it’s because someone’s gay/trans???
posting this so i feel held accountable, I will not buy more games in steam winter sale until i play the games that are collecting dust in my library 🫡
December 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
posting this so i feel held accountable, I will not buy more games in steam winter sale until i play the games that are collecting dust in my library 🫡
If you see this, share 4 of your favourite female video game characters!
(dragged myself away from the recency bias of my marvel rivals addiction, otherwise squirrel girl would 100% be included lmao)
(dragged myself away from the recency bias of my marvel rivals addiction, otherwise squirrel girl would 100% be included lmao)
December 16, 2024 at 3:35 AM
If you see this, share 4 of your favourite female video game characters!
(dragged myself away from the recency bias of my marvel rivals addiction, otherwise squirrel girl would 100% be included lmao)
(dragged myself away from the recency bias of my marvel rivals addiction, otherwise squirrel girl would 100% be included lmao)
first d&d session back after a little group break! cinnamons rolls were thrown, pompous princes were mugged, and bugbears were smooched. productive session if I do say so myself 😌✨
December 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
first d&d session back after a little group break! cinnamons rolls were thrown, pompous princes were mugged, and bugbears were smooched. productive session if I do say so myself 😌✨
Anybody have solutions for the lack of save feature on Bluesky at the moment? I keep finding so many articles and threads that I want to come back and read but there’s no easy way to save them from what I’m seeing 🥲
December 13, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Anybody have solutions for the lack of save feature on Bluesky at the moment? I keep finding so many articles and threads that I want to come back and read but there’s no easy way to save them from what I’m seeing 🥲
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-shows up wearing ceasefire pin
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
December 13, 2024 at 4:16 AM
-shows up wearing ceasefire pin
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
Give me a single screenshot from a video game that immediately makes you hear the soundtrack in your head.
All the LIS soundtracks are permanently tattooed into my brain, but the first note of To all of you by Syd Matters is the sleeper agent code to bring out the angsty teen in me :’)
All the LIS soundtracks are permanently tattooed into my brain, but the first note of To all of you by Syd Matters is the sleeper agent code to bring out the angsty teen in me :’)
December 13, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Give me a single screenshot from a video game that immediately makes you hear the soundtrack in your head.
All the LIS soundtracks are permanently tattooed into my brain, but the first note of To all of you by Syd Matters is the sleeper agent code to bring out the angsty teen in me :’)
All the LIS soundtracks are permanently tattooed into my brain, but the first note of To all of you by Syd Matters is the sleeper agent code to bring out the angsty teen in me :’)
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The orchestra doing the GOTY medley is the best part of The Game Awards every single year
December 13, 2024 at 4:02 AM
The orchestra doing the GOTY medley is the best part of The Game Awards every single year
nearly forgot that it’s the game awards tonight, always a late one for the UK crowd but I can’t resist the live excitement 🥲
unlikely to happen but I’ve got my fingers crossed for a critical role game announcement after their rolling stone interview teased us critters recently! 🤞
unlikely to happen but I’ve got my fingers crossed for a critical role game announcement after their rolling stone interview teased us critters recently! 🤞
December 12, 2024 at 6:52 PM
nearly forgot that it’s the game awards tonight, always a late one for the UK crowd but I can’t resist the live excitement 🥲
unlikely to happen but I’ve got my fingers crossed for a critical role game announcement after their rolling stone interview teased us critters recently! 🤞
unlikely to happen but I’ve got my fingers crossed for a critical role game announcement after their rolling stone interview teased us critters recently! 🤞
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game: the choices you make will shape your journey
me: saves before every choice, replays 12 times to see all possible outcomes
me: saves before every choice, replays 12 times to see all possible outcomes
December 12, 2024 at 12:20 PM
game: the choices you make will shape your journey
me: saves before every choice, replays 12 times to see all possible outcomes
me: saves before every choice, replays 12 times to see all possible outcomes