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Solo indie text game developer, best known for the text-based game Seedship and its successor, Beyond the Chiron Gate. He/him. Games: https://johnayliff.itch.io/ Blog: https://write.as/johnayliff/ Header by Tom Morley
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Here's my dev diary for May, in which I introduce Vorak's right-hand-cyborg, the intimidating General Zorg write.as/johnayliff/f... #FoolishEarthCreatures #indiedev #interactivefiction

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If you see the first article you have to click on the second article right away.

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When superhero comics do a high-stakes crossover event to try to revive flagging sales

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Writing tip: A great way to spot weaknesses in your own writing is to post a screenshot of it to social media. As soon as a other people have seen it you'll spot ways it could be improved.

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OK but I still want one though

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My new game's random space hero name generator has come up with a couple of names I like so much I'm starting to think of them as canonical. So today I'll be writing the adventures of *Commander Jet Steele* and his sidekick, *Ruby Nova*. #indiedev #interactivefiction

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OK how about this "rule for being a man": Real Men don't let anyone else tell them where and when they can eat soup. These people are so weird.

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So the Space Eurovision episode of #DoctorWho was fun, but I kind of wish we'd got to see *more* Space Eurovision. Wouldn't it have been fun to watch a bunch of weird alien music acts with the Doctor having a low-stakes adventure as the B-plot?

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Do people use "wingman" as a gender-neutral word? (In the original aerial combat sense, not the picking-up-girls-at-a-bar sense.) Wikipedia has "wingmate" as an alternative but I've never seen it otherwise.

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The first time I watched The Black Hole I got so upset when the old robot died that I had to stop watching.

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I loved how the Lagos Barbership episode of #DoctorWho managed to do a story with cosmic stakes just as dialogue in a single room. Very Sapphire and Steel. If anything I thought it could have done without most of the special effects shots it did have.

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#Eurovision thought: I wonder if you'd see a difference in public votes between people who saw the semi-finals vs people who only watched the finale. Because the songs you enjoy in the moment aren't necessarily the ones stuck in your head the next day.

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Did a forest nymph who wants to lure men to their deaths write this?

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Andor has given me my new favourite "rooting for the bad guys" moment. Dedra Meero is a Nazi piece of shit but I was 100% cheering for her when she stood up to Syril's terrible mother.

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Show us your writing process in a gif

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Yeah I guess this is fair. Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

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RIP wedding DJ droid from Andor, you would have loved #Eurovision

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ChatGPT makes it easier than ever to write in bland corporate cliches and use "The thing is" twice in three sentences.

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Post a robot that’s not from Star Wars or Transformers

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Sharing so you can block it

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Love the way they've put the crew members in red shirts on the dangerous-looking part of the landscape.

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So it looks like we're getting a Superman who a) really cares about people and wants to help them, and b) is having a lot of fun doing so. The hero we need right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFu...

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Andor is a brilliant piece of TV. It's amazing that it exists and that it's as good and as daring as it is.

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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: Sorry, that's covered by an NDA.* (* I was Not Doing Anything.)

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This could have been one of the most faithful game adaptations of a TV show ever because Babylon 5 already looked like a 1990s computer game.

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"Cassian Andor" is such a perfectly Star Wars name I keep having to remind myself he was created for Rogue One and wasn't in the original trilogy

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