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

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.

OK but I still want one though

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

#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.

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

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.

Show us your writing process in a gif

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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.

"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

This is rather lovely. Blue Turtle's fantasy art background videos are great, and this turns them into a chill background productivity app. store.steampowered.com/app/3330250/...