Ed Stern is on BlueSky

Basic Prog Brit Woke Partridge Remoaner Centrist Dad. He/Him, Bi, ADHD, the usual. Narrative Design video games, available for hire.

[Ed Stern is on BlueSky @EdStern]

After 22 years of AA game dev at Splash Damage I'm now available for narrative design director roles, either remote with a UK time zone overlap, or in places commutable from South-East London. In the meantime I'm available for consulting and freelance ND and #GameWriting.

[obscurethingy @obscurethingy]

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[Paul Greveson @moppius]

@cosmicluckywish @zarawesome Heh, this reminded me of @EdStern 's excellent writings on this subject... Here's a good one (check out the spreadsheet at the top! 😂): https://t.co/fooGPBB4GW

And there are many more on his Medium page!

[Ed Stern is on BlueSky @EdStern]

Apparently I made this while learning to do project risk logs.
It's advice I've taken to heart, and am offering to you, now, free, for no charge.

[Ed Stern is on BlueSky @EdStern]

Confession 1: "Did I leave the gas on?" is stolen entirely from Nathan Fillion's guide to acting in a soap opera in the last scene before the ad break where you don't have any lines to cover the music swelling: https://t.co/V3cPlElOoT

[Ed Stern is on BlueSky @EdStern]

Work stuff reminded me of what was by quite some distance the weirdest/dumbest thing we did with the Dirty Bomb Jackal Commander character: letting the community request custom soundboard VO lines.
CN: NSFW, swearing, cruder-than-I-remembered...jokes? https://t.co/TQFTUgpV8v

[Ed Stern is on BlueSky @EdStern]

Games writing secrets given away gratis, for free, don't tell anyone, OK?

[Ed Fear @edfear]

Unfortunately, I am one of the people affected by the layoffs today at Epic. I'm absolutely devastated to leave behind so many amazing Mediatonic colleagues who I loved.

So: the job search begins! If you need an experienced writer or narrative designer, please get in touch :)

[Ed Stern is on BlueSky @EdStern]

Anyone need a Bloo Skye code?

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Please help this chap with his poll

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

When you hate a group of people so much, you withdraw your organ donation consent in case one of them get something from you. Being ‘Gender Critical’ is no different from being a racist, and I’m tired of middle-class media types pretending otherwise.

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

The Dorries resignation letter has made me wonder: if the Tories of 2019 hate the Tories of 2023, why should anyone else in the country like the Tories of 2023 enough to vote for them?

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

A 5th place loser of a swimming competition posted the name of the librarian, the location, and their phone number and hours later the library got a bomb threat.

Every Matt Walsh wannabe is hardcore until their fans turn out to be terrorists

[Eric Idle @EricIdle]

I am happy to repost the original from the artist and I would remind you he has to live too and you can order copies, and please credit him. And all artists who do original work.

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

Beyond Nadine Dorries’ long overdue resignation letter being both self-glorifying and self-pitying, it is the perfect example of the current Conservative Party’s ills: blindly furious, lashing out at everything in sight, including the Conservative Party itself.

[.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise]

this is a great jumping off point to link the Safer Spaces survey held by @devcom_global in conjunction w/ my new nonprofit “elsewhere”, co-founded w @ashleyriott

(will talk about that more shortly)

PLEASE everyone fill out this survey so we can stop this shit

link below
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[𝓛𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓮 @Lottiedesu]

It’s actually obscene the amount of people, myself included, that have been hit on and harassed by men at Gamescom

Do better. We’re just here to work and enjoy the event, not appeal to your stupid fantasies.

We are not interested and we never will be, leave us alone jfc…

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Imagine being so inept as an organisation that you make Fifa look good.