Ed Fear

Big gay. Game director, writer and designer. Ex-Mediatonic/Epic, now gathering power. Murder by Numbers, Swords of Ditto, Hatoful BF.
ゲームディレクター兼シナリオライター
日本語OK

[Ed Fear @edfear]

@Furuya_Hiroto 発売おめでとうございます！

HARVESTELLAの大ファンなのでレゾナンスもう買いました。これからも古屋さんを応援していきます！

[cher 𐀔 @poehlerpop]

throwback to the time I took hours out of my day to decipher the rural juror finale song and make this karaoke-style lyric video and then never posted it bc it was strictly for my own personal enjoyment (until now bc I'm philanthropic like that)

[Ed Fear @edfear]

Re-joined a team I haven't worked with for a few years, and got a temporary shock from my old slack avatar:

[全自動ダンジョンRPG "Algolemeth" @Algolemeth]

TGSビジネスデー二日目、ご来場ありがとうございました！本日もたくさんの方に応援のお言葉をいただき、励みになりました！明日からの一般デーはスタッフの皆さんにお任せすることになりますが、ぜひ遊びに来てステッカーを持って行ってくださいね！エネルギーを貰えたので戻って開発再開だ！

[Dungeon Automata @dungeonautomata]

Thank you so much for 40,000 wishlists so far!
If you've been enjoying our demo please take some time to leave a review to help us spread the word ❤

[Dungeon Automata @dungeonautomata]

Hey everyone!
We're taking part in Steam's Programming Festival this week.
Please check out our demo for Dungeon Automata & see if you can master the logic to progress!

[Ed Fear @edfear]

ICON. I remember Caitlin Moran (also icon) writing about this night before, but not with this much detail.

[Gaga Daily @gagadaily]

The Times journalist Caitlin Moran shares a wild story about partying with Lady Gaga at a sex club in Berlin

[Ed Fear @edfear]

@Brandon_Byrne Happy Birthday!

[Ed Fear @edfear]

このゲームのライターとして携わることができて、本当に光栄です！以前から日本のインディーズ開発者と仕事をしてみたいと思っていたので、この機会を逃す手はありませんでした。これからもたくさんの機会があるように！

Steamで体験版が配信中ので、ぜひプレイしてみてください！

[全自動ダンジョンRPG "Algolemeth" @Algolemeth]

【🎮️デモ版公開 ＆ 🤝Raw Furyが共同パブリッシャーに参加！】
大変長らくお待たせしました！
本日、Algolemethのデモ版を公開しました！

Steamのデモページからプレイできます！気に入っていただけたら、ウィッシュリスト登録していただけると嬉しいです！https://t.co/hqTtJU5Zb2

そしてもう一点、共同パブリッシャーとしてRaw Furyの参加が決定しました！

現在、架け橋ゲームズに日本・韓国でのパブリッシングを担当していただいていますが、これからは日・韓以外の海外展開をRaw Furyが担当します。

これに伴い、海外では『Dungeon Automata』というタイトルで販売されることになりました！（少しややこしいですが、日本と韓国ではAlgolemethのままです！）

また、これを記念して新しいトレーラーを制作しました。レジェンドコンポーザー・古代祐三さんによる新楽曲も、ちょこっとだけお披露目しています。ロゴも刷新されているので、ぜひご覧ください！

Algolemethはゴーレムの行動ロジックを組んで迷宮を自動攻略させるという、正直かなりニッチなゲームです。ただ、そういう変わったゲームを好きな人は、世界中にきっといるはずだと信じて開発してきました。そんな中で世界的に実績あるパブリッシャーと出会えたのは、これまでの皆さんの応援があってこそです。本当にありがとうございます！

現在は架け橋ゲームズとRaw Furyの手厚いサポートのもと、開発をフルスロットルで進めています。完成まで、今しばらくお待ちください！

[Ed Fear @edfear]

Honoured to be working on this game as its writer! This game, by Japanese indie developer @gunzee2, is so stylish and unique - it's been a lot of fun helping bring his vision to life.

AND YUZO KOSHIRO IS DOING THE SOUNDTRACK!!!

Demo is on Steam now!

[Raw Fury | HILLTHORN OUT NOW 🕵️ @RawFury]

Can you use logic to conquer the dungeon and save Syntaxia?
We've partnered up with the incredible Medium Rare Games on @dungeonautomata and we're kicking things off with a Steam Demo!
Check it out 👇

[Ed Fear @edfear]

@Michael_French They've been super busy though so I suspect that's why it's only really ramped up recently after they shipped all those games this year.

[Ed Fear @edfear]

@Michael_French My guess: Todd Howard didn't want to let anyone else control Fallout 5, and BGS is stuck on Elder Scrolls 6 for the foreseeable. I suspect they didn't have major hopes for the TV show and felt 76/Shelter was enough, but when it was a hit, that's when Obsidian were hit up.

[Ed Fear @edfear]

Xenosaga Episode 3 is twenty years old?! That doesn't seem possible.

Wild that the moment in this picture might also be last moment of the Xenoblade trilogy... and that for 20 years we've been experiencing a parallel story. Talk about long-form storytelling!

[株式会社モノリスソフト @MONOLITHSOFT]

2006年の今日、「ゼノサーガ エピソードIII [ツァラトゥストラはかく語りき] 」が発売されました。
#モノリスソフトの開発実績 #今日は何の日
https://t.co/aIWopaPG8Z

[Ed Fear @edfear]

Astonishing that Xenogears is STILL in the top 20 here and Square Enix would just rather pretend it doesn't exist.

[Genki✨ @Genki_JPN]

Famitsu did a nationwide survey of the game people want to wipe their memory of and play again! (5,400 people)

1. Zelda Breath of the Wild
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Steins;Gate
4. Final Fantasy X
5. Final Fantasy VII
6. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
7. Undertale
8. Dragon Quest I
9. Danganronpa
10. Dragon Quest III
11. Dragon Quest V
12. Urban Myth Dissolution Center
13. Ace Attorney
14. Final Fantasy XIV
15. NieR: Automata
16. Persona 5 Royal
17. Dragon Quest XI
18. Xenogears
19. Ever 17: The Out of Infinity
20. Mother 2

[Ed Fear @edfear]

Anyway, between knowing this was UE's future, and Unity's bullshit, this is why I went all-in on Godot last year for my projects at Emanation. UE and Unity skills are far more important if you want to be employed, but if not, Godot is honestly where most indies should be looking.

[Ed Fear @edfear]

UE6 is a grab-bag of bad decisions but I think this one might be the worst. Verse is a gross, over-engineered language created to solve a problem that exists for very few people at the cost of usability. Blueprints weren't perfect but they brought about a much better workflow.

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

Hey Everyone. Our aim is to ship Early Access for UE6 by the end of 2027 and Blueprints will be supported in Early Access and the initial UE6 releases, but deprecated in the future.

Deprecation will mean a feature continues to be available without improvements, then is eventually removed. This timeline will be clearly communicated along with ways to migrate projects to Verse.

We recognize the value that Blueprints brought to UE4 and 5, but we strongly believe that Verse will become a more powerful and capable way to create game logic. We’ve already seen both experienced and new programmers create amazing things with Verse that would be challenging to do with Blueprints.

More details and conversations from us around this to come as UE6 Early Access approaches.

[Ed Fear @edfear]

@harehima92261 @6d6f636869 Ex-journalist here, this article's headline is 100% valid. Headlines have a different rhythm and structure than regular sentences.

Also, most journalists don't even write the headlines.

Just pointing out your bias over facts.

[Ed Fear @edfear]

Seen a lot of posts from Japanese people frustrated that this didn't become a huge deal in Japan, but hoping the international shame might move the needle.

[James Wood 武杰士 @commiepommie]

🇯🇵 Japan’s World Cup team includes a player with a gang rape admission and they tried to hide it. Mexico just set the story on fire 🔥

On 3 June the Samurai Blue landed in Mexico for pre-tournament training. The official JFA account posted the usual high-quality set of photos, full squad lined up in suits in front of their ANA jet, everyone smiling and team mascot in a sombrero holding a “Welcome to Nuevo León” sign in Spanish and Japanese.

Looked clean, professional and on brand. However, Mexico didn’t get the memo.

A local journalist posted on X that the Japanese squad currently training there includes Kaishu Sano, a player arrested in 2024 on suspicion of rape. He shared Sano’s photo and told Mexican women to stay alert. That one post has already passed 8 million views. In China’s terms, that’s the equivalent of an 80-million-view explosion back home.

More posts followed. One showed Panini-style player cards with Sano’s face completely blacked out by marker, captioned “All sexual abusers should go to hell.”

The original case is straightforward and grim.

In July 2024, just ten days after sealing a €2.5 million move to Mainz, Sano and two friends allegedly gang-raped a woman in a Tokyo hotel. They had dinner with two women, moved to a pre-booked party room, one woman left and between 2am and 4am the three men assaulted the remaining woman. She called police immediately and officers arrested the men on a nearby street.

Sano admitted to the sexual violence. It was then resolved privately through reconciliation and no charges proceeded.

He did the typical apology press conference. The JFA, after what they called thorough internal discussions, decided he had simply made a mistake and welcomed him back. A year later he was selected for Japan’s World Cup squad. In August 2025 he announced his marriage. The typical script followed: the victim settled, the new wife has moved on, so outsiders should shut up.

Plenty of people outside Japan are choosing not to shut up.

The story has now jumped from Spanish circles into English ones. With X’s auto-translate, Japanese users can read in real time exactly what foreign fans think about a player with a gang-rape admission representing their country. The domestic reaction has been furious, mostly aimed at the JFA for letting this become an international problem instead of dealing with it earlier.

Look at those smiling faces in the Mexico arrival photos. Every single one of them chose to stay silent about one teammate’s record for the sake of the jersey and national image. Disgusting.

The JFA’s recent posts about teaching schoolkids tax education make it even more out of touch. The replies are brutal but spot on. Maybe they should have prioritised proper sex education and actual accountability instead.

Since the story broke, both the JFA and national team accounts have gone completely silent. No mentions of Sano, photos carefully cropped, complete radio silence. This weekend brought zero official response.

Tomorrow is Monday. Japanese football’s bosses now have a live international scandal on their hands and the world is watching. They clearly thought they could control the narrative the same way they controlled the original case. That bet just failed in Mexico.

It also presents an interesting contrast. A Japanese volleyball player gets arrested for marijuana and faces real consequences. A footballer with an admitted gang-rape case gets to pull on the national shirt for the World Cup. Different standards, apparently.

How the JFA handles this from tomorrow onward will show whether they actually learned anything, or whether protecting the institution still matters more than protecting victims or the game’s reputation.

This is what happens when you treat sexual violence as a PR problem instead of a serious crime. The truth travels, especially when your players are supposed to represent the country.

What do you think they’ll do?

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[Ed Fear @edfear]

ゼッタイ諦めないけど！！！

[Ed Fear @edfear]

賛成。子供のころからずーとゲームクリエイターになりたかったのに、ゲームを作ることが大好きなのに、業界に入ってから18年間経ったのに、、、他の仕事にすれば良かったとよく思う

[kentoon🇯🇵🇺🇸 @kentoon]

アメリカのゲーム業界に長くいる身として、近年の大量レイオフはリーマンショック時とは比較にならないほど異常だと肌で感じている。
気になって「何が起きているのか」をAIに分析させてみたら、巷の『AIが仕事を奪っている」という俗説とは全く違う、業界の深刻な構造破綻が見えてきた。👇