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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work!

@allawayj.bsky.social

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Senior Game Writer / Narrative Designer on the hunt for the next job! Formerly of Monolith Productions, @HiddenPathEnt, @PlayChoices, @WadjetEyeGames, and more. I make games with big hearts. she/her

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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · Jul 4

What we are in right now is a fight for the soul of our industry.

The AAA industry is collapsing under its unethical weight. MSFT fired thousands to afford the AI moneysink.

But games are art. And they can no easier kill our medium than they can kill the pen, paintbrush, or camera.

Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · Jul 3

✨ GAME DEVS: WE ARE NOT COOKED, FUCKED, OR JOEVER✨
We literally *are* the means of production. It benefits the millionaire execs to have us believe that it is *we* who needs *them*. But they generate nothing without us. The sooner we all start saying it, believing it, the stronger we can be.

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 9d

This is my go to now for people who ask. It's well organized, covers everything I would, and Craig keeps it updated. It makes it super easy to give to parents, random peeps who ask me in lines, and students who show up to my stream.

Huge thanks to Craig for doing the work.

Craig Morrison @silirrion.bsky.social · 9d

Update time for www.startmakinggames.com

A one stop shop for 100% free curated information that answers the question - 'How do I get started in game design?'

As always please share! As a self run passion project for the last 8 years, your help is the only way the site spreads!

#Gamedev #Indiedev

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Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social · 15d

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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · 21d

I might be using the "sing with Artemis" camp feature in Hades II to lull my baby to sleep right now, which was obviously its intended use.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 27d

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

screenshot from Everything Everywhere All At Once - he is saying "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary.

It's how I've learned to survive through everything."

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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · 26d

Penelo emerging from her fleecy mountain to play tug with the unseeable tiny dog

Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · 27d

Heidi has been an incredibly kind, hilarious, wonderful person who supported me from the beginning. I wouldn't wish what's happening to her on anyone, but that it is happening to her is cosmically unjust.

Please help ease her burden. If you have anything to spare, she deserves it. Truly.

Heidi McDeathknelled @hmcd.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve been gone awhile because things have been very hard at home. I find myself at an unfathomable point, and my heart is absolutely broken. If you’re able to donate and share, my gratitude is deep. I never wanted to get here. Thank you for your consideration and assistance. gofund.me/0b0592ad0

Donate to Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story, organized by Heidi McDonald

I was a game writer at the height of my career - author, freq… Heidi McDonald needs your support for Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story

gofund.me

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28d

Stop pretending everything they do is a brilliant gambit. Stop acting like every ridiculous move they make is going to pay off for them.

STOP RESPECTING THEM THIS MUCH!

They are drunk toddlers with guns, of course they are dangerous. To everyone, including each other and themselves.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 28d

Rest In Power ✊🏼

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
-Assata Shakur

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 28d

I think it’s important and not discussed enough that the majority of the alt right gamersphere “leaders” are actually taking massive amounts of people’s money and delivering them nothing but endless rage for it.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · Sep 24

Level up your craft at the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop! Join us for community building, generative writing sessions, agent panels, and so much more!

Trans Writers Scholarship: This award is intended for a writer who is trans.

Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...

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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's been very fun watching my husband go from "two stray white hairs" to a full Reed Richards in my last trimester of pregnancy, into the first three months.

A little jelly. I want a shock of grey hair. I could be Rogue!

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · Sep 13

The impulse was already there and had been for a while, white nationalism isn’t new. GG caused the creation/expansion of online infrastructure for networking, community building (mainly among young online people) and spreading/testing of tactics and propaganda. But it didn’t invent the fasc wheel.

Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · Sep 12

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.

It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · Sep 11

I playtested consume me at NYU... 9 years ago? And it makes me so emotional to see Jenny getting it out into the world.

Hell yeah. You did it. I'm so proud of you and hope you're proud too!

I'm gonna buy it, and you should too!

jenny @qdork.bsky.social · Sep 10

hello content creators!

you should play consume me because :
- funny
- mini-games
- will make you cry
- award winning

do you want to relive MY high school experience? well now’s the time to request a code to stream or review the game at launch!!

❤️09.25.25❤️

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B. Dave Walters - Yes, it is I! @bdavewalters.bsky.social · Sep 9

In case you need a reminder

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Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social · Sep 8

Holy shit. Second time today I’ve pulled this one from the vault.

Poem named Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope.

He tells her that the earth is flat — He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.

The planet goes on being round.

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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've literally been having anxiety over this. I'm still coming back onto the job hunt postpartum and I just don't have it in me to be on here trying to come up with things to post to prove my value to game writing hiring candidates. I've done that for ten years. It's exhausting.

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Sep 7

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

A screenshot of Mad Men of Don Draper yelling. The subtitle has been edited to read, “that’s why I write books!”

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yeah, no. I'm a contractor, I write for games, and sometimes that means writing 100% of a game's text. I'm a valuable part of the team! Contractors aren't just "support", they deserve to be credited (and treated) better than this

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 4

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5.

Today it’s 0.7%.

Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

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Alice Camp @acampwriting.com · Sep 4

what if we stopped laying off every writer who has ever lived

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Shayna Moon (scary) @themoonis.gay · Sep 2

I haven’t seen major conversation about this in a minute, but having a studio in a state that bans abortion and has criminally prosecuted people for having miscarriages without a remote option sends the message that you value low taxes over your employee’s lives.

It’s misogyny, plain and simple.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Sep 2

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Sep 2

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

www.wsj.com

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Sally Beaumont- Voice Actor & Game Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · Sep 2

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices,
If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text.
You get the idea.

If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

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Jen Allaway is Looking for Work! @allawayj.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh absolutely! If I had more characters I would have clarified "matter to others".

But I'm too verbose as it is 😅