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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈
@haraldhagen.bsky.social
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[ Available for work! ] ✍️ Game Writer + Narrative Designer, to the great disapproval of my cats. Based in Yorkshire. He/him. 🎮 BG&E2 ▪︎ Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows ▪︎ The Stillness of the Wind ▪︎ NEO Scavenger ▪︎ etc. 💼 haraldthehagen.com
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · Aug 28
Welcome!

I'm a game writer and narrative designer from 🇮🇩🇧🇻, now UK-based. Over the past decade, I've worked freelance on a bunch of cool games, including the ones below.

Indie/AAA, sole writer/team co-writing, joined early/recruited late. All sorts of shenanigans.

Feel free to connect and say hey!
Collaged image. Left is promo art for Beyond Good and Evil 2 depicting an aircraft in space, coloured white and black with red highlights, with a planet beyond it, and the game logo in the top left. Right is promo art for Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary Edition depicting the main character Jade against a green stellar backdrop of spaceships, a planet, and a green wormhole, with the game logo front and center. Key promotional art for the game Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows. Depicts three cubic dioramas beneath the game logo at center top. Left diorama shows a wintery landscape dotted with trees and a river. Right diorama shows a slice of a giant wall of ice with a rising winch cage connecting the top of the Wall to Castle Black below. Middle diorama shows a zoomed out slice of the Wall with snowy wilderness south and north of the structure, marked by snowy grounds, some forest, and fading footpaths. Key promotional art for the game The Stillness of the Wind. Depicts a two-house farm standing in the middle of a golden desert beneath dusky skies and a darkening storm to the distance, rightward. The farm is fenced with a windmill to one side. Outside the fence, standing near a well, is the small figure of an old woman and a goat. Key promotional art for the game NEO Scavenger. Rendered in pixel art style. Depicts a neon-lit city half faded into rust brown smog with the blacn silhouttes of trees cutting into the foreground. Logo is centered low in black and white.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 5h
It shouldn't surprise me when Rebirth goes very silly, but it did - right up until the scene with Red XIII on the ship's tourney, when I realised I was looking at it all wrong.

Need to keep going while I think on this.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 5h
Ecoterrorism. Showoff soldier meets flower girl. Unpaid merc freelancing. Hometown nostalgia. Micro-Vegas drag. Kidnapping. Sex trade. Death of a child. Lol jokes she's fine. Murder-mystery. Noir flashback. Dog wobbling in bipedal sailor outfit on cruise line.

That's not even half of disc 1.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 5h
FF7 was quite a silly game.

It's remembered mostly for its moments of tragedy, of seriousness, of epic drama or triumph. It had all these things-- and the ability to express/explore its tone smoothly and deftly between them.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 7h
a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i spent 18 years working on my manuscript called "
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i spent 18 years working on my manuscript called "
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 8h
He likes what he likes, lifestream be damned
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 10h
Laughing every time I think about the audacity of this twink rocking up to every inn/pub/tabled venue and taking their umbrella stand solely to rest his impractically large sword so he can focus on playing a children's card game.
Ingame screenshot from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, in which Cloud stands with his back facing camera looking on at a... wrought-iron umbrella stand or wooden log receptacle? I'm not sure what it is lol
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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 20h
Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses

www.gamesindustry.biz/owlcat-games...
Owlcat Games sets up educational resource hub for game devs
Studio partners with Fireshine Games, 11 Bit Studios, Gaijin Entertainment, and Midwest Games to build database of over 350 learning resources
www.gamesindustry.biz
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Steven Yau @yaustar.bsky.social · 1d
Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 18h
Oh my lord, Kain, they Yuber-ed you.
Artwork of Kain Highwind wearing a fedora and modern outfit from the upcoming game Dissidia Duellum. The fedora covers his eyes. Artwork of Yuber from Suikoden 3, wearing a black fedora and suit. The fedora covers his eyes.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 21h
There's something so appealing about games exploring "mundane task meets supernatural/gruesome shit".

Hi I'm a powerwash cleaner... for vicious crime scenes, or for aggressive alien infections.

Hi I'm an old lady on a farm with a goat... resisting existential erasure by a sadness that's a storm.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 1d
It's #PortfolioDay? Cool!

Hey, I'm Harald. I've written for genres of game including:
🟣 occult scifi survival RPG
🟣 fantasy story-driven idle game
🟣 magical-realism farm sim
🟣 scifi RTS & base defender
🟣 AAA action/adventure

👋
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · Aug 28
Welcome!

I'm a game writer and narrative designer from 🇮🇩🇧🇻, now UK-based. Over the past decade, I've worked freelance on a bunch of cool games, including the ones below.

Indie/AAA, sole writer/team co-writing, joined early/recruited late. All sorts of shenanigans.

Feel free to connect and say hey!
Collaged image. Left is promo art for Beyond Good and Evil 2 depicting an aircraft in space, coloured white and black with red highlights, with a planet beyond it, and the game logo in the top left. Right is promo art for Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary Edition depicting the main character Jade against a green stellar backdrop of spaceships, a planet, and a green wormhole, with the game logo front and center. Key promotional art for the game Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows. Depicts three cubic dioramas beneath the game logo at center top. Left diorama shows a wintery landscape dotted with trees and a river. Right diorama shows a slice of a giant wall of ice with a rising winch cage connecting the top of the Wall to Castle Black below. Middle diorama shows a zoomed out slice of the Wall with snowy wilderness south and north of the structure, marked by snowy grounds, some forest, and fading footpaths. Key promotional art for the game The Stillness of the Wind. Depicts a two-house farm standing in the middle of a golden desert beneath dusky skies and a darkening storm to the distance, rightward. The farm is fenced with a windmill to one side. Outside the fence, standing near a well, is the small figure of an old woman and a goat. Key promotional art for the game NEO Scavenger. Rendered in pixel art style. Depicts a neon-lit city half faded into rust brown smog with the blacn silhouttes of trees cutting into the foreground. Logo is centered low in black and white.
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Alice Camp @acampwriting.com · 2d
i don't know why it still surprises me a decade in to my career as a video game writer but it truly is utterly impossible to get anyone to read something. if you have a task that requires reading anything longer than a powerpoint slide, just forget about it
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 1d
Post you from a different era.

2011. Fresh out of college. In the middle of a 3 week trip across Japan with a friend. We're strolling along Kamakura when we encounter a sign for an Amish Cooking cafe which sadly was not open at the time. Man, that was a fun trip.
Photo of me standing in front of a cafe sign surrounded by shrubbery that reads "AMISH COOKING - KAMAKURA". I have a confused, if whimsical, look on my face.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 2d
What a CHARACTER

-a villainous cat of unbreakable principles
-Utterly fearless
-Breathes revolution
-Loudly declares the status quo an enemy at random places
-Looks everyone in the eyes, friend, foe, or stranger
-Lost much; willing to lose more
-Loved by some, hated by others, known to all
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 3d
I found a 19th century Cat Villain!
A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 2d
"I may be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause."

I fuckin love Data.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 2d
"This is my desert. My Arrakis. My dune."
A photo of two cats' hunched backs, creating two overlapping shapes reminscent (ish) of sand dunes.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 2d
"We had a meeting"
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 3d
Oooo you're on to something 👀
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 3d
Thermostat: 21° C

Me, thickly hoodied: no it fuckin innt
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 3d
But yes okay I'll choose Hope first for the next few days. It's just a tall order these days, folks, ooph.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 3d
I have a horrendous feeling about these teaser images. And mobile? This just stings now.

Opera Omnia was a damn fine entry. Tons of content and voice acting. A lot of folks would pay for a remaster or just straight up port (gacha aside).

Same goes for Duodecim on PSP, which was fantastic. I yearn.
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Gematsu @gematsu.com · 4d
New Dissidia Final Fantasy title for iOS, Android to be announced on October 14

Square Enix will announce a new Dissidia Final Fantasy title for iOS and Android on October 14 at 3:00 a.m. PT / 6:00 a.m. ET / 19:00 JST, the company announced. You will be able to watch the "Team Boss Battle" title…
New Dissidia Final Fantasy title for iOS, Android to be announced on October 14
Square Enix will announce a new Dissidia Final Fantasy title for iOS and Android on October 14 at 3:00 a.m. PT / 6:00 a.m. ET / 19:00 JST, the company announced. You will be able to watch the "Team Boss Battle" title announcement trailer on YouTube (English, Japanese).
www.gematsu.com
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 4d
Oh how much the world's fuckedness is caused just by people looking for things in the wrong places.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 4d
Still, I need to see where Rebirth goes from here. These thoughts may all be void if there's a worthy payoff down the road. On I go!
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 4d
One of the best strengths of FF6 was its strong cast, each well defined with their own motivations. No better demonstration of how vastly different characters can align goals is with the great Ruin at halfway, shifting the primary POV (arguable) from Terra to Celes.

Still the cast gathered again.
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Harald Hagen 🏳️‍🌈 @haraldhagen.bsky.social · 4d
The bartender quest could have centred Tifa and another side of her beyond martial arts (multiple interests!). The flower crown quest could have focused on Aeris and maybe what she thinks of the close Chocobo Ranch siblings when she herself grew up an only child.
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