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Jamie Brittain

@matronboy.bsky.social

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Lead Writer at Maverick Games. Podcasts with Crate and Crowbar. Lapsed tv writer. Traditional roguelikes, free jazz, weird fiction, yacht rock, neurodiversity, figuring it out. he/him.

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hey everyone

I'm Jamie Brittain. I work as Lead Writer at Maverick Games, working on a AAA narrative-led driving game.

Before that I was freelance TV writer, and, in the land before time, co-created the teen drama Skins.

I am one of the hosts of the Crate & Crowbar gaming podcast.

I love you!

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 2d

D'Angelo was the soundtrack to the year i finally emerged from a decade of mental illness. So, so sad to hear he's gone.

I will never forget him standing onstage in Hammersmith during his incredible live set and singing this like his life depended on it.
open.spotify.com/track/6YOM2x...

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 3d

Up there with @misterbrilliant.bsky.social's immortal opener for his Hades early access review: "Large portions of my personality owe a great debt to Greek invention, from ABBA musicals and feta cheese to anal sex and fiscal irresponsibility."

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI - was really pleased with this one! Always such a pleasure chatting with Marsh and Chris!

The Crate and Crowbar @crateandcrowbar.bsky.social · 6d

Pod! @cjpt.bsky.social @matronboy.bsky.social and @marshdavies.bsky.social discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, and then take a cathartically large dump on Alien: Earth. Plus other fab games: Sword Hero, Jump Space and Mind Diver!

crateandcrowbar.com/2025/10/10/e...

Thumbnail for Episode 452 of the Crate and Crowbar, entitled "Bog-Muppet Territory" and featuring screenshots from Jump Space, Alien: Earth and Silent Hill f.

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 12d

The beta for this is out now for backers, and it's as weird & wonderful as I expected: Master & Commander as reimagined by Jeff Vandermeer with the meticulously researched arcane historical details of Annie Proulx. Wonderful stuff from @rossignol.bsky.social and @marshdavies.bsky.social

Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · Sep 18

Our roleplaying game:
- squirms with aquatic awfulness
- invites revenge upon King George III
- has diagrams explaining how wind works
- is now funded
- still won't pay my bills (but YOU could change that, maybe)

Please ameliorate my financial terror by backing:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

An advert for GOLD TEETH: "A grotesquely comic tabletop roleplaying game about piracy and occult horror in a cursed corner of the Caribbean." The picture of the book looks nice. Desirable, even.

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 12d

'gronk out' has huge 12 year old julia stiles appearing as a hacker on a 1993 episode of Ghostwriter energy.

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 17d

"and now on Radio 4, In Our Time, with Danny Dyer"
"alright cunts, the concept of a renaissance was first applied to the Ottonian period by the German historian Hans Naumann..."

@delaneyman.bsky.social @profanityswan.bsky.social @tftimemachine.bsky.social

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 18d

The First Wife - She was the first, she wont be the last
The Second Wife - She wasnt the first, she wont be the last

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 18d

@supergreatfriend.bsky.social

is it weird how profoundly excited i am for you to play f...?

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 19d

Tears open a door to a dark world and drags you by the throat deep inside.

It reminded me of nothing more than Henry James' Turn Of The Screw, a masterclass in ambiguity, where the foggy hinterland between reality and nightmare is the war in your head and the path beneath your feet.

Brilliant.

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 20d

whenever it may be, the inevitable WOFF on it is going to be so good!

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 24d

Literally, the best pinball video game ever.

Ralph Barbagallo @flarb.com · 24d

'Hostile Pinball' XENOTILT Takes Aim at PS5 from Today

www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/09... (via @pushsquare.com)

'Hostile Pinball' XENOTILT Takes Aim at PS5 from Today

Flippin' fantastic

www.pushsquare.com

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 27d

gonna tell my kids this was Shaun The Sheep

An image of the scary sheep monster from Alien: Earth.

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 28d

Ordinary People is a prayer for understanding, kindness, generosity and forgiveness in frightening times. Its lessons are completely timeless. RIP Alvin Sargent. RIP Robert Redford.

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 13

elsa vs. iceman
whoever wins we lose

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 12

ah we got ourselves a utica man

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 12

Me to colleagues: it's kinda like a steamed hams structure...
Them: what's steamed hams?
Me: (entire 60s era Doctor Who title sequence playing in mind) um

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm a big fan of "Swagger tighter then a yeast infection/
Fly go hard like geese erection" for sheer inane hilarity

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 10

what is the correct spelling of 'breasteses'

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 9

also the soundtrack for this sounds like it was recorded by Coil after they'd eaten five christmas dinners in a row in order not to upset the industrial music loving inhabitants of Dibley.

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 9

"there's nothing here", "it's an altar", "it's a cake!" - more or less every line from this completely terrifying demo for a 'fully voiced' Amiga game has been rattling around in my head for 30 years and counting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCY...

AMIGA VALHALLA BEFORE THE WAR DEMO MAGAZINE One Amiga, The 1995 02EMAP ImagesGBDisk 1 of 2Mar 1995

YouTube video by petsasjim1

www.youtube.com

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thirded. I dont even particularly like rpgs and i still listen religiously - chill erudition and vibes abound

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 3

yep, imagine actually engaging with the thematic substance, subtext and implications of the greatest horror script ever written and chucking anything else in the bin. No-one's done that since they added an S. Brilliant.

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Aug 11

Noah Hawley is simply the finest writer working in tv today, for me one of the very few who rises above the banal expectations of this over-lit, underbaked, landfill era of 'prestige drama' and reaches back to when the medium was about storytelling for its own sake. Cannot fuckin' wait, basically.

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Sep 2

you have clearly woken up and chosen violence here for reminding me of the deep and profound level of cringe within - "hey drag city records, could i please have joanna newsom's email address please"

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Aug 28

(aside) I *will* do the motorcycle clothing shop sketch

Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · Aug 27

My A level politics teacher Pete - who was/is a raving Trot from Barnsley who was once arrested for punching the mayor of Bristol and is politically somewhere to the left of Chairman Mao - he taught me it was the only paper worth reading.