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Matt Andrews

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Engineering manager at GitLab. Formerly Economist, BBC, Guardian etc. Music nerd, cyclist, tired dad. Run a 20+ year old music webzine and still blogs sometimes, too! https://mattandrews.info/

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 12h

Yeah quite possibly, definitely felt invasive

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 1d

"father and child" is equal parts adorable/creepy in this context

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 1d

Found it:

A melodramatic image of a pride of lions running, covered in Union flags

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 1d

Also one of the flag guys had the most incredible unintentionally hilarious flag I've ever seen: an enormous Union flag with six lions running majestically across it, like some weirdly nationalistic Lion King fanart, or a tribute to that Three Wolves t-shirt.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 1d

Quite curious to see how they try to spin this event because Stirchley absolutely *showed up*: a hundred people of all ages, races, every demographic. The flag guys were a dozen mostly middle aged white men. Not sure how they could've turned a display of neighbourhood solidarity into something bad.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 1d

Went to the Stirchley protest this morning against all the flag guys trying to impose themselves on our area.

The dozen or so pro-flag guys there were filming the protesters with professional cameras, which felt really weird/sinister.

Crowd of people with flags and banners surrounding them

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 3d

I'm torn between agreeing but also enjoying the fact that this is really humiliating for them

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 4d

📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work!

⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer.

🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote.

Let's chat!

hannahnicklin.com
linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin

A selection of images from games etc. Hannah Nicklin has worked on, a screencap or key art image from: Saltsea Chronicles, Black Mirror: Thronglets, Mutazione; and the cover of Writing for Games: Theory & Practice. Also featured two reviews.

One from Eurogamer: 5/5 Saltsea Chronicles
"Onwards you go in pursuit of your missing crew, then, your story diverging further from mine with every island choice, with every flick of the head or settling of the lips. Memories/Artefacts? Skeptical/Curious? And astonishingly, through all these moving parts, all this phase space, my story still made rich sense, and actually built to a truly devastating climax.

Scream/Weep? Fittingly, for me, Saltsea Chronicles turned out to be a story about choices as well as a story made of choices. It made me think about the big decisions I make in life, but also the decisions that shape a life that I don't even notice having made. Ripples turning to waves and all that. You must play this. It's luminous."

The second of Mutazione from Gamespew, 9/10
"Mutazione is a game that builds up relationships within a community you instantly feel a part of. The main story is secondary to the real drama and the heart of the town, but it’s necessary. It’s extremely well-written, and the hand-drawn environments are beautifully designed. Die Gute Fabrik has crafted a sweet, powerful fairy tale that delves into the human psyche and allows you to reside there for five hours or so."

A virtual biz card on a dark purple background, featuring an image of a white woman in glasses, with blonde hair, speaking at a podium. Next to it is the title Hannah Nicklin, and the details Creative Director, Narrative Lead/Designer, Senior Writer, Consultant.

11+ years experience in interactive narrative

• 3 games shipped as Lead (PC, Console, mobile)
• Many more as consultant
• PhD in Interactive Practices
• Masters & BA in Play/Screenwriting & Dramatic Arts
• GDC Indie Summit Advisor, BAFTA Juror, TGA Future Class
• Author of Writing for Games: Theory & Practice

Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione; Saturnalia; Night School (A Netflix Studio); Cardboard Computer; Die Gute Fabrik; Draknek; Twisted Tree Games.

Based in: Sheffield, United Kingdom
Work in: Remote, CET-PST
LinkedIn.com/in/hannah-nicklin
hannahnicklin.com

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 4d

Once again with questions from my kid, I have to reverse engineer it before I can answer.

Me: "No, what's Firefox?"
Ted: "It's an app, like Google Chrome, it lets you go on... the World Wide Web".

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 4d

My six year old son asked me today "Dad, do you know what Firefox is?" and—

A meme photo of Elrond captioned “I was there three thousand years ago"

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 5d

Where did these youthful people go Nat

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 5d

Might show the second one to some teenagers to explain how we used to have to take selfies

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 5d

Post you from a different era

(go on then, this is ~20 years ago at uni)

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 5d

In the Harry Potter books, I'm fairly convinced that J.K. Rowling simply... forgot she invented the two-way mirror that Sirius gives Harry, until it came to the end of the book, by which stage she couldn't be arsed to rewrite and just left it in. Not going to bother to re-read the books to check.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 6d

Hypothetically, if Bearwood *was* to gain a nuclear capability, what would the council's position be on disarmament?

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 6d

Thank you! Nearly clobbered myself on this on the way to school last week and couldn't remember if it had already been there. Also it was fixed before today, definitely was over the weekend! Turns out the council can do things sometimes.

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 6d

Also I've been banging this particular drum for years now: twitter.mattandrews.info/161858796119...

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The perils of image cropping: Google Chrome knocked two stars off this Guardian review when displayed in my

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 6d

This is an automatically-generated image (eg. the logo is added to the article's photo by a backend service) but this is a good example of how hiding that cleverness from the CMS users (who upload the image) allows stuff like this to slip through. If you're going to automate stuff, preview it first!

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d

These are lovely! Quite tempted...

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d

// this should never happen

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 7d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 7d

"The chancellor approved it"

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d

This is like faking a CV for a job interview

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d

Like... what do you think happens if you successfully get into a relationship? Do you think you can just skip the "conversation and emotions" stage?!

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d

This piece is incredible (and depressing) - the highlight for me is the multiple men openly confessing that they didn't have the capacity to emotionally connect with a woman, but because she was hot, they used AI to reply to her.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 8d

The kids' play farm we went to today decided to decorate the toilets in Halloween theme:

A skeleton costume sitting on a toilet in a bathroom cubicle

Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 8d

This meme is very clear about how my (similar) day has gone

Yoda meme about dying due to being tired of answering Luke's questions