Darby McDevitt
@darbymcdevitt.bsky.social
Game Developer, Writer, Occasional Musician
Follow for music clips, literary quotes, Assassin’s Creed lore.
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Follow for music clips, literary quotes, Assassin’s Creed lore.
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The game version is far more interesting, I think. I started from a pretty generic place!
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The game version is far more interesting, I think. I started from a pretty generic place!
Not yet. But if it’s a certified smash hit, maybe one day.
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Not yet. But if it’s a certified smash hit, maybe one day.
Interesting. Not sure if I should check it out … plausible deniability and all that.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Interesting. Not sure if I should check it out … plausible deniability and all that.
Thanks Ceri! How are you???
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Thanks Ceri! How are you???
It’s a collection of linked short stories. This is the first in the collection, one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. (Though I cannot vouch for the quality of this particular translation.)
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italo calvino – the distance of the moon (1965)
‘Like many a critical humanist before him, from Michel de Montaigne to Jonathan Swift, Calvino seems to wonder if our best intellectual efforts, even the sciences, fall subject to “the foible…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It’s a collection of linked short stories. This is the first in the collection, one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. (Though I cannot vouch for the quality of this particular translation.)
fleurmach.com/2016/11/29/i...
fleurmach.com/2016/11/29/i...
Have you dipped into Cosmicomics yet? That book always felt to me like the most successful and nourishing of Calvino’s experiments.
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Have you dipped into Cosmicomics yet? That book always felt to me like the most successful and nourishing of Calvino’s experiments.
Silksong added the one element I felt was missing from the original— a clear, long-term goal to achieve. The original had me feeling aimless for huge stretches, in spite of the fun of exploring. A perfect sequel.
September 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Silksong added the one element I felt was missing from the original— a clear, long-term goal to achieve. The original had me feeling aimless for huge stretches, in spite of the fun of exploring. A perfect sequel.
Yes. I keep everything I write. One never knows when an old idea might be useful again.
September 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Yes. I keep everything I write. One never knows when an old idea might be useful again.
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An update, I just preordered it at the book store website, so its very easy to get, at least here in Germany :)
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
An update, I just preordered it at the book store website, so its very easy to get, at least here in Germany :)
The last line should be, “This the Assassins guard…”
August 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The last line should be, “This the Assassins guard…”