anyway writing for games is uniquely challenging and broadly misunderstood by people who are not game writers

I've also said this! I don't think our players are stupid!

and you might be asking, stan, haven't you not worked at a studio in over a year (because no one can get a job anymore)? what could you possibly have done to get onto breakthrough?

this lithobreakers.itch.io/latex-leathe...

Then I worked with indies, developed my own games, and eventually got hired by Larian.

If it sounds like my career happened out of complete happenstance, you're correct! I've been a writer my whole life but writing for video games was not a thought I had in my head at all before that point.

alarmed by what the rest of my timeline will look like when this is the first post I saw today