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Stanley W. Baxton // he/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Award-winning narrative game dev
NWCDTP-funded PhD on punk-indie game communities, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025, ex-Supermassive Games
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hi everyone. while the industry's still hellbent on calling anyone who makes /weird/ games "not a real dev" @baftagames.bsky.social decided that maybe people making things with three quid and a piece of string know what they're talking about, actually

i'm part of bafta breakthrough 2025
Game developer Stanley loved playing The Sims as a child, not because of what happens in the game but because, in simulating life, it allowed him to concoct his own narratives for the varied characters within its fantasy world. One Games Design & Production BSc later, Stanley has been channelling that love for storytelling into his own authored games. Creating the writing, art, coding and almost everything else himself, often on the micro-est of microbudgets. Stanley’s breakthrough project, LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST (2024), is as provocative and explicit in discourse as it is in title. A beautifully written, transgressive work of interactive fiction, it leans into Stanley’s own experiences of the trans masculine and online space and its multi-layered narrative earned him the 2024 New Media Writing Prize. He’s currently a PhD student at the University of Salford and working on his next solo game, CHILDREN OF HELL. In their own words… “Because I’m trans, I thought I would be overlooked for BAFTA Breakthrough, because we always are, but I decided to do the application anyway. I didn’t think it would go anywhere, and now it’s a reality I want to make the most of it. But I want to stress how I am, in many ways, an exception. I wanted to strike out and do my own thing against what the mainstream is doing, and I was just fortunate enough to be born middle class and have a support network that let me do that. We should be here and we’re often not, especially because we’re making weirder, more experimental games than mainstream gaming, and hopefully I can champion and elevate the people who brought me here. That’s how I want to make the most of it.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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>tries going to advx
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Major disruption in the Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent area expected until the end of the day Major disruption in the Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent area expected until the end of the day
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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hello everyone i'm showcasing at #egx leftfield with diet of worms. i'll be there in person friday and saturday so come say hi and write down all your spicy theories on the wall
Convention booth with a vertical monitor, showing the game The Shaman, the Outsider, and the Diet of Worms. On the wall behind it is a poster for the game and question prompts about it. Poster for the Leftfield collection at EGX, showing Diet of Worms.
October 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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why is this formatted like a brat meme
A red thumbnail with light red text reading "New Testament in 26 days", slightly blurred and elongated. Under the thumbnail is NT25 FAST.
September 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Betting graph for "Will Charlie Kirk run for any government office?" The graph hovers around 25%, stable. At the end is a sharp decline to 2%.
September 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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"we should draw inspiration from book of revelation" i say, trying not to make our preproduction docs look like a conspiracy website from 2004
A diagram of the 7 churches of Asia is Eastern Anatolia, from the Book of Revelation. A map of North England and Wales, with points marked with the same distances as the previous diagram, centred on Liverpool.
September 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Year of No Light
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God Alone
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Foreman from House MD looking concerned.
July 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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YAAAAY
The previous screenshot, now Positive with 10 reviews. It's been circled multiple times crudely.
July 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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alright here's as good a time as any

hi everyone. sextuple L is one review away from escaping algorithm hell. if one (1) of you could jump in and leave a review that would be really helpful thank you

store.steampowered.com/app/3490240/...
Screencap of the Steam page capsule for LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST. It has 9 user reviews.
July 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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is that good
Electronic train displays from Woking showing dozens of stations. Every single destination says "Please Enquire", except for Guildford which has a bus replacement.
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