I've been writing for 14 years, have won or been nominated for various awards, have experience in multiple media, and all I can find is a freelance gig every other month or so.
he/him, 40s, narrative design, novels, games Patreon: patreon.com/mcoorlim ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/mcoorlim Comradery: https://comradery.co/mcoorlim YT: https://www.youtube.com/MichaelCoorlim BASIC Programming: https://basic-code.bearblog.dev/
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I've been writing for 14 years, have won or been nominated for various awards, have experience in multiple media, and all I can find is a freelance gig every other month or so.
Man I just don't want to be homeless in the next year.
this exists it is called thinking
This isn't even the biggest financial hurdle facing us. It's just the only cat related one. And the internet loves cats. So if you can help us help Sidhe, it would be appreciated.
I wouldn't normally ask for help with something like this, but I've been unemployed since getting laid off last year, and we're rapidly running out of money. $1000-$1500 for sonic imaging and x-rays takes out a big chunk of what we all need to stay housed until we find employment.
This is Sidhe. She's got too much calcium in her blood. It's going to cost over $1k to find out why. We set up a gofundme to raise for her medical costs last year after her pet insurance refused to cover her needs. www.gofundme.com/f/insurance-...
As a treat
Slowing down is the worst thing you can do when it comes to learning about candles.
Yeah for example don't use tea candles
Good thing monopolies are illegal
www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/chart...
TFW you have to wait 20 minutes real time to reach Daventry and you've already solved all the puzzles on the ship.
1. Join up or start a local mutual aid society. 2. Learn practical skills that don't rely on a technological infrastructure to function. 3. Decide what you're willing to sacrifice before you're forced to choose.
Hey hey, I posted an Apple BASIC game you can play right in your browser. If you like this subscribe via RSS, I post one BASIC program a week, refactored from old type-in listings #retroComputing #gameDev #devLog
I had a 2005 and later re-regged with a 2011 and it still bothers me.
The US legal system is a tool to crush you, not protect you.
Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.
Thank you!
I am a Game Writer/Narrative Designer in dire need of work.
In the ashes of the future internet it'll be nothing but Usenet and BBS Doors
*teleports behind you* It's nothing personal, kid.
I usually pop one on while cooking or on the exercise bike. It reminds me of how I'd hear my grandfather listening to news radio in the mornings while making breakfast.
Primary use: voiceover for my videos. Secondary use: voice acting.
Good morning. We hit 70% of goal last night! Only $56 left to go and I can get back to recording my narrative analysis and video game history videos. #retroGaming #retroComputing I'm also soliciting recommendations for dynamic USB mics in the $100-150 range. Looking at a Samson Q2U.
I listen to a lot of podcasts. * They Create Worlds is a video game history podcast. * System Mastery and Movie Mastery are great and about TTRPGS and movies. * Kill the Computer * RIP to FPlus, Caustic Soda, and IDEOT * Various horror serial and anthology fiction podcasts
I'm looking at a few mics, but if someone can suggest a USB Dynamic mic in the $100-150 range I would appreciate it. Primary use cases are voiceover work and voice acting. #audioDrama #audioBook #podcasting #audio #microphone
Consider that anyone born after 1990 grew up without the influence of cold war propaganda shaping their views, in an environment where the liberal mitigations to the worst of capitalism's required sacrifices are lip-service at best. The only Russia they know is hypercapitalist. What did you expect?
So we're going with dipshit then?
So are you arguing in bad faith or are you merely a dipshit
Michael makes really insightful and relaxing videos about old games that I just really love, help him get a new mic if you can!!
Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, I'm almost 3/4 the way to a working microphone - without which it will be difficult for me to continue making narrative analysis #retroGaming videos, my primary source of income. Big thanks, whoever you are! Just over $60 to go! ko-fi.com/mcoorlim/goa...
Just passed a quarter of the way to get a new microphone to replace my 12 year old busted one. Without a job my primary income is my youtube narrative analysis channel, and I can't yap away about 40 year old games or record a #devLog without a working audio setup! #retroGaming
I've been using the same Blue Snowball microphone for the last 11+ years, and it's beginning to die on me. In order to continue making videos, I'm going to need to buy a new one... but I'm out of work. All my income is coming through patreon, youtube, and a royalties from my books.
How else are you going to exhibit the ζ΄ε or "horse cutter" blade?
PRESS ANY KEY TO FALL FROM GRACE #gameDev #devLog #godotEngine
I check mobygames every time I start a project to see if my titles have been taken. They usually have been.
I'm still using the Blue Snowball I bought 10+ years ago, but it's finally starting to die on me. I could use suggestions for a new USB mic for podcast/video production. Difficulty: I'm broke.
New Narrative Analysis video: Borrowed Time, a noir graphical adventure game from #Interplay that doesn't quite bridge the gap to point n click adventure game. Watch me play through the Amiga port and then analyze its narrative elements. #retrogame #narrativeDesign #activision
He keeps ending up on the roof.
Kids these days getting their politics from Command & Conquer
I finally got around to make a new video about all the new adventures I've played through in recent times. π www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmj8... @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social @clifftopgames.bsky.social @grundislav.games @beyondbooleans.bsky.social @perfectlyparano.bsky.social @postmodernadv.bsky.social
I'm very tempted to do something similar in twine or with ink and Unity or Godot. Something hub-and-spoke modular.
Hey folks, just posted a first look video of the 1979 Apple II text-rpg Eamon - a modular game that had over 200 adventures made for it throughout the 80s. I'm going in blind. How does it go? Find out by joining my patreon and get early access to the video! www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
It will be the opposite of this.
Sounds like SOMEBODY has never been on NextDoor.
You don't need one. Trump buckles under the mildest push back. He's not strong, the "opposition party" is just tripping over itself to comply in advance.
He has no interest in consolidating something that lasts after his death. It's a cult of personality with no clear successor whose factions oppose the concept of solidarity.
We're all dead and this is hell
Getting a lot of PLATO Network vibes from this...
My game is Visual Kei due to the rococo inspirations
This is the tech path that leads to Soviet psychotropic flashlights
Seen it before
Yes.
Gibbons may be adorable and have very long arms but I think they may be incorrect when it comes to the causes behind cutting your wine with lead and neglecting to pay the goths the tribute they think they're entitled to.
Did this end the Roman Empire or was Christianity eventually co-opted into a tool for Roman conquest by Constantine centuries later
We need to make the internet smaller and less uselessly universal. I want a small intimate community of like-minded weirdos, not a feed of everyone's dumb bullshit. Just our bullshit, dammit! Forums, newsgroups, message boards, list servers... Sign my guestbook and get off my lawn.
OP can't.
What's a centrist going to advocate for? "More of the same?"
They call me Hadouken because I'm ββ Fierce
Writing video game dialogue and choices, new article out now, link below! Also taking more applicants for my game writing Dialogue class starting in a few weeks -- www.gregbuchanangames.com/courses . It's designed for aspiring/experienced folks alike, including a unique practice tool I created >
Playing the Amiga port of Interplay's Borrowed Time for my next narrative analysis video. Brian Fargo outsourced the writing to Bill Kunkel, who'd go on to write for the Omicron Conspiracy and Postal.
Things get intense in Portopia. I'm glad I can still experience a game from 1985! Makes me want to jump right into the next one in the series. youtu.be/DfDwX300h7Q
Working on the visual part
F-Zero was fun.
PipLog 7 - Supermarket Sweep Latest #Fallout 3/#NewVegas epistolary #LetsPlay blog entry with plenty of screenshots. Owen heads to the Super Duper Mart to earn the caps he needs to find out where his Dad went, only to find more than TV Dinners. protagonist.bearblog.dev/piplog-7-sup...
Third World meant "those who were neutral in the cold war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact states," right? Finland, Sweden, Switzerland. It's interesting that the term has come to mean something closer to Mao's definition of exploited countries. A shift from political to economic.
Wh...which one's the REAL Sedat Γnal?!?
Eileen would be displeased π
Tron Bonne is the good Tron in the same way that Bon Scott was the good Scott.
That's at least a task that has value!
The old adage about selling shovels during a gold rush only applies if there's actual gold and not just iron pyrite.
stocking up on ketchup jelly beans rn
We're almost at $100 a month which is a nice round milestone that I would like to surpass by a factor of ten or twenty if possible.
I've got 3 more games this month for my Small Games Done Fast blog, and 2 more for the BASIC Code blog. My supporters on Patreon can go play these games on itch.io right away! I've been unemployed for over a year, so every Patreon supporter helps in a huge way. #gameDev #devLog #retroComputing
Go to the beach? My landlord don't take Sand Dollars!
When the topic of non-games writers being brought in to write a game I always think of Douglas Adams work for Infocom on "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." #gameDev
Wow!!! Major news!!! The judge in the Anthropic AI case is "concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced 'down the throat of authors.'" This is what myself and many other authors were saying about the settlement. 1/ news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...
The first game I made in #godotEngine was 2019's Space Junk. You can now play it in the browser here: sgdf.bearblog.dev/space-junk/ #gameDev It is very narrow. Why did I make it so narrow?
What do you know? It works.
Thanks! The ones I'm currently posting are (ouch) five years old, but I'll catch up and post more recent stuff soon enough.
I'm making a lot of small games for various reasons, so I'm setting up a blog where you can download them or, more frequently, play them in your browser. #gameDev #devLog #godotEngine sgdf.bearblog.dev
The kind of management advice you normally find on LinkedIn.
As much as I enjoy adapting and refactoring BASIC programs (shut up its soothing) I need to spend time working on projects that pay the rent, so I'm not going to be posting 1/day going forward. Maybe 1/week. basic-code.bearblog.dev
Uploaded a two-player Pong clone in a TRS-80 emulator. Plays with the A,Z and O,L keys... not very well, but it's a 50 line BASIC program so you get what you get. #gameDev #devLog #microComputer #TRS80 #retroComputer basic-code.bearblog.dev/trs-80-pong8...
They were the best.
I picked one of these up specifically to play X-Wing, but never used the screw in joystick.
Our rescue, Sidhe, was the same way for ten years. She only recently stays out during mild storms, and during the worst will come to us for comfort.
At this point I don't think you can have it explained to you.
I had like 9 books on their list.
pokemon go to the polls
Not only am I posting a new BASIC game - Conway's Game of Life - but it's in a new TRS-80 Model III emulator. Life isn't much of a game tbf but it's great to test out the js emulator embed - particularly because this version uses some machine language. #gameDev #devLog #TRS80 #retrocomputing
I think I can do it with Vice.js but I'm not quite sure how yet
I have three current projects. 1. A blog where I refactor old BASIC games and embed them so you can play them. basic-code.bearblog.dev 2. A Visual Novel casting the player as a 70s FCC agent investigating anomalous arcade cabinets 3. An epistolary Fallout 3/NV LP blog protagonist.bearblog.dev
That is a legitimate reason. I keep meaning to pick it up for all the bonuses/extras.
*it with, not with with
I've got methods for embedding Applesoft Basic and TRS-80 BASIC programs into web pages so they play on load. Now I just need to figure out how to do with with C64 BASIC. #retroComputing #retroGaming #gameDev
I get the urge to play Yars' Revenge once or twice a year. It's probably my favorite 2600 game. River Raid was also great.
