Mads Mackenzie 💀 narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer 💀 they/them, icon by Penta 💀 director @fine-fiends.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3ml6dmhm3ak24not being able to taste things properly makes ingredient substitutions a real flip of the coin between 'it will make no perceivable difference' and 'the dish will feel vaguely Wrong in a way that's both indescribable and inescapable'06 May 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6dmhm3ak24https://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3ml5kdkfly22gbecause of my accent (Kiwi) a lot of people mishear Drâculeşti as Dracula HD when I tell them about the game... imagine if Dracula was high definition06 May 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5kdkfly22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkwrufkubs26branching narrative design decision struggle! 'a smaller number of stronger options is better' vs. 'the bonus options would be funny though'! fight!!03 May 2026 08:54 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwrufkubs26https://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkubsnrp7c2jlearning important things02 May 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkubsnrp7c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mktnpob45k23the comiket doco is lovely, thoroughly recommend it the part where they talk around BL culture is pretty funny also. captain tsubasa fans appeared making comics 'about character relationships', you say? it brought new audiences to the event? i'm sure there's nothing to read into there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 03:01 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktnpob45k23https://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkrknn3k322oI feel a narrative design blog post brewing in my head... hmmm...01 May 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrknn3k322ohttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkmwbhtka22tsetting my next game in the pacific solely so i don't have to double-check every piece of slang i use for whether it's universally understood or not29 Apr 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmwbhtka22thttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkkzwuzlcc2othe last few weeks I've been struggling to write anything I didn't immediately hate, and after cycling through all the usual coping strategies ('skip to the fun stuff', 'rework the scene structure', etc) the solution has been eating my vegetables and going back to a regular scene of people talking28 Apr 2026 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkzwuzlcc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkjynjfyqs2acathartic/infuriating feeling of realising a scene you've been trying on-and-off to make work for two years just won't work ever because it's fundamentally flawed. i can move on to different concepts! why did i beat my head against this wall for so long!28 Apr 2026 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjynjfyqs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkh6rjjqcs27I took German classes all last year and now I keep saying I'm gestresst27 Apr 2026 04:02 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkh6rjjqcs27https://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mkfpfoaock2ctitanium court is extremely intriguing and moreish. somehow, i lost a round to a no smoking sign.26 Apr 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfpfoaock2chttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mk7rzj57r22whistorical discovery of the day: so in late 1930, there was a popular novel called Imperial Palace, which was a meticulously researched upstairs-downstairs drama based on the Savoy Hotel in London with input from its staff24 Apr 2026 05:25 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7rzj57r22whttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mk66rf2crk2qback in my final year of high school I had a phase where I read basically every urban fantasy detective novel in my local library. writing Van Helsing scenes for Drac now is like needing to build a fence and rediscovering a shed full of lost power tools. I know this genre. I can write this guy.23 Apr 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk66rf2crk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mjxye2lxdc2tface of a guy who's pulling a tree apart for no reason21 Apr 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxye2lxdc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mjo4rfjbss26Went to the new Sydney fish market and none of the fish restaurants had gf stuff 🥲 fishless17 Apr 2026 04:50 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjo4rfjbss26https://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mjciwlwilc2japparently after fifteen years they've finally wrapped up all the major projects for rebuilding my hometown, otautahi/christchurch. wild to think it's back to (new) normal!12 Apr 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjciwlwilc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mj6ts36t4c2cDoing revisions has been making me lean hard into what I've been calling an 'only opportunity' mode of branching narrative design; basically, for any combination of choices, I've been thinking about whether they produce the 'only opportunity' in the game to show a particular thing.11 Apr 2026 02:59 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6ts36t4c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mj5gmdalss2nlately i keep thinking about how good elden ring was. hey, wasn't elden ring good?10 Apr 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5gmdalss2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mj34cw6nns27thought I'd take up a relaxing new textile hobby and learn embroidery but I'm tripping at the first hurdle (thread the needle)09 Apr 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj34cw6nns27https://bsky.app/profile/madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social/post/3mitmz5tjts2cthe magic of art is that sometimes you'll be reading a book from forty years ago and the narrator will complain about a highly specific type of person and you're that type of person (someone who has a lot of books on Huizinga and Gothic architecture)06 Apr 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:gu552q5xe2cn5rjcfbtibppf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitmz5tjts2c