Olivia Hill

Olivia Hill

@machineiv.bsky.social

Author, analog game designer, filmmaker, graphic designer, and video game developer. Anarchist. Unapologetically radical. She/Her

10.2K followers2.8K following12.1K posts

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Sorry, I'll be chill about this soon but like. The thing is right. Lilly. Right? Like from BOUND?!? The Matrix lady looked at Liv's script and our world and said 'yep. that's good. Let's get that made.' CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SCREAMING HERE?!?!?

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I want to “yes, and..” this to emphasize that neither fear nor horror have singular definitions, and most of their failure states in RPGs are a result of treating them as monolithic.

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My entire career in RPGs has been focused on overcoming this issue. We do it in a lot of ways. The single biggest piece of advice I can give is that players know what can scare them. Empower the players to scare themselves, and they will. Incentivize sub-optimal choice making!

My entire career in RPGs has been focused on overcoming this issue. We do it in a lot of ways. The single biggest piece of advice I can give is that players know what can scare them. Empower the players to scare themselves, and they will. Incentivize sub-optimal choice making!

Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror@zigmenthotep.bsky.social

Oh wow, look at this a long rambly video about why TTRPGs are bad at horror, and how they can not be! youtu.be/Pc7wAJmHnVU

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This is so fucking cool! It's incredibly hard to get a movie made in the best of times, and to get this kind of talent?! And if you're like me and can't wait to see what the hubbub is about, there's a massive sale on the game! itch.io/s/204657/oct...

itch.ioOctoberween Machine Age Mega BUNDLE! by Machine Age DreamsA bundle by Machine Age Dreams, $25.00 for 9 games

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People I know and care about are doing something unimaginably cool. I’m so proud and happy and I can’t wait for this awesomeness. Liv and Filomena deserve every good thing.

One thing I want to emphasize is, yes, I wrote the film script. But I'm also producing with Filamena. We get say on the important stuff. It's still VERY much ours. Indie AF. This is not going to be some focus tested slop. This is going to be punk as fuck but just with eight digits in the budget.

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So proud of this and the sheer amount of effort, as well as faith in one's own work, that it took for Liv and Mena getting iHunt up there ❤️ this is gonna kick ass

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You uh. You should sign up. BTS? More good shit? Candy maybe? Who knows!!

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social

I'm gonna be blasting a LOT in the coming few days/weeks/months/whatever, but, if you want to keep appraised of the #iHunt film, TV, and vertical news, join our newsletter. You'll get fun art and fiction there, too. www.ihunt.media

On this auspicious day, I want to note that, a million years ago, Chuck Wendig gave me my first writing gig. I literally would not be here without him.

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I AM TELLING EVERYONE. #iHunt is one of my favorite games and @filamena.bsky.social and @machineiv.bsky.social are so damn talented. The script is SO good, y'all have no idea. The only thing that would make me happier than adapting it myself is seeing these two ladies adapt their own work!

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This is awesome news. I mean, has there ever been a #ttrpg movie that wasn't about DnD? Directed by the Rise of Leslie Vernon: Behind the Mask fellow, too, and I can immediately see that. Really hope this comes off.

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Replying to @rdonoghue.bsky.social

Is it weird to be glad to see the bad in the world reflected in games? I dunno. Maybe. But it feels weirder that it’s not. (And I get that it IS showing up In our games, both indirectly and as a thing to escape. I just expected more “billionaires are killing us” games by now)

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There are many reasons I’m excited about this, but here’s a weird one. In the U.S., everything is pretty bad right now, and some part of me would expect this to be reflected in our TTRPGs, but by and large it is not. iHunt is an amazing exception to this, and thank goodness for it.

variety.com‘iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy’ Film Adaptation Set; Lilly Wachowski Among Exec Producers (EXCLUSIVE)'iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy,' a book series and tabletop RPG, is getting a feature film adaptation directed by Scott Glosserman.

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Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

I endeavor to make art that can't be generated with AI because there's nothing existing like it to plagiarize from. If I can plagiarize someone else to make it, it's not art I want my name on.

Trump is so un-American that he can’t even stage a coup for a right wing dictator in Latin America. Shame.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

We need to ban white people until we can figure out how to regulate them.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

Gosh. You're saying it's not about "protecting women?"

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

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I think artists and sex workers should have a natural allyship. Both of us are often told we should not be allowed to charge for our work if it is at all pleasurable. Both of us are wanted for what we can do, but our work is considered not worth paying for. We should stick together

Add another to the rapidly growing list I'm told is "just a couple of outliers."

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Yesterday, Josh Turek released one of the worst anti-transgender ads to come from a Democrat this election cycle. It called for a federal funding ban on gender affirming care, which would impact countless trans Americans. Here is our article on the ad you have all undoubtedly seen by now.