I'm a game developer, professionally!

You may know me from things like: Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, The Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking, Gone Home, Bioshock 2, or maybe something else.

Right now I work as a Technical Narrative Designer at Remedy Entertainment in Stockholm, Sweden

Perhaps there are other aspects of my personality that may also be revealed here on this website


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[INT. CAFE - ORDERING LINE - DAY]

A CUSTOMER steps to the front of the line. Distinguished, bald, vaguely European.

BARISTA: What can I get you?

CUSTOMER: Tea, please.

BARISTA: Ok. We have English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Jasmine, or a Cinnamon Rooibos.

CUSTOMER: Earl Grey.

BARISTA: Hot or iced?

CUSTOMER: Hot.

[CUT TO A FEW MINUTES LATER, WIDE SHOT OF CAFE]

BARISTA 2: Tea for... Shawn Lou? Shawn Lou?



One can be green with envy, or a yellow coward, or blue if you're sad. Purple with rage, although that might be too literal, along with white with fear.... That's all I can come up with. It feels like there should be one for each color, like we're seeing the remnants of some medieval ordering



This is something that's a trope in writing, and I've heard people talk about it. I'm not sure I've ever felt it!

I can think of three likely possibilities:

  1. subconsciously noticing the direction of people's gaze through cues that come across as a feeling rather than a visual thing. This would seem to preclude a couple common experiences, though - "I felt his eyes drilling into my back as I walked up the stairs", or "The place was abandoned, but nevertheless I had the feeling of being watched"
  2. being self-conscious of your appearance or some aspect, or of being in a place or doing an action that makes you embarrassed or wary. This is the thing that I think I've felt, but properly would be used to indicate the subject's mental state rather than the actions of others (which often seems to be indicated when people say this)
  3. some actual physically-explainable detection of sight on our bodies. I find this to be a stretch for obvious reasons, but maybe there's something I haven't thought of

Can you feel eyes crawling over your skin? Someone checking out your ass as you bend over? Can you feel the weight of the crowd's gaze as you step on stage? How?