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John Ayliff ([Space Goblin Games](https://www.spacegoblingames.com/)) is a creator of text-based games and interactive fiction

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Foolish Earth Creatures: October 2026

This month I've finished the “Action Hero” chapter I talked about last month. This took longer than most chapters: as well as turning out to be one of the longest chapters in the…

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Foolish Earth Creatures: September 2026

Milestone achieved: I have a placeholder outline of each chapter. The whole shape of the game is coming into focus! Now I'm working on the text of the remaining chapters. This is…

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Foolish Earth Creatures: August 2026

I've made some progress on Foolish Earth Creatures this month, although most of that has been filling out chapter structures with placeholder text so there's nothing very…

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Space Goblin Games Gen-AI Policy

A few weeks ago I filled out a Canadian government survey on generative AI in the arts . (The survery is still up as of this blog post, in case any Canadian readers want to fill…

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Foolish Earth Creatures: July 2026

Early dev diary this month as I'm going travelling tomorrow and don't know if I'll have time to do any writing until next month. I'm continuing to fill in the structure and then…

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Seedship: Minor interface update

I've launched small interface update to Seedship . It should be live on itch.io , the App Store and Google Play . 1.4.0 patch notes: Changed layout code to hopefully fix the bug…

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Beyond the Chiron Gate: Light Mode

I've just launched an update to Beyond the Chiron Gate that adds a dark-on-light colour scheme. Apologies to anyone who had trouble with the default colour scheme and has had to…

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Foolish Earth Creatures: May 2026

Where would a space hero be without their trusty spaceship? On the ground, that's where. Once again I haven't had a huge amount of time and energy to write this month, but I've…

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