Amy-Leigh Shaw

@diveamydive

Loud Whisperer • Dragon Fanatic • 🍬Award-Winning Writer and Narrative Designer @ Sweet Baby Inc🍬 • Previously @ Rocksteady Games • ✨Limit Break Mentor✨ • She/Her 💖💛💙 🏳️‍🌈 “Very sweet and always improved with butter.”

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Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· 10d

Writing the book vs reading it back a month later, truly

Squidward, from the animated tv show Spongebob, holds up some crumpled pages. He looks very unwell.

A hand holds a quill which is writing in fire itself.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· 14d

Also @adamchase.bsky.social it turns out that Totoro was just hanging out right outside the Picturehouse screening rooms the WHOLE TIME 😭

A photograph of a display table that features a large painted Totoro cutout.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· 14d

Just finished watching the hottest premiere of the weekend at my local cinema 😎 @jetlagthegame.bsky.social

A photograph of a cinema screen showing the title card for the premiere of the first episode of Jet Lag’s “Japanorama” series.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· 21d

BOIL EM, MASH EM, STICK EM IN A STEW

A photograph of a basket full of red and golden potatoes, freshly dug with the earth still on, sitting amongst some red lettuces in a vegetable patch

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· 25d

After lots of attempts, it turns out that trusting the bees was the best method 🐝🫡

A recently pollinated pumpkin with a withered flower, held up by a hand. It’s roughly the same size as the palm.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· 26d

The prints from this trip are reproductions of old propaganda posters from the Kraków Poster Gallery - this one’s my favourite!

A reproduction print of a 1987 Polish poster celebrating the 36th anniversary of the October revolution. It features a sword with a red flag tied to its blade, breaking through thick, dark chains, and reads, “1917 WROGÓW LUDU ZWYCIĘŻYŁ RĘKAMI SWYMI LUD”, or “1917 - The people defeated the enemies of the people with their hands”

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jul 16

Miłość w Krakowie 😭🌭

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jul 16

brits and Ukrainians all waiting together in the non-eu passport queue really feels like

a meme, two rollercoaster carriages pass each other - one is full of terrifying skeletons, the other is full of horrified people

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jul 1

Perfect for hand-to-hand combat.

A photograph of a large, freshly picked cucumber, held out in front of a vegetable patch.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 26

Wait I found my photos 😭😭😭 This was the entrance 💀

A set of worn stone stairs lead down to an eerie basement with handprints all over the walls

A very short hole in an old stone basement wall leads to a dark passageway beyond

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 26

Today I took the first big step towards a cool thing I am working on, and I am very excited about it.

A photograph of a huge green mountain island rising up out of the sea on a bright day.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 24

Pumpkin’s too big, grapes too purple, etc etc

A photograph of a bunch of grapes on a grapevine, slowly turning from green to a deep, dark purple.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 23

I see the future and it is round 👀

A pumpkin flower from the pumpkin plant pictured in the quoted post, with a lovely future pumpkin-lump, round and peeking out beneath its blossom

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 20

Hey, so I also think those embroidered slogan caps are cute, but like… what the fuck is this???

A photo of shelves filled with slogan caps, saying things like “oysters” - the cap centered in the frame reads “4chan stan”.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 19

The best book club months for the busiest soldiers etc etc

A bright yellow paperback book is photographed from above on a green corduroy background. The cover reads: “PINK-PILLED
Women and the far right
LOIS SHEARING
LEFT BOOK CLUB”

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 13

HUGE PUMPKDATE DEVELOPMENT IN LITERALLY 24 HOURS

A new photograph of the giant pumpkin plant also featured in the quoted post, this time with a big yellow flower.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 13

Every photo I take of my apples looks like an oil painting 😭

A photograph of some still-ripening apples, growing amongst lush green leaves on a sunny day.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 12

Back once again Back once again Back once again Back once again Back once again

Another photo of the pumpkin plant that is pictured in the quoted post. It’s even larger now, and trying to grow out of the vegetable patch.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 6

Me, constantly:

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· Jun 6

SPEAKING of talks, your favourite generational yapper will be part of a narrative panel at Develop:Brighton this year, amongst a sea of terrifyingly talented co-panellists. I’m not *saying* you should catch me there… but I’ve been known to give out rare Sweet Baby merch at Develop in the past 👀

A screenshot from the Develop:Brighton 2026 schedule, which reads:

“Developing Characters For Performance - A Writers' Panel
Sagar Beroshi The Chinese Room
Vicky Wheeler Supermassive Games
Daniel Bowditch Criterion Games
Amy-Leigh Shaw Sweet Baby
• 4:30pm - 5:00pm
Room 5”

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 26

Heatwave pumpkdate:

A photograph of the same giant pumpkin plant as featured in the quoted post, much larger now, and planted outside, in a vegetable patch. Some of its leaves are a bit brown around the edges.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 26

Oh, sure, everybody *says* Devolver’s so cool, Devolver’s so great… but look! Here they are trying to get me to sign an anti-union contract! It’s been literal years! I’ll never sell out my comrades!!!

A screenshot from the Devolver mobile game “Tumble Time” which shows the player inbox. The inbox lists a daily reward, a challenge called “guess I can’t do anything right” and then at the top, a message labelled “anti-union contract”.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 22

Heading to London Comic Con today? Me too! You can catch me with the wonderful @thecharleswebb.bsky.social, @gkr.bsky.social and @timwoodheadhunter.bsky.social on the careers stage at 5:30pm, where we’ll be talking all things Games Writing & Narrative Design ☺️ See you there! 💛

A promo image for the panel Amy-Leigh mentions in the attached post. The background, behind a soft purple filter, shows the ExCel building against the London skyline. The top corners each hold the logos for Sweet Baby Inc and London Comic Con, respectively. In the bottom right corner, there’s an illustration of Amy-Leigh alongside the text “Careers Panel - I Just Do The Words:
Common Misconceptions Around Writing & Narrative Design
May 22nd | 5:30pm | Careers Fair Stage”

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 3

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 3

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold, and she is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 3

Ah, ah.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 3

This can and should be me

A cropped image of one of the patterns modelled on the cover of the knitting guide in the previous post: a happy child wearing a yellow jumper with blue stripes on the sleeves and an image of Leonardo knitted into the front.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 3

I’m a big crocheter and I’ve bought a lot of wool from Hobbii over the years. Safe to say I will absolutely never use them again. Even before we get into anything even more serious, generative ai is destroying the crochet and knitting community. Support your local wool shop.

A LinkedIn screenshot from the company “Hobbii”, which reads:
“Let's be honest: Nobody has 100% control over AI
Is this image Al? No doubt about it.
At Hobbii, we use Al a lot. It has clear perks-like saving our tech team from long, awkward photoshoots (even if the consequence is a photo that looks a bit more staged than casual, it hopefully gets the job done)...
Beyond the quick wins and the fun images, there's a real conversation to be had.
Right now, the industry narrative is obsessed with convenience. "Faster, cheaper, automated." But at what cost?
As we integrate LLMs deeper into our tech stacks, we're facing a shift that most corporate posts ignore: The steady trade-off between scaling and sovereignty.
At Hobbii, we're constantly navigating three conflicting perspectives:
• The excitement of building in and playing with new possibilities.
• The strategic concern over losing control of our own data foundations.
• The human question: What does this do to our autonomy and how we develop knowledge?
There are no easy answers or polished slides for this.”

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 2

LOOK AT MY LARGE SON

A photograph of the same pumpkin plant pictured in the quoted post, now no longer a seedling but instead waving massive pointy green leaves in the air.

Amy-Leigh Shaw@diveamydive· May 1

On Thursday I ran narrative workshops for some really lovely students, and they all left with homemade Sweet Baby Inc trading cards 🥲 Truly, I love a craft.