James O’Connor

@jickle.net

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Games industry producer, narrative designer, editor and critic. Author of Untitled Goose Game for Boss Fight Books and (unannounced second book). jamesoconnorau at gmail.

A screenshot of Marvel Snap. I have won, and have 7491 points in the center
Heat (4 stars), Sissy (two and a half stars), The First Slam Dunk (4 stars), City on Fire (4 stars)
Letterboxd four: Pillion, 4 stars; Sorry Baby, 3.5 stars; A Bittersweet Life, four stars; Undertone, 2 stars
Pictures of the covers of nine games: Zelda Breath of the Wild, Burnout 3, Deus Ex, GTA IV, Immortality, Broken Sword 1, Smash Bros. Melee, Knights of the Old Republic and Ghost Trick.
Chappell Roan holding a puppet of some kind of withered beast
A crowded concert, someone in the crowd is holding up a 3DS
Honestly it’s an image of a whiteboard this is largely indecipherable, although it says “SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEM” at the top and has a picture of Mario in a kart firing a green shell at the bottom
No Other Choice, One Battle After Another, Sinners, It Was Just An Accident, Superman, Friendship, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Weapons, Wake Up Dead Man, Sirat, Avatar 3, The Naked Gun, Black Bag, Frankenstein, Final Destination 6, K-Pop Demon Hunters
A LEGO Game Boy box sitting on a couch
The title screen for the Power Rangers Mighty Force event The Not-So-Great Pumpkin
Untitled Goose Game, James O'Connor Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders The Road, Cormac McCarthy My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferreante Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel The Song of Achilles, Madeline MIller Heaven, Mieko Kawakami Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon White Teeth, Zadie Smith
A screenshot from Goodreads showing that readers of my book Untitled Goose Game (Boss Fight Books #35) also enjoy Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, apparently
My top 10 movies since 2000: Hereditary, Challengers. Synecdoche New York, Zodiac, The Act of Killing, There Will Be Blood, The Florida Project, The Wind Rises, The Handmaiden, Mad Max: Fury Road
A white fluffy cat sitting outside peacefully enjoying the sun
An issue of Mania magazine, a 2010s-era Australian kids magazine. There's a Minion on the cover.