Liam Harwood

@liamrharwood.com

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Welcome to Liam's internet brain hole. Lead Technical Narrative Designer at Ghost Story Games (Judas). Previously created Obscurant with King Brick Games.

*(in alphabetical order)* - **Hell Followed With Us** by Andrew Joseph White - **The House in the Cerulean Sea** by TJ Klune - **Interior Chinatown** by Charles Yu - **Martyr!** by Kaveh Akbar - **Piranesi** by Susanna Clarke - **Play Nice** by Jason Schreier - **Sword and Citadel** by Gene Wolfe - **The Sympathizer** by Viet Thanh Nguyen - **This Must be the Place** by Maggie O’Farrell - **Yellowface** by RF Kuang
🔟 **Daredevil: Born Again** (season 1) 9️⃣ **Peacemaker** (season 2) 8️⃣ **The White Lotus** (season 3) 7️⃣ **Slow Horses** (season 5) 6️⃣ **Severance** (season 2) 5️⃣ **The Studio** (season 1) 4️⃣ **The Chair Company** (season 1) 3️⃣ **Pluribus** (season 1) 2️⃣ **The Rehearsal** (season 2) 1️⃣ **Andor** (season 2) Honorable Mentions: - **The Bear** (season 4) - **The Paper** (season 1) - **Futurama** (season 13) - **Poker Face** (season 2) David Lynch Memorial Rewatch: - **Twin Peaks**
🔟 **28 Years Later** (dir. Danny Boyle) 9️⃣ **Wake Up Dead Man** (dir. Rian Johnson) 8️⃣ **Superman** (dir. James Gunn) 7️⃣ **Friendship** (dir. Andrew DeYoung) 6️⃣ **Companion** (dir. Drew Hancock) 5️⃣ **Frankenstein** (dir. Guillermo del Toro) 4️⃣ **Sinners** (dir. Ryan Coogler) 3️⃣ **Bugonia** (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) 2️⃣ **Weapons** (dir. Zach Cregger) 1️⃣ **One Battle After Another** (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) Honorable Mentions: - **KPop Demon Hunters** (dir. Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans) - **The Naked Gun** (dir. Akiva Schaffer) Favorite Movies That Didn’t Come Out This Year: - **Nosferatu** (dir. Robert Eggers) - **Hundreds of Beavers** (dir. Mike Cheslik) Amazon Presents: Bad Movie of the Year (of the Decade?): - **War of the Worlds** (dir. Rich Lee)
🔟 Bon Iver - **SABLE, fABLE** 9️⃣ Billy Woods - **GOLLIWOG** 8️⃣ Turnstile - **NEVER ENOUGH** 7️⃣ Danny Brown - **Stardust** 6️⃣ Model/Actriz - **Pirouette** 5️⃣ Black Country, New Road - **Forever Howlong** 4️⃣ Clipse - **Let God Sort Em Out** 3️⃣ clipping. - **Dead Channel Sky** 2️⃣ Viagra Boys - **viagr aboys** 1️⃣ Geese - **Getting Killed** Favorite Album That Technically Came Out In 2024: - Cameron Winter - **Heavy Metal** Game Score of the Year: - Lorien Testard - **Clair Obscur: Expedition 33** Movie Score of the Year: - Jonny Greenwood - **One Battle After Another**
🔟 **Skin Deep** (Blendo Games, PC) 9️⃣ **Death Stranding 2: On the Beach** (Kojima Productions, PS5) 8️⃣ **despelote** (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, PC) 7️⃣ **Split Fiction** (Hazelight Studios, PS5) 6️⃣ **Baby Steps** (Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy, PC) 5️⃣ **Donkey Kong Bananza** (Nintendo, Switch 2) 4️⃣ **Hollow Knight: Silksong** (Team Cherry, PC) 3️⃣ **Clair Obscur: Expedition 33** (Sandfall Interactive, PC) 2️⃣ **Blue Prince** (Dogubomb, PC) 1️⃣ **Hades II** (Supergiant Games, PC) Game I Just Started But Is Good So Far: - **The Séance of Blake Manor** (Spooky Doorway, PC) The PUBG Memorial “Sweaty Hands” Award: - **ARC Raiders** (Embark Studios, PC) Obligatory Fromsoft Award: - **Elden Ring: Nightreign** (From Software, PC)
Cover photo with Hades 2, Andor, One Battle After Another, Getting Killed, and Piranesi
*(in alphabetical order)* - **Between the World and Me** by Ta-Nehisi Coates - **Blood Meridian** by Cormac McCarthy - **Chain-Gang All-Stars** by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - **The Fifth Season** by N.K. Jemisin - **James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes** by James Acaster - **Mad Honey** by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan - **Notes on an Execution** by Danya Kukafka - **The Shadow of the Gods** by John Gwynne - **Speaker for the Dead** by Orson Scott Card - **Tress of the Emerald Sea** by Brandon Sanderson
🔟 **Monkey Man** (dir. Dev Patel) 9️⃣ **Kinds of Kindness** (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) 8️⃣ **Furiosa** (dir. George Miller) 7️⃣ **Conclave** (dir. Edward Berger) 6️⃣ **Deadpool & Wolverine** (dir. Shawn Levy) 5️⃣ **Rebel Ridge** (dir. Jeremy Saulnier) 4️⃣ **Challengers** (dir. Luca Guadagnino) 3️⃣ **I Saw the TV Glow** (dir. Jane Schoenbrun) 2️⃣ **Strange Darling** (dir. J.T. Mollner) 1️⃣ **Dune: Part Two** (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
🔟 **Agatha All Along** (season 1) 9️⃣ **What We Do in the Shadows** (season 6) 8️⃣ **Mr. and Mrs. Smith** (season 1) 7️⃣ **X-Men ‘97** (season 1) 6️⃣ **Arcane** (season 2) 5️⃣ **Slow Horses** (season 4) 4️⃣ **Fallout** (season 1) 3️⃣ **House of the Dragon** (season 2) 2️⃣ **The Penguin** (season 1) 1️⃣ **Shogun** (season 1)
🔟 Doechii - **Alligator Bites Never Heal** 9️⃣ Adrianne Lenker - **Bright Future** 8️⃣ Tyler, the Creator - **CHROMAKOPIA** 7️⃣ Jack White - **No Name** 6️⃣ Charli xcx - **BRAT** 5️⃣ JPEGMAFIA - **I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU** 4️⃣ Kendrick Lamar - **GNX** 3️⃣The Smile - **Cutouts** 2️⃣ Geordie Greep - **The New Sound** 1️⃣ Vampire Weekend - **Only God Was Above Us**
🔟 **The Rise of the Golden Idol** (Color Gray Games, PC) 9️⃣ **Animal Well** (Billy Basso, PC) 8️⃣ **Indiana Jones and the Great Circle** (MachineGames, PC) 7️⃣ **UFO 50** (Mossmouth, PC) 6️⃣ **Lorelei and the Laser Eyes** (Simogo, PC) 5️⃣ **Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree** (FromSoftware, PC) 4️⃣ **1000xRESIST** (Sunset Visitor, PC) 3️⃣ **Tactical Breach Wizards** (Suspicious Developments, PC) 2️⃣ **Balatro** (LocalThunk, PC) 1️⃣ **Astro Bot** (Team Asobi, PS5)