Three people, one room, two evenings a week

Ffion spent nine years as a sound engineer for radio drama before she ever wrote about a game, and it shows in every log she files: roughly a third of her timestamps are about audio. She is the reason the desk has a rule against reviewing anything through laptop speakers, and the reason Log 041 spends four paragraphs on a corridor that contains nothing.

She writes the openings for horror and adventure titles, edits everyone else's prose down by about a fifth, and maintains the master log file that all seven archive entries are cut from.

Logs filed: 19 · Longest single sitting: 3 h 20 m

Owen is the one who plays things to completion, which at this desk is a job description rather than a hobby. He takes on the final-hour visits for most logs because he is the only one of the three with the patience to reach them, and he teaches an evening course in film editing that has quietly shaped how the site talks about pacing.

His logs are the driest and the most useful. He once described a critically adored ending as "a competent hour of housekeeping", and the desk has never let him forget it, mostly because he was right.

Logs filed: 14 · Final hours logged: 31

Rhiannon works in a library in the north of the city and joined the desk in 2021 after sending in a complaint about a log that ignored a subtitle bug entirely. She now checks every game's options screens before the stopwatch starts, and each published log carries her configuration note at the top.

She logs shooters and anything with a difficulty curve worth arguing about, and she is responsible for the site's least popular editorial position: that an unskippable opening cutscene is a design failure regardless of how good it is.

Logs filed: 11 · Settings screens documented: 40