Lawrence 'Scanlines' Lichfield
@scanlines · Scanlines’ Journal · Substack profile · Games
Lawrence 'Scanlines' Lichfield has 920 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #55 on Substack's Games Rising board. 26 publications recommend them, 3 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 9.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 920
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 728
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 26
- +3 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 9
- Bestsellers rank
- none
- Rising #55, Games
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 920 | 728 |
Leaderboard positions
| Board | Rank now | Best on record | Reads on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games Rising | #55 | #55 | 4 of 4 |
Rank on each read
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games Rising | 71 | 62 | 62 | 55 | ▲16 |
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Recommendations
26 publications recommend Lawrence 'Scanlines' Lichfield; 3 started in the last 30 days. Lawrence 'Scanlines' Lichfield recommends 9, and 6 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 3 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 5 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
| 2026-10 | 3 |
Recommended by
Dylan Cornelius1.3k followers · started Feb 2025 · mutual
Jim Mander613 followers · started Jan 10, 2026 · mutual
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- The Intellectual Investorstarted Aug 25, 2026
- Aging Gamefullystarted Jul 21, 2026
- Jogos a se Julgarstarted Jun 16, 2026
- Plpe’s Substackstarted Jun 14, 2026
- Nerd Centralstarted Jun 12, 2026 · mutual
- Fiction Analysisstarted May 10, 2026
- An American Writer and Essayist started May 9, 2026
- Joseph's Substackstarted Feb 27, 2026
- Mark's Occultstarted Jan 19, 2026
- Game Music Analysis Clubstarted Jan 8, 2026
- Late to the LAN Partystarted Jan 3, 2026
- The Internet Can Be Home To Good Things Sometimesstarted Jan 1, 2026
- The Boss Levelstarted Aug 2025
- TYPEDBYTOM 🖳started Jul 2025
- Margot Plays Video Gamesstarted May 2025 · mutual
- The 8-Bit Perspectivestarted Apr 2025 · mutual
All 26
- Reconnect Recapstarted Apr 2025 · mutual
- Jagger Bytestarted Apr 2025
Recommends
Harrison Polites1.3k followers · started Mar 4, 2026- Dylan Cornelius1.3k followers · started Jan 2025 · mutual
- Jim Mander613 followers · started Dec 5, 2025 · mutual
- Dego Talks Game Designstarted Sep 6, 2026
- Blood Cosmos by Lawrence Lichfieldstarted May 6, 2026
- Margot Plays Video Gamesstarted May 2025 · mutual
- The 8-Bit Perspectivestarted May 2025 · mutual
- Reconnect Recapstarted Apr 2025 · mutual
- Nerd Centralstarted Jan 2025 · mutual
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other Games writers with under 1,000 followers (47 writers in that group), but not Lawrence 'Scanlines' Lichfield.
- recommends 4 of themGamedev Relay
- recommends 3 of themThe Learning Arcade
- recommends 2 of themThe Video Game Storyteller@thevideogamestoryteller
- recommends 2 of themHarrison Polites@harrisonpolites
- recommends 2 of themButton Musher
- recommends 2 of themSolaris Media
- recommends 2 of themSavvy Gaming Network
- recommends 2 of themAshlander Analysis
- recommends 2 of themThe Drifter
- recommends 2 of themAttack. Item. Run.
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