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✏️ illustration, community & game dev 🏗️ working with strange scaffold & spry fox / netflix games 🌲 past: winter burrow, potionomics, ooblets 🌻 rep'd by tobias literary agency 🦊 https://linktr.ee/itsachrista
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Ever since July when the strike started (and my work at Akupara stopped) I've been floating by on just streaming and convention money. I've put off having to take outside help for as long as possible but my savings have finally run dry and rent is due in a couple weeks. ko-fi.com/senabryer

nicole is an incredible reporter, and until today was one of very, very few folks doing consistent, serious investigative work covering the games industry. we desperately need more folks like her in this space, not less, and if you're wise you'll see an opportunity here to scoop her up.

the company that just bought Polygon, Valnet, was recently the subject of an absolutely damning exposé about horrendous labor practices www.thewrap.com/valnet-labor...

I'll say more later, but I no longer have a job. I'm looking for work, as are *so* many of my amazing colleagues. I have lots of ideas and things I'd like to write. I'm really in shock.

Food for thought. External QA, animators, voice actors, and musicians deserve to be part of the narrative of game makers.

painted some guys today

"Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 is another example of how clever and unusual a Strange Scaffold game can be. It’s really appreciated." - @siliconera.bsky.social Read the full review here ⬇️ www.siliconera.com/review-creep...

my small nod to a game that was near impossible to explain to my loved ones as I worked on it and they still supported me ceaselessly. thank you for playing

If you wanted REAL Oblivion news today, here's a reminder that WHEELJAM happened, and produced games good enough that PC Gamer did a lil' write-up about the results! (I am still playing through them all at a snail's pace but I've been thoroughly impressed.)

dappled

spring cleaning

this is a kind of energy i bring to the table

also cooking excursions

yeah that's how i would die

every game dev jumping in to goncharov everyone is so beautiful we should all do improv more often

more recent baking excursions

Got to do a fun chat on how I approached comedy in Spirit Swap and other games for LudoNarracon with @shawndoublea.bsky.social and @writnelson.bsky.social!!!

hello

if i forget my background then i learned you get graced by the rear end of puppycat in our calls

lmao Wanderstop is a good game