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🖊 Senior Writer / Narrative Designer @Playtonicgames.com 🎮 Working on Yooka-Replaylee 🌎 https://rebeccam.carrd.co 🌟 Previously: Dirty Bomb / Gears Tactics #narrativedesign #gamewriting #gamedev
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Your Outie always adjusts the slide so that the image is barely visible.

Anybody know any shoegaze/dreampop vocalists who sound a bit like Julee Cruise? And could you introduce us?

Your Outie always updates their Jira.

Rextro Bytes Back! 🕹️ Rextro's got a brand new look and brand new challenges! 🏅 Wishlist Yooka-Replaylee! Remastered, remixed, revisited, re-whatever we're calling it this week! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cD...

I still love mimics. They're just lil guys who like hiding.

Actually would love a lil Pokemon resort manager.

I really enjoyed this. Definitely recommend checking it out when you can.

newgrounds to their credit has banned all genAI stuff, and they have a good article up on how to hear (or otherwise detect) genAI music, worth reading!: www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-in... very fond of this extremely succinct and dry but lethal description of genAI music 🔥

HELLO #TTRPG Weirdos. We are casting NYC-Based performers this month to collaborate in our VOIDSTREAM scifi horror found footage project. Yes, the one on @backerkit.com for @mothership.bsky.social. Please consider applying, or coercing your friends to do so.

Hey bluesky! We're hiring for a few positions! Come work with us on Project D :) -> halfmermaid.co/jobs 🌟 Senior Character Artist 🌟 Cinematic Manager 🌟 Senior Environment Artist (European timezones) 🌟 Level Designer (European timezones)

👨‍🍳Cozy Kitchen Expansion is coming on March 26th!🥕 💛 This warm and inviting new space will allow you to design your perfect kitchen, discover new adorable spirits, and engage in cozy kitchen-themed activities. 🍳 Wishlist now! https://buff.ly/435dHVx

Where's everyone at the moment? #scriptsky+

Hey, did you know that you can have this cover illustration for free to use in your projects? Yes, even in commercial ones. Available in my freebie library ✨ ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is 40% off in The Storyteller's Festival on Steam! ⛏️💀 It's an honour to be part of such a great event with our folk horror adventure game set on the misty moors of Victorian England. store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

Carcassone l!

Once when travelling on the Northern line the driver announced we would have to wait at a signal before the last stop, Morden. Without missing a beat another passenger turns to his friend and says: "One does not simply walk in to Morden."

Sometimes I do a little world-building. For myself. As a treat.

For the first time in a year, I actually have internal hard drive space.

Alright #TTRPG pals! Submissions are now open for the 2025 TTAF Independent TTRPG Grants! We're looking to help 5-7 indie designers get tabletop projects across the finish line with support for art, editing, and other final touches. 📝Apply Now: tinyurl.com/TTAFGrant2025 📅Deadline: March 15, 2025

Yooka-Replaylee has hit 40,000 Wishlists! 🎉 Maybe we'll show something cool this week? 👀 Please do not stop hitting that Wishlist button we want MORE! ALL OF THE WISHLISTS PLS! 👇 https://buff.ly/40MnOgv

The adventure games are dead thing really highlights to me how difficult it is to market indie games. If decades of indie adventure games hasn't gotten through to folks I don't know what will.

Milchick voice: Please enjoy your company mandated circular meeting simulation training.

Last week I finally finished Baldur's Gate 3. It's amazing how well it works multiplayer. It took three of us just over a year to finish. I'm still processing it tbh

For reference: Procedural generation is shuffling a deck and dealing from it. genAI is feeding every card deck you can find, including ones not for the game, into a wood chipper, slapping a handful of the bits on some glue, and pretending its a playable hand.

'Special K' suggests the existence of 'Ordinary K' of which we do not speak. It is hidden from society. Locked in a darkened room at Kelloggs. Ordinary K weeps. It wants to be recognised and valued. But it is not Special.

Wishlist Forbidden Solitaire!* store.steampowered.com/app/3414580 *We are not liable for any physical, psychological, or metaphysical effects, including unusual occurrences or inexplicable phenomena, resulting from playing, downloading, or expressing interest in Forbidden Solitaire.☠️

my guy @diegoarguello.bsky.social has a really fun piece about stop motion games www.theverge.com/games/607154...

VAC and Casting Call Club are still going strong, but are there any other places indie VA projects hang out? Looking for audio drama groups etd

“perpetuating the myth that the (non-romance) genre is only for boys – and that romance is only for girls – is unfair….the writers themselves are too tired and appalled at having to continually wage the battle of the sexes to take up arms once more. Dragons are easier to defeat, it seems.”

I see people saying this sort of thing often, and quite frankly it makes me sad. The truth is, more people are making good adventure games now than were ever made during the “golden age” of the 90s. For example: 🧵

You're in your kitchen reheating leftovers. You walk through a doorway. The lighting has changed, Giancarlo Esposito sits in your favourite chair. Why is he here now? Why is the lighting different? What strange power brought him here?

Wow, a 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box containing its original pigments! Looks similar to a modern-day set! An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of king Amenhotep II. 📷 The Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680 #Archaeology

Applications are open until February 21st! We have 15 subsidised places and 3 fully-funded places available for this first year

I bought a new recording setup up for recording at home.and the quality is way above anything I've had at home before. Now to get my voice in shape!

I found a crazy bug in Avowed guys

Look at this thing! Another early design, to iron out how things like energy is generated for your city.

1/2021-1/2025 After 4 years, Howl is finally finished! A companion and a project of love to me; I hope it keeps inspiring magic and creativity. 🧿🩵 See the rest of the thread for close ups! #howlsmovingcastle #howlcosplay #katsucon2025 #embroidery

'Safety first' when sacking Rome.

🚨🔄 ANNOUNCING: Expelled! - an Overboard! game! Verity Amersham is a scholarship girl at a top boarding school. But someone's pushed a Prefect out of a window & everyone says it was her! She has one day to clear her name - or find someone to take the fall. MARCH 12th ⭐ tinyurl.com/vj5rhnwj ⭐

You have to collect all the little audio logs. Otherwise they clump together, and before you know it you're living in an infodump.

8 days till business is taken care of... - Countess Orlova #CabernetGame

If you're in London next Friday, join us for a fireside chat with Emily Short about all things IF! www.meetup.com/oxford-and-l...