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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW!

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Creative Director @ Electric Saint, making CRESCENT COUNTY BAFTA Breakthrough // 30 Under 30 // illustrator, gamedev, stubborn idiot 🧹🏍️ she/they 👇 Back Crescent County on Kickstarter!! 👇 kickstarter.com/projects/annahollinrake/crescent-county

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · May 20

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Calliope Ryder 🔜 MIGW, SXSW @callioperyder.bsky.social · 3h

aite #sxsw syd

Tomorrow 10am (😭) i’m gonna be talkin mad smack about agile. jira will not be forgotten either, everyone’s getting it. see you there??

after that i’ll be talking madder smack about GG and the rise and normalisation of conspiracy theorists. pray for me, it’s gonna be a big day 🙏

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 3h

God I have Opinions about agile

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Ahahaha THANK YOU it really shouldn't have been a surprise to me that F1 was so appealing when I remembered I was making a racing game featuring lots of sportswear and clashing personalities 🤪

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Idk if you're familiar with Amelia from Chicken Shop Date (or the interview she did with Lando) but she's doing a series where F1 drivers teach her how to drive. It looks like it'll be hilarious

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Have you seen the promo for Passenger Princess? I'm gnawing at the bars of my cage

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Like how do we pitch this. It's clearly genius. We just need a marquee tent and twenty million dollars

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

I can like, hear the wide eyes and frozen confusion and realisation

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

I agree Yuki, I feel like Lance is too aesthetics focused to get into the weeds of baking itself. I feel like he would make elaborate piped icing and fondant art instead

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Inchident

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Who would be responsible for a baked Alaska incident though

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

In my heart Lewis makes cupcakes for his nephew and niece. Fernando can make a 5 minute mug cake, which he will eat silently and alone

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

I feel like you'd either see some Max Secret Knowledge activation like he has with cats, or he'd start complaining about the heat distribution in his oven floor to anyone that would listen. Noel Fielding would find it very amusing to watch and make eyebrows

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

No but this would go so fucking hard actually. Carlos would nail it up until the final hurdle, I feel like Oscar would maybe do??? Okay????? Charles would be hopeless in a wet batter kind of way but Lando would burn everything. George would make something straightforward. Like a victoria sponge

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中邑故一 @mogarism.bsky.social · 1d

護人

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

I feel like the indie scene in London never recovered tbh

Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Also that sandwich changed my life

Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

It's a cultural exchange. Look at their big silly beaks

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

WHY IS THIS BEAUTIFUL STRANGE BIRD HANGING AROUND AND TRYING TO GET MY SANDWICH

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1d

Emotionally I wasn't prepared to see a slightly shit ibis pottering around like a pigeon here in Sydney

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 4d

Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂

LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮

#indiegamedev

STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET
Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas:

STEAM CAPSULE
(Your Game)
The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most
Clear
Readable
Game name
Genre
Hook(s)
Hire on artist!

THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM
Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch
Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10)
The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic)

WISHLISTS
About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week.
ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch.
Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch.

SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS
One review represents about 20-55 soles.
It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good
So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold.

TRAILER
(Viewers skip through trailers)
Start strong
Omit intro logos
Direct to gameplay
60 seconds or less
End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it

Made in October 2023

From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 3d

my entire understanding of baseball is that it's like cricket but with hornier outfits*

*I don't understand cricket either

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 3d

I went out for ONE art market

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 3d

why is my entire feed baseballposting

none of you have ever cared about this kind of ball before

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 3d

developer: put it down. we don't need another one

concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 4d

I'm having so much fun drawing character concepts for our be-in-the-game reward tier that it's making me want to do character commissions.

Someone hit me with a mallet and tell me no

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