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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW!

@annahollinrake.com

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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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💋 kiss your friends on the mouth??
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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 1m

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

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

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 · 8m

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 · 6h

護人

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 6h

I feel like the indie scene in London never recovered tbh

Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 8h

Also that sandwich changed my life

Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 8h

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

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 8h

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

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 8h

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 · 2d

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
valadria.com

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 2d

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 · 2d

I went out for ONE art market

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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

If I am mistaken please let me know! I wanna get stickers and keychains from someone who brought them over in a beaten up suitcase and is running on four hours of sleep cause their decorative vines kept falling off their display cubes

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

Genuinely wild there's no artist alley or independent creator market here. It feels like such an obvious audience! Like I wanna buy trinkets direct from the people that have made them but it's mostly just medium to large scale online shops??

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

Heading to PAX today! Given I'm missing MCM London this year I legally have to attend a convention in October or I get weird and itchy

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rj @rj.dcellgames.com · 4d

more of a game director job is the same skill as doing improv comedy than any of us would ever like to admit

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

I'm off there next!

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

Been undercaffeinated for DAYS

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

Solved the coffee problem: Melbourne flat whites are one espresso shot, London's are two

Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 6d

Current Melbourne observations:

- The centre is kinda like if SF downtown was clean and not scary, but was also kissing City of London. Stupid pretty.

- Food is. So good.

- Actual late night/24 hour stuff? All our 24hr food died in lockdown

Heretic opinion:
- I prefer London flat whites

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 5d

The Digimon Movie has a soundtrack of wall to wall bangers and I am eternally in love with Tai's mum and her terrible cooking

www.polygon.com/digimon-the-...

25 years later, Digimon: The Movie still doesn't get the credit it deserves

Long in Pokémon’s shadow, Digimon deserves recognition for helping spark anime’s boom with hits like Demon Slayer and for its lasting legacy

www.polygon.com

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Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 6d

No idea. What you're talking about. Definitely won't get me excommunicated

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