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Brenden
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Senior Game & Narrative Designer (Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, Say No! More, Minute of Islands, Last Day of June, etc) - He/Him - Avatar by Viv Schwarz Portfolio: brendengibbons.me
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Hey, I'm Brenden. I'm a queer British Indonesian Game & Narrative Designer for #videogame and #TTRPG!
My day job is Lead Game Designer and in my work, I love to make people feel, think, and be happy. I love to cook and I have two cats.

My #gamedev portfolio's at www.brendengibbons.me
Rice normally used for Paella is usually short grain rice. Risotto rice is usually a medium grain. To be honest, any kind of rice is fine. Even a long grain rice is not an actual issue, it might change the initial consistency. Just add more water/let it cook for longer until you have what you want.
For me, there's two ways:

Take a break long enough that you have a mental divide

Play as another player. My trick is to narrate that player's thoughts to stop you from going to your natural thoughts. "I am now here. I don't know what to do. This thing is attracting my eye, I will click it."
I'm not there today at all, but you might catch Arden around at 4-5pm? They'll already leave before 6pm though.

Hope you have lots of fun!
Oh my god they're playing BEYBLADES at Gamescom??
Based in Germany, but if you get enough for an EU contingent, I'd be interested in joining. 5e?
So thankfully, you do have different direct options (RE5, RE1) to the Messe, but this does mean one less.

Plus the Düsseldorf-Cologne connection is also kind of known for being busy and delayed, so make sure you have extra buffer time for travel when you have something important!
Also the S11 is affected. It won't stop at Hansaring or Nippes, so if you're staying nearby those stations and were planning to take the train to the conference, you'll only have the S19 running every half an hour.

So just double check your routes and consider taking the U-bahn (the trams).
If you're going to #Devcom or #Gamescom '25, there's train construction work that could affect you.

If you're staying in Düsseldorf, the S6 would've been one of the trains you'd take straight to the conference. Now, it's endstation is Köln Mülheim and you'll need to get an additional tram.
happy pride month from one very tired queer dev to another 🫠
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It’s out there! ✨⚙ Oddsparks 1.0 is now available! ⚙✨

What's new: store.steampowered.com/news/app/181...

Go grab a copy while on sale: on Steam, Epic, GOG, PS5, Xbox, and Amazon Luna!
👉 linkin.bio/massiveminit...

#Oddsparks #gamingNews #gamesförderung
Oddsparks 1.0 is out on PS5 & Xbox Series! 🥳

🟢 www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
🟦 store.playstation.com/en-us/produc...

and it'll be out on PC at May 27th, 7pm Central European Summer Time!

store.steampowered.com/app/1817800/...
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is having it's 1.0 on May 27th, on Steam, Xbox Series and PS5! Super proud of our team making this cozy automation game. We're "Very Positive" on Steam, with 87% in 1k+ reviews.
Please share so more folks can know about us!

store.steampowered.com/app/1817800/...
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure releases on PC, Xbox and PS5 on May 27th!
YouTube video by Massive Miniteam
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We've worked hard on making the genre approachable and accessible without dumbing it down. Like, we spent a lot of time making our Logic tools understandable, and we see folks talking about using it with their kids!

Use our game to teach yourself or your kids how an OR gate works!
We love this subgenre and we wanted to crack it open for people. Stardew Valley can be calm and cozy AND get people to pull open a spreadsheet to rush year 1 community center. We wanted to toe the same line and from the reviews, I think we did pretty well, especially since a few has 500+ hours!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is having it's 1.0 on May 27th, on Steam, Xbox Series and PS5! Super proud of our team making this cozy automation game. We're "Very Positive" on Steam, with 87% in 1k+ reviews.
Please share so more folks can know about us!

store.steampowered.com/app/1817800/...
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure releases on PC, Xbox and PS5 on May 27th!
YouTube video by Massive Miniteam
www.youtube.com
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
Oddsparks has been in early access for a year now and we're putting our 1.0 stamp on it and shipping it to PC, Xbox Series X|S & PS5 on 27th May '25

If you want something cosy, thinky and puzzly, please take a look! On PC, you can also play with your friends.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jV...
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My schedule has some space from June onwards, so send me a message if you want to improve your tools & pipelines!

I teach teams how to design good workflows via tools strategy consulting, OpenUSD workflow design, Tool UX Design masterclasses, and workshops.

rystorm.com/consulting
Consulting — Robin-Yann Storm, Product & UX Designer for Tools
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Hi everyone, so my desktop PC died. I tried to resurrect it myself to no avail. I still have a laptop so I can write, but without a proper machine I can't do stuff like mock reviews. A kind person got me most of the way to a new PC, but if you can help at all, I'm at ko-fi.com/malindy
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We're kind of new here so a fresh introduction is probably a good idea, right?

We are Limit Break, the largest mentorship program aimed at underrepresented people working in the UK games industry! Our goal is to help marginalised people progress their careers

More info: www.limitbreak.co.uk