Kim Acuff Steiner
@emberdione.bsky.social
Chief Creative Officer at Prime8 Entertainment.
Principal Level Designer by day.
Prev: LBI, Zynga, Blizzard, ATVI, Sega. My views are my own, and entirely absurd.
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Principal Level Designer by day.
Prev: LBI, Zynga, Blizzard, ATVI, Sega. My views are my own, and entirely absurd.
Profile pic by @meggoart <3
She/Her
I stream at https://www.twitch.tv/emberdione
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Kim Acuff Steiner
@emberdione.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hi!
I'm Kim Steiner, and I'm a Cat Shaped designer! I have a focus in Level Design, but due to the Industry being what it is and a HEAVY dose of ADHD, I am very much a generalist.
I've been in the Industry for almost 18 years, and I've gotten to work on a ton of cool games with super cool people.
I'm Kim Steiner, and I'm a Cat Shaped designer! I have a focus in Level Design, but due to the Industry being what it is and a HEAVY dose of ADHD, I am very much a generalist.
I've been in the Industry for almost 18 years, and I've gotten to work on a ton of cool games with super cool people.
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Up and down thread because Greg and all these kids and all the people who made this happen are incredible humans:
Short video from inside, midway through the unloading op:
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Up and down thread because Greg and all these kids and all the people who made this happen are incredible humans:
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Lord, grant me the confidence of James Cameron.
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Lord, grant me the confidence of James Cameron.
I made an "about you: video games" post finally. XD
Here it is for you all too!
Here it is for you all too!
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I made an "about you: video games" post finally. XD
Here it is for you all too!
Here it is for you all too!
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✨ Wylde Society First Look ✨
Step back in time as Vivian Wylde; witch & socialite and do things like:
🎨 Decorate your boarding house
📝Choose and host witchy tenants
💖 Matchmake for lavish social events
✨ Perform powerful and charming spells
Enjoy, and please share✨
Step back in time as Vivian Wylde; witch & socialite and do things like:
🎨 Decorate your boarding house
📝Choose and host witchy tenants
💖 Matchmake for lavish social events
✨ Perform powerful and charming spells
Enjoy, and please share✨
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
✨ Wylde Society First Look ✨
Step back in time as Vivian Wylde; witch & socialite and do things like:
🎨 Decorate your boarding house
📝Choose and host witchy tenants
💖 Matchmake for lavish social events
✨ Perform powerful and charming spells
Enjoy, and please share✨
Step back in time as Vivian Wylde; witch & socialite and do things like:
🎨 Decorate your boarding house
📝Choose and host witchy tenants
💖 Matchmake for lavish social events
✨ Perform powerful and charming spells
Enjoy, and please share✨
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I'm sort of delighted that "studios" works for both games and TV, even though studios in those two industries are different.
Anyway, you can't have a breakout hit without risk, because despite what studios try to do, there's no guaranteed formula for success. There are too many external factors!
Anyway, you can't have a breakout hit without risk, because despite what studios try to do, there's no guaranteed formula for success. There are too many external factors!
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'm sort of delighted that "studios" works for both games and TV, even though studios in those two industries are different.
Anyway, you can't have a breakout hit without risk, because despite what studios try to do, there's no guaranteed formula for success. There are too many external factors!
Anyway, you can't have a breakout hit without risk, because despite what studios try to do, there's no guaranteed formula for success. There are too many external factors!
@janeng.com @willwarmstrong.bsky.social
The Girl Gamers are giving Firewatch love today - www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers...
The Girl Gamers are giving Firewatch love today - www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers...
From the GirlGamers community on Reddit: My turn!
Explore this post and more from the GirlGamers community
www.reddit.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
@janeng.com @willwarmstrong.bsky.social
The Girl Gamers are giving Firewatch love today - www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers...
The Girl Gamers are giving Firewatch love today - www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers...
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Picard management tip: If you're unhappy with a crew member's behavior, tell them straight out in private. Don't be passive aggressive.
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Picard management tip: If you're unhappy with a crew member's behavior, tell them straight out in private. Don't be passive aggressive.
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it's just so goddamn obvious that we're slouching into a global recession, and anyone who tells you different is most likely overleveraged in AI stock
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
it's just so goddamn obvious that we're slouching into a global recession, and anyone who tells you different is most likely overleveraged in AI stock
My kid wouldn't latch and 100% would have died without formula you fucking brainworm host.
There's a reason infant mortality dropped off a fucking cliff when formula became a thing.
There's a reason infant mortality dropped off a fucking cliff when formula became a thing.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
My kid wouldn't latch and 100% would have died without formula you fucking brainworm host.
There's a reason infant mortality dropped off a fucking cliff when formula became a thing.
There's a reason infant mortality dropped off a fucking cliff when formula became a thing.
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Your annual new years reminder
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Your annual new years reminder
Players have discovered that the Genshin x Duolingo event can be completed immediately if you just change your phone's date.
Hilarious.
Hilarious.
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Players have discovered that the Genshin x Duolingo event can be completed immediately if you just change your phone's date.
Hilarious.
Hilarious.
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"recap your 2025 media consumption" brand-engagement moments feel wholesome to me in the same way a veggie-flavored chip tastes more wholesome than bbq chips
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"recap your 2025 media consumption" brand-engagement moments feel wholesome to me in the same way a veggie-flavored chip tastes more wholesome than bbq chips
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?
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Cloudheim is happy to be a part of the Four is a Party Celebration on Steam! 🥳
This event showcases many fun games that capture the silly, hectic experience of having the gang altogether. Take a look! https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/daedalic/sale/fourisaparty2025
This event showcases many fun games that capture the silly, hectic experience of having the gang altogether. Take a look! https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/daedalic/sale/fourisaparty2025
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Cloudheim is happy to be a part of the Four is a Party Celebration on Steam! 🥳
This event showcases many fun games that capture the silly, hectic experience of having the gang altogether. Take a look! https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/daedalic/sale/fourisaparty2025
This event showcases many fun games that capture the silly, hectic experience of having the gang altogether. Take a look! https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/daedalic/sale/fourisaparty2025
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hmmm so let's pretend I surveyed 150+ game designers about their personally most influential games, and aggregated it, which created a list that's actually quite interesting/surprising... I'm already talking to Game Developer. who else would be interested in seeing this list do you think?
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
hmmm so let's pretend I surveyed 150+ game designers about their personally most influential games, and aggregated it, which created a list that's actually quite interesting/surprising... I'm already talking to Game Developer. who else would be interested in seeing this list do you think?
I'm 100 pages away from hitting my reading goal for the year and y'all have no idea how proud of myself I am for fighting for this hobby of mine.
I lost it for years and now I've dug it out and spent enough time with it to feel good about it again.
I lost it for years and now I've dug it out and spent enough time with it to feel good about it again.
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'm 100 pages away from hitting my reading goal for the year and y'all have no idea how proud of myself I am for fighting for this hobby of mine.
I lost it for years and now I've dug it out and spent enough time with it to feel good about it again.
I lost it for years and now I've dug it out and spent enough time with it to feel good about it again.
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Ask yourself if kids prefer toys, or stores. Games from a generation ago were allowed to be toys. Games today are forced to be stores.
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Ask yourself if kids prefer toys, or stores. Games from a generation ago were allowed to be toys. Games today are forced to be stores.
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while i am always looking for a charitable take on a bad situation, as i believe strongly in hanlon's razor, there's another principle at play:
actions indistinguishable from malice in their effects are indistinguishable from malice in their morality.
actions indistinguishable from malice in their effects are indistinguishable from malice in their morality.
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
while i am always looking for a charitable take on a bad situation, as i believe strongly in hanlon's razor, there's another principle at play:
actions indistinguishable from malice in their effects are indistinguishable from malice in their morality.
actions indistinguishable from malice in their effects are indistinguishable from malice in their morality.
It's got less spyware. It doesn't have a subscription. It has buttons. It generally works and if not is easier to repair. It's not as easy to get hacked. They don't get constant pop ups and ads.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's got less spyware. It doesn't have a subscription. It has buttons. It generally works and if not is easier to repair. It's not as easy to get hacked. They don't get constant pop ups and ads.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
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Two posts I saw this morning
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Two posts I saw this morning
I'm reading "I'm Glad My Mom's Dead." And suddenly having a very vivid memory of watching some movie as a kid where the mom goes completely batshit and thinking "why would anyone want to watch a movie of this? My mom does this shit and it's not interesting or funny."
Poor kid Kim didn't know.
Poor kid Kim didn't know.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I'm reading "I'm Glad My Mom's Dead." And suddenly having a very vivid memory of watching some movie as a kid where the mom goes completely batshit and thinking "why would anyone want to watch a movie of this? My mom does this shit and it's not interesting or funny."
Poor kid Kim didn't know.
Poor kid Kim didn't know.
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Here’s what’s happening this week 12.7–12.14:
🎨Hobby Night — Mon, Dec 8 | 6–9 PM (Main Room)
❄️Icewind Dale: Session 0 with Ben | Wed, Dec 10 | 6–9 PM (Sapphire Study)
🧀Howdy Cheese: A Friendly Intro to the Seven Styles of Cheese
| Thurs, Dec 11 | 6:30–9:30 PM (Store-Wide Event) 21+
🎨Hobby Night — Mon, Dec 8 | 6–9 PM (Main Room)
❄️Icewind Dale: Session 0 with Ben | Wed, Dec 10 | 6–9 PM (Sapphire Study)
🧀Howdy Cheese: A Friendly Intro to the Seven Styles of Cheese
| Thurs, Dec 11 | 6:30–9:30 PM (Store-Wide Event) 21+
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here’s what’s happening this week 12.7–12.14:
🎨Hobby Night — Mon, Dec 8 | 6–9 PM (Main Room)
❄️Icewind Dale: Session 0 with Ben | Wed, Dec 10 | 6–9 PM (Sapphire Study)
🧀Howdy Cheese: A Friendly Intro to the Seven Styles of Cheese
| Thurs, Dec 11 | 6:30–9:30 PM (Store-Wide Event) 21+
🎨Hobby Night — Mon, Dec 8 | 6–9 PM (Main Room)
❄️Icewind Dale: Session 0 with Ben | Wed, Dec 10 | 6–9 PM (Sapphire Study)
🧀Howdy Cheese: A Friendly Intro to the Seven Styles of Cheese
| Thurs, Dec 11 | 6:30–9:30 PM (Store-Wide Event) 21+
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Somehow it's already December (what), and since our gaming backlog isn't big enough we're taking the time to look at some of the excellent indie games that came out in November that you might have missed.
Indie Watch November: Five new Indie titles that you may have missed
November has been another month chock full of new Indie Games including cozy survival games like Winter Burrow. Here are five more titles you may have miss
blizzardwatch.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somehow it's already December (what), and since our gaming backlog isn't big enough we're taking the time to look at some of the excellent indie games that came out in November that you might have missed.
If every person who follows me had bought Ghost Hunter Simulator, I would be having an actual nice holiday instead of getting my normal holiday of "too stressed to eat, sleep, or be merry."
December 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If every person who follows me had bought Ghost Hunter Simulator, I would be having an actual nice holiday instead of getting my normal holiday of "too stressed to eat, sleep, or be merry."
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.