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Emily 🌈
@emilygamedev.bsky.social
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A tired game dev in Berlin 😈 former narrative designer, writer and community manager at @balancingmonkey.bsky.social.
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blomidev.bsky.social
Hey Bluesky! I figured it would be a good time to show off the game I've been working on for a little while.

Introducing TaleKeep, a peasant-hopping castle simulation RPG set in a storybook medieval world.
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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womenledgames.com
Take Us North by Anima Interactive is a narrative adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border.

Their Kickstarter is LIVE NOW for only 17 more days. ❤

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tak...
June 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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ign.com
Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls is the second graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It’s the biggest news in the world of comics, yet no one seems to be talking about it.
The Graphic Novel Feeding Ghosts Won the Pulitzer Prize, But for Some Reason It’s Gotten Little Reaction
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May 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
my goat has done it again
antlord.bsky.social nathania @antlord.bsky.social · May 11
so i won an industry pillar award 🫣
huge thank you to the nz games fest team and whoever nominated me - come clean i just wanna talk 👁️👄👁️
but in all seriousness thank you so much for this award, i’m so passionate about our industry and love all the friends i’ve made along the way 💖💖
screenshot from the nz game awards (the pavs) winner website stating: te maunga kai kapua (tuakana) Industry Pillar Nathania Sum Space Rock Games, Wireframe, exPBP, GDC Nat has been a consistent volunteer for Auckland game dev meetups, Play by Play and NZGDC as well as facilitating Wireframe - a FREE conference that started in 2024. Wireframe hosted talent from across many facets of game development, with seniors to intermediate developers sharing their knowledge. a picture from the pavs awards night showing my name on a big presentation screen! on the bottom right, the host for the pavs, Josh Kamau, stands with my friend Jordan Peat who accepted the award on my behalf next to the podium. Josh is a bearded man looking very dapper in a beautiful dark navy floral shirt with pink and red flower designs. Jordan is looking very tall and dapper in a tan suit as he reads my message for the awards ceremony from his phone.
May 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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ianipoos.com
To my Kiwi brethren, please vote for this petition for NZ parliament to corral and limit Winston Peters' attempt to pull populist transphobic bullshit. Signatures are coming in fast, but we need 25k for it to enter parliamentary debate.

petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
May 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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annabarham.bsky.social
If you know and love any trans people, please sign petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
May 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
holy shit i am so relieved that Dutton won't be PM, i feel like a tonne of bricks have been lifted off my chest
May 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
pretty much! this result was not an endorsement of labor, it was an utter rejection of psycho politics

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
May 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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geftokingmongoose.bsky.social
yeah I enjoy hard sci-fi
The 3D pinball space cadet game that used to come standard on windows PCs
April 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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understatesmen.bsky.social
BOTH of DS9's most powerful and terrifying antagonists have bitchy theatre kid energy and I don't know why but it works incredibly well
Gul Dukat, a Cardassian (an alien with large ridges on his forehead and neck) holds up a baseball while looking judgemental Weyoun, an alien who's basically a space elf, pulls such an evil twink/vizier expression, it's a real "yes m'lord I'll fetch the poison" then he puts in both glasses kinda mood
April 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest
sisko in ds9 saying "im tired of being calm, calm never got me a damn thing"
May 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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simkaye.bsky.social
Did you use limewire and how bad did it fuck up your computer?
An assortment of dwarf hamsters use an early 2000s gateway desktop to pirate music using LimeWire. The hamsters are interacting with nostalgic y2k clutter across the desk, such as eating Bugles, chewing on CDs, playing with a tamagotchi that says “kill me”, and eating pop tarts.
April 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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gameshub.bsky.social
Knowledge sharing is now built into certain funding opportunities at CODE NZ.
CODE NZ builds new mentorship program into funding grants
CODE NZ has announced a new mentorship program, which will be built into funding for game development studios, ensuring knowledge sharing.
www.gameshub.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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sammaggs.bsky.social
Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”
January 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
aw hell yeah
nz-code.nz NZ CODE @nz-code.nz · Apr 14
CODE Announces Pay-it-Forward Mentorship Programme

CODE introduces new Mentorship programme as part of Grant reception to help share knowledge between teams.

www.nz-code.nz/post/code-an...
CODE Announces Pay-it-Forward Mentorship Programme
CODE introduces new Mentorship programme as part of Grant reception to help share knowledge between teams
www.nz-code.nz
April 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
finally got around to reading this article and it's truly such an excellent write up. it touches on many pain points the Aussie and NZ games scenes both have. I wonder if we'll ever get past just acknowledging the problem and actually doing more to fix it, though.
April 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
you're god damn right. get the hell out of here!!!!!
A screenshot of a news headline declaring a parliamentary bill aimed at heavily altering the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa NZ is voted down.
April 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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popculture2000s.bsky.social
listening to music on the computer in the 2000s
April 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
I've been saying this for years but I wanna say it again! Nat has gotta be one of the best animators in Aotearoa! I will never not glaze them for their immaculate work. Endlessly proud of you, my friend <3 <3 <3
antlord.bsky.social nathania @antlord.bsky.social · Apr 9
Hello #PortfolioDay!! I'm Nat, an animator in the games industry! Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate has launched so I can share a snippet of some of the animations I worked on during my time as Animation Lead and Motion Capture Director.
We animated in MotionBuilder and Unreal Engine 5 🥸
April 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
I'm not a huge zombie game girl but WOW this looks compelling!!!! Great job to the team at PikPok <3
April 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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localthunk.com
Anyone see Jimbo walking around with a BAFTA? My dude locked me in the bathroom and wrote his own speech
April 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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annamegill.com
"Those who have drank the AI Kool-Aid don't understand that all this brainstorming and iteration *is* making the game, it’s a crucial everyday part of game development (and human interaction) and is not a problem to be solved.”
April 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
emilygamedev.bsky.social
I've really been enjoying Aftermath's work, and this article is no exception. AI fucking sucks and it's gutwrenching to read about how many people - REAL people - it's affecting
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · Apr 7
‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: what it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its developers

aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...
April 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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krissychula.bsky.social
This is high art
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM