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Eclectic game designer, making games that bring people together since 2010. Senior Game Designer at Redcatpig Neurodivergent | He/Him https://gamesbymanuel.com/

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hi everyone, I'm Manuel Correia. I've been designing videogames and boardgames for the last 14 years.

These are some of my favorite projects so far. Have you played any?

The cover for the videogame Empire of Sin, which takes place in 1930's Chicago. the cover features a several lit up buildings at night and three characters. A smoking white man with a trillby, a woman with a hat and a machine gun and a black man with a beret and a pistol. They're surrounded by crates of booze.

The cover for Superhot: The Card Game, featuring a red dude that was shot through its head. The character is made of red glass which is shattering away.

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Null Signal Games @netrunner.nullsignal.games · 20h

#NetrunnerWorlds25 is in the past, and we have a new #Netrunner world champion! Congratulations to ZomZraft for an impressive victory on Hoshiko Shiro and Epiphany Analytica! Keep an eye out on NetrunnerDB for their deck writeups, and watch the VOD of the livestream on our YouTube and Twitch!

ZomZraft receiving the World Champion playmat from OP Manager Ysengrin. Photo credit moonpost/Jeremy Wilker.

ZomZraft with the exclusive World Champion playmat. Photo credit Saif Choudhury

2022 and 2023 World Champion Sokka (left), with 2025 World Champion ZomZraft (right). Photo credit Saif Choudhury

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 22h

A screenshot from the Shadow of the Colossus remaster. The main character looks tiny walking on top of a massive beast.

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 1d

Game design is an extremely complicated and broad subject.

It is often mistaken for 'experience playing games'. Namely, "I play a lot of games, therefore I know what makes a great game".

And yes, research is a part of games design but it is only a small part, especially without deconstruction.

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tuglaw @tuglaw.leituga.com · 1d

Or even apply the same general idea to living people too.

Screenshot from the ending to Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure.
Pitfall Harry Jr. is looking up towards the obscured front of a tall carved stone structure, yelling "Dad!"

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 23h

I was thinking the same! I almost posted it with a frame of them walking toward the sunset. It's so good.

Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 1d

Love this!

Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

@alecrobbins
i think as a rule in video games if you see an old photo instead of it being in black and white it should be in N64 graphics

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 1d

The bird is like "Hey, I had an idea!"

Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 1d

Sine and Cuisine 👩‍🍳

Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 2d

That game first came out in 2013 and it hasn't stopped coming out since.

Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 2d

That makes sense, but it's unfortunate!

Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 2d

From 2023!?
Post-Wingspan where games about animals are at the height of their popularity!
It's the first time I have heard of it.

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds great 👀

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow, impressive! Wavelength is fantastic. The app is surprisingly good too.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 4d

Nine Inch Nails “Art is Resistance” flyer (2007), with some thoughts on what it means today that came up in my recent Q&A. #NoKings ✊

Nine Inch Nails "Art is Resistance" flyer, 2007. The Art is Resistance flyer, designed by 42 Entertainment with art direction by Trent Reznor and me, was plastered around cities to draw players of the NIN “Year Zero” ARG to real-world gatherings, secret meetings of “the resistance” in the Year Zero fiction, but also a very real mechanism to plant the seeds of real-world activism into a story about what the future might look like if more people didn’t “wake up and give a shit.” Unfortunately, the future turned out almost exactly like what we imagined in Year Zero, but the message - that art is resistance, and you have a voice - is more important than ever.

Question (u/tiktock34): What do you think is the most powerful combination of art and music today, given our political climate? Im thinking of movements similar to the "Art is Resistance" type of message. Lots of
music and lots of artists but its clear you are passionate about the blend.
Also, thanks for the years! Huge fan Rob Sheridan: I think about this a lot, and wonder what the role of art should be in this particular moment of resistance. It's weird to look back at the NIN Year Zero ARG and "Art is Resistance" campaign from 2007 and see that the future took the bad path anyway, almost eerily to a tee. Not that I expected an album to change the future or anything, but at the bleakest of times I couldn't help but second-guess if art did matter anymore in terms of actually affecting change; if I should have been more involved with organizing or with direct action, if we were deluding ourselves in thinking
we were doing anything more than a cool art project. But then, year in and year out, again and again, right now included, fans tell me - more than any other project I ever worked on, by far - how much Year Zero meant to them, how much the Art is Resistance campaign inspired them, how it changed the way they viewed the intersection of music and politics. They show me the AiR flag tattoos, their numbers from the ARG, the friends they made through the process, the paths they took after - some even met their future spouses! And it reminds me that yeah, what we did mattered, because a lot of fans were radicalized by that experience to be more politically-aware and think more like activists, and a lot of
artists were emboldened to speak out more.
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/

These days artists/celebs are expected to have an opinion on everything and will even get called out for not speaking up on some things, but back in the early 2000s there was this real cynicism about music being "political." Bands would get so much backlash and told to "stick to music" if they voiced political opinions. I'm proud I helped NIN be one of the bands of the era to really break through that barrier on With Teeth and then demolish it completely on Year Zero, and help a lot of fans come around to how
fundamentally intertwined art and politics have always been. And today? I don't think there's any right or wrong way to combine art / music with message, because I think just making art - any kind of art - is a crucial part of the resistance we need right now. At the core of the fascist project is the removal of intellectual and artistic freedoms, and that tells you all you need to know about how much art matters. Between the billionaire techbros & CEOs showing how much they revile creators by racing to gut their livelihoods, and the grotesquely ugly, unfunny, uncreative anti-aesthetics of the right-wing movement, a systemic disdain
for the arts and sciences is stronger than it's ever been. In a moment like this, we all have to keep making human art and connecting around human art, whether it's aggressive music that calls the fuckers out directly or just cute drawings of cats that make people smile. I know artists who are making very direct and provocative protest art; speaking truth to power loudly and directly is important, but it's not
everyone's lane and it's not the only way to use art right now.
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/

I also know musicians who are just carrying on with their shows without really speaking out specifically, because they know how many vulnerable people are in their audiences going to their shows for strength and community, and they don't want to put additional targets on those peoples'
backs. Protecting your community matters, too. For my own part, thinking about all of this over the past year was a big motivation in doing my art book right now. The feeling of not being sure who I should be or what I should say as an artist in this moment, how much it matters, and finding along the way that some of the art I was making that was really connecting with people and helping them, was art that wasn't literal with a specific message, it just honestly evoked the way I was feeling and the way I think a lot of people are feeling. The catharsis of feeling together, of knowing you're not alone in the way you feel, of seeing artists who matter to you also feeling the same thing; that gives
strength, and strength is power. It's okay to check out to take care of yourself. And it's okay to find joy in music, art, movies, games, books, sports right now. I'd say it's crucial to find joy, more than ever. They're counting on you sacrificing joy, because
then you lose hope, and then you lose the strength to fight back. Art is resistance, and joy is defiance. If your little drawing of a cat brought you or someone else some joy today, that matters. They want you
to give up. Keep. Making. Art.
Rob Sheridan, 16 Oct 2025

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 3d

Other supermarkets have them as well, if they're over a certain size.

Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite youtube channels. Always insightful, funny and tightly edited. Worth your time.

Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 4d

Come for the interesting facts about Dutch land reclamation. Stay for our tribute to the best advert ever aired on British television. (Starts at 4:23)

youtu.be/eq-kgUpd-5E

This country is 17% fake

YouTube video by Jay and Mark

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 4d

An easy one: Any comics film adaptation that exists without the original creator being able to pay off their house is a moral failure

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 4d

You're all set!
But if you specifically want LOTS of boardgames and tornado fries then Essen Spiel is the place to be.

Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 4d

With the recent news of EA's acquisition I wouldn't count on new Mass Effect games, unfortunately.

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 4d

English should be enough to get by in the big cities but you don't have to worry because I'll be your guide. 😀

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 4d

They're exactly the same. That video could have been shot here.
Germans love their bread! So many bakeries filled with goodies. Enjoy!

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 4d

We have those in Portugal too. :)

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Null Signal Games @netrunner.nullsignal.games · 5d

Breaking news from #NetrunnerWorlds25 in Edinburgh, the next #Netrunner set has been revealed!

nullsignal.games/blog/announc...

Announcing Vantage Point - Null Signal Games

Announcing Vantage Point, the next expansion compatible with Netrunner from Null Signal Games.

nullsignal.games

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 5d

That production looks rad! This cracked me up:

Screenshot from the "What's in the box" section of their Kickstarter page. It shows an empty black Kallax shelving unit with an arrow pointing to the game's box. It says:
"* The box can hold a 12'' vinyl record!"
* Fits in standard board game & record shelves!
(Vinyl and board game collectors have great taste in shelves, but the shelf doesn't come with DJ Icon)"

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 5d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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