Noa
@mothmansearlobe.bsky.social
they/she | narrative designer, writer, game dev, bug & rot enthusiast | NYU Game Center MFA ‘25
https://segaln17.itch.io
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Noa
@mothmansearlobe.bsky.social
· Nov 16
hello world!
here is a screenshot from a game I made last year called Moth Simulator
here is a screenshot from a game I made last year called Moth Simulator
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“Ethically rather mean-spirited” has aged like the finest wine as a critique of the material and its creator
Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?
May 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“Ethically rather mean-spirited” has aged like the finest wine as a critique of the material and its creator
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I know we’re like two weeks out from GDC but I gotta say it. I don’t like top 50 radio hits playing outside of the Moscone center. it should be video game banger after video game banger. Simple and Clean and then Big Iron
April 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I know we’re like two weeks out from GDC but I gotta say it. I don’t like top 50 radio hits playing outside of the Moscone center. it should be video game banger after video game banger. Simple and Clean and then Big Iron
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happy trans day of visibility 💙💗🤍💗💙✨✨✨
March 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
happy trans day of visibility 💙💗🤍💗💙✨✨✨
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Remember: It's legal for them to lie to you.
But it's illegal for you to lie to them.
You can't talk your way out of detention or arrest, but you can sure talk your way into it. Every day is STFU Friday.
But it's illegal for you to lie to them.
You can't talk your way out of detention or arrest, but you can sure talk your way into it. Every day is STFU Friday.
By the way, see a lot of folks confused by how ICE can call themselves “police” and basically lie to targets. I wrote (almost seven years ago now, how time flies!!) about how this is also completely legal and in fact is a specifically-sanctioned tactic the agency has
The ICE Ruse: How Agents Impersonate Local Law Enforcement and Lie to Make Arrests - Documented
This article was co-published with The Daily Beast.Leer en EspañolIt was early in the morning when Miguel found his Brooklyn apartment surrounded by people clad in vests emblazoned: “POLICE.” Immigra...
documentedny.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Remember: It's legal for them to lie to you.
But it's illegal for you to lie to them.
You can't talk your way out of detention or arrest, but you can sure talk your way into it. Every day is STFU Friday.
But it's illegal for you to lie to them.
You can't talk your way out of detention or arrest, but you can sure talk your way into it. Every day is STFU Friday.
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this is the best bug we've ever found
March 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
this is the best bug we've ever found
Today I found Homestuck at the public library and don’t quite know how to feel about it
March 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Today I found Homestuck at the public library and don’t quite know how to feel about it
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absolutely go back and re-read your old work, it will not only reaffirm how far you have come as a writer or artist but you will also see the steps of the journey and the way it has set up, supported, and enabled your present work to exist, it's like getting a high five from the past
February 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
absolutely go back and re-read your old work, it will not only reaffirm how far you have come as a writer or artist but you will also see the steps of the journey and the way it has set up, supported, and enabled your present work to exist, it's like getting a high five from the past
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this is such a wonderful thing, not JUST because the recognition is so deserved (it is), but because it shows a willingness to defend narrative as something that can be systems-driven, emergent, living, unfolding as you poke at what’s in your path. really happy for the team
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
this is such a wonderful thing, not JUST because the recognition is so deserved (it is), but because it shows a willingness to defend narrative as something that can be systems-driven, emergent, living, unfolding as you poke at what’s in your path. really happy for the team
so far one big thing I’ve learned from GDC is that I really need to release the fever dream that is BUG CHURCH, a game about a bug who goes to church that is also about private jets and boba
March 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
so far one big thing I’ve learned from GDC is that I really need to release the fever dream that is BUG CHURCH, a game about a bug who goes to church that is also about private jets and boba
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ANNOUNCEMENT: It's time to get EXPELLED!
⭐ "Corker" - The Guardian
⭐ "Delightful" - Polygon
⭐ "A cause for celebration!" - Eurogamer
🖥️ store.steampowered.com/app/2963890/...
📱 apps.apple.com/app/expelled
🎮 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
(+ Overboard/Expelled bundles for each platform!)
⭐ "Corker" - The Guardian
⭐ "Delightful" - Polygon
⭐ "A cause for celebration!" - Eurogamer
🖥️ store.steampowered.com/app/2963890/...
📱 apps.apple.com/app/expelled
🎮 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
(+ Overboard/Expelled bundles for each platform!)
March 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: It's time to get EXPELLED!
⭐ "Corker" - The Guardian
⭐ "Delightful" - Polygon
⭐ "A cause for celebration!" - Eurogamer
🖥️ store.steampowered.com/app/2963890/...
📱 apps.apple.com/app/expelled
🎮 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
(+ Overboard/Expelled bundles for each platform!)
⭐ "Corker" - The Guardian
⭐ "Delightful" - Polygon
⭐ "A cause for celebration!" - Eurogamer
🖥️ store.steampowered.com/app/2963890/...
📱 apps.apple.com/app/expelled
🎮 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
(+ Overboard/Expelled bundles for each platform!)
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a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos
March 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos
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individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
🦴💕✨🐛💥
#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
🦴💕✨🐛💥
#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace
August 26, 2024 at 6:34 AM
individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
🦴💕✨🐛💥
#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
🦴💕✨🐛💥
#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace
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It utterly enthralls me that I live within the timeline where Chuck Tingle has become a well-respected horror author alongside being the breakout of absurdist erotica.
very happy to present incredible cover art for LUCKY DAY. beautiful work from LA BOCA capturing the spirit of this strange and terrifying and existential and absurdist horror novel. PRE ORDER HERE AND SUPPORT THE ART YOU LOVE us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
January 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It utterly enthralls me that I live within the timeline where Chuck Tingle has become a well-respected horror author alongside being the breakout of absurdist erotica.
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Bad games are the best games because they create game designers. If 5e were perfect, there would be only one game. Instead, 5e sucks so there are 10,000 tiny indie games that suck less and that’s beautiful
January 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Bad games are the best games because they create game designers. If 5e were perfect, there would be only one game. Instead, 5e sucks so there are 10,000 tiny indie games that suck less and that’s beautiful
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My review of Caves of Qud, based solely on phrases my partner mutters to themself while playing, is that it's effectively a Pliny the Elder simulator. They just hissed, "I believe honey has something to do with healing, but I don't know what it is" and then starting inspecting a pig
January 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
My review of Caves of Qud, based solely on phrases my partner mutters to themself while playing, is that it's effectively a Pliny the Elder simulator. They just hissed, "I believe honey has something to do with healing, but I don't know what it is" and then starting inspecting a pig
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video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god
January 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god
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After 5 years of writing I've finally found my niche:
"What if Terry Pratchett was an insane lesbian pervert"
"What if Terry Pratchett was an insane lesbian pervert"
January 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
After 5 years of writing I've finally found my niche:
"What if Terry Pratchett was an insane lesbian pervert"
"What if Terry Pratchett was an insane lesbian pervert"
Explained the central themes and plot of Hollow Knight to my mom today. Someone please give me an occasion to write a paper about Hollow Knight please I need an outlet my mom is so tired of me
January 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Explained the central themes and plot of Hollow Knight to my mom today. Someone please give me an occasion to write a paper about Hollow Knight please I need an outlet my mom is so tired of me
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I went forth, by appointment, to meet with Mr. Grant, who promised to meet me at the Coffee-house to bring me acquainted with Cooper the great limner in little, but they deceived me.
January 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I went forth, by appointment, to meet with Mr. Grant, who promised to meet me at the Coffee-house to bring me acquainted with Cooper the great limner in little, but they deceived me.