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Souha Al-Samkari

@sousourocket.bsky.social

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Truant Pixel VP, First Bite Games, writing for Sassy Chap, VO director for Red Spring Studio. Attorney, voiceover director, writer, lover of games. She/her. #enshrinedgame #projectpartycity #dateeverything

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hi!❤️ I’m Souha, VP of @truantpixel.bsky.social, makers of: Rogue Flight, Runner, Akash: Path of the Five, 2MD VR Football, and more!

Current projects:
🧡Writing/Narrative design for Date Everything
💛Writer, VO, Production for First Bite Games
💚VO direction for @redspringstudio.bsky.social

Key art for Rogue Flight: an image of a fighter flying through space, with lasers, drones, and anime-style explosions in the background.

Key art for Runner: a mysterious woman with cybernetic limbs and dressed in a hood poses on a flashy, futuristic looking motorcycle in a dystopian neon alleyway.

Key art for the game Touchstarved--a group of 5 beautiful love interests poses enticingly.

Key art for Date Everything--several different human characters themed around household items explode out of a chimney, filling the sky.

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 21h

Because you have good taste 😎💕

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · Nov 2

I never posted this here, but I made a pretty big write-up over on Tumblr for anyone interested in learning #pixelart!
It's a guide on software, fundamentals, jargon and resources.

Since links are legal on Bsky I can share it: www.tumblr.com/tofupixel/75...
#tutorial

Hope someone finds it useful!

A screenshot of a tumblr post reading:

"Title: So you want to learn pixel art?
Subtitle: Part 1 of ??? - The Basics!

Hello, my name is Tofu and I'm a professional pixel artist. I have been supporting myself with freelance pixel art since 2020, when I was let go from my job during the pandemic."

Two images comparing artistic improvement, the left is of a rudimentary tree, and the right is of a statue in a wall recess surrounded by plants and dappled light.

"My progress, from 2017 to 2024. IMO the only thing that really matters is time and effort, not some kind of natural talent for art.

This guide will not be comprehensive, as nobody should be expected to read allat. Instead I will lean heavily on my own experience, and share what worked for me, so take everything with a grain of salt. This is a guide, not a tutorial. Cheers!"

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 22h

Streaming going on right now!! Which one of these garbage men will Aenne share the sword with? 👀🗡️

PeachyAenne 🇵🇸 🔜 Twitchcon @peachyaenne.bsky.social · 23h

I'm checking out the newest game by @truantpixel.com, Enshrined!

Let's find a boyfriend and a sword in the dungeons!

www.twitch.tv/stumptgamers

Key art for Enshrined. Three beautiful and sexy men all are reaching to a glowing sword. The title of the game Enshrined is in the middle of the art.

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PeachyAenne 🇵🇸 🔜 Twitchcon @peachyaenne.bsky.social · 23h

I'm checking out the newest game by @truantpixel.com, Enshrined!

Let's find a boyfriend and a sword in the dungeons!

www.twitch.tv/stumptgamers

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 23h

Congratulations on extended demo y'all!! 🥳

Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 1d

Enshrined's demo is officially up! Please check it out, tell your friends, and as always wishlist, it really does help visibility! 🙏🗡️

store.steampowered.com/app/3835610/...

Enshrined: Sword of Fates on Steam

Once every 100 years, a temple containing a legendary blade appears for only 24 hours. The sword’s power can only be unlocked joining in body and spirit with another, and there are three men hoping to...

store.steampowered.com

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!!! 🥳

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Truant Pixel 🧑🏽‍💻👩🏽‍💻👨🏼‍💻 @truantpixel.com · 1d

The AMA for #DateEverything is live!

Hop in and ask that burning question if you got one 🤔

www.reddit.com/r/DateEveryt...

#indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel

From the DateEverythingElse community on Reddit: Upcoming AMA with Souha Al-Samkari, Date Everything's Senior Writer and Vice-President at Truant Pixel!

Explore this post and more from the DateEverythingElse community

www.reddit.com

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richard, scary @suchminutiae.com · 1d

Live in ten minutes!

richard, scary @suchminutiae.com · 1d

Back to streaming tonight! Let's start Nine Sols, a 2024 game from Red Candle Games that has been described as a Metroidvania with Sekiro-like mechanics. I'm sure it's pretty difficult, so come suffer with me at 6:30pm eastern!

twitch.tv/suchminutiae

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 1d

Starting in about 20 mins! 💕

Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 8d

Hey y’all!! I’m gonna be doing an AMA about @dateeverythinggame.bsky.social over on Reddit, please spread the word! 🥳🩷 let’s talk about DE! baby!! It’ll be October 12th from 7-12 PM eastern

www.reddit.com/r/DateEveryt...

From the DateEverythingElse community on Reddit: Upcoming AMA with Souha Al-Samkari, Date Everything's Senior Writer and Vice-President at Truant Pixel!

Explore this post and more from the DateEverythingElse community

www.reddit.com

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 4d

We are the sons of the Hamburger you couldn't Help

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Raven Paine @ravenpaine.bsky.social · 2d

my friend just shared this with me

Dr Eggman Robotnic drawn in two images, Designed with Gamers in mind: Caked up Robotnic, Designed with activists in mind: no ass Robotnic looks sad

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Blerdy Otome 🎮 Metaphor: ReFantazio @blerdyotome.bsky.social · 2d

Check out my playthrough of @truantpixel.com 's dark fantasy romamce, Enshrined!!

As always, likes, shares, and comments are always appreciated!! youtu.be/ER1hVg0ng74

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SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 3d

I voice MOUSSE in RANMA 1/2, i absolutely adore Rumiko Takahashi’s work and it is an honor to be part of such an iconic series, he was so so SO much fun to play

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 16d

"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.

I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.

CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

AI is dehumanizing

I’ve saved the most important part for last. AI is dehumanizing. Using AI means saying that the people involved in what you’re trying to do don’t matter. Because AI platforms are built on theft, using AI says that the people whose work is being stolen don’t matter. If I used AI to grade your work, which is now possible with Canvas integrations, I would be saying your work is not worth taking seriously enough to read myself. It’s saying you don’t matter enough to take seriously. A world where AI grades AI generated submissions from an AI generated assignment is not a world where people and the work they do matters, and I refuse to live in that world.

The dehumanizing aspect of AI is even worse when you consider the effects of AI on you as a student. Using AI as a substitute for doing the work yourself robs you of your voice. It prevents you from developing your own sense of who you are, what you believe, and how you express that in your own unique way and replaces it with statistically generated slop literally incapable of forming a novel thought. In a world that works to dehumanize us every day—to say who we are and the relationships we form don’t matter—I don’t want to add to that work. I don’t want to do this because the relationships you form matter. Your voice matters. You matter.

In 19th Century England, a group of artisan weavers banded together to fight against mechanization. Tools like the water frame and spinning jenny allowed factory owners to produce a worse product at a price so low that the quality of the finished product didn’t matter. These artisans, the Luddites, weren’t opposed to technology. They were opposed to technology dehumanizing people and denying them dignity. Like the Luddites, I’m not opposed to technology and embrace it when it makes our lives better. But like the Luddites, I have an obligation to resist technology that dehumanizes people in my community, and I think AI does that. So, there’s no AI in this class.

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naomi @mimimaruuu.bsky.social · 3d

Huntrix based on Klimt’s Water Serpents

#KpopDemomHunters

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vill @villtura.bsky.social · Aug 4

#trigun

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 4d

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richard, scary @suchminutiae.com · 3d

The Leisure Suit Larry 2 finale is LIVE on #SavingOften! @sousourocket.bsky.social, @mewd.bsky.social and I have reached the foot of the volcano housing Dr. Nonookee's evil lair! Now to climb to the top and figure out what the game wants us to say to finish it once and for all.

youtu.be/ojRT_TAM20I

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 4d

😏😏😏😏

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Blerdy Otome 🎮 Metaphor: ReFantazio @blerdyotome.bsky.social · 4d

It's time! Check out this sneak peek at Enshrined from @truantpixel.com!!

Blerdy Otome 🎮 Metaphor: ReFantazio @blerdyotome.bsky.social · 5d

✨Special Stream Announcement ✨I'm playing the demo for @truantpixel.com's dark fantasy dating sim, Enshrined: Sword of Fate ahead of its release!

Join me at 6:30PM ET on October 9th over on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/blerdyotome!

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David Kinne @mewd.bsky.social · 4d

Watch as I bungle the Oddworld, trying to wrap the new controls at odds to decades of muscle memory from the original

SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 4d

time to play ODDWORLD: NEW N TASTY on @prozdplaysgames.bsky.social with special guest @mewd.bsky.social, abe’s just a little guy youtu.be/KYaGb5YpGbw?...

ProZD Plays Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! // Ep 01: Follow Me

YouTube video by ProZD Plays Games

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 4d

Happening in just a little over an hour today!!! 💕

Blerdy Otome 🎮 Metaphor: ReFantazio @blerdyotome.bsky.social · 5d

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 4d

omg oddworld and david!!!!!!!! yes yes yes!!!!!