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kai dejesus (they/them)
@thebetteradversary.bsky.social
game designer. writer. artist

find my games: https://thebetteradversary.itch.io/

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made a cover image for a detective game i’m prototyping for my mfa. definitely didn’t freak out about possibly fumbling everything past the sketch phase

#gameart #gamedev #art
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
working on an illustration for class and all i can say is that if people dont think this is awesome i’m gonna mald
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
funnily enough if you wear a b beret while carrying a sketchbook people WILL actually ask you if you’re an artist more often

#art
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
obra dinn is quaking in their boots
Finishing up a small incremental game about shrimp fishing, coming pretty soon!
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
went to the moma today #art
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
okay the ONE year i vote in person and get an i voted sticker everyone else seems to be getting two where is everyone getting two stickers
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
genuinely did not realize how many baseball fans i interact with on a daily basis
November 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
the funniest thing you can do while getting an mfa in game design is dressing up as billy the puppet for halloween and asking people if they wanna playtest your game #saw
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
YAYYYYY was so happy to play with the new procreate brushes this was so fun

#art #characterart
on the 13th day of #over/under @thebetteradversary.bsky.social made for me, a portrait of my character arkadi 🤩🤩🤩
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
the price of being awake in the morning via coffee is being the joker in the afternoon
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
i got too high and made doomed yaoi of patrick bateman and timothy price from american psycho

(no not that guy you’re prob thinking about luis carruthers or paul allen)

#art
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
>be 17 yr old me
>get into several ap classes to skip gym class
>successfully skip it
>get into grad school
>has to do gym class anyway

(this was actually my class today)
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
love how cute jumpsuits look hate going to the bathroom in them
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
annnnd here’s me totally normal near the end of drunk dracula when drunk mina/lucy took off her dress and threw it into the crowd (i caught it)
October 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
never change nyc
September 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
just started using unity and now i gotta get a game out in two weeks 😩

#gameenvironment #gameart #art
September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
rereading the secret history and what the fuck are any of them talking about 😤🗣️‼️
September 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
no shot am i actually watching the angry video game nerd in class right now
September 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
no one tells you this but a good 10% of game design is arts and crafts
September 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde
September 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
another sketch of a professor of mine (i swear i pay attention) #art
September 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
some environmental elements i made for a class project #gameart #art #gameenvironment
September 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
if i had a nickel for every fire drill i was in today i would have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
i think i have spent more time coding than sleeping
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
drew some of my professors during class shhh don’t tell them #art
September 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM