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Alexandra Orlando
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Community and Marketing Manager @kitfoxgames.com

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Heyyy! I'm Alexandra, the Community/Marketing manager at @kitfoxgames.com

Games I'm currently working on:
⛏️Dwarf Fortress
🍄 Caves of Qud
🌝 Ostranauts
🍎 Streets of Fortuna
🍵 Loose Leaf: A Tea Witch Simulator

Always happy to connect with other CMs/devs! 😊
If you wanna walk around a city and pester thousands of proc gen NPCs this is The Game.
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's interesting how indies with smaller teams and budgets manage just fine without implementing genAI "productivity tools".
Worth saying that Kitfox does not use genAI for anything we do. This includes our developed and published games and our marketing materials.
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Dwarf Fortress players are also creating their own lore reasons for why this bug was patched out.
But what if the Dwarf Fortress babies WANT to worship extra deities?

aftermath.site/but-what-if-th...
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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But what if the Dwarf Fortress babies WANT to worship extra deities?

aftermath.site/but-what-if-th...
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Kojima (and his giant team) make cool games but I definitely sideeye the fact that he's so buddy buddy with Keighley. The dude does not need the validation of imax nepo baby for cred in the Western game market.
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:

"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ah yes, James Bond specifically known for its strict adherence to continuity between movies.

It's not like they started the film series with book six or anything like thatttt.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Trying to explain how Ambrosia Sky is Powerwash Simulator meets Donkey Kong Bananza but about being wistful for a home you can't go back to and leaving the midwest and grief for lost people & endeavors alike and also there's a grapple hook
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!!

15% off on both Steam & Epic!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambr...
Ambrosia Sky 🪐 | Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Soft Rains Games
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.

They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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About to go live with some Path of Achra, a very cool game for beautiful humans to play.
Going live now for Extra Life 2025! Come hang out! Or don't! I'm not your boss!
www.twitch.tv/robotparking
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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reading theory
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I'll never forget going to The Game Awards when Boyfriend Dungeon was nominated. We had to scramble to find an off-site COVID testing center because they wouldn't let us access their on-site services.

Then they didn't let us walk the red carpet or let us in to the show in time.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!

As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2026 – AURAMBLES
auratriolo.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Game Awards are not meant for emerging devs and indies. We saw this with how they treat nominees of Games for Impact and now with the gutting of Future Class. They have the power to share the spotlight and have walked it back more and more every year.
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.

The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is.
'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know...
It has been 0 days without dwarven baby disasters.
www.pcgamer.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The day after a big DF patch is Best Patch Notes Day btw.
"Hospital patients and babies don't shut off the brains of people carrying them, again."

Hotfix 53.02 is live! Full patch notes here.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a huge update. Dwarf Fortress is finally getting NEW STUFF that's not even in the original game 🎉
🚨 Sound the alarm! 🚨 The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update is OUT NOW on Steam and itchio!
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Trick-or-treater friendly Morrigan! 💚🦇
October 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I brusha da wig
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I'm so mad that this was actually just Saruman what the fuck this was supposed to be an off-brand wizard
I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
It's arrived! Amazing deep dive interview on Caves of Qud in here. @wyrdscience.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM