Atiya Nova
@atiyanova.bsky.social
User research by day at AAA company ✧ hobby dev by night ✧ Horror enthusiast ✧ FC6, Mario+Rabbids, AC: Mirage & more ✧ You’re Not Family out on Steam ✧ Personal projects: https://dorblenova.itch.io ✧ TGA FC ‘23 ✧ She/her
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absolutely heartbroken to announce that i was part of the crystal layoffs today 💔
if y’all spot any openings for a soft, dedicated, smiley games writer — please send them my way 💫
i was on the most perfect narrative team on an exciting, ambitious project. i will cherish it all forever. 💖
if y’all spot any openings for a soft, dedicated, smiley games writer — please send them my way 💫
i was on the most perfect narrative team on an exciting, ambitious project. i will cherish it all forever. 💖
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
absolutely heartbroken to announce that i was part of the crystal layoffs today 💔
if y’all spot any openings for a soft, dedicated, smiley games writer — please send them my way 💫
i was on the most perfect narrative team on an exciting, ambitious project. i will cherish it all forever. 💖
if y’all spot any openings for a soft, dedicated, smiley games writer — please send them my way 💫
i was on the most perfect narrative team on an exciting, ambitious project. i will cherish it all forever. 💖
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I passed my personal fundraising goal for the first time 😊 Thank you to everybody who tuned in and donated!
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I passed my personal fundraising goal for the first time 😊 Thank you to everybody who tuned in and donated!
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Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
My physical copy of Another Crab’s Treasure arrived!! 😊 I love it!! >:’o @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My physical copy of Another Crab’s Treasure arrived!! 😊 I love it!! >:’o @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social
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The King is trying to escape... but the revolution is HERE. #new #indiegame
Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution 1.0 is available NOW on Steam! Command mechanized Colossi and rewrite the course of Western history as you see fit!
Available in multiple languages, including French (naturellement 😎)
Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution 1.0 is available NOW on Steam! Command mechanized Colossi and rewrite the course of Western history as you see fit!
Available in multiple languages, including French (naturellement 😎)
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The King is trying to escape... but the revolution is HERE. #new #indiegame
Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution 1.0 is available NOW on Steam! Command mechanized Colossi and rewrite the course of Western history as you see fit!
Available in multiple languages, including French (naturellement 😎)
Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution 1.0 is available NOW on Steam! Command mechanized Colossi and rewrite the course of Western history as you see fit!
Available in multiple languages, including French (naturellement 😎)
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For Extra Life, we’re streaming to raise money for SickKids hospital! And at ~1AM eastern time I’ll be on the stream playing “No, I’m Not a Human” 😱
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For Extra Life, we’re streaming to raise money for SickKids hospital! And at ~1AM eastern time I’ll be on the stream playing “No, I’m Not a Human” 😱
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
For Extra Life, we’re streaming to raise money for SickKids hospital! And at ~1AM eastern time I’ll be on the stream playing “No, I’m Not a Human” 😱
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For Extra Life, we’re streaming to raise money for SickKids hospital! And at ~1AM eastern time I’ll be on the stream playing “No, I’m Not a Human” 😱
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
Here is my fundraising page where you’ll also find the link to the Twitch stream: www.extra-life.org/participant/...
Hope to see you there 😈
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Hi #PitchYaGame! Our ghostpunk roguelike deckbuilder set in a haunted hotel comes out Jan 27 2026!
Come for the 90s nostalgia and teen drama, stay for the chance to throw a rice cooker at a clown or dynamite a spider horse!
store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTh...
Come for the 90s nostalgia and teen drama, stay for the chance to throw a rice cooker at a clown or dynamite a spider horse!
store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTh...
prettysmart games 👻🏨 THE SPIRIT LIFT Release Date Trailer
YouTube video by PrettySmartGames
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hi #PitchYaGame! Our ghostpunk roguelike deckbuilder set in a haunted hotel comes out Jan 27 2026!
Come for the 90s nostalgia and teen drama, stay for the chance to throw a rice cooker at a clown or dynamite a spider horse!
store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTh...
Come for the 90s nostalgia and teen drama, stay for the chance to throw a rice cooker at a clown or dynamite a spider horse!
store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTh...
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I'm happy that Without a Dawn sales have picked up a little bit! At this rate, it should break even sometime next year, and maybe even turn some profit. This is significant for such a niche love project. Thank you all for your incredible support! 💚
#gamedev #indiegames
#gamedev #indiegames
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I'm happy that Without a Dawn sales have picked up a little bit! At this rate, it should break even sometime next year, and maybe even turn some profit. This is significant for such a niche love project. Thank you all for your incredible support! 💚
#gamedev #indiegames
#gamedev #indiegames
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While I’m disappointed in Future Class as a program holy moly do I have so much gratitude for the people in the cohorts. I would follow you all into battle. We are out there doing the work every day to make our industry and art form a better place. Geoff can join us if he wants. Love you all. 💖
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
While I’m disappointed in Future Class as a program holy moly do I have so much gratitude for the people in the cohorts. I would follow you all into battle. We are out there doing the work every day to make our industry and art form a better place. Geoff can join us if he wants. Love you all. 💖
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RIP to the Future Class. Even when we all met up at TGA's the joke was that we were the New and Last Future Class.
Really a shame that just as the program started to get better, it was axed. But the people remain, and it's one hell of a group of folks.
Really a shame that just as the program started to get better, it was axed. But the people remain, and it's one hell of a group of folks.
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
RIP to the Future Class. Even when we all met up at TGA's the joke was that we were the New and Last Future Class.
Really a shame that just as the program started to get better, it was axed. But the people remain, and it's one hell of a group of folks.
Really a shame that just as the program started to get better, it was axed. But the people remain, and it's one hell of a group of folks.
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Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bluesky rn
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Japanese game studios tell OpenAI to stop pilfering their work
Japanese game studios tell OpenAI to stop pilfering their work
An anti-piracy organization representing major studios like Square Enix and Bandai Namco isn't thrilled with how OpenAI appears to have trained its video model, Sora 2.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Japanese game studios tell OpenAI to stop pilfering their work
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42 DAYS TO GO...
@lostincult Presents: The Horror Game Awards 2025 LIVE!
CREATOR AND PRESS TICKETS BELOW 👇
This December 13th 2025, Kensington Conference and Events Centre in London will host the 4th Annual @HorrorGameAward show.
@lostincult Presents: The Horror Game Awards 2025 LIVE!
CREATOR AND PRESS TICKETS BELOW 👇
This December 13th 2025, Kensington Conference and Events Centre in London will host the 4th Annual @HorrorGameAward show.
November 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
42 DAYS TO GO...
@lostincult Presents: The Horror Game Awards 2025 LIVE!
CREATOR AND PRESS TICKETS BELOW 👇
This December 13th 2025, Kensington Conference and Events Centre in London will host the 4th Annual @HorrorGameAward show.
@lostincult Presents: The Horror Game Awards 2025 LIVE!
CREATOR AND PRESS TICKETS BELOW 👇
This December 13th 2025, Kensington Conference and Events Centre in London will host the 4th Annual @HorrorGameAward show.
For Halloween I dressed up as a person who’s had a very long day at work so they took a nap 🙂↕️👻
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
For Halloween I dressed up as a person who’s had a very long day at work so they took a nap 🙂↕️👻
Suddenly remembered that I was down bad for Michael in the Good Place
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Suddenly remembered that I was down bad for Michael in the Good Place
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New YouTube video!
This one's all about writing tests: what they are, how to handle them, etc! I even wrote up a fake writing test for you to try your hand at if you like! :)
youtu.be/049qX3gpgVU?...
This one's all about writing tests: what they are, how to handle them, etc! I even wrote up a fake writing test for you to try your hand at if you like! :)
youtu.be/049qX3gpgVU?...
Game Writing Tests And You
YouTube video by Anna C. Webster
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
New YouTube video!
This one's all about writing tests: what they are, how to handle them, etc! I even wrote up a fake writing test for you to try your hand at if you like! :)
youtu.be/049qX3gpgVU?...
This one's all about writing tests: what they are, how to handle them, etc! I even wrote up a fake writing test for you to try your hand at if you like! :)
youtu.be/049qX3gpgVU?...
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We gotta get that YouTuber who calculates the unemployment rate of the different Skyrim cities to do the same for Kamurocho
October 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We gotta get that YouTuber who calculates the unemployment rate of the different Skyrim cities to do the same for Kamurocho
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"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week.
For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018:
youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018:
youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse
YouTube video by Lucas Pope
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week.
For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018:
youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018:
youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
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It’s late at night and I’m completing the Deep Sleep trilogy even though I get spooked easily 🙂↕️
October 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It’s late at night and I’m completing the Deep Sleep trilogy even though I get spooked easily 🙂↕️
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I’ve been playing through Golden Sun with my partner and he fell in love with the game as soon as he saw this group of puppies blocking a path 🥹
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I’ve been playing through Golden Sun with my partner and he fell in love with the game as soon as he saw this group of puppies blocking a path 🥹
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Anyone have any good offbeat horror movie recommendations? Especially stuff with that cozy, small town vibe (maybe coastal too? That shit hits). Looking for movie candidates to watch with my wife on halloween
#halloween #horrormovies
#halloween #horrormovies
October 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Anyone have any good offbeat horror movie recommendations? Especially stuff with that cozy, small town vibe (maybe coastal too? That shit hits). Looking for movie candidates to watch with my wife on halloween
#halloween #horrormovies
#halloween #horrormovies