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Maria Korolenko
@mashakorr.bsky.social
Games producer at Snowed In Studios
🇺🇦 in 🇨🇦

📍Ottawa/Gatineau
One of my pet peeves in work life is when the parents reach out to me to talk about career to their adult kids instead of the kids reaching out themselves. 8 out 10 times parents have no clue that the kid is actually fine or the kid has zero interest in the trade I’m in. Leave adult kids alone.
September 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
💔Microsoft will loose so many rock stars today. My heart goes to them. May the new chapter in your life will be better than the previous one. I hope you will get to build the games more legendary that the ones you built before❤️‍🩹
July 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It’s a bit embarrassing really that Ottawa, the capital of Canada that is a part of the British monarchy, DOESN’T HAVE A DIRECT FLIGHT TO LONDON
June 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Last year the view from my window was like this. Things I’d do to go back
June 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oddly satisfying thing: opening a new box of tissues and throwing away and old one
June 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Боже, ну і матч 🙀🙀🙀
Костюк-Сабалєнка
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
CBC is just not loading for me tonight. Maybe it wants me to keep my sanity.
April 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Time to prep my bike for this
The Snowmies are participating in the CN Cycle for CHEO! Our cycling team is collecting donations for The CHEO Foundation and will be doing a 15K bike ride. 100% of the donations go to children's oncology care and research. Click here to help: cheofoundation.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fu...
Snowed In Studios
Team fundraising page for Snowed In Studios
cheofoundation.donordrive.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I was helping my friend so sign up her kid to summer camps in Ottawa and it’s some kind of hunger games. I think buying tickets to music festivals is easier than getting camps spots. I was less nervous on job interviews than when I was rushing to sign up to those camps. Parents, how are you doing?
February 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
A very niche deck of cards. You can tell fortune with them. Which game industry challenge you will face this year?
February 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Питання до тих, хто прочитав «Я бачу вас цікавить пітьма». Наскільки моторошна книга? В лютому, поки це все несеться ок читати, чи ще більше депресії та мороку нажене? Дякую!
February 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Less than one min in and there were three fights in Canada vs. US 4Nations. Fascinating! #4Nations
February 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
January lasted for years and February lasts like 5 minutes.
February 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There’s always this inner struggle between wanting to go out on Friday night and wanting to stay home to play BD3.
February 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Maria Korolenko
Easy, design the narrative 😋
Just what, exactly, does a video game's narrative designer do?

aftermath.site/narrative-desi...
February 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Bye, Twitter (or whatever you’re now). You used to be fun. Now you’re a toxic ex.
January 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Ice Hotel in Quebec City is open!
I wonder, with this climate, how many more times we would be able to see it😫
December 28, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Let’s be honest, Switch for me is just a Civ6 machine for when I travel.
December 22, 2024 at 9:27 PM
A good thread on how does game studio operate and who makes decisions 👇🏻
It occurs to me, after reading posts getting it spectacularly wrong, that there are a lot of misconceptions over how game studios organize and, in particular, who makes the actual decisions about what ends up in your game. Much of it is by folks who don't *try* to get it... but not all, surely. 1/🧵
December 22, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Why is the last week before vacation always the hardest? 🙄
December 17, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Reposted by Maria Korolenko
make → playtest → reflect → repeat.

This is the iterative process at the heart of game dev.

And generally speaking, the more of those iterations you make, the more effective the experience of your game will be.

This is the not-so-secret insight you need to make really good games.

#gamedev
December 12, 2024 at 4:20 AM
OMG I just realized that the studio who made Röki (see my prev shout out to them) just released their new game! 😍
📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW

After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch...

🏝️ Explore a secret island
⚡️ Meet the gods of legend
🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth
December 10, 2024 at 6:28 PM
If you’re looking for a cozy-ish wintery game Röki is your choice. It’s an adventure game based in Nordic mythology.

#cozygames #games #ігри #switch
December 8, 2024 at 9:31 PM
With Assad and Yanukovych now both hiding there, Russia is becoming a club of your toxic exes
December 8, 2024 at 8:38 PM