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@merryh.bsky.social
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🔑 bizdev & production consultant
💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for indiedigest.dev
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Hi new Bluesky friends!

Here’s a mini intro from me - I’m a business developer, marketer and producer from Melbourne, Australia. I’ve been in indie games for 8ish yrs now, currently at @summerfallstudios.bsky.social, & previously led production at @strangescaffold.bsky.social & Aconite (HoloVista).
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The Indie Dev Digest for December will be coming up for end of this month - I fully expect it to be a quiet one, but if you have submissions for December or January that I can flag in advance (as I'll likely try to take a break over the holidays!) please get your submissions in!

indiedigest.dev
The Indie Dev Digest
A monthly newsletter for digital game developers across Australia and New Zealand, primarily in the independent games space.
indiedigest.dev
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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We got any NSW game devs or studios focused on mobile on here? Raise your hands please, I'm Making A List (complimentary, non-threatening).
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Deeply funny to me to be like 'how do we show the quality of this washing machine, or what it might do in an image? I know, on hover, let's photoshop it directly onto grass.'
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I'll be in Sydney in a few weeks time for the Driving Change Summit - all about accessibility in the screen industries. ✨

I'd LOVE to see some other game developers in attendance - there's a lot we can learn from film and tv's approach to accesibility too!
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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We're excited to announce that the Frosty Mini showcase will premiere on December 10 starting at 8am AEDT / 10am NZDT (that's December 9, 1pm PT for our USA friends)!

Tune in for exciting news and surprise announcements from 20+ of the coolest games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ.
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Playing Planet Zoo is just deciding to log on, somehow blacking out for 4-6 hours, and having a single habitat done to a mediocre standard. I love it. Keeping me busy in satisfying my builder needs until Anno next week.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Talking to friends internationally, it really does remind me just how lucky we are to have the government support we do locally.

It's grown so so much since I worked at then Film Vic. It's such a difficult time to be a game dev but we have so many opportunities people in other places just don't.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Screen Australia's future leaders delegation to BitSummit applications close on November 13th!

Genuinely, I have friends who have undertaken these programs and seen how much it's done for their confidence, their projects, and their skills. PLEASE don't count yourself out. It's so good.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Dispatch is so good that I’m only halfway through Ep 5 (after starting last night) and already planning my follow up playthrough. Impeccably written.
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
hell yeah new york let's GOOOOO
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Just booted a game to check out a few things and totally forgot that I had my headphones on and thought a huge truck was fully backing into my house. Great brain, good job.
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Last week I finished up at Summerfall Studios after three & a bit years.

I'm so grateful to have worked somewhere so special. @liamesler.bsky.social, @davidgaider.bsky.social and @elieyoung.bsky.social are some of the best people I've had the pleasure to know, let alone work for.
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Incredible scenes in the Woolworths List function
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Thank you for all the kind words I do not have the emotional spoons to respond to everyone individually but ilu all!
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Last week I finished up at Summerfall Studios after three & a bit years.

I'm so grateful to have worked somewhere so special. @liamesler.bsky.social, @davidgaider.bsky.social and @elieyoung.bsky.social are some of the best people I've had the pleasure to know, let alone work for.
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The Mushka is out of the bag! 🐾

Mushka is your cute lil' friend that lives in Board - a new tabletop game console that blends board games & video games (board.fun)

We've had so much fun working with the incredible Board team to bring Mushka to life, we can't wait for you to meet 'em ✨
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fondly recalling the uber driver I had in Sydney the other week who said 'Excuse me, girl?' then caught my eye in the rear view mirror and said 'I'm so sorry. Lady.' completely sincerely. So funny. 10/10.
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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What I imagine is happening in baseball judging by the reactions, I have no idea
a cartoon of a stadium with third ball locked
Alt: a cartoon of a stadium with third ball locked
media.tenor.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.

Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!

deathgenerator.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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🚨DEAD STATIC DRIVE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!🚨

www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases

NOVEMBER 5TH Y'ALL.

Congrats to @mike.reuben.games, @leena.reuben.games, and the whole DSD team - I've been DYING to play this one.
Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox
Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.
www.deadstaticdrive.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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We're almost in November! Thanks to everyone we saw across MIGW & SXSW for taking stickers and cards to share the news of IDD.

Please submit anything you have for November via the website - I'll be putting together the send later this week!

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The Indie Dev Digest
A monthly newsletter for digital game developers across Australia and New Zealand, primarily in the independent games space.
indiedigest.dev
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Mildly sick and twisted of me but I love to read reviews and track bugs and make spreadsheets and prioritise - the producer in me (and maybe my shadow QA self????) gets so hot and bothered at the end to end deliciousness of Solving
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you’re an Aussie based creative, you HAVE to read this book. Written in 2013, it couldn’t be more accurate of today still. It articulates so many of the challenges so well & I think is a must read - especially if you’ve been doing this for a while.

www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Funemp...
Funemployed
Funemployed goes beyond the press releases and the hype to show what it's really like to be a working artist in Australia. Through candid interview...
www.simonandschuster.com.au
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The soundtrack for the unholy-roguelite-deckbuilder Malys is OUT NOW!
👉 belindacoomes.bandcamp.com/album/malys-...

It was a thrill and an honour to work with @summerfallstudios.com. Thank you for trusting me to conjure up the music for this dark and mysterious world. It was an absolute pleasure.
belindacoomes.bandcamp.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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A bit of Summerfall Studios lore:

One day in 2019, and we were all very exhausted and punchy at the time, Liam responded to a long work thread on Slack with "praise Satan" but autocorrect corrected that to "praise Sarah" and the rest of us were VERY confused. Who is Sarah? What do you mean by that?
October 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM