Karrie Shirou Shao 🔜 IGFs, GDC

i didn't want to tag you so i subskeeted you instead

SAME but also what if i add a few more things for fun

I was wary the last 2 years (with the funding apocalypse already underway) but they were actually beautiful moments to re-energize and reaffirm what we're all fighting for. I hope it's the same this time 💖

thank you so much!!! Horizon is mentioned often on our project (and I'm sure everywhere else) so your work is very much an inspo!!

cannot wait to squeal at you about being ONE MONTH AWAY FROM PEOPLE OF NOTE omgggggggggggggggggg!!!!

the amount of regret i have right now (every single time)

Hope we have some time during the portfolio review to chat 💖💖

and zero ambitions is honestly the way to go!!!

hope to get a chance to wave at you as we run in opposite directions!!!

this is the moment that gamedevs everywhere crumble under the weight of their own GDC ambitions

godspeed everyone 🫡 rest assured that no one is ready lol

🫠🙉🙈🐓

The stuff we are doing for the IGF Awards is 100x dumber than this video we made to promote it. Really proud to be directing this chaos with Karrie 😌 See you at GDC!!!

thank you for making my first GMNB interview go so well!! Such a delight to celebrate your absolute badass career!!

I'm delighted to join Game Makers Notebook to chat with @caraellison.bsky.social!

Cara is SO prolific, from Rockstar to The Guardian to a novel to Ghost Town. Such a thoughtful career retrospective and I'm still thinking about the lifechanging power of people saying "who don't you just do it??"

Mood all the damn time

aaaaaaaaa 🙈🙈🙉🙉

this is the way!!!!

omg 🥹🥹

i am not kidding when i say that the opening is slightly psychotic and i cannot believe people are letting me do it

okay for the first time this year i'm legit bummed to miss gdc

SHE IS

one of my faaaaaaaavorite lines

YESSSS I tried to make her take home this hoodie, im obsessed with her look in this video lolll

++ @iridiumstudios.bsky.social @itscompelling.bsky.social @jtoresson.bsky.social @rawfury.bsky.social + everyone else who is wisely free and clear of bsky

The biggest thanks ever to my co-director @teddydief.com for directing, editing, and writing this with me. To @robdubbin.bsky.social for sage writing wisdom and contributions. And everyone I begged favors from: @christopurrr.bsky.social @awfultyler.bsky.social @harleigh.bsky.social

Lots more to say about it when I'm not buried under production deadlines! But here to share this silly little announcement video that my friends put up with me to film.

Still cannot believe I'm hosting the IGFs at GDC this year.

The IGFs are THE show I've looked up to for my entire career! But I'm not doing it alone! I've assembled collaborators and presenters who I deeply admire and are the ones making the indie dev community the best damn community on earth

yessss SERVE

i love when my dr compliments my sunscreen use and I say "no actually i just don't go out in the sun" 😎

eeeee thank youuu 🥹🥹

someday I will stop beating myself up about every single thing I do, and I will get everything done so much faster without nearly as much self-inflicted pain and anxiety and stress and depression

.........BUT UNTIL THEN--

YouTube video by cbebop007 It's Ridge Racer!

I literally have the script open as we speak

(also this immediately made me pull up RIDGE RACER!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBU...)