@epistellar.bsky.social
current: narrative designer on south of midnigh + unannounced IP at @compulsiongames.bsky.social | former: narrative @ sad owl studios + counterplay games | indie studio projects galore | email: dee @ epistellar . net | Anti-AI
Fresh off the Nintendo Direct...
✨ GOODNIGHT UNIVERSE ✨ launches NOVEMBER 11th on PC, Switch 2, Switch 1, PS5 & Xbox Series XIS!
Play as a psychic baby, escape an evil tech CEO, and with your family's help, discover who you're meant to be.
Wishlist: bit.ly/gnu-game
Anthropomorphic dip-pen and inkwell stand infront of a table stacked with books. Pen holds a sign with '18+' drawn on the center, with a heart around it. Inkwell is holding a paper colored rainbow with 'LGBTQA' upon it. Inkwell is holding a hand up in a 'stop' motion. Behind the table is the vague sense of a crowd also holding signs. Above image it reads: "CARTOONISTS Against Adult Content CENSORSHIP"
The Cartoonist Co-op stands against the censorship and pay discrimination of 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists.
Check the link below for our official statement, ways to take action, and resources.
cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...
Art by @greedygulo.bsky.social
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
31.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 5640 🔁 1438 💬 84 📌 37You're the best in class! Always a joy to write with you 🫶
31.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good morning! I'm sitting down to make a bunch of calls before starting work for the day. Please do the same! This has to be sustained pressure, not just one day. This thread and the document within it are great resources if you need a script or numbers to call / places to email, as is yellat.money
25.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 239 🔁 199 💬 3 📌 0UNDERISLES is so close to an amazing #Kickstarter stretch goal! Having the budget for an Actual Play from this fresh production team will truly show how the Isles #ttrpgs make learning sign language fun and important.
Please take a look and consider pledging: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...
It's always "bring back Animorphs" day for me tbh.
Jake will be an aimless soldier without a war who only feels alive when he's ramming an alien ship on a suicide mission or he won't be Jake at all. Give these kids an HBO series because the Nickelodeon show really wasn't it.
Congrats to my amazing colleague and good friend! Wholly deserved!
14.07.2025 17:07 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It was only a matter of time since we've nurtured a culture of 'operate without preventative moderation until things get so bad that politicians who have no idea how the internet works create a law infringing on privacy rights.'
10.07.2025 21:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yeah! I'm absolutely STOKED.
06.07.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The team are accepting late pledges until Friday, July 11th btw!
06.07.2025 15:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Kickstarter wrapped but they're accepting late pledgers until July 11th!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nea...
REDWALL?? MY CHILDHOOD.
06.07.2025 15:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I just got laid off from Xbox's publishing team, alongside many others.
Open community roles are welcome, but if you could send recommendations for games or other works of art that have helped bring you creative fulfillment recently, I'd deeply appreciate it. 💖
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
Lets not do this! A lot of real, hardworking people put work into making this game.
25.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My company is effectively built from Notion so yeah this pisses me off. I've hated Notion AI since the minute they launched it. First thing I do when setting our clients up is help them get the AI shut off
Tired of companies putting the cost of their poor decisions on us + making their app worse
A true Weaver never leaves home without their objects of station ☝🏾
30.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 168 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
29.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 10467 🔁 3478 💬 23 📌 368This is insane behavior to me. You want to WRITE for a living but you don't want to WRITE?!?
04.06.2025 15:39 — 👍 295 🔁 50 💬 8 📌 4I teach a game writing class. Students have scripts, worldbuilding docs, treatments, etc due every week
About half the class used ChatGPT last semester even though I made it clear using an LLM = an F. When I asked why a studio would ever hire them if their work was just ChatGPT, they seemed stunned
Say hello to our special guest @zeestermeester.bsky.social , one of the brilliant narrative minds behind the hauntingly beautiful #SouthofMidnight @compulsiongames.bsky.social
From folklore to fantasy, we're going on a journey together.
Don't miss it! 6/9/2025 @ 9 am PT!
#BViG #SummerGameFest
open.spotify.com/episode/62Vg...
Had a great time getting to talk shop with @official-aias.bsky.social Game Maker’s Notebook podcast. Thanks @alexaray.bsky.social for hosting me and @epistellar.bsky.social.
I got to write some of everything on Midnight and was blessed to work along side Dani!
Thank you, Alexa!! You're so lovely ❤️
02.06.2025 20:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0South of Midnight is one of my favorite games of 2025 so far and is yet another testament to how trusting your creatives and letting them cook results in something truly beautiful. Thank you @zeestermeester.bsky.social and @epistellar.bsky.social for being so open with me!
02.06.2025 18:44 — 👍 59 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 0On the latest episode of the #GameMakersNotebook, @alexaray.bsky.social chats with @epistellar.bsky.social and @zeestermeester.bsky.social about #SouthofMidnight, staying authentic to the American Deep South folklore, how they tackled Hazel's emotional progression throughout the story, and more! 🎙️👇
02.06.2025 18:41 — 👍 85 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 1🚨 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
HEY!
WE JUST DROPPED OUR DEMO FOR ROGUE ECLIPSE, GO PLAY IT NOW ON STEAM!
GOGOGOGOOOOOOOOooooo-
Reposts appreciated! 😅🙏
bit.ly/4bRLumD
Meme in the style of "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign that says "you wouldn't overscope a project"
26.05.2025 18:55 — 👍 2902 🔁 806 💬 52 📌 57Hello! I've emailed again at the info@mothcharm.co about paying for a commercial license to use these emojis in my indie esports game!
Really don't mean to be a pest, but we're content locking by the end of June and I don't want to miss out on using these with appropriate payment & attribution!