Kristina Åkerman

Replaying Dragon Age Veilguard (for some reason, I have diffuse itchings I don’t know how to scratch) and using the photo mode to peek at unreachable areas. I just found this corpse in Dmeta’s crossing, placed in a very suspicious pose on a … giant wheel of cheese. I salute you, whoever did this.

I still think it’s absolutely bonkers that I get to say ”I make video games” when people ask me what I do for a living. Like, is this even real?? Wtf

U.K, Canada and Australia formally recognize a Palestinian state, breaking with the U.S. The announcements Sunday marked a significant shift in foreign policy, with several other European nations and U.S. allies set to follow suit in the coming days.

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

He’s very good at both in any case. The Pitt was great.

Do you think Noah Wyle has played a doctor for so long now that he could actually function as one

The daily struggle of being a narrative designer is literally convincing people you are, in fact, a designer

Really excited, terrified and proud of this one! åEver since Gabriel Knight Mysteries as a kid, detective games have been my absolute favorite game genre. Now, this is obviously constricted to the world and story of Dune, but to be the designer on our own investigation has been SUCH a joy. Check it!

Books read in August:

Mirja Unge - Hundnätter
Andrey Kurkov - The Stolen Heart
Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune

Definitely played Coral Island and Banishers the most, the first after the latter has frazzled my nerves enough.

Games played in August:
Coral Island
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Best Served Cold
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Tales of the Shire

Finished: Eriksholm! Wow, my first fully finished game this year 😅 13 sneaky hours I thoroughly enjoyed.

“This story deserves to be more than just a book.”

That’s how stupid this sounds.

Happy birthday Dustborn ❤️ My first game release and my first job in the game industry, this game and team forever holds an incredibly dear place in my heart.

Thanks for the kind words @ewords.bsky.social ❤️- now obviously there are a bunch more talents behind this content and I’ll make sure to share this with them! Glad to hear you’re enjoying it and hope we wont disappoint in the upcoming chapters:)

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Omg you guys I actually finished a game this year

Books read in July:

Mizuki Tsujimura - Lonely Castle in the Mirror
David Lindsay - Voyage to Arcturus

Usually read a ton more but I mostly worked and didn’t particularly enjoy any of these books so it was… slow.
What did you read?

Games played in July:

Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Palia
Islanders: New Shores

What about you?

NONE of the two use their god damned hearing aids and I spend most of my time with them either repeating myself 5 times or talking so loudly I give myself a headache.
Mom full on put her hand in a scorching frying pan today cause she couldn’t hear it sizzling and then went on to blame her tinnitus.

Is everyone’s mom fully delusional or only mine? Today she said not only does she NOT have bad hearing and I’m the problem for mumbling too much, but also that her state-issued hearing aid was a «pedagogical experiment» to trick grandma into getting one too.

Two girls playing around the bridge where I’m taking a swim talking:

Girl: Would you rather be a spider or a fish?
Girl2: Spider.
Girl: Why?
Girl2: Because less people would try to eat me and I would get to eat all the time.

Awesome reasoning.

Listen I know the heat wave in Scandi right now is a joke to most, but remember- buildings here are built to RETAIN heat. We don’t have aircon. Our bodies are confused. We don’t know how to dress for this weather. So I’m just asking if it’s ok if I sleep in the shower. With the water running.

Why does Palia have a chokehold on me

That pic refuses to load so I’ll just have to take your word for it 😅

Oh I’m so glad to hear that! Yeah, we’ve had some great VA’s on the project. It’s definitely a very special feeling to take part in bringing a character to (digital) life!

On my free time, I like to stalk all the VO recordings for the next chapter of Dune 😎

There’s not a day of the year when we don’t need a red panda

Mark Snow, a true legend. The X-Files soundtrack marked my entire youth and I still have the theme as a ring tone to this day<3

Zapping disorder is the definition of ”I have an itch I can’t quite scratch”. If anyone manages to figure out what I’m looking for based on this list, I owe you

Body Snatchers was PHENOMENAL btw. Best read in a long time.
Fahrenheit 451 is still so good.
Hated Bukowski (or rather his protagonist, writing is good).
Uketsu was addictive but meh writing.
Ministey of Time had a compelling story but pretentious writing.