Arone Le Bray

I’ll soon be available for game design, creative direction, and consultancy opportunities while I develop my own projects. I’m also open to paid speaking engagements if you know of any!

If you’d be willing to share/repost this, or just send a kind word, I’d truly appreciate it. Thank you! ♥

The music just started playing in my head as soon as you reminded me of the moment. That game broke 12 year old me over and over and over, with every NewGame+

this is an excellent talk by @thewritegame.bsky.social and @katedollarhyde.bsky.social that I am just not going to be able to livetweet because it’s so dense, but this reminder that building games with companions is a specific skill that a studio needs several tries to master is SO crucial

HEXED: Volume 1 A modern romantasy set at a college of magic, featuring a leading lady on the autism spectrum.

I've been working on this for about 5 months, some days over 16 hours a day. I can't do physical labor, can't work most jobs. I write and I draw. It's what I do - all I can do - and I'm decent at it. I even do it with my mouth because I can't use my hands. 1/?

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(Aside: We're so lucky to have had so much support from my colleagues, friends, and most everyone on this little island for embracing our strange Canadian ways and being so supportive of our journey. You will never know how much we truly appreciate everything you have done for us.)

The Sad:
After nearly four years with TCR and those little fang-faces, it was time for me to embrace the dawn. However, the Bloodlines 2 team is in a fantastic space and I can't wait for everyone to see this incredible game!

TCR logo on the left, with an arrow pointing to the Playground Games logo on the right, symbolising my new job update.

I warned that an update was coming...

Updates (both happy and sad)!

The Happy:
I'm pleased to let everyone know that I have accepted a role with the wonderful people at Playground Games! I'm tickled turquoise to start this next chapter of my career and I can't wait to dig into the Fable world.

too much gamedev advice focuses on making a success. success is such a complicated, often random, and subjective thing.
i want more advice on learning from your failures or even openly celebrating failure. destigmatize failure please 🙏🥲

party time!!

Srsly. Not only is the "left to die" BS contrary to human nature, we have loads of archeological evidence against it!

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

It's time for another Adanna double feature at GDC, friends let me know if you want to grab taiyakis or ramen! 🍜✨🎮

"People need room to suck."

100% agreed. Every failure leads to the possibility of awesome.

Sometimes the failure itself is goddamn spectacular, if not for the reason you wanted it to be...

YouTube video by Mark Darrah on Games Your $70 Doesn't Buy You Cruelty

I've been keeping my shilling to the other, worse, place but if this is useful:
youtu.be/0mkVfdbVAZE

Amateur dogshit is the loam in which professional-grade work grows.

Spending my last day at TCR today (update coming soon!).

Likely because of this, I had a dream last night where I went around the studio and had to do a scavenger hunt to find all of my personal things that were moved around to multiple floors and hidden.

Step through the scary red door with us. This is not a cozy game.

Hey bluesky! We're hiring for a few positions! Come work with us on Project D :) ->

halfmermaid.co/jobs

🌟 Senior Character Artist
🌟 Cinematic Manager
🌟 Senior Environment Artist (European timezones)
🌟 Level Designer (European timezones)

This is what I mean when I say to just make that thing you want to make, even if it’s garbage, especially today in the world of AI-generated dreck. One person’s absolute dogshit passion project will be 1000000% more powerful than a million auto-generated books thrown onto Amazon.

Universal basic income program could cut poverty up to 40%: Budget watchdog | CBC News The government's fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent.

Let’s go.

Hey UK trans folk or even just people looking to change their names! You can change your name for free via deedpoll, I used this sites template and was able to get my passport changed with it!
freedeedpoll.org.uk ✨️

Creative Director – World of Darkness - Paradox Interactive Join World of Darkness as our Creative Director! Shape the future of our legendary universe, ensuring authentic, innovative storytelling across games, books, and transmedia experiences.

OPPORTUNITY - Creative Director

Not affiliated. Shares welcome

career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/5562404...

Reminder? I never knew this in the first place! Eggshellent....

meme saying “worked on a mediocre game? Fired. Worked on a critically acclaimed game? Believe it or not, also fired”

i’m tired

OPPORTUNITY - Script Editor (2nd of the day)

Not affiliated, shares welcome

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Guess who's joining the games redundancy crew!! Woop woop! Yeah, the layoffs got me, pals 🥲 Hmu if you or someone you know is looking for support on strategic people development, operations, organisational change, and/or game content sensitivity checking and risk assessment...or for a pub trip 😙✌️

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Sometimes adding some amino acids, or attempting to dip into primodial soup helps make game=true.

Sometimes.

We live in the dumbest dystopia.

People don’t always realize the message it sends to the world by just being slightly out of the ordinary and still being good at your job.

YouTube video by Macklemore MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)

Did not expect to be a Macklemore fan, but after Hinds' Hall, Hinds' Hall 2, and now Fucked Up - I gotta say, this man puts his reputation, money, and skills to more ethical and just use than 99% of people with any level of influence on this planet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9E...