Magdalena Cielecka

I'm a game design genius

Dudes keep being like "our next TTRPG is Ghibli inspired". Boring. Boo. It should be Gainax inspired.

Hey, so I thought it best to start up here and join in, hopefully you already know me. If not, HI!

if you don’t hire VO actors you don’t get to make them laugh, which is one of the great joys in life

The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."

Bluesky rn

I’M BACK TO WORK THIS WEEK AND WE JUST MADE THE GAME STRUCTURE OF SPACE WARLORD BABY TRADING SIMULATOR A FUSION OF MARIO KART AND I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM

LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT

YouTube video by Raw Fury The Séance of Blake Manor | Release Date Announcement Trailer

If you, like me, are a fiend for deductive narrative games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, etc) then you must check out the tremendous The Seance of Blake Manor (out today), which has become one of my favorite games of 2025. Only caveat is that I ran into a few nasty bugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH_...

A screenshot from Notion app with text bubble "Quack, it's Notion AI. Ask, search, or make anything".

I get Notion went with "Quack" for the rubberducking connotations... but you want me to believe no one pointed out that it also means (to quote Dictionary.com) "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, or qualifications they do not possess; a charlatan"? For real?

#b3d

Photograph of the Youtuber StrangeAeons: a young woman wearing a black suit and tie and a pink party hat. She is standing in front of a large screen that reads "The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out".

You have to be in it for the love of the game. You have to be obsessed. If you let a bot do your research for you, your bloodline is weak, your ancestors are ashamed, and you will not survive the winter.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

square concrete slab on the ground with “OLD DYKES AGAINST TECH BROS” stenciled onto it

here is my favorite sign from today

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

people are replying to this post like I'm talking about gamers.... no it's the devs. at least SOME gamers will read

A still from Don Bluth's The Secret of Nimh. A small mouse faces off against a silhouetted rat creation

A still from Don Bluth's The Secret of Nimh. A great big scary cat.

A still from Don Bluth's The Secret of Nimh. A small mouse escapes underwater from a dog with sharp teeth.

A still from Don Bluth's The Secret of Nimh. A small mouse talks to an wizened mouse with long claws and glowing eyeS

When they used to sneak a horror film into the cinema disguised a kids movie.

God I truly just do not understand why anyone is still using Spotify at this point...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

I think we should start using the term "long gamergate"

2d pixel art tutorial on how to draw a indie game asset bush sprite

How I draw a pixel art bush 💚

#pixelart #tutorial #gamedev

My contract with Blizzard ends in one month. I'm still looking for a fulltime role as a senior writer or narrative designer! If you need someone who can write poetic prose, emotive dialogue, and sharp stories, I'm here. ✨

A little collie with a black-and-brown face and white-and-black body sits in her human’s arms with a sign reading, “I BITE FASCISTS”

Ditto.

I cannot wait to again have some extra time on my hands so I can start nagging Vincent about some commissions for my side-project @_@

Czy dostęp do lekarza dla starszej kobiety ze wschodniej Ukrainy zubaża Polskę? [KOSOWICZ] Weto Nawrockiego do specustawy. Zohydzając Polakom migrantów politycy nie myślą za bardzo o tym, że innym zohydzają Polki i Polaków. Być ohydnymi - czy to jest w naszym interesie? - pisze Agnieszka Kosowicz z Polskiego Forum Migracyjnego.

Czy dostęp do lekarza dla starszej kobiety ze wschodniej Ukrainy zubaża Polskę? [KOSOWICZ] - https://oko.press/czy-dostep-do-lekarza-dla-starszej-kobiety-ze-wschodniej-ukrainy-zubaza-polske-kosowicz

There's never been a better example of the diminishing returns in graphical improvements.

I thought this was a post from Hard Drive.

This is one of the first illustrations I made for The White Horse of Lowvale. It is based in a Germanic legend, although I've always found fascinating the amount of cultures referencing an evil white horse that charms people to take them for a ride and drown them.

You can get the book in my store!

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

drawing of Miss Forge from MH4U

Drawing of Minayle from Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

Drawing of Nico from Devil May Cry 5

Drawing of Sara from Dragon's Dogma 2

I like how Capcom thought to themselves, "You know what's cool? Girl blacksmiths."

And you know what? I agree.

#MHArt #MonsterHunter #DevilMayCry #DMCart #art #fanart