Jared J Tan🏔️

Montage of photos at various events of Jared and friends

Each of these 2025 moments were with friends that I met through games.

Launched a new publishing label, hosted events for local developers, and was lucky enough to visit 5 continents along the way.

Coming up on 5 years in games and many more to come 🤞

📸 @commacomrade.bsky.social

We just dropped a brand new trailer that shows a horrifying side of Valor Mortis

youtu.be/YjGtfrFmxxM

Introducing EmCon! A game dev conference where everything is Em

The speakers, the artist and even the venue are all Em!

Featuring these emmazing speakers:
@emaudible.bsky.social
@sonderingemily.bsky.social
@emmabellish.bsky.social
@emmakidwell.bsky.social

Tickets: bit.ly/EmCon2025

Graphic showing the lineup at Vancouver Game Dev Series on August 26 Adam Caflisch of Peglin Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard of Slay the Princess Jared J Tan of Lyrical Games

Our next session on Aug 26 is revealed! We will be hosting

@blacktabbygames.com - devs of Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow

Adam "Crashtroid" Caflisch, composer of Peglin

and our very own @ehjaredj.bsky.social, who does marketing and publishing things

Tickets are just $10 and include pizza 🍕

Text with Lyrical Games logo underneath: Everyone who cares about games, from the people who make them to the people who play them, has been affected by an increasingly risk-averse industry. The biggest publishers are consolidating around existing cash cows, while smaller labels pivot to ever-shrinking budgets. We work with the teams in between. Developers taking big creative risks and substantial swings. Some of the best games released in recent years have had that kind of ambition, and we know there’s room for more. With a founding team of key people from Private Division, Humble Games, and Devolver Digital, we are already working with multiple studios and will be signing more soon. We believe developers are often the best stewards of their own games. Collaboration and transparency guide our partnerships. We are not building a live service, billion-dollar empire. We are not chasing quarterly earnings. We back exceptional games.

Introducing Lyrical Games.

Vancouver Game Dev Series will be on June 23rd featuring Gordon McGladdery from A Shell In the Pit and Jeremy Ho & Elliot Waters from Am I Nima and Ho! Games

VANCOUVER GAME DEVS!

We're hosting a speaker session on June 23 featuring

🎵 Gord from legendary audio house, A Shell In the Pit
🅰️ Jeremy & Elliot from AM I NIMA, one of the hottest new demos on Steam

Tickets ➡️https://bit.ly/vgdsJUN2025

@ho-games-studio.bsky.social @ashellinthepit.bsky.social

I can't stop watching yours, king 👑

Our 3 game modes ✨

🌋Sumo Survival
⚽️Boxball
⏹️Stockpile

What other game modes do you think we should we add? 🤔

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

Nick Kaman, studio head of Aggro Crab will be joining us at our event on April 29!

We'll also have presenters from Wanderstop and Darkest Dungeon 2

Tickets are just $10 and include pizza (but no crab) bit.ly/vgdsAPR2025

@smashynick.bsky.social @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social

Vancouver Game Dev Series will be on April 29th featuring Davey Wreden and Karla Zimonja of Wanderstop and Galen Ryder of Darkest Dungeon II.

Announcing Vancouver Game Dev Series happening in 2 WEEKS!

🍵We'll have a very special Q&A with Davey Wreden and Karla Zimonja of Wanderstop!

☠️Galen Ryder will share about the tools in Darkest Dungeon 2

Tickets -> bit.ly/vgdsAPR2025

@hellocakebread.bsky.social @zusty.bsky.social @galenryder.com

Sitting on the sidewalk in tears rn reading the messages from so many people who Narayana touched with his music and his kindness.

Whenever I had a chance to spend time with him, he brought warmth and light.

That light will shine in our memories and his art, forever.

hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅

Jared approaching a hobbit hole

Jared on a hobbit sized rocking horse

My time at Hobbiton

Your patience has been rewarded and our first Forestrike Demo is NOW live! 🥋

The time has come for you to embark on your journey and master the skill of Foresight whilst training at the Leaf School🍃

Happiest of birthdays to @ehjaredj.bsky.social, who I'm so glad did end up chasing his career in games!! 👑

While this industry's on fire, it's given me so much, including friends like Jared who's been there for me at my lowest. You are humble and genuine - I know many would say the same.

Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building.

Explore the warped interior to seek food, supplies and weapons while encountering strange characters and fighting hideous monsters that were once your neighbors.

Out Now on Steam 🪟 👀

A friend gave me these socks

That is so kind! Hope to see you in town soon

Thank you and Happy Birthday to you too!

My Birthday today is also the 4th anniversary of leaving my job as a tax accountant to pursue my dream of working in games!

From crying after being let go to quitting a job after 2 months, things could have gone very differently along the way. I am so thankful to everyone who took a chance on me 💜

Happy 10th Birthday to Hotline Miami 2!

Thanks to @jamesturner.bsky.social for this anniversary art.

A little snippet of what our game development process looked like!

Merry Christmas from Van Gogh Pikachu

and a big thank you to my stylist @galendrew.bsky.social, the king of clothes

Photo of Jared J Tan at The Game Awards wearing a custom Plucky Squire jacket

I got Plucky at The Game Awards!

I can't thank @jamesturner.bsky.social, Bidds, and All Possible Futures enough for trusting me with their studio's voice this year.

You made something very special and I'm glad that so many others thought so as well!

On December 11, we'll be hosting Q&As with Clara Sia from Devolver Digital and Noel Berry, co-creator of Celeste!

Tickets are just $10 bit.ly/vgdsdec2024

I've had the immense privilege of organizing and hosting Vancouver Game Dev Series the past 2 years with @busgamedevs.bsky.social!

In that time, we've run 8 sessions, featured 25 local devs, from first-time speakers to industry legends.

Our next event is on Dec 11 and we'd love to see you there!

Here's a few snapshots from our last event where we featured fantastic talents across game dev disciplines!

Tia Young from Rimworld
Remy Siu and Natalie Tin Yin Gan of 1000xResist
Arthur Protasio of Fableware Narrative Design

📸: @commacomrade.bsky.social
@tiapixel.bsky.social @remysiu.bsky.social

There's a BUNCH of people I gotta follow over here so I will be doing that now