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@spdrcstl.bsky.social

⚧ indie gamedev, writer, occasional musician. She/Her. Senior Designer at [horror game company]. Proud member of Domino Club. Made Videotome. also found on masto: https://timetheft.social/@spdrcstl games: communistsister.itch.io

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context: fighting fantasy style gamebook. the player is in a gauntlet of arena fights against opponents, each of which has the arena announcer make a pun

announcer: ROUND SIX! and that's not the only thing that's six!

enemy: six goblins

09.03.2026 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean, they already made a threeslop game

09.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think I tapped out a few dungeons before her... I got to the final layer/biome/etc of the chalices so wasn't that far, but bouncing off Ludwig killed my drive lol

I think I would love a "oops all chalice dungeons" souls game...

09.03.2026 22:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it's also in the chalices hanging out

09.03.2026 21:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think the hardest fight I stubbornly beat was the chalice dungeon undead giant with the chains... the hardest one I gave up on was Ludwig

09.03.2026 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

rather that than the nightmare frontier

09.03.2026 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

in an otherwise ambiently miserable employment environment for trans women I'm grateful to have a place that not only employs but explicitly appreciates me...

09.03.2026 20:25 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

work gave me a little desk trophy for being there for 5 years... feels a long time... a little bittersweet to receive after my team went through two rounds of redundancies in as many years, but I'm happy to have the trust and respect of my team, and a fun new project...

09.03.2026 20:23 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'll be between big jobs soon, and would love to dedicate at least a few months toward prototyping the gameplay for this project.

If I made it the focus of my Patreon for the foreseeable future, could you see yourself chipping in a few dollars monthly to support it? I've got big plans!

09.03.2026 18:09 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

sell seven million copies? layoffs

09.03.2026 16:07 — 👍 421    🔁 120    💬 8    📌 2

In From The Cold was great, albeit I did a lot of hunting around in circles for the one mech with ceruleum... did that, tower of babil, and the trial all in one evening.. absolutely stacked set of quests

09.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

that's the first Trial of the expansion???

08.03.2026 23:59 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 7    📌 0

fingers crossed a nice identifiable Axis

08.03.2026 20:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

can't possibly imagine what these people scrabbling to survive a decimated city while mistrustful of foreign help and resolute to not betray their country is inspired by

08.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

the garlemald section of endwalker so far would not hit as well if I hadn't slogged through 350 hours of the game to date with them as the antagonists... good arc...

08.03.2026 19:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

poppy compared this arc of the main quest to the film Downfall and, yeah, I see it...

08.03.2026 19:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
screenshot of FFXIV. a woman sits hunched on the ground of a train carriage saying "our pride, our culture, our knowledge-- all of it, gone"

screenshot of FFXIV. a woman sits hunched on the ground of a train carriage saying "our pride, our culture, our knowledge-- all of it, gone"

average bystander on london underground

08.03.2026 19:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

damn Endwalker isn't fucking around huh

08.03.2026 19:08 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 1

hhhh hell of a lineup to be sat next to ❤️

07.03.2026 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

makes sense for brown rice in weekday dinners imo...

05.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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i’d make the case that the doohickey oughta be mentioned in the same breath as excalibur and other weapons of legend

05.03.2026 01:25 — 👍 1447    🔁 468    💬 15    📌 43
screenshot of an article header reading:

meta's ai "smart glasses" actually rely on workers in kenya -- who see the wearer's most intimate moments

over a man in a turtleneck in the dark sitting in front of a bright computer screen with the meta logo on it

screenshot of an article header reading: meta's ai "smart glasses" actually rely on workers in kenya -- who see the wearer's most intimate moments over a man in a turtleneck in the dark sitting in front of a bright computer screen with the meta logo on it

the mechanical turk 256 years and still going strong

05.03.2026 06:19 — 👍 175    🔁 55    💬 2    📌 4
screenshot of a fake bios from videogame "Memorel Restoration Project"

screenshot of a fake bios from videogame "Memorel Restoration Project"

screenshot of fake OS from videogame "Traumakt~04.sexe"

screenshot of fake OS from videogame "Traumakt~04.sexe"

carefully picking which OS to move to after windows

04.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 71    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0

happy birthday!

03.03.2026 20:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

13.01.2026 20:17 — 👍 10180    🔁 3805    💬 68    📌 66

new issue of ChoiceBeat is out! the second half of my Videotome interview is in here, alongside a bunch of the community's games made in the engines :)

03.03.2026 09:59 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine. There is a screaming green claymation monster.

Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine. There is a screaming green claymation monster.

It's issue 16 of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction zine!

In gaming zine terms, 16 issues makes us about 1,000 years old. Lots of wisdom here. 🧙‍♂️

choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...

> Blippo+
> ChoiceScript games!
> Serial Experiment: Lain PSX game
> Videotome
> SO MUCH MORE

03.03.2026 03:40 — 👍 29    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 4

played a bit over the holidays, it's pretty fun :) you can drive trucks of supplies around all day too

02.03.2026 15:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hire dana shes a fucking genius at what she does and a delight to work with

01.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 67    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey all! My current contract ended unexpectedly, and I'm looking for game design work with some urgency.

I'm a multidisciplinary technical artist, game designer, and programmer. I turn concepts and aesthetic vision into shaders and systems.

Boosts welcome. Leads on projects even more so!

01.03.2026 20:05 — 👍 93    🔁 51    💬 1    📌 2