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Lee Tran 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇨🇳

@cltran86.bsky.social

Toronto-based Game Dev of the educational and non-educational variety. Owner of Socially Awkward Studio. Capoeirista, gym rat, adequately gay enough(?) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇳🇨🇦 EN/PT

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In 2019, I created #WhatAGameDevLooksLike after I was stopped by security 3(!!) times while picking up my speaker badge. I’m a small Asian woman with pink hair, and I guess I didn’t visually meet their expectations of a speaker.

Ironically, I was at GDC to speak about inclusive studio cultures. 🫠

02.03.2026 17:16 — 👍 309    🔁 63    💬 10    📌 1

This game gave me nightmares as a child.

13.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So it's not a AAA game dev sim 🙃

12.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm obsessed with EP 5 reactions lol

08.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can't explain it, but straight men watching Heated Rivalry and loving it is healing the world

08.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Working on a brand new course for Godot...
#godot #indiedev #indiegames

01.01.2026 21:15 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Loving the hair too

25.12.2025 02:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Takeaway: don't have babies?

22.12.2025 21:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

We need to normalize giving games under 50%

03.12.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watch Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss (not as musical as Hazbin, but it's the same world) 🙃

30.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had a game jam idea that was a soccer/football telenovela, where you had to take damage during matches as dramatically as humanly possible to give other players fouls.

So yes to telenovela mode.

30.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, you should also do an "Over Acting" mode, where every line is delivered like a 20 year old surviving on cocaine and dreams of being an "Acteur"

30.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Chaos Wars-  Yuri and Karen
YouTube video by TheCockCrew Chaos Wars- Yuri and Karen

The closest to bad VO is probably Chaos Wars. You might not be able to strive for AI VO, but you can strive for Chaos Wars.

Please hire me as your dev if you ever decide to do this game 😂😂😂
youtu.be/BAtC1SzWSXg?...

30.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You think he tapped it on his tongue when he pulled it out?

30.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm cackling 😂

30.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I've officially deleted Unity for good.

30.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I have a lot of trauma, but ain't no trauma like retail employee trauma.

27.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was in the same room as them when they made Super Time Force. AT A GAME JAM! HOW DARE YOU, I HATE THEM SO MUCH 😭😭😭

... so freakin talented..

27.11.2025 02:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He apologizes in song. With the ukelele.

26.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On #GameMakersNotebook, @trentkusters.bsky.social chats with Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi about his new game "to a T" from @uvula.jp, going from sculpting to his first job at Bandai Namco, the origins of Katamari, and his philosophy on creating experiences not available in the real world

24.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2

Isn't IG just thirst trap and memes at this point?

25.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Better the forklift than the crate moving by hand 😂

21.11.2025 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Its harder to avoid, especially when my everyday work tools now come with some sort of AI integration.

At home, I'm trying my best to use anything that doesn't have AI in it. I'll drop any software that does.

12.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After finishing the KQ series, I spent waaaay too much time playing Laura Bow. The words "You pick it up and place it in your purse" echos in my head endlessly

28.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Belated Birthday 🎂😘

19.10.2025 18:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Put em in the pool and remove the ladder

08.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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For almost 5 years I have been on a journey to recreate game mechanics as a way to learn game development and share knowledge!

13.09.2024 00:34 — 👍 2712    🔁 367    💬 47    📌 17

Haven't bought anything from EA for a while, but yeah, fuck EA

29.09.2025 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Submitted my game last week but to all the puzzle game devs, give this a shot!

28.09.2025 01:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The last time I went, I didn't even get a ticket. I just did the network events at the bars and common areas, and the experience was sooo much better for me.

26.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0