Kyra Wills-Umdenstock ♠️🌌🔮

IGF with the EGD crew!

Two men adjusting a monitor for the NYU Game Center's Game Developers Conference expo booth. Monitor has an image of a chonky seal in full screen.

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I'm at GDC, come say hi if you think you see me!

I'll be haunting speed networking and the NYU booth.

Awawa

I am the ghost of collegiate esports past

I tripped my breaker because I was microwaving and using the airfryer and making coffee :'( and now it won't turn back on

I present to you... my 90 EGD Game Studio Program students!!!! From 21 colleges and 100% are either low-income, first-generation, or underrepresented in our industry. Does anyone need interns ;)

Localization is a subtle art.

Do you know the difference between formal & functional translation?

Get ready, here’s a little introduction to translation theories, and how we apply it to the games we work on! 🧵👇

anybody interested in teaching the youth full time? our office is pretty cool i'll have you know.

We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty! - NYU | Game Center The NYU Game Center is seeking to fill two full-time faculty Assistant Arts Professor positions starting in the 2024 – 2025 academic year.   Check out the links below to read about our two open pos...

Have you made some games? Want to teach brilliant weird students to make them? We're hiring for two Arts Professor positions; one for a visual design/art specialist, one for game design/dev. No advanced degrees/experience in academia needed. gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

@chrisdeleon.bsky.social @ChrisDeLeon the year is 2027 gdc now has 4 badge ribbon color options for attendees to easily tell which of the remaining megastudios people work for so they don't accidentally network with their coworkers since the only way to get any meaningful pay increase is still by switching companies

Microsoft Blizzard news right on track

omg I said purse-sph-one for the longest time... and I was a percy jackson nerd. The shame I brought to my family.

I'm only keeping mine up until my friends from college are able to get over here, but I did my "I'm fully migrated" post. Tbh I only got a twitter for gamedev in the first place

Search drinks on your camera roll. Sorry to break up this cat chain but I think this is a worthy image

This discover algorithm must be real good if I was awarded this based off my last few skeets

trying to convince myself that it's ok to take baby steps in getting my life together and calling making 6 PB&J sandwiches at 2 AM "meal prep"

I feel that... between anxiety and depression and general perpetual burnout I find it hard to show up to things in the first place.

(and yet somehow, meeting people is half my job)

I feel like I collect steam games like I do books I never read...

hello, I would love to follow more fellow trans / non-binary game dev folks on here!

if you could tag lovely folks or share this to amplify, that would be big appreciated. Thanks! <3

I'm so happy a lot of educators started focusing on STEAM instead of STEM

Here's a pic of the foster kitty

If you're games industry and following some folks already, reply with who you are and what you do, and then re-post this or whatever it's called. Let's try and find each other on this new place

Hey! I'm Kyra and I am the industry liaison/career advisor/high school programs/government human for NYU Game Center. Before that I was a nomad for 7 years between production, events, esports, sound design, graphic design, museums, K-12 games education...

So I have **90** students in the Game Studio Program this year.... that's double normal! Can't wait to post a cohort pic on Friday night of all these emerging game devs.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've had apart from what you do now:
- graphic design for a dating app
- esports bar
- handled snakes at a children's museum
- concessions for US Open

Hello!!! I'm here! And I'm trying to follow everyone I can find from Twitter. If you do games, let's connect.