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@drumbrus.bsky.social

She/Her Game/Narrative Designer, Looking for Work Currently part of Atelier Cassette Previously worked on Blanc and Altered.

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Dr Umbrus Page du jeu Game Designer, Narrative Designer, Lead Programmer, Team Manager Page d’information Programmation, prototypage, game design Page du jeu Game Designer, Référente DEI Développeuse touche à…

Greetings!
Due to some life update, I'm once again looking for work asap

If you don't know me yet, I'm a Game/Narrat Designer/Writer/Unity/Translator lady open to anything here.

Any repost/tag/direct message would help!

My portfolio (w contact) : www.drumbrus.fr/en

#lfw #gamejob #unity

08.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Might be a dumb question, but what are the alternatives ?
We hear about publishers (and all the issues that entails) all the time, but it also takes so much space it looks like the only solution, short of being able to sustain one's self for the whole dev cycle, which is quite a luxury.

13.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's...
A very beautiful point, indeed

13.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But doing so would make it lose its meaning after a bit, whereas doing it on her birthday allows us to always remember why it should be celebrated

13.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

08.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 763    🔁 282    💬 25    📌 15
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Exqusite Word Euphonic Boogie by LITHOBREAKERS An exquisite corpse visual novel; the more cooks, the better the broth.

Shout out to the time me and friends made an exquisite corpse visual novel featuring Rodger "Bro" Gromothy (he/him), Cookie Vivaldi (they/she), Apple (any), Donovan Forthrightly (fae/faer) and Squeamus Squire (they/them).
lithobreakers.itch.io/exquisite-wo...

08.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Le choix sur blazblue envoie un message clair :
"J'ai pas aimé Iron Tager" =P

05.10.2025 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As a european, I did a quick calculation. Assuming the lowest listed value, and that it's before taxes, it would be equivalent to *seventeen* years of what I earned at a min wage job. (Considering that game jobs are often min wage or close to, while still very rare, it hurts even more)

03.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Timespinner ?
It's a cool and somewhat short metroidvania, with some cute lesbean stuff in one questline.

And Get in the car loser, it's an indie rpg that's very very gay (though cw, it also has heavy stuff with fashs)

Cassette Beasts, I think it has lesbian stuff in it ?

02.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bonus anecdote, peeling from the opposite end is also how you can make the cartoon/mario kart banana peel with the stem on top and the three skin parts to make it stand

30.09.2025 14:29 — 👍 103    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Save 25% on Chico and the Magic Orchards DX on Steam Solve puzzles by rolling a giant walnut in this retro-handheld-inspired adventure. Explore a variety of levels each with unique mechanics. Help Chico build his winter stash and find his way home!

Hey! It's Steam Autumn sale time!
Why don't you pick up Chico and the Magic Orchards for just a few bucks?

Good old fashioned puzzle action fun with a cute chipmunk! #indiegames #steamautumnsale #gamedeals

store.steampowered.com/app/1921550/...

29.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Wait, in other countries it's not expected that a guest brings at least one food/drink item ?

21.09.2025 12:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Seeing the title, I was *ready* to recommend CDC if it wasn't in the list.
It's the only one I knew about before reading it, and it was *so* refreshing to play through compared to...
Well, literally what you talk about in the intro.

Really interesting article, will read the other parts later!

20.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
RESPECTABLE AA STUDIO is hiring 25 different LEAD EXECUTIVE SENIOR C-SUITE DEVELOPERS for EXCITING NEW GAME THAT’S BEEN GETTING LOTS OF BUZZ

Requirements:
-At least two PhDs in game development
-Shipped at least 25 AAA titles as a lead developer
-400 years of experience with Unreal Engine
-Expert in C#, Python, C++, Ruby, Swift, Rust, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, SQL, MATLAB, R, QBASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, punch cards, and operating Babbage’s difference engine
-No, we are not fishing for one specific person who coincidentally just left their job at another studio. Why would you think that?

RESPECTABLE AA STUDIO is hiring 25 different LEAD EXECUTIVE SENIOR C-SUITE DEVELOPERS for EXCITING NEW GAME THAT’S BEEN GETTING LOTS OF BUZZ Requirements: -At least two PhDs in game development -Shipped at least 25 AAA titles as a lead developer -400 years of experience with Unreal Engine -Expert in C#, Python, C++, Ruby, Swift, Rust, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, SQL, MATLAB, R, QBASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, punch cards, and operating Babbage’s difference engine -No, we are not fishing for one specific person who coincidentally just left their job at another studio. Why would you think that?

THAT FAMOUS GAME STUDIO is hiring a developer for THAT BELOVED GAME FRANCHISE THAT WAS FORMATIVE TO YOU BECOMING A DEV!

Benefits:
-$150,000/year plus insurance, dental, a retirement plan, and a puppy
-Hang with those famous game devs you saw at that GDC talk 
-We have a ball pit!

Requirements:
-A positive attitude 😊 
-Passionate about our game!
-Willing to learn
-Some basic game dev experience a plus but not required
-Onsite only on Pitcairn Island

THAT FAMOUS GAME STUDIO is hiring a developer for THAT BELOVED GAME FRANCHISE THAT WAS FORMATIVE TO YOU BECOMING A DEV! Benefits: -$150,000/year plus insurance, dental, a retirement plan, and a puppy -Hang with those famous game devs you saw at that GDC talk -We have a ball pit! Requirements: -A positive attitude 😊 -Passionate about our game! -Willing to learn -Some basic game dev experience a plus but not required -Onsite only on Pitcairn Island

A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO DOWNLOADED UNITY YESTERDAY is hiring a developer for I DECIDED TO TURN MY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAMPAIGN INTO A GAME

-so im making this game and i have this rly rly good idea but i never made a game b4 so i need u to do all the engine stuff and the programming and fix the mechanics and do the sound and lighting and shaders and backgrounds, i drew my characters on the back of homework but can u turn them into pixel art for me, i cant pay u but we can do rev share and when this game is a big hit youll make millions of dollars

A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO DOWNLOADED UNITY YESTERDAY is hiring a developer for I DECIDED TO TURN MY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAMPAIGN INTO A GAME -so im making this game and i have this rly rly good idea but i never made a game b4 so i need u to do all the engine stuff and the programming and fix the mechanics and do the sound and lighting and shaders and backgrounds, i drew my characters on the back of homework but can u turn them into pixel art for me, i cant pay u but we can do rev share and when this game is a big hit youll make millions of dollars

The three types of game dev job listings

17.09.2025 18:51 — 👍 913    🔁 260    💬 30    📌 18

This, this, and all of this

17.09.2025 08:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, I heard this game was made with real chunks of myself, it should be great!

(Also check the rest of the threads, the litho games are always a treat!)

#LITHOBREAKERS #indie #itchio #weird

11.09.2025 08:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Et le pire, c'est que maintenant c'est facile à faire.

Notamment sur Unity (vu que c'est ce que TC utilise), on peut littéralement faire des binding sur la position du clavier, donc même pas besoin de faire une différence az/qw

10.09.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sherlock Holmes is a bit more complicated.
See, the books are considered separately, for legal purpose, and SH became nicer with time.
Due to this, there was a period during which asshole SH was in the public domain, but nice SH wasn't, hence the tendency for the misanthropist.

10.09.2025 10:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dr Umbrus Page du jeu Game Designer, Narrative Designer, Lead Programmer, Team Manager Page d’information Programmation, prototypage, game design Page du jeu Game Designer, Référente DEI Développeuse touche à…

Greetings!
Due to some life update, I'm once again looking for work asap

If you don't know me yet, I'm a Game/Narrat Designer/Writer/Unity/Translator lady open to anything here.

Any repost/tag/direct message would help!

My portfolio (w contact) : www.drumbrus.fr/en

#lfw #gamejob #unity

08.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happy birb day Dana !

30.08.2025 11:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chico et le Verger Magique DX

Chico 3.0.1 (French!)

Chico et le Verger Magique DX Chico 3.0.1 (French!)

An update for #chicodx has been released on Steam and itch adding a French localization to the game, courtesy of @drumbrus.bsky.social

The update will be coming to Switch as well eventually, will update again.

Francophones enjoy! #indiegames #gamedev

store.steampowered.com/news/app/192...

18.08.2025 21:18 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Don't worry, even Souls fans are tired of those.

The best ones do something else than copy the aesthetic, like Another Crabs treasure, or NiOh (this one is still bleak, but has colors and a completely different narrative focus/gameplay flow)

21.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A mostly pink and blue glitchy, digital-style banner with a collage of images that appear to be globes and computers. The words "World Wide Weird" and "LBK-03" are visible.

A mostly pink and blue glitchy, digital-style banner with a collage of images that appear to be globes and computers. The words "World Wide Weird" and "LBK-03" are visible.

hello and welcome to our 3rd Official Astronaut Press Conference! over the next few days, i’ll be telling you all about the Digital Planet's strange new games!

it’s time to get weird, wide, and worldly! 🌐🔭✨

banner by @hexrae.bsky.social

20.08.2025 21:02 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2
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LITHOBREAKERS Jam 03-World Wide Weird - Collection by LITHOBREAKERS A collection by LITHOBREAKERS

Hi everybody!
Over july and 1/2 august, the amazing community of @lithobreakers.bsky.social has been busy for the third lithobreakers jam, World Wide Weird edition.

Ten weird,wordly and wide (?) projects for you to see!

(And maybe I'm in there somewhere!)
itch.io/c/6217238/li...
#LITHOBREAKERS

18.08.2025 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just need about a thousand artists and sound designers for all the useless (and thus absolutely core) interactions with everything in the background.

(For real tho, those games were amazing, and something new in that style would be great)

14.08.2025 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

11.08.2025 15:44 — 👍 688    🔁 442    💬 20    📌 516

To be clear: I am not accepting pitches for comic scripts for me to turn into comics. I am way too busy for that! I want writers to write the dang story so I can make the pretty pictures. I wanna be the helper instead of the leader, for once 😂

06.08.2025 23:46 — 👍 49    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Oh, don't be like that.

Some offers are for Lead or Principal roles too!

06.08.2025 04:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One thing I "love" about today society is the incentive to "monetize your hobbies" while also strangling the options to do so as much as possible and only being worth for the best of bests, without allowing easy room to grow since results must be immediate
Very logic and healthy stuff

31.07.2025 10:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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