Rosa Carbó-Mascarell 🍊 @moreelen Twitter profile

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Rosa Carbó-Mascarell 🍊

1 year

I present to you the ✨game design wiki✨! It includes: 🌱 The career progression of a game designer 💼 How to hunt for game design jobs 💡 Detailed run through of the game design process 🖼️ Many handy resources And more!

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Rosa Carbó-Mascarell 🍊

@moreelen

4 years

Loads of people were asking me what the difference between a game designer and producer were so here you go! A quick intro to roles in game development. 👩‍💻 (This took all day... Please appreciate. 😂)

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4 years

Please enjoy another games industry TikTok. 👀

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2 years

🌸 Easy game making tools for non programmers. In rough order of easiest to hardest. 🌸 🧵

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3 years

Yo Studio Ghibli are releasing 100s of beautiful film stills in hi-res, free to use. 💖 👇🏼

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3 years

How dare you, QA are the real heroes of game development! 😤

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@moreelen

2 years

✨ Sup my game friends! ✨ I've made a GDD template cause someone on TikTok asked me to. You can access it for free here: Feel free to copy and use it to document your games! 💖

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4 years

If you like flowers, Keukenhof, one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world, is doing a 360 virtual tour. 🌷🌼🌻🌹

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4 years

😎 TikTok time 😎 It's the night before launch in the office and the game is broken.

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@moreelen

6 years

I think the idea that you can't be a great game designer unless you know how to code is a myth that we need to stop perpetuating. By saying these things you are ultimately gatekeeping the industry, whether consciously or not. Let me explain. 🧵👇🏽

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@moreelen

3 years

STOP EVERYTHING WE HAVE BABY FOXES IN OUR GARDEN!!! 🦊🦊🦊

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@moreelen

4 years

I've started sharing my game design knowledge and tips on TikTok. Teaching them Gen Z how to make games! 💖🎲

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@moreelen

3 years

This song was too perfect. 😅

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@moreelen

4 years

New TikTok: Game designers as zodiac signs! Which one are you? ♈♉♊♋♌♍ This one was weeks in the making. Will post part two in a bit. ✌🏼

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3 years

Don't lie, this is all of us every time. 😅

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@moreelen

4 years

I had to do this. 😂

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4 years

🔥 TikTok time 🔥 A few tips from this game designer on how to enter the industry.

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@moreelen

4 years

TikTok to finally shut up all those dudes in my mentions saying you can't make *real* games with easy game making tools like Game Maker. You absolutely can. Follow your dreams, my peeps. ✨

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3 years

I had this one in my drafts for half a year and never posted it because I thought it was too dark. But with everything going on with Activision Blizzard this needs to see the light. This is our reality. It needs to change. Solidarity with #ActiBlizzWalkout ! ✊🏼

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4 years

Programmers fixing the game design.

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4 years

I can't wait to be old and run a studio with other old women. 👵🏼👵🏿👵🏾 We'll be a grandma games studio. 👵🏻👵🏽👵🏿 Our studio will be in a greenhouse full of plants, where we'll make wholesome wise games and bake every Friday. 🌷🍪🎮🌼✨

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3 years

Time to learn about game design and yourself, in one! 💃🏻✨ There are 4 player types according to Amy Jo Kim. Which one are you?

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4 years

🎨 Calling all freelance artists 🎨 Do I know any awesome illustrators? Have a couple of paid gigs that need filling. 🍃 Marginalised artists extra welcome 🍃 Good with characters 🍃 Unique standout style Drop your portfolio below. 👇🏽 ✨ Please retweet. ✨

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2 years

Thread of great game design talks. (Mainly for myself but feel free to bookmark/share/add if you find it useful too!) #gamedev

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4 years

Can universities stop calling generalist game developer courses "game design"? I keep having to explain that game design isn't game development.

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@moreelen

2 years

Management training in the games industry is a need. While its not replacement for a full course, here are a couple of resources that helped me. 👇🏼

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@moreelen

4 years

Went to an interview for an indie studio I was excited about. Met up at a cafe and I brought my portfolio. He tried to kiss me at the end. Turns out he thought it was a date. 🤦‍♀️

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@moreelen

3 years

Woah! The super talented Wootha dropped 90GB, their life's work, for free. 😱 Royalty free, copyright free, free to use, edit, remix, recycle. Can't wait to see what games come out of this! ✨ Their manifesto is pretty powerful too:

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@moreelen

3 years

I guess it's time to do my yearly tweet about my game 👩🏽‍🦱 A Woman Goes To A Private Games Industry Party A game about the things men have said to me while in the games industry.

A woman goes to a private games industry party by Rosa Carbo-Mascarell

Play in your browser

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3 years

When an 11 year old Roblox creator started sounding like a 40 year old jaded game developer and started drawing graphs in MS paint, I lost it. It's fulfilling to express yourself in an age of easy content creation tools but this is not it.

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4 years

🏳️‍🌈 Informative TikTok 🏳️‍🌈 Study 👇🏼 If you're an LGBTQ+ woman, Come join us! We are many. 💖

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3 years

Being vaccinated does not mean you can solo dev an MMO RPG.

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4 years

Game dev skate gang! ✨

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@moreelen

2 years

Finally got a working prototype of something really complex the team and I had been working on for over a year. My camera was on when I tested it for the first time and it captured this moment of unfiltered joy.

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@moreelen

3 years

Raise your hand if you've been there. 🤚🏼

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@moreelen

3 years

Tiktok with game design book recommendations for beginners! 📚 If you know of any other good game design books, add them below. 😊

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@moreelen

2 years

I'm a senior game designer and have been in the industry for almost a decade. I'm also Spanish and emigrated to the UK to pursue my career. Don't assume because someone looks a certain way they're not a game dev! #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

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@moreelen

2 years

All this $70 billion Activision acquisition talk reminds me of this tiktok explaining how wealth is exponential. Even the wealthiest among us are but specks of dust before a mountain.

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@moreelen

3 years

Anyone else feel like as they age, they're getting better looking? Like, despite media being so toxic about aging, particularly for women. I look better now that I'm nearing 30 than I ever did in my supposedly "prime" early 20s. Can't wait to see what I look like nearing 40!

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3 years

It's my birthday! 🎉🎂💃🏻🎈 Excuse me while I diva around all day like a 1950s film star, in my gown and a full set of makeup.

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@moreelen

2 years

Mastodon feels like it was made by a room of engineers that never thought to hire a UX designer.

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@moreelen

5 years

The Spanish games industry is fuming today and with reason. A publisher has closed down and the directors have run off to Peru leaving a large trail of debt. Buckle up because this is some real telenovela/fyre festival stuff. Thread incoming 👇🏽

Carlos G. Gurpegui ★

@gur_pegui

5 years

Esto es lo que me ha quitado el sueño los últimos meses:

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@moreelen

4 years

New TikTok series! 🎲 How to design a game. 🎲 Where I go through common game design concepts that you can apply to your games. First up, design pillars.

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@moreelen

4 years

Made a small intro to bitsy. 🌸 Link: Tutorial: Upload your games to and share them with me. I'd love to see what you make! 💖

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2 years

The way I like to define it: 🎮 GAME DEVELOPER 🎮 An umbrella term for everyone who works on a game. From programmers to community managers. ✏️ GAME DESIGNER ✏️ A specific role within game development requiring a distinct skillset that focuses on the design of the game.

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4 years

Let me talk for a moment about the narratives we tell around how game designers enter the industry. Its just a theory but maybe there is some truth in it.

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I burnt out super badly at age 25 because of this mentality. Awards, lists and industry praise don't mean crap if you are working 12 hour days, 7 days a week, yet still can't pay rent. I spent a whole month incapacitated in bed with multiple health issues. Not. Worth. It.

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Kids in america be like "oh man if i don't create my magnus opus by age 25 I'll never be an artist" meanwhile i keep reading about legendary japanese game designers that are like "i was a ditch-digging metal-working salaryman for 30 years until someone told me i could make games"

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4 years

I made another TikTok. You're gonna want to turn the volume up for this one.

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@moreelen

5 years

Last week was difficult. To get through it I made this game about things men have said to me at industry events. Being a woman in this industry is hard.

A woman goes to a private games industry party by Rosa Carbo-Mascarell

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moreelen.itch.io

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3 years

I wish more people in this industry truly understood that good games are made by happy teams. Our fixation on and glorification of auteurs is bad for all of us.

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@moreelen

5 years

People are complex. All the victims were right to come out and call out their abusers. Don't go blaming them for murder. I hope women will continue to speak truth to power. I hope this isn't used to silence us.

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@moreelen

3 years

Soooo.... I'm a homeowner now. 💖🏡💖

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@moreelen

3 years

A perfect illustration of how: 🙃 There aren't enough junior and entry positions in games 💸 Studios don't want to invest in training 👋🏼 A lot of people leave before making it to senior and lead 💀 There is no standard for what junior/associate/senior/lead/etc even means

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@moreelen

2 years

Open up this tweet and scroll and you'll see Dave make a whole videogame from start to finish.

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idk what this is yet but I had an idea

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3 years

Don't work on weekends. It's counter productive. Your brain needs rest.

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@moreelen

4 years

This is my favourite achievement of 2020. Ever since I started doing educational TikToks about the games industry, my followers rose to nearly 30k on 3 months. And the best bit: over half of them are girls! 💪🏼 Diversifying the games industry, one TikTok at a time.

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3 years

A game design degree is NECESSARY if you: 🙋🏽‍♀️ Are a marginalised identity in games 🔗 Don't have connections in the industry ✈ Want to move countries 📚 Want to learn effectively Game design degrees are only going to become more vital as time goes on.

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Dunno who needs to hear this but... 👏Don't👏Spend👏Money👏On👏A👏Game👏Design👏Degree👏 Download Unreal, find a mentor, teach yourself, join a mod team, make something. But chucking 75 grand at school for a game design degree isn't it. I have one, hindsight is 20/20 💜🚀

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It makes my heart sink every time I see a game that has diverse characters and themes. Then you look at the team and it's mostly white men. Please... we need diversity in hiring and financing, not just in content.

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3 years

I feel like enough people probably relate.

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@moreelen

1 year

Begging people writing "top 100 videogames of all time" lists to not forget mobile games. There are masterpieces on mobile that often get overlooked.

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3 years

🤔🤯 What even is 🤯🤔 🎮✨game design?✨🎮 Here is a breakdown of what a game designer does in response to a question on tiktok. Hope it helps!

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2 years

I think it was @Vialixia who once said buying an NFT item and expecting to use it in all your favourite games is the same as buying a recipe and expecting every restaurant to make it for you. Perfect analogy.

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4 years

Programmers fixing the last bug before launch... 👀

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@moreelen

4 years

There were loads of aspiring game developers in my TikTok mentions talking about how the industry has a crunch problem. It does, but I thought I'd clarify a few things...

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3 years

How I feel every time a bright eyed youtuber decides to make a game. 🥲

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4 years

This TikTok is a true story from when I went to do my game design masters in 2014. I laugh so I won't cry. 😂

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4 years

Another games industry TikTok cause these are too fun to make. ✨ Some game designers be like:

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@moreelen

4 years

Unity now comes with a free visual scriptwriting tool. 🙀🙀🙀 This is a ✨HUGE deal✨ for game designers and aspiring developers. You'll be able to make professional games without writing a single line of code.

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3 years

🚩 Game dev twitter 🚩 What are some red flags you look out for when job hunting? Things that instantly make you nope out of an application or interview?

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5 years

I often hear people asking: 😅🤣😊☺️😋🤪 How do you express complex human experiences and emotions through game mechanics? 🤔😳😣😢😭😍 And it's difficult... but some game designers have already been figuring this out and documenting it. A little thread.

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2 years

The girls who know, know.

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@moreelen

4 years

Something that worries me a lot about the games industry is how many jobs just aren't advertised. All roles I've ever held as a game designer have been via recommendation or head hunting. How are aspiring game designers meant to compete with that? 🤔

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4 years

Game designers as zodiac signs, ✨part 2✨! Which one are you? ♎♏♐♑♒♓ And that makes all the signs! 😊

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@moreelen

2 years

I hosted a PowerPoint night and ran a game of Hot or Not Pokemon Edition. The drama! The fallout! Chaos successfully caused.

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@moreelen

3 years

📢 SUPPORT PALESTINE 📢 🎮 Buy bundle with 1000+ games. 🇵🇸 All money goes towards UNRWA, providing emergency physical and mental support for Palestinians. Pretty proud to have one of my games in this bundle. Now go buy! 👇🏼

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5 years

🎉 The National Spanish Library is going to start preserving videogames in its collection! 🎉 Ana Santos: "Videogames are important objects of heritage because they have incredible cultural and artistic value." Yes!!! 😭💖😭💖😭💖

La Biblioteca Nacional quiere custodiar los videojuegos

La institución propone una reforma de la norma que regula el depósito legal para que contemple los nuevos formatos de creación digital

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4 years

Appreciation TikTok for all producers out there. We'd be chaos without you! 💖

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@moreelen

3 years

I keep getting this question on tiktok so I'm going to annoy everyone on twitter as well until yall are tired of me.

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@moreelen

3 years

Game devs! ✨ How did you fund your first prototype BEFORE getting publisher funding or investment? Especially interested in hearing candid answers from studios led by white men. So many marginalised devs in my timeline and DMs rn who are baffled by how you do it.

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What is your job now and what A-Levels and/or uni course did you do? I'm a ✨game designer✨. 📚A-levels📚 3D Product Design Physics Maths Further Maths Critical Thinking 👩🏽‍🎓 BA Architecture 👩🏽‍🎓 MA Game Design

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@moreelen

4 years

I'm a woman.

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@hannaesthetic

4 years

ok hit me

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4 years

So many friends in my mentions these past few days, saying they have impostor syndrome. This TikTok is for you. 💖

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@moreelen

3 years

Imagine having powerful hacker skills and using it to threaten a studio cause their videogame made you upset. I'm so appalled. No one deserves this.

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Important Update

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Talking to different studios, I've realised some don't do structured ideation sessions. This can cause unproductive disagreements in a team and is less effective at finding ideas. Let me explain what structured ideation sessions are and how to run them. 🧵

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🌸✨💗🦆🎶🍃🌼💖💞 You don't need to know how to code to be a game designer. 💖🎶📚🌼💅💞✨🍃💗

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A (super summarised) retelling of my journey as a game designer. Wanted to share that there is no one route into the industry and it can come with a lot of ups and downs. But we all eventually get there in the end! 💖

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@moreelen

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👏🏽 Learning game design theory will make you a better game designer. 👏🏽 And I'm not talking about reading a few articles on gamasutra, I'm taking hardcore academia. 📚

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@moreelen

3 years

New TikTok! 🎉 Bigging up Fungus for Unity. 🍄

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@moreelen

4 years

Going to go private overnight cause some g*merg*ter crawled out of 2014 and got angry that I, a woman, made a gentle dig at gamer culture. He retweeted me to his 8k followers and I can't be bothered to spend any more time blocking fragile men on temper tantrums.

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3 years

In other news, look at this shirt my grandma gave me from the 70s! 🥰

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3 years

📢✨⁉️ People making games on the side! 🎮🎲🧩🕹 How do you keep motivation up on your project? 🤔

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@moreelen

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Naughty Dog: *crunch on TLOU2 makes headlines* Gamers: Sooo... Naughty Dog studio of the year, yeah?

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@its_natclayton

4 years

love a good ol' happy ending

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Read that again: QA are the real heroes. I won't accept anything but words of adoration for all QAs ever.

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@moreelen

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Loads of people were asking me what the difference between a game designer and producer were so here you go! A quick intro to roles in game development. 👩‍💻 (This took all day... Please appreciate. 😂)

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Only GDC would charge $299 to attend an online conference. Meanwhile other game conferences are streaming all their talks online for free.

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We need to start being more critical of games, as an industry. Yes, we're all friends and we know what an incredible feat making a game is. But we need to start criticising each other's work more openly and fairly. Otherwise this industry will never mature.

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@moreelen

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Sony removing and refunding Cyberpunk leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I really hope AAA execs take this as a lesson to never crunch. But I really feel for the devs who've had to deal with the crunch, gamer harassment and will now bear the grunt of this decision.

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Crunch is bad.

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@moreelen

4 years

🎲 GAME DESIGN HACK 🎲 Need to quickly prototype a narrative game with characters for testing purposes? Use Fungus with Picrew. Create your character sprites in Picrew then plug them into Fungus and tada, you have a playable prototype in minutes.

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