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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 6h

I was chatting with my sis who develops for Krita about this and she's like "there's like 3 clones every week and it's all shiny until people start expecting support"

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 7h

I cannot express how fuckn normal these people look and talk and then you read what they've been responsible for and their view points, and where they ended up after their career (board of your local uni, member of an international peace Institute, death cult, trade union)

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 7h

Doing research into what type of person becomes the director of an intelligence service and basically it's: * just a lil guy (and evil) * fuck what did I get myself into (and evil) And * Wakes up in the middle of the night because they dreamed how to get away with novel torture (and, uh, evil)

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 10h

The only thing stopping me from shitposting on LinkedIn is exactly that perception 😂

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 10h

Where do people find the time to post on LinkedIn? I've done 3 talks/panels in the last month or so and I can't make any time to post about it on the Professional Social Media site I'm so bad at my personal brand

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You: I'm going to give my protagonist really long and cool names to show how special they are 🤗 Me: I wonder what fresh hell of bureaucracy my name gets me into this time 🥲

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hello person deciding how long name fields are allowed to be in a tax audit form or document upload Can you, like, not give it a limit of less than 50 characters?? If my ID check for steamworks is going to be rejected again, imma fckn scream

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Murder Meet Cute @murdermeetcute.com · 07/10/2026

Murder Meet Cute is releasing 🔥 January 20th 2027🔥 We're stoked to share this time capsule thriller with you. If you haven't, nows a great time to wishlist and try the free demo on steam or itch. store.steampowered.com/app/4253020/...

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So many of these are great, and I forget to point them out. But this episode in particular, is a delightful banquet of riches.

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's meeee! It's so worth looking at other playful arts and see how they tackle the same issues. We had a lovely discussion about different approaches to character creation and player agency and immersion, in digital and physical play

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That, and I believe the new release atm is "bro, just believe me bro, I checked it myself bro" So I'm going to wait for the grown ups to check the proof

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hello app I only use because I frantically need to check something, I do not care you got updated and I will not rate you

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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One astounding claim here is that the majority of the 372 proofs were —> one-shotted

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nah just me using a word that turned out to mean something different and needlessly upsetting someone So you can imagine how I felt when I actually looked into what was being discussed. Holy shit. No wonder they got miffed.

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Of course a lot of mathematicians will be fired by AI pilled middle managers because hey, with AI you can just do it ...With 'just' being 'comprehending the applicability of said proof' and 'it' being 'implementing the result within practical reality' So I wish them all a happy being-rehired

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay I get that mathematicians are panicking but considering they're the only mfers on the planet to understand the results, I think they might be fine long term?

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

> what I think male socialisation discussions are "Oh it makes sense a lot of trans women have been given different opportunities and disadvantages from the average cis woman because they were mistaken to be male" > What male socialisation discussions are actually about "Haha what the fuuuck?? D:"

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Afternoon! Are you a video game developer who has been falsely accused of using generative AI? I’d love to pick your brains for a story about how those claims impact individuals, teams, and projects. Email in bio. DMs open. Signal: kerrblimey.43 Keen to hear lots of views!

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On my way to Groningen to give my talk on transgressive narratives in games. Looking forward to being edgy with our northern Netherlands game dev pals!

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Right?? I don't know why so many writers look down on that work. It's such a good vehicle to tell stories and give insights into characters. And the limitations force you to be precise and punchy; the best way to serve lore.

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Honestly that was some of the most fun writing I did during my time! It is such an interesting challenge to write something that is instructive, lore accurate, scientifically kind of plausible, and entertaining at the same time

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"But Bertine you could exclude those" I will not stand for such cowardice! I will make my plot work with the planet eating swarm!

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Stellaris, the game where you need to take into account a player could be a genocidal ecosystem for your plots to work. Or that their planet got blown up. Or necromancers. Or has a galactic sugar daddy. Or space surfer dudes. Or a socialist cyber utopia. Or the Knights of the Round Table. Or eaten--

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok this was actually really interesting and I'm annoyed I don't have the time to stick around. I was on a panel with medical and militairy policy experts, areas where bad decisions gets people killed, and it's all game tech and design that is affecting their areas. The future is mad

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's at AI Hype, Hope & Humanity, which is a conference for public, academics and policy makers that aims to provide a realistic and practical discussion platform to all the recent developments.

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Going to be on a panel in a moment about AI and sovereignty I'll be reflecting on that subject from the perspective of open source used in the creative industry, the influence of genAI coding and that we don't become dependent on big tech again while F/OSS is supposed to provide independence Fun!

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the new types of content we're building is live Discord Server reviews for video games! (which will also end up on our YouTube channel). Super excited to hang out with @kittycrawford.com for our inaugural one on the 13th of October!

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ow thanks for mentioning me! I'm a freelance narrative designer with a specialisation in narrative repair work, systems and ARGs Going to tag in @ardenost.bsky.social who has some pretty smart things to say about it too

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm watching half a marathon being ran next to my house and it's really interesting to see all the different ages and body types Just shows you can't assume the state of someone's physical condition from their looks

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think it's very silly there is no convenient way to screenshot a cool scene from a streaming service I guess I'll have to pirate it instead?

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Because I sadly still have another game to finish first But after that...

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One day I'll make a scifi with a neo/dark folk soundtrack

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey chat, is there a better word for acrylic retarder? I know it's the right term but I get funny looks from non-paint people so I just want to check

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That moment you're in a full train and you see someone next to you with the hair you've been trying to find good references for to draw and you're trying not to stare too intensely because that's weird but also those are exactly the details you can't find anywhere

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 16/09/2026

Through the grapevine of the very small game industry, I heard that originally people who got interviewed were told Bulkhead was a 4 day workweek studio. So I checked the wayback machine, and yeah. They used to advertise a 4 day workweek: web.archive.org/web/20250408... I wonder what happened.

A wayback machine screenshot from April 2025, saying:
WORKING AT BULKHEAD
We are actively looking for creatives who want to take a shot at making a real impact in the fps genre - whilst working a 4 day work week.

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everyone who calls the games industry 'gaming industry' is unwittingly adopting the successful strategy of the gambling industry to make it seems digital games and gambling are the same; with the intent to fall under more lax regulations Stop them from piggybacking on our medium. We're making games

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thing is that in English gaming and gambling are near synonyms, hence why the digital gambling industry likes to say they're the gaming industry

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