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Edwige Lelievre

@edwigelel.bsky.social
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Game director of "The Abbess Garden", a cozy & historical gardening game🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/… Newsletter mdstudiogames.com/newsletter Dr and researcher CHCSC lab, Univ of Versailles 📚 No GenAI 🚫 (she/her)

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Blackmagic @blackmagic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I happen to work in a tech school and with a very competent scientific commitee. They really tried to find redeeming quality to it but well... sorry. Generative AI is just a hot garbage in 99.99% of the cases. Its current ethics, impact, premises & output is garbage.
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MollyBerry 🔜 Games Ground Berlin @mollyberry.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Together, with my dear friend @missvadams.bsky.social, I am happy to be able to announce our new Twitch stream team: Zero Percent Gen AI. We are officially opening it up for applications! forms.gle/3Uereeaky3Zi... #genai #indiegamedev #twitch
0% GEN AI art on the left with a human hand drawn, holding a pen, a pastel rainbow blended background. TWITCH STREAM TEAM. Interested? Contact: molly@mollyberry.net missvadamstv@gmail.com
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Un scandale...
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
De mémoire, la revente/stockage à des entreprises hors EU ne devrait simplement pas être possible.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Mais vu que c'est pas le cas, comment faire pour retirer nos données du site avant sa vente ? Je ne vois en tous cas comment ça peut être conforme à la RGPD.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It is a sauce, no questions!
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That room overlooking water is amazing!
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Cozy After Dark is live!!! www.twitch.tv/dames4games Very cute and indeed a bit spooky so far 🖤 #indiedev #indiegames #cozygames @dames4games.org @nerdershewrote.bsky.social @baronj67.bsky.social
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Cozy After Dark Showcase | Streaming special events.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I am still coding with visual community, so that won't be super convenient (also I do a lot of stuff besides coding, so don't always have the code editor open), but thanks for the idea :)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I am so annoyed by the AI buttons on Trello atm that I'm tempted to code my own task manager (and I really shouldn't, I am busy enough ^^)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I am looking for a small task management system (like trello) but open source or at least GenAI free. It can even be local as I'm just using it for myself atm! In general, recommendations for a list of AI free production tools would be very appreciated :) #indiedev
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FdeSousse @taleboules.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
À l'occasion de la journée mondiale de la santé mentale, qui a lieu le 10 octobre de chaque année, Fireside Feeling ( @team-empreintes.bsky.social) est offert sur Steam jusqu'au 12 octobre. 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/2990600/...
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Save 100% on Fireside Feelings on Steam
Share your thoughts and discover those shared by others, in Fireside Feelings. Gather around the welcoming warmth of the campfire and take part in conversations between real people separated in space ...
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are a ton of valid reasons for not using Genai, but I'm still waiting of a valid one to use it. Productivity gain is absolutely unproven. It's just social pressure. I agree with the cigarette metaphor and feel very much like 14yo me in middle school being the only one not smoking.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Made me so happy to see it 😭 I feel so lonely sometimes when the majority discourse is that it's inevitable 😔 Thanks, you are the best 💖💖💖
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Je ne vois pas en quoi Peppa Pig c'est de la merde au passage. Il y a un second degré excellent. Et c'est très adapté à la tranche d'âge à laquelle ça s'adresse... Visuellement ça ne plait pas à toustes les adultes, mais c'est pas pour autant que c'est de la mauvaise qualité.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wooow, very eager to listen to that!!!
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Je serai à Blois ce jeudi, pour animer une table ronde en très bonne compagnie @rdvhistoire.bsky.social :) (spoiler: on va faire un peu bosser le public aussi ^^) C'est gratuit et possible de venir sans inscription ! @chcscuvsq.bsky.social #rendezvousdelhistoire
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Would people use drugs if it would help them keep their job? Probably, people need to eat. But how come we (once again) need to destroy our health and disrespect our values just to be able to make a living? It's not like it's actually useful and a good business decision (like drugs tbf)...
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absolutely! And I'm sad as adults we are as subjects to that as when we were teenagers. Now it's not about being cool (for some it might be), but mostly about money/productivity.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, so disheartening :-/ I was at the GameConf in Angoulême last week, and the dominant discourse, even among people hating it, is that it's inescapable. I feel very much like 14yo me who was stubbornly refusing to smoke :p Isolated but right ^^
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our little historical gardening game is currently on sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... Come spend time in the 17th century✨ You'll get to explore a deeper connection to plants through gardening while helping people around you with a spy plot 🌿💖🕵️‍♀️ #nogenai #cozygame
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Save 20% on The Abbess Garden on Steam
Cozy third-person gardening in 1643 France. As Agnès, restore a forbidden abbey garden, grow and identify real plants through the seasons, uncover a spy plot, help the community, and find queer romanc...
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is also a key feature for my next game's pitch deck... (There was no GenAI in the previous one, but now it's not a default thing anymore so we need to tell.) This world... Thanks libre office 💖
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Merci 💖 remets toi bien !
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very true. Analysis is nice but note while creating
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bien arrivée à la #gameconf pour présenter un postmortem de The Abbess Garden: budget, revenus, ce qui a marché et ce qui n'a pas marché.. :) Venez faire un coucou ! #indiedev
In the background a big screen with "Game Conf". In the foreground an Edwige in the dark
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Florian Verdier @floriannechekuv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bonjour à tous et toutes !! Le calendrier des jeux français fait sa MAJ. 700 Jeux désormais !! Et peut-être bientôt le vôtre. S'il n'est pas répertorié, n'hésitez pas à me faire signe ici pour le rajouter (ou modifier des choses) Merci de vos partages ! ❤️ trello.com/b/JqsGRlVA/f...
Le calendrier au 1er octobre 2026
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pareil... J'ai viré 10 personnes de mon réseau Linkedin hier parce que j'en ai ras le derriere des genstes qui font la promo de l'IA Gen (sur bluesky, c'est plus raisonnable pour l'instant, mais je bloque tout aussi vite). J'ai pas la patience.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On ne peut pas demander aux petits commerçants (par ex) d'avoir l'oeil pour se rendre compte que c'est moche et que ça ne marche pas. Mais on peut leur demander de mesurer leur impact écologique. La RSE avec l'IA Gen ça me fait bien rigoler (tristement) en ce moment.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yep pareil... Ca montre aussi qu'on n'a pas expliqué les problèmes de l'IA Gen. Je pense que s'il y avait un truc indiquant les conséquences sur l'environnement (comme le DPE) à chaque fois que qqun entre un prompt, les genstes hésiteraient plus.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ahah yes. I often say my garden games cannot be realistic because gardening is so punitive, hardcore and violent ;) The target audience would not be cozy gamers but more elden rings and I am not sure they are very much into plants and flowers ;)
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This video above us for our next game (unannounced). The Abbess Garden is based on Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey in the 17th century and based on Sylvain Hilaire's research @chcscuvsq.bsky.social It's indeed a lot of research but I am a researcher myself so I care a lot ;)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I judge from the gameplay camera :)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the first garden, our historian is @mahautcaz.bsky.social, who wrote her PhD on the cultural landscapes of the garden area :)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So we use some of her recipe but at the beginning of the game you don't know her so it's more the common ones. Also Hildegard is not super precise on quantity and how to prepare so we work with a real contemporary herbalist too: Lise Saporita.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hildegard will be one of our NPC! (There will be a garden in Germany too ;)). I work with Laurence Moulinier ciham.ens-lyon.fr/annuaire/lau... @cihamm.bsky.social on this character (She is the best specialist of Hildegard in France).
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MOULINIER-BROGI Laurence | CIHAM
La médecine hors de l’université, enquête sur une Practica fratris anonyme conservée à Oxford et ses sources.Histoire du corps.Histoire culturelle des Carmes.Histoire des femmes.Histoire des traductions en langues vulgaires.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks!!! :)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is not! Absolutely not deep enough ;) But you can go close to get some water to refill your chantepleur :) (some old type of watering can ^^)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The environment art for our next game is VERY work in progress, but I'm quite happy with our water 🌊 It will still be a historical game, but this time set in the 12th century, with several garden and a rather big part of the gameplay will be herbalism craft :) #cozygame #indiedev
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very relatable 😅
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also for solo/small teams, I find it useful to say for each workflow which task the bottleneck and not which person (it's almost always me ;) )
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was listening to this podcast today www.bscotch.net/podcast/589 and I want to say a big yes! Thinking about workflow and bottlenecks is what speeds up development, not GenAI or other scams. + @sethcoster.bsky.social great GDC talk www.gdcvault.com/play/1026630... @bscotch.net #gamedev
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The One Skill Holding Back Indie Game Devs [Ep. 589] Coffee with Butterscotch Podcast | Butterscotch Shenanigans
<p>In episode 589 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers make the case that understanding your own workflow might be the most underrated skill in game development. They dig into how invisible bot...
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You look great though! I hope you'll get some rest soon!!!
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wonderfools is also great at that I think, really liked this one! (The romance is a bit meh though)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nice additions to my list thanks 💖 It must be super interesting to learn Korean! :)
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am but I started late ahah ;) Currently watching Vincenzo! What are your favourites?
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
💯 Community building is hard work and takes time (thanks for what you do for horse games) but I can also see it being very successful. It's such a large undeserved audience!
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And I am not even talking about the historical (Joseon generally) KDramas!! (The King's affection, Alchemy of Souls...)
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