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Lara Brown

@larabrown.bsky.social
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🚀🎮🌿☕ People & Ops in startups, tech, and creative industries. Operations Director @kythera.ai linktr.ee/laraeliz.brown

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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We're growing the team at @kythera.ai / Intelligent Artefacts and are looking for an experienced AI Middleware Developer to join us. Ideally, you'll be in or around Edinburgh or Oxford where our leadership team is based. Full job description is here 👉🏻 www.intelligentartefacts.com/ai-middlewar...
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AI Middleware Developer | Job Vacancy UK — Intelligent Artefacts
At Intelligent Artefacts (AKA Kythera AI), we build middleware that powers entities and NPCs across video games, simulations, and beyond - from independent games studios to large-scale training progra...
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The folks at Kythera are legit, doing proper Game AI. Strong recommend.
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We're growing the team at @kythera.ai / Intelligent Artefacts and are looking for an experienced AI Middleware Developer to join us. Ideally, you'll be in or around Edinburgh or Oxford where our leadership team is based. Full job description is here 👉🏻 www.intelligentartefacts.com/ai-middlewar...
intelligentartefacts.com
AI Middleware Developer | Job Vacancy UK — Intelligent Artefacts
At Intelligent Artefacts (AKA Kythera AI), we build middleware that powers entities and NPCs across video games, simulations, and beyond - from independent games studios to large-scale training progra...
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Ground Shatter 💥 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces @groundshatter.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Announcing 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces! Deckbuilding tactical punch-up for people who like their roguelites shaken AND stirred. 🤝Introducing 3 Player co-op! 😎With a renewed focus on the “One Man Army” experience 🎥Tactical engagement meets action-movie energy Out NOW on Early Access!🔗 s.team/a/3734890
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Really excited that @kythera.ai is sponsoring the AI & Games Conference for 2026 - hopefully I'll be there myself as well this year 👀
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Really excited that @kythera.ai is sponsoring the AI & Games Conference for 2026 - hopefully I'll be there myself as well this year 👀
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Kythera AI @kythera.ai · 08/06/2026
We can't wait to attend this year's AI and Games Conference - this time as a sponsor! See you there!
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 17/04/2026
BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.
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Rach Macpherson @rachmacp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
✨Games for the Weans✨is looking for creators who want to do something amazing in 2026, and help the UK's leading gaming service for children in hospital with a charity fundraising stream. No 24-hour challenges or outlandish forfeits necessary, no follower count too small 🎮
Danny De Vito offers you a tiny Gamer in Residence and the logo of Games for the Weans
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The team's been hard at work bringing Surface Navigation over to Kythera V2 🎉 check out the video to see it in action. Fair warning - spiders! (also go follow our brand new blusky account 👀)
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The team's been hard at work bringing Surface Navigation over to Kythera V2 🎉 check out the video to see it in action. Fair warning - spiders! (also go follow our brand new blusky account 👀)
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
How have I only just discovered google maps for space? If you, like me, did not know about this little piece of internet treasure, you must check it out! You can fly over moons and planets - and it's all real data <little happy skips> 🤗 🔭🧪 👉: www.google.co.uk/maps/space/ 👇: Dwarf planet Pluto!
A list of planets next to a labelled image of a dwarf planet (Pluto).
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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
BizOps. Oh you had a thousand and one contractors and vendors supporting that game? Someone was hustling behind the scenes to get all of that paperwork squared away and they barely got a thank you for it
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Great time at the Scottish premiere of Fortitude last night, a new documentary about the growing space economy. And up bright and breezy for Space-Comm Scotland today! 🚀☕
IMAX cinema screen showing the poster for Fortitude, a space economy documentary. Poster shows an astronaut looking over earth with a satellite in orbit above them.
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Ground Shatter 💥 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces @groundshatter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Introducing our upcoming DLC: FRIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES 👹 Lurking in a sinister manor house, an ancient evil thirsts for a sacrifice. Horrors and otherworldly threats stand between you and your objective. 🎃👻Coming to Steam next Week 👻🎃
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Looking forward to tonight! See you there?
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If you're heading to the AI & Games Conference next month, don't miss Bram's talk! Thanks to @aiandgames.com and the other organisers for having us there 🙏🏻
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If you're heading to the AI & Games Conference next month, don't miss Bram's talk! Thanks to @aiandgames.com and the other organisers for having us there 🙏🏻
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Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Applications are now open for the SGDA Games Acclerator programme, the first dedicated business development programme for the games sector.
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Applications Open for SGDA Games Accelerator
The Scottish Game Developers Association (SGDA) has opened applications for a major new initiative aimed at fostering the next generation of games industry leaders: the SGDA Games Accelerator. Funded by the Scottish Government’s Ecosystem Fund, the accelerator is Scotland’s first dedicated business development programme for the games sector. It offers a free, intensive series of workshops designed to provide early-stage and aspiring games leaders with the practical skills and expert mentorship needed to build a successful studio.
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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Well don't I feel stupid
A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star
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James Parker @jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The team have knocked it out of the (dog) park with this new DLC, if you've ever been a fan of Fights in Tight Spaces, this renews a whole bunch of things and will hopefully draw you right back in.
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Ground Shatter 💥 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces @groundshatter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Fights in Tight Spaces: K9 Division is out now!💥🐶 Equip Agent Eleven with your new K-9 companion, introducing a brand-new set of cards, events, and enemies. Expanding the replayability of the core game. 🎮➡️ s.team/a/3625850
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Paula Beakes 🔜 TAGS Festival @paulabeakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Welp, I've just found out that my role has been made redundant 🫠... So I will be looking for work! If anyone is looking for a 2D/3D Generalist or Art Director for games (particularly specialising in stylised projects!) please shout! From concepts > modelling > animating thru to implementation 💛✨
Cute cartoon car brightly coloured and stylised with an ice cream on top of itStill frame from a 3D stylised crow model, a non-humanoid vtuber from my own design.Illustration piece of a dark woods, in greyscale.Still image of a gif, of a stylised Bearded vulture in low-poly 3D. Designed, rigged, animated by myself.
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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 15/08/2025
This week we launched our subscriber drive for 2025, with 20% off annual memberships on @aiandgames.com. We ask for your help as we work to be a trusted resource on #AI for #gamedev, #indiev and #research. 🧵So let's thread on why we need your help, and what we want to bring to you in future.
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Metavoidal is out! Go go go 🤘🏻
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
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David Hecker @davidhecker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I'm releasing a series of guidelines, workshops and spreadsheets under a Creative Commons license at openops.davidhecker.com. Sections on project/people management, talks on mental health, travel guidelines, sprint planning spreadsheets, detailed ffmpeg guidelines and many others.
openops.davidhecker.com
David Hecker - OpenOps
Management and business process documentation
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OneKind @onekind.org · 15/07/2025
❗Please take action for greyhounds today❗ We need your help to rally support for @markruskell.bsky.social Greyhound Racing (Offences) (Scotland) Bill. For those in Scotland: bit.ly/UtGScotland Or, please use our international e-action: bit.ly/UtGInternati... If you already have, please share!
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Get this on your wishlist 🤘🏻🖤
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george w @grgwllrd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Do you like: Stickers? Relaxing? Lofi beats? Frogs? If you answered yes to any of the above, you should check out @littlecornersgame.bsky.social, a game we're excited to be co-publishing later this year that we've just dropped an early demo for on Itch (link in 🧵)
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OneKind @onekind.org · 30/06/2025
❗Today is the final day to vote for OneKind to remain in the top 10 and win a grant for animals! Please vote for free before midnight: mygivingcircle.org/onekind/free Thank you!
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Vote for OneKind to share in £300,000 on Monday June 30th
Each year MyGivingCircle gives £1,500,000 in grants and donations
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Ground Shatter 💥 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces @groundshatter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Obligatory Steam Summer Sale post✨ Both Fights in Tight Spaces and Knights in Tight Spaces are in this years #SteamSummerSale! 🥳
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Rach Macpherson @rachmacp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Right, so not really sure how to say this but I’ve sadly been made redundant from Neonhive / CULT. I’m currently open to new working opportunities. I’ve got a few freelance gigs lined up for July, but if anyone knows any games PR, Brand, or marketing roles going, I would love to hear about them!
Danny DeVito offers you a wee Rach in this trying time
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Bram Ridder @bramridder.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My team has been hard at work building Kythera AI 2, the new industry standard for Game AI. Each fortnight we release a new video showcasing another feature or aspect. The last one showcases how to set up Moving NavMesh. Enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=YzNf... #gameai #ai
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AI Moving NavMesh Workflow Demo for Unreal Engine
YouTube video by Kythera AI
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I've always wanted to rescue ex-racing dogs, and I will when I have the space, but I also hope I won't *have* to. It's such a cruel sport. Please help ban it in Scotland 🙏🏻 (you don't need to be based in Scotland to support). secure.onekind.org/page/165235/... #UnboundTheGreyhound
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Let's get an end to greyhound racing in Scotland over the finish line
With the greyhound racing industry rife with welfare issues and the majority of Scots (68%) supporting an end to this industry, it’s time to put an end to this cruel ‘sport’ in Scotland. I’ve writt...
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I've always wanted to rescue ex-racing dogs, and I will when I have the space, but I also hope I won't *have* to. It's such a cruel sport. Please help ban it in Scotland 🙏🏻 (you don't need to be based in Scotland to support). secure.onekind.org/page/165235/... #UnboundTheGreyhound
secure.onekind.org
Let's get an end to greyhound racing in Scotland over the finish line
With the greyhound racing industry rife with welfare issues and the majority of Scots (68%) supporting an end to this industry, it’s time to put an end to this cruel ‘sport’ in Scotland. I’ve writt...
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
anyone else having issues with the Notion desktop app being mega slow for them lately?
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
You know what, I'm having that kind of week too.
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It's tiiiime. Get your applications in!
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Prod 🩷
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
sad to miss Edinburgh's Games Talks Live this evening 😞 if someone could take this illness away, I'd appreciate it.
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Limit Break Mentorship @limitbreak.co.uk · 01/04/2025
WE'RE ALMOST BACK! ✨ Applications for Limit Break 2025 open on Monday April 7th. Don't worry, you'll have 3 weeks to apply, so there's plenty of time. Check out limitbreak.co.uk and sign up for our newsletter to stay updated.
A dark blue starry background with red and blue sparkles. Across the centre is the Limitbreak logo, underneath in red it reads Mentorship, and below in white text reads Applications Open April 7th.
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Astronomical Society of Edinburgh @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
20 March 09:01 GMT 🔭
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Reforged Studios @reforgedstudios.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hello Bluesky! What better way to kick off our time here than by sharing some exciting opportunities? We're growing our team in Malta ☀️ and looking for talented individuals to join us. Check out our open roles below and stay tuned for more updates! Apply now ➡️ reforgedstudios.bamboohr.com/careers
Text-based image to highlight our open roles, based in Malta with relocation support. Roles mentioned are Financial Controller, Accountant, Executive Assistant, Producer, Project/Operations Coordinator
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Lara Brown @larabrown.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
See you tomorrow?
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