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Mel (she/her)

@meltea.bsky.social
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Director @gamesmellow.bsky.social Game dev / Narrative Game Designer / UX Designer. Creator of Blueberry, a game about a woman's life, trauma and memory processing. Co-creator of Orwell games.

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MELLOW Games @gamesmellow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Merci beaucoup for the great Xbox Serie S review 💜
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 27/09/2026
A reminder! Made a Yarn Spinner game? Tell us! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Showcase Your Game Featuring Yarn Spinner
Have you used Yarn Spinner in a released game or a game with a public link? Tell us about it!
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's more than one 😱💬
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm pleased to announce that around 200 pages' worth of tutorial resources are coming to the Game UI Database for FREE via a brand new blog. No ads. No paywalls. No email signups. Here's a preview of the first piece dropping next week, all about crafting cross-platform control schemes and layouts!
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laura @ mica art market @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have 8x8" prints up for sale on my website, including these 4 and some other designs! These have the full bleed, so the actual prints are slightly cut differently. www.lauraillustrates.com
compilation of four illustrations: a jellyfish parade in blues, greens, yellows and oranges; gambel's quail family in oranges, greens and yellow; an inchworm surrounded by other bugs and flowers with the words "little by little, inch by inch" in rainbow colors; little ducks in a sink with flowers and food in pinks, oranges, yellows, dark greys, and blues
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It can feel very difficult to get off US tech and I myself still use a lot of it. But, if nothing else, this article is super interesting just for questioning: how much tech services do you really need?
Do we really need this much?
As I continue this journey, I haven’t just been thinking about how to replace many of the US services I use with alternatives, but also how much of all this I actually need at the end of the day. As I’ve cut back on US streaming services, I’ve found myself simply watching less instead of completely replacing my viewing with domestic services. That’s made more time for things like reading and playing games, which I’m happy about.

After speaking with Casey Johnston about her own efforts to cut back on her screen time and the intrusiveness of her smartphone, I’ve been endeavouring to do a bit more of that myself: setting limits on the amount of time I use social media, deleting a bunch of apps from my phone, and blocking those that are left after 7pm on most nights of the week. It’s notably cut the amount of time I spend looking at my phone.
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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 02/09/2026
If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...
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A Guide to Ditching US Tech (for Game Developers)
This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's...
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think September is a good time to become a witch again
Witch with a kitty cat on her back. Capture reads: can I come over and be strange and intense?
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Peter Molytrois @peter-molytrois.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A video game where the player is an AI chatbot and has to answer the prompts of everyday users. You pay to play the game 0.01$/minute spent answering the prompt and you are supplied a tiny dose of psychedelics to make sure you hallucinate like the real AIs do.
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Kenshi @lofigames.com · 11/09/2026
Help us build Kenshi 2. Lo-Fi Games is hiring a mid to senior-level Terrain Artist to help us craft the diverse biomes of Kenshi 2. Apply now at: lofigames.com/terrainartist/
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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Thousand Hells boasts some truly best-in-class procedural storytelling, but it's content to subject me to back-to-back miseries without recourse."
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Thousand Hells is a 'tactical narrative' feast of infernal storytelling, but its defeats can feel brutal
From the developer of King of Dragon Pass, a gorgeously imagined meat grinder for hapless adventuring parties.
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
INSIDE-inspired SirenINSIDE-inspired Siren
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hello new followers! If you want to play a 100% AI-free game which is short, heartfelt and emotional, why not try my game Blueberry? Bonus points if you leave a review 🙏🫶 store.steampowered.com/app/1536120/... #noAI #indiegames #indiedev
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Blueberry on Steam
Blueberry is a story-driven puzzle platformer that takes you deep into a woman’s mind as she faces her trauma. Ascend her Tower of Life, relive her key memories, and collect pieces of her fragmented s...
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hello new followers! If you want to play a 100% AI-free game which is short, heartfelt and emotional, why not try my game Blueberry? Bonus points if you leave a review 🙏🫶 store.steampowered.com/app/1536120/... #noAI #indiegames #indiedev
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Blueberry on Steam
Blueberry is a story-driven puzzle platformer that takes you deep into a woman’s mind as she faces her trauma. Ascend her Tower of Life, relive her key memories, and collect pieces of her fragmented s...
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026
Creating this no-ai indie games starter pack is one of the best things I ever did on BlueSky. Lots of great developers in here, making things with their own hands, some of whom I might not have found otherwise!! go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“An iterative loop where society and this technology evolve together is what will lead to the highest chance of getting this right.” Meaning: You might die, but it's for science. Also, there is a chance of getting this completely wrong and you die for nothing.
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MELLOW Games @gamesmellow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You can now buy Blueberry and Spring Tales together 🤩
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Video games.
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Factually correct. Thank you for your super inspiring talk, Kim Belair @sweetbabyinc.com 💜🙏😭 Our lives are ending one sprint at a time, make cool art, don't die, don't be afraid to tell your story.
Perspective and interpretation are crucial to art.
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm going to ONL tonight, who is coming?
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Quote of the day: "There is no balls' physics of any kind in Control Resonant." - Juha Vainio, Executive Producer at Remedy #GamescomDev #Gamescom
Talk by Juha Vainio from Remedy: slide showing production prios going from Must Haves, Should Haves, Could Haves to Must Must Haves, Should Must Haves, Could Must Haves.
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I am mourning creativity, curiosity, the pleasure of building something from the ground and understanding how it works. It feels more than ever like we are losing so much by utilizing a technology that is slowly destroying all that brings joy, including our last chance to save the Earth from us.
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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
• Digital Spy UK • 10h
James Bond writer tempted to set next 007 movie in surprise location
& 1A still from Stalker (1979) showing The Zone.
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Pre-paid cards to pay for your power are way darker horror than monsters with no skin and weird limbs 😢
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Joke's on them - I was testing a bug fix yesterday in my own game and basically live there anyway.
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Jessica Kathmann 🔜 gamescom @jessicakathmann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Beim Design von Mels Spiel "Blueberry" kamen diese Fragen ebenfalls auf – meine Kollegen von @behindthescreens.bsky.social und ich haben sie dabei unterstützt. Das Spiel verhandelt Themen wie Trauma, Depression und Substanzabhängigkeit. Das Ergebnis: store.steampowered.com/app/1536120/...
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Blueberry on Steam
Blueberry is a story-driven puzzle platformer that takes you deep into a woman’s mind as she faces her trauma. Ascend her Tower of Life, relive her key memories, and collect pieces of her fragmented…
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I will be giving a roundtable at Gamescom Dev this year together with the wonderful @jessicakathmann.bsky.social about the games industry's ethical responsibility of mental health representation. Hope to see you there 💬 #Gamescom #gamescomdev
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Behind the Screens @behindthescreens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ihr besucht die #gamescom, interessiert euch für Spiele mit #MentalHealth -Bezug und wisst aber nicht, welche Games interessant sein könnten? Wir haben eine Liste für euch! 💪 Im verlinkten Post findet ihr außerdem unser Live-Podcast-Programm auf der Messe: behind-the-screens.de/2026/08/17/l...
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Liste: Mental Health-Games auf der gamescom 2026 - Behind the Screens
Liste von Games auf der gamescom 2026, die einen Mental Health-Bezug haben. Plus: Psychologie-Podcasts auf der Messe!
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Benjamin you're so fucking stupid 😍
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I am also giving random life advice on how to combat loneliness 👊💔
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MELLOW Games @gamesmellow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you so much everyone for reviewing Blueberry on metacritic 🤩 We finally have a visible user review score of 8.3!! 😱💜💜💜 More reviews would still be super appreciated of course (only very few so far)!
metacritic screenshot: User Score, Generally Favorable, Based on 4 User Ratings: 8.3
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We don't have enough reviews on metacritic yet to get a score 😢 Please help if you can!
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thank you for the love and your amazing work on Blueberry @diveamydive.bsky.social 💜
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We are losing everything "I hate the environmental catastrophe that AI brings with it the yearly electrical demand of (...) data centres is predicted by the end of (2030) to exceed that of the whole of Japan. I hate that it may be the factor that tips the Earth’s ecosystems into irreparable chaos."
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I want more short games that I can actually finish thank you!!1 #ShortGamesShowcase2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Bullet time sequence in The Matrix featuring 120 still cameras in a big circle
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You could go and be sweet to somebody RIGHT NOW, you know. Lot of people having a tough time right now. It’s within your power to create hope, strength and joy in this world with a little bit of will and a few words.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/08/2026
This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nothing good ever happens
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MELLOW Games @gamesmellow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Blueberry is in the Short Games Showcase by @ogrepixel.bsky.social starting NOW! ALSO: There will be a discount as from Saturday 💸 If you played the game already or are just getting it - please give us a review on Steam! 🫶😍 #ShortGamesShowcase2026 Check it out: store.steampowered.com/curator/4619...
Artwork: Short Games Showcase on Steam, incl. Blueberry key art
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Suzanne | Indiebard Trailers @indiebard.co · 05/08/2026
It's time for Part 2 of Scripting for Game Trailers: MUSIC Trying to make a trailer without music is like trying to bake a cake without a cake pan. It's going to get very messy. www.indiebard.co/knowledge/sc...
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Scripting for Game Trailers Part 2: Music — IndieBard
Music is the backbone of any trailer script. It sets the pace of the cuts, enhances the tone of the content, and serves as a conduit of emotion. Trying to make a trailer without music is like trying t...
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I know the feeling
Bug report for Blueberry titled "soft locked at work after lunch". I already fixed the bug btw
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Margot Robbie's Barbie grinning and yelling, "Do you guys ever think about dying?"
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 04/08/2026
I am a radio astronomer that intercepts radio signals from space in my day job. I would totally follow any instructions received from space, whip up a batch of ET goo, and very likely lick it. For science!
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Bryn Findlay-Dykes @brynfd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? #bladerunner #art #painting
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Mel (she/her) @meltea.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I've found my soul mate
Excerpt from the book "What is real?" by Adam Becker. It's basically about physicists' drama about this whole quantum mechanics ordeal. The point is that in 1978, physicist Reinhold Bertlmann was being a total punk by wearing mismatching socks and then JS Bell WROTE A PAPER ABOUT IT 😂💜
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MELLOW Games @gamesmellow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Blueberry is in this year's Games Composed in Germany sale 🎻🎶 My very talented audio team Felix Bachlinger and Paul Stähr did an amazing job with the music btw 💜 store.steampowered.com/app/1536120/Blueberry Event page: store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-C... #GamesGermany #indiedev #gamedev
Nice yellow hands playing a nice orange guitar in the Games Composed in Germany artwork. Steam sale goes from July 20-27.
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