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Nooka Dascalu

@nookada.bsky.social
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Video game producer with a passion for art history & cooking www.nookada.com

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Omens by Blue Light Studios @obl-studios.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bringing color to the world we're building is hard work, but it's definitely rewarding! #IndieGame #IndieDev #JRPG #IndieGameDev #DawnsEnd
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Women in Games International (WIGI) @getwigi.com · 28/09/2026
Looking to strengthen your communication skills? Check out this 6-week online course - Cultural Intelligence for Inclusive Leadership. It's being led by WIGI Advisory Board member, Tina Merry, and the next cohort is starting soon! Learn more: loom.ly/JV_wPl8
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Course: Cultural Intelligence for Inclusive Leadership
Build inclusive communication skills with this professional course. Learn strategies for collaboration, diversity, and communication skills development.
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Sea Scøpe @seascope27.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Credit Carp
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Logandria @logandria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I still have stock of both colors, but much fewer in burgundy!!
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026
Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11
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Hilary Purnamasari @hilary-ps.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Hey everyone, I’m currently booking for 2026 and open to new opportunities. I’m a seasoned Concept Artist with experience across Metroidvania, AA, and AAA productions. Available for freelance and remote roles. Let's connect and chat! 😊 ✉️aureliahilary@gmail 🌻hilary-ps.carbonmade.com/
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i think about this too not only is it embarrassing and shameful that your stupid boss can’t tell, it’s shameful that you do it playing fake like this at all levels is corrosive to the spirit once you betray yourself enough times, cognitive dissonance encourages you to keep crossing lines
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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 26/09/2026
Thinking about volunteering for #AGDQ2027? Here's every position we have available both on-site and online! Apply to volunteer: gamesdonequick.com/volunteer/apply
list of available volunteering roles for AGDQ 2027

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On-site Roles:
Audio 
Activities
Camera Operations
Check-In
Cleaning Crew
Donations
Head Donations
Host
Interstitial Tech
Photography
SafetyStage Tech
Stream Tech
Stage Manager
Setup
Teardown
Talent Experience

Online Roles:
Chat Moderation
Host Judge
Social Media
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Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨ And a peek of the third Tarot Card I completed for @dragonageannual.art this year! ✨ #DragonAge
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Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨ A peek at the second Tarot Card I did for @dragonageannual.art ! ✨ #DragonAge
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Game Industry Coffee Chat (GICC) @gameindustrycc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Game Industry Coffee Chat - WTF! (Welcome To Friday!) - the most unusual personal quirks you've seen in a creative environments - worst advice you've ever received (or given) in games - bygone tech - engage, fire phone, stadia... Come share some stories (or just listen along): gameindustry.cc
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🩸 morteraphan 🗝️ @morteraphan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today is my birthday, and I just wanted to share some of my artworks! 💛
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mehdi Alibeygi
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KARL FRANZ, PRINCE AND EMPEROR ⬛ ⬜ 🟪 @tybthered.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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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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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!
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TidyWire🍿(Commissions Open!) @tidywire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine..-
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Baldi🍉 @baldikonijn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's my birthday today!!! 🥳🙌 So what better day than to share more of these sleek dragons I have been doing for funsies. Here is one inspired by Elasmosaurids!
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Omens by Blue Light Studios @obl-studios.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sneak peek at battle animations! Using placeholder characters for now, but imagining the real party in action already gives us goosebumps! #IndieGame #IndieDev #JRPG #IndieGameDev #DawnsEnd
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Game Industry Coffee Chat (GICC) @gameindustrycc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With the Xbox news coming out today we want to share our deepest sympathies with those impacted. Our community always aim to help. If you need a place to start, we’ve put together a guide to layoffs with some helpful resources! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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GICC Layoff Survival Guide
The Game Industry Coffee Chat’s Layoff Survival Guide gameindustry.cc This is a general list of information compiled from the experiences of others who have been laid off in the past. Not all...
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 21/09/2026
When we dreamed of a Deluxe Edition, we never thought it would feel this right. Thank you, Kat. Thank you, Fangamer. 💙
A picture of the 1000xRESIST Deluxe Edition with all of its goodies included in the box!
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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I intend to use my profits from the game to fund and uplift marginalised and underrepresented creators. I’ve already begun that effort with the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant: grants.draknek.org (which is currently open for applications).
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Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.
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Deceiver @dmitrydeceiver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So with the news of the layoffs at KO_OP, I'm officially looking for work later this fall. I'm an experienced narrative designer that's worked on both sprawling open world stories and intimate cinematic narratives, even netting some award wins and noms. More details on my experience below!
key art for Young Suns by KO_OPkey art for Goodbye Volcano High by KO_OPkey art for Spirit Swap by Soft Not Weak
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Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📜✏️
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And that’s a wrap on my summer tabling season! I’m taking a break until the holidays and hope to come back with new work to sell and maybe even a new setup. See you all again in November!
Photo of the Samantha Mash Illustration table
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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Flowers 🌹
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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My Guardian Angel Wears Birkenstocks #art
a kewpie-esque drawing of me (a femme with a black bob, black dress, and cowboy boots) praying. On a cloud above me is my butch husband (with a little mullet, sleeveless tee, and Birkenstocks) as an angel, lounging on a cloud. Butchfemme!!
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 18/09/2026
Since I've gotten a bunch of requests and Production 101 is fairly popular in emergent territories, I want to offer a pack with Production 101 and Direction 101 at a nice discount. Just hit the big button halfway down the page if you're interested. courses.ramiismail.com
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Levelling the Playing Field - Indie game dev courses by Rami Ismail
Practical, no-nonsense courses on the business of making games - for indie teams of 1–15. By Rami Ismail.
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Unused graphic found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball, possibly used as a placeholder for the title screen. It features crude sketches of Mario and Luigi seemingly made in MS Paint and the text "ルイージの兄野球", which translates to "Luigi's Older Brother Baseball".
ルイージの兄野球
Source: tcrf.net user "Geno Penguin", https://tcrf.net/File:MSSBTitleScreenSketch.png
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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Knight’s Repose, this month’s entry in the riso print club. I’ve been wanted to draw some medieval marginalia for a while now, especially snail-related
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A quest 'constructed in such a way that the player puts the controller away, stands up, and starts walking' is a brilliant quest. www.pcgamer.com/games/the-wi...
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The Witcher 3's story director says an ideal quest is 'constructed in such a way that the player puts the controller away, stands up, and starts walking'
"Then [the player] goes back, and then the player picks one of the choices."
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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is how I iterate on sketches to develop my paintings. You can see different ideas being introduced and discarded from one thumbnail to the next. Still plenty of iteration to go, but I think it is heading in the right direction. #WIP, #butts, #art
A 2x2 grid of digital sketches, depicting variations of three or four women with their butts turned to the viewer, standing on some rubble with broken pillars and lifting the loincloth of a meaty muscle man to reveal his butt also, as he obliviously lifts his sword. All four sketches are rendered in warm, slightly muted tones of pink and peach with dusty blue for the sky.A 2x2 grid of digital sketches, depicting variations of three women with their butts turned to the viewer, standing on some rubble with broken pillars and lifting the loincloth of a meaty muscle man to reveal his butt also, as he obliviously lifts his sword. All four sketches are rendered in warm, slightly muted tones of pink and peach with dusty blue for the sky, except the fourth one, where the sky is more saturated blue.
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Making Night Shift: 1999 @winterschloss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Make sure to go straight to the source and read it on Screen Australia's website for more information on the amazing projects announced today! [ #indiegames #indiedev ] www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-austr...
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Screen Australia funds games projects in every state and territory as Screen Currency 2026 points to sector growth  - Screen Australia
Screen Australia has today announced over $2.1 million in games funding across 41 projects that showcase the depth of talent across Australia. Provided through the Games Production and Emerging Gamema...
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Stephen | Techronomicon | Indie dev @techronomicon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Working on adding human followers to mess with to my island building god game #indiegame #gamedev
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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Echoes • 16” x 30” • gouache & watercolor on paper Based on my 2024 residency in the wilderness of Minong (Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior)
greyscale painting of a sandhill crane among burned trees with fireweed silhouettes as silhouettes in the foreground
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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
come see me at SPX, table I10! I brought literally ALL of my originals...including the Big Boys
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D-Pad Studio @dpad.studio · 12/09/2026
We added a big ol' (!!!) warning signal to telegraph incoming enemy attacks. Are they a little too much tho? 😅‼️ #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #retro
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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Localisation coming together. Did a lot of coding early on to make this really seamless. Awesome to see Te Reo Maori there
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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026
An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?
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David Blatt @kopfstoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Since Zelda is trending, a friendly reminder how CRAZY good Katsuya Terada is. (1/3)
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エデンエンさん @edenensun.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
一番星 #イラスト #一次創作 #art #illustration
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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our feature artist/reference today is this RUN CYCLE BREAK DOWN by the talented Yoh Yoshinari (who I can’t find a social media account for -if you know it please add comments so I can retweet with a link in the future).Such a fantastic BALANCE of WEIGHT and FLOW here! #anime #animation #2danimation
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Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's been quieter year for us, but 2026 isn't over yet! Hear what we've been up to and our upcoming plans for 2026-27 at our AGM next week. ✉️ RSVP by Sept 17 to receive the Zoom link. events.humanitix.com/pixelles-agm
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Pixelles Annual General Meeting
Register on Humanitix - Pixelles Annual General Meeting. Online. Friday 18th September 2026. Find event information.
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ELK64 @elk64.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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