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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We're hosting a special livestream tomorrow to celebrate our Community Manager Aditia's time with us at Runaway. Next week is her last as she embarks on other adventures! 💙 Come join us at 2pm NZT 25 June as we play party games like Mario Kart and Mario Party! 🥳 🔗 www.youtube.com/@RunawayPlay

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Mānawatia a Matariki! 🌟 We're back in the office today after a restful long weekend spent with our friends and whānau! 💕 We hope you've had a cozy weekend, and have been taking care of yourself! 💙

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Burger Bois | Mischief Makers Studio @mischiefmakers.studio · 17/06/2025

Today is a double donation day! Donate to any of the #SweatWithPride campaigns we've shared in the thread below, and your contribution will be doubled. Get in there and help fund queer healthcare in Aotearoa! 🏳️‍🌈👇🏳️‍⚧️

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We have three special visitors at the office today! 💖 MJ from @balancingmonkeygames.com is visiting, Bea from Shyfters is working from the Runaway office for the day, and Alix who is usually remote has driven down from Ōtautahi/Christchurch!

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 07/05/2025

On my way!! 💐 #art

Painting of a dark yellow labrador holding a bouquet of flowers in their mouth. They're sitting with their head out a car window and the the flowers are blowing away somewhat abstractly in the wind. The bg is just a mix of pastel colors.

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Dinosaur Polo Club @dinopoloclub.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

In 2025, the NZ Games Fest moves to a new venue at Te Auaha, right in central Wellington. This week, join us for two days of talks and treats at Play by Play, plus the Pavs award show on Friday night! 🕹️🍦

A pink graphic advertising a QR code and a schedule breakdown of the 2025 New Zealand Games Festival. The paragraph at the top reads: Play by Play brings together game developers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, exciting exhibitions, funn opportunities to network and connect, and the chance to celebrate a selection of Aotearoa's best and brightest games of 2025.

The schedule can be viewed at the following link in a more accessible format as this graphic is missing key date and time information:

https://playbyplay.co.nz/2025-play-by-play-schedule/

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We've been experiencing a high volume of support tickets and are doing our best to respond as soon as possible! 💌 Thanks for your patience! As long as the system has acknowledged that your message was sent, we will get back to you. 💙

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Jess 🐰 Usagi Shima OUT NOW!! @pank0.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Recently it was my first time seeing cherry blossoms in Japan 🌸🥹🩷 It's been cold in Tokyo lately, but I still enjoyed cherry blossom viewing! 🐰🌸💞 I hope everyone can enjoy cherry blossom viewing too~ ☺️🍡🌸

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This is a silly snail/game dev appreciation post (a thread) 💙 🐌

Text reads "Want to know the single best thing about being a game dev?". There is a sketch of a dark green frog with light green spots on them. They have wide bug eyes.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.

Seventeenth century river bridge portal.

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Jess 🐰 Usagi Shima OUT NOW!! @pank0.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’d like to think that the bunnies with leaves on their heads are good friends 🥹🐰🫶🌿

yuzu and blossom the bunny having a nice hanami picnic~

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

For everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is this what life currently feels like? ✨ 💗 🐰 🌸

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Have you seen the Tadpoles in Pondlife? 🥺

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Our freshwater game, Pondlife is OUT NOW on iOS and Android in celebration of World Water Day!! 💚 Meet Lily the Otter and help her welcome fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, and other curious creatures to an enchanting pond environment! 🐸 🦦

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"With stunning hand-illustrated art and a soothing soundscape, Pondlife provides a serene environment where you can slow down and connect with nature." 🥰 Thanks for the wonderful article Pocket Gamer! 💚

pocketgamer.com

Pondlife allows you to build your own peaceful underwater sanctuary, releasing on World Water Day on Android and iOS

Pondlife lets you create your very own underwater sanctuary, and will release on Android and iOS on March 22nd

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Thorben Danke @sagaoptics.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🇬🇧Oleander hawk-moth or army green moth 🇩🇪Oleanderschwärmer 🔬Daphnis nerii Look at this stunning wing scales. It is impossible not to fall in love with this beauty. Rare colors in lepidoptera have a special charm.

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NZ CODE @nz-code.nz · 06/03/2025

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the women-lead studios out there! Since our formation in 2020, CODE has been proud to support studios with women founders and assist them on the journey towards sustainability and success. Some of these are in the #IWD Steam Festival!

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What is Daisy working on today? 👀 💚 🦦 It’s Pondlife related!

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Here's a little look into Lily and Willow, the main characters of our upcoming cozy fish game, Pondlife! 💚 Full video on Youtube, we reveal a launch date! 🦦 🐟

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Flutter Away is part of the Women's Day Sale 🦋 Pick up Flutter Away for 40% off from March 1st to March 10th NZT on Steam store.steampowered.com/sale/WomensD...

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · 14/02/2025

Immortalising this #GameDevFashion look before I whipped it off to go for a swim. Beading detail shot of the back as well Alexander McQueen Widows of Culloden collection, f/w 2006

A woman poses in a brightly lit bathroom, wearing a shimmering gold bustier plated with rhinestones and plates of golden glass with a black velvet dress. She wears little pearl earrings and has her blonde hair down

This close-up photograph of a black velvet dress reveals its intricate beading: golden ferns have been expertly hlbeaded across the shoulders and down the sides where they'd frame the wearer's back like wings

A blonde woman is here, midway through changing into her beach gear for a swim and laughing at how ridiculous this outfit makes her boobs look. Happy game dev fashion week, alt text readers

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Fnife Games @fnifegames.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

turning up fashionably late to #gamedevfashion week!! 💋👠 brought to you by the very cool @runawayplaygames.bsky.social we decided to merge all the themes together into a wonderful and nutritious soup🥫 eat it up xoxo

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Anna Barham 🔜 PAX AUS @annabarham.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Grand finale of #gamedevfashion week: my Met Gala look 🖤 Sarah and I had a lot of fun doing this photoshoot. Thanks to Isaac (my son the cobbler’s apprentice) for the location scouting!

Anna wearing a fabulous texture-rich all-black outfit and bright red lipstick, against a backdrop of South Dunedin street art on a sunny day

Laughing at Sarah the photographer. The train of the “skirt” (a black fluffy blanket) is draped elegantly and tucked into my belt

Trying to make a fleece blanket catch the breeze…

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

And that's a wrap on sharing our outfits from the office! 💫 Thanks for joining us for #gamedevfashion week and a huge thank you to everyone who has jumped in, see you all again some other time! 🫶

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · 13/02/2025

Swinging in from the 60s for today's #GameDevFashion ⌚ "from another era"

A blonde woman poses in front of a mirror in a well-lit bathroom. She wears a light orange ribbed turtleneck, a pale coral clay pendant, and a blue skirt printed with a 1960s mod pattern that is either mushrooms or lamps depending on one's inclinations. Her eyes are veiled by octagonal orange-rimmed sunglasses

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Happy Friday! Everyone is looking slick for the last day of #gamedevfashion week! 🔥 We all brought our own individual vibe to the theme for today - which was... "fancy"! 💃

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Dinosaur Polo Club @dinopoloclub.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The #GameDevFashion themes that @runawayplaygames.bsky.social have been serving up are so cute! "From another era" saw us back to the futuring through the 1920s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s! ⏰

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Anna Barham 🔜 PAX AUS @annabarham.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Visiting A Different Era for #gamedevfashion week today. Thanks Sue Todd from Sue Todd Antiques for being a good sport 😊

Anna dressed in Victorian style, seated at an elegant antique dining table, playing chess against herself

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Dinosaur Polo Club @dinopoloclub.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Everyday looks for #GameDevFashion in the studio yesterday! Yeah, we just woke up like this 💅

A group photo of several smiling people sitting on some wooden bleachers. Their outfits are colourful and range from gold to green to red to peachy pink. One man sitting closest to the camera has a big stuffed panda.

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We're back for another day of #gamedevfashion! Nash, Daisy and Stef are going for a 90's theme today, and Aditia is in a D&D t-shirt! 🫶 🪩

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Anna Barham 🔜 PAX AUS @annabarham.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Today in #gamedevfashion I’m showing off my merch!! Kudos to anyone who can name all 4 fandoms 🏆

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Meet the newest office puppy, Suki! 🥺 She comes in with our Platform Developer Tom, and melts our hearts every time we walk past her 💕

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It’s day 3 of #gamedevfashion week! And today’s theme is… Pondlife/water! 🐸🌊 We wanted to celebrate our upcoming game, and what better way to do that than to dedicate a whole day of game dev fashion week to it? You’ll notice a lot of blues, greens, and flowy fabrics on our fashion icons today! 💚💙

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · 11/02/2025

Ouuuaa #GameDevFashion but make it trans rights thanks

A closeup of a woman's torso, revealing her baby pink t-shirt with an intricately sketched baphomet and the caption GOD HATES TERFS.

A blonde woman poses here in a floral velvet skirt, baby pink crop top, and a black jean jacket. She stands in front of a mirror, sunglasses perched on her head

A blonde woman poses in front of a mirror, flashing a peace sign. She wears a stitch detailed black jean jacket over a bright pink crop top and smirks at her phone camera, one jewelled earring glinting. This photo was snapped scenically in a bathroom, baby

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Balancing Monkey Games 🌠 wishlist Beyond These Stars! 🐋 @balancingmonkeygames.com · 11/02/2025

Hello, #gamedevfashion week! Here we are sporting some of our favourite handmade items. Knitting appears to be a theme. ✨

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Nazih Fares | Wishlist The Arab League of Misfits @nazihfares.com · 11/02/2025

It's #gamedevfashion week! Celebrate diversity in the industry by showing off your fashion game (personally bonus points for those in traditional cultural attire of their origins).

A picture of Nazih wearing a off white pair of linen pants with a floral mustard yellow shirt on top

A picture of me wearing my Levantine Keffiyeh

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It’s #gamedevFashion week again, and today’s theme is “merch”? I can’t decide which pic to share! 1. A cozy Spice Girls sweatshirt, and Naja sleeping behind me. Not moving, not breathing - in order not to scare off the precious animal. 2. @massiveminiteam.com shirt and coffee I’m addicted to

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Dinosaur Polo Club @dinopoloclub.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's #GameDevFashion time in the studio again! 🧵 Today our team shows off their homemade crafts, outfits, and some choice merch. We're combining days 1 and 2 because we don't do Mondays. 😎 Where's the lasagna emoji when you need it

Five people pose in front of a moss wall here wearing a combination of brightly coloured outfits. One wears a hat and hand-knit sweater in the colours of the trans flag, another wears a homemade skirt and a pink t-shirt that reads GOD HATES TERFS, another wears a pastel blue hoodie and holds a toy pokeball. On the other side, one man wears a shirt with hand-embroidered vines and a woman sits on the floor, holding a hand-knit toy Yoshi dinosaur. She wears a STARDEW VALLEY jumper.

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PikPok @pikpokgames.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Kicking off our Bluesky account with #GameDevFashion Week, spotlighting some of our amazing devs. Today’s theme is “Merch/things you're a fan of.” Thank you to our friends at @runawayplaygames.bsky.social for keeping this tradition going! Pictured: Bailey, Josh and Ruby

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Hecknbees 🔜 NZGDC @hecknbees.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Oh heck its #GameDevFashion Week! Todays theme is "Merch/things you're a fan of" "Life is like this dark tunnel, you can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel but if you just keep mowing you will come to a better place." - Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Air Bender

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Anna Barham 🔜 PAX AUS @annabarham.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here's my homemade / DIY fashion for Game Dev Fashion Week! My mum knitted me this adorable jersey. On the back it shows a spilled milk bottle and a trail of white pawprints. My son Isaac made me the earrings from a knot which he popped out of the trunk of a tree in our back yard #gamedevfashion

Anna wearing a peacock blue jumper with the word CATASTROPHE down the right sleeve, and a white cat licking its paw on the front.

Close up of Anna wearing an earring made from wood and paua shell

Close up of Anna wearing an earring made of wood and paua shell

Close up of Anna's trouser hem showing ankle drawstring

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In2Games @in2games.co.nz · 10/02/2025

Almost forgot this week was #gamedevfashion week!💫 We've been low-key recently but stay tuned for what our team will be up to later this year ✨ft. a semi-team photo with the folks over @cordlessgamestudio

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Runaway Play Games @runawayplaygames.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We're sharing outfits from the office this week, in celebration of #gamedevfashion week! Our theme for today? Merch 🫶 💖

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