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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 03/10/2026

Having a great time at Comic Con Málaga today! Thank you @johnromero.bsky.social for being so attentive and giving such great advice for me to pass along to my gamedev masters degree classmates.

Photo of me and John Romero at Comic Con Málaga.

Photo of me holding up a heavy Buster Sword at the Final Fantasy VII Revelation stand at Comic Con Málaga.

Photo of me pressing the Buster Sword to my forehead in the Zack Fair 'embrace your dreams' pose at the Final Fantasy VII Revelation stand at Comic Con Málaga.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 04/09/2026

17. The Silent Age A short but intensely satisfying experience told through time-travel puzzles, cleverly weaving a story that wraps into itself in typical fashion, but comendably without using any exposition or indeed words.

Cover image of the videogame The Silent Age, showing 2D art of a man silhouetted against a dystopian background.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 28/07/2026

Relatable :D bsky.app/profile/sabr...

I highlighted the quote about the Eorzea Café in this interview, because I was also that excited when I went. Here is the quote in its full context:

Interviewer: In your acceptance speech after winning Game of The Year, you extended thanks to Hironobu Sakaguchi. Could you tell me more about why you decided to thank him specifically?

Guillaume Broche: Because I see him as the original man behind Final Fantasy, which very obviously inspired me. It’s the series that really made me fall in love with video games. And I’ve played literally all of them. It’s one of, or maybe the most influential series in my life. I know all the characters by heart, and I know all the music by heart. The Final Fantasy soundtracks are probably the soundtracks I’ve listened to the most in my entire life. Simply, it’s a universe I’ve been living in ever since I was little, and it’s the only one that has so strongly ingrained itself in me.

We went to Akihabara yesterday and the day before. There was a Final Fantasy Eorzea Cafe, and I was literally like a kid going, “This is so cool!” (laughs). It’s so important to me that I just thought it would be right to thank the person that allowed us to ship the game through their influence.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 22/07/2026

16. Blue Prince You have to have a lot of patience to put up with the RNG and potential time-wasting to get to the excellent puzzles and mysterious backstory. If you have that plus a love for note-taking, it's a rewarding experience. I especially enjoyed the word games and thrill of discovery.

Cover of the game Blue Prince, with an illustration of a black and white photo of a woman, a magnifying glass, and copious notes and photographs of the manor.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 14/06/2026

Did the Final Fantasy Resonance character designator for a laugh hoping to be read to filth, ended up being forced to face my mortality. ff-resonance.vercel.app

Your FF Soul Type: Zack Fair (from Final Fantasy VII). 95 resonance score.
Help me make my dreams come true too.
You are someone who keeps living inside someone else even after you are gone.
You demonstrate what it means to fulfill a dream - not through words, but through how you live.
Carrying a SOLDIER's pride, you face forward no matter what.
Entrusting your dream to a companion, handing it over with all its weight into the future - that is your form of love.
Like a name that lives on in someone else's memory, your light will keep illuminating someone else's future.
Your hidden Inner Self: Selphie Tilmitt (from Final Fantasy VIII)
There was a time you chased joy with everything to avoid thinking too deeply. Beneath that brightness lives a stillness no one has seen.

The summon within your soul: Ifrit. 96 resonance score.
The force that answered Zack Fair's soul was Infrit.
A being that ignites your dormant fighting spirit and unleashes it through pure instinct. It teaches that moving by emotion rather than reason is not shame but power. AAs long as that flame never dies, you can rise again.
For a soul like Zack Fair's, this power resonates the deepest.

A story of a man who lived more earnestly than anyone, guided by dreams and vows.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 05/05/2026

Gotta love how Hades II keeps getting new game modes, first official ones and now with this awesome mod! Was a bit finicky getting it to work on Steam Deck with both games downloaded from different stores, so I got some visual errors, but it was super fun to play!

Screenshot of intro text you get when you install the Zagreus' Journey mod correctly.

Melinöe in the Asphodel Barge of Death. I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me.

Melinöe greeting the friendly shade after beating the Champions of Elysium Zagreus once fought.

For the first time, got the slightly different version of Zagreus' dialogue you get when you defeat the final boss without dying once, because I did the run with a maxed-out Melinöe. "You mustered a bunch of incompetent wretches to try to kill me" Hee!

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 20/04/2026

Unsure if the 'homophobic baby' is the start of satirical content T_T

Screen capture of infowars website feature story:
homophobic baby cries after gay dad tells him there is no mama.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 11/03/2026

"Face cracked... hands frozen." Love this, thank you!

Scene from last episode of Arcane with Viktor with his mask cracked.

Scene from last episode of Arcane showing Hexcorized Jayce from the Alternate Reality, gripping the hammer.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 11/03/2026

Day 28: Favourite Title Card Artwork The FFXV one was already stunning and then this happened at the end and I sobbed.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 06/03/2026

Difficult to choose just 9, but I can say with certainty that these are all games that had a very strong before and after effect on me. Even the very recent ones!

Games included are Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Psychonauts, Broken Age, Final Fantasy IX, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Control, Hades II, To the Moon and Bioshock Infinite.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 06/03/2026

Massive splurge to celebrate that I'll be going to the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Hades concerts this year! I can't wait! (Also @bbnomula.bsky.social is performing in Barcelona, but I haven't made plans for that yet!)

Newly purchased albums on bandcamp: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the entire discography of Supergiant Games, and the song Meant to Be by baby no money.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 04/03/2026

Day 21: Favourite Armour Design Balthier's vest is so attractive, totally designed for the female gaze, god bless.

Image of Balthier from Final Fantasy 12, wearing his iconic vest elaborately embroidered with a golden pattern. Front view.

View from the back of Balthier's 3D model.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 24/02/2026

Day 16: Favourite Summon / Spell I love how summons in FFXV affected surroundings, eg. vegetation charred by Ramuh, or Noctis violently shaking with cold when summoning Shiva. My favourite is how Shiva's animation (and Noctis' reaction) changes in the final Act of the game, espcially against Ifrit.

Artwork of Ifrit and Shiva from Final Fantasy XV in a romantic embrace.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 17/02/2026

(Intermission) I visited the Eorzea Café in Osaka! Bless my friends for letting me drag them there, as the only Final Fantasy fan in the party XD

Me with a life-sized Cactuar, doing the Cactuar pose.

Me and my friend with a life-sized Spriggan, my other friend taking the picture and throwing a peace sign.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 12/02/2026

Shirakawago, Japan. Taken today!

Snowy photo of a tree behind a shrine in Shirakawago, Japan.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 31/01/2026

Puedes seguir en directo a los equipos dando caña en las sedes de la #GGJ26 en Canarias organizado por @acadevi.bsky.social #gamedev #GlobalGameJam2026 globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20... 🟨 Gran Canaria globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...

Póster de la Machanguito Jam, la Global Game Jam 2026 en Canarias, que se celebra hoy.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 25/01/2026

After combing every inch of the Continent, the last thing left for me to do in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was to go back to the beginning for an encounter that I missed the first time round. Absolutely loved every bit of the game from beginning to end. #Expedition33

A shot of the Prologue of the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 taken using Photo Mode, featuring Gustave and Sophie at the harbour.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 14/01/2026

In case it helps anyone who's unaware, there is how google shows up for me when I search for something in the task bar, with no AI overview. On PC I use the Mozilla Firefox extension udm14. On mobile, I make the default search (also with Firefox) google.com/search?q=%s&..., which works the same.

Screenshot of results from googling the words block ai from searches. The URL shows that the results were show as if the code that disables google's widgets had been added to the search, which is why it doesn't show AI Overview. The code is &udm=14

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 11/09/2025

Aw, glad you liked this story :D

Sabrina tells us of getting the nephews into Double Fine games:

"I'm grateful for the time I've spent sharing your mind-expanding creations with my nephews. It started with Broken Age when they were very little - the way they were enthralled by the game's humour, scares, twists, mysteries, characters and puzzles was unlike anything I'd ever seen in them before. I shared the story on the DF forums and was glad to see Tim get a kick out of it. Psychonauts was also a success and we're currently on Psychonauts 2, which they like even more."

Being a 25 year old developer carries with it a legacy both proud and daunting, but one of the biggest joys is when we find our games getting introduced to a new generation by those that played them years ago. Even if it is also a devastating reminder of time's inexorable passage. If you, right now, introduced the game to two young relatives, and they did the same thing in 20 years and so on, within just 500 years you would have been personally responsible for the creation of over 134 million fans. So what are you waiting for?

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 02/09/2025

Ah, ahora que lo miro parece que lo entendí mal:

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 22/05/2025

So happy to have this brilliant Arcane fanart poster by @sydneyjones.bsky.social up by my work desk! It's so funny, clever and beautifully made, and while it focuses on the scientists Jayce and Viktor, I love that it features charming drawings of Jinx, Ekko, Vi and Caitlyn as well. #jayvik #arcane

Photograph of my wall next to my work desk, featuring artwork of the game Travellers Rest and a fanart poster of the TV show Arcane, which features instructions for Hextech Lab Health & Safety.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 23/01/2025

The wire puzzles in Broken Age come to mind. Needed to break out the pen and paper for those!

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 09/11/2024

15. Day of the Tentacle Remastered 2D point and click. Play as three characters that get stranded each in a different time period to save history from alien invasion. A colourful and zany cartoon adventure that has perhaps the cleverest, funniest and most well thought-out puzzles of them all.

Cover art for the video game 'Day of the Tentacle' remastered, showing its cartoonish art with its human protagonists, time machine and aliens Purple Tentacle and Green Tentacle.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 07/11/2024

14. Technobabylon 2D pixelart point and click, another of Wadjet Eye's many great ones. A fun cyberpunk story with a well-realised setting, interesting characters, an engaging story, and a good breadth of clever puzzles that feel part of the story-telling rather than a roadblock to it.

Screenshot of the video game Technobabylon, showing a pixelart neon-filled cyberpunk city at night.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 05/11/2024

13. The Cave 3D side-scrolling platformer. Humorous and imaginative as you'd expect from Double Fine and Ron Gilbert, with an Edward Gorey-like dark twist. Choose 3 characters from a cast of 7 and use their unique abilities to make your way through their backstories to their nefarious ends.

Promotional screenshot of the game 'The Cave', showing its seven protagonists: the monk, the explorer, the hilly-billy, the physicist, the twin children, the knight and the time-traveller.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 05/11/2024

12. Kathy Rain 2D pixel art point and click. A multi-faceted protagonist, a psychologically complex ,mature story with dark and unsettling turns. Well-achieved puzzles based around doing detective work and connecting clues. Full disclosure: I helped translate the game into Spanish.

Cover art for the video game 'Kathy Rain', subtitled 'The Director's Cut', featuring the eponymous female protagonist sitting on a motorbike, smoking.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 04/11/2024

11. Grim Fandango Remastered 3D point and click. One of the most stylish and best-written games ever made: based on mythology surrounding Dia de los Muertos, the characters, dialogue and music drip with noir atmosphere, but it's also full of wickedly smart humour that extends to its puzzles.

90s cover for Grim Fandango, with the tagline: An epic tale of crime and corruption in the Land of the Dead.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 04/11/2024

10. Call of the Sea In this 3D first person game, you play a woman exploring a beautiful desert island on the trail of her missing husband, and end up on an astonishing, magical journey with Lovecraftian themes. With puzzles that feel very tactile and satisfying to solve and lovely voice-acting.

Cover art for the video game 'Call of the Sea', featuring the explorer female protagonist.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 29/10/2024

8. Fran Bow A 2D point and click adventure where the lines between nightmare, fantasy and reality blur, yet the experience is authentic, memorable and gives a lot to ponder. Imaginative storybook art, sometimes spooky and gory. Despite the dreamworld logic the puzzles aren't difficult to figure out.

Cover for the video game Fran Bow, featuring its protagonist, the titular little girl.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 24/10/2024

7. Monkey Island The point and click adventure series that has brought the most joy to the world 😃 Imaginative and hilarious, with a magical atmosphere thanks to its characters, art and music. Well-paced and ingenious puzzles. The protagonist's evolution makes him one of the best in video games.

Screenshot from 'Return to Monkey Island' with the phrase 'Deep in the Caribbean' that has featured in every game in the series.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 24/10/2024

6. Full Throttle Remastered 2D point and click adventure, optional classic pixel art. Tim Schafer's other games look quirkier, but this one's just as charming. The puzzles are clever and fun, the writing is great, and there isn't a moment that doesn't feel completely badass. Maureen is wonderful.

Cover art for game Full Throttle Remastered, featuring the biker protagonist riding away from an explosion.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 23/10/2024

5. Stick it to the Man! 2D platformer. Takes place in a zany sticker / paper world. You can read people's minds and move stickers about to solve the puzzles. Hilarious dialogue written by Ryan North. Followed up by the game Flipping Death.

Cover art of the game Stick it to the Man!

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 23/10/2024

4. Tunic Top-down action game. Gorgeous low-poly art. Discover secrets, unlock new abilities and areas. Great environmental story-telling. The main collectible are pages of your guidebook, which you can begin to work out as you progress and discover lore and use what you learn to solve its riddles.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 22/10/2024

The Blackwell series 2D pixel art point and click adventure. A well-written and moving supernatural series full of empathy, humour and spookiness, each game better than the last. You do detective work with its dual protagonists journalist Rosa Blackwell and mysterious sidekick Joey Mallone.

Cover art for the video game 'The Blackwell Legacy', showing its two protagonists: a red-headed woman in her twenties and a male ghost looking distinguished in a roaring 20's suit and fedora.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 22/10/2024

The Forgotten City First-person, takes place in an ancient Roman city where you're trapped in a time loop to try to avert its doom. Steeped in mythology, cleverly written and designed, with QOL features to avoid repetition as you talk to people and experiment in each loop to learn new information.

Key art for the game 'The Forgotten City', showing an ancient Roman city split across two timelines, in its full glory during the day, and ruined at night, with one of its citizens turned into a golden statue.

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 19/10/2024

And here's CHOICESCAPE being played on an arcade machine at Unreal Fest Seattle! When we were told we'd be making arcade games, I was worried because I know little of the genre, but this makes me so happy:

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Sabrina Dev @sabrinap.itch.io · 19/10/2024

AMA: I completed the Unreal Games Fellowship! We were 50 gamedevs learning to use the engine through online classes. The classes and teachers were amazing, as were the other fellows, who all made incredible games. This is mine, a roguelike called CHOICESCAPE, my first game in Unreal Engine:

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