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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I'll get some better shots soon but here's a close up of one of them. And yes, they are all beaded. All of them. lol

Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It wasn't exactly what I planned to be making in my MFA, but being unable to use a computer got me processing a lot of anger I had pent up. BUT beading it was fun and relaxing which I really needed this semester. Materials: 0/11 glass seed beads, dyed woven wool fabric, cotton string, cat hair

A three by three quilt hanging from two birch branches.
Five of the squares are beaded with slogans. Each uses a different colour of beads. From top to bottom: In blue: "hang the blessed trustees," In green: "they got binders full of elders," In yellow: "burn their table to the ground," In pink: "don't die a good little NDN," In peach and red: Beads, Buckskin and blood."

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

They also have variant covers for the series that are way less obvious. Which is probably the one the bookshop thought they were buying.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I had to see this at my local indie bookshop so now you have to see it too. It's a whole series.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Posting this again for my half of the world. Morning! Wanna play an Indigenous cybernoir point and click detective game (for free) and talk about it? @achimogames.bsky.social is offering an opportunity to anyone no matter the size of your platform.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I had a dream that I was picking out condolence cards and there was one with a pigeon that said "They abandoned you and you are doing your best." I have no idea if I saw this somewhere else, but it wouldn't leave me alone so I had to make it.

An image of a watercolour pigeon with a few branches and an egg. Above it reads "They Abandoned You." Bellow it reads: "And You Are Doing Your Best." Behind all of it is a faded outline of a bird house.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

I was too sick to get this poster printed and posted in time but at least now I have it ready for next year! Wanted to show it off somewhere because I'm pretty proud of it. lol

School of the arts, media performance & Design of York U presents:
Games and Media
Course Code: FA/CMA 3840 Fall 2024
Instructor: Meagan Byrne
Text Body: This course challenges students to use interpretive methods and theoretical concepts developed by Umberto Eco, used in contemporary literary, film and art criticism in order to study and analyze video games as media.
This course introduces students to the historic and contemporary spectrum of critical media approaches to engaging with video games and interactive media. By studying both primary texts (the games) and their critical responses, students will develop their own critical thinking (and writing) about video games.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

In exciting news: a project that I have been able to work on has finally gone live! Welcome to Utopia User Experience Design Fundamentals at the Department of Utopian Arts & Letters. You can sign up for free and there are lots of other cool courses to take as well. thecspa.mn.co/spaces/14425...

Department of Utopian Arts & Letters
Course Code: UFUN1042
Hyperutopia Design Fundamentals: Introduction to UUXD
(Utopia User Experience Design)
Instructor: Meagan Byrne

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

12/12 There are so, so many more and new ones made everyday that I would be posting forever! So if you want to know more and keep (mostly) up to date with what is coming out of Indigenous game dev communities around the world check out our website: www.indigenousgamedevs.com

A beaded Indigenous medallion in various colours but mostly white in the shape of an xbox video game controller is on a round purple background.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

It's silly but if you are so inclined to do something nice for a tiny Indigenous indie studio we'd love a vote for Hill Agency in the Steam Awards.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

All great artists at one point saw two people and thought:

A large stick figure with a look of terrified rapture says "Now Kiss!" while forcing two other stick figures (who are blank doll representations of characters) to kiss. One of the representations looks sideways at the large figure in a mixture of disbelief and concern.

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Moon (2009) needs more love. It is a beautiful breakdown of the power we have under oppressive systems to help others get out, even if we ourselves cannot. Also, I need someone else I can talk with about what to do with ALL THESE TEARS!

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Start of your gamedev career vs now: Left is me at one of my very first talks about my very first game Wanisinowin|Lost. (A game about my struggles navigating my Indigeneity) Right is me at an interview about Indigenous cybernoir Hill Agency (my first commercial project!!) being released on Steam.

Meagan Byrne sitting in an armchair in front of the Wanisinowin | Lost start screen, giving a talk to a group.

Meagan Byrne wearing headphones and laughing at a joke

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Meagan ᐋᐱᐦᑕᐃᐧᑯᓯᓵᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ @thatmegbee.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

This Friday @sadekaronhes.bsky.social and I will be giving our talk at Game Devs of Color Expo! Please come and ask lots of questions! Growing Indigenous Worlds (in Games) Friday, September 29, 2023 3:55 PM to 4:35 PM · 40 min. (America/Toronto)

Growing Indigenous Worlds (in Games)
Meagan Byrne
Sadekaronhes Esquivel

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