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Zachary Pope

@zgpope.bsky.social
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(he/him) Narrative Designer, Writer, and QA in Games Spaceship enthusiast, he/him, views are my own Was once @ZGPope on a blue site

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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 3h
Failbetter Games is hiring a Writer & Narrative Designer to craft stories for Fallen London, a legendary narrative browser RPG! 🛰️ Full-time, Remote 📝 No degree or set XP required 🕰️ Flexible hours, UK core time Work With @failbettergames.com and apply:
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Failbetter Games is hiring a Writer & Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)
We’re looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join our small in-house team at either a senior or mid level, working specifically on Fallen London.
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Stella Chung 😈 @parallaxstella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You didn't buy more games without finishing some backlogged titles first, did you?" Me:
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Edwyn "Omahdon" Tiong @edwyntiong.com · 23/09/2026
Buy Nighthawks! It's great! Maze is a uniquely hateable character! And ooooh boy! You will hate this greased weasel of a man SO MUCH it's GREAT
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 17/09/2026
CM IMMERSIVE is hiring a QA Engineer to help make their VR/PC games even better! 📍 Full-time, Remote (EET ±2h) 🕹️ 2+ years XP 🎮 Made in Unreal Engine 5 ⤵️
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CM IMMERSIVE is hiring a QA Engineer
We’re looking for a QA Engineer contractor who could cover live releases and titles in production.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 09/09/2026
Seedbound is hiring a Creature Concept Artist to design quirky monsters for a colorful turn-based roguelike with JRPG vibes! 🛰️ Remote, Contract 🎨 50 creature designs in waves 💸 $150-275 per creature, paid pilot ⤵️
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Seedbound is hiring a Creature Concept Artist
Seedbound is looking for a Creature Concept Artist who loves creating JRPG-style cel-shaded creatures / monsters.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 09/09/2026
Crytivo is hiring a Junior Game Scout to spot hidden gems before they blow up and help shape the next wave of PC hits! 🛰️ Remote, Part-time 🎮 Discover & evaluate new projects 📧 Contact devs & write project recaps Work With @crytivo.bsky.social and apply:
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Crytivo is hiring a Junior Game Scout
Crytivo is looking for a Junior Game Scout to help us discover promising upcoming indie games and connect with talented developers.
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 02/09/2026
🚨Nighthawks is coming SEPTEMBER 22ND!🚨 The secret is out. Vampires exist. You're one of them. Step out of the shadows and prove that even the darkest streets can lead to brighter tomorrows. Wishlist on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... 🧛👍
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 02/09/2026
Cold blood. Warm hearts. Nighthawks is a vampire RPG where death isn't the end - it's a second chance. Build a nightclub empire. Befriend or betray your fellow revenants. Who will you choose to become when the sun goes down? Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 25/08/2026
3d6 Down the Line is hiring a Social Media Manager to help grow their TTRPG Actual Play channel and podcast! 📍 Remote, Part-time (ET ± 3 hours) 🧩 Familiarity with TTRPGs a must 🗣️ English proficiency Work with @3d6downtheline.com and apply:
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3d6 Down the Line is hiring a Social Media Manager
We are seeking a creative, highly organized Social Media Manager with intimate knowledge of the ttrpg ecosystem who can help expand our viewership and community engagement.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 24/08/2026
Riyo Games is hiring a Senior Game Designer and a Narrative Designer to help with their retro-inspired JRPG, Threads of Time! 📍 Remote, Contract (Canada) 🎮 Made in Unreal Engine 5 🕹️ 5+ years XP Work with @riyogames.bsky.social and apply:
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Work With Riyo Games
Riyo Games is a Toronto based indie game studio focused on retro RPGs and memorable stories.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 22/08/2026
Davis Bickford
@davis.social
imo:
success = effort + luck
Some people hardly try and have extremely good luck.
But, the longer you try, the more opportunities for luck to roll your way.
10:55 AM • Jan 15, 2026
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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 22/08/2026
Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Game writer: Glass_OnInteract I can’t do anything with that right now. I don’t need that. That isn’t useful right now. That doesn’t help me right now. That won’t be helpful. I can’t use that. That isn’t helpful to me right now.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: *totally calm after throwing a hit man over a railing into a mall atrium, where he smashes through a table where people are playing d&d, causing them to scatter in fear* encountah table
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 20/08/2026
Crytivo is hiring a QA Tester for Autonomica, a wild open-world survival, farming, and automation game with deep, interconnected systems! 📍 Full-time, Remote (UTC-3) 🔍 Jira XP or equivalent 🗣️ English proficiency Work with @crytivo.bsky.social and apply:
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Crytivo is hiring a QA Tester
We are looking for an experienced QA Tester to help us test increasingly complex and interconnected gameplay systems in Autonomica as the project grows.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 19/08/2026
Muffin Games is hiring a Narrative + Quest Designer to help shape an MMO-like single-player world full of secrets and adventure! 📍 Remote, Part-time (North America) 🧠 3+ years narrative/quest design XP 🛠️ Made in Unity ⤵️
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Muffin Games is hiring a Narrative + Quest Designer
We're looking for a hybrid Narrative + Quest Designer to serve as the right hand of our Narrative Director — someone who can take the story vision and turn it into playable reality.
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Zachary Pope @zgpope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Post a meme made by you (I present Natsuki Subuwu)
Image of protagonist Natsuki Subaru from the anime Re:Zero with his face replaced by a blushing "uwu" emoji, to create a pun out of his name
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Ledgerbound @ledgerbound.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Save the world. Deny the claim. Maximize Shareholder value. 📈 Leave your desk behind to battle world-ending evil and pursue HR-approved romance in this fully voiced comedy tactical RPG. Ledgerbound is OUT NOW on Steam: s.team/a/3315060 Playing today? Leave us a review!
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🏳️‍⚧️ Bog Witch Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @bogwitch-girl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
this is such an excellent articulation of "why do I have to learn this," a question that has never needed such a strong counter-argument all of my computer science classes were implementing known existing solutions in programming so that I could learn how to solve those problems and weird new ones!
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Zachary Pope @zgpope.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
lived in: 🇨🇦 born in: 🇨🇦 parents: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 grandparents: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 great-grandparents: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 been to: 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Happy Friday! If you've been playing Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World, please take a moment to review it before the weekend--we've got some algorithmic momentum and each review really helps our team!! store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...
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Save 20% on Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! on Steam
Your truck is magic and you now owe a soul debt to the buff isekai elf girl living in your head. Run over pedestrians as Truck-kun in a chaotic OVA-sized campaign, make deliveries, and defeat the Skel...
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Picard management tip: If specific implementation details are important, then include them when giving the order.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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RPG towns @rpgtowns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dragon Age 2 Xbox 360 game.
Source: Amazon.com
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 23/07/2026
Wickworks is hiring a Technical Writer/Editor to help make Lancer Tactics’ in-game text shine! 🛰️ Remote, Contract 📝 2+ years XP 🎲 Deep Lancer TTRPG knowledge a must Work with @wick.works and apply:
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Wickworks is hiring a Technical Writer/Editor
We’re looking for an experienced technical writer who can help make our in-game texts shine.
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rat dad ==> GATEway Fate @splinterhamato.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
oh god oh fuck
A bluesky notification reading “Tonberry followed you”, from three minutes prior.  Their icon is a picture of a Tonberry from final fantasy, a weird little green dude in a brown robe with a featureless face consisting of only two yellow dot eyes.  It’s holding a lantern, for being spooky, and a knife (for ending your life). It offers me the option to follow the tonberry back, which is generally not how this works, but can be useful in getting through the ARR bonus dungeon Wanderer’s Palace (Hard).
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You guysss PBS is doing a wHOLE SERIES ABOUT THE PERMIAN PANGAEA TIME LET'S GOOOOOOO www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWri...
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An Important Announcement
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026
The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
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burning spirit GUTS... TWO 🍊💅🎀 @bubu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey guys what's up *tethers 6 of you together and places aoe indicators on two others then raises 6 towers before becoming untargetable*
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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For too long our company has ignored the usefulness of Flare Guns. Staff have been advised to “Send up a flare!” if they need anything, but usage has not met expectations based on our purchases of Flare Guns for all staff. Starting today, Flare count will be tracked and included in annual reviews.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 15/07/2026
Surco Games is hiring a Narrative Designer/Writer to help craft the story & cast of their sci-fi bartending game, Last Call. 📍 Remote, Freelance (USA) 💸 $35/hr, up to 200 hours 🧶 Familiarity with Yarn Spinner or eq a + ⤵️
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Surco Games is hiring a Narrative Designer / Writer
Surco Games is seeking a Narrative Designer / Writer to contribute to Last Call, a character-driven sci-fi bartending game in the lineage of VA-11 Hall-A, Coffee Talk, and Strange Antiquities.
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Jehtt @turbojehtt.net · 05/07/2026
I love how they expanded on the story in this game.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Dinotopia wasn't just enchanting to me as a kid because of the dinosaurs, but because of all of the little details of the world. How would the architecture accommodate dinosaurs? What kind of tools would we use now that we could work with these creatures? It was so thoughtful and curious.
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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
OPPORTUNITIES!! Fancy joining Team Battlefield? There's a chance to join Team DICE as a senior writer, or Criterion as a Senior Narrative Designer! Absolutely affiliated. Shares Welcome! ea.avature.net/careers/JobD... emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Senior Narrative Designer
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Emma Kidwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
remedy opened a senior writing position-- best of luck, fellow weirdos gamejobs.co/Senior-Write...
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Senior Writer at Remedy Entertainment
As a Senior Writer at Remedy, you will work with the Writing Team to create stories, characters, dialogue, collectibles, game text, and provide any other writing support the project may need.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/06/2026
"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"
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XBOX @xbox.com · 07/06/2026
Welcome to the first night of the Locust invasion. Gears of War: E-Day arrives as an XBOX console exclusive. Play it on Xbox, PC and day one with @XBOXGamePass on October 6: xbx.lv/4dZ6Pg8 | #XBOXShowcase
The Key Art for Gears of War: E- Day, feature Dom Santiago and Marcus Fenix. Text Reads “Coming October 6, 2026. Xbox Console Exclusive”
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XBOX @xbox.com · 01/06/2026
Have you made your watch plans yet? 📺 Check out everywhere you can catch XBOX Games Showcase followed by Gears of War: E-Day Direct: xbx.lv/4nZY4XX | #XBOXShowcase
On the left side of the image the XBOX nexus is illuminated from the back in green with a swirl of blue and green illuminated particles emanating around it. Text below reads: "XBOX Games Showcase. Sunday, June 7th. 10am PT/1PM ET/6PM BST." The YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and TikTok logos are shown. On the right side of the image is a graphic of a red skull surrounding by what looks like fractured concrete. Text below reads"Gears of War: E-Day Direct. Immediately following XBOX Games Showcase" The XBOX logo is shown in the bottom left corner and The Coalition logo is shown in the bottom right corner.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down
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Flip Satan @teawithphil.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The perfect shirt doesn't exi...
Black Darkstalkers promotional t shirt for Mountain Dew with Morrigan next to cup of Baja Blast and Taco Bell logo.
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SPOOKY ZAIYA 🎃 @saintzaiya.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026
“There’s no asexual representation in gaming” then what the fuck is Ace Attorney even about??
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Zachary Pope @zgpope.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Reading the backer updates from @richardcobbett.bsky.social over the last few years has been incredibly enjoyable and educational as a game dev. I really recommend checking this one out!
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 27/05/2026
Nighthawks, our vampire RPG, is coming in FALL OF 2026!! Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. See our new trailer below, and wishlist here: bit.ly/4o36HRx
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Lucas Schuneman @lucasschuneman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Been working on this since 2023. Can't wait to have all of you experience "Nighthawks"! Wishlist it now!!
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 18/05/2026
From the team behind Outer Wilds, Mobius Digital is expanding their team to help with their next project! 🏗️ DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer 🎧️ Audio Engineer 🤖 Creature/NPC AI Engineer Work with @mobiusdigitalgames.com and apply:
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Work With Mobius Digital
An independent game studio located in DTLA. We're excited to have released Outer Wilds on 5/28/19. We make games weird & wonderful. Come explore with us.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 14/05/2026
Raw Fury is hiring a Product Manager to take the helm of Product Teams across multiple titles! 📍 Hybrid, Full-time (Stockholm, SE) 💡 Own strategy, pricing & vision 🗣️ Excellent communication & collaboration skills needed Work with @rawfury.bsky.social and apply:
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Raw Fury is hiring a Product Manager
On our quest to be recognized as the world’s best partner to indie game developers, we're looking to strengthen the team with a Product Manager.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 13/05/2026
Spaceship Interactive is hiring a Level Designer and a Technical Animator to help with their Zelda-inspired co-op action adventure game! 🛰️ Remote, Contract (ET ±8h) 🕹️ Made in Unreal Engine ⤵️
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Work With Spaceship Interactive
We’re building something more personal—a game for our kids and their friends.
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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.
screenshot of kickstarter's guidelines on adult content, where "projects created specifically for sexual gratification" is listed as prohibited
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.
Screenshot of Kickstarter's new rules against mature content, in which everything pornographic is banned. It's a long document that's formatted in a way that I can't copy and paste all the text that's in it, but the first is that all point and anything sexual is now banned.This part of the document outlines how even self censoring your own work will not work, because even the implication of sex is too much. Even in prose works.This document is confusing because it says that erotic comics ARE allowed... you just can't show sex acts or genitals or try to arouse people. Also you can make sex toys, just so long as they're not for sexual gratification. This is how Kickstarter's email began: 

"Hello,
Kickstarter has always been a home for bold, boundary-pushing creative work, including mature content projects like romance novels, nude art books, and provocative comics. Creators working in this space are a valued part of our community, and that hasn’t changed." And yet it definitely has changed.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 11/05/2026
Panna Cotta Software is hiring a Freelance Illustrator/Character Illustrator to create dark fantasy art for their new digital card game! 📍 Remote, Freelance (Canada preferred) 📆 10-20hrs/week ⛔️ No AI ⤵️
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Panna Cotta Software is hiring a Illustrator / Character Illustrator
Panna Cotta Software is seeking a freelance Illustrator / Character Illustrator to produce characters and items for our horror / dark fantasy themed digital card game.
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