🎮 MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🎮 The next GAMERella Game Jam is happening November 15–16, 2025! This inclusive, beginner-friendly, and super accessible game jam is made for you! Join us for a weekend of creativity, collaboration, and cookies. ✨️ Sign-up is now open ✨️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/gamerella-...

What an incredible honor to have been a part of Bomb Busters, now the Spiel des Jahres 2025 winner! Congrats to everyone at @cocktailgames.bsky.social, @pegasusspiele.bsky.social and Hisashi Hayashi! #boardgames

At GAMERella, our goal is to continue to build on the work that is being done in the gaming industry so that everyone who has a passion for games has the opportunity to play, build and be a part of the communities that video games foster. The game is not over until we all get to play.

Last Friday was Media Training Day with our mentorship cohort! 📰 Special thanks to Teri Hart for helping support our mentees so they're ready to represent their work to the public with confidence. ✨️ #GameMentorship #MediaTraining #SoftSkillsMatter #GAMERella

Submissions Open for Super FESTival Nov 1-7 Submit today: filmfreeway.com/HES-SF25 This year's Festival Logo and art by @anderkaya.bsky.social

We’ve kicked off the mentorship with an essential workshop including: 🔒 Online Safety Training 🎯 Goal-Setting & Accountability in Creative Work Next up: Media Training with our friends at Route 504 PR 🎤✨️ #GameMentorship #DigitalSafety #SoftSkillsMatter #GAMERella

We’re thrilled to announce this year’s mentorship cohort: 🎮 15 talented mentees 🤝 14 experienced mentors From AAA studios to indie collectives: we’ve paired folks from across disciplines and regions. Let the learning (and game-making) begin! ✨ #GameDev #GameMentorship #GAMERella #IndieDev

Yesterday I got to see talks by @ginahara.com - @gamerella.bsky.social and Adam Saltsman - @finjico.bsky.social about game jams and Kim Gibson - Ontario Creates. Both were great and I was happy to meet Gina in person as GAMERella was my first jam and has given me many opportunities over the years!

🚨 Good news! 🚨 We've extended the application deadline for our Mentorship Program! 🎮✨ You now have until May 5, 2025! Are you an emerging game-maker looking for mentorship? This is your sign to PRESS START.🕹️ Apply now and level up your journey into the games industry! 👉 gamerella.ca/mentorship/en/

This is our new obsession in this house. This is the next level of Animal Crossing-like games, in split-screen cooperative, so much to do, fast and joyful, no messing about. So so good, don't miss out!

If you're looking for a game where you can... 🏭 assign tourists jobs in your town 📝 design your own layout & décor 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 play co-op up to 4 players (local now, online soon!) 🎛️ automate tasks you don't want to do 🦄 run over tourists with a unicorn tricycle ...then do we have the game for you!

Short but sweet rethinking of globalization via the convenience store (and other things): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/t... To which I would say, read this for a longer account that thinks about its impacts in Asia, as well: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wanna break into the game industry? Make a living as a game creator? 🎮🧩 LET US HELP!🧩🎮 We have an amazing group of mentors and industry professionals who can guide you and support you on your journey 💕 Applications are open will April 30!

National health survey mapping the health disparities #2SLGBTQIA+ Canadian face. 🌈 PLEASE FILL IT OUT AND SHARE 🌈 ca.decipherinc.com/survey/selfs...

made a cute little avatar for @ginahara.com 🐰💜

i’m all fixed up #illustration

Canadians 📣🇨🇦📣 if #2SLGBTQIA+ issues matter to you at the ballot box sign up to Rainbow Votes by @xtramagazine.com mailchi.mp/3a1a6baff263... Keep a close eye on how decision 2025 will impact LGBTQ2S+ Canadians: breakdown of latest news, numbers and major moments from the campaign trail.

I have no interest in a movie made by a white, straight man about sex workers, featuring a young, white skinny woman. They can thank the sex working community all they want, but at the end of the day they’re going home with an award and others get a stereotyped story ➡️ angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor

I probably would have much more appreciation for Anora if it were directed by a woman, but guess what? If it had, it would have never gotten a nomination for best directing or best movie.

Amongst similar stories to this regarding the larger tech platforms, we’ve made the decision to move away from Google workspace. We’re currently finding other avenues and solutions and are happy to share what works and what doesn’t as we move elsewhere!

Google removing pronouns this morning in Canada. Like wtf.

Wow this tool is cool! Hi new fam! Nice to meet you! Let's be friends 💕😊

January was craft-month in our household. It was a great way to get through this dark month. I built the Rolife Sakura Train Station and was really fun. It is really well designed and includes the lights as well. And now such a joy to look at on our bookshelf! #craft #diy #japan #sakura #booknook

Sticker of the day 🍑🍮 Artist: @inomnomcom.bsky.social

The artist is Shinzi Katoh. He created these whimsical stickers inspired by Miyazawa Kenji ✨ I wish I could get them all!

Mostly playing board games and holding hands 💜💜💜💜

Researching advocacy catalysts. But in style....

In his first 10 days, Trump issued multiple executive orders that seek to change government policy around gender. We have: - What to know - Coverage best practices - Questions to ask - Key terms and background - Journalistic resources - Reading to catch up

1833:smile smile smile! #1日1ウパー

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

INTIMATIONS OF THE NIGHT by: @verladams.bsky.social #streetphotography #東京 #tokyo #photography #tokyobackstreets

Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School #womensart

Sticker of the day ☔🌧️ Artist unknown, but it is referencing a Kenji Miyazawa poem: Ame ni mo makezu (雨ニモマケズ, 'Be not Defeated by the Rain')

Sticker of the day 🌿🫙 Artist: @koyamori.bsky.social

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

Sticker of the day 🐸🍑 Artist: punimello

Sticker of the day 📚🪴 Artist: Jackie Tsang (homebyfaith)

"If you think you love freedom, but you don't care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege."

I'm happy to announce that the first version of my next game project is public! Set within the confines of a stuffy bus, the game muses on character dynamics, unsolicited advice, and the places that the mind goes to when it's allowed to wander. omch.itch.io/do-you-miss-it #gamedev #indiedev

Let's do this 😊✨ 1 like = 1 artist that inspires me

If you see this post an anime you love 💖

🎨Tove Jansson, ‘Moomin Winter Snow’

On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

A list of asexual filmmakers and their films 🖤🩶🤍💜 letterboxd.com/denimandleat... #queer #filmsky #ace

Every time Bomb Busters came up in a Best of 2024 video, it brought me so much joy! Here are some of the highlights I collected - I still can't believe I got to illustrate such a good game! #boardgames

Wow thanks for all the new follow 💖 Anyone has any fun plans for this year? Resolution or hopes? I've been trying to avoid buying anything new this year. So I'm trying to shop only in second-hand/thrift stores. It is so hard, but I hope I can save up some money too. 🛒🛍️ #january #thrifting

Reposting this for no reason at all 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🫶 💙💗🤍💗💙

Welcome to Bluesky! I'm Gina, an artist and filmmaker with a passion for games and traveling. I also love language learning and cute things. Especially cute stationery. 💌💮 If you would like to see my films Geek Girls (2017) or Prism (2024) send me a DM. ✨ #filmsky #filmdev

🧩 Puzzle #542 🤔 7 guesses ⏱️ 1m 6s 🔗 alphaguess.com