So proud of the team and humbled by the recognition of our peers.

We weren't able to get funding for ENGINE ANGEL and I've been laid off from Ivy Road, so I'm looking for new full-time animation work (New reel is below! YT link: youtu.be/S4QWqyw_vEs) Everyone else laid off in the thread are amazing people and great at what they do so please hire them ASAP!!

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

We are nominated for the Annie Awards & DICE Awards! Great animation in games can't happen on its own & requires the support of the entire studio. I'm so proud of the team, our partners & Compulsion's culture of celebrating craft. annieawards.org/nominations www.interactive.org/awards/29th_...

South of Midnight got nominated for two DICE awards!!! 🎞️Outstanding Achievement in Animation 🎭Outstanding Achievement in Story Congrats to our team and everyone who was involved. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/d...

2025 in books read and records spun

We won!!! We’re deeply honored for the Games for Impact award! Thanks to everyone who helped shape South of Midnight and to every player who saw something meaningful in our story.

I am excited to be speaking at MIGS this year! I will be sharing my experiences and lessons learned from working on South of Midnight. If you are in Montreal, come by and say hi! migs.biz/en/sessions/...

sure, if you enjoy the horrifying limits of human perception

Keeper has been my most anticipated game of the year. Everything about it is so appealing and creatively invigorating. Congrats to everyone that worked on it!!

Prune, my bonsai puzzle game and love letter to trees, is finally out on Steam for its 10th anniversary! store.steampowered.com/app/3903490/...

today's the day! Wrong Side of the Sun is out on all platforms - Spotify, Apple Music, etc. but leading here with the Bandcamp link by popular demand femiandthefoundation.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-...

“[…] art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experiences: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one’s aim is to be protected from the second.”

re: art as an important sight of social struggle - we could use a lot more of this energy right now.

"World is heavy. Life is hard. But alas, Jerskin + Emily + Yorgos found one another and are making art together. Life is good. Life is light. Thank you." - @stevejimdave www.youtube.com/watch?v=StSV...

Animators and Creature lovers 🐉 Here’s the replay of my INDIGO talk on animating Dragon boss fights for #DragonAge at BioWare. It’s packed with practical advice and production war stories :) I hope this can help some of you bring your next monsters to life! #Animation #GameDev #CreatureAnimation

We made the list! South of Midnight is one of Kotaku's 'Best Games of 2025 So Far' ✨ kotaku.com/2025-best-ga...

"South of Midnight shines as one of the most beautifully crafted single-player games in recent memory." We’re proud to share that South of Midnight has been named “Best Xbox Game” at the inaugural 2025 @rollingstone.com Gaming Awards: www.rollingstone.com/product-reco...

Mike Schur nails it here. People in creative endeavors can be in survival mode or creative mode. And the role of managers is to flip the switch so people feel safe to be in creative mode. That nearly everyone is in survival mode right now is damning and depressing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Mb...

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

I think there's also a tricky trap where you need to put yourself into Adventurer Mode (Do, Decide, Self-examine, Make Mistakes) rather than Student Mode (Analyze, Evaluate, Perfect), and reading documents/completing checklists puts you in the latter mindset instead of the former.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

If you are a lead or director in games, outside of animation, please fill out this quick survey. It will help to train and give insight to animation leads and directors on what is expected of them from team members not part of the animation team. Help them to help you :D

Are you in a game dev leadership role?! If so, I would be eternally grateful if you would fill out this quick & anonymous 5 question survey! The responses will be used as part of my upcoming Directing Game Animation workshop. Thanks! forms.gle/uJNfwaUTGMPg...

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

This is the vulnerability that lots of pseudo-intellectuals take advantage of too! Just speaking fluently can convince some people that what you're saying must also be smart...

Putting this up, because I try to be very conscious of the BS of AI. When I’m researching something I know something about, I can spot it, but it’s made me realise quite how much I can’t trust anything else I read, see or hear online anymore unless I already know about it. What a damn mess.

Weavers: Update 1.3.0 is now live! In this update, we've addressed a number of bugs and, thanks to popular demand, added a Pet the Dog mechanic! You can now pet both of Beaux's bloodhounds (who are gentlemen, BTW) in Chapter 5 🐕 Read the full patch notes: steamcommunity.com/app/1934570/...

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

I am adapting my book into a workshop! If you would like to attend, check out Game Master Classes for the full details www.linkedin.com/posts/game-m...

Crave just casually dropping these for all of us Canadian sickos

DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened. So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon. Thread

Game dev and the second law of thermodynamics are one and the same

The team at Steamroller released their pilot episode of Spice Frontier and I am in awe. It has so much heart and sense of adventure. Do yourself a favor and give it a watch! youtu.be/SeAqnHywrx8?...

I should have said, "through my heart". It's too late lol. A pixel art adventure through my heart, broken by kill gameplay. 💔

And that's how a new Weaver came to be in Prospero. It's been one month since we launched South of Midnight and shared our love letter to the South with the world. To those who completed their journey, we hope you enjoyed your time with Midnight. And to those just beginning, good luck, Weaver!

Absolutely inspiring work by the team at MoonHood! I can’t wait to play it!

In this new mini-doc, @browngirlgamercode.com explores the history of Southern Gothicism, South of Midnight's Southern Gothic inspirations and its impact on the subgenre. Deeper Than the South: How South of Midnight is Weaving a New Path in Southern Gothic Media: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mD4...

Not a lost art but rarely a priority. I’m super proud of what we did with South of Midnight. Appealing character designs & strong facial capture as the foundation. Then we were afforded the ability to focus on the asymmetry/appeal of expressions and my fav details, psychology of blinks & eye darts.

South of Midnight has gotten some pretty interesting reactions from players. Judging by the shocked faces of these creators, we can't help but wonder what they just saw.. 🤔 #SouthofMidnight

A Black man navigates his day while quietly wrestling with the experiences that reinforce the need for healing the child within. BLACK MAN, BLACK MAN Written/Directed by yours truly Narrated by @ynb.bsky.social & Aldis Hodge Produced by Hodge Brothers Productions #FilmSky #Film #Animation #Art

Cool little South of Midnight detail you may have missed: Hazel’s background in track and field isn’t just a throwaway detail. The devs also seem to have worked it into the character’s animation package. — Her idle is a runner’s quad stretch — Her sprint leap is a long jump

This is it, this is the GOTY

youtu.be/N17wHsoHiG0?... I made a short video detailing gameplay animation, along with some responsibilities you could expect on the job. The hope is to help shed light on some aspects of the role, as well as help newcomers have insight into how to gear their work for an application. #animation

An early easter egg hunt for everyone: While Hazel has a consistent set of base idle breakers, others vary based on the chapter/location. A small detail to giver her some awareness of her surroundings and situation.

Gwen is awesome and the Lab Rat demo was awesome. So wishlist and then buy all the awesome!

This "love letter to the South" received a lot of love back. South of Midnight is available today: xbx.lv/43FVTkf

Watching your game make a grown man cry on stream and then have that immediately followed by a hype train with obscene notification responses has been the perfect moment of sincerity wrapped in absurdity I never knew I needed. Our modern world is a sloppy mess but some times it leads to dumb magic.

South of Midnight is now out in the world! It has been a gift to have been able to invest in an experience that aligns with my own creative values as much as this game does. I have endless love for our team and our game. I hope you feel that same love and joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEZg...

Whitney and I got a chance to talk about the care and craft that went into bringing the stop motion style to life in South of Midnight. Just a couple more hours until the game is available in early access!!!