www.dkvine.com?p=news_body&... Stop n Swap design doc! 💖

Had a pretty good year professionally, did a little Wrapped about it 💕

Built a couple book nooks over the holiday.

-Got promoted to COO -Launched a website for the community that was well received -Gave 2 industry talks -Got to advise one of my game dev heroes in an official capacity -Went to 6 events professionally, 2 out of the country -Helped Unity launch their first Steam sale -Helped launch 5 games

I miss regularly having excuses to play dress up 😭 I haven't modeled in 3+ years, and don't go to many costumed events nowadays with 2 young kids at home. In 2026 I'd like to find more opportunities to dress fun again!

Me and @dukedonuts.bsky.social if we were inanimate objects

I make some Crimmas food

I went to rewatch Battle Kitty with my kids now that my youngest is old enough and Netflix removed the show AND the interactive tech a year ago. It was live for only 2 years and is already lost media. 🥲

Show me how your 2025 went

What should I buy in the Steam Winter Sale?

Do you like roguelike games? Do you like Puzzle Quest? Do you wish both of those were in the same place? You're in luck: kfsoftware.itch.io/puzzlerogue Puzzle Rogue is early access, playable in-browser! It's fully featured and you can play through the first area. Let us know if you slay the Wyvern!

To end out 2025, I just pushed a big update to my portfolio website! It's nice to have a public archive of all the work I have done :) www.alyssakollgaard.com

Had a great time chatting about indie games publishing landscape and @publisherpath.bsky.social with John O'Connell from DDM/IndieCade/WIGI at Creators Camp yesterday! Had about 40 folks in the crowd, heavily academia-skewed. Looking forward to doing more. 💪

I didn't know the weird elder art teacher came in a VR variant and I want the lady in black to adopt me 🥺

My takeaways from TGA: -I have wildly divergent tastes from the general public -Space and sci fi action is oversaturated -Split Fiction robbed -People who wear tons of perfume in enclosed spaces are jerk asses

We out here, fam

Excited to be heading to Norway in January to be part of Game On Norway presented by Spawn Point Trondheim accelerator! Come join me and other cool publishers and investors and get feedback on pitches. Chat, how screwed am I going to be in Norwegian winter 😅

Wow what an embarrassing stat from my YouTube wrapped 😂

We announced the THIRD installment in the Darkside Detective series at the @unity.com Awards today! Darkside Detective was one of the first games I got to work on at Akupara, so announcing the third title during the show (which we got to play a small role in) is pretty exciting 🥰

Chat, who has the more cyberpunk setup Me with the multi monitor synthwave monstrosity or @dukedonuts.bsky.social with cyberpunk 2077 playing on a CRT on a stack of cardboard boxes

PLATFORM TOOLKIT LAUNCH DAY, LADS

Hey LA, I'll be speaking next week at IndieCade about the games publishing, financing and opportunity landscape. Come see me! www.indiecade.com/creators-ret...

Our first-ever Unity #SteamSale is live 🎉🏷️ Explore 100+ games with great discounts, featuring this year's nominees from the 17th #UnityAwards, past winners, and other #MadeWithUnity standouts. Presented by @akuparagames.bsky.social Shop now: on.unity.com/UnitySteamSale

Obligatory Twitch recap, @wellzish.bsky.social @dukedonuts.bsky.social @theretrorunner.bsky.social and @gamerghoulfriend.bsky.social once again securing the top slots

store.steampowered.com/sale/TheUnit... The 1st ever @unity.com Steam event is LIVE, celebrating the 17th Unity Awards + 20 YEARS OF UNITY I had the honor of building this alongside the #MadeWithUnity team (some of my favorite people) Plz support the sale so that Unity can keep supporting devs🫶

This sounds so cool

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

Obligatory food photo

I'm giving a talk over at @indiegamebusiness.bsky.social in 2 weeks and you can listen for free! The entire event is focused on Game Production topics with a lineup of amazing Producers in the industry, I can't wait to learn from them 🥰 #indiedev #gamedev

Share a smile.

Annual meme for this coming holiday

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast

Happy 20th anniversary to the Xbox 360 - the very first game console I ever got a chance to work on

The @unity.com after party was WAY too loud, but the Frutiger Aero decor aaa on point, and they also had drink covers and tamper kits at the bar which was an appreciated addition.

Spain 💕

Some photos from Unite, hanging with SonderingEmily and the Made With Unity team 💕

Watch unity with me on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/unity?sr=a I'll be on the Unity Livestream in 15 minutes if anyone is awake and feels like tuning in 👍

youtube.com/clip/UgkxPgf... What's that?? The first ever Unity Awards Steam sale, hosted by @unity.com x @akuparagames.bsky.social ? That's pretty neat news to end a keynote on 🫶

This actually fucks extremely hard, huge @unity.com W

At the Unity keynote and ITS TIM SWEENEY WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

"It's already beyond just the indie space" — Akupara COO Alyssa Kollgaard talks about new dev tool Publisher Pathfinder gamingtrend.com/interviews/i...

In flight entertainment options include: -Magic Orb -Heat Death of the Universe

If footage of me at LAX shows up online it's only because some idiot asshole was telling a bunch of young Latina girls he hoped ICE would deport them because they wouldn't let him cut in line at the check in desk. Anyway fuck that guy and don't bring that bullshit attitude to Los Angeles

Plz leave me alone

I asked @discordiadystopia.bsky.social about the madness happening in the #GamePublishing space last Friday. There's a whole 1-hour interview if you wanna hear more: www.twitch.tv/videos/26207... #IndieGames #IndieDevs #AA #AAA

Say hello to ⚔️Publisher Pathfinder! Are you a game dev team seeking publishing partners, investors, service providers, and more? Created in part by Akuparians Alyssa Kollgaard + Mike Shanks, 📖 @publisherpath.bsky.social is a point-and-click guide that arms you with publisher insights and tools!

I heard you about #Val'tyFPS being way too barebones, and I agreed. 👽Introducing VAL'gmentations👽 Unlockable perks that enhance VAL'TY's habilities for a limited time. You can recover it's "power" by defeating enemies or getting certain items. (work in progress)

Fresh hair