Hello new followers! 💛 I’m Marina and I’m a game designer focused on Emotional Game Design. ✨ I’m currently an emotional game designer and head of business at btf Games in Berlin. 🔥 Prev. I was the lead game designer for the indie game Dordogne! I’m also a consultant and a filmmaker. 🥰

PARCO GAMES、「TGS2025」出展ブースの詳細やノベルティ情報を公開 #ゲーム #PARCOGAMES #TGS2025 #東京ゲームショウ2025

We've been working hard behind closed doors for a while now... time to start showing off! :D Here's the teaser trailer for our new project, BAND MATES. Coming soon to Steam Early Access! To find out more visit out Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2655810/...

For the last 4+ years, I've been working hard on my dream project, BAND MATES. And we're finally getting ready to show it to the world! This is the hardest thing I've ever done, professionally and even personally speaking. Very excited to finally start talking about it publicly :)

Al hablar de When the Past Was Around @pieldelibelula.bsky.social citó también A Raven Monologue, un juego que varias conocimos tras leer a @ninfadp.bsky.social en @terebimagazine.bsky.social: terebimagazine.es/2018/03/09/r...

My computer greeting me on a Monday morning in game director language:

Do you know what is worse for your game than making a bad decision? To not make any decision out of fear.

Do you know what is worse for your game than making a bad decision? To not make any decision out of fear.

Bear Knuckle is changing gears. I started it to help self-publishing studios with their business, working w/ teams like Appelmoes Games, Merge Conflict, and Bunnyhug. Now: ❌ Self-pub business consulting. ✅ Free 30-min consulting for devs from underrepresented backgrounds at bearknuckle.org

Friends! 💛 The Berlin Apartment is nominated for an award at Gamescom! Please vote for us! 💛 www.gamestar.de/artikel/fyng...

An old characters sketch for a game @ninfadp.bsky.social and I were ideating a few years back ❤️

#PressStart feierte auf der #ddc2025 Halbzeit. Unser besonderer Dank für diese tolle Veranstaltung gilt Don Daglow, der mit seiner Keynote Mut machte, unseren Panelist*innen @ninfadp.bsky.social, Jason Della Rocca und @akawist.bsky.social sowie @mlleopossum.bsky.social für die super Moderation.

See you this week in Cologne! 🇩🇪

What does surfing have to do with game development? A new talk is on the making 🤩💛

What does surfing have to do with game development? A new talk is on the making 🤩💛

“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1973:

Our studio will be attending Gamescom once again this year with a lot of cool surprises! 😍 😁 You can find us with The Berlin Apartment & Constance at @indiearenabooth.de! ✨And we will also have our own booth with @byterockers.bsky.social! Come to visit us! store.steampowered.com/developer/btf

Have you ever thought of who might have lived in your apartment before you? 👀 In The Berlin Apartment every wall has a story to tell. 🏢 Check it out & wishlist! 💫 store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...

✨Check out: Constance The Berlin Apartment until the 31st of July on this Steam event celebrating games made in Germany! 🔥

Devcom/Gamescom call! 😏 Who will be around? 💛 I will be the whoooole week there! Let’s hang out! 🔥

I’m extremely pleased of announcing my participation as a speaker at Devcom for this fantastic panel on “Directing Creative Teams: Learnings Across Genres”. ✨ I’m super excited! See you all in Cologne! 💛

Spanish friends! Anyone coming to Gamescom? 💛

I’m extremely pleased of announcing my participation as a speaker at Devcom for this fantastic panel on “Directing Creative Teams: Learnings Across Genres”. ✨ I’m super excited! See you all in Cologne! 💛

From today we are taking part of Games Forged in Germany on Steam with our gems: 🏢 The Berlin Apartment & 🖌️Constance The event will last from today till the 31st of July! 🔥 store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-F...

The indie game we're making and 3 others we're looking forward to ✨ @coldbloodinc.studio @radicalfishgames.com @deadstaticdrive.com

The future is here and it's called emotional game design: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-age...

Devcom/Gamescom call! 😏 Who will be around? 💛 I will be the whoooole week there! Let’s hang out! 🔥

what makes for a "Good CEO" of an indie game studio? what is your experience being one or having one? #gamedev

The most important thing for making a great game is to fulfill the player’s desire of feeling important.

The Berlin Apartment is a game about 👥 different people 🏢 living in the same apartment in Berlin ⏳across different decades store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...

✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨ "Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭 Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces! Shares appreciated. AHH!! Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book

Our indie game in 4 seconds ✨ The Berlin Apartment 🪴

📦🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️ Cerramos el reparto de la semana hablando de DEATH STRANDING 2 Lean esta columnita de @javieraleman.bsky.social hablando de lo buen juego que es y por qué es peor que el primero niveloculto.com/columna-deat...

Friends! ✨ Once again I will be hosting the HyperTalks for @amazefest.bsky.social at Gamescom in August! 😍 I will be curating the line-up in the next couple of weeks so I’m looking for interesting talks! 💛 Sign up! ⬇️ forms.gle/bQYVJVp8UPY2...

Friends! ✨ Once again I will be hosting the HyperTalks for @amazefest.bsky.social at Gamescom in August! 😍 I will be curating the line-up in the next couple of weeks so I’m looking for interesting talks! 💛 Sign up! ⬇️ forms.gle/bQYVJVp8UPY2...

The Berlin Apartment will be at Gamescom in a couple of weeks! 😱😍 You can find us as part of the amazing lineup at the @indiearenabooth.de & more! 🔥

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

I have a question for my research: It’s demonstrated that work in group enhances entering flow states. How can we achieve the same working remotely in days already full of meetings?

Sometimes I can’t get over the fact that I work on this amazing game tbh 🥹💛

Sometimes I can’t get over the fact that I work on this amazing game tbh 🥹💛

The Berlin Apartment is coming to Gamescom next month! ✨ We are part of the amazing selection done by @indiearenabooth.de along with other incredible titles and our game Constance! 😍 Have you tried our demo already? 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...

Dev friends from LATAM: Google is committing $2 million in funding for up to 10 indie studios in LATAM America to help refine games and boost new audiences. blog.google/feed/indie-g... (Pls boost 💜)

where we want to be right now

The news are true! 🔥 The Berlin Apartment is coming to Gamescom to the fantastic @indiearenabooth.de this August! 😍 We are almost out with this gem & can’t wait for y’all to play with us! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...

Super happy to announce that I will also be representing our studio at Gamescom along with some of my other colleagues! 💛 Let’s go! 🔥

Super happy to announce that I will also be representing our studio at Gamescom along with some of my other colleagues! 💛 Let’s go! 🔥

Once again we are so lucky of being part of a brilliant line-up of games curated by the @indiearenabooth.de! ✨ We will showcase 🖌️Constance 🏢 The Berlin Apartment Can’t wait to see you all at Gamescom in August! 🫶

my hot gamedev tip of the week: DON'T add a rhythm minigame to your indie game

As a freelancer, the literal definition of a gig worker: game companies are trying to turn us all into gig workers. No more single-studio careers with good benefits. Staff get the bare minimum, get no perks, get laid off. I went freelance to do something different, not for it to become the default.

Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtzC...