This is so cool! It's such a huge compliment that our video game would compel a person to make a bot, I'm so pleased!! Huge props to @karriebear.bsky.social and @paullicino.bsky.social for all of the actual words in the game, of course.

we finally trained ourselves into saying "donut county" but then "crow country" came out and now my household is fighting a "donut country / crow county" war

SUCH a good thread!! I'm positively beaming with pride to see so many international indies on this list: Ball x Pit, Animal Well, SIGNALIS, Threes even!! How damn cool is it to grow up on Japanese games and then grow up to create games that influence them right back 💖

I'm thrilled to join Zurich Film Fund as a jury member in the Digital Culture program! Funding for games has been incredibly bleak, so I'm excited to raise up projects at this challenging time. The grants total CHF 4.5M ($5.7M USD) / CHF 150K ($190K) per project. filmstiftung.ch/digitale-kul...

My team is hiring narrative designers again! * Entry to mid-level! * Casual mobile games with campy fun stories * Big caveat: after a few months remote, you gotta do a year or two in-office in Beijing! * Pay is low by US standards but great for Beijing or Europe www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

apologies to anyone who sees this and is still trying to get work done

Hello Gamedevs, There is a new Gamedev Salary Pulse survey. It’s a community project, built to gather anonymous insights about salaries & work conditions across the industry. Results will be published for free, in Q1 2026. Devs can take part here: 8bit-recruitment.typeform.com/to/n2Klg27o

This year for Game Awards fits, we showed up imho (w @karriebear.bsky.social)

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR THISSSSSSSSS

🎧NEW OFK THIS FRIDAY 3 years(!) since we released our game about a little band of friends - a massive labor of love that won us phenomenal fans AND a Peabody Award! Life has gotten full & busy but WE ARE HERE. Feels good to be back

we tried Taco Bell’s Baja Blast Pie yesterday and the reactions were so good it had to go on the feed

I’m speaking today at @sfwa.org’s Quasar event this weekend! Really excited to be chatting with a panel of indie creators across comics, novels, and games ❤️ @alexiswestmore.bsky.social @jessicamaison.bsky.social @joanmarieverba.bsky.social @rrookstudio.bsky.social

Kdin joined our Pacific Drive voice cast as one of my new favorite characters in the DLC ❤️

Surprise! Pacific Drive's first story expansion dropped TODAY Come meet the Harmonic Fellowship, your new family 👁️🌊 They only want the very best for you.

i'm so glad @mikerose.bsky.social is back on social media, what an absolute gift

lovely getting yesterday off of my game dev day job so i could work on my game dev prototype i am a well-balanced individual

oh dip Surprised and honored to be a GDC 2025 top speaker!! This same talk also got me an unexpected job offer out of nowhere.... which I'll share more about later 😶 If you have Vault access, the talk is here: gdcvault.com/.../Game-Nar...

i'm working my way through the games submitted for BAFTAs this year in preparation for voting, and this incredible moment in Skin Deep had my entire friend group giggling

celebrating the Emmy nominees at the BAFTA TV Tea Party 🏆☕️ Thank you @bafta.org for an unforgettable weekend celebrating our BAFTA Breakthrough cohort, and for getting me to shake the hand of Gaius Baltar himself (James Callis) & cram into an elevator with Lucius Malloy (Jason Isaacs)

me: why am i in such a terrible mood @teddydief.com: because you're in the middle of breaking a story, this is your ~process~ :[

Evening Star (@eveningstar.studio) is now hiring an Art Director! We're looking for an experienced professional who can augment our team with deep knowledge of 3D art pipelines, and who is well seasoned with production experience. Do you or does someone you know fit the bill?

BAFTA Emmies Tea Party! It’s an honor to rep videogame creators, build bridges between games & film, and celebrate BAFTA Breakthrough @karriebear.bsky.social! @bafta.org @baftagames.bsky.social

⭐️BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH 2024⭐️ So honored to be part of the BAFTA Breakthrough class and getting to know these incredible trailblazers across film, TV, and games. Spending the weekend getting closer and attending the BAFTA TV Tea Party together was such a gift. Thank you @bafta.org!

cannot believe I played a laser grid room yesterday and my entire group watched my boobs block the laser and make us lose

Got the best seats in the house at last night’s Demon Slayer LA premiere! So deeply proud of my once-Funimation, now-CrunchyRoll crew killing it with bigger and bigger releases 🔥 Absolutely stunning in IMAX, see it this Friday ❤️

I returned to the Olympic Exclusion Zone to tell you a brand new, horrific story.... Pacific Drive's first story expansion coming soon!!

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

Delighted to be joining @gdocexpo.com this year for a Pacific Drive developer interview alongside master worldbuilders Larry Vargas (Environment Lead) and Kendall Wix (Level Designer)! Tune in Thurs, Sept 18th at 3:20PM a short but sweet conversation 🚗💖 #GDOCExpo @ironwood.bsky.social

Not me bursting into tears 30 seconds into the Evangelion concert. Having Yoko Takahashi START with Tamashii no Refrain was an immediate jolt back to my childhood loneliness 😭

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

back at it #AnimeNYC

An interview in which I absolutely panic over being forced to choose my favorite pizza in LA 🫣

big vouch for @hunty.biz and his team at Evening Star!!

“I am a narrative desginer and I don’t like long narrative sequences. I like gameplay”, Karrie said. 🚗If you’ve played Pacific Drive you know what she means. 😍 Thank you for your amazing talk! There’s still time to sign up for She Got Game 2026 and learn from the best. #prohelvetia #womeningames

it was the honor of a lifetime to be on this road trip with you 🥹🙏 @paullicino.bsky.social @ironwood.bsky.social @sfwa.bsky.social

Lovely to run into Dave Fennoy at BAFTA’s summer game mixer! The voice of Pacific Drive’s very own Allen Turner and President Koch ❤️ We recorded together remotely over two years ago, so it was lovely to thank him in person and tell him how he helped our creepy car game take off ❤️

I've been negotiating credit inclusion in my contracts, but only this week did someone link me the IGDA Game Crediting Guidelines! This is a GREAT reference for guidance and negotiation. Sharing it along for anyone else who didn't know this existed! igda.org/resources-ta... 👏👏 @igda.org

Dropped a new ep of @scriptlock.bsky.social yesterday w/ @karriebear.bsky.social & Ros Dachtler! 🔥 Lots of great discussions around who/what taught them the most about storytelling, things they've had to unlearn, changing games in response to fans, and more! scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/kar...

What a pleasure to talk writing and narrative with smarties @maxfolkman.bsky.social @nickfolkman.bsky.social and Ros Dachtler 🔥🔥 thank for having me @scriptlock.bsky.social!

I had a wonderful time talking narrative design to the brilliant talent in this year's She Got Game program via IGDA Switzerland! Any talk that incorporates Birdo is a good one imo 🤌 💖 Thanks for having me @stefonair.bsky.social @natashaskult.bsky.social @igda-ch.bsky.social ProHelvetia 💖

BAFTA is a vibrant, thoughtful, purpose-driven organization and getting to know it as part of last year's BAFTA Breakthrough class was a dream come true. I'm still reeling from the aftereffects of it. Applications for North America 2025 are open -- y'all should apply! www.bafta.org/programmes/b...

I'm not there any more, but my old narrative team in Beijing is hiring entry-to-mid-level narrative designers to work on casual mobile titles! The catch is you have to be willing to relocate to Beijing for a few years; I did and it worked out great for me! www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

Tokyo gamefriends 🤍 Lucas Pope, Shuhei Yoshida, Takashi Tokita, Seiji Tanaka, John Ricciardi, Karrie Shao @dukope.bsky.social @yosp-jp.bsky.social @toki0124.bsky.social @johntv.bsky.social @karriebear.bsky.social

HOMO-KUN 💀

I’m NOT at the Nebula Conference or Summer Games Fest this week due to being 6.5 weeks into my Asia trip Y’all have so much fun and I miss everyone tons ❤️

Honored to close out AAPI Heritage Month with @gamespot.com alongside such great company. Thank you @luckychanjr.bsky.social ❤️

🤍 Warm Kyoto night 🤍 Cozy pub videogames chat w @dylancuthbert.bsky.social @karriebear.bsky.social

HELLO KYOTO we’re back! I love this city. I love all the gamedevs in it. I love Y1000 - the super-charged Yakult. @karriebear.bsky.social wisely prefers Jumbo ice cream 🤍

Nebula Award voting closes in a few days! #SFWA members - give a look at Pacific Drive for best game writing! Game codes and recorded video of the story available at the link: 🧵 pacificdrivegame.carrd.co