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4 years

this tweet is the only thing keeping me alive

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boys will literally start a game studio instead of going to therapy

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hey besties! the game i put 5 years of my life into is currently 7$ on steam. heads up - it's stange and perplexing and weird, and forces you to examine your humanity and fear of death and loneliness. if you like that sort of thing, you might enjoy it❤️

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yes

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you don’t need a game design degree to make games. you just need to be depressed

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2 years

releasing games is so funny. you're either scarred for life or you're scarred for life and rich

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3 years

the duality of gamedev: - oh yay a very personal thing we worked on for five years is being perceived - by gamers

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2 years

i'm looking for a 🤠 game writer 🤠 - focus on dialogue and character development - animal crossing-like game I’m consulting for - start date Dec/Jan - freelance full time contract for about a year RT and reach out in DMs for details! recommend your friends!

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everyone is like "making games is hard don't do it" but no one tells you about the indie grind of coming up with 3 new games and planning YEARS ahead while you're still making another game so you can actually survive as a studio. shit's wack

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1 year

made a list for my non-gamer artist friend who wants to make a game. what did i miss

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4 years

me: this can be done in two hours me in two hours: this can't be done in two hours

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4 years

someone accidentally reviewed me instead of my game

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a rare snap of a game developer in the wild

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4 years

nobody's talking about it so i will. making games is my dream job, and it really fucking sucks. over the course of 4 years, i have developed body dysphoria, debilitating anxiety that doesn't let me go outside, i became socially isolated and experience strong depersonalization.

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BABE WAKE UP backbone came out on this day 2 years ago to 60% review rating, and is now 65%!!! controversial masterpiece for people who don't like closure (aka NOT LOSERS!!!) happy birthday my baby my weird slightly ugly firstborn i am so proud of you

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starting an indie game dev studio is in fact very easy!! step 1 (one!) - start a studio!!!!! step 2(2) - cry and have insomnia for 5 years

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3 years

WE MADE A GAME AND IT IS ON IGN I AM DYING

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Join walking, talking, drunken raccoon Howard Lotor during a gameplay sequence from Backbone, a noir-inspired pixel-art detective adventure game due out later this year.

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3 years

pretty insane to me that even with 57% gamer rating on steam we all have retained our jobs, amazing salaries, unlimited holidays, and enough funding for two projects. seems nearly impossible

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2016: googling "how to write video game" 2021: releasing my very own video game script on june 8 for everyone to judge

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4 years

tw: hateful language directed at gamedevs but just look at this incredible specimen of dweeb

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3 years

the studio is basically on holiday till autumn starting next week?????? we have finished a video game????? WHAT THE FUCK

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@thetolerantweft never felt more seen dental hygienists are my enemies

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4 years

hi hello do you need money for your video game? pitch it to me for @KowloonNights ! ✨500k-5mil$ ✨self-publish ✨get $ from day 1 of sales ✨keep IP and full control ✨we help with platform deals DMs open ❤️

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3 years

I am deeply saddened by the normalization of public takes and criticism towards artists in the gaming space. pouring your soul into a creative project for many years during the world altering event is an impossible task. if you don’t like the result you can just simply shut up

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3 years

if you aren't happy single, you won't be happy taken. happiness comes from spending every waking hour of your tiny lifespan making a video game, not relationships.

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4 years

I see more and more small indie studios working on their first game hiring producers mid-project. we did the same with Backbone, after almost 3 years of development. you need a producer: a thread

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3 years

the more you embrace the innate cringe of being a person, the more freedom you have. once you obtain max lvl of cringe you can finally escape the prison of fleshy existence and be one with the sky bois

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Corey "Big Slice" Strobbe🪑

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I feel like almost everyone in this industry has some kind of long term career goal or an ideal end game of their career. My career end goal is to serve as a Game Director or Creative Director for the duration of at least 1 game. What’s yours?

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3 years

pitching a game // making a game

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3 years

you guys 🥲 we made a game

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4 years

i dream of building a studio where people can do whatever the fuck they want and live comfortably and work 25 hours p/week and have five side projects or none at all and it financially works and everyone is happy and that results in good games. CORPORATE EMANCIPATION if you will

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2 years

hi friends! I’m looking for a part-time game narrative job. I have 5+ years experience in the field, and wrote + directed Backbone. hire me if you need: ✨branching dialogues ✨plot outlines ✨worldbuilding and lore ✨professional editing pls RT and get in touch through DMs ❤️

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3 years

painted the best game item in the world from @BearBreakfast

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4 years

@AmongUsGame @thegameawards i know you wrote this tweet victoria and this alone makes me so happy

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7 months

IF i was writing a little time loop game...... what time loop movies/games are cool and i should check out?? (without mysoginy preferrably so don't say 12 minutes)

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3 years

my little raccoon man is on ninbendo swimch!!!! get it hereee

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7 months

goodbye eggnut. i loved you

Eggnut - Rebel Rush is OUT NOW

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4 years

the only possible response to this

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3 years

thinking about starting a podcast where i talk to game studio founders / directors and we share feelings and cry together. it's something i do anyway and the only thing that keeps me going, and i think recording it could help others too??

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@gracebruxner you are keeping me alive

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3 years

please buy a vieo game

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4 years

i am the boys

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4 years

games are the unlikely, perfect combination of art and craft. i'm heartbroken that the only way to "make it" into this industry is to put our lives on the altar and pray that we come out the other way more than just a shell of a human being. it's impossible, and yet we dream.

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my monthly salary over the years in the game studio i co-founded. my main jobs were/are game director, writer, bizdev, marketing: starting the studio, 2017 - 0 USD after kickstarter, 2018 - 1000 USD signed first game, 2019 - 2000-3000 USD signed second game, 2021 - 5000 USD

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there's also a prequel backstory, and the cool thing is that you can play them in any order! these characters and their stories mean the world to me. i hope more people get to experience them as we're all hurling towards the eventual end of existence

Tails Noir Preludes on Steam

Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through...

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4 years

I can’t stop thinking about this image. tag yourself

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3 years

my landlady dropped my rent price (can you IMAGINE) so i finally decided set up a cute permanent workspace of my dreams

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3 years

this might be too vulnerable for The Internet but the later stages of Backbone are written off my therapy journals at the time. i was completely lost and found my new self through writing, and it will always be very special to me

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4 years

every time i make a new gamedev friend, this is all we talk about - our shared hurt. we want to make art, we want to escape poverty, our teams are dependent on us, our parents are getting old, we are either immigrants or aspire to escape shitty places we were born into.

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3 years

I receive death threats on a weekly basis because my writing subverted gamers expectations. people get in touch with me terrified of releasing their games that are different from mainstream AAA shooters. fuck everyone who shaped this industry to be accepting of this behavior.

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2 years

the plan: to tattoo every silly animal from this account

weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !!

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armed and dangerous, england, 15th century

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@jesawyer the end of game industry

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3 years

my best and only skill is knocking on doors of people who know more than me. no matter the clout, jobs, years in the industry - people making games are mostly super warm, kind, and eager to help. don't miss out on connecting with peers and giving back!

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some people didn’t like the ending of Backbone, saying it was bleak, anticlimactic, and didn’t answer any questions. I wrote it. I was also born and raised in Russia. it could not have been any other way. 🧵

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#WhatAGameDevLooksLike I’m Alex, a Russian immigrant in the Netherlands. I’ve done lots of silly stuff from teaching English to selling sand, and now I run a diverse remote studio @eggnutgames , having written and directed our first game @backbonegame

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3 years

HELLOOOOOOO

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4 years

@beakfriends every time I see months spelled by their first letters I scream j a s o n dERULOOO

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3 years

I GOT MY VISA AND I CAN STAY IN EUROPE HAHHAahahHAHA

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4 years

hi #VisibleWoman i'm alex, a slavic upstart who decided she could just go and start a studio and write and direct a depressed raccoon video game @backbonegame . pls buy backbone this summer so i can dismantle capitalism with dollars thanks

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4 years

we dream of what life could be when it's not this. of just existing, without a deadline. of small things and acts of kindness. of love and companionship and real emotional vulnerability. of doing nothing, blissfully. we cry and laugh about how impossible it all sounds.

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i have a recurring dream about finding a person in the hole in the forest, cleaning them and teaching them how to speak, and then realizing they are me. they eventually learn how to replace me, and bury me back in the hole where i found them. now it's a tattoo with rats in hats

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2 years

i want to make games for the girls and the gays. this is my new reason to live i decided

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2 years

I only talk about the game during an event. Im working 2-3 days a week, nobody’s forcing me. i have hobbies, friends, bed is comfy, but im working. 3-4 hr days. two-hour nap per day. This is gaming. Hard work. Lunch, dinner, 2nd dinner maybe. U do it cause ya luv it

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3 years

i don’t have a choice i have to be a role model and an epic girlboss bc i am a visible woman in games running an indie studio

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i love my team and my job so much. i just don't like working

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im gonna make a game with my FRIENDS that is so SMALL

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fucking hell we did it

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3 years

the possibility of securing enough funding for years ahead when you just start is close to 0. you WILL NEED to go around and ask for money in predictable, safe cycles. that means creating an idea, pitch deck, prototype and all so it doesn't disrupt the current production cycle

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it was really difficult to get out of the mentality "backbone = me, alex" because it's such a personal project. but it's not. i felt unlovable, broken, wrong. but i'm not. it's just a video game. it will forever represent a huge part of my life, but there will be another

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3 years

oh my god what the fuck

The Independent Gamer: Post-Noir Detective RPG ‘Backbone’ Releasing in June, ‘Where the Heart...

Elsewhere, London-based Bossa Studios dropped a trailer for its aquatic adventure, 'I Am Fish.'

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bye Finya. I will see you in every white amorphous shape forever and never forget you. little immigrant boy who moved countries, my late night soothing buddy, chewing menace to all charging cables, yap machine, divine inspiration, gentle friend to all, big man.

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3 years

also after a month of mourning I want to declare that I really like Backbone and also myself

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4 years

stop liking this tweet and go make a game you depressed fucks

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3 years

while pitching is one of my favorite things to do, the amount of juggling with budgets, timelines, hiring predictions, sales data, market analysis is overwhelming not just for me (a bizdev), but for producers and creative leads especially. it's impossible, and yet we do it

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3 years

game industry is a rancid mysoginistic cesspool and there are many good people just trying to survive in the swamp. every time you put out an “opinion” or “review” you are punching down on an incredibly vulnerable group of people who might just decide to never make art again.

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4 years

every time I meet a person I vibe with

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3 years

to all my pogchamps and pissbabies, himbosimps and normie incels, i apologize. i girlboss posted on main and that was cringecore to say the least. i'm working hard to stop being a shitlib sigmalord and become the turbocharged mommydom gamer girl i know that i can be

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i've been playing Who's Lila by @HeathenGarage and it's one of the strangest creepiest little games. slavic twin peaks is what i dreamed of making myself one day, but here it is!! existing! in all its beauty

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4 years

ps: here’s a job posting I wrote to find Ishani and I still think it’s very good

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3 years

here is me almost-crying on camera talking about Backbone's release and how it made me feel (like a poopie). Harry was helped me not regret being very vulnerable, thank you so much

Overlode

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Weeks after the release of Backbone, director/writer @almightyplate spoke to @HarryIsLate about development during a pandemic, and its controversial reception 🦝🔎 @backbonegame @eggnutgames @RawFury Watch ▶️

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I don’t care about steam reviews I care about random chads hopping on the discord server saying this and then leaving

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me when u buy backbone

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here are some cute stats of @backbonegame after @luulubuu took over as a community director. we stan.

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9 months

gonna quickly pop to the shops from Gods (1991) on MSDOS anyone want anything

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2 years

i made my first 3d model today!!!! it's based on a google maps picture of my childhood apartment block. i want to model the whole thing eventually for a tiny game

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3 years

wrote something important

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1 year

my boyfriend made a little game and i'm in it! it's about a little man having a day and it's gonna be out soon !!! 😭❤️

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3 years

it’s been less than a day and I know I shouldn’t vent on socials but people are comparing the ending of Backbone to NGE and Mulholland Drive as a negative and I can’t believe that we made a game that would warrant this. fuck yeah

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3 years

she consumed 20 chicken nuggets

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4 years

if you laughed at this then you have to follow @gracebruxner and play her vidya games frog detective 1 and frog detective 2

Save 45% on Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard on Steam

You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.

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3 years

genuinely the best review i have ever read on backbone. what a thoughtful person i hope they have a great life

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4 years

all my life I’ve been shamed for being an irritating upstart. every piece of success I got was due to me slamming on someone’s door and asking “can I work for you?”. ladies, be the annoying bitch of your dreams.

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3 years

hahahahhahaha fuck

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2 years

for real though can anyone direct me to a person who released a Video Game and went "yeah that was neat! onto the next one!" - i wanna talk

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