Alexis De Girolami
@vernavenisa.bsky.social
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. I make games and write smoochy books. She/her
Want to come work with @twoscooters.bsky.social and I on a fun cute game? We have freelance roles open! Our team is lovely! We're in need of: A narrative focused designer - apply.workable.com/electric-squ... And an animator - apply.workable.com/electric-squ...
Freelance Animator, Lively, UK - Electric Square
At Lively, we pride ourselves on making games full of character. The world is fun and silly and sad and infuriating and banal and beautiful and ugly, and all of those things have a place in our games....
apply.workable.com
Want to come work with @twoscooters.bsky.social and I on a fun cute game? We have freelance roles open! Our team is lovely! We're in need of: A narrative focused designer - apply.workable.com/electric-squ... And an animator - apply.workable.com/electric-squ...
Freelance Animator, Lively, UK - Electric Square
At Lively, we pride ourselves on making games full of character. The world is fun and silly and sad and infuriating and banal and beautiful and ugly, and all of those things have a place in our games....
apply.workable.com
In case anyone has been interested in (one of the multipleeeee) things Elizabeth and I have been up to for the past few years aaaaaaa
Elizabeth Sampat@twoscooters.bsky.social · last mo.Three years ago I met Pusheen at a licensing event and asked if they ever considered making a game. Then @vernavenisa.bsky.social and I spent a year refining the concept for Apple and Pusheen. Then @gains-skeets.bsky.social spent a couple years making it with an awesome team and here we are!!
you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana
It’s a field of design where the goal is to specifically and explicitly add friction to an experience.
Keith Evans@kaynsd.itch.io · 2mo agoThe smartest designer I know has said that game design is one of the only fields where we purposely try to create problems for our users.
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not
Oh you think it's "cool" to do a heist? To assemble a crew of specialists, each with a unique backstory, to create a beautiful ballet of theft? You think it's "cool" to purloin beautiful treasures under several redundant layers of security? You people sicken me. Next you're gonna say you use drugs.
I just remembered the other day when @twoscooters.bsky.social called Nobu "Applebees for rich people" and I'm still laughing
You know that Mario party minigame where everyone has to run to a platform on the board and, round by round, the platform you’re standing on may or may drop out from under you and it repeats over and over until there’s no one left? Working in games feels a lot like that these days.
i can't stop thinking about jd vance laysplaining st augustine to the pope
I can confidently say that I have never once in my whole career worked with someone so indispensable that we actually needed to put up with drama queen asshole bullshit. Giving your team (and yourself) a functional work environment is priceless.
Alan Au@alanau.bsky.social · 6mo agoI don't know who needs to hear this, but there's no amount of capability that justifies being an awful human. The bar for being a decent human is already pretty low. If you can't clear that, I don't care how capable you are. I can certainly find someone *nearly* as capable who isn't a shitbag.
Work: "We want you to use this tool cause it's great and awesome!" Also Work: "The tool broke? No I'm not going to HELP you with that. Maybe you're an idiot, have you considered that? Why are you even using that tool anyway? You stupid idiot."
hearing some early reporting that this is because girls go to college to get more knowledge and boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider
Global News@globalnews.ca · 7mo agoThe Statistics Canada data also found that across the next 10 years, “over 80 per cent of new job openings arising from economic growth are projected to be mainly in management positions and in those that usually require post-secondary education.” globalnews.ca/news/1174524...
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
You guys. This just happened 😳This falcon/eagle works scaring away and hunting pigeons to keep Harrods clean.
Nemone7@nemone7.bsky.social · 7mo agoI forgot to tell you all. The other morning, as my very early bus approached the Thames, I saw one of the London falcons, circling above the city. I felt so lucky!
Good luck to everyone in Chicago going to vote today
If you worked on a game you should get a credit. That's where the conversation should end.
My dad can never remember Timothée Chalamet’s name and calls him “that little French boy” like he’s a drummer in Napoleon's army or a haunted marionette.
I only have a top 5 but I love them so much: 1. Metal pen @twoscooters.bsky.social got me at a Marina Abramovic exhibit - former fave, sadly now out of ink 2. 0.5mm Uniball One - writes so smooth, current fave 3. Tombow Calligraphy pen 4. Pilot Juice Up 0.4mm 5. Uni Jetstream 0.5mm
when someone says “great job team” but you’re the only one who actually did anything.
And he didn’t even make more modeling anyhow… This is a deep cut 😂
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8mo agoyou know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe
Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.
well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
My regular quiz pub has branded glasses now and I’m having a moral dilemma about borrowing one… forever.