🎮 Silvia Gaetano ☕

@meowstations.bsky.social

I handle comms in games | Safe In Our World & Pioneers of Game Dev Austria Ambassador 💜🎮 | 🗣️ 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇨🇳 She/Her (they/them ok) | Views mine, kinda fruity 🌈 kinda kinky 🤫 🔗 linktr.ee/meowstations

"All those devs being laid off should go indie and make games" Just go indie? Why don't I strap on my indie helmet, squeeze myself into an indie cannon, and fire off into Indieland, where indie funding grows on trees?

Jobland - It's always sunny in Philadelphia

Months of work, a lifetime of learning, but the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Courses program launches right now. Eight €40 courses launching 10 days apart, I aim to make the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars. courses.ramiismail.com

With regards to that last repost, reviews can mean a lot to smaller developers, so I'm gonna put out a little call to action. Everyone following me? DO THIS NOW! I'm asking for replies so more folks pick this up, and continue it. Please take this graphic and ask your followers to do the same!

"Goto your Steam™ library

Leave a review for a smaller game you like

Now tell me what it was"

There's a very crudely drawn Steam logo in the middle. In the bottom right, there's an even crudely-er drawn frog, and the sideways text reads "I am a graphic design terrorist"

CALLING ALL LOW BUDGET INDIE GAMES‼️ We're gathering games interested in participating in a "Low Budget, Big Heart" Steam Festival! 💰Self Published, Self Funded 🤏Under ~50k budget 🚫NO AI if you're interested in the festival sign up here: forms.gle/cndDrEf4rxiL... rts appreciated :)

Low Budget, Big Heart Steam Festival interest form

We're looking for interested developers of low budget games to participate in our potential steam festival! Self published/self funded games are also welcome. If your game had a development budget ov...

forms.gle

Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com

Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail

Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.

courses.ramiismail.com

I cannot recommend AAA folks going indie. It's brutal out here, funding is rough, and the processes that work in AAA do not translate to indie. If anyone that was laid off insists on going indie and wants to chat about the risks & complications, I'm always available for a chat or call.

today on “y’all need to learn that two things can be true at once” aircon is good and should be more easily accessible and affordable across Europe And we need to fix climate change yesterday because it should not be getting this hot in Europe and that is the bigger issue

Safe In Our World has published its first-ever public Impact Report for 2025 - 2026! ✨ Find out how we've been supporting the mental health of those who make video games, and those who play them. 💚

A promotional graphic showing three pages of the new Safe In Our World Impact Report for 2025 to 2026, with titles of the pages reading "Level Up Mental Health" and "A Mark of Excellence", and a gold sticker with text "out now". Banner at the bottom reads safe in our world dot org.

Hey #PitchYaGame Working on a roguelite ship survivor set in a magical bathtub full of monsters! 🌊 🛁 Bath bombs create dangerous new seas ⛵ Ships evolve into wild forms ⚔️ Buy weapons, hire crew, stack upgrades 🏝️ Choose when to evolve, since perks change with your ship

Hey #PitchYaGame Herdles is a Spyro- and Zelda-inspired adventure game where you play a magical dog! ☀️ A vibrant open world with ethereal dungeons! 🌈 No combat, no death - just cozy fun! 🐶 Dedicated bark button! ❤️ Inspired by our creative director's dog, Snoopy! Playtest live on Steam now!

Shocked & heartbroken to say Team17 PR & Events dept & thus my role have been made redundant. ✨Looking for new roles using my 15 years supporting projects & brands across Marketing, PR, Brand & Comms✨ I appreciate any help that comes my way. Dhia libh uilig💚 (More info in post under this)

Some key art from a few games I've worked on past couple of years (I have worked on a lot more these are just some highlights).
Featured are Date Everything!, Hell Let Loose Vietnam, Banquet for Fools, Lumentale, Alien Isolation and Worms franchise