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Cara Ellison

@caraellison.bsky.social

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I’m from Scotland, live in Scotland, and design the stories for videogames, many of which you have heard of. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 1d

people always sound surprised when they click on my website that it’s not just some dull Wordpress situ and I never know what to do about that hahah

thembo "shifting into spook mode" volante @thembovolante.bsky.social · 2d

holy shit, the website fucks

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

slut shaming but make it ✨ feminist ✨

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 7h

it ruins my day

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 5d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 7h

Increasingly thinking this might be the game about how to dismantle the Torment Nexus

Project KVASIR - Wishlist NOW! @projectkvasir.bsky.social · Feb 4

We are Project KVASIR:

- STEALTH into secured sites, get in & out unnoticed
- ACT when things go sideways
- INTERACT with environment to turn the odds in your favor
-INVESTIGATE corp secrets that're swept under the carpet

🔊👉WISHLIST: store.steampowered.com/app/3285390/Project_KVASIR/

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 7h

quiet as anything

Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 7h

but Merritt being a writer is so glamorous 🤩🤩🤩

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 8h

It’s a miracle I still find work in this industry; I think if I had not stumbled upon games about Doing Crimes I’d be long gone

Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 8h

I fear my tolerance is much lower than even this

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 8h

the excruciating minutiae of the medieval day is not something most medieval people would be interested in when *they’re* going about their day, so why is a loremaster taking great pains to explain it to me im going madddddd

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 9h

yeah I mean I don’t understand why people like it, obviously some people are better at writing it than others but ‘because magic’ is so often an excuse for more Proper Noun soup. The only fantasy properties I like are Witcher and Pratchett

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 9h

I agree but I also hate Proper Noun soup as well I’d rather just have a grounded world where stuff is described as mundane even if it’s not to the reader

Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 9h

please do not sire any more failsons I have had it with you lot

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 9h

I absolutely cannot stand fantasy lore in pretty much anything. I even thought game of thrones was pretty stupid when it got to dragons and magic. History is only cool when you bow down to the immediacy of it and I don’t have to hear about 3 pages of who the heck is married to whom

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 10h

Congrats!!!!!

Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 12h

WHAT

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

I spent two days with Platner and, as you’ll read, was as impressed by his theory of power as I was by his policies. I think it’s FAR more important than the “how do you talk to Trump voters” question.

Platner draws a distinction between the Trump voters who might still be convinced to rise up against the real elites, and the Trump enablers who've grown rich and powerful by backing him. "I'm not going to go down to Washington, have some conversations in a back room with somebody, and convince them that being a corrupt corporate scumbag is bad," he says at the house party. It is his third campaign event ever and has about 50 people in attendance.
To him, persuasion is a dead end if the people you're trying to sway have already torched the rulebook. Power, as he sees it, is the ability to ignore the referee and keep scoring. His goal isn't to negotiate-it's to demonstrate what a candidate backed by a real movement can do. "It's not about getting me elected. It's not about getting anybody elected in many ways. It's about using all of this as a mechanism of building working class power.”

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 13h

I have personally never eaten something good there. My opinion is that the Romans should have made more of an effort to make some of their nice supply line roads further north of the Antonine Wall

Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 13h

These are the good tips I need

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Sarah M 🌈🍉🌻 @braverobynart.bsky.social · 13h

Hi hello #portfolioDay! Im Sarah, a snr concept artist in games, indi Dev, freelance #cartographer & #TTRPG designer from Scotland. I love being an artist and over the last 15 years I’ve worked on projects like #DeathsDoor, #SpyroReignited, Possessor(s), Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns & more!

A shipwreck on a mountain top, with a Japanese-style noodle bar inside.

Secret area of deaths door. a ruined templed inside a cave covered in snow.

Exterior and interior concepts for an old rundown bar with stained glass. Inside is a smokie dive with lots of plants and hanging cages for different creatures.

Flooded street with a character skating over the water, ruined buildings and tech to either side of the street. Large trees grow through old buildings.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 13h

The mythical beast that is ‘ok scran’ in the Inverness area

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 13h

Has anyone ever eaten a good meal in Inverness. I’m beginning to think the answer is no

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences @official-aias.bsky.social · 13h

We're excited to open submissions for the 29th Annual #DICEAwards!

Deadline to enter: Dec 5, 2025 at 5pm PT

Submit your 2025 games ASAP and be recognized among your peers currently working in games!

Enter now: www.interactive.org

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AndresPlays🎮🦇 @andresplays.bsky.social · 14h

Wrote about the demo of Dread Meridian, currently available for Steam Next Fest. An upcoming VR survival horror adventure, it hits all the right notes.

Dread Meridian Demo Hands-On: Body Horror Thrills In Spades

Dread Meridian, an upcoming VR survival horror game, just released a Steam Next Fest demo.

www.uploadvr.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Brian Mitsoda @bmitsoda.bsky.social · 23h

I don't really do social media anymore, but I have answered some common questions here on my site: bmitsoda.com/blog/what-im...

What I’m Up To -2025 FAQ — bmitsoda

Had some common questions come up recently and just wanted to write them all in the same place. What have you shipped recently? Since 2020, I’ve co-written Fermi Paradox , co-wrote & did ...

bmitsoda.com

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