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Elissa

@elissablack.com

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Makes games, shoots photos, does other stuff, etc. 🏳️‍🌈🧛🏻‍♀️ she/her Currently: Deck & Conn, Death by Scrolling, Dungeons of Freeport. The lesbian roadkill of the information superhighway.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · Aug 19

As those of you watching the GamesCom opening night would have seen already - DEATH BY SCROLLING has been announced! From @microprose.bsky.social, @terribletoybox.com and @grumpygamer.com (and me).

Death By Scrolling - Publishing Announcement

YouTube video by MicroProse

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 7h

Morning thoughts, enblogued: “there’s no rain on the internet”

There's No Rain on the Internet

A good friend of mine just made an observation: “We don’t have profit seeking capitalists anymore. They had a moral compass. Usually a fucked one but they had one. Now we have rent-seeking post-capita...

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 21h

I have advanced technology. Probably the most advanced technology imaginable for games. PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X, new gaming rig, Nintendo Switch 2.

And what do I play?

Tetris on an original Gameboy.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 2d

Interesting video [13m] on the ongoing practice of remaking and remastering video games.

Also briefly covers the way we as an industry are haemorrhaging veteran developers.

The “low risk” thing is particularly interesting.

Remakes Are Beating New Games, And It's NOT Nostalgia

YouTube video by Bellular News

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 2d

That was one. Another is one of the Haitian ones. Very fiddly.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 2d

Update to this blog post: I think I finally hit a wall re-playing vice city. Over half way through. Current open missions are too annoying (or too finicky and tough). Surprised how enjoyable I found most of it though.

Might fire up San Andreas at lunch…

Returning to Vice City

What follows is a sort of loose collection of thoughts I had during my current re-visit of 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Don’t expect some grand conclusion or an essay; just come with me on this...

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 4d

The Oatmeal did a comic on “AI art”. It’s good.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 4d

lol

Elissa @elissablack.com · 5d

Just did mine today at 6 months since my latest one. Going to guess around 700?

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 5d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 5d

Getting to contract another designer to help me flesh out and balance Dungeons of Freeport is 100% the best thing about getting the SNSW grant.

It’s already about twice as good for having another brain working at it.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 7d

The correct way to take coffee on a 30c day - the espresso & tonic.

A glass of a brown liquid with froth on top, trees out of focus behind it.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 8d

"I have no strong relationship to my save game" is the most beautiful and amusing sentence I've heard all morning. Wonderful metaphor for about 80 things.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 9d

In 2025, 90% of your limited gaming time is spent loading shaders.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 10d

Blog post: Returning to Vice City

Some notes playing through GTA Vice City over the last few weeks.

Returning to Vice City

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 12d

Thanks for making me nearly spit up my coffee.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 13d

My dad owned a second hand book store when I was growing up. Sounds like it was better than your end of it.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 13d

Blog post: on shooting digital AND film cameras.

Film and Digital

In the past four years or so, I went from having done a bit of photography in my past, to doing a lot of photography in my present. I went from owning merely a single beat-up rarely-used DSLR I’d owne...

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15d

Some important context I think people are missing is that Saudi Arabia *already* owns 10% of Electronic Arts. It's the company's third-largest institutional shareholder.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 16d

Honestly, the thing I’m most excited for in GTA VI is another sprawling virtual wilderness to lose myself in like Red Dead 2.

A person in a canoe, paddling past a flood water sign. Screen shot from GTA VI.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 16d

So I got a SXSW ticket and will float around there a bit, but that's about it.

Travel and video game development don't mix well, not when you're terminally doing too many projects.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 16d

Like last year, only more so, this year around All The Australian Games Events time, I am fucking busy.

I'm in the final stretches of one game's development, and at critical deadline points of two more.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 16d

Blog Post: Bathtub Soap Bubble OS.

Bathtub Soap Bubble OS

Like a lot of you, I recently upgraded (or downgraded, if you’re being unkind-but-fair) my iPhone OS to the new one, iOS 26, which has the biggest UI shakeup they’ve done for years. Gone is some varia...

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 18d

Blog post: "Everyone's a Critic but Me"

Everyone's a Critic but Me

Social media has a lot to answer for. Along with everything else truly terrible about it, we also have to suffer the indignities of the existence of Letterboxd. Beyond the horrid misspelling of the wo...

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 18d

Yep.

A playstation 2, jailbroken, playing Beyond Good & Evil on a Sony PVM display.