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izzy kestrel

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🎮 game designer/engineer (prev Astra Logical, No Goblin, Funomena) 🏳️‍⚧️ trans poly bisexual she/her 📍 madison, wi 🦎 gex’s #1 fan iznaut.com

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · Aug 13

hi hello my husband recently accepted a job in Victoria, BC so we are hoping to immigrate to Canada before the year is over

soooo i will be leaving my in-office IT job and be out of work again. shares and job leads welcome!

izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · Jan 29

hi i’m izzy, i am a game designer and programmer that likes making tools to support ppl’s cool projects. i’m also good at writing and a bunch of other stuff probably idk iznaut.com

izzy kestrel - game designer

game dev portfolio for isabelle adena kestrel

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 4h

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · Jun 21

me listening to music with my ears: that’s music to my ears

izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 13h

every time i turn on this game and try to play an actual level the kid just says “egg kirby egg kirby” until i go play this minigame

izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 14h

DEVICE 6 Switch port plz

Simogo @simogo.com · 4d

SIMOGO 15TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
October 28, 2025
Please join us for a celebration full of news and surprises. See you!

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 15h

it was my edgy era. i love gex but he ain’t packing heat

izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 1d

got some new airpods

my bluetooth devices list with my old airpods (izzy’s AirPods) next to my new ones (Shadow The Hedgehog’s AirPods)

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · Dec 23

fun fact about me: when i first got an iPhone i asked Siri to refer to me as Shadow the Hedgehog and couldn’t figure out how to undo it so it’s still my nickname in my phone today

my contact page with a photo of me

“SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG • SHE, HER, HERS
izzy kestrel”

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 7d

me trying to fall asleep:

my brain: “i am gonna claw out your eyes…and drown you”

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 2d

so to stop doing this move i have to hold my controller tight enough that the shell stops vibrating. hilarious

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 2d

i finally searched it and the result is pretty incredible. i guess bc it was a Wii game originally you could shake the controller to use this ability, but if you have a third party Switch controller it can mistake the vibration (which amps up when Super Inhale) as input to keep doing it

I get stuck inhaling when I try to inhale the large grey star blocks. How can I stop this?
Whenever I try to inhale the large grey blocks, kirby gets stuck in the inhale animation until he: swallows a food item, an enemy, or another player.
Checking on Reddit, others who have experienced this issue seem to all be using a third party controller, however, I also got this issue happening on my joycons as well (though I mainly use a third party, Gulikit Kingkong 2 Pro due to drift).
One of the Reddit users found a solution that worked for them, which was to hold the B button for a second or two, however, it did not seem to work with me. Does anyone have ideas and/or a solution?

HorseFang 7 - 1 year ago - report
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Try shaking your Joy-Cons as you're inhaling them. Maybe that might solve the issue.

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Hey, I'm using an 8BitDo Ultimate controller, and I was having the same issue you have. But I figured it out. The rumble and the motion controls don't play nice with each other. You can shake your controller to go into super inhale mode faster. But since super inhaling also produces rumbling on your controller, it basically tricks your controller into thinking that you're shaking it yourself, causing you to stay in super inhale mode until one of those stops. You can easily solve this issue by disabling either rumble or motion controls on your controller. I don't believe you need motion controls in the Switch version: they've kind of made it

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 2d

did pretty much everything worth doing in Forgotten Land so i picked up Return to Dreamland Deluxe

and for the first couple times i played i was so confused by the Super Inhale ability. i’d start it and just could not figure out how to stop it, to the point i’d keep dying on autoscrollers

izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 27d

been playing Kirby and the Forgotten Land while the kid watches and they are completely obsessed with Kirby now, as expected

i bounced off this one when it came out so it’s been nice to come back to it with the Switch 2 upgrade (tho i couldn’t tell you if it actually looks that much better lol)

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 2d

i’m drinking Red Bull

i’m playing Tetris

i’m at the combination Red Bull and Tetris

a pop up booth next to my bus stop that appears to be giant Red Bull themed Tetris

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 3d

Went out for groceries, came home to this

Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 3d

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 3d

*checks smeared notes written on hand*

congrats

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 3d

a weapon to surpass Crazy Frog…

izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 4d

always

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 4d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 4d

clickbait headline based only on video thumbnail: Mother 3 Babies Speculation Arises From Baby Lucas Video

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 4d

...Nintendo of Japan just uploaded a random animated short with no context?

Close to you

YouTube video by Nintendo 公式チャンネル

youtu.be

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 4d

all three of these whip

NamaTakahashi(生高橋) @namataka.bsky.social · 5d

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 5d

In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 5d

paradise lost? found it!

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 5d

come be a senior QA analyst and send me bugs, puff up that jira bro

Gravity Well @gravitywell.games · 5d

Gravity Well is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join our team! 🎮👾

If you've got sharp testing skills, a passion for video games, and experience with QA efforts, we want to hear from you!

Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...