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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW

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🙋🏻 pt bizdev/marketing director @summerfallstudios.com 🔑 bizdev & production consultant 💜 ex @wearevicscreen 🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz 💌 curator for indiedigest.dev 🦋 she/her 🎮 merryh.dev

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hi new Bluesky friends!

Here’s a mini intro from me - I’m a business developer, marketer and producer from Melbourne, Australia. I’ve been in indie games for 8ish yrs now, currently at @summerfallstudios.bsky.social, & previously led production at @strangescaffold.bsky.social & Aconite (HoloVista).

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 8h

You’re a legend, I found some, thank you!

meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 1d

You’re a legend I’m not even booting I’m just so sore hahaha so I’ll grab some soon

meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 1d

IVE BEEN REVEALED

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 1d

if you’re at pax and have panadol for my weary bones you legally have to give some to me

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 2d

I found it!!!

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 2d

If u see a tiny purple camera with a beautiful keychain at parallels pls come find me 🙏🙂‍↕️

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 8d

Make sure you come along to this! Going to be a super valuable session.

Lewis Speller @dysonism.lol · 17d

The second PlayStation Indie Partners session is on the Wednesday morning of MIGW, and has been made possible with the help of our friends at VicScreen. Applications to attend this event can be submitted at the following link.

forms.cloud.microsoft/r/yaJQN4gJ6r

Microsoft Forms

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Lewis Speller @dysonism.lol · 17d

Microsoft Forms

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 8d

It's so so so so good hahaha.

meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 8d

You'll pay for this!!!!!! (in reality, I now get Paid for this, and it's YOUR FAULT)

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 8d

hell yeah legend

meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 9d

Johan is personally responsible for my grades for two years and probably my career. Great game.

Johan Peitz - wishlist Icy Tower! @johanpeitz.com · 10d

📣 ICY TOWER IS COMING BACK
Stoked to announce that we're making a brand new Icy Tower game, ready for the 25th anniversary next year!

Check out the trailer, spread the news, and wishlist on Steam :D
s.team/a/3014860

More in thread 👇🧵

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

you're so fine, sorry I couldn't get it in this send!

meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

you're the sweetest!!

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Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT October 24!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com · 10d

It's time... the candles are lit... 🕯️

Our exorcism roguelite Malys is coming OUT of Early Access into 1.0 on the 24th of October!

There's so much more to discover, including the FULL story as penned by David Gaider, more demons, more cards, and more content.

The title for Malys in an inky red on a black background, below are the words: V1.0 releasing this October.

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Studio Folly — DOGPILE!!! @folly.studio · 10d

Announcing... DOGPILE!!! ✨🦴

Dogpile is a roguelike deckbuilder about merging DOGS. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS!

Free demo is live on Steam, WISHLIST NOW!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3839300/...

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

Like Jason says, I don't know that there's a solution, and I think it's part of a much bigger suite of problems, but I also think we have to keep trying. So come find me please and let's talk about it okay thank you love you all very much. Whenever I have a take online I know I need to log off.

meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

There is no point to this post, it's just something I think about a lot in terms of games and audience and the conversations we have, and I want to talk about it more.

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

There are too many games. There are too many good games. There are too many great games. What you make might be commercially insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Because for the one person who finds it, works to try, and is moved by it, that investment will buoy them forward.

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

Or, you'll sit on your phone and doomscroll because the idea of doing the emotional work to choose between the 20/21% time spend feels harder than doing the thing itself. You languish in the not-making of a decision, because of decision fatigue and emotional drain.

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

You will play the 60 hour game if you feel it will give you 60 hours worth of feeling the thing you desire to feel right now. You will play that 60 hour game for hundreds of hours if it continues to scratch that itch.

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

Doing that work to decide in an attention economy, while witnessing a genocide, while balancing your own personal challenges and struggles, is too much to ask of a lot of people right now. So we play the things everyone agrees are worth it because we trust our emotional investment will pay off.

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

It is no wonder we are disconnected, frustrated, exhausted, irritated. There is not only too many games, but there is too much of everything, and much of it is truly genuinely worth an individuals time, but discerning what requires 20% of your heart vs 21% is near impossible without work.

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

The champions of each entertainment media - theatre, music, games, film, TV - are people who know that it serves them an emotional outcome overall, and are connected to being in the know and aware in those spaces, so the emotional input is worth it even if the experience (of a show or game) isn't.

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 10d

We're in the sequel era because our emotional bandwidth has been deeply eroded. It's not that new IP can't succeed, it's that it is asking you to trust it will be worth it, and few have that emotional bandwidth right now. Extend that to the emotional demands more broadly on an individual.

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