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Svenja
@bardcode.bsky.social
👩🏼‍💻 Game/Narrative Designer & Programmer
🎮 Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice ▾ Goodbye Deponia ▾ Ghost Patrol ▾ Tattoo Tycoon ▾ The Regreening
🎭 Writing & directing for the stage
🧒🏼👶🏻 Mother of dragons
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Re-introduction and update: Hi, I am a game & narrative designer and programmer from Hamburg, looking for work in and outside of the industry! Next to games, I love the theatre, all kinds of story telling, sciency things, silly things and goofing around with my kids!
Sorry about my tardiness - here is my #gamedev intro:
I'm a game & narrative designer at CrazyBunch (Hamburg, GER), where I also wear the hats of game writer, sometimes programmer and social media person. We were responsible for that Leisure Suit Larry reboot the world didn't need or ask for.
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The Regreening is a cozy simulation game about restoring nature in a soilpunk fairytale 🌾

🌱grow plants to create living ecosystems
🦉become friends with ancient spirits
🛠️make your own upcycling hub
🤗and hug ALL the animals!

Follow us so you don't miss the demo!
Thank you #PitchYaGame <3
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
After doom scrolling through job descriptions for hours without blinking, one thing keeps preying on my mind: Can one really be "passionate about databases"? No kink shaming, just curious.
October 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My advisor at the unemployment agency just told me: "Things look pretty shitty in your industry, eh?" and then we both laughed for like ten minutes and that was our whole meeting.
October 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The Regreening is part of the @wholesomegames.com Celebration!!🌸✨

It's a lovely Steam event that runs August 7-14 and brings together handpicked wholesome games from around the world.

The line-up is soooo great, make sure to check it out ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡
store.steampowered.com/sale/wholeso...
August 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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German Games community!! Reply to this post with your games participating in 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 and let's connecttt 💪🌻🌿✨

We're working on The Regreening: bit.ly/TheRegreening

#IndieGame #IndieGames #Germany #Steam
July 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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⚠️ A NOTE ABOUT ITCH.IO ⚠️

Dear #GameDev: I'm not going to pretend I know all the details, or that I should be considered an expert, but we need to talk about this situation. 🧵

P.S. - Jump to the end of the thread for what you personally can do to help address the situation.
July 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The project I've been working on these last couple of months! ☘️
Cozy #PitchYaGame unite!

The Regreening is a cozy nature-restoration game about healing🌾

🌱grow living ecosystems
🦉become friends with ancient spirits
🔥 share stories by the bonfire
💧 engineer water & land to make nature thrive
🌿 watch the world bloom again

Follow us so you don't miss the demo!
June 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The game I'm currently working on will be available for playtesting on Thursday! Drop by the @cozy-impact.bsky.social station and I'll tell you more about it! 🤩
🚀 Game Playtest Night will be back on April 10 at XPERION Hamburg! 🎮 Showcase your upcoming game, get feedback from test players & refine your project.

📅 April 10, 18:30–21:30
📍 XPERION Hamburg
🎮 Apply until March 31!

👉 More info & application:
gamecity-hamburg.de/events/game-...
April 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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🔥UPDATE:🔥 Developers can apply for the Game Playtest Night #3 with their game until Sunday, April 6. Don't miss this chance to gather feedback from your target group!

If you want to join us as a play tester on April 10 at XPERION Hamburg, just click here: www.eventbrite.de/e/game-playt...
🚀 Game Playtest Night will be back on April 10 at XPERION Hamburg! 🎮 Showcase your upcoming game, get feedback from test players & refine your project.

📅 April 10, 18:30–21:30
📍 XPERION Hamburg
🎮 Apply until March 31!

👉 More info & application:
gamecity-hamburg.de/events/game-...
April 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Kleiner Funfact: Weil die CDU in ihrer kleinen Anfrage auch @gabrielakeller.bsky.social und meine Recherche zu den "Rechtstreibern in der CDU" erwähnte, hat sich das Publikum für diesen Artikel noch mal vergrößert.
Prognose: Wir überschreiten bald die 500 000 Zugriffe correctiv.org/aktuelles/pa...
Die Rechtstreiber der CDU
Einige Wirtschaftslobbyisten und Denkfabriken untergraben aktiv die Brandmauer. Der nächste mögliche Tabubruch: eine Minderheitsregierung
correctiv.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Join the Hamburg Indie Treff next week on February 11 from 7 pm at the SAE Institute Hamburg.
Meet wonderful people from the (Hamburg) indie game scene, check out new games and demos at the game stations, and listen to a talk by game artist Nadja Clauberg on “Coziness". Admission is free. 🙌
✨SAVE THE DATE✨

We are exited for the first Indie Treff in 2025🥳
Join us on Feb. 11th for an awesome talk, great networking and cool games to play!
More infos will follow.

See you there! 🎉
February 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Today I raise my glass to whomever was in charge of picking the thumbnail for this one.
January 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If you think Game Design experience is useless in RL, wait until your kid asks you how to animate shit in geometry dash
January 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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This amazing talk awaits you at the next Indie Treff 🥳
Feb 11th | 19h

„Coziness“ - what it means and how to apply it to games and artworks

Nadja Clauberg
January 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Kommt rum!
Gleich wird wieder gestreamt, und zwar:
Wir gucken Concept Art von Leisure Suit Larry (Teil 2) durch!

youtube.com/live/G6GxiNQ...
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams dry twice! - concept art stream
YouTube video by Johannes Lott - Illustration
youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Gerade aus Versehen das Wort "Sensoren" gegendert und mich gefragt, ob Dieter Nuhr dabei irgendwo von einem diffusen Schauer heimgesucht wurde.
January 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Letztens habe ich im Adventurepodcast mit @bardcode.bsky.social über Loco Motive gesprochen. Stargast @domschott.bsky.social war auch dabei - und der hat jetzt den Komponisten des Spiels zum Interview gehabt, Paul Zimmermann:

okcool.space/wie-macht-ma...
Wie macht man gute Musik für ein Point'n'Click-Adventure? (Der Gast weiß es): OK COOL trifft Paul Zimmermann - OK COOL
Paul Zimmermann ist waschechter Komponist und schrieb schon für einige Spiele hübsche Soundtracks. Sein neuster Wurf ist nun zufälligerweise die Musik für eines der Lieblingsspiele 2024 von Gastgeber ...
okcool.space
January 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The donut volcanoe!!!! I think we've all been there...
5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:
January 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Switch on sound for maximum effect
RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999)
January 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Go home, rainbow. You're drunk.
January 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ich hab mal wieder das Mikro in den Kleiderschrank gestellt und war zu Gast bei "Benutze Ohr mit Lautsprecher"!
Folge 27 im Adventurepodcast:

Es geht um "Loco Motive", das höchst sympathische Spiel über einen mysteriösen Mord in einem Zug.

@bardcode.bsky.social war wieder mal mit dabei und auch Überraschungsgast @domschott.bsky.social! :)

adventurepodcast.de/folge-27-loc...
Folge 27: Loco Motive – Benutze Ohr mit Lautsprecher
adventurepodcast.de
January 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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why the fuck would i want realistic graphics. i can see real things just by opening my fucking eyes. i want to see 1000 different interpretations of the world. show me what makes each thing a thing
January 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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You can follow Goethe on Amazon Kindl in case he drops a new banger...
January 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I look for reasons why anything in the game happens, but folks, I invent them all!! The real reasons are super boring!
Game Director: I tell people how to do their job even though all of them know better how to do their job than I do.
December 31, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I have found my first grey hair. What's the protocol for this? Do I get +1 Wisdom?
December 31, 2024 at 9:17 AM