Bertine van Hövell 🚂 AdventureX
@baroness.bsky.social
Petting cats, herding cats, vacuuming cats. Certified narrative tool.
🕵 Indie Dev
🖋 Freelance Game Designer and Writer
🎮 Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
✨DGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
🕸 www.lostagain.nl - DM open
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🕵 Indie Dev
🖋 Freelance Game Designer and Writer
🎮 Worked on Old Skies, Stellaris, At Eve's Wake and more
✨DGA Board Member - Consultant VAF
🕸 www.lostagain.nl - DM open
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she/zij
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Man, I just want to make video games and then
*gestures at the world*
yknow. Stuff.
*gestures at the world*
yknow. Stuff.
Hey everyone I met at AdventureX!
Could you please comment so I can follow you back 💜
Could you please comment so I can follow you back 💜
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Hey everyone I met at AdventureX!
Could you please comment so I can follow you back 💜
Could you please comment so I can follow you back 💜
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I'm still working on @iii-initiative.bsky.social.
It's been over 6 months since the showcase.
Is this a teaser? Who knows. DMs are open for devs & publishers.
✍ 🤝 🎮
Anyways, what does everybody have planned for 2026? 👀
It's been over 6 months since the showcase.
Is this a teaser? Who knows. DMs are open for devs & publishers.
✍ 🤝 🎮
Anyways, what does everybody have planned for 2026? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm still working on @iii-initiative.bsky.social.
It's been over 6 months since the showcase.
Is this a teaser? Who knows. DMs are open for devs & publishers.
✍ 🤝 🎮
Anyways, what does everybody have planned for 2026? 👀
It's been over 6 months since the showcase.
Is this a teaser? Who knows. DMs are open for devs & publishers.
✍ 🤝 🎮
Anyways, what does everybody have planned for 2026? 👀
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I'm really really struggling to find potential Sponsors for @limitbreak.co.uk at the moment
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
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Please fill in the following, and we will reach out with our most up to date sponsorship information.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm really really struggling to find potential Sponsors for @limitbreak.co.uk at the moment
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
I walk into a Korean restaurant and immediately the bad guy song from Kpop demon hunters plays
Look...
Look...
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I walk into a Korean restaurant and immediately the bad guy song from Kpop demon hunters plays
Look...
Look...
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AdventureX is off to a roaring start!
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
AdventureX is off to a roaring start!
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I think "fake it til' you make it" is genuinely a great bit of advice but people (understandably!) think it means "lie until you've duped everyone" when in reality it's much more "act like you belong here because you actually do and you need to get over yourself"
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I think "fake it til' you make it" is genuinely a great bit of advice but people (understandably!) think it means "lie until you've duped everyone" when in reality it's much more "act like you belong here because you actually do and you need to get over yourself"
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
One curious thing that helped me a lot in my freelance career is knowing a lot of other freelancers.
Being able to tell people "I'm not the most suitable person for this, but I know a guy/gal/pal who is" is a great way to present yourself as reliable and considerate, which'll take you very far
Being able to tell people "I'm not the most suitable person for this, but I know a guy/gal/pal who is" is a great way to present yourself as reliable and considerate, which'll take you very far
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
One curious thing that helped me a lot in my freelance career is knowing a lot of other freelancers.
Being able to tell people "I'm not the most suitable person for this, but I know a guy/gal/pal who is" is a great way to present yourself as reliable and considerate, which'll take you very far
Being able to tell people "I'm not the most suitable person for this, but I know a guy/gal/pal who is" is a great way to present yourself as reliable and considerate, which'll take you very far
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
Happy International Men's Day!
Use this opportunity to compliment a guy on their wear or style. You'll make their year.
Also guys are pretty rad and pretty and rad.
Use this opportunity to compliment a guy on their wear or style. You'll make their year.
Also guys are pretty rad and pretty and rad.
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy International Men's Day!
Use this opportunity to compliment a guy on their wear or style. You'll make their year.
Also guys are pretty rad and pretty and rad.
Use this opportunity to compliment a guy on their wear or style. You'll make their year.
Also guys are pretty rad and pretty and rad.
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If you're looking for kickass but often underlit games, I can recommend looking at game award nominations from different nations and regions. There's always something fun and innovative
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If you're looking for kickass but often underlit games, I can recommend looking at game award nominations from different nations and regions. There's always something fun and innovative
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
If you're looking for kickass but often underlit games, I can recommend looking at game award nominations from different nations and regions. There's always something fun and innovative
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If you're looking for kickass but often underlit games, I can recommend looking at game award nominations from different nations and regions. There's always something fun and innovative
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
This year's Dutch Game Awards has Grunn, Microtopia and RiftRiff as best game nomination. All very indie & great!
Aw man, that's such a shame. They're a bunch of lovely folks from what I've seen and the remake was fun.
Hopefully they can find a way out.
Hopefully they can find a way out.
Le studo 2.21 (derrière le remake de Little Big Adventure) a été placé en redressement judiciaire. C'était la Galère 3000 depuis la rupture avec Microids et personne n'a manifestement voulu financer leur projet de restauration du deuxième épisode.
www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonc...
www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonc...
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Aw man, that's such a shame. They're a bunch of lovely folks from what I've seen and the remake was fun.
Hopefully they can find a way out.
Hopefully they can find a way out.
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
I have an inherent distrust of any award show that nominates the same title in 3 or more categories. Irrational perhaps, but I'm so baffled at the winner-takes-it-all mentality of so many awards??
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have an inherent distrust of any award show that nominates the same title in 3 or more categories. Irrational perhaps, but I'm so baffled at the winner-takes-it-all mentality of so many awards??
I think one reason why games people are looking forward to the collapse of the AI bubble, despite it likely triggering a massive economic crash, is that we're basically already living post-crash.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I think one reason why games people are looking forward to the collapse of the AI bubble, despite it likely triggering a massive economic crash, is that we're basically already living post-crash.
I've been thinking about tutorialisation and I realised there's two types you might need to implement: one for playtests/demo and one for home play.
For demo it's important to get the player up to speed asap because of time limitations. But that's not the desired experience for playing at home.
For demo it's important to get the player up to speed asap because of time limitations. But that's not the desired experience for playing at home.
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I've been thinking about tutorialisation and I realised there's two types you might need to implement: one for playtests/demo and one for home play.
For demo it's important to get the player up to speed asap because of time limitations. But that's not the desired experience for playing at home.
For demo it's important to get the player up to speed asap because of time limitations. But that's not the desired experience for playing at home.
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🏆Nominaties Belgian Game Awards 🏆
Er zijn maar liefst negen VAF-gesteunde games genomineerd voor de Belgian Game Awards, de jaarlijkse prijsuitreiking waarmee het Belgische game-landschap wordt gevierd. Op woensdag 10 december worden de winnaars bekend gemaakt.
👉 Meer info over BGA: t.ly/cOCTx
Er zijn maar liefst negen VAF-gesteunde games genomineerd voor de Belgian Game Awards, de jaarlijkse prijsuitreiking waarmee het Belgische game-landschap wordt gevierd. Op woensdag 10 december worden de winnaars bekend gemaakt.
👉 Meer info over BGA: t.ly/cOCTx
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🏆Nominaties Belgian Game Awards 🏆
Er zijn maar liefst negen VAF-gesteunde games genomineerd voor de Belgian Game Awards, de jaarlijkse prijsuitreiking waarmee het Belgische game-landschap wordt gevierd. Op woensdag 10 december worden de winnaars bekend gemaakt.
👉 Meer info over BGA: t.ly/cOCTx
Er zijn maar liefst negen VAF-gesteunde games genomineerd voor de Belgian Game Awards, de jaarlijkse prijsuitreiking waarmee het Belgische game-landschap wordt gevierd. Op woensdag 10 december worden de winnaars bekend gemaakt.
👉 Meer info over BGA: t.ly/cOCTx
Death Note's real
PSA Do not vote for your favorite personality to win the Content Creator award at The Game Awards.
A bout of misfortune immediately follows a majority of the winners without fail.
A bout of misfortune immediately follows a majority of the winners without fail.
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Death Note's real
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Finally announcing our next game! DWG is built in my own game engine, Growl, and while it's hardly earth-shattering tech I'm really quite proud to be shipping something with it.
We're announcing our new game! Dave's Word Game is a brand new daily word puzzle. We've been building it over the last year and we think it's really fun. We're releasing it for free, on iOS and Android, on December 15th. Give us a follow to see more updates, we'll be sharing more very soon!
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Finally announcing our next game! DWG is built in my own game engine, Growl, and while it's hardly earth-shattering tech I'm really quite proud to be shipping something with it.
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The day before we left we stumbled on this shrine festival and you better believe I prayed my catholic little heart out for good business luck.
Good news: My schedule is open for narrative design, writing, and production work! Hit me up! 🐎
Good news: My schedule is open for narrative design, writing, and production work! Hit me up! 🐎
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The day before we left we stumbled on this shrine festival and you better believe I prayed my catholic little heart out for good business luck.
Good news: My schedule is open for narrative design, writing, and production work! Hit me up! 🐎
Good news: My schedule is open for narrative design, writing, and production work! Hit me up! 🐎
Hey hey not all game criticism is fucked. There's also "X is brilliant and here is why" 3 hour analysis video, 7 years after release
now that all the games press is gone, we only have the loudest gamers to rely on when trying to get a vibe of whether a game is good, which is extremely worse than nothing
all you hear about any game that comes out now is "it's shit" or "it's fucked" regardless of how shit or fucked it is
all you hear about any game that comes out now is "it's shit" or "it's fucked" regardless of how shit or fucked it is
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Hey hey not all game criticism is fucked. There's also "X is brilliant and here is why" 3 hour analysis video, 7 years after release
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with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
One of the thing I love about the people I play Delta Green with is that they turn a lot of the preset text into props like police reports.
We did discover that you can't chatgpt a police report for a investigative RPG; we got stuck on the randomly added details, despite vetting it. Lesson learned
We did discover that you can't chatgpt a police report for a investigative RPG; we got stuck on the randomly added details, despite vetting it. Lesson learned
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
One of the thing I love about the people I play Delta Green with is that they turn a lot of the preset text into props like police reports.
We did discover that you can't chatgpt a police report for a investigative RPG; we got stuck on the randomly added details, despite vetting it. Lesson learned
We did discover that you can't chatgpt a police report for a investigative RPG; we got stuck on the randomly added details, despite vetting it. Lesson learned
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There is something so wild about this assumed understanding that you *have* to spoonfeed mechanics and narrative to meet a broader audience (something anyone who has ever expo'd a game would probably agree with!) when faced with the way the biggest games in the world all extremely Do Not Do This.
I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There is something so wild about this assumed understanding that you *have* to spoonfeed mechanics and narrative to meet a broader audience (something anyone who has ever expo'd a game would probably agree with!) when faced with the way the biggest games in the world all extremely Do Not Do This.