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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 · 1d

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 · 2d

lol

Elissa @elissablack.com · 2d

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 · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

"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 · 7d

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

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 7d

Blog post: Returning to Vice City

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

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 · 9d

Thanks for making me nearly spit up my coffee.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

Yep.

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

Elissa @elissablack.com · 16d

For some reason this springs to mind...

MIT AI Incident Tracker

The MIT AI Incident Tracker project classifies real-world, reported incidents by risk domain, causal factors, and harm caused.

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 16d

For a grand total of 4 nanoseconds I thought Alanah had gone mad.

Good video. (The title is parody, if that wasn't clear.)

Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · 16d

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use!

youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

5 Secret Ways to Use ChatGPT Like an AI Pro (2025 easy prompt guide!)

YouTube video by Charalanahzard

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 17d

(Nothing is wrong with my old one, but I found the bloat of WordPress meant I really only used it for dev blogs or announcements.)

Elissa @elissablack.com · 17d

I started a new blog. I wanted something I could update easily using markdown, with static pages and nothing else.

So here's Good Name For A Blog, and a post about what I've been doing the past fortnight:

Writing Pulp

Part of my time in my recent two week micro-blogging absence has been spent writing. Quite a lot of writing, in fact. But also writing in a way that’s a bit different than my usual method. As I’ve bee...

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 17d

Hey there,

Been an indie dev here in Sydney for 15 years. Happy to chat and connect you with other folks too, if needed. Feel free to DM me.

Elissa @elissablack.com · 26d

Did an episode of the MicroProse podcast with @grumpygamer.com talking Death by Scrolling (and other things). It should be on other podcast services too.

Episode 3: Ron Gilbert's Death by Scrolling

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