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Composer & Music Designer 🎼 she/her✨ Mythmatch / Wax Heads / Building Relationships / Mail Time BAFTA Connect 🎮 📍 Nottingham, UK 🕸️ www.ginaloughlin.com 💌 [email protected]

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · Sep 4

gonna start posting here more so thought i’d reintroduce myself 👋

hello!! i’m gina, a freelance composer & music designer for indies 🎶👾

my most recent release was Mail Time 🍄 and these are the v cool games i’m working on atm 👀

cover art for Mail Time
showing a Mail Scout with a Mushroom hat frolicking through a yellow flower field

cover art for Mythmatch
showing Artemis on the left, a Chimera on the right and Mount Olympus in the background

cover art for Wax Heads
showing the character Nia behind a vinyl deck in a record store

cover art for Building Relationships
showing a pixelated building next to the text ‘a silly adventure game about a house on a date’

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miles @milesmorkri.bsky.social · 1d

septuplets but it’s 3+4 and not 4+3

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 1d

haha you are not perpetually online like me

(which is a compliment!!)

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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 2d

Still looking for work, it's looking like full-time work may not happen for awhile so I am open to taking on Freelance work if anyone happens to need some 3D Assets. I'm available as soon as possible. Thanks❤️
nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

Natalie Spitzel

Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work

nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

haha u are very welcome!! 😂❤️

gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

ahhh glad to hear that!! ❤️❤️

gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

feeling validated by this comment

gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 3d

u are right!! 😤

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 3d

HOT TAKE: Sometimes, I feel like the people saying this mean why isn't anyone with lots of power covering my game. When smaller folks ARE covering indie games and you're not uplifting them. You just want others to lift you up without giving back to the community.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 3d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Tanat Boozayaangool 🔜 MIGW @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 3d

highlight of my professional game dev career

a twink in mesh green shirt on stage with slides in the back that says "I'm a fa***t and this is a game for fa**ots" with pictures of said twink pole dancing

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 3d

anyways pls WISHLIST THE GAME there's gonna be a bunch of fun music and also it's just an incredibly cool game

thank u 😇

store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/...

Wax Heads on Steam

Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about managing a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and thei...

store.steampowered.com

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 3d

big thanks to @helenlynchmusic.bsky.social who so kindly gifted me this tin whistle last year!!! 💖 so happy im finally getting to use it in a project hehe

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 3d

everyone: wax heads is a punk game!!! 🤘😈🔥
me: ............

#gameaudio #indiedev

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 3d

happy birthday!!! ✨

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Alex ✰ @alexbestie.com.au · 3d

The houses fucking game by @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com is fucking the best fucking thing i’ve ever fucking seen

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Infloresce Records @infloresce.com · 4d

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

🌸🔬🎶

SNOWDROP FESTIVAL 2025

We're hosting our 4th annual festival on Dec 13—celebrating the music made by the digital fusion community & adjacent scenes in 2025. All are welcome to participate!

Submission form & rules:
infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025-submission-form

Snowdrop Festival 2025—Submission Form

Snowdrop Festival is back! Infloresce Records is hosting a virtual concert on December 13, showcasing 4 hours of music made in 2025. We can't wait to celebrate everyone's amazing art made in the last...

infloresce.com

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 4d

hey! have replied to your message on linkedin! :)

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 5d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 5d

mullet got 😌

selfie of me looking into the camera. i have a choppy pinky-purpley mullet and a pink & purple shirt on

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 6d

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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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 6d

yesss i’m hoping to get to some too! they seem to do a lot online too which is v convenient 🙏

also…. the green giant?! like the sweetcorn advert? 😂 of course i know that!!

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 6d

hell yeah hell yeah!!

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 6d

oop sorry missed this! i don’t think you have to record them in any specific way?! 😅 i don’t really know what i’m doing lol but we wanted to try this setup and it sounded good so we went with it haha

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 6d

yessss

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 6d

like 8yrs ago in uni someone asked me if i would play accordion in orchestra for a piece they were doing bcos i played piano (?? lol) and i obviously said YES and i practiced my butt off for this concert and it was sooo much fun and i have wanted one ever since... i must HONK