Iszac!
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Producer & Writer for games Artist & shitposter for fun The Game Awards Future Class 2024 (he/him) 🇯🇵 🇵🇭 Working in Godot Check out my #gamedev & #art Website: https://ikgaton.wixsite.com/iszacgaton itchio: https://iszacstartown.itch.io/
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Reintroductions cuz it's been a minute!

I'm Iszac! A Japanese-Filipino American Producer, Writer, and Artist ✨✨✨

I've worked on YouTube scripts, indie visual novels, and have over a decade of experience leading tech for an Asian American filmfest!

Portfolio: ikgaton.wixsite.com/iszacgaton
Promo art for J-Town: A Visual Novel featuring Sharon, one of our game's main characters.

I was the Co-Director, Producer, programmer, and Character and Background Artist. We crowdfunded over $10K to fairly pay our team. Thumbnail for The Completionist's "Complete History of E3" video. 

As the writer for this, I did extensive research to provide a timeline tracking the expo from a business perspective and cultural event; not just for the news of games being released. Photo from our 10th anniversary for the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Fest. 

As the tech lead, I have helped screen over 300 films since the foundation of this festival. I coordinate all technology related aspects of the event including lighting, projection, audio, file formatting and conversion,  show running and timing, and even live streaming. Hand drawn meet the artist piece, featuring myself in the Big Foot cryptid pose. There are fun facts about me throughout including my likes, dislikes, favorite characters, and my joint pain.
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And here it is! The article I wrote for Truthout regarding #IndigenousPeoplesDay and the assault on birthright citizenship and tribal sovereignty.
Yeahhh, I'm holding out til I see actual motion before feel some sort of way about it. Lots of smear frames here that might have a good vibe in motion. But also that Aang glider move looks so rough LMAO
Took a character design course and I'm pretty happy with what I came up with
Character sheet for The Lore Collector. Contains ideation, a main pose, and various expressions and supporting gestures
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✨ Maglaro Jam Has Begun! ✨

In need of some inspiration? Here are examples of games that follow our theme of incorporating an aspect of Filipino culture! 🎮 🇵🇭

🎮 Register for Maglaro Jam here: itch.io/jam/maglaro-...
✨ Join the AAPIIG Discord: discord.com/invite/zXQFf...

#fahm #gamejam #aapi
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Superman hopium has been on my brain since the movie.
Superman enjoying the sun
Superman hopium has been on my brain since the movie.
Superman enjoying the sun
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Go wishlist and play the Midautumn demo! It's in Early Access and feedback really helps! store.steampowered.com/app/1582380/...
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I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
Oh no, the guy who Gavin Newsom had on as the premier guest for his podcast, with whom he also agreed with about it not being fair to have trans athletes in womans sports, just got shot.
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Really glad so many people showed out for this. Stop dumping data centers in majority black residential areas.
A massive number of Prince George’s residents and advocates have shown up *in the rain* to protest a proposed data center in the majority Black county
Protesters speak out against the proposed data center A line of people Another line of people, with umbrellas People sit in a packed room
A friend of mine does for his novel. I don't know his full process, but from what he's told me, it's primarily for ideating, and hammering in key moments/lines during a commute by car. L But from there, its a lot of editing both to the prose, pacing and basic grammar that the VtT can't distinguish.
Unironically this is their best usage
Terra Nil! Dunno if it's on sale, but it's a resource management game about restoring a polluted planet. Starts very lax and becomes more strategic by the end.
Bro it's 2025, the election isn't until 2028. Make demands of your civil servant. He hasn't done anything other than make a few sassy tweets.

When he starts listening to voters and promises policies that don't destroy homeless encampments or take away migrant health care, then maybe suck his dick.
I hope people jump off the Newsom train soon. Rn he's just the Democrat's version of Trump: entertaining, but lacking any policy that will materially change our QoL.

That isn't to say do nothing. We need to start making demands of our political civil servants rather than coast off of vibes.
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People in our space need to start listening to Asian people when they tell you why media and games like Obojima are orientalist. And I don’t just mean white people.

Because a lot of my fellow POC are just as guilty about gleefully supporting culturally appropriative media as white people.
Yeahhhhhhh they've been messing with some pretty awful ideas. A couple months ago, they did this for the volume levels. The BIG circle was the volume level, and the little dot represented the middle of the meter.
Youtube volume slider. There is no line to indicate where max volume is, only a dot to indicate where the middle of the meter is.
My white friends need to start apologizing to me when they're on time and I'm late LOL