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J. Isaac Gadient 🎮✍🏻 (they/them)
@jisaacgadient.bsky.social
Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📗📕📘
⚠️Looking for Work 💼📚

README: http://jisaacgadient.com
🌐🔗 https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
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#PortfolioDay i'm isaac, a Game Writer and Narrative Designer ✨ Looking For Work ✨
i'm a proud member of the UVW-CWA, Small Loan Studios, The Game Co-op, and a secret fourth thing.

i study theory & craft all day every day.

you can find my story and my games at jisaacgadient.com
Miz and Moonie from @teafortwostudios.bsky.social were great to work with!
Don't miss out on the studio's other games <3
Surprise! We did a thing! In 72 hours, no less!

Tea for Two took part in ArcJam to create a sci-fi horror visual novel, Stars and Silence! We're very proud to have accomplished what we did in such a short time! 💚

tea-for-two-game-studios.itch.io/stars-and-si...
Stars and Silence by Tea for Two Game Studios, Mizerable, Celeste, danedalbianco, J. Isaac Gadient, Yamino
Play in your browser
tea-for-two-game-studios.itch.io
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This is infuriating and tragic but I also wonder if we couldn’t crowdfund 100k to keep Santa Ragione open—they make some of the strangest and most interesting games.
Santa Ragione co-founder Pietro Righi Riva addresses the studio's potential closure in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz. "There will likely be no money left to make a new [game]... Unless a miracle happens and Horses does very well."

www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragion...
Santa Ragione co-founder Pietro Righi Riva on Horses, Steam, and possible closure of the studio
"No publisher will fund a game that's not coming out on Steam"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This weekend I participated as a Writer and Narrative Designer in the IGDA Game Writing SIG's Arcjam. The theme was RESILIENCE ⚠️

I'm proud of what my teams accomplished given the scope, and I learned a lot from the process. And best of all: I made new friends and had fun! 🕹️

Thank you for playing 💙
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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CALLING ALL WOMEN & GENDER MARGINALIZED!
We are happy to announce the Women’s Day Sale is returning in 2026—on Feb 27–Mar 8, 2026🔥
Celebrating the amazing women and gender marginalised in games 😎 🎮

Spread the word! 💜 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
👉 Submit your game: bit.ly/WDS2026Apply
🗓️ Apply by Nov 9th!
October 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Thanksgiving, but instead of turkey, game developers get free chat/troubleshooting on their narrative/writing plans, and I get to recommend talented folks for the future.

Send through a DM or visit www.gregbuchanangames.com/contact -- happy to advise and chat as best I can throughout the week!
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
being an English major AND terminally online means i really need context clues when i come across the word "anon"
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
there's a clip of @benstarr.bsky.social on a podcast talking about doing VO for games & having to do broadly applicable character noises like "eeugghhhghh" and i need help finding that please XD
it might have been with @charalanahzard.bsky.social idr
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
i spent a LOT of time playing this game when i was about seven years old.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It would be cool if we got rid of cars for the most part, planet-wide
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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someone has said and I agree that Kojima is an excellent illustration of the difference between narrative design and writing
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Apparently getting cracked is now terminology for having sex…it took me awhile to realize all these folks were not talking about coming out as trans
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Overstimulated is an understatement
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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You can play the demo for my next game now! Come meet your charming neighbours! 🌱💀🐝
The Greenhearth Necromancer demo is now available! ✨🌱💀

Start your magical journey and:
🌱 Grow & care for a balcony of plants!
✨ Try out some spells, potions, and rituals!
👋 Meet + greet some of your fellow neighbours!
+ sandbox play, achievements, & more!*

store.steampowered.com/app/2127570/...
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Excited to discover this studio and their new game (featuring writing by @yourkyotowife.bsky.social!) <3
We are so proud to officially announce our upcoming game We Grew Up in War in cooperation with War Childhood Museum. This narrative adventure explores the stories of children growing up during armed conflicts in Bosnia, Syria, and Ukraine. More at store.steampowered.com/app/3254380/...
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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This is what queer joy looks like 🥹

I'm so fucking proud 💙
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!

And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I'm booking work for 2026!

If you need a:

🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist

… send me an email :)

📩 marinamakes.co/contact

Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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::a low whisper::
"perception."
#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I took this the other day—our first snow (and icicles) of the season.
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM