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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney

@joieyong.bsky.social

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joieyong.com | joieyong.itch.io 🇲🇾↔️🇦🇺 🌱 Concept artist @ Faycrest Studios 💡 Graphic designer, artist, writer, editor & consultant 🧠 ARPIA shortlisted game dev 💛 PAX AUS Enforcer

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hi, I'm Joie Yong, a freelancer open to commissions and collabs!

🎮Concept artist, 2D generalist, graphic designer, script editor
🎲Game dev, layout artist, editor, consultant

➕ Concept Artist & Experiential Designer at Faycrest Studios
➕ Layout Designer & Artist at QuasiReal Publishing

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 5h

🫠 I will see y'all tomorrow cause I work morning shifts here

Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 5h

Why y'all gotta be so late? 😭 rip

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 2d

This project is live and already fully funded, hell yeah! 🔥🔥

Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · Sep 4

Everyone should take a look at this awesome project I had the privilege to work on 🔥🌲🔥

www.kickstarter.com/projects/qua...

#ttrpg #journaling #tabletop #kickstarter

Coming soon: Cinderedge - Solo Survival TTRPG

Firewatch meets Disco Elysium in this dark, emotional, journaling RPG where you die alone in a wilderness that's on fire.

www.kickstarter.com

Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 2d

Fresh off the tarmac in Melbourne for #migw #arpia and #paxaus ✨ Helloooo

Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 5d

Form submitted for my dino game 🦖

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Hugh Lashbrooke (Ten Acre Games) @hlashbrooke.bsky.social · 7d

I'm in a panel about marketing TTRPGs as part of Games Week at the Table 2025. You can stream it for free this Sunday, 5 October, at 12pm AEST.

Details: gamesweek.melbourne/events/2025-...

Other panelists are @ravensridgeco.bsky.social & @scarletsong.bsky.social, hosted by ashtafelix.bsky.social

Games Week at the Table 2025

Celebrating the world of Australian-made TTRPGs and creators in the space from all across Australia.

gamesweek.melbourne

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Ben Taels @bentaels.bsky.social · 7d

Are you planning your trip to @paxaus.bsky.social next week yet?

Make sure to set out some time to play these wonderful kiwi games!

www.nz-code.nz/post/18-nz-m...

18 of NZ's Best New Indie Games Coming to PAX AUS

For the fourth year running, CODE brings together some of Aotearoa New Zealand's latest indie games to showcase at PAX Australia 2025.

www.nz-code.nz

Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 7d

I made dis #ttrpg adventure ooooOooooOoooOooooh spooky 🦇

TTRPGkids ➡️ GameHole Con! @ttrpgkids.com · 8d

I save up my spooky reviews for October, and we're kicking things off with Zombieees! In Santa's Village by @joieyong.bsky.social.

Check out this rules-lite whimsical-horror-holiday mash up that hit the family's vibe, and happy gaming!

https://loom.ly/9mzUq8g

Zombieees! in Santa's Village at a glance

audience: maybe 7+ (it is actually very all-ages)
setting: Santa’s Village, with a twist
characters: zombified elves!
mechanic: d6 with success/fail criteria chart
time:
~15 minutes to learn
<5 minutes character creation
1 to 2 hours to play the premade adventure, depending on how much you want to explore

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NephthysNile🔜PaxAus/SXSW Sydney @nephthysnile.bsky.social · 12d

Hey folks! Did you miss out on grabbing yourself a 3 day pass for @paxaus.bsky.social? As it turns out, I have a spare one going for the cool, crisp price of the early bird pricing - $180! Drop me a dm if interested.

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 13d

Rawr 🦕💃🦖👯

Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 14d

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12PDeny @12pdesigns.bsky.social · 19d

Hiyo! Less than 2 weeks left on my Kickstarter for You Were Made! It’s a journaling RPG with cards, dice, and plenty of sci-fi flavor.

Come take a peek:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/12p...

Thanks Tinkering!

You Were Made: A Solo Journaling TTRPG Experience

Explore memory, identity, and lost futures in this solo sci-fi journaling roleplaying game of Echoforms and forgotten worlds.

www.kickstarter.com

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris · 15d

last chance to give me INPUT on the #gamedev industry for my #GCAP25 talk! I've received so MUCH good stuff! I want MORE THOUGHT. I AM HUNGRY FOR IT!

Send me your opinions. You can be totally anonymous. I don't mind if you're Australian, New Zealand, or anywhere else. I want all input.

Please?

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris · Aug 7

excited to be speaking on "Creating While the World Burns" at #GCAP25!

if you want to help, please fill out this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#gamedev #indiedev #conference

Creating While the World Burns
How the hell do we make video games when everything's falling apart? This isn't another sanitised "industry challenges" talk. This is a raw, honest conversation about trying to create art and entertainment while navigating late-stage capitalism, climate crisis, mass layoffs, AI disruption, and the overwhelming uncertainty of our industry and world. We're making games in an era where studios shut down days after shipping critically acclaimed titles. Where 10,000+ industry workers lost their jobs in 2023 alone. Where private equity treats creative studios like disposable assets. Where AI threatens creative jobs while VCs throw billions at glorified text generators. Where even successful indies struggle to stay afloat amid algorithm changes and discoverability crises. And yet, we're still expected to be creative. To innovate. To pour our hearts into projects that might be cancelled tomorrow or compete with AI-generated knockoffs the day after release. This talk confronts these realities head-on, examining how we can navigate creative work amid existential dread and industry instability. Drawing from survival stories across the industry – from AAA refugees to indie survivors to union organisers – we'll explore practical approaches to maintain creative purpose and mental health while acknowledging the broken systems we're working within. We'll discuss the uncomfortable questions: How do you balance artistic integrity with commercial survival? How do you build sustainable creative processes when nothing feels sustainable? How do we support each other when the industry treats us as disposable? When should we fight back against exploitative practices, and when should we protect ourselves? This isn't about easy answers or toxic positivity. It's about finding a path forward together – building solidarity, setting boundaries, creating meaningful work despite everything, and maybe even reimagining what a healthier games industry could look l…

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 16d

The other thing I don't think many really appreciate yet is you can't check the age of teenagers without checking the age of everyone. This will impact the online privacy and experience of everyone.

bsky.app/profile/came...

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 16d

Half of Australians have no idea that Google and other search engines will be forced to check the age of their users & change their service based on that info.

This polling comes as an inquiry into Australia's online safety codes & the teen social media ban kicks off today

www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 16d

I'm collecting one-page RPGs for Tiny Tome 3!

That's 50 games from 50 different creators - and there's only a couple of spaces left.

If you made something great in 2025, let me know about it. I want to put your game into print and on tables around the world.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Embers of Humanity @embersofhumanity.bsky.social · 17d

When you commission art from a proper artist and they just hit the vibe so hard.
Thanks @joieyong.bsky.social for this great portrait for our upcoming print release of Embers.

Painting of a blonde-haired woman reading a book by a fire while a cute dog sits at her feet. The drawing represents progression. It's an exert from the upcoming Embers of Humanity print edition.

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 17d

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 17d

Freelance work hasn't come through and this month has been expensive so I'm offering creative consulting on your ttrpg for 25 bucks flat. I'll read it, provide detailed notes and we can do a 30 min discord call to go over them.

DM me.

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 17d

Give or take!

Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 18d

Lucky to have already made roughly 300 bucks from my own games in a year 😊

Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 18d

what's a profit?

#ttrpg #indiedev #dndisnotforme

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meredith 🙂‍↕️ 🔜MIGW & SXSW @merryh.bsky.social · 18d

Please repost and share this around, and if you know of an event or are attending an event during MIGW, please share it to the mailing list for the upcoming send!

It helps me A Lot. <3

Indie Dev Digest ANZ @indiedigest.dev · 18d

Octobers gigantic Indie Dev Digest is coming up!

I intend to send out the mailing list right before October kick off - so please get your submissions in if you have an event during MIGW or SXSW or for October in general!

indiedigest.dev#shareurls

The Indie Dev Digest

A monthly newsletter for digital game developers across Australia and New Zealand, primarily in the independent games space.

indiedigest.dev

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you for the recent purchases, plays and ratings of The Station, everyone! Glad people like my train worldbuilding game with the bad SEO title.

pidj.itch.io/the-station

The Station by pidj

a gm-less worldbuilding game

pidj.itch.io

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 23d

you're like living in Melbourne this quarter huh

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Frosty Games 🍦 @frostygamesfest.com · 24d

Frosty is back to celebrate the coolest upcoming and recently released games made in Australia & Aotearoa, this December 🍦🥳

We’ll be featuring exclusive reveals, announcements, and updates. Developers can submit their games now until Sep 30! ⤵️

forms.gle/tt8y9N1dPweS...

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Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 26d

Pretty cool yeah!

Joie Yong 🔜 PAX AUS / SXSW Sydney @joieyong.bsky.social · 26d

Games as activations in events are really kicking off lately. Designed the GUI for an event racing game this week and now I'm designing a micro ttrpg for a separate event.

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