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✨️Whitney✨️

@brightwhitney.bsky.social

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Award-winning narrative designer & writer🎮 Future Class 2020, IndieCade (twice!), Top 100 Women in Games Speculative fiction Author👽🦄😱 Viable Paradise 24, SFWA, Codex https://brightwhitney.com

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Oct 18

I'm Whitney! A narrative designer/writer for video games, and speculative fiction (sci-fi/fantasy/horror) author. Won some awards for games like Bluebeard's Bride and HoloVista. Spent 4 years as narrative director on a AAA Dungeons & Dragons video game. Ran a company. Now doing principle work.

Selfie in psychedelic colors and a sweater that says SMILE.

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · 6d

Men are fucking weird.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Ideaplatz @ideaplatz.com · 13d

In Episode 5 of #EnduringPlay, a #GameDev podcast, @brightwhitney.bsky.social levels up our understanding and appreciation of #narrative design and narrative direction - and how they differ from writing - drawing from award-winning experience on #videoGames like Holovista & TTRPG Bluebeard's Bride.

Whitney Beltrán on Season 1 Episode 5 of the Enduring Play Game Dev podcast hosted by Cheryl Platz: "Game narrative is not game writing, right? To be super clear, narrative is delivered through every element of a game. For instance, when I was narrative director on a big AAA Dungeons & Dragons game a few years ago, I had not just meetings with the narrative team, but the audio team, the combat team, the cinematics team, the engineers. Really anything where anything got communicated to the players." Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or more at enduringplay.com

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · 23d

And also just a reminder that Mariode did the sickest soundtrack for it.

HoloVista Original Soundtrack

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · 23d

Ah! HoloVista is Apple's Game of the Day today! And the little article even quotes me!

"Meet the creator:...The game’s narrative director, Whitney “Strix” Beltrán, views HoloVista as 'a strange ode to postmodernism and Western capitalism, bathed in vaporwave-y aesthetics.'”

‎Game of the Day: HoloVista

‎Learn about Make Yourself at Home on Mac App Store. Download HoloVista and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Golden Cobra Challenge 2025 is NOW LIVE!

Get your gamesss in by October 13th!

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Sep 5

"You all go into debt, and you all hate each other. That's consumerism."

Consumerism is the Perfection of Slavery - Prof Jiang Xueqin

YouTube video by Prof. Jiang Clips

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks so much for sharing.

✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah, that's so cool! Link to your album?

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Sep 3

That's encouraging.

✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Sep 3

It would be SO cool.

✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Sep 3

I woke up this morning wanting to make a seapunk style Ecco the Dolphin soundtrack remix with Ableton and my hard synths. Do I have the skills for this? Absolutely not. Yet.

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Aug 20

SIR.

✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Aug 1

Oops I'm at Gen Con 😁

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 20

Yes! Loved GW2

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yes, and then the inevitable, "Why did I just spend three hours trying to fix this myself when it was literally impossible because I'm not an engineer?" 🫠

✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 15

Sometimes as a developer you can't tell if something going wrong in the engine is a you thing, or a "the software just lost its mind" thing, and honestly that is like where half the stress comes from.

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 14

They wanted our bag, but without sharing theirs. They are also inflexible about what counts as "writing".

✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 12

Legit.

✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 12

Have you seen my keyboard? 😛

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 11

AI is so dumb 🥴

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CD PROJEKT RED @cdprojektred.com · Jul 10

Our REDs recently volunteered at Warsaw Zoo for Earth Day, working to support its eco village.

We planted 450 flowers and herbs that will protect animals, by providing them with food and shelter.

Thank you to everyone who took part for supporting projects that make a positive impact!

CD Projekt Red employees plant flowers and crowd around a wheelbarrow outdoors.

Close up of a small white and brown patterned lizard climbing on someone’s hand as others pet it.

CD Projekt Red employees look into an aquarium with large, spotted blue-grey fish.

CD Projekt Red employees plant flowers in a large wooden trough at Warsaw Zoo.

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 4

It's only a rumor.

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · Jul 2

CDPR is hiring for a bunch of game jobs, y'all. No writing roles on my team at this moment, but lots of other positions. It's a really good place to land www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

CD PROJEKT RED - Award-winning creators of story-driven role-playing games.

Award-winning creator of story-driven role-playing games

www.cdprojektred.com

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · Jul 2

I would get fired for trying to put this in a game.

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