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Amy-Leigh Shaw

@diveamydive.bsky.social

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Loud Whisperer • Dragon Fanatic • 🍬Writer and Narrative Designer @ Sweet Baby Inc🍬 • Previously @ Rocksteady Games • ✨Limit Break Mentor✨ • She/Her 💖💛💙 🏳️‍🌈

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hey! 👋 I’m Amy-Leigh, and I’m a Writer & Narrative Designer at Sweet Baby Inc. 🍬 I like nature, bad jokes and weird stories, and I’ve heard I’m pretty friendly 👀 so if that sounds like your vibe, you came to the right place! 💛

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 1d

Rebecca is a legend and needs some help. Consider donating if you can!

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...?

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

www.gofundme.com

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · Aug 16

If I catch you trying to hurt random people - following, not following, I don’t care - you’re outta here.

I beg everybody to remember the humanity of others. And when someone tells you to *hate* another person, investigate *why* deeply within yourself. I swear it’ll make you a better person.

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 19d

Hi again! Are you a studio or individual looking to hire Narrative talent for your games project? Good news! This great big Starter Pack below is brimming with Game Writers & Narrative Designers who are looking for work right now! I hope it helps you find somebody really special 🥰💛

Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 20d

Hey! I have no idea how to do this, I’ve never made a List or Starter Pack before, but:

⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk!
⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 20h

I get a lot of people asking how they could support us, and this is one of the ways: be one of the kind, positive people who listens to our interviews, who shares our voice in good faith whenever you can. You can seize our voice back for us. Seriously.

Sweet Baby Inc @sweetbabyinc.com · 20h

It was such a pleasure to sit down a little while ago for the Hungama Game Changers: Leadership Series, and now it’s finally here! 💚
We hope you enjoy Kim’s chat with the incredible Raunaq Roy as much as we did. Check it out! 🥰🍬

Kim Belair

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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 2d

AI at it’s peak

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 1d

2 years of pain that never heals, of children who slept and never woke up.
2 years of ashes,of tents,of cold, hunger & fear.
2 years where even the sky can no longer tell the difference between night and blood...
Yet despite the pain, we believe that justice will come, no matter how long it takes.💔

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 1d

Help what do we need to plug this into the wall. It’s a neon sign and we lost the dongle in the move

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

www.middleeasteye.net

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll never forget when one of my early tv jobs didn’t pay me my first month’s wages because of an admin error, and I asked them how I was supposed to pay my rent that month - my manager looked at me kind of confused and said “just get your parents to pay it.”

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Olly Smith @ollywrites.bsky.social · 5d

We're hiring for a Head of Gaming & Tech at LADbible, by the way. Come and be my boss. jobs.ladbiblegroup.com/jobs/6321692...

Head of GAMING & Tech - LADbible Group

Founded in 2012, LADbible Group is redefining entertainment and news for a social generation. Our global community engages with our content–spanning editorial, video, documentary and live – we reac...

jobs.ladbiblegroup.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 1d

Scrapboard is genuinely my favourite thing to come out of Bluesky. GenAI images filtered out, and every image sourced directly to the person who posted it 🥰

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · Aug 9

Adding alt text also makes it super searchable in @scrapboard.org, the art ref pinterest alternative that I like to use 👀👀👀

Beth W @doodlebeth.com · Aug 9

Stop posting your cool art without alt text!!

So many times in the last few days I’ve seen amazing art I want to repost and I refuse to because there’s no alt text.

You are losing reach with your art if you don’t make it accessible.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

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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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

I would implore gaming studios to really exercise caution on taking these people seriously. Mandatory social media training is a start but you should really be doing your diligence to see where complaints are coming from about your employees because it’s almost always in bad faith.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

This is legit insane btw:

Roach man whose father died has zero self reflection or growth.

Says he will be happy to do it again because he has no actual skills and his audience fucking sucks

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 2d

Told you.

A horseshoe, painted a pale grey-pink with dark pink dip at the ends and in a band across the top. It’s detailed with ivy vines and leaves.

Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 2d

Me? I’m painting a horseshoe.

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Lara ~ making BIBDU @bibdu.bsky.social · 5d

Knots - Children of Lir inspired playing card back for day 3 of #irishmythtober ! 🦢🦢🦢🦢
#indiedev #handdrawn #gamedev #bibdu

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 5d

Hey everyone. I’ll be honest, I’ve run out of rope on this “being a writer” business, to the point where my site either takes off, now, or I start applying for whatever local shop/cleaning jobs are available. This isn’t a “threat”, just an honest statement of where I am. Sorry.

ko-fi.com/kimimi