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Composer & Music Designer 🎼 she/her✨ Mythmatch / Wax Heads / Building Relationships / Mail Time BAFTA Connect 🎮 📍 Nottingham, UK 🕸️ www.ginaloughlin.com 💌 [email protected]

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · Sep 4

gonna start posting here more so thought i’d reintroduce myself 👋

hello!! i’m gina, a freelance composer & music designer for indies 🎶👾

my most recent release was Mail Time 🍄 and these are the v cool games i’m working on atm 👀

cover art for Mail Time
showing a Mail Scout with a Mushroom hat frolicking through a yellow flower field

cover art for Mythmatch
showing Artemis on the left, a Chimera on the right and Mount Olympus in the background

cover art for Wax Heads
showing the character Nia behind a vinyl deck in a record store

cover art for Building Relationships
showing a pixelated building next to the text ‘a silly adventure game about a house on a date’

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Infloresce Records @infloresce.com · 16h

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

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SNOWDROP FESTIVAL 2025

We're hosting our 4th annual festival on Dec 13—celebrating the music made by the digital fusion community & adjacent scenes in 2025. All are welcome to participate!

Submission form & rules:
infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025-submission-form

Snowdrop Festival 2025—Submission Form

Snowdrop Festival is back! Infloresce Records is hosting a virtual concert on December 13, showcasing 4 hours of music made in 2025. We can't wait to celebrate everyone's amazing art made in the last...

infloresce.com

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 1d

hey! have replied to your message on linkedin! :)

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 1d

mullet got 😌

selfie of me looking into the camera. i have a choppy pinky-purpley mullet and a pink & purple shirt on

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 2d

In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

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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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

yesss i’m hoping to get to some too! they seem to do a lot online too which is v convenient 🙏

also…. the green giant?! like the sweetcorn advert? 😂 of course i know that!!

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

hell yeah hell yeah!!

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

oop sorry missed this! i don’t think you have to record them in any specific way?! 😅 i don’t really know what i’m doing lol but we wanted to try this setup and it sounded good so we went with it haha

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

yessss

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

like 8yrs ago in uni someone asked me if i would play accordion in orchestra for a piece they were doing bcos i played piano (?? lol) and i obviously said YES and i practiced my butt off for this concert and it was sooo much fun and i have wanted one ever since... i must HONK

gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 2d

i am once again looking at accordions on ebay 👀

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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that I'm looking for work after being affected by layoffs at Giant Squid. 3D Environment Artist, or 3D Artist/Props; ideally a full time position. If your studio or somewhere you know has an opening, please let me know. Thank you ❤️
Portfolio: nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

Natalie Spitzel

Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work

nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 4d

i love when an innocent small job like fixing a lil crack in the ceiling turns out to be a real life horror story

((wasps have eaten our ceiling))

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 4d

How to make Ghost Jellyfish

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 4d

Moonlit night

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KO_OP @ko-op.com · 8d

Do you want gayer games with gayer graphics made by gay people paid more to work less? Goodbye Volcano High is half off during the Steam Autumn Sale 🏳️‍⚧️

store.steampowered.com/app/1310330/...

Save 50% on Goodbye Volcano High on Steam

Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is...

store.steampowered.com

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 5d

u are too powerful!! this album is just incredible!!! will definitely be regularly listening to this one too 🔥

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laryssa 🎶 @laryssaokada.bsky.social · 5d

⤷ ゛it’s bandcamp friday! ˎˊ˗

that means all fees are waived and 100% of profit goes directly to the artist. it’s a great way to support the music you enjoy!

last week i dropped my new album stutter, here’s a little sampler ~

laryssaokada.bandcamp.com/album/stutter

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 5d

lots of love to Will for cleaning up all my shoddy guitar parts AND always looking cute whilst doing it 💞

Will playing acoustic guitar with 2 mics over his shoulders. he’s looking away from the camera with a lil cheeky smile

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 6d

just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners

so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok

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BABA @floorbaba.bsky.social · 7d

getting old is so embarrassing what do you mean I hurt myself sitting at the computer

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 7d

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌

Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social

Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 7d

The ZA/UM Workers' Alliance - a new union set up to represent a subset of UK-based employees at the company - discusses how it wants to help staff feel safe and comfortable in their jobs

www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

After layoffs, cancellations, and controversy, ZA/UM UK staff unionise as the Workers' Alliance

"We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings."

www.gamesindustry.biz

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 7d

i finally did it....... i ordered a new pc

gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 7d

IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT!!!! 😤🔥

Tanat Boozayaangool 🔜 MIGW @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 8d

Building Relationships is now launching Q1 2026

We need a bit more time for the story to breathe, to launch with the best version of the game!

Thank you for all your support thus far, and your patience with the delay 🙏

Infographic noting Building Relationship's delay to Q1 2026

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