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Jo Haslam
@joannahaslam.bsky.social
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Design Director at @snapfingerclick.com • Ops Lead at Limit Break • BAFTA Breakthrough '21 • The Game Awards Future Class '21 • Formerly Mediatonic & Relentless • Lover of trash TV & baking
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Outside my day job, I volunteer as Head of Ops for @limitbreak.co.uk. We've just opened applications for '25 - our seventh year!

Apply now ⤵️
www.limitbreak.co.uk/apply

And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me!
April 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The best book series about a magical kid who goes to a magical boarding school
Picture of The Worst Witch complete book collection boxset
January 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Love this
Picture of a 'rent a power bank' machine in a hospital with a handwritten note pinned to it saying: "Feel free to ask a member of staff to charge any phone at no cost"
January 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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X is pushing a 'special' image from Grok to celebrate 2025. Here's what it made for me 🙃
Screenshot from X on Grok with the prompt: "Draw me on New Years partying with fireworks. Include a large golden '2025' in huge text with a famous landmark near me in the background.' the pictures generated show multiple different faces, male and Asian, and nothing remotely like 'me'. The landmark in all is the Eiffel tower.
December 31, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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The Robin Hood pub in Brighton is selling the cutest little handmade flavoured vodkas for Xmas 😍
Picture of a glass bottle with 'Chocolate Orange' handwritten on the side. There are two pictures of holly and berries, also handdrawn. The bottle is filled with chocolate orange-flavoured vodka.
December 13, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Why spend loads of £££ visiting Glo Wild when you can take your kid to the local garden centre for free
Some festive outdoor lights on a shelf in a Garden Centre A six year old girl stands smiling wearing a rainbow dress next to a lit up Christmas tree. A stylised background of blue and orange orbs are visible.
December 8, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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Spotted the Buzz! Quiz TV Special Edition at a video game fair. £80!
Picture of Buzz! Quiz TV Special Edition. Features PS3 game box and four buzzers in a large red box.
December 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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Who tf turns up to a party with a bottle of vinegar?
Screenshot from a news article, text reads: "Now bringing wine to dinner party is 'rude', bring olive oil instead Story by Jose Ramos • 2h • 3 min read Bringing a bottle of wine to a dinner party is always said to be good etiquette however that is no longer the case, according to a supermarket report. Guests are increasingly likely to bring a bottle of olive oil - or something likely to last more than the evening. This is according to this year's Waitrose Food & Drink Report, which points out that oil, olives, nuts, honey, vinegar and premium salt are among the things guests are swapping in for booze. The report suggested the new trend had started to grow after House & Garden magazine asked if a 'trendy' bottle of oil was 'the new wine' when it came to dinner party gifts, the Telegraph reports. Graza, a premium olive oil brand, told the magazine: 'We have heard from customers and investors that olive oil is very well received as a gift, especially because you can use it at dinner, and then still have some leftover, whereas a bottle of wine either disappears in 10 minutes or collects dust.' It has even been suggested that it could be seen as rude to bring wine to the meal. American TV chef Ina Garten said she doesn't bring items which may make the host feel they need to serve." The words "oil, olives, nuts, honey, vinegar and premium salt" have been highlighted in the screenshot.
November 28, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Finally got my first black forest hot chocolate of the year 🍒
Picture of a Black Forest Hot Chocolate from Costa
November 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Four games I've worked on
Buzz! Quiz World boxart Furby Boom! boxart Family Feud (video game) boxart UNO (Ubisoft video game) boxart
November 25, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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I was trying to show my partner the worst UK Eurovision song of all time last night, and now it won't leave my phone
November 22, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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My six-year-old refuses to let us put this Halloween decoration away. She's calling it Thing and treating it like a pet.
Picture of a Halloween prop: a severed arm with blood and shackles around it.
November 11, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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Life already improving under our new government
Picture of 4x 'Dutch Style' Heinz Chip Sauce and 2x Heiz Curry Ketchup pictured in a shopping basket
November 5, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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friday mood
Picture of my hand holding a 1.5ltr of red wine. Shot is lazily composed. Fingernails need a manicure. Yellow Waitrose discount label visible on the bottle.
November 1, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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It doesn't matter where you go, there's always a deck of UNO...
Picture of an old, faded deck on UNO cards. They are lying on a wooden shelf with the bottom of a children's book visible next to them.
October 27, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Exciting to see my picture in the latest MCV/Develop!

I showed my daughter and she said: "You're in the news" 😆
Picture of a page in MCV/Develop magazine. It shows a picture of me holding my Development Impact awards from this year's Women in Games Awards.
October 27, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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At @snapfingerclick.com we don't just make video games - we're making boardgames too!

We already made Awkward - a party game for adults - which is on sale in HMV stores across the UK!

We're now prototyping Befuddle, a wordplay game where you have to guess the name of the title from the synonyms.
Marketing shot of Awkward card game box from the front and side, with cards fanned out Picture of me holding the Awkward card game box in HMV Picture of a prototype of Befuddle card game. Two stacks of cards visible, one with clues and one called 'Magic Card'. There are hexagon-shaped tokens near by. The clue card has the following Befuddles: Female Relative Perform (movie) Dump It As If It's Cooked (song) Rules and Regulation (TV) Devillish (theatre) Serpent (video game) Assassinating the Sarcastic Fowl (book) Another shot of Befuddle prototype with hex tokens laids out in various shapes. Another clue card is visible with the following clues: House Unattended (movie) Bopping Regina (song) Homicide Penned by Her (TV) The Chick in Charcoal (theatre) Magnificent Weddo Siblings (video game) Prioritising Myself Over You (book)
October 25, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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At @snapfingerclick.com, we are hard at work on our second tabletop game, Befuddle! We had a very successful playthrough of the prototype. Lots of fun and new ideas brewing 🧙‍♀️
Picture of hexagon-shaped cards on a table with a Befuddle clue card next to them Pictures of Befuddle clue card stack, magic card stack, and hexagons on a table
October 4, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Update:
September 26, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Delighted to be at the Women in Games Awards today where I have the amazing honour of being a finalist for Development Impact of the Year. Good luck to everyone nominated!
Picture of me standing in front of a Women in Games Awards stand, holding a glass of fizz
September 26, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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Thrilled to see this guy in Astro Bot! Thank you Team Asobi
Screenshot from Astro Bot with cameo character dressed liked Buzz
September 9, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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This week, I completed the last session of my Help to Grow business course with the University of Brighton. It's been great to finally learn some business skills after winging it for so long, plus I met some amazing local business owners🔥💪
Selfie standing in front of a window with a University of Brighton building in the background Picture of my course certificate which reads "Awarded to Joanna Haslam on 08/05/2024 for completion of the Help to Grow management programme". The University of Brighton logo is visible on the corner.
May 9, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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It's what he would've wanted
Picture of an Indian restaurant called Gandhi. There is a stock image on the sign of someone in silhouette wearing a lungi - made to look like Gandhi. The photo is taken in the Netherlands, as shown by the Dutch writing on the sign: "INDIAAS EETHUIS" (Indian Eathouse) as well as visible bikes and a van with a Dutch numberplate.
February 11, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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I'm speaking in London next week at Pocket Gamer Connects on the topic of cloud gaming.

I'll be there on Tuesday all day, so please say hi if you see me!
Photocard for Pocket Gamer Connects with my headshot and 'I'm Speaking at Pocket Gamer Connects London JAN 22-23'.
January 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Oh hell no
Picture of weather widget on my phone at -7 Celsius
January 16, 2024 at 7:24 AM