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Mette Pødenphant
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GDC speaker (Hitman stuff) Game director on "Wild Indigo Ranch" at Funday Games. I write and illustrate "Heltene fra Avadore" a danish ttrpg for kids (looking for US/UK distributor) Ex Hitman level designer (She/Her)
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Ohh my god there are TWO ! 😍🥳
Step by step role playing adventures for kids with colorful illustrations 🧚‍♂️

English translation of Heroes of Avadore: The First Adventure is almost done! ✨️

#ttrpg #GameDesign #Roleplaying #Boardgame #Kids #play #games #design #illustration #fantasy
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Weird Bucket List Flex!

Played my roleplaying game in a roleplaying store! ✅️

Dm'ed for my dad ✅️ and son! (Not the first time though)

Sat at a signing table with my name on it. ✅️

Had zero people in line for my signature ✅️ (This is a rite of passage... right??)
From the perspective of myself sitting at a table in a roleplaying store. There is a book open with the whole roleplaying scenario explained in a flow like layout. There is a big picture book in the middle with a large sea map on it. A man in his 70'ies is sitting at the far side reading his roleplaying character - to his right an 8 year old boy is sitting and reading his.
December 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Another one! More roleplaying adventure for 4 to 10 year olds ✨️

I'm so excited! This time I'm taking the heroes to the sea to look for the lost "Golden City"⚓️🌟 I can't believe this started with a little idea and a doodle and now there are TWO roleplaying adventure games for kids 😍🥳
A boardgame box titled :"Heroes of Avadore and the Golden City" "A roleplaying adventure for the whole family - by Mette Pødenphant Andersen" the box art shows a coastal fantast town with big stormy purple clouds closing in, painted in a naive style. All in danish The backside if the box showing all the elements in the box : character sheet, picture book, cards, masterscreen and a d10 die
July 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Got a call from my editor with a plea to get a roleplaying test ready for tomorrow.

One of the kids had to go on vacation and didn't want to miss it 💔 She loves one of playable characters so much. She wants to be called "Kalla" and pretends to be "super strong like her"

😍😍🥰🥰😭😭

Just finished it!🥰
May 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I know it's a fantasy #TTRPG but geese are universally great (enemies), right ?

#Design #Kids #BoardGames #DanishGames #Writing #Fantasy #Geese #Procreate #DigitalPainting
A digital painting of a goose standing in the middle of a pond. It's got It's wings slightly out and is tilting It's head and looking at the viewer. Its wearing a green hat shaped like the top part of a dragon, with flappable wings. It's supposed to look a bit mean but the painting is work in progress.
April 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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This has got to be the most #MonkeyIsland -esque thing I have ever worked on...

#wip #procreate #ttrpg
March 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I'm working on my next #TTRPG for tiny humans, and I'm trying out some different things... I feel like my process is just constantly deciding on the ratio between "Relatable" and "Epiiiic!" While trying to avoid "Meeeh".. or "whaa...?".

#design #painting #procreate
The picture is showing two images on my screen roughly depicting the same landscape painting - one is showing a sandy path leading to a mountain shaped like a dragon, the other is showing a river leading to a temple like city with a waterfall instead of a door. Both with blue sky and palm trees.
March 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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I just love it when my kids build weird levels... 😅❤ Great little vantage points, covers - the signage is a little messed up and I am a little bit unsure where the golden path is... needless to say we will have a feedback session later. 🤔🧐

#LevelDesign #Gamedev
February 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Aaah!! We won a #spilprisen award yesterday for Wild Indigo Ranch!! "Denmarks Favourite Game 2025" 😍😭 We are over the moon and still so surpised 🤯 Our players are just the sweetest 🌾🤠 thank you for voting!! ❤️‍🔥
February 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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I found out why Guybrush is called Guybrush yesterday, and my world is shattered... I thought it was a REAL name all these years 😭 My gods..The things you accept because you learn it as a kid... It blows my mind sometimes.
January 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Hi! I'm Mette!👋
I'm a game designer with a knack (but primarily love!) for quest and level design. I'm a trained sandbox (social) stealth designer, and also dabble in writing. I made a TTRPG (hardcopy, eew!) for kids. I'm a socialist at ❤️ and I believe that everything is political ✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
January 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I'm struggling a lot with perspective when I sketch so I tried to build a model out of icecream boxes and it helped a LOT! Made me realize that my composition should change. I placed the tower in the middle and used it as a focal point/joint for the other two modules.
#Painting
#Drawing
#Procreate
November 28, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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The Lighthouse HAS to be an homage to The Croft Manor... The OG cozy base ❤️✨

#LevelDesign #DragonAge #Veilguard @bioware.bsky.social
#GameDesign #GameDevelopment #TombRaider
November 26, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Everyone on the Wild Indigo Ranch team got a little "Annabelle and Nugget" figurine after launching the game ❤ This is a really lovely gesture.

What nice "memento" have you gotten after shipping a game ?
November 23, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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In case any designers out there haven't heard of Miro yet: It's the best tool if you are are messy person like me but also crawing structure.. I love the satisfaction of working visually and while getting an overview of what I am doing... #gamedev #design
November 22, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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When ur kid won't eat his rye bread sandwiches but really wants his afternoon treat 👾 #gamedev #parenting #gamedesign #ui
November 21, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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What a lovely thread!

I made a ttrpg for kids called "Heroes of Avadore"!✨️ It's in danish now but I wanna bring it to other countries! Translating it to english as I write and looking for distributors 👀
November 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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My TTRPG for kids (age 4-10) "Heroes of Avadore" is doing well in Denmark <3 It started as a little passion project, then a kickstarter, and now it's in almost all retail and toy stores in DK ✨❤️ I'm looking for publishers in US and UK.. know any? And how does one do this? 🤓
This is a stylized painting of a small medieval coastal town in bright colors viewed from the sea. There is a large white castle like fortress in the background on top of a small hill, and many small townhouses painted in orange and ward colors. The town is sorrounded by forest to both sides. There is a small hut in the woods to the left and a magic school to the right of the town with an observatory. There is a town square in the middle with small market stalls. Two children age 5 and 7 looking at a picture book with the medieval town. They both have a characters card with a picture of a hero on it. Picture is taken from the perspective of the adult, who is sitting behind a master screen depicting the 5 different heroes you can play. All heroes are non binary and will adapt to the players gender identity. picture of different pamplets and printouts you get in the game. A Picture book for the kids, an Adventure book for the narrator or game master, a master screen, 5 character cards A5 and 20 small item cards. In the middle of the pile there is a "hero guide to roleplaying".
November 19, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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I took a break from work! 😱

It's been a really intense year with two small kiddos and a game launch. So I decided (with my partner) that I should take the rest of the year off ❤️ To rest but also work on my next roleplaying game for kids.

So far 10/10 can recommend ✨❤️🧙
November 18, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Just wrote the ✨first draft✨ of the first scenario of my next TTRPG for kids!⚔️🧌 😀 (Well...Fake news emojis, there is no swordfighting or any ogres in this adventure... BUT there are water elementals and pirates!💦🦜🏴‍☠️) Sending it off to be tested! Hope they will like it 🤞
November 15, 2024 at 7:52 AM