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Lis🔜PAX AUS

@thewritegame.bsky.social

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Creative Lead: Disney/20th Century Games. Working on cool stuff like Alien, Predator, etc. Fmr Senior Game Writer, Narrative Designer Opinions are mine. she/her https://www.thewritegame.com

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She-wolf of Naarm, Prowling for Narrative Work @jadedsynic.bsky.social · 2d

Studios and producers need to have a consult with @thewritegame.bsky.social about institutional memory and preservation.

Her GCAP keynote is absolutely salient to the current climate of game dev

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much for coming!! Means a lot

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for coming!

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

thank you for the kind words!! i appreciate it :)

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

i could do worse than cosplaying as carmen sandiego

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

thank you karrie 🥹

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

My fault because I couldn’t remember which I’d sent to whom. Not on them!

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you everyone!! See you soon :)

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

Third, we cannot forgot PAX Aus! If you wanna see me chitchat with @jesawyer.bsky.social and @samwinkler.bsky.social about worldbuilding that sticks with you… I can only imagine it’s going to be a wildly fun hour ✨

Sunday the 12th at 12:30pm on the Main Stage

The image shows three photos of devs. First is Joshua Sawyer of Obsidian Entertainment who is a white middle-aged man with grey hair. The second is Lis Moberly of 20th Century Games, a pale woman with long brown hair. Last is Sam Winkler of Gearbox Software who is a white man with short brown hair and a beard.

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

Second, I’ll be at Careers + Frontiers Games Education Symposium Thursday the 9th at 3:40pm…

This is for people looking to join the industry or find themselves just getting started, educators, parents, etc.

Careers + Frontiers: MIGW25 Games Education Symposium

A one-day symposium during MIGW25 exploring the diverse career pathways in games, connecting students, educators and industry through innovation, creativity and global insight.

www.acmi.net.au

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 6d

Hi, folks! If you’re going to be at Melbourne Games Week here’s a heads up on where to find me.

First up, I’m thrilled to be keynoting at GCAP on Tuesday the 7th at 9:40am with a title that’s too long:

A blue square promotional template for GCAP that shows a woman with pale skin and open brown hair in a black shirt smiling at the camera. To her left is the title “Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost: Why the Game Industry Forgot How to Make Video Games and How to Fix It”, along with text beneath it in different fonts that say: Institutional Knowledge!!!!!, Has the game industry lost its mind??, Layoffs/Bureaucracy/Burnout/You Name It We Got It!, and Let’s get into it! The session is on Tuesday at 9:40am on October 7, 2025.

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 8d

CGMA has provided critical education for both beginning and veteran game devs. It will be a huge loss if it dissolves, but at the very least its teachers should be compensated. Sending support to all my friends caught up in this mess.

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Conrad Zimmerman @conradzimmerman.bsky.social · 9d

Also a good reminder to all the doomers out there.

"I’m Ta-Nehisi Coates, I’m the writer, I’m the individual, right? But I am part of something larger, and I’ve always felt myself as part of something larger. I have a tradition, I have ancestry, I have heritage. What that means is that I do whatever I do within the time that I have in my life, whatever time I’m gifted with, and much of what I do is built on what other people did before them.

Then, after that, I leave the struggle where I leave it, and hopefully, it’s in a better place. Oftentimes it’s not. That’s the history in fact. And then my progeny, they pick it up, and they keep it going.

I am descended from people who, in their lifetime, fought with all their might for the destruction of chattel slavery in this country. And they never saw it. They never saw it. In my personal belief system, they died in defeat, in darkness.

So I guess the privilege that I draw out of this, the honor that I draw out of this, is not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make."

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Lisy Kane 🔜MIGW SXSW GSTAR @lisykane.com · 14d

HAPPY CONSUME ME DAY!!!!!

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Save 10% on Consume Me on Steam

did you feel stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school? well i did...but at least i made a life-simulation RPG about it!

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamers

www.theguardian.com

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 28d

I used to teach at UVU where Charlie Kirk was shot. Whatever you think of the situation, my friends on faculty and our students deserve more than this. No one should worry about getting shot at school or work. Ever.

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 29d

How 今夜はハリケーン appeared in the OVA. Iconic.

Bubblegum Crisis - OVA 1 - Konya wa Hurricane

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · 29d

Not from a movie but 1987’s song 今夜はハリケーン (Tonight is a Hurricane) sung by Kinuko Oomori for Bubblegum Crisis changed how music in anime was done forever it was so damn good.

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

That’s a good question I should know the answer to, but currently don’t. I will ask!

Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

Anyway, I care about this topic! A lot!!

(That’s probably enough posting for one day)

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

Institutional memory, how it works, and how to preserve it is the crux of my keynote address at GCAP in October:

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’ll be speaking about institutional memory at DICE Europe with @jesawyer.bsky.social and @brendaromero.bsky.social in a couple weeks.

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

Much of the research on institutional memory has been driven in the forums of public policy and government, and once you start digging into it, you start to realize why it feels like so many of our governments have lost their collective minds.

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Lis🔜PAX AUS @thewritegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

There are several reasons an organization may lose its institutional memory (called institutional forgetting in scholarship), but mass layoffs are one of biggest factors.

Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · Sep 5

Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.

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