Emma Larkins

Ahhh that's awesome!! I love it 🤩

"What the hell did I get myself into" is a common facial expression in this industry 😅

Congrats! Also that hair 👀👀👀

it’s that time! #WhatAGameDevLooksLike
I’m Calliope, prev lead producer at Wētā Workshop on Tales of the Shire 🍀
👉 now full time Platform Director at GYLD, & part time advisor/cozy game expert/ marketing/strategy @dragonsnacksgames.bsky.social

i’m into history, cozy, and spooky!♥️

pic: gdc2025

Not at GDC but this is my entry for #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

I’m in my early 40’s with natural gray hair (I’m lazy/cheap), a soccer mom of two feral boys, a wife of an awesome animator. This summer will mark 19 years in games for me, almost entirely in game production. 💕

Hello!

A woman stands in a modern bathroom. She is wearing a leather jacker and a t-shirt that reads "Punch More Nazis." She has pink hair and a side shave. She is flipping off the camera.

What's good, #WhatAGameDevLooksLike ?

Senior writer on Iron Man @ Motive, prev: Space Marine 2, Gotham Knights, Jurassic Park: Survival, World War Z: Aftermath, and more.

I also write comics! Grab Stark Trek: Celebrations when it comes out in May!

Woman (Emma Larkins) with blue hair looking at the camera with a excited/nervous expression, shirt with blue and pink flowers, wearing a GDC (Game Developers Conference) speaker badge, sitting in front of a building with a GDC banner

Here's #WhatAGameDevLooksLike (not at GDC this year sadly!)

Professional board game designer for 10+ years. Abandon All Artichokes sold 100,000+ copies, licensed in 10 countries, played 1 mil+ times on BGA.

Last year, speaker at GDC. This year, newly minted Senior Game Designer (TCG) at Fanatics!

Me, pointing at you

Not at GDC, but I'm seeing people introduce themselves via #WhatAGameDevLooksLike ...So yeah:

- MA Games Design & Development graduate
- UI Designer and Developer
- I love Character / Narrative / Game Design
- Working on a bunch of stuff

Black UK game dev tings, holla'atchyoboi, innit lol

asian woman in a white graphic tee and black pants with a backpack and jacket over one shoulder

#whatagamedevlookslike in case you didn’t know!! a filipina trans woman in narrative design no less!!!

Selfie. I’m a 32 year old white woman with cropped blonde hair. I’m wearing a plaid dress

#WhatAGameDevLooksLike

It’s that time of year again!
Not at GDC, But I’m Dr Holly Nielsen- historian, writer and narrative designer working in games.

I like to apply historical methods to world building and storytelling ✨
And I’m very good at it 😌

I’m also available for work!

Not at #GDC but I’m #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

Writer, editor, Narrative Designer and DEI Consultant for 10+ years. A very hireable one, still seeking work a year after Monolith’s closure. ✌🏾

JC has pink and purple hair and is wearing sunglasses, a black sleeveless hoodie, and a silver necklace with a pizza charm on it. She is in front of a bunch of flowers that look like they are exploding out of her head. The sky is blue behind her.

This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I’m JC, I’ve been a gamedev for 10+ years in AAA/indie, and I am currently lead producer and (NEWLY MINTED) COO at my studio, @twirlbound.com! I love making cool stuff with cool people, developing sustainable career paths, and of course yelling (lovingly) about Jira ✨

Hello #ECCC - we’re demoing games in Summit / 5th floor!
I teamed up with my friends at @zephyrworkshop.bsky.social today and I got the photo of all time.

Indie Games Showcase info:
www.emeraldcitycomiccon.com/en-us/experi...
#ttrpg #boardgames

Same! It's one of my current favorites 😁

Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

screenshot of an AI generated thumbnail with a pretend person holding a pretend box of the Old King's Crown expansion with the word's DON'T BUY IT on there

Hey board gamers - your feelings an opinions about games are being turned into slop.

There's a channel called Board Game Critique. All their videos are clearly made with AI. They fess up to this, but they claim that they write their own scripts.

I cannot definitively prove that they don't, but 1/x

Yeah. This brought up the memories and how pissed off I still am!

I hope we’re still collectively processing that AEG and the boardgaming consciousness draw the line at being pro-AI and lowering the value of game designers…

But don’t draw the line at the insane levels of misogyny exhibited only 2 years ago?

It’s wild to me he wasn’t booted to high hell sooner…

On the surface, it sounds plausible, but if you think critically (ironically 😅) it all breaks down.

Like, players are playing identically by each picking cards and tiles? Those are just the rules of the game!! People are all trying to choose components that give them more points? That's the definition of strategy!

Gross. The thing is if you listen with even half an ear the videos make no sense. As soon as AI gets into any level of technical detail, it falls apart. Twice in a row (Splendor and Azul) the video said players end up playing "identically." This is an impossibility in any game with randomization!!

Thanks Danny 😁

Haha I know right?! Every now and then I get a good one and use it for everything for the next 5 years 😅

Thanks Alan!

Thanks Gil! You should take some credit as one of the first people to ever playtest my first game & support my journey more than a decade ago 🥰

Thanks! 😁

Thank you!! 😁

😁

Thanks Phil!