Calliope Ryder

This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!!

I will be at GDC all week!

Tarja sitting on a bench indoors. She’s smiling, wearing a black faux leather jacket and green velvet pants, green headscarf with sunglasses lifted on top of the head.

It’s that time of the year again! This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike 🫶

I’m Tarja from northern Finland, not at GDC or any other in-person event due to my disabilities. You can catch me online doing games industry bizdev, production, accessibility things & community nurturing. Don’t be a stranger! ✨

It's international women's day if only there was a starter back of amazing Black & Femne Developers to support ✨✨✨
go.bsky.app/88aYGTF

hahaha — fit has been a staple for years, no update required! Thank you ☺️

cmon how on earth are any of us meant to compete with that photo

you’re welcome! i’ve got a few pairs from them and am always happy with quality.
this version was just such a perfect, practical heel height that i can run in, whilst also having laces AND a zip — i really hope they bring em back!

little bit about GYLD:

- we’ve signed lots of games — but you might know a little one called expedition 33 💅
- we do games analysis from the POV of game developers (coz we are)
- we advise a lot of games/studios in stealth mode
- you’ve probably seen our work, even if you didn’t know it was us ♥️

im also… thinking that a lot of these larger companies are just straight up cleaning up their running costs so they look good to potential saudi investment. wonder how the war will impact all that

that lil finger is going straight up your nose.
10/10 camera angle 🙏

i start paying attention to Online again and get yet another mass layoff??!

you’re comin to MY hood, you can’t escape ♥️♥️♥️

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this brand, but like 6 years ago! (i looked, they don’t have them anymore :( i’ve resoled these ones twice bc they’re so good!!)

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HELL YEAH LISA

also shit this is the first graphic i’ve seen about nzgf 😅 bit late

Know Your Audience: Deep Dive into Game Design and Audience Research YouTube video by GCAP

ty! data was never super exciting to me -- but turns out if it's about my special interest area, it's VERY exciting 😂

game design data often doesn't have much contact with game experts.

Here's a talk by @emredeniz.bsky.social that explains our research on design:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMB...

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

i just realised i shadow-dropped what I was doing without ever announcing it lol, so um:

✨ PATCH NOTES: v2025.08 (delayed upload)

- New class "PLATFORM DIRECTOR" added to CREATIVE PRODUCER base
- Dev note: Resolved issue where "Job Announcement" failed to trigger in public

servers are live xox

basically, with my xp I have BEEF with upper management making sweeping decisions with no data or experience to back it up — so I’m taking it personally.
This platform is my way of ensuring no other game designers/producers get bullied by a silly opinion from someone who doesn’t make or know games 😂

don’t feel silly — we’re very stealth mode lol.

We’re a bespoke games agency first — very hands on advocacy/connecting devs + pubs — but we have an analytics side that has no website etc. We’re currently advising on many games you already know well, and many you will hopefully know soon :)

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 committed enough to be 2 hours late in order to watch the squirrels ey

(my northern friends know to just leave me in the park to freeze my butt off if i see spring squirrels. we don’t have them here and it’s so worth it 🥹)

hahahahahaha

so where are our pics??

the dream! we can even give pickle shots another go just to honour the americans

yeah you’re on the couch tonight mate, sorry

“you can get much farther with a kind word and all their personal data than you can with a kind word alone” or something

shit, mb Mr Fredericks

i only thought of it now (embarrassing) because my granddad’s name is Alfred (shortened to Al) but he went by Ian in family bc too many alfreds.

Would you like AI, or AI backwards? 🙂‍↔️

the real answer is to bring back serifs

now THAT’d be a scary bad guy

so, free and in your face for a limited amount of use/time but stole the content it’s selling and you’re also QA and also the product?

oh they’re the GDC gardens now!!! my mistake i thought it was called YB but what do i know, i’ve only sat in it annually for 8 years