Giada Zavarise
@cheerfulgoth.bsky.social
Gamedev, cat lover, shitposter, content designer @ Paradox (Stellaris, Cool Unannounced Game) |
http://giadazavarise.com/ | https://bricabrac.itch.io/
http://giadazavarise.com/ | https://bricabrac.itch.io/
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Giada Zavarise
@cheerfulgoth.bsky.social
· Oct 19
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Hello, I'm Giada!
🗞️ Former games journalist (RPS, Eurogamer, PC Gamer)
📚 Narrative Designer (Monster Loves You Too!)
🖥️ Now Content Designer at Paradox
☀️ Still trying to finish Selling Sunlight in my free time I swear
Portfolio: giadazavarise.com
More small games: bricabrac.itch.io
Hello, I'm Giada!
🗞️ Former games journalist (RPS, Eurogamer, PC Gamer)
📚 Narrative Designer (Monster Loves You Too!)
🖥️ Now Content Designer at Paradox
☀️ Still trying to finish Selling Sunlight in my free time I swear
Portfolio: giadazavarise.com
More small games: bricabrac.itch.io
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Horus Heresy: The Musical
Horus Heresy... On Ice!
Horus Heresy: Bigger, Live, and Uncut
The Muppets Horus Heresy
Horus Heresy vs Predator
Horus Heresy 2
Horus Heresy... On Ice!
Horus Heresy: Bigger, Live, and Uncut
The Muppets Horus Heresy
Horus Heresy vs Predator
Horus Heresy 2
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Horus Heresy: The Musical
Horus Heresy... On Ice!
Horus Heresy: Bigger, Live, and Uncut
The Muppets Horus Heresy
Horus Heresy vs Predator
Horus Heresy 2
Horus Heresy... On Ice!
Horus Heresy: Bigger, Live, and Uncut
The Muppets Horus Heresy
Horus Heresy vs Predator
Horus Heresy 2
I wish I was worse at Silksong. I wish a boss could stonewall me.
Alas, I ate too many metroidvanias when I was young, and they made me big and strong. Not invincible, but strong enough to persist & accomplish while wishing for each fight to be 20% shorter.
Mine is a sad fate.
Alas, I ate too many metroidvanias when I was young, and they made me big and strong. Not invincible, but strong enough to persist & accomplish while wishing for each fight to be 20% shorter.
Mine is a sad fate.
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I wish I was worse at Silksong. I wish a boss could stonewall me.
Alas, I ate too many metroidvanias when I was young, and they made me big and strong. Not invincible, but strong enough to persist & accomplish while wishing for each fight to be 20% shorter.
Mine is a sad fate.
Alas, I ate too many metroidvanias when I was young, and they made me big and strong. Not invincible, but strong enough to persist & accomplish while wishing for each fight to be 20% shorter.
Mine is a sad fate.
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twitter has been deserted for good so i suppose i will post here too: i am currently open for work! hit me up if you know of openings that i'd be a good fit for 🫡
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
twitter has been deserted for good so i suppose i will post here too: i am currently open for work! hit me up if you know of openings that i'd be a good fit for 🫡
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
Semi-related fun fact: I moved to Sweden by mistake. I thought I was applying to a contract position and only realized I was supposed to move at the end of my first interview
I've heard so many stories like LRT that it's stunning. The way this industry fucks over people who move for work. Like it worked out great for me exactly one time and that's when I was moving away from my parents' and a retail job. Nothing in the entire universe could convince me to do it today
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Semi-related fun fact: I moved to Sweden by mistake. I thought I was applying to a contract position and only realized I was supposed to move at the end of my first interview
Morimens: a game where everyone has fucked up legs
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Morimens: a game where everyone has fucked up legs
Thinking about how the Ucanny Valley effect might have been evolved to protect us from other almost-human species, and yet it's doing nothing to protect us from almost-human AIs
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Thinking about how the Ucanny Valley effect might have been evolved to protect us from other almost-human species, and yet it's doing nothing to protect us from almost-human AIs
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After God out of context panels
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
After God out of context panels
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It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2026 – AURAMBLES
auratriolo.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
After God out of context panels
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
After God out of context panels
So, I am not allowed to request my ADHD medications "too early", because what it I get more before I am out and start hoarding and selling them
But my health provider can take up to a week to approve my request, with no explanation
keep being you, Swedish healthcare
But my health provider can take up to a week to approve my request, with no explanation
keep being you, Swedish healthcare
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
So, I am not allowed to request my ADHD medications "too early", because what it I get more before I am out and start hoarding and selling them
But my health provider can take up to a week to approve my request, with no explanation
keep being you, Swedish healthcare
But my health provider can take up to a week to approve my request, with no explanation
keep being you, Swedish healthcare
I know we all scoffed when Moorcock tried to sue Andrzej Sapkowski for Geralt's similarities to Elric, but honestly?
If MULTIPLE famous IPs profited from my work while my work languished forgotten by the mainstream, I would be mad too
If MULTIPLE famous IPs profited from my work while my work languished forgotten by the mainstream, I would be mad too
God damn it, @loosf.bsky.social gave me a new brainworm by showing me this image and telling me that Guts from Berserk is an Elric, even though Griffith got the looks.
I am forever going to be looking for the Eternal Champion in every story I see from now on
Shadow is totally an Elric fursona, too
I am forever going to be looking for the Eternal Champion in every story I see from now on
Shadow is totally an Elric fursona, too
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I know we all scoffed when Moorcock tried to sue Andrzej Sapkowski for Geralt's similarities to Elric, but honestly?
If MULTIPLE famous IPs profited from my work while my work languished forgotten by the mainstream, I would be mad too
If MULTIPLE famous IPs profited from my work while my work languished forgotten by the mainstream, I would be mad too
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I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play
"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."
Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.
pcgamer.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play
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New article on Old Men Running the World, where I drill down into what makes me want to run a game and what makes me run a mile. #ttrpg
What Makes Me Want To Run A Game? - Old Men Running The World
Or, to give it its true clickbait title, "Why I have absolutely no interest in running 7/9 of the games Quinns Quest has reviewed."
oldmenrunningtheworld.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New article on Old Men Running the World, where I drill down into what makes me want to run a game and what makes me run a mile. #ttrpg
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A spirit possessed me and urged me to recreate the Lighthouse trailer using footage from Lake Michigan Monster. Please enjoy it until a DMCA takes is away: youtu.be/UChneeWB1ik?...
Lake Michigan Lighthouse Trailer
YouTube video by Giada Zavarise
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A spirit possessed me and urged me to recreate the Lighthouse trailer using footage from Lake Michigan Monster. Please enjoy it until a DMCA takes is away: youtu.be/UChneeWB1ik?...
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NUTS is the party cannon of the steam halloween thing lol
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
NUTS is the party cannon of the steam halloween thing lol
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Y'know, it's spooky season. I'll just make a whole thread of vampire media (some quality and some Quality and some fuck you it's bad but I like it).
I'll try to link where stuff is accessible when possible
I'll try to link where stuff is accessible when possible
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Y'know, it's spooky season. I'll just make a whole thread of vampire media (some quality and some Quality and some fuck you it's bad but I like it).
I'll try to link where stuff is accessible when possible
I'll try to link where stuff is accessible when possible
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Hi, CEO of I Made It Games LLC, here. We're looking for viral indie games with a cool aesthetic that have a proven gameplay loop, narrative hook, the interest of top 1% streamers, and are 80-90% complete. In exchange for 50% of your profits we'll let you put our name on the Publisher field in Steam.
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hi, CEO of I Made It Games LLC, here. We're looking for viral indie games with a cool aesthetic that have a proven gameplay loop, narrative hook, the interest of top 1% streamers, and are 80-90% complete. In exchange for 50% of your profits we'll let you put our name on the Publisher field in Steam.
A spirit possessed me and urged me to recreate the Lighthouse trailer using footage from Lake Michigan Monster. Please enjoy it until a DMCA takes is away: youtu.be/UChneeWB1ik?...
Lake Michigan Lighthouse Trailer
YouTube video by Giada Zavarise
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A spirit possessed me and urged me to recreate the Lighthouse trailer using footage from Lake Michigan Monster. Please enjoy it until a DMCA takes is away: youtu.be/UChneeWB1ik?...
Watching my partner play Expedition 33. I believe you could replace 2/3 of the party with a bunch of sword-wielding cats, with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever on the plot??
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Watching my partner play Expedition 33. I believe you could replace 2/3 of the party with a bunch of sword-wielding cats, with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever on the plot??
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Cabernet is currently a #5 most popular Visual Novel on Steam!.. 😮🦇
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Cabernet is currently a #5 most popular Visual Novel on Steam!.. 😮🦇
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Three options in two paragraphs.
October 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Three options in two paragraphs.
In the Good Timeline Slice&Dice becomes the popular roguelike instead of Balatro, and multiple people congratulate me for my achievements
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In the Good Timeline Slice&Dice becomes the popular roguelike instead of Balatro, and multiple people congratulate me for my achievements