Michelle Olson 🌟
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duplighosts.bsky.social
Michelle Olson 🌟
@duplighosts.bsky.social
Game designer who likes games with strong values, the weird and wonderful natural world, and magic sparkles 🌿✨

currently making missions on Last Sentinel 🤖
prev. director of Beasts of Maravilla Island 📸 🐆
lead designer on Plasticity 🌳

michelle.games
This demo is so much fun, and Sendy is cute as can be 🥰 check it out!
The Shape Sender Deluxe free Steam Demo is now available!
Join Sendy for sixteen goofy, silly, banterful physics puzzles and come meet your new best friend!
May 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We have a super exciting SHAPE SENDER DELUXE announcement in the first ever Thinky Direct next week!
⭐🟡🟨
May 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who came to my talk yesterday - and hello new lovely followers!!! If you see me around #GDC2025 and want to chat about meetings, design, and communication I would be delighted 😎
March 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My talk “Meetings Make Games! Fostering Empathy and Focus in Collaborative Discussion” is in half an hour!!! Ahhhh!
If you are at #GDC and wanna learn some tips for running great meetings, come by to room 2005 at 2:10! 🌟

#GDC2025 #gamedev
March 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Ahead of GDC, we refreshed our website deadteapot.games! Check it out, wishlist the game, join the newsletter, and say hi to Sendy for me ⭐️😘🟨
March 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I’m so excited to share I’ll be speaking at @officialgdc.bsky.social !

schedule.gdconf.com/session/inde...

I’ll be sharing my favorite tips for running meetings that are empathetic, focused, and get the best out of your teammates <3 Hope to see you there! #GDC2025 #gamedev #leadership #indiedev
March 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hello! I'm finally doing the thing of migrating my old twitter posts to here... will be exciting to revisit some old memories and projects :') I don't fully understand bluesky yet but hi I'm Michelle and I've made some cool games with themes of hope, wonder, and empathy (and other magical things!)
February 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM