izzy kestrel
@iznaut.com
🎮 game designer/engineer (prev Astra Logical, No Goblin, Funomena)
🏳️⚧️ trans poly bisexual she/her
📍 madison, wi
🦎 gex’s #1 fan
iznaut.com
🏳️⚧️ trans poly bisexual she/her
📍 madison, wi
🦎 gex’s #1 fan
iznaut.com
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izzy kestrel
@iznaut.com
· Aug 13
hi i’m izzy, i am a game designer and programmer that likes making tools to support ppl’s cool projects. i’m also good at writing and a bunch of other stuff probably idk iznaut.com
izzy kestrel - game designer
game dev portfolio for isabelle adena kestrel
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hi hello my husband recently accepted a job in Victoria, BC so we are hoping to immigrate to Canada before the year is over
soooo i will be leaving my in-office IT job and be out of work again. shares and job leads welcome!
soooo i will be leaving my in-office IT job and be out of work again. shares and job leads welcome!
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
our shared workshop area at work has has been on a Billy Joel and Doobie Brothers vibe all day but one of the student employees just came in with their Crush 40 playlist
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
our shared workshop area at work has has been on a Billy Joel and Doobie Brothers vibe all day but one of the student employees just came in with their Crush 40 playlist
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Ambrosia Sky: Act 1 is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by a mysterious contamination. Survive and harvest aggressive alien fungi in treacherous environments, and find meaning & beauty in death.
$14.99USD on Steam and Epic.
store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
$14.99USD on Steam and Epic.
store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
Save 15% on Ambrosia Sky on Steam
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by a mysterious contamination. Survive and harvest strains of aggressive alien fungi...
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ambrosia Sky: Act 1 is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by a mysterious contamination. Survive and harvest aggressive alien fungi in treacherous environments, and find meaning & beauty in death.
$14.99USD on Steam and Epic.
store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
$14.99USD on Steam and Epic.
store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
i feel like gex fans dont make enough out of how kingdom hearts is basically the same premise as gex but square enix still won’t let him make a cameo
i feel like kingdom hearts fans dont make enough out of how riku is married to mickey mouse from disney
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
i feel like gex fans dont make enough out of how kingdom hearts is basically the same premise as gex but square enix still won’t let him make a cameo
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This is the future leftists want
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is the future leftists want
honestly the thing that gets under my skin the most about AI is that i worked really hard to develop actual skills needed to make stuff
like it was such an uphill battle to figure out programming and 15 years ago i absolutely would have been a prime target for this AI garbage
like it was such an uphill battle to figure out programming and 15 years ago i absolutely would have been a prime target for this AI garbage
thank you AI for sucking so hard I decided to write more myself no matter how shitty the output, because at least someone (me) did take the time and effort it takes to actually make something
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
honestly the thing that gets under my skin the most about AI is that i worked really hard to develop actual skills needed to make stuff
like it was such an uphill battle to figure out programming and 15 years ago i absolutely would have been a prime target for this AI garbage
like it was such an uphill battle to figure out programming and 15 years ago i absolutely would have been a prime target for this AI garbage
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Proud to see this kind of radical accountability from my peers.
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Proud to see this kind of radical accountability from my peers.
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free idea i came up with half asleep at 5am (apparently)
February 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
free idea i came up with half asleep at 5am (apparently)
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Did inventory today and shop can be previewed now~
Opens tomorrow at 10AM EST, and all orders over 30$ before shipping will receive a free postcard!
www.koyamori.ca
Opens tomorrow at 10AM EST, and all orders over 30$ before shipping will receive a free postcard!
www.koyamori.ca
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Did inventory today and shop can be previewed now~
Opens tomorrow at 10AM EST, and all orders over 30$ before shipping will receive a free postcard!
www.koyamori.ca
Opens tomorrow at 10AM EST, and all orders over 30$ before shipping will receive a free postcard!
www.koyamori.ca
me: it’s just like, Japan has a wealth of incredible flavors and Americans are out here handing this garbage to our children. they even gave it a stupid gimmick name
my toddler, after taking a bite: like it. good.
me: okay but also this is only like the third kind of candy you’ve ever tried
my toddler, after taking a bite: like it. good.
me: okay but also this is only like the third kind of candy you’ve ever tried
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
me: it’s just like, Japan has a wealth of incredible flavors and Americans are out here handing this garbage to our children. they even gave it a stupid gimmick name
my toddler, after taking a bite: like it. good.
me: okay but also this is only like the third kind of candy you’ve ever tried
my toddler, after taking a bite: like it. good.
me: okay but also this is only like the third kind of candy you’ve ever tried
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There was a gex Phone Card which were use to make local or long distance calls but only can use one and a completely worthless if they got used up and nowadays they are basically little collectables cards
April 20, 2024 at 12:50 PM
There was a gex Phone Card which were use to make local or long distance calls but only can use one and a completely worthless if they got used up and nowadays they are basically little collectables cards
AHHH HOW COULD I FORGET
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
AHHH HOW COULD I FORGET
can’t stop thinking about how hard it would go to have this motherfucker spawn in a MOBA and say “Steps must be taken…”
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
can’t stop thinking about how hard it would go to have this motherfucker spawn in a MOBA and say “Steps must be taken…”
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I know I keep banging on about it but really, I think this bundle is such a fun collection of ideas, I just 'finished' levelling one character in Q-UP and it's just been such a fun gallery of little game design flourishes and beautiful design.
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60852...
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60852...
Save 8% on Heads or Tails on Steam
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I know I keep banging on about it but really, I think this bundle is such a fun collection of ideas, I just 'finished' levelling one character in Q-UP and it's just been such a fun gallery of little game design flourishes and beautiful design.
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60852...
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60852...
probably not a new observation but i’m thinking about the ways that individuals are held responsible for negative impacts on the environment (plastic straws) but now we’ve got AI stuff freely available that’s 1000x worse than anything one person could do
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
probably not a new observation but i’m thinking about the ways that individuals are held responsible for negative impacts on the environment (plastic straws) but now we’ve got AI stuff freely available that’s 1000x worse than anything one person could do
bimbos rise up github.com/iznaut/bimbo
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
bimbos rise up github.com/iznaut/bimbo
woah i played that Trolls game. it was on like a dozen 5 inch floppies that i had to load each time. how did they fit all that in a DS
Playing DSiWare games for the first time, and. This “Oscar in Toyland” game sure is the Trolls game I grew up with on DOS except with some guy isekaied in in place of the trolls.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
woah i played that Trolls game. it was on like a dozen 5 inch floppies that i had to load each time. how did they fit all that in a DS
she’s so real for this
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
she’s so real for this
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perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
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Reposted by izzy kestrel
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM