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Kitt Byrne
@kittbyrne.bsky.social
✧ Game Artist & Designer who loves making historical puzzle games
✧ Botany Manor, The Mermaid Mask, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
✧ BAFTA Breakthrough 2023
✧ She/They 💖💜💙🏳️‍🌈
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Genuinely such a joy to help out on this project 🐸

Please go and wishlist this wonderful game
store.steampowered.com/app/3438850/...
July 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Preorders for the Fangamer Crow Country physical editions are live!

Choose from the Deluxe or Standard edition for Nintendo Switch or PS5 fanga.me/r/crow-count...
July 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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All set up and ready to Demo Mythmatch! Come find us at the back of the Expo Hall at @developconference.com!

And if you're not at Develop, you can play the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/...
July 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
On my way to Brighton for Develop 🍦🏖️ 👾
July 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Hello! I'm a children's book illustrator who loves to draw fun characters and the worlds that they live in 🌟

You can see more of my work here:

www.rachelsanson.co.uk

I'm ready to jump in to some new projects, and shares help me out so much 💜

#art #illustration #kidlit #kidlitart #publishing
May 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Our team had a brilliant day yesterday at Yorkshire Games Festival.

We enjoyed all the talks including an insight into audio design from @elirainsberry.com sberry.com, a presentation from @twopointstudios.bsky.social's Gary Carr, a deep dive into videogame art design with @kittbyrne.bsky.social...
February 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Excited to be giving a talk about the art of Botany Manor later today at the #YorkshireGamesFestival 🌷
February 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Big thanks to the @botanymanor.bsky.social team at @balloonstudios.bsky.social for sharing their insights with us! 🌿🎮
Your thoughtful storytelling not only created a beautiful game, but it also brings to fore important conversations about women in #academia. 🙌 #WomenInSTEM
February 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🌿Botany Manor is a cozy game but also a window into challenges women face in academia.

For #WomenInSTEMDay, we interviewed the devs @lauredm.bsky.social and @kittbyrne.bsky.social to explore how these issues were woven into storytelling and gameplay. 🎮

Read it @ jgeekstudies.org/2025/02/09/b...
Botany Manor: a cozy game unveiling the inequalities in academia
Interview with Laure De Mey and Kitt Byrne Download PDF Botany Manor is a multiplatform game developed by the English indie studio Balloon Studios and published by Whitethorn Games. Initially relea…
jgeekstudies.org
February 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My other half makes really cool music, if you like Aphex Twin / Boards of Canada give it a listen! 🎧💽 continualbrew.bandcamp.com/album/winter...
Winter Sun, by Continual Brew
9 track album
continualbrew.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Retweet to save an artist's life
March 18, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024:

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

It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.
Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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Crow Country is 20% off in the Steam Autumn Sale!

And I almost forgot about the Steam Awards - this year we might actually be in with a shot at being nominated? Please consider us for a category or two!

store.steampowered.com/app/1996010/...

(how nice is it to link without fear of an algorithm?!)
November 27, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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Botany Manor is coming to PlayStation on December 17th! ✨🌺

🔎 Immerse yourself into the life of Arabella Greene
🏡 Explore your lush manor and gardens
🌻 Uncover the secrets to bloom long-forgotten flora

Coming to both PS4 & PS5! 😊
November 12, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Applications for Ensemble are open!

We're looking for a new cohort of UK game creatives from underrepresented ethnicities to showcase and celebrate at #LGF25 and beyond!

Nominate your friends, colleagues or yourself!

Deadline: Monday 16 December

Apply: bit.ly/3O9ujCJ
November 12, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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November 8, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Hello people of Bluesky. I'm Kitt, a game artist and game designer based in the UK. Most recent projects include @botanymanor.bsky.social and The Mermaid Mask.
October 31, 2024 at 12:52 PM