Victoria Vigaray
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Victoria Vigaray
@middock.bsky.social
game designer on the sims 4 | prev. r6 siege, samurai jack: btt | former lecturer @ enti-ub, uvic

i enjoy analogue, linguistics, brutalism, shoegaze, type, systems, ambient, film, degrowth and underground media
opinions my own

www.victoriavigaray.com
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a list of curated resources that have made me a better game designer ⏩⏩
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i know it's 90% off but a warning to potential customers not to buy the steam version of heavy rain. it is not safe. it installs heavy rain on your computer
January 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
y yo no lo jugué ni media vez 🎖️
January 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
•·.·´`·.·•·.·´`·.·•·.·´`·.·•·.·´`·.·• 2026 media thread •·.·´`·.·•·.·´`·.·•·.·´`·.·•·.·´`·.·•
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
qué ganas tengo de jugar al root
January 7, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Hawthorn
Digital painting
January 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Just your occasional reminder that Venezuela’s oil reserves are greater than Saudi Arabia’s, and nearly 4X those of the United States

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
January 3, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Since I love procgen / high systemic story generator games, I decided to finally pick up Rim World. But I did not like it, which did not make any sense. So I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why and made a little graph.
January 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like:

“Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”
January 1, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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the thing that strikes me about the Grok "apology" thing is that even those of us who are against "AI" as it is marketed to us have trouble not falling into the basic fallacy that they are trying to sell us, i.e. There's A Little Guy In There
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
primer propósito de año completado: pintar la combat patrol entera
January 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Esto es mentira, que no os engañen. Un mes tardaron conmigo desde un diagnóstico inicial a tener todas las pruebas y estar operada. He tenido muy cerca dos casos de operación urgente y tardaron 5 días en uno de los casos y 4 horas en otro. Hay que defender a muerte lo que tenemos y mejorarlo
January 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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You can get everything we've ever done at a ridiculous price until January 5!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/6097/...
December 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
se jugó 🫡
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ya va siendo hora de hacer esto: desde 2020 hasta este año (un lustro!) llevo haciendo de propósitos 2020-2030 en donde defino una serie de objetivos de corta, media y larga duración... va desde chorraditas como aprender a hacer mayonesa como comprarme una casa, y los puedo cambiar, borrar o
December 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
gente estamos a 3 cafés de especialidad de ser rentistas
December 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Remember that ZA/UM gets money from Epic for these, and the creators of the game made their work available on @archive.org because they've been removed from earning from it
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free on Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours. Another mystery freebie tomorrow buff.ly/aadJJDg
December 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
i do think so. It's just the nature of turning a passion-led occupation into a salary-based, alienating job position. You don't own anything you create really, decisions are made 3 or 4 degrees of people above you, and most of the times you don't understand where those come from.
when I first joined the industry, I was told by coworkers that it was refreshing to work with someone who wasn't jaded yet. I told them I hoped to never become that way.

I feel myself becoming a jaded game dev, after everything this industry has put me through. Is this just how we all end up?
December 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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December 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
no quiero volver a pintar naranja en miniaturas en mi vida (feliç sant esteve!!!!)
December 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
my man is finished, barnizado y listo para la batalla 🫡
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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In a way though, LLM adoption is the natural endpoint of decades of software UX design intended to deskill, demean, and disempower users. Almost no software people use daily has automation affordances or even decent UI customization options.
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
lo q costó subirle los naranjas a my big man (wip!!!)
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Made a donation (100x keys to access Game Assets All-in-1) to @femdevs.bsky.social which is a non-profit organization that aims to promote the interest and participation of women and non-binary people in #gamedev. Please support organizations like these and do not support @girlswhocode.bsky.social ❤️
December 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM