Ieva Benecke
@pikuc1u.bsky.social
Mistress of pixels 👾
Producer @ No Brakes Games • game designer • narrative aficionado • cat lady • n00bie mixologist • explorer of many worlds
🍸 https://pikubytes.com
Producer @ No Brakes Games • game designer • narrative aficionado • cat lady • n00bie mixologist • explorer of many worlds
🍸 https://pikubytes.com
My cocktail tribute to the medieval wanders of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2! 👑
Here’s how to craft this Chamomile Brew for your next battle’s afterparty: pikubytes.com/2025/05/30/g...
#kcd2 #kingdomcomedeliverance #mixology
Here’s how to craft this Chamomile Brew for your next battle’s afterparty: pikubytes.com/2025/05/30/g...
#kcd2 #kingdomcomedeliverance #mixology
May 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My cocktail tribute to the medieval wanders of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2! 👑
Here’s how to craft this Chamomile Brew for your next battle’s afterparty: pikubytes.com/2025/05/30/g...
#kcd2 #kingdomcomedeliverance #mixology
Here’s how to craft this Chamomile Brew for your next battle’s afterparty: pikubytes.com/2025/05/30/g...
#kcd2 #kingdomcomedeliverance #mixology
Reposted by Ieva Benecke
"This is why you don't bring back fallen warriors. Sooner or later, they're going to see everything they fought for's turned to shit. I have been logged out of my toothbrush."
May 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"This is why you don't bring back fallen warriors. Sooner or later, they're going to see everything they fought for's turned to shit. I have been logged out of my toothbrush."
Still rebooting after Reboot Develop and wondering if I should indeed aim to climb more stairs daily
April 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Still rebooting after Reboot Develop and wondering if I should indeed aim to climb more stairs daily
Crafted a adventurous cocktail for “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle”! 📜
Check it out (aaand more pixel drinks): pikubytes.com/2025/02/19/g...
Check it out (aaand more pixel drinks): pikubytes.com/2025/02/19/g...
February 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Crafted a adventurous cocktail for “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle”! 📜
Check it out (aaand more pixel drinks): pikubytes.com/2025/02/19/g...
Check it out (aaand more pixel drinks): pikubytes.com/2025/02/19/g...
Reposted by Ieva Benecke
civ vii couldn't ship with hover tooltips but avowed can ship with a whole-ass wiki attached to its conversation system? what times we are living in.
February 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
civ vii couldn't ship with hover tooltips but avowed can ship with a whole-ass wiki attached to its conversation system? what times we are living in.
to stalk gamedev discourse
legitimately why are you here (on social media)? i am asking myself the same (other than because of addiction).
January 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
to stalk gamedev discourse
Where one Silo ends, another Severance begins. Good times.
January 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Where one Silo ends, another Severance begins. Good times.
Prepping for the inevitable end of dry January with new delishhh cocktail books 💛
January 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Prepping for the inevitable end of dry January with new delishhh cocktail books 💛
Reposted by Ieva Benecke
Switch 2 right Joy-Con confirmed to have delicious Jaffa centre. 😋🍊
January 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Switch 2 right Joy-Con confirmed to have delicious Jaffa centre. 😋🍊
Reposted by Ieva Benecke
Spend less time on 'X.com' and more time on XCOM.
January 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Spend less time on 'X.com' and more time on XCOM.
Great read. Even if local LAN parties and dingy gaming cafes weren’t welcoming to me (gurlz don’t play lol, etc.), it’s fascinating to reflect how the rampant piracy in the 90-00’s here shaped gaming canons and the subsequent local gamedev industry.
Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
The Gentrification of Video Game History
We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas
felipepepe.medium.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Great read. Even if local LAN parties and dingy gaming cafes weren’t welcoming to me (gurlz don’t play lol, etc.), it’s fascinating to reflect how the rampant piracy in the 90-00’s here shaped gaming canons and the subsequent local gamedev industry.
The vibes of Lake House got me truly pumped for Control 2 now! A lovely intertextual DLC to explore.
January 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The vibes of Lake House got me truly pumped for Control 2 now! A lovely intertextual DLC to explore.
So I made an Astro Bot cocktail!
Here’s my process and recipe for all you sweet sippers: pikubytes.com/2024/12/31/g...
#astrobot #mixology
Here’s my process and recipe for all you sweet sippers: pikubytes.com/2024/12/31/g...
#astrobot #mixology
December 31, 2024 at 10:42 AM
So I made an Astro Bot cocktail!
Here’s my process and recipe for all you sweet sippers: pikubytes.com/2024/12/31/g...
#astrobot #mixology
Here’s my process and recipe for all you sweet sippers: pikubytes.com/2024/12/31/g...
#astrobot #mixology
school of (gamedev) life!
When I taught interactive narrative at a university, the students had a month for their final projects (group). My course was structured as a workshop where the assignments were like tasks you’d be assigned as a junior narrative designer in a studio… /1
December 30, 2024 at 9:12 AM
school of (gamedev) life!
Xmas 2024: Achieving a AAA stomach bloat on an indie budget. Carbs overscoped. Pillars foregone.
December 29, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Xmas 2024: Achieving a AAA stomach bloat on an indie budget. Carbs overscoped. Pillars foregone.
Thus *all* games are political
A lot of people assume the higher up you get in your game dev career, the more cool ideas you get to contribute to a project. In actuality, the higher up you get, the more your job becomes about inventing types of diplomacy that could not even be dreamt of by mortal men
December 16, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Thus *all* games are political
There’s winning the GOTY and then there’s me daydreaming about wearing that Astrobot dress as I run carefree through the meadows, jumping over any rocks in the way of my cozy existence
December 13, 2024 at 3:06 PM
There’s winning the GOTY and then there’s me daydreaming about wearing that Astrobot dress as I run carefree through the meadows, jumping over any rocks in the way of my cozy existence
that’s my priority for Indiana Jones atm, all the rest can wait
December 11, 2024 at 7:06 PM
that’s my priority for Indiana Jones atm, all the rest can wait