Raquel de Miranda
@rdemiranda.bsky.social
Narrative Designer
[TBA x 2, The Merlies 🌱, Last Time I Saw You ⛩️, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden 👻, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 🏹]
Opinions are my own.
she/they. FR/EN/PT(BR)
[TBA x 2, The Merlies 🌱, Last Time I Saw You ⛩️, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden 👻, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 🏹]
Opinions are my own.
she/they. FR/EN/PT(BR)
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Raquel de Miranda
@rdemiranda.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Btw, Raquel de Miranda here! ✍️🕹️
I'm a #gamedev & Narrative Designer (now freelance) who worked on "Avatar: Frontiers", Dontnod's "Banishers", "Last Time I Saw You", "The Merlies", and more TBA
I'm big on dark fantasy/scifi/tragedies, cohesion and themes, and unreasonably ambitious side projects ✊😔
I'm a #gamedev & Narrative Designer (now freelance) who worked on "Avatar: Frontiers", Dontnod's "Banishers", "Last Time I Saw You", "The Merlies", and more TBA
I'm big on dark fantasy/scifi/tragedies, cohesion and themes, and unreasonably ambitious side projects ✊😔
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et bonne chance à toutes et tous les freelances qui bossent aujourd'hui :')
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
et bonne chance à toutes et tous les freelances qui bossent aujourd'hui :')
👀
okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
👀
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Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.
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gaming magazines used to be so true........
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
gaming magazines used to be so true........
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Trying to imagine what it is gonna be like for whole generations growing up believing nothing they see is real. This is fine I'm sure
Already run into kids who, when seeing my wildlife photos, exclaim 'that's AI'
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Trying to imagine what it is gonna be like for whole generations growing up believing nothing they see is real. This is fine I'm sure
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Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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i empathize with the devs who are scared to share their thoughts or experiences, and i respect their decision to do so privately. doesn't it suck that some of us are so scared to come forward for fear of losing out on jobs or facing harassment?
what does that say about how our industry?
what does that say about how our industry?
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
i empathize with the devs who are scared to share their thoughts or experiences, and i respect their decision to do so privately. doesn't it suck that some of us are so scared to come forward for fear of losing out on jobs or facing harassment?
what does that say about how our industry?
what does that say about how our industry?
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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
I have developed such a profound distaste for "older man mentors younger girl" narratives. I'm usually pretty neutral when it comes to most tropes, but this one I can't stand anymore
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I have developed such a profound distaste for "older man mentors younger girl" narratives. I'm usually pretty neutral when it comes to most tropes, but this one I can't stand anymore
Congratulations New York!! 💖
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Congratulations New York!! 💖
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After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
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Dear folks.
I’m collecting case studies on good/interesting game dev practice/process from artisanal solo devs or small teams. Please; more reccs for developers who are not dudes.
I’m collecting case studies on good/interesting game dev practice/process from artisanal solo devs or small teams. Please; more reccs for developers who are not dudes.
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Dear folks.
I’m collecting case studies on good/interesting game dev practice/process from artisanal solo devs or small teams. Please; more reccs for developers who are not dudes.
I’m collecting case studies on good/interesting game dev practice/process from artisanal solo devs or small teams. Please; more reccs for developers who are not dudes.
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Pourquoi on trouvait des équipes paritaires chez Sega dans les années 80 et pourquoi ça n'a plus jamais été le cas par la suite. Où j'aborde aussi la question des discriminations sexuelles, en attendant de parler plus largement des conditions de travail dans un prochain chapitre.
An overview of the status of women in the video game industry in Japan and in Japanese society more generally
(+ a focus on the career of Miki Morimoto, the second known woman to have directed a game at Sega)
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama6
dispo en VF
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodamavf6
(+ a focus on the career of Miki Morimoto, the second known woman to have directed a game at Sega)
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama6
dispo en VF
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodamavf6
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Pourquoi on trouvait des équipes paritaires chez Sega dans les années 80 et pourquoi ça n'a plus jamais été le cas par la suite. Où j'aborde aussi la question des discriminations sexuelles, en attendant de parler plus largement des conditions de travail dans un prochain chapitre.
I feel like "rethinking narrative design" would be an interesting topic for an industry talk. I've been thinking about the topic for a while, so maybe one day if I ever have the occasion, it would be worth trying to make them coherent and share them with other people... 🤔
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I feel like "rethinking narrative design" would be an interesting topic for an industry talk. I've been thinking about the topic for a while, so maybe one day if I ever have the occasion, it would be worth trying to make them coherent and share them with other people... 🤔
I'd love for designers especially to be mindful of this (or anyone we directly collaborate with). If you admit to general contempt for the discipline even before we start to work together, well then it gets real awkward for us you know? And it's hard to trust you'll keep our interests at heart.
I'm going to be honest it is unpleasant to work in the discipline within the games industry that people seem to have especially-reserved venom for. Nobody seems really intent on calling out, eg, video game sountracks they think are middling as if it's really important to yell about.
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I'd love for designers especially to be mindful of this (or anyone we directly collaborate with). If you admit to general contempt for the discipline even before we start to work together, well then it gets real awkward for us you know? And it's hard to trust you'll keep our interests at heart.
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Ça vous arrive de faire l’arrondi en caisse ? Refusez toujours de filer vos sous à "Espérance banlieues", projet d’extrême-droite au service de l’empire Stérin.
Communiqué ici ⤵️
Communiqué ici ⤵️
Le RAAR dénonce le partenariat de #Casino avec l’opération #Espérancebanlieues de la fondation pour l’école liée à Pierre-Edouard #Stérin. Sous-couvert d’aider les élèves en difficultés, elle finance des écoles privées hors contrat aux pratiques violentes et au niveau scolaire bas.
#extremedroite
#extremedroite
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ça vous arrive de faire l’arrondi en caisse ? Refusez toujours de filer vos sous à "Espérance banlieues", projet d’extrême-droite au service de l’empire Stérin.
Communiqué ici ⤵️
Communiqué ici ⤵️
Never before did I realize just *how many* North Americans I'm truly following on here haha
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Never before did I realize just *how many* North Americans I'm truly following on here haha
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‘Special thanks’ is for people’s dogs and cats. Not for people who spent five years of their lives actively developing a videogame for you
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
‘Special thanks’ is for people’s dogs and cats. Not for people who spent five years of their lives actively developing a videogame for you
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My heart is broken. As a Rio de Janeiro native, this is inexcusable. As a human, this is calamitous.
Please read this, foreign friends and followers, and amplify Caio's message.
Please read this, foreign friends and followers, and amplify Caio's message.
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My heart is broken. As a Rio de Janeiro native, this is inexcusable. As a human, this is calamitous.
Please read this, foreign friends and followers, and amplify Caio's message.
Please read this, foreign friends and followers, and amplify Caio's message.
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There’s a sudden influx of people asking what Sweet Baby Inc *do*. So here I am, a Sweet Baby Inc employee, to tell you: we are writers & narrative designers! We write and help create stories, all with the enthusiastic consent of the studios who hire us!
Great thread about that here! \/\/
Great thread about that here! \/\/
I am summoned
Yeah, hugely disappointed by Shesez here. Sweet Baby Inc was not "designed to consult and steer more inclusion" into games. They are brought on purposefully as a second opinion on narrative by large studios. They're script doctors. There's no pressure campaign to hire them.
Yeah, hugely disappointed by Shesez here. Sweet Baby Inc was not "designed to consult and steer more inclusion" into games. They are brought on purposefully as a second opinion on narrative by large studios. They're script doctors. There's no pressure campaign to hire them.
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There’s a sudden influx of people asking what Sweet Baby Inc *do*. So here I am, a Sweet Baby Inc employee, to tell you: we are writers & narrative designers! We write and help create stories, all with the enthusiastic consent of the studios who hire us!
Great thread about that here! \/\/
Great thread about that here! \/\/