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Chloe Mashiter
@chloemashiter.bsky.social
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game-designer / performer / creative technician. Agender (they/he/she). Sometime organiser of community funding dinners
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Heading to UKGE this morning! I'm only going for today, so if you're about gimme a shout so I can come say hi!

Will be masked so look out for the multicoloured hair and big glasses
A white person with blue-purple hair and big round glasses smiles from a train platform
May 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Needed to get stills of some old work this morning, and damn if I don't still have so much love in my heart for this livestreamed panto. The absurdly scrappy visuals, the goose chases in chat, the joyful silliness that was committed to fun over polish...miss you Jack & The Beanstalk
Four performers (including one made up like a panto dame and one who's been pied in the face) are scrappily greenscreened against various different cartoonish backdrops in a split-screen style. A stream chat to the right focuses on an escaped goose who is honking in chat.
May 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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The printed in-world posters for Support Group For The Newly Human arrived! Suddenly realising how big A2 is...

And Voidspace Live is *only two weeks away!* Get tix and come pretend to be an ex-zombie (or -vampire, or -werewolf, or -ghost) with me!

voidspacezine.com/event/voidsp...
A white person with oversized glasses and pink and turquoise hair holds up a large poster saying 'need help on starting life over? you can pick our brains'
May 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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*damn* Brixton's permanent blood donation centre feels swanky - as ever, if there's anyone out there able to donate but nervous about doing so I'm happy to accompany anyone (w/in London!) to a donation
A white person with pink and turquoise hair smiles whilst laid back in a medical chair with a blood pressure slip on their arm
May 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Every festival/conference/convention should have a Flash Talks segment. I swear I have never been disappointed by a solid hour or so of 5-10 minute special-interest talks. (though Sam @amazefest.bsky.social's Hyper Talks might be the best hosted/run instance I've ever seen)
A packed pink-lit lecture theatre where a speaker is at a podium next to a huge projection of the meme image of distorted Elmo surrounded by fire
May 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Another museum wish: more dressing up sections please (went to the German Spy Museum today; did also enjoy dressing up at Wonderkamers in The Hague a few weeks back)
A person wears a trench coat, wig, hat and sunglasses over their actual glasses in front of a museum display
May 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This may not look like much, but it's the first steps of me making assets as I finally tell myself I *am* going to learn Unity, because I really really do want to make a game that a) is presented as an in-world computer screen (minimising distance between what player + player character are doing)...
A variety of black and purple boxes on a cream background; the word 'speaker' can be seen in one and 'neolex 180' in green in another
May 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Next: what you're actually doing. You move through a bleak, aggressive landscape. Any path a prior figure has taken, thorns are flattened and easier to walk. But inevitably you reach areas (or veer outside slim paths) and are caught by - impaled by - the thorns. You go until you can't anymore.
A screen shows a dark, brutal, grey, minimalist digital landscape with a humanoid figure at the centre
May 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Right, there's a game I haven't been able to get out of my head since late March so I wanna chat about it

Let me tell you about AGGREGATE
A mutated-looking video game controller made of some grey metallic gnarled subsrance
May 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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1 month until Support Group for the Newly Human at Voidspace!

So I'm announcing the companion game: 'A coffee with Finn, who used to be a ghost, or vampire, or something.'

Made for anyone who can't make it in person, this two-part text-based game casts you as a newly human person seeking support.
May 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Love this as I currently look into my tickets/plans for the coming week.
Fairytales that are closed. For the time being, there will be no fairytales undergoing maintenance.
April 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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*runs in during the final hour* happy trans visibility day. Visibility is a tricky thing for me at times: I wish I was more visually confusing to people (so they didn't default to assuming I'm a woman) but also I don't owe anyone shit physically to validate my agender-ness. I often feel invisible...
A white person with large glasses and short turquoise hair swishing upwards smiles at camera
March 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Goddamn the Shadows exhibition at MUNCH in Oslo feels very damn special - will share much more soon but what wonderful creativity, theatrics, surprises, use of tech and general beauty. (little pic of where Munch paints your portrait, w buttons on the chairs arms for English or Norwegian)
In a dark soon the shadow of a person painting on a transparent easel looms over a small chair
March 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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goddamn, thank god I've got a week and a half in Stockholm after Knutepunkt because I'll need that to even *start* thinking about everything I've heard/seen/watched/listened to/chatted about these last few days

(for now: Puerto Banana is my new fave tabletop game)
Banana tiles for a tabletop game with various numbers on them, scattered around an unrelated floor map and note saying 'ghost exploration: grab a pack and play your pervasive mini larp experience'
March 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Made an in-world tarot deck whilst playing Krystalium this week - all inspired by moments in game, used by my character to divine feelings about upcoming missions etc. Really like it as a way of documenting a game!
5 cards: The Cured (a candle in a cage) The Wanting Noose (a noose) The Disturbed Water (a beach with things washed ashore) The Constant Answer (a bisected crystal, the image in negative on one side) The Unmade Skeleton (an opening to a spine with crystals around it) 10 cards: The Decorated Man (a uniformed shoulder) The Fading Heart (a bed with someone's body shrouded) The Criminals Comfort (three candles) The Untamed Scientist (two containers of experiments) The Foreseen Loss (an inverted anchor) The Fallen Family (a house with a black explosion at it's core) The Second Ship (an empty sea at sunset) The Returning Parasite (a flower overtaken by crystals, with shed ones on the ground) The Good Death (flowers in long grass) The Clean Host (a person in a doorway) 10 cards: The Second Thought (two syringes) The Slow Poison (an eye with tendrils emerging from a small iris) The Deeper Wound (a shaded face leads down to a bandaged neck) The Equaliser (a stormy sea with raft in the foreground, huge ship in the distance) The Revived Ghost (a body suspended in the position of being dragged away upright) The Bound Chaos (a crystal in elaborate container) The Final Lie (hands holding each other) The Burning Body (a neck, shoulder and arm with crystalline growths) The 12.05 (a pocket watch showing 12.05) The Medicine (a torso filling with layered liquid)
March 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Went through my Krystalium characters 'words' this evening (since, I basically have everything she 'said' written down) - love the variety of messages on 1st page, and the handwriting that varies with tone of message, and I think 2nd page is only written 'conversation' that happened
notebook page with notes: 'theyd fill it with krystalium' (in messier handwriting) 'people cannot go to the medbay because there is too much krystalium there's 'friendly family visit' 'krystalium poisoning + presence of krystalium = dead' 'youre wrapped up cosy in the kraken's tentacles' 'what shit did you have to deal with today? ' He is trying to crew the 2nd ship with Alaverdians (he's crewed the 1st with his own crew). He's expecting news of it's location & who is aboard soon. he will tell me any news as soon as he has it. He can be trusted right now to fight on the revolutions side. (different handwriting) And Alaverde? "revolution's side"
March 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Been quiet online because I've been larping at Krystalium the last few days!

Been silent irl because the universe is hilarious and I *entirely* lost my voice right before the game. Which...definitely gave some interesting insights for research into game and experience design! Writing up soon
A white femme with cropped turquoise hair and blue mottling on their neck wears a grey military jacket and stands outside a fort
March 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Just 'rehearsed' Support Group for the Newly Human (spoke to imaginary people whilst pacing my room...) and *so excited* for tonight! This strange, gentle, emotional, silly show-slash-game combines so much I love, can't wait to see what people do with it!

(Also: it packs down *this small"?!)
A person holds up a small, light bag about the size of a bag of flour
February 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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At Xmas my housemates gave me the official Spiderman board game released as a tie-in to the 1st Sam Raimi film - yesterday I got to play it. IT'S WONDERFUL/TERRIBLE. The maze challenge is so easy to get pumped for, the 'swinging spiderman' mechanic is so tricky the game assumes you'll fail...
A board game showing a blue and red spiderweb style design with a small maze in the centre, images of spiderman and the green goblin at the edges, small cardboard figures of goons and the green goblin and various icons and descriptions of combat written on it
February 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I was at a symposium this past week on exploring non-formal modes of climate education for young people, got chatting about role-playing games as ways of 'rehearsing' for real-life. Which turned into me making a list of useful games related to activism/climate change/etc - sharing here if useful!
useful tabletop roleplaying games and larps for modelling activism/resistance .. TTRPGs: A year in revolt, tavern at the end of the world, hidden within walls (search on itch.io), spire (rowanrookanddecard. com), Winterhorn (Bullypulpitgames. com), Hagiography (email me! see below - it's a work in progress but brilliant and I have the writers permission to share it) for exploring climate change... LARP - larp for climate (nausika.eu - collection of 5 games), escape pod (search on itch.io) TTRPG - the water rises (search on itch.io) for exploring (frustrating at times!) political/democratic processes... TTRPG - rules and Roberts (search on itch.io)
January 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Looking forward to seeing more shows this year (barely saw any in 2024!) - like HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA PLAY D&D from @airlocktheatre.bsky.social (one of the few companies I made sure to catch last year) - love some D&D fun from a massively talented queer company

sohotheatre.com/events/hot-s...
Four people in bright clothing, leant in on each other, each gesture to a different illustrated effect around them - crackling sparks, skull-shaped smoke, familiars shaped like mice, and a magical dating app view of a woodland figure
January 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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aaaaand back up to date with sweetwierd-dungeon-advent-calendar day 24
You find yourself just above the water level in what seems to be a well of horrific depth, a deep bed of shells far beneath you at its base. Reaching them pushes any body to its limit, but it can be worth it to listen to what the shells have to say - apparently, what will make your heart whole. A reassurance, a confession, a truth - though some say hearing it drives people to obssession.
December 24, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Sweetwierd-dungeon-advent-calendar day 23: time to just start making Indiana Jones pulls
Find gentle It's what you came here for. On a pressure-sensitive platform - if you're not to trigger a fatal portal trap, you must gently transfer something of equal weight into its place. Weight as in importance - it might be a magical power, your heritage, the peace you just brokered above ground...
December 24, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Day 21 of sweetwierd-dungeon-advent-calendar: we're going back to the violent/abundant/gentle well (if I'm taking one thing from this advent calendar, it's how helpful having evocative words like that to use as general inspo is)
Find abundant It's what you came here for. Grasped in the hand of someone you care for, their body overrun by chain vines - aggressive purple-green plants that use phasing abilities to grow in dark and unseen places. This must be an illusion, a mimic, a trick. But they say that if they lose grip, the vines will fully possess them.
December 24, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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I'm a) way behind on the advent calendar and b) on a several-hours journey for Xmas family visit, so ideal time to catch up. Day 20 of sweetwierd-dungeon-advent-calendar:
The only way out of this room is blocked by Hollow Fire - a white-grey flame that grows when left without fuel and can only be extinguished or diminished by adding fuel to be consumed by it. Decide what you will give up to pass: at some point in the future, you will see what you gave up in a stranger's possession - and somehow, it's always been theirs.
December 24, 2024 at 9:10 AM