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gina 🐸
@ginaloughlin.com
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Composer & Music Designer 🎼 she/her✨
Mythmatch / Wax Heads / Building Relationships / Mail Time
BAFTA Connect 🎮

📍 Nottingham, UK
🕸️ www.ginaloughlin.com
💌 ginaloughlinmusic@outlook.com
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 29d
hey #PortfolioDay ✨

i'm Gina, a composer for indie games!

starting to wrap up some projects so i’ll be available for new things in the new year 👀

if you’re making an extremely cool game and wanna work with a slightly cool person pls reach out!!

💌 ginaloughlinmusic@outlook.com
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patattiemurray.bsky.social
So @ginaloughlin.com is working on the LAST song she has to write for Wax Heads and we're having a totally normal conversation about it
screenshot of me and Gina talking about a song for wax heads on discord for the fictional movie "we're all glorf"
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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chrisbratt.bsky.social
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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patattiemurray.bsky.social
*Me staring at the hundreds of open PSD files open on my screen trying to painstakingly finish drawing our handcrafted record store game all about celebrating artistry instead of selling it out...*

"AI becomes the norm" ... over my dead body!
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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culturecrave.co
German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵

• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses

• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal

"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"

— German Music Rights Society
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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magmacranes.bsky.social
Hi I had my first lesson with a new composition/theory student today and it was a nice reminder that I rly enjoy teaching people how to make music! And good news, I have room for a few new students! Feel free to email or DM me to learn more 🩷🎼
Take music lessons with Megan! You could learn so many fun excellent cool rad wonderful things: *Music composition (including music for films, games, and other media) *Music theory *Orchestration/arrangement *Music production *Wwise *FMOD Cost per virtual lesson (USD) 30 min: $50 45 min: $65 60 min: $75 In-person potentially available to Chicago based students for an extra fee Contact: megan@megancarnesmusic.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
ginaloughlin.com
especially annoying to see audio folks rave about how good a game sounds but ignore the fact that it uses AI voice

ALL audio matters and you should care about this!!!

play and praise games made by actual humans!! reject AI!!!
saulbahah.bsky.social Gene Takavic @saulbahah.bsky.social · Aug 13
It bums me out that people would use AI generated voice lines on games.

Maybe I'm wrong in thinking this but I'm sure there's folks on those dev teams that could probably just do their best at VO, even if they're not the best, and it would be miles better than the computer just reading words?
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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polygonas.bsky.social
HEART DRIVE is a fast spin on the cozy fishing game genre! #pitchyagame

Catch giant fish from the top of your car, upgrade your equipment and help three friends uncover the mystery of an ancient machine god 🚗🎣

Wishlist ❤️ -> store.steampowered.com/app/4026760/...
#gamedev #indiegame
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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lukethehebble.bsky.social
I'm very happy to say that the 🎵 UK Games Composers 🎵 website is now back in action and fully revamped with a bunch of new features!

gamescomposers.co.uk
An annotated screenshot of the UK Games Composers website highlighting the updated features
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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bramblebug.bsky.social
that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan
a screenshot from Animal Crossing New Horizons, where two characters (a red otter with a white beanie, and the player wearing a striped bathing suit and brown cowboy hat) float in blue water. a white and red chat bubble reads, in blue lettering “Pascal: Talented folks are just normal folks who practice something more than other folks, maaan.”
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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tanatb.housefuckinggame.com
here's the recording for the talk where i said the f-slur three times!!

(note that there are some game spoilers)
power point presentation where a man in a mesh shirt is presenting a slide that says "there's a lot in this talk and i only have 10 minutes and i want to show you gameplay footage at the end and that means i will have to go fast i'm so sorry" and "note that i will say the f-slur 3 times this talk"
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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lukeplunkett.com
arc raiders, alters, same story

aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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eurogamer.bsky.social
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.

Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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mairispaceship.com
today I shall be mostly drawing messy watery things ✨
An orange train passing through water
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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mayabloem.bsky.social
On Saturday the Sinterklaas Slow Jam is starting - a 21-day jam to make whatever u want! I'm gonna be hosting + participating!

For non-Dutchies: Sinterklaas is Santas cooler cousin with more lore, featuring horses on rooftops & kidnapping naughty kids to Spain. Come join!!

tinyurl.com/wnf2479y
Sinterklaas Slow Jam 2025
A game jam from 2025-11-15 to 2025-12-05 hosted by Maya Bloem. This jam takes place from 15th November 2025 at 12:01PM until 5th December at 11:59PM, and you can make anything you want - game, tableto...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
ginaloughlin.com
leaves: crunched ✅
baked goods: got ✅
horses: horsed ✅

and now that i have been outdoors i am ready to spend the rest of the day indoors making music 😤💖
looking down onto the ground that's covered in orange and brown leaves. you can see my stripy pastel trousers, white trainers and the bottom of my lime green fleece me looking at the camera wearing a big lime green fleecy jacket. my hair is scruffy and faded purple and you can see blue sky poking through the trees in the background two scruffy white/grey horses in a field with lots of fallen leaves on the ground. they're in shade and there's sun shining on the grass behind them
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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oneofmoo.bsky.social
Hey #PitchYaGame!

Mythmatch is a Greek myth anti-capitalist merge game about the power of community over authority.

💪 Recruit and Empower the Mortals
🏠 Build and Upgrade Ithaca
⚡️ Challenge the Gods
🐐 Create Cute Creatures

Wishlist Now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
ginaloughlin.com
🚨‼️IF YOU WANNA HEAR SOME OF MY MUSIC AND SEE COOL LYRIC VIDEOS COME AND JUMP IN THE DISCORD‼️🚨
patattiemurray.bsky.social Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social · 5d
Am I secretly posting music videos of Wax Heads songs in our discord that we're not supposed to be releasing yet?

Surely not...

👀👀👀👀👀👀

discord.gg/9wHw644V
Screenshot from the Wax Heads discord server showing me posting a lyrics video for one of the songs from Wax Heads
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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timbuhrs.bsky.social
Hi #PitchYaGame
FOOTSY is a a physics-powered party game where “indoor soccer” means total household destruction!

💥Smash furniture with the wackiest balls
🏘️Discover crazy game modes
⚽️Score the craziest goals

🎉BIG reveal drops very soon, Wishlist now!
store.steampowered.com/app/3028560/Footsy/
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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electricsaint.bsky.social
Today is the day to #PitchYaGame so here we are, drifting, boosting and spreading kisses across your timeline!

Crescent County is currently in development but you can play the demo and wishlist the game on Steam RIGHT NOW!

Wishlist + Demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/2202650/...
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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oneofmoo.bsky.social
Super excited to announce that Mythmatch has been selected to be part of #CozyQuest2025 by
@wearesecretmode.com!

We'll be showing off
- New Trailer by @sammgreer.bsky.social
- New Gameplay with Dev Commentary by me
- New "continue in the main game" Demo

So let's get Cozy on Nov 17th!
Banner for Mythmatch in Cozy Quest 2025. Hosted on Steam from November 17th to 20th.
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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rj.dcellgames.com
Hi. I've been trying but I can't come up with a good thing to write here because the thing I wrote in this steam post took most of my energy.
UNBEATABLE - Important Announcement regarding UNBEATABLE - Steam News
Hi! UNBEATABLE was supposed to come out tomorrow! That’s a scary sentence. Here’s a worse one: UNBEATABLE will now release on December 9.  I hate that I have to say this. There’s no way to apologize f...
store.steampowered.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
ginaloughlin.com
aaaahhhhh i forgot it was the firework night!! my obnoxiously loud and annoying vocal recording will have to be paused until tomorrow 😔
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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vlyncrsn.bsky.social
Finally got the chance to cover this beauty! Alice by Tom Waits, full cover on my YouTube :) youtu.be/ZjVOt3V-Rvs?...

#music #musician #singer #tomwaits #acoustic
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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patattiemurray.bsky.social
Lil Record Vampire!

We started up our discord and now I get to just post all the silly stuff I'm making 😂👀⚰️

discord.gg/9wHw644V
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM