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Michaela
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Environment Game Artist • Plant lover • Dog Parent • She/They

Just here to make friends! ❤️💛💙

Portfolio: https://michaelaakcottrill.artstation.com/
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Michaela @michaelaakcottrill.bsky.social · May 28
Hello Bluesky! 👋

I am environment artist that works on indie games!

I am open for work, and always looking to connect with new people and make new friends!
Picture of a 3D rendered scene of several neon restaurant signs popping out of a box. The text at the bottom reads "Restaurant Builder Set" A 3D rendered scene of a picnic table with a blue gingham table cloth. The table has plates, a piece, silverware, a couple of baguettes, a cheese board, and a lemonade pitcher with cups by it. The whole table is on a circular splotchy piece of land almost a black background A 3D rendered scene of a A frame cabin that it decorated for Halloween. I'm the background are many colorful ash trees that are in the high of fall colors. Behind them are a few pine trees. The cabin itself has hale bales and pumpkins and a couple of jack o lanterns placed out front by the porch. A dimly lit, isometric view of a stylized dungeon. There are pops of bright yellow light highlighting a work table, a chest and a wall, along with some walkways. There is also a curious blue light to right, that looks like it could be emanating from a floating rock with symbols on it.
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aimeecozza.com
Today is BACK UP DAY! 💾 Here's your monthly reminder. Make sure your back ups are working.

Download your cloud writing and put it somewhere else safe. Make a copy of your procreate files. Back up your website too! Check to make sure your back ups are running and USABLE!
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online
i forgot today was a trans holiday so to celebrate tdor give me money

toss some in my gfm or on CA: $dyadicdsapphic
dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online sabrina, winterized cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 26d
because SNAP is cut off, i am in a bit of a bind as i make my move into my new place. while the move itself is totally secure, my food budget is significantly more dire. anything you give helps, both for now and for when i get moved in this month. thanks and god bless ❤️‍🔥🖤💜

gofund.me/03eaeacb6
Donate to Support Sabrina's Move to a New Home, organized by Sabrina Valentine
Hi there! My name is Sabrina. I'm a disabled trans woman displaced from my home… Sabrina Valentine needs your support for Support Sabrina's Move to a New Home
gofund.me
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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thetransfemininereview.com
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor
Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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protowlf.bsky.social
Hey, I made a Blender add-on for game assets!

It fixes all the problems with Blender-to-Unreal FBX exports, and makes it easy to manage multiple anims in 1 .blend file

I just pushed a new update that adds more options to the FBX exporter

extensions.blender.org/add-ons/prot...

#gamedev #ue5
Screenshot of Blender, showing the export dialogue of the add-on.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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tempopogame.com
We're so excited to be nominated at the Indie Game Awards! We're up for the ANZ Indie Game Award category alongside many incredible games 💗
The Indie Game Awards 2025 Nominee image with our Tempopo Key Art featured. Our Key Art features a few pink blob creatures called Tempopo, a Chomper Guy chasing one, and Hana our Conductor protagonist. indiegameawards.gg
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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devonwiersma.bsky.social
ICYMI LOOK AT MY VIDEO GAME I ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!
devonwiersma.bsky.social WISHLIST SKRUB SQUAD @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 7d
HEY I'M ANNOUNCING MY COOL NEW INDIE GAME

Kick back, relax, and get cleaning solo or with friends! The multiverse is a messy place, and when things get dirty the S.K.R.U.B. Squad is there!

Please wishlist and share, it really helps a whole lot! 👇👇👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3900170/...
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Interested in making it a reality? Since we're union with a direct-to-join model... you can!

Read up on how to join here:
uvw-cwa.org/membership
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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thomasfrick.bsky.social
I'm donating too. We should gather and raly around any tools that unlocks creativity for all. Blender <3
makkon.bsky.social Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 8d
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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caitlinroseboyle.com
you wanna hire my extremely smart & skilled husband to work on your next indie game!
you wanna hire him so bad!
ryanmcdiarmid.com Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · Oct 6
In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.
October 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation.

If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.

We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Yellow sea sponge cartoon getting up tiredly from their courch
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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retconmagazine.com
Demonschool proves we need more small numbers in RPGs.

Read more: retconmagazine.com/demonschool-...
Demonschool Proves We Need More Small Numbers in RPGs
I've been playing Demonschool, an indie tactical RPG from Necrosoft, and it's taught me one thing. Small numbers are awesome.
retconmagazine.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
This thing took so much work, from so many people - RPGs have so many little working parts, and we did so much to try to make this world feel alive. The team is just vibrating right now, seeing how this all goes, but for now it's great to just have it out there, in people's hands.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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princerosalium.bsky.social
Announcing my new project, Rigmarole! 💙🐈✨

A point-and-click adventure visual novel about a NY-Italian gyaru and her fruity mahjong buddies driving across the country to go snatch back her Nonna's cat from her gay homophobe rock star cousin!

priro.itch.io/rigmarole
This one's gonna be a wild ride.
a classical lolita (pale, redhead with hime cut, greek jewish) , a gyaru (sicilian, fake blonde hair, medium tan), and a visual kei goth (dark-skinned, textured hair in a sujimori style, black) in a paper-scrap art style looking up at a little cat jumping over them. they are surrounded by a collage of italian cookies and the title "rigmarole!" is placed in an arch above them.
November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
OUR PRESSURE IS WORKING!

We spent all last week on the Hill pushing for articles of impeachment of RFK Jr.

It's time to crank up the pressure EVEN MORE! You can help us!

@standupforscience.bsky.social
#impeachthequack
standupforscience.bsky.social Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Sep 25
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr.

We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV
Poster-style graphic with bold text reading “TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES: THE QUACK RFK Jr. HAS TO GO!” A large photo of RFK Jr. is overlaid with a yellow biohazard sign, while a man’s shoe is about to kick him out. At the bottom, logos and text say “Stand Up For Science” and “Fuel the fight: standupforscience.net.”
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr.

We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV
Poster-style graphic with bold text reading “TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES: THE QUACK RFK Jr. HAS TO GO!” A large photo of RFK Jr. is overlaid with a yellow biohazard sign, while a man’s shoe is about to kick him out. At the bottom, logos and text say “Stand Up For Science” and “Fuel the fight: standupforscience.net.”
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Random internet trolls should not be able to get away with ruining a good person’s life simply because she (fully legally!) posted a joke about them on the internet. If you have anything to spare to help my friend fight back against this monster please donate.
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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nat-the-dev.bsky.social
If anyone reading this loves the art from this game please note that I'm looking for work as a 3D Environment Artist ASAP! Thank you ❤️🌊
September 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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belllmonts.bsky.social
THIS ANIMATION IS SO INSANE
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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miawong.bsky.social
ICE literally murdered a guy in cold blood and the entire bourgeois press is talking about Charlie Kirk

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
davmicrot.bsky.social David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · Sep 14
Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.
September 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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itsjustmarsha.bsky.social
i’ve got $0.16 in my account
September 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do?

Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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friendadev.bsky.social
I’m so happy my arm is good enough to do RDL’s again (anime OST’s necessary)
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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breebird33.bsky.social
widdle mushroom goil 🍄‍🟫✨
sketch of a figure with trumpet-shaped fungi for a head stands by some rocks and foliage in a dress, sweater, and shawl, holding a small basket
September 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
That msnbc guy got fired for saying these words
After emphasizing that there were no details of the shooting at that time, Dowd said of Kirk: "He's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive, younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions." "And I think that's the environment we're in. You can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment we are in." Following the on-air commentary, a source at the network has told TIME that Dowd is no longer with MSNBC.
September 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM