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Shawny "Mouse" Alison
@mousewastaken.bsky.social
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🎮 | Game Dev - CM, SMM, Accessibility
🌈 | They/Them, Ace & Pan
♿ | AuDHD, hEDS, Fibro, POTS & friends
📖 | Reader of Books
🖋️ | Writer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Things
🕹️ | Player of Games
🙈 | Headache for DMs
💻 | shawnyalison.com
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Hi, I'm Shawny! 👋

I'm not at GDC, because I'm in Japan right now but I've worked in community management/social media/marketing/accessibility professionally for 4 years & over a decade in player-led spaces!

Recently made redundant from my role at Bonsai Collective so LFW!

#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
A femme presenting person with short red hair and glasses smiling at the camera.
March 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
mousewastaken.bsky.social
Yesterdays Japan highlight was going to be all about the traditional house/inn we booked in Kyoto for our 10 year anniversary—it has an indoor/outdoor onsen bath! But something else happened too... 💍
A photograph of a small Japanese garden featuring black bamboo and other plants. Behind it there's an open door showing an onsen stone bathtub. A photograph showing a small Japanese garden with black bamboo and other plants. A photograph of 2 hands belonging to different people. The top hand shows an engagement ring on the ring finger.
March 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Highlight number 1 of this Japan trip so far - The Ghibli Museum!

We didn't get to go here last time as tickets were gone but thanks to staying up til like 4am last month we managed to nab some. No photos allowed inside but I did get a couple in the outside areas!
A photo of the life-size Laputian Robot from Castle in the Sky at the Ghibli Museum, Tokyo. A tall metal sculpture of a robot standing approximately 3.4m tall. A photograph of the door at the entrance to the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo showing a stained glass design of Totoro from My Neighbour Totoro - a large, rounded, grey creature with pointed ears and a round white tummy. A photograph of the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo showing part of the colourful house in yellow covered by a bush/plant growing all over it and showing a rounded tower sticking out behind it leading to the roof. A photograph of the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo showing a colourful house painted in yellow, red, white and orange. Some parts are covered in a plant growing on the house itself and shaped around parts of it.
March 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
mousewastaken.bsky.social
I'll be at Pocket Gamer Connect this week! I've been invited to host a panel with some of the Blind Burners crew on Tuesday at 11am on changing culture in game dev. Come along to it if you're there!
January 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
mousewastaken.bsky.social
Yes! I started reading so much more once I got my kindle, I've always read a lot but keeping my kindle streak up has me reading even more 😅

It also has me competing with the estimated time left in book/chapter stats
Screenshot of the reading streak stats from the Kindle app showing a 167 weeks in a row streak & a 1031 days in a row streak.
November 15, 2024 at 10:44 AM
mousewastaken.bsky.social
Hey Bluesky! If you don't know me hi I'm Shawny or you may know me as MouseWasTaken. I'm the community manager for @bonsaigames.bsky.social working on Luna Abyss.

Apart from that I play games, read books & write some SFF stuff that may one day see the light of day! Have some pet tax too!
October 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM