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Quinn K.
@quinnkdev.bsky.social
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I'm Quinn K., an artist, writer and gamedeveloper from Austria. 2023 IGF Nuovo Award Nominee. Worked on: An Outcry, There Swings A Skull, OFF.
Now: BLANKSWORD
she/her
Opinions are my own.
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The Favored Child
Two drawings of BLANK, the protagonist of BLANKSWORD, lying in a pool of his own blood, superimposed on each other. One is vacant-eyed, with a stab wound in his forehead; the other is awake, and crying a single tear.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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when it gets to be Halloween Seasons, i should start making a habit of dawsonposting

i've been doing it a strangely high amount this year and i'm having a blast
Mike Dawson, protagonist of Darkseed II, running like a jackass on a morning jog Mike Dawson, protagonist of Darkseed II, acting surprised at whatever is chasing him
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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catch my mind open like mike dawson's
Mike Dawson, protagonist of Darkseed, getting his mind opened in an extremely yonic way to have an alien fetus implanted in his head by an HR Giger-designed contraption.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Mike Dawson, not getting the explanation at all.
October 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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An old lady, explaining everything to Mike Dawson by exploding her head.
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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as for "when" - BLANK's very first drawing ever, in 2022, had the brain outline already:
Blank, a little white guy in a white dress-shirt, with a visible brain-outline on his head, wielding a twisted sword
September 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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in 2015, i had a game idea called "radon: a vapor play". that game's protag was a gaudy gold picture frame whose painting was missing, and had to be collected in parts across several surreal worlds.
the visible brain-outline was a continuation of that same idea, of a void as part of a design.
a vaguely person-shaped golden picture frame with a black void where normally a painting would be.
September 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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something wicked (sweet) this way comes...

(new icon by @koboldfactory.bsky.social !)
a drawing of a woman with white skin, big, round glasses, brown eyes and short brown hair wrapped in a polka-dotted scarf, looking directly and confidently at the viewer.
September 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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hmmm.. hmm, yes. let's do this, too, why not!
Tell me a video game name and I'm going to tell you my honest opinion about
August 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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i did this a couple of days ago, but finally mustered the courage to post it.
"Undertale made me want for games that hold the player accountable more; held people accountable more. In that way, it was one of many games pushing me to start gamedev myself."
July 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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RPG DEVELOPMENT!!!!
A large-footed bird in front of a burning forest with the word "DAMNATION!!!!!!!!!!" in large impact-font lettering above it.
July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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every

day.
July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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An Outcry is 50% off in the Steam Summer Sale!
store.steampowered.com/app/1817470/...

you should give it a look if you haven't yet. >:)
The unnamed, a bald, scrawny person with a censor bar over their eyes, is smoking a cigarette and having coffee outside. they're sweating, unwell from the heat. there's text next to them thzat states: "90° at 10 AM on a summer morning" A screenshot of the game "An Outcry"'s steam page. It is 50% off.
July 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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there's a beast in my home
A plushie of a white, grinning cat with large, cheshire-cat-like pearly white teeth. He's the judge, or pablo, from the game OFF, perched on a desk fan turned off.
June 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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it begins.

i'm committing the cardinal tech-writing sin of writing the intro before the first actual installment of the tutorial-- but i've got notes, i've got a plan, and maybe, if things go well, in 8-10 months, i'll slap you all with a tutorial on how to make turn-based combat in Game Maker!
RPG Maker 2003, and to a much lesser degree its successor MV (which I also dabbled in), are tools that leave a noticeable inprint on the final result of your hard work. Some people go so far as to call them "mod-platforms", but I disagree with that point-of-view; they *are* an engine, just not exactly a graceful one. In exchange for a faster and easier development process (which you, of course, might find desireable!), they are unmistakeable in their presence surrounding the games you make in them. Many people can spot an RPG Maker within seconds of playing it - especially those with an intent to derogatize your efforts. Game Maker has many advantages! It's versatile, offers support for many platforms, a great myriad tools, literal decades of user- and developer-created resources... But above all, it's an engine that leaves its visible stamp on your work much less noticeably. For developing 2D games, few tools are better for a bloody beginner of programming. Its downside is, of course, code. GML is, in the grand scheme of things, both a very forgiving programming language to learn, *and* a very strange language, whose function-names are highly unintuitive to a lot of more storied programmers, and whose syntax is oftentimes too forgiving of mistakes that would get you eaten in C#, C++, or even its basis Javascript. So, great! Game Maker is smooth sailing for our kind then! Right? Wrong. I spent 2 years needing to learn it before I could do anything resembling an actual turn-based RPG. The biggest hurdle in that ordeal was the core of the concept itself: Turn-based combat.
June 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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i think the most damning thing i've realized today is that this painting of a house that adolf hitler painted ~a century ago (which i have nicknamed "Hitler-Haus") is about on par with a good 95% of all AI pictures out there.

it truly is the world's shittiest picture puzzle every time.
A painting of courtyard of a house with myriad perspective and sizing errors, sloppily masked with blotchy foliage.
June 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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worth their weight in Mold 😎
a screenshot of a map-editor in Game Maker, showing an enormous stain of black mold in a run-down apartment building, with a bright orange collision mask on top of it.
May 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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- Scrap Book II: Stars and Psychosis.
this one was just a vent game i knew better than to make. still looking for a proper continuation of Scrap Book...
May 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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- Railroad Playhouse.
an edutainment and train-manager-inspired game that @emceeprophit.bsky.social was supposed to voice the tutorial character in. abandoned because making a level-editor is rough, + its message lost its strength after i got disillusioned with an author i alluded to in its writing.
May 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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- Avicide
sequel to "An Outcry". took place in a mountain town in Carinthia, Austria. a little bit "Chulip", a little bit "Papers, Please", a little bit "An Outcry".
shelved because 2 projects of this magnitude simultaneously would've killed me, and i couldn't find strong enough characters for it.
May 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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enough sadposting. it's time now to be giddy.

idk how closely you all paid attention to the key art on @blanksword.bsky.social 's steam page when it dropped, but. check it. Look At Her.
A one-eyed, white-skinned person with damselfly-wings, clad in an 80s-style women's blazer and a baroque-style, wide-hipped dress, fused at the hip with two golden hoops. she is facing away from the camera with her arms crossed, and side-eying the viewer.
May 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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yaayyyy hoorayyy yippeeeeee.

i was hesitant to put those there because people get A Certain Way about women on the internet, and the ambiguity seemed more comfortable. well- it's stopped feeling comfortable now, so here we go
she/her pronouns
May 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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oh, #WishlistWednesday , you say?

i'm working on Blanksword ( @blanksword.bsky.social ), a roguelike rpg where you're an Angel, lost your brain, and have to find the one-eyed weirdo who took it!

(no BLANKs harmed in the making of this video.)

wishlist here!
store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...
April 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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looking over blanksword, the only map ive made that im really, truly proud of is this one.

i need to find my joy in level design, in map creation again!!
a cliffside and a big amphitheatre in a blue-grassed forest with tall trees and tree-canopy shadows on the ground. in the shade of the trees, a burbling brook surrounded by plants flows. a bus-stop signed shaped like and apple, and an idling caterpillar-shaped train sit near the foreground.
April 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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i made An Outcry, a horror rpg where you play as a physically weak smoker trying to survive a horrific night in Vienna, Austria. that was in 2022; i still really like it because i think its writing has some of the best moments i've made to-date.
store.steampowered.com/app/1817470/...
A screenshot of the game "An Outcry". It shows a great structure, a train station in Vienna, Austria, across the street from a person in purple whose eyes are obscured by a black bar. A screenshot of the game "An Outcry". It shows a courtyard with a pile of bricks and full of birds with orange-glowing eyes. A person in purple whose eyes are obscured by a black bar, our protagonist, has a spotlight shining on them. Text at the bottom of the screenshot says: "Your curtain may be calling. Breathe, unnamed. Know what you have to do." A screenshot of the game "An Outcry". It shows a Stolperstein, part of the art installation by artist Gunter Demnig, with a shadow cast over it of a person examining it. At the bottom is text that says: "HERE LIVED A name, a human being, a person, a specificity; A Span of time in history." A screenshot of the game "An Outcry". It shows a political poster with the Austrian flag in the background. The face of the candidate on it has completely been washed away by some indistinct rot. At the top of the screenshot, there is text stating: " 'We will not be silenced!' (Our crimes should go unpunished.)"
April 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM