Tamrielo
@tamrielo.bsky.social
10 years of game design, 7 years of business from marketing to product. I make MMOs, I paint miniatures, I DM for TTRPGs, and probably a few other things. 🇵🇷
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Finished a project, which I don’t get to say often. Invincible Army, and I’m really pleased with this yellow.
Total time: about 35 hours.
Total time: about 35 hours.
July 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Finished a project, which I don’t get to say often. Invincible Army, and I’m really pleased with this yellow.
Total time: about 35 hours.
Total time: about 35 hours.
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if you're tired of friendslop, that's not very hopecore of you, truly in your hate era, so not teeheepilled, should be smilemaxxing, have you ever heard of yay theory, don't be a genrecel, i love to play companionlikes, it's so sugoipunk
July 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
if you're tired of friendslop, that's not very hopecore of you, truly in your hate era, so not teeheepilled, should be smilemaxxing, have you ever heard of yay theory, don't be a genrecel, i love to play companionlikes, it's so sugoipunk
Thanks to @ass.golf I am now unable to meet anyone named Penelope without immediately thinking of pronouncing it to rhyme with "antelope", which I just sort of suppress.
Today I interviewed someone who, as an intro, went "or you can say it like pen-ell-ohp if you like" and it very nearly broke me
Today I interviewed someone who, as an intro, went "or you can say it like pen-ell-ohp if you like" and it very nearly broke me
May 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thanks to @ass.golf I am now unable to meet anyone named Penelope without immediately thinking of pronouncing it to rhyme with "antelope", which I just sort of suppress.
Today I interviewed someone who, as an intro, went "or you can say it like pen-ell-ohp if you like" and it very nearly broke me
Today I interviewed someone who, as an intro, went "or you can say it like pen-ell-ohp if you like" and it very nearly broke me
Understanding a medium is vital to telling a good story. This story gets that.
dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night
May 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Understanding a medium is vital to telling a good story. This story gets that.
May 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It's final paper season.
May 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It's final paper season.
I got death threats for working on Elder Scrolls Online, over a year before it released.
I got death threats for saying I was looking forward to the Wonder Woman film 🙃
I got death threats for speaking to Hideo Kojima in an unworshipful way
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I got death threats for working on Elder Scrolls Online, over a year before it released.
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5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:
January 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:
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"I think Unpacking's diploma demonstrates a deeper understanding of narrative in games than the diploma on my wall does."
Story by James O'Connor.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/wordplayer-im-still-thinking-about-the-diploma-in-unpacking/
Story by James O'Connor.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/wordplayer-im-still-thinking-about-the-diploma-in-unpacking/
December 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM
"I think Unpacking's diploma demonstrates a deeper understanding of narrative in games than the diploma on my wall does."
Story by James O'Connor.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/wordplayer-im-still-thinking-about-the-diploma-in-unpacking/
Story by James O'Connor.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/wordplayer-im-still-thinking-about-the-diploma-in-unpacking/
Gamedevs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.
(doing the first game I shipped professionally here)
(doing the first game I shipped professionally here)
December 15, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Gamedevs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.
(doing the first game I shipped professionally here)
(doing the first game I shipped professionally here)
Been processing grief over the suicide of my brother-in-law via minis painting, and have nearly finished this project.
As I’ve read about them, Blood Angels have felt very apt.
Rest in peace, Sam.
As I’ve read about them, Blood Angels have felt very apt.
Rest in peace, Sam.
October 28, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Been processing grief over the suicide of my brother-in-law via minis painting, and have nearly finished this project.
As I’ve read about them, Blood Angels have felt very apt.
Rest in peace, Sam.
As I’ve read about them, Blood Angels have felt very apt.
Rest in peace, Sam.
Have a game I really want to play, but it lacks inverted Y support, making it unplayable for me on PC.
I really wish more people realized that this is an accessibility issue, and not "oh haha who even does that".
I really wish more people realized that this is an accessibility issue, and not "oh haha who even does that".
October 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Have a game I really want to play, but it lacks inverted Y support, making it unplayable for me on PC.
I really wish more people realized that this is an accessibility issue, and not "oh haha who even does that".
I really wish more people realized that this is an accessibility issue, and not "oh haha who even does that".
The display on my shelf is legally not a sword according to the master swordsmith the yakuza introduced me to.
October 10, 2024 at 4:24 AM
The display on my shelf is legally not a sword according to the master swordsmith the yakuza introduced me to.
In a similar vein:
Sharing a screenshot I can hear.
Sharing a screenshot I can hear.
September 28, 2024 at 10:35 PM
In a similar vein:
Sharing a screenshot I can hear.
Sharing a screenshot I can hear.
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It's 16/09/24. You're an #indiegamedev. You spend all morning trying to figure out why your #indiegame isn't appearing in feeds. In a desperate attempt to get more eyes on your #gamedev journey for your #narrativegame with sick #pixelart you fill a skeet with hashtags and cool screenshots and hope.
September 17, 2024 at 11:17 AM
It's 16/09/24. You're an #indiegamedev. You spend all morning trying to figure out why your #indiegame isn't appearing in feeds. In a desperate attempt to get more eyes on your #gamedev journey for your #narrativegame with sick #pixelart you fill a skeet with hashtags and cool screenshots and hope.
Oh, that's fun. It definitely felt small when I started here, and feels quite a bit bigger.
September 17, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Oh, that's fun. It definitely felt small when I started here, and feels quite a bit bigger.
@ozone.birb.house Pinging for the gamedev label :)
September 6, 2024 at 2:42 AM
@ozone.birb.house Pinging for the gamedev label :)
This game is incredible, and hugely worth your time. It bumped several other things off of my list for our games of the year show.
Exocolonist is on sale again please go play it if you love women and/or space and/or feeling sad and/or you like very pretty artwork and compelling narratives and/or if u love me and want to make me happy by saying you're gonna play the game
January 30, 2024 at 2:29 AM
This game is incredible, and hugely worth your time. It bumped several other things off of my list for our games of the year show.
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someone recently asked my game design philosophy and i didn’t know how to describe it other than realpolitik: the team you have, market, stakeholders etc are hard truths. the game that will get made is the one you’re capable of making under those conditions. all other frameworks fall by the wayside.
September 11, 2023 at 2:30 AM
someone recently asked my game design philosophy and i didn’t know how to describe it other than realpolitik: the team you have, market, stakeholders etc are hard truths. the game that will get made is the one you’re capable of making under those conditions. all other frameworks fall by the wayside.
It brings me so much joy to see my characters continue to get new life. Whoever picked up this torch and kept it going, <3
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/64581
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/64581
August 18, 2023 at 5:54 AM
It brings me so much joy to see my characters continue to get new life. Whoever picked up this torch and kept it going, <3
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/64581
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/64581
Didn’t quite get the effect I wanted, but I’m pretty happy with the result anyway.
July 19, 2023 at 8:21 AM
Didn’t quite get the effect I wanted, but I’m pretty happy with the result anyway.
@gamedevlist.bsky.social Pinging as a AAA MMO dev. Might as well, right?
July 18, 2023 at 4:30 AM
@gamedevlist.bsky.social Pinging as a AAA MMO dev. Might as well, right?