Venny
@venezia-games.com
🌈 Senior Game Designer at Sumo
🫧 Co-Founder of Nucleolus
🕹️Past: SEGA - Creative Assembly, Mojiworks
✨BAFTA Voting Member, MCV 30 Under 30
🌷VGA at UKIE, Mentor at LB
🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺 She/Her
🫧 Co-Founder of Nucleolus
🕹️Past: SEGA - Creative Assembly, Mojiworks
✨BAFTA Voting Member, MCV 30 Under 30
🌷VGA at UKIE, Mentor at LB
🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺 She/Her
Just finished Pocket Boss, what a clever little game, I want to cry at how relatable some of its satire is 🥲🥲🥲
pocketboss.ch
pocketboss.ch
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Just finished Pocket Boss, what a clever little game, I want to cry at how relatable some of its satire is 🥲🥲🥲
pocketboss.ch
pocketboss.ch
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"Maybe AI is a creative solution if you aren't a creative person" - Dispatch devs take a firm, refreshing stance against AI www.eurogamer.net/maybe-ai-is-...
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Maybe AI is a creative solution if you aren't a creative person" - Dispatch devs take a firm, refreshing stance against AI www.eurogamer.net/maybe-ai-is-...
Just completed Hades II, clearly at the best possible moment as Supergiant have patched in a phenomenal and gratifying ending as of a few days ago 🥹🥹🥹
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just completed Hades II, clearly at the best possible moment as Supergiant have patched in a phenomenal and gratifying ending as of a few days ago 🥹🥹🥹
Hope you all had a terrifying Halloween 🎃🎃🎃 The best trio of Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach come for trick-or-treating last night and were rewarded with full-sized candy bars 🎃🎃🎃
November 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Hope you all had a terrifying Halloween 🎃🎃🎃 The best trio of Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach come for trick-or-treating last night and were rewarded with full-sized candy bars 🎃🎃🎃
Public testing for our new game has been going on throughout the weekend and people are saying such nice things 😭😭😭😭 If only they knew game devs run on a good compliment for months 😭😭😭
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Public testing for our new game has been going on throughout the weekend and people are saying such nice things 😭😭😭😭 If only they knew game devs run on a good compliment for months 😭😭😭
It’s a crazy exciting day, we’re running the first EVER public test of the game I’ve been working on 🥹🥹🥹
If you fancy silly fun with adorable characters that stretch, splat, slingshot & melt, feel free to grab a key, we’re live from 17:00 BST all week 🌈
projectd5.levelinfinite.com/recruitment/...
If you fancy silly fun with adorable characters that stretch, splat, slingshot & melt, feel free to grab a key, we’re live from 17:00 BST all week 🌈
projectd5.levelinfinite.com/recruitment/...
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It’s a crazy exciting day, we’re running the first EVER public test of the game I’ve been working on 🥹🥹🥹
If you fancy silly fun with adorable characters that stretch, splat, slingshot & melt, feel free to grab a key, we’re live from 17:00 BST all week 🌈
projectd5.levelinfinite.com/recruitment/...
If you fancy silly fun with adorable characters that stretch, splat, slingshot & melt, feel free to grab a key, we’re live from 17:00 BST all week 🌈
projectd5.levelinfinite.com/recruitment/...
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Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary
Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary
A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS
More than 100 charities have sent a letter to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, calling for an end to the “scapegoating of migrants”.
The letter, sent before her speech at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday afternoon, was coordinated by Refugee Action and signed by 105 organisations from a wide range of sectors – including Save the Children, Mind, Oxfam, Shelter, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, as well as dozens of migrant and anti-racism charities. It has also been signed by the PCS union, which represents Border Force workers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary
Just completed Lorelei and the Laser Eyes to about 98.5% Truth Recovered ☕️☕️☕️
It’s the most compelling, artistic, and just-the-right-amount challenging puzzle game, kudos to the dev team 👏👏👏 One of those games I wish I’d worked on, hats off 🙌
It’s the most compelling, artistic, and just-the-right-amount challenging puzzle game, kudos to the dev team 👏👏👏 One of those games I wish I’d worked on, hats off 🙌
September 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just completed Lorelei and the Laser Eyes to about 98.5% Truth Recovered ☕️☕️☕️
It’s the most compelling, artistic, and just-the-right-amount challenging puzzle game, kudos to the dev team 👏👏👏 One of those games I wish I’d worked on, hats off 🙌
It’s the most compelling, artistic, and just-the-right-amount challenging puzzle game, kudos to the dev team 👏👏👏 One of those games I wish I’d worked on, hats off 🙌
Basilica Cistern, Istanbul - My game dev brain was thoroughly impressed by what a phenomenal level this would make 🤩🤩🤩
August 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Basilica Cistern, Istanbul - My game dev brain was thoroughly impressed by what a phenomenal level this would make 🤩🤩🤩
K/DA walked so HUNTR/X could run, obsessed with K-Pop Demon Hunters right now ✨✨✨
July 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
K/DA walked so HUNTR/X could run, obsessed with K-Pop Demon Hunters right now ✨✨✨
Hope you like this feed cleanser from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew 🌿🌿🌿
June 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Hope you like this feed cleanser from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew 🌿🌿🌿
Went to see Twenty One Pilots, freaking phenomenal show 👏👏👏 I’m so excited for the 10 year anniversary of Blurryface
May 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Went to see Twenty One Pilots, freaking phenomenal show 👏👏👏 I’m so excited for the 10 year anniversary of Blurryface
Few games have as much soul as South of Midnight 🌿🌿🌿
The combat is gratifying, albeit a tad monotone, but it doesn’t even matter. The strength of the music, visuals, narrative, and mythical creature design more than makes up for shortcomings elsewhere 👏👏👏
The combat is gratifying, albeit a tad monotone, but it doesn’t even matter. The strength of the music, visuals, narrative, and mythical creature design more than makes up for shortcomings elsewhere 👏👏👏
May 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Few games have as much soul as South of Midnight 🌿🌿🌿
The combat is gratifying, albeit a tad monotone, but it doesn’t even matter. The strength of the music, visuals, narrative, and mythical creature design more than makes up for shortcomings elsewhere 👏👏👏
The combat is gratifying, albeit a tad monotone, but it doesn’t even matter. The strength of the music, visuals, narrative, and mythical creature design more than makes up for shortcomings elsewhere 👏👏👏
This short has added so much soul to Marathon, it’s the highlight of the reveal 👏👏👏
The extraction shooter genre is such a hyper-competitive market, but if Bungie can bring this vision to the actual gameplay and meta systems, we’re in for a treat ✨
youtu.be/e5XwfpqnJzI?...
The extraction shooter genre is such a hyper-competitive market, but if Bungie can bring this vision to the actual gameplay and meta systems, we’re in for a treat ✨
youtu.be/e5XwfpqnJzI?...
Marathon - Reveal Cinematic Short | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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April 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This short has added so much soul to Marathon, it’s the highlight of the reveal 👏👏👏
The extraction shooter genre is such a hyper-competitive market, but if Bungie can bring this vision to the actual gameplay and meta systems, we’re in for a treat ✨
youtu.be/e5XwfpqnJzI?...
The extraction shooter genre is such a hyper-competitive market, but if Bungie can bring this vision to the actual gameplay and meta systems, we’re in for a treat ✨
youtu.be/e5XwfpqnJzI?...
I’m really surprised Nintendo hasn’t come out with a statement about this yet 🤔 Top notch article on this topic👏👏👏
I went down a rabbit hole into the "physical Switch 2 games cost $90" claim and found a self-feeding cycle of misinformation that speaks to how Google is making us all dumber. www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/no-sw...
The confusion around $90 Switch 2 games proves how broken the internet is
The internet seems to believe that Nintendo Switch 2 games cost $90, but that's not entirely accurate based on what we know.
www.digitaltrends.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’m really surprised Nintendo hasn’t come out with a statement about this yet 🤔 Top notch article on this topic👏👏👏
Botany Manor is so peaceful and beautiful, what a welcome break from the world 😌
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Botany Manor is so peaceful and beautiful, what a welcome break from the world 😌
Massive milestone for Monster Hunter Wilds at 10M+ units sold in its first month 👏👏👏
It’s my first Monster Hunter game and the cut-scenes just hit different 👌
It’s my first Monster Hunter game and the cut-scenes just hit different 👌
March 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Massive milestone for Monster Hunter Wilds at 10M+ units sold in its first month 👏👏👏
It’s my first Monster Hunter game and the cut-scenes just hit different 👌
It’s my first Monster Hunter game and the cut-scenes just hit different 👌
Built another miniature book nook, this time a version of Jiufen Old Street in Taiwan 🏮🏮🏮
Very soothing build, using silicon glue and precision tweezers made it so meditative 🪷
Very soothing build, using silicon glue and precision tweezers made it so meditative 🪷
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Built another miniature book nook, this time a version of Jiufen Old Street in Taiwan 🏮🏮🏮
Very soothing build, using silicon glue and precision tweezers made it so meditative 🪷
Very soothing build, using silicon glue and precision tweezers made it so meditative 🪷
I’ve been fighting the urge to scream today by building a tiny miniature book store angrily 😡 Turned out cute though 😡😡😡
March 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’ve been fighting the urge to scream today by building a tiny miniature book store angrily 😡 Turned out cute though 😡😡😡
Citizen Sleeper 2 is that rare kind of game that offers space for reflection upon its themes.
It’s a needed oasis from information-overload and completionism that asks the player to consider underlying values rather than outcomes.
Highly recommend this gem, it’s now one do my top ten ✨
It’s a needed oasis from information-overload and completionism that asks the player to consider underlying values rather than outcomes.
Highly recommend this gem, it’s now one do my top ten ✨
February 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Citizen Sleeper 2 is that rare kind of game that offers space for reflection upon its themes.
It’s a needed oasis from information-overload and completionism that asks the player to consider underlying values rather than outcomes.
Highly recommend this gem, it’s now one do my top ten ✨
It’s a needed oasis from information-overload and completionism that asks the player to consider underlying values rather than outcomes.
Highly recommend this gem, it’s now one do my top ten ✨
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I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
February 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
My take on this is that they’re referring to a strategy more similar to what Diablo IV is doing - you still get your massive single-player campaign, but you can also play with friends if you want to and leave yourself enough room for growth via additional missions and seasons 👀
EA suggests Dragon Age: The Veilguard might have sold better if it was live-service - so what does this mean for Mass Effect 5?
www.eurogamer.net/ea-suggests-...
www.eurogamer.net/ea-suggests-...
February 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My take on this is that they’re referring to a strategy more similar to what Diablo IV is doing - you still get your massive single-player campaign, but you can also play with friends if you want to and leave yourself enough room for growth via additional missions and seasons 👀
About to finish Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, they absolutely smashed it 💪
🍿 The world-building, the details perfectly capture the magic of the films
📸 First time I’ve been excited to use the in-game camera and journal!
Bloody brilliant game, can’t recommend enough ✨ Kudos to the team! 👏👏👏
🍿 The world-building, the details perfectly capture the magic of the films
📸 First time I’ve been excited to use the in-game camera and journal!
Bloody brilliant game, can’t recommend enough ✨ Kudos to the team! 👏👏👏
January 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
About to finish Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, they absolutely smashed it 💪
🍿 The world-building, the details perfectly capture the magic of the films
📸 First time I’ve been excited to use the in-game camera and journal!
Bloody brilliant game, can’t recommend enough ✨ Kudos to the team! 👏👏👏
🍿 The world-building, the details perfectly capture the magic of the films
📸 First time I’ve been excited to use the in-game camera and journal!
Bloody brilliant game, can’t recommend enough ✨ Kudos to the team! 👏👏👏
Finished my latest Lego set, the Retro Radio 🧱 Gorgeous set and a thoroughly enjoyable build, despite the seemingly simple appearance 🌷
✨ Loads of hidden mechanisms, the dials work with super satisfying clicks 🎛️
✨ Surprisingly charming sound brick, with loads of personality 📻
Cat-approved too! 🐈
✨ Loads of hidden mechanisms, the dials work with super satisfying clicks 🎛️
✨ Surprisingly charming sound brick, with loads of personality 📻
Cat-approved too! 🐈
December 19, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Finished my latest Lego set, the Retro Radio 🧱 Gorgeous set and a thoroughly enjoyable build, despite the seemingly simple appearance 🌷
✨ Loads of hidden mechanisms, the dials work with super satisfying clicks 🎛️
✨ Surprisingly charming sound brick, with loads of personality 📻
Cat-approved too! 🐈
✨ Loads of hidden mechanisms, the dials work with super satisfying clicks 🎛️
✨ Surprisingly charming sound brick, with loads of personality 📻
Cat-approved too! 🐈
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In Moss, Quill interacts with a lot in her world, but we didn’t want to slow gameplay. Most of her actions are quick so you can keep moving.
But when she encounters something new? She takes her time, acts it out, and lets you see her personality. Like this! 🐭✨
#Moss #GameDev #Animation
But when she encounters something new? She takes her time, acts it out, and lets you see her personality. Like this! 🐭✨
#Moss #GameDev #Animation
December 17, 2024 at 11:14 PM
In Moss, Quill interacts with a lot in her world, but we didn’t want to slow gameplay. Most of her actions are quick so you can keep moving.
But when she encounters something new? She takes her time, acts it out, and lets you see her personality. Like this! 🐭✨
#Moss #GameDev #Animation
But when she encounters something new? She takes her time, acts it out, and lets you see her personality. Like this! 🐭✨
#Moss #GameDev #Animation