Daisy Fernandez

the magpie is out of the bag! what the HELL!!! i am so proud of what our small but talented team is making and am so unbelievably grateful to have crossed paths with @catherineunger.bsky.social and @georgebatch.bsky.social back in 2019 ❤️🐦⭐🥛🦷❤️

Late last year I interviewed a host of folks from one of my greatest loves… ‘The DIY Arcade scene’ for Issue 5 of @apwot.bsky.social This week the weighty and lovingly designed issue dropped through the letterbox…

Been playing demos—say hi to these plumed protags, one silent, and one very much not! Games are Bad Magpie and Feather's Edge. #badmagpie #feathersedge

happy WOIM release boxing day to all who celebrate 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

so excited for this

We're Visai Games! 👋 We made Venba, an award winning narrative cooking game. As outsiders to the industry, we found our following in twitter but logging into it now means coming face to face with a lot of South Asian racism. If you like Venba, Follow us here so we don't have to login to twitter!

if you’ve been meaning to donate to Dreams on a Pillow, this is the week. Launch Good is matching everything raised, so whatever you give gets doubled!! ❤️

you should tune in for catherine’s segment because not only is it an insight into her genius but it’s also a great example of how to credit the people you’re working with

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*Really* looking forward to playing this

twas' the eve before Bad Magpie's demo, and all through the house, everyone was stirring, especially the mice!!! 🐭 available on Steam and XBOX on PC tomorrow (Thursday 8th Oct) at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CEST. who's going to be the first to collect all the meteorites?!

I did a couple of fireside chats for #LudoNarraCon! Had a fab time talking to @coldbloodinc.studio and @milktooth.bsky.social, catch the vids on Monday!

THIS IS THE WEEK! The Bad Magpie demo will be available on Steam and XBOX on PC this Thursday at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CEST. Set your alarms now! 🏫explore the school biome 🌟discover 30 shiny meteorites 🐭sow chaos amongst the world’s inhabitants

twas i that got sucked upon by a leech 😔

day 371 - consume me is having its biggest sale right now!!! 40% off!!! 🥵 👩‍💻 store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/... #creatorsearchinsights #steamgames #cozygames #indiegames #gamingontiktok

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

If both games reach their wishlist milestones by the end of October, I'll purchase my own pigeon mask and recreate this $16.50 USD value stock image I found while looking for non-AI images of birds at a computer. Which milestones are those, you might ask? Wishlist to find out!

what a lineup... we eating GOOD at LNC 26 🍽️

we're in LudoNarraCon 2026! which means 🚨 YOU WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO PLAY THE BAD MAGPIE DEMO 🚨 who's joining us to inflict some magpie chaos on the 8th October?!

tokyo game show day 3, the magpie lives to peck another day and so do we

Vous êtes sur Paris Samedi? Et ben ça tombe bien moi aussi, et plus précisément au Sorbonne Play Festival où je présente une conférence sur la représentation animale dans le jeu vidéo à 10h30 ! Avec plaisir de vous y rencontrer ^^

He’d giving me postprandial purr therapy

we here

It’s newsletter day once again,! This time I’m diving into the visual inspirations for the “ink and grain” aesthetic of Signet City. 📷 Read here: jumpovertheage.substack.com/p/signet-cit...

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

Lap totally gingered

Two days left to sign up for next year's Arts Emergency!!! Mentors from games are often in particularly short supply! Give it a look, it's fun and pretty straightforward and you get to keep up with what The Young People are like (actually pretty great, reassuringly)!

🚨🥛 milky mail issue 2 🥛🚨

Now you can watch a short form of our film "Still Playing" on Al Jazerah English make sure to Wishlist the game on steam store.steampowered.com/app/4438850/... To support the game development www.launchgood.com/1948

we still can’t believe Bad Magpie won best game at the @indiearenabooth.de awards!!! thank you so much, we are incredibly honoured and excited (as you can see by these pictures)

Oh, the best game at Indie Arena Booth 2026 you ask? WELL, IT’S BAD MAGPIE!!! Congratulations to the legends at @milktooth.bsky.social 🔥 Woohoooo 🥳

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE HONOUR THANK YOU SO MUCH AGHSDJHWJSH

we've been nominated for a gamescom award!!! Bad Magpie is up for most entertaining game at gamescom 2026, how exciting 🌟🌟🌟 from Wednesday come play the game at: 1️⃣ the WINGS booth at @indiearenabooth.de - hall 10.2, F-0.10 E-0.19 2️⃣ the @xbox.com booth - hall 7, A-0.61

excited to be part of this great event! 🟦🟡🟩🔴 come along to hear our design director @daisyfern.bsky.social and our technical director @georgebatch.bsky.social talk about making Bad Magpie

we descending into buffoonery in seconds

reminder that signups are still open til Monday for my class at SFPC! come learn about making creative tools with me! it's online! scholarships available! blog.vbuckenham.com/announcing-t...

Are you curious dolls ready to venture to @indiearenabooth.de ? Find PRISON OF HUSKS there next month, play the demo, pick up some merch, and say hi! Our handmade soulslike will await you there, and in the Steam fest :]

Just posted a Sneak Peck on the making of our 3D squishy bird for Bad Magpie. Please hop on the discord to find out more discord.gg/YhDqKwypkS #BadMagpie #IndieDev #IndieGame @milktooth.bsky.social

Happy Big Walk day to one and all!

shout out to my year 8 english teacher for traumatising the entire class with this so-bleak-it's-almost-funny animated version of the short story www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumN...

👇we have a newsletter👇

oh yes we are!! find us at @indiearenabooth.de and come play 🐣

support a wonderful team making something really special! WISHLIST FOOL KING!!! 🃏👑

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NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?

Hey @artsemergency.bsky.social has their call open for mentors again! You get paired with a young person approx. 16-17 and talk to them once a month, it's great and not very much work at all and the organisation is ALWAYS short of mentors who work in games

The response to this has completely blown me away. Thank you!!! Writing this book has been a dream come true for me, not to mention a MARATHON. Four years!! It all feels very unreal and I’m still waiting for it all to sink in. I did it!! I'm an author!! My book exists!!! 😭

Feels faintly archaic saying things like "the weekend crowd" in space year 2026, but on the off-chance that's still a thing, I'll reshare this piece about a really fascinating upcoming video game because people seemed to quite enjoy it. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

i have officially 'quipped' on a broadsheet! thank you @schillingc.bsky.social for the opportunity!

not only a treasure trove of work but an example of properly crediting everyone who contributed to it