Mei-Li Coolan

Mei-Li Coolan

@meili.coolan.games

🦦 Freelance Games Producer 🐕 IGDA-F Next Gen Leaders Cohort Coordinator & NGL Alum '24 🐦‍⬛ Volunteer Org. and Art for brIGDA 🦭 Hobby Artist, Cosplayer, and Zinester @UncannyTitans ♏ She/Her • 🩷💜💙 • 媽媽 🗺️ Meeanjin 🖤💛❤️ (Brisbane, Australia) • AEST

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Hello everyone! I'm Mei-Li, an #IndieDev #GameDev based in Meeanjin (Brisbane, Australia) 🖤💛❤️, I'm 🪻 A Freelance Games Producer currently w/ 3 Indie Studios 🧙‍♀️🐑👻 🪻 An IGDA-Foundation NGL Coordinator (and NGL Alum) 🪻 Volunteering my art and supporting brIGDA

Mei-Li Coolan@meili.coolan.games

🪻 An artist, zinester, and Cosplayer who has been a bit burnt out for various reasons 🪻 An animal person who currently has many many fish in a huge pond 🪻 A gardening enthusiast who loves to propagate cuttings 🪻 And of course, much more 💜 Hope to find my voice here!

Hell yeah, I suggested the skeleton fur back during production and now it's here!

Spook morning to you all! If you play Schrodinger's Cat Burglar between now and 3rd of November, you can snaffle yourself an attractive Pumpkin Hat and Skellington Fur Pattern! store.steampowered.com/news/app/211...

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I just got done assigning genders to each of my body parts, and boy are my arms

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During High Score in Melbourne @ ACMI, will be a chilled listening session of the Unpacking OST Vinyl. Sunday Oct 4th at 3pm in the Listening Room. I'll be there for chats or answer any questions. Also there's rumours of an Unpacking vinyl giveaway ;) www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/the...

acmi.net.auUnpacking with Jeff van DyckSteal a moment away at ACMI’s Listening room, a space perfectly built for experiencing your favourite records, with composer Jeff van Dyck and his music from the beloved Australian game, Unpacking.

This will be the first MIGW in quite some time that we will not be in attendance. I wish I could be there with my clients nominated for 4 AGDAs between them but my main client needs me 24/7 and is not quite ready for the hustle and bustle the week entails 🤱

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There's less than 24 hours until TOEM 2 is out! ⏰ Check out the map below to see what time it'll be available to you 🖤🤍 TOEM 2 is launching on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 + 2

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I don't have as much time to play games anymore and I'm neck deep in cutscenes that really hand hold you to the conclusions they want you to make, eg. I understand she's supposed to be abrasive, I didn't need her to monologue that she is.

So as not to curse y'all with the visuals, I'll just say that Kmart is currently selling rip offs of popular board games with AI slop boxes that are light as all hell; Things like Twister, Guess Who, Hungry Hungry Hippos and way more in a busted AI style and an off the original name.

Pop into the board games section of, I'm assuming, am Australian Kmart and you'll see box after box of rip off title with cracked art. The boxes are so light it feels like there's just a single piece of paper and a pencil in em. Just fucked times.

I think my favourite colour is yellow now and has been for a long time, I'm just only now accepting it. I've said it was purple since primary school but have meant a #B21050 kind of colour. Just realising how much of my stuff is yellow 💀💛

Early to ask but since we won't be at MIGW this year, can anyone get me the MIGW 2026 pin at PAX? 🥺🥺 They usually require a quest like playing Melbourne games.

Progress halted back then for good reasons, but now I am urgently remaking it and will destroy this one within a couple of weeks (also for good reasons)

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idk if I ever shared but I'm really proud of my simple Freelancer website and will soon be ripping it up and building from actual scratch to host elsewhere since I don't need all the fancy capabilities sqsp offers after all www.meilicoolan.com

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Friends, as our big hearing draws ever closer we are in need of anything y’all are willing to help us fight this. We are a much smaller unit with limited resources in the biggest fight of our lives. Any and all donations are much appreciated 🌱✊

IWGB@iwgbunion.bsky.social

Will + the rest of the Rockstar 31 need YOU to win justice for all the needless pain and upheaval from these dismissals. To beat Rockstar at the historic court case in September we asking supporters of the @gameworkers.co.uk to donate to our legal fundraiser. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

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the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims

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Replying to @nicholaskole.bsky.social

"I'm not making animal crossing, I'm making fortnite" you say. Well, first of all, shame on you. Second...where the hell is your pride in your craft? Don't you understand that fundamentally the audience will only *love* what you've made if you made it with love? What do you think you're *doing*?

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Hey friends! If you are able, any donation to the action fund for us Rockstar Workers fighting our unfair dismissals last October would be greatly appreciated! We are fighting an absolute behemoth with resources far beyond our own and ever dime counts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

actionnetwork.orgSupport Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...

And we're thrilled we get to work with Joost on this! You might know Joost from TOEM, we know him (and his partner) from bringing us bread in a strange and scary city (plus Angus is always whistling the Fisherman's Tune) May this be the first of many collaborations 🥹

Launchable Socks@launchablesocks.bsky.social

Very happy to announce I'll be working with Angus and Mei on this awesome project! You might know Angus and Mei from their work on Unpacking, I know them from teaching me the Tim Tam Slam and being excellent human beings (and Unpacking) We're gonna make something amazing together ✨

Now I can share that I'm SO BLOODY EXCITED to be working on a Fuzzy Ghost project 🥺🥺🥺🤭

Really excited to be working on my partner's game that we used to explore the design of on our morning walks 💖 Last grant application before mat leave too so I'm excited Screen Queensland funded us ☺️

Angus Coolan@angus.coolan.games

I'm happy to announce that I'm working on a prototype for 'The Ropeway' with funding from Screen Queensland! My wonderful wife Mei-Li is producing and the excellent Launchable Socks will be working on sound design and music. Below is a quick demonstration of the pulley and constraint mechanic.