Styra101 / Darren Barker ➡️ Looking for Work

Heyo bluesky! Name is Darren, also known as Styra101 on Twitch I'm a marketing graduate turned game dev student specializing in Game Design <3 I also co-founded The Cham Drinkers, a group of SEA streamers promoting indie games! Will be posting random thoughts here so bear with me :-)

🚨 Media and creators interested in checking out TCG Card Shop Simulator on Steam or Xbox, please reply or DM! Been helping the goblins out this month with some PR and marketing tasks - getting to work on this >2M copies sold game by a Malaysian solo developer has been so rewarding 🇲🇾💚

THANK YOU for an amazing 2025! We organised 25 game collabs in 2025 (totally not planned) and participated in showcases highlighting indies from Southeast Asia and beyond 🎮 💜 We can't wait to bring you even more games and content in 2026, plus some exciting announcements coming soon!

Got a new PC recently and I'm happy all my tabs are gone Time to start compiling new tabs that I'll forget after a week and not close them till i randomly remember them Also ignore why there's a tab opened called "How to take screenshot" I'm new to Windows 11

🔴 We're live now with the lovely folks from @togeproductions.bsky.social 🔴 Come join us and learn more about the development behind @wmogame.bsky.social! twitch.tv/styra101 twitch.tv/fjordyboy

I may or may not have posted this on my account instead of @thechamdrinkers.bsky.social account 💀

Do @thechamdrinkers.bsky.social have what it takes to write their way to success... and maybe find romance along the way? 📝♥️ Talents by @izumigames.bsky.social is out now, and we're excited to check it out this August 15th!

Did you know that Upin Ipin Universe is made by Streamline Studios (Malaysia)? That's right, this is a reference to a fact that the studio has not been paid their staffs for almost a year and layoff their staffs nmiagaming.com/streamline-s... www.kakuchopurei.com/2024/06/stre...

Building Relationships is a silly game where you can: 💨 move like a real house 🏩 romance buildings 🎣 go fishing for cars 💦 also be degraded (only if u want to be) Coming in 2025 :) store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/...

Capitalism, minigames and death. The perfect combination for a game show with Eat The Rich ! Join us this Monday at 9.00pm as we fight each other, both in game and in real life *Strength of friendship after games not guaranteed

⚠️ Schedule Update ⚠️ Due to an urgent matter, @styra101.bsky.social will be pushing his stream to tomorrow, June 13th Friday @ 9.00pm GMT+8

Finally ready to talk about the project 📢📢 Excited to share the launch of @seagamesforgood.bsky.social - a community-powered initiative to do GOOD, and as its first project - Play for Peace: Games for Palestine Charity in partnership with @unrwausa.bsky.social. More below⬇️ itch.io/jam/games-fo...

📢 The first ever Southeast Asian Games Showcase: Summer Game Fest Edition kicks off on June 7th 12PM PT / 3PM ET featuring trailers, updates & exclusive reveals from over 40 Southeast Asian games and developers 🌏 Links below 👇 youtube.com/@SEAGamesShowcase twitch.tv/SEAGamesShowcase #SEAGShowcase

Now that I finished P3R, time to jump into another turn-base game ♥️ Will be co-working earlier in the day but see you all tomorrow night for some expeditions o7

Nearly forgot to post because of ✨declining mental health ✨ but We'll be co-streaming the South East Asian Showcase happening this Saturday night! Be sure to join us as we yell on stream and hype up SEA games! Tq @seagshowcase.bsky.social for what I'm sure would be an amazing show <3

🧵of my level / game design videos, talks etc: Every game designer should understand Orthogonal Design: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW5s... Dishonored 2 LD critiques Dishonored 1 level: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQD... Why Speed Level Design videos are so misleading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCF...

🔴 We're live now with @nathalietay.bsky.social and we're doing full 3-purple star runs in @kopiforge.bsky.social 's SEDAP! 🔴 twitch.tv/styra101

🌏 The Southeast Asian Games Showcase: Summer Game Fest Edition premiers on Saturday June 7th! Watch LIVE bit.ly/SEAGShowcase... 🕛June 7, 12PM (PST) / 3PM (EST) 🕛June 8, 2AM (GMT+7) / 3AM (GMT+8) 🔥 Exclusive reveals, new trailers, and updates from 45+ Southeast Asian games. #SEAGShowcase

Look it's my first playtest credit! Speaking of, I have an extra key to giveaway for Rift Riff happening on stream this weekend so be sure to join in! If you like kinda cutesy tower defence games, this would be up your alley ♥️

🔴 Live now checking out Deck of Haunts right now! 🔴 I forgot to prep visual sorry <3 Thank you @dangen-ent.bsky.social for the key! twitch.tv/styra101

emotional day for me. managed to lead my team & release Rift Riff being caretaker of my wife (long covid, hasn’t been out of bed this year) and our 2yo son. i’m exhausted. proud. anxious. it would make my day if u can repost, buy, enjoy, review🙏🏼 Rift Riff: store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

Rift Riff is OUT NOW!! Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... Buy it Try it Review it Repost the heck outa’ this!!1! … and here's a feature trailer explaining what I think is noteworthy about our tower defense game! youtu.be/ePCOuvXU-t0

Sadly have to cut the stream a bit short, my throat is acting up mid stream so will be continue the following games tomorrow @ 9.00pm GMT+8! - Of the Lilies - Am I Nima - Mythical Dateline So sorry everyone 🙏 Please stay hydrated (unlike me)

Both @antioedipus3000.bsky.social and I planned our joint birthday party around Indie Jam Weekend so that we could celebrate with some of our closest friends in the Southeast Asian games industry 🥳 Huge props to the amazing @soyacomu.bsky.social for commemorating the celebration ✨

Indie Jam weekend may be over, but After Jam is just beginning! ✨ Join these amazing streamers on Twitch & Youtube as they check out games directly from the Indie Jam 2025 showcase -- with even more streams happening now until Sunday! 💘 📅 Monday, April 28th:

🎤 In just a few days, I’ll be in KL, Malaysia to give a talk on working with influencers — plus I’ll be doing mentorship sessions with local talent 🎓 We’ve also teamed up with @themagicrainmy.bsky.social, @sspublishing.bsky.social, and Kaigan to host a Networking Event for streamers and media 🎉

Designing Cities for Video Games, this fascinating combination of worldbuilding, urbanism and level design, is something that can actually be taught. Intrigued? Good. Join me tomorrow (April 22) for a free mini-lecture & course presentation. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-...

🔴 We're cooking with The Chef's Shift right now with @nathalietay.bsky.social !🔴 twitch.tv/styra101 twitch.tv/nathalietay_

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA3... Listening in to a 4 hour Stanley Parable All Narrator Voice Lines to timestamp and take out bits of VO lines I need for an assignment where I'm making a motiongraphic video opening credit scene How's your night going?

Do I still post this even though I didn't sign up? @nathalietay.bsky.social and I didn't discuss on the protocol Oh wells. Make sure you all come to Indie Jam! 📅April 26th & 27th 🕑10am - 7pm 📌Xsolla Curine Academy Mandatory tags @thechamdrinkers.bsky.social @themagicrainmy.bsky.social

catch our panel A New Age Of Storytelling In Video Games at my fave games celebration of the year: #LudoNarraCon! + while you're waiting, go follow @patrickklepek.bsky.social & @sonderingemily.bsky.social if you haven't already, two people doing thoughtful work worth paying attention to 🥰

Looking for playtesters! Rift Riff is a strategically tight tower defense game set to release beginning of May. If you're up for playing & recording your screen + voice so we can see and hear how you experience the game, please sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #game #godot #gamedev

📣 Attention Southeast Asian Developers 📣 Our submissions close in 5 days! Looking forward to seeing what this region will be sharing with the world @ Summer Game Fest!

It's only April and I've had one of the funniest conversations of the year already I was not expecting a conversation about Minecraft Meta and the Minecraft Movie with my lecturer to be part of my 2025 conversations :-)

I just woke up from a nap and I'm seeing news about Silksong AND Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 AND FromSoftware's exclusive game for a Nintendo Switch 2 excuse wtf did i sleep to another timeline by accident?

Excited to join the lineup of fellow industry pros at #IGDA’s #Mentor Café! Time to spread some knowledge with my mad ramblings—hope you're ready! ☕🎮 #Gamedevelopment #Indiedev #Malaysia

The SEA Game Dev Collective Digest - March 2025 Edition is now live! All-new game releases in March, award nominations and wins for SE Asian games, amazing features as well as all-new upcoming shows including a brand new Southeast Asian Games Showcase. Link in next tweet.

[HEAR YE HEAR YE] SEA Games Showcase is open for submission to SEA devs and they are partnering with Summer Game Festival which means you can get significant boost of your game! Southeast Asian developers, we want to see your games! Apply below to be featured 👇 forms.gle/41muJEspSFNA...

🔴 We are wardens of these roads (Idk anything about Roadwarden but lets check it out! 🔴 twitch.tv/styra101

Hi Bluesky, would you try our game Cryptfall? If you like survival game, then you're what we're looking for our Alpha Playtest event! Join our community and get your key right ahead! Link: discord.gg/p2JZUJ4hRW #indiegame #survivalgame #pixelgame #2Dgame #survivalcraft #gamedev #game

🔴 Playing Dishonored 2 for for actual research purpose twitch.tv/styra101