Layla Manley

Hello y'all! I'm Layla! 🎮 I'm a professional in the games industry specializing in online work. Occasionally I hangout in the indie space and work with small or experimental projects! 🌈 Looking to fill my timeline with amazing and friendly folks from all walks of life. Feel free to say "hello!"

We have achieved Godot 5 internally at the Godot Foundation, but it is too powerful to be released. We need a bajillion dollars. Thanks 💸

the importance of cultural programs cannot be ignored because I hated my city until I found out we have a fucking cultural lab and free events. what do you mean I get to talk to old people and write htier stories. what do you mean I can contribute to a ttrpg based in mexican culture. HELLO

All good things must come to an end! It's ridiculous we reached 507 positive reviews before our first negative, and even that one has nice things to say! Thank you to all the chefs who've been cooking up unhinged omelets for a demanding chicken principal ❤️🍳🐔

I think some people don't know how seriously developers take reviews. ...or maybe they do and are just not that nice.

I went to the @spelkollektiv Halloween Game Jam!🎃 We made a short video documenting the experience here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxtS... #gamedev #indiedev

Today has been a fun day to work with cloud infrastructure... 🥴

You can play our new Winter Burrow demo NOW and… 🥧 cook more recipes 📖 play through a new storyline 🪑 craft new items 🪓 collect new resources 🍄 mushroom gardening ❄ explore the winter forest & try to survive the cold‼

my new mottos for the rest of the year: - not trusting the process - crying over spilt milk - better sorry than safe - counting my chickens before they hatch - chewing off more than i can bite - building Rome in a day

These people are really awesome, check out their stuff!!!! ✨

@spelkollektivet.com is a great place to work on your game in the company of like minded Devs, make friends and see the countryside of Sweden. It's the only coliving co-working place for gamedev in the world. And there are spaces to stay in the coming months. Check it out! www.spelkollektivet.com

Good article! Though love the irony that the article referenced talking about the precarious financial situation for queer indie developers is pay walled 😅 Still, it is interesting to see a phenomenon I've seen with my own eyes in the industry pop up in academia. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What a week at #NordicGame! Reconnected with old friends, met new ones, and gave my first talk! Huge thanks to everyone who made it so memorable, and to #Audiokinetic for the support and for bringing amazing speakers to the event! 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgA7... #NG25 #Wwise #GameDev

Midsummer Game Jam is back! Join us for a week filled with Swedish summer fun! Packed with activities, new friends, parties, and of course, game development! 🎮 📅 June 14th - 22nd 📍 Spelkollektivet, Väckelsång, Sweden More details 👇🧵 #GameJam #GameDev #Sweden

What's a video game?

More heartbreaking layoffs. 😕 I remember when Unity was first blowing up. It's crazy how much things have changed.

Jag testar en ny hemsida för att lära mig svenska men lektion 3 handlar om neurovetenskap. 😭

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

If you see this, quote with a GIF of your personality type.

If you see this, post 10 of your favourite video games (in no particular order): Outer Wilds Warcraft III Star Wars: The Old Republic Mass Effect 2 Kingdom of Kieflings Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Civilization V Baldurs Gate III Cities Skylines

The fantastic game jam @ludumdare.com is sadly not running any events in 2025 as host Mike Kasprzak is struggling financially. While Mike isn't specifically asking for donations, he does have a Patreon which helps cover the jam's expenses. Perhaps we can help? www.patreon.com/c/mikekasprz...

Very pleased to announce that Agones (open source game server orchestration) on GKE is now specifically part of the Premium Google Cloud support package! You will now find a "Gaming" sub-section within the support console to submit issues 🙌🏻 More details 👇🏻 cloud.google.com/kub...

It's Spotify wrapped time! 😊🎶

Full release of Eggular is out! Now with saving! scrib-dev.itch.io/eggular-game... #gamedev #indiegames

Trying to find Stockholm content but most posts with "Stockholm" are just about the US having Stockholm syndrome 😭

Asking if I've got an invalid handle like the one Dr Who where Donna can't see the time bug on her back but knows it's there OR IS IT OH GOD-

Note to anyone who needs it today: No situation was ever made worse by treating people as human beings.

Sweden is a very pretty country. I've really enjoyed my first week here and excited for the many more to come!

Hello people of the sky that is most likely but not always blue. ☁️👋