Rick (tinyworlds)

2025 was the first year where I worked full-time as a social media manager in the game industry. Learned a loot this year, here are some key lessons 👇

welcome to froggymart 🐸☂️ #lowpoly

Found a social media format for my client that works well on any short-form video site - as it leads to both high retention and engagement. This did 169k on Insta, 94k on Youtube and 91k on TikTok.

Don't get me wrong, I like Expedition 33 and agree they deserve most of their awards, but it feels like awarding best indie game to multi-million budget games is meant to water down what the term means so EA, Activision and other big publishers can start releasing their "indies"

Wholesome Snack will have translated captions on YouTube thanks to... Spanish @lamalamuerte.bsky.social BR Portuguese giuliabiazus (IG) Japanese @myrrh0707.bsky.social Dutch @esmmazing.bsky.social, @mayabloem.bsky.social German DerEineSchwarzeRabe, @tinyworlds.org French @thomasc0.bsky.social

Get ready for the latest Wholesome Snack this December 9, 2025 starting at 12pm PT / 3pm ET! Tune in for 20+ exclusive and world premiere announcements from games that inspire optimism, hope, and introspection. As always, huge thanks to @thegameawards.com for co-broadcasting!

Hello everybody, I'm looking for a new role as Environment/Props Artist, preferably Remote. Portfolio: cara.app/aenderlara Mail: hi@aenderlara.com #3D #gamedev

Exhibit in the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

Exhibit in the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

Just had my first short hit 1 million views yippeee www.youtube.com/shorts/RpT9L... Feels unreal :D Now I gotta actually find time to make Minecraft vids again 🥲

Just had my first short hit 1 million views yippeee www.youtube.com/shorts/RpT9L... Feels unreal :D Now I gotta actually find time to make Minecraft vids again 🥲

teaching my students Substance's anchor points with spooky stuff 🎃

teaching my students Substance's anchor points with spooky stuff 🎃

Do NOT engage. Do not quote dunk, do not screencap. Do not @ with your witty zingers. Give them not one breath of oxygen here. Block, ignore, move on.

sometimes gameart teaching is really fun lol

Prepped a little spooky session for my gameart students We will look at Substance Painter's anchor points & smart materials based on this lil dude

Monastery (ngl feels like I'm getting pretty good at this) #pixelart

Distant worlds #pixelart

Painted this worm mug (in German it’s called “rainworm”)

Toadled: Eating Frenzy 👅 has a new trailer! WISHLIST ON STEAM 👉️ store.steampowered.com/app/3173780/... 🍽️ Action roguelike with an appetite 🧬 Eat to get new abilities 💯 Challenges, quests, events 🔀 Tasty build combinations 👹 Boss fights Please boost! 🙏♻️ #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #videogames

Yippee, first vids starting to get good traction since I started being a social media manager This is for @smks-studios.bsky.social , just started freelancing there

See, now, I just decided OpenAI owes me $10 million if they don’t opt out by midnight tonight. Is this how you do a capitalism? I’ve disrupted an industry here. Look at me innovating!

have another

Porth Wen Brickworks - a very Ghibli-esque place. I know that Miyazaki visited Wales during pre-production for Laputa and I wonder if he visited (or at least saw pictures of it)?

How do you deal with redundancies? "We did hire the people who were made redundant back," reflects Spilt Milk Studios' Nicholas Lovell. "People might say, 'You should have carried that cost yourself'. We just couldn't, it would have killed the company." www.gamesindustry.biz/the-painful-...

Went on a vegan cycling camp last week and climbed some vineyards

If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

SUSHI BEN IS OUT NOW! 🎉🎉🎉 I've been working on this since 2016 yay! My team has been working on this since 2021 yay! Plz try it out, its cheaper than toro nigiri tysm im so sleepy going to bed now.

🥳 The Farmer Was Replaced is leaving Early Access! We’re publishing the 1.0 full release on October 10 🌻  Check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160