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@acatienz

Game designer, creative director // designer at @wiggles3dgames, co-founder of @cloudfallgames // they/them 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇭🇨🇦

 Waterloo, Ontario
cloudfallstudios.com
Joined July 2017
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This game was so much fun to design! 💜🍫
Wiggles 3D Games (@Wiggles3DGames) profile pictureWiggles 3D Games@Wiggles3DGames14 Aug 2021
Shout out to our very own AC Atienza for designing The Golden Ticket Game, which you can find online and in stores of Target!! Play cards, steal candy, collect chocolate bars, and find the golden ticket! Also...those chocolate bars look DELISH! 😍😍

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🍫 Happy 50th anniversary to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory! We've been cooking up a sweet treat for fans that will be fun for the whole family. Watch out for Wonka Bars – this August
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Image from Buffalo Games (@buffalopuzzler)
Image from Buffalo Games (@buffalopuzzler)
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#SmackStudio has a snazzy new logo, thanks to @acatienz! We needed a logo with less noise and a more professional font. Now we're ready to rock! @indiegames
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Kaien makes his fiery debut! 🔥 The wraps on Kaien's arms conceal burns from his intense training regimen. We'll be revealing more info about him this week! Illustration by @CHAOKOCartoons, sprite by @DanieruArt #indiegames #indiegamedev #gameart #gamedev #ドット絵 #retrogames
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Image from Smack Studio ✨V1.0 OUT NOW!✨ (@SmackStudio)
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🚨SOME NEWS!🚨 You asked for it, so we're doing it! Yep, we're partnering with @Wiggles3DGames to make an Um Actually home game! And we're funding the whole thing through @kickstarter starting next Tuesday! #UmActuallyGame Set your notification here 👉 bit.ly/3o6noMN
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Meet Bo Moore - The Artist Behind Captain's Gambit! cloudfallstudios.com/blog/20… @lupercos #gamedev #boardgames – at Manhattan, NY

Meet Bo Moore - The Artist Behind Captain's Gambit! — Cloudfall Studios

Bo Moore is a illustrator, artist and writer living in New Zealand. She's worked on everything from children's book illustrations to concept art, and specializes in the weird and the nonhuman -...

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Congrats to #augamelab Game Design alum @LoewenMitchell (Class of 2020) and co-authors Christopher T. Burris and @acagamic on their paper, “Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style”, being published in @FrontPsychol! tinyurl.com/y4nsexvx
Frontiers | Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style

Frontiers | Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style

In video games, identification with avatars—virtual entities or characters driven by human behaviour—has been shown to serve many interpersonal and intraindi...

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We did it! Thank you all so much!!! ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/clo…

Update 23: Funded with ALL stretch goals and 400+ backers! · Captain's Gambit: Kings of Infinite...

We're funded! I wish you all the joy you can wish! We've finished the first arc of a very long journey, and now is the time for jubilation and rest. Not only did we successfully fund Captain's...

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Omg 90min until our Kickstarter ends and Captain's Gambit is real. Literally one backer to secure all of our stretch goals, I am SWEATING. – at Waterloo, Ontario
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I think April Fool’s is one of the most important holidays of the 21st century. Hear me out. Many holidays and festivals were once used to remind us of important life lessons necessary to survive in whatever culture they originated from.
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Working cover for my Major Research Project :)
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Kinda looks like the billionaires aren’t going to save us
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INCOMING TRANSMISSION: NEW CAPTAINS DETECTED kickstarter.com/projects/clo… #captainsgambit #kickstarter #boardgames #stretchgoals

Update 15: INCOMING TRANSMISSION: NEW CAPTAINS DETECTED · Captain's Gambit: Kings of Infinite Space

TRANSMISSION RECEIVED  ALERT: Three warp gates have just received access requests. Each gate holds a pair of two captains.  Directive: Select a warp gate to overcharge. Choose one pair of captains to...

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This guy has just won the internet.
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New Campaign Update: Digital Surprise, Bracket Update, Q&A, and Feedback Request kickstarter.com/projects/clo… #captainsgambit #kickstarter #boardgames

Update 11: Digital Surprise, Bracket Update, Q&A, and Feedback Request · Captain's Gambit: Kings of...

Hello friends! We hope you are all doing well and staying safe. ❤️ We have some fun announcements today, as well as a topic we'd love your opinion on! Tabletop Simulator Release! Do you own Tabletop...

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Me and a stranger keeping social distance in the Food Basics aisle
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Apparently "Crunch is good" is becoming something of a rallying cry for chuds.
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Back and hip were too stiff to fall back asleep. As of 4:39am I have become a fervent yoga practitioner.
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New podcast now live with GI rockstar AC Atienza of @CloudfallGames. AC discusses their research on a novel paradigm called "game poetics" - we see this as a marker for a post-ludology/narratology era in game studies: gamesinstitute.libsyn.com/02… @uwaterlooARTS, @uw_english
Games Institute Podcast: 020: Game Poetics and Iterative Design with...

Games Institute Podcast: 020: Game Poetics and Iterative Design with...

AC leaves us speechless in their explanation of game poetics: novel game studies research to end all ludology/narratology debates. We chat about how iterative design through Energize and Captain's...

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