Liam Esler
@liamesler
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Managing Director @SummerfallGames , makers of Aussie GOTY, BAFTA & Grammy nominated Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical and Stray Gods: Orpheus! 🏳️🌈 he/him
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EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING, THIS IS CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT
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Hey cis straight white male friends, you are the accepted picture of what a game developer looks like. The hashtag is meant for everyone who DOESN'T look like you. The point is to broaden the public image of what developers look like, not calcify it further. ❤️
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@Cannonbreed
i think it's good actually, i live in comfort knowing the exact cause of my death and that it will be insanely accurate and therefore swift that's good and great thank you robots i love you
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Quick reminder that Mr. Ratburn isn't getting gay married, he's just... getting married. To a man. It's still just marriage. We don't gay eat or gay sleep.
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If you were wondering why the LGBTQI+ community is so angry about the postal vote plebiscite in Australia, here's some words.
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Hey
@EA
I really appreciate that Battlefield V has a female lead in the trailer and in the cover art! This is content I am Here For and will be the first Battlefield title I've picked up as a result. Thanks for pushing, team.
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Hey game writers, narrative designers and those who contract them! I want to share some information and have a bit of a discussion about how much game writers/narrative designers should be paid.
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Hello wonderful queer international friends!
Tomorrow is a big day for queer Australians. The results of our fucking unconscionable marriage equality survey come out. If you have time and energy over the next 48 hours, check in with your Aussie queers to make sure they're OK <3
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Treating Pokemon Go like the scapegoat for internet privacy and security concerns which have existed for years is hugely unfair.
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I’m so excited to finally announce Summerfall Studios (
@summerfallgames
)!
@davidgaider
and I have been working on this for over a year, with
@elidooooo
,
@theboyofcheese
,
@troyaferguson
and many other collaborators.
We're super excited to announce Summerfall Studios, a new character and narrative-driven game development studio helmed by
@davidgaider
and
@liamesler
! Subscribe on for a secret sneaky preview of our first game next week... going to Kickstarter next month!
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This is what
@davidgaider
and I have been working on for the past year with
@awintory
,
@TroyBakerVA
and starring
@LauraBaileyVO
! Please support us by pledging on Fig and giving us a RT! ❤️
We are so excited to announce Summerfall Studios' first game, CHORUS: AN ADVENTURE MUSICAL, in collaboration with Austin Wintory (
@awintory
) and Troy Baker (
@TroyBakerVA
)... starring Laura Bailey (
@LauraBaileyVO
)!
Help us out and support Chorus on !
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I'm starting a studio focusing on narrative/character based games. The goal? To tear your heart out and heal it.
Our first pitch is unique and rad as hell, and has some incredible people behind it - and I'm keen to chat to potential publishing partners!
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Had a few very difficult days. If you have any love spare, I could use it today.
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Stray Gods is now out in the wild, so I wanted to write a thread about what that means to me and talk about the people who created it!
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Tonight I won the Industry Champion award at the Australian Game Developer Awards. I can’t thank you all enough. I’m so grateful to the Australian industry for affording me the opportunities I’ve been given. I love you. ❤️
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Okay, after a walk-in this morning, a reminder that it's really not okay or even vaguely acceptable to walk into somebody's office without an invitation to try to get work. It's invasive, uncomfortable, and just about guarantees you will never be hired.
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Things you can do for me today:
1) DRINK WATER
2) GIVE YOURSELF THREE COMPLIMENTS
3) REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ALL COMPLICIT IN THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES AND HAVE TO ACTIVELY WORK TO BETTER OURSELVES EVERY DAY, OWN OUR MISTAKES, AND MOVE FORWARD WITH GRACE
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Hey friends. I received some really bad news. It’s not work or relationship or games related. I just wanted to let you all know that I might not be okay for a while. Please don’t ask me about it, but I might need some extra support over the next few weeks. Love you all a lot.
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From now on, I'm going to try to talk less about how busy I am (which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of exhaustion) and talk more about how I'm taking breaks, finishing on time, and doing more fun things. Constantly feeling "busy" is a product of constantly saying I am.
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Want journalists to cover your game or startup? Sweet! Here's a framework for thinking about coverage you might find to be useful, along with some tips to help optimise your chances of success along the way.
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I really struggle to understand how in 2020 you can ship a game without a basic marketing strategy. Please. Working out who your audience is, where to reach them, and a strategy for how to do is not unachievable, even for a 1 person studio! It's crucially important. ❤️
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If you're genuinely more concerned about your desire to play a completed series of games than the welfare of the humans who made it in the first place, you can fuck right the fuck off my follows :)
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Hi, so. This is a reminder that you're great? Yeah. Your inner voice is totally cooked. It's fucked, mate. Trust me instead. You're GREAT.
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I can't explain how proud I am of the majority of Australia for not giving in to hate and fear and most importantly, not doing a Trump or a Brexit. As shitty as having ~40% of the population refuse to acknowledge my right to get married is, over 60% have our back. Thank you. ❤️
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Hey friends whose countries are about to go back into lockdown, this is a message from someone who is completing a second lockdown of over 3 months in Victoria, Australia.
It’s going to be really hard. There’s no two ways about it. But you can do this.
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If any game developer - any purveyor of pop culture or entertainment - thinks the attack in
#Christchurch
bears no relationship with what we do... remember that the alt-right came to strength on our watch, buoyed by our lack of response to radicalism within our user bases.
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queer eye but it's five successful game developers giving advice to new devs without respect for context or wealth disparity
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Just a quick reminder that games is a small community, we remember, and if you’re transphobic and don’t actively seek to educate and better yourself, you don’t later get to ask for a seat at the table and expect someone to pull a chair up.
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Stray Gods is nominated for a GRAMMY. A GRAMMYYYY. Huge congratulations to
@awintory
,
@TripodActual
and
@actualmontaigne
, as well as the broader team that brought our music to life from Austin’s team to the incredible instrumentalists and cast!
I'm beyond honored to see STRAY GODS nominated at the Grammys, above all because I get to share this with my wonderful friends from
@TripodActual
and
@actualmontaigne
. This was a quintessential team effort. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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You can be disappointed in something without personally attacking the people who worked on it.
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So Melbourne International Games Week is finally over. What an incredible eight days, and a testament to the Aussie gamedev community.
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Today is my 30th! My twenties were pretty great on balance, filled with wonderful people and experiences, and I was lucky enough to share it all with my loving partner,
@vonconrad
. I can’t wait to see what my thirties have in store. ❤️
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I keep getting randomly emotional and then wondering, "Why am I almost crying??"
Turns out winning some big meaningful awards from your community that you really care about is... big and meaningful? Who'd have guessed!
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One thing I've learned a lot more about over the last few years is that even if you're invited to contribute, it's important to take a moment to think: Am I the best person for this? Sometimes it's yes! It's also okay to step back in order to make space for others.
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The announcement for the new name of our game, Stray Gods, and our partnership with
@PlayHumbleGames
is a long time coming. I'm genuinely so excited about what we're working on, and who we've been able to work with!
Murder, gods, romance and more await in Stray Gods, an interactive roleplaying musical in development at Summerfall Studios.
Wishlist and follow now on Steam!
🎭
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Thank you everyone who has supported us
@summerfallgames
- I’m so proud of put incredible team. 3 Australian Game Developer Awards for Stray Gods! GOTY, Music and Accessibility. Thank you to
@igea
@PlayHumbleGames
@wearevicscreen
❤️
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FINALLY we can announce that Stray Gods is coming to PS5, Xbox Series S|X, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One! And BOOM a new trailer!
YOU ASKED AND WE DELIVERED
Stoked to announce at
#FutureGamesShow
📢
#StrayGods
🏛️ is coming to PC & CONSOLES August 3!
⭐️you get a stray god! you get a stray god! everybody gets a stray god!!⭐️
Catch the new trailer now 📽️👉
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I am having a really, really hard time watching my friends overseas being so willfully ignorant when it comes to COVID-19. It's so frustrating. Your countrypeople are dying, and you're inviting people over for unnecessary reasons? I just... it boggles my mind.
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Hey gang can we knock it off with the Goose as Time's Person of the Year thing? Greta's a real person being vocal about the most important issue of our time. Let's not dilute or disrespect her crucially important message for a joke.
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You can read more background here!
Story time 🧵
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
was born out of an incident I encountered at
#GDC
19 when I was stopped THREE separate times at badge collection because apparently I didn't look like a person who would speak at the Game Developers Conference.
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2018 is gonna be the best year everyone I'm gonna be 27 gonna start a studio do other cool projects and maybe sleep I am so excited
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If you missed it earlier, this is what I’ve been working on for the past few years! I can’t wait to announce what we’ve been working at PAX Aus — I think lots of you will be Super Into It ❤️
We're super excited to announce Summerfall Studios, a new character and narrative-driven game development studio helmed by
@davidgaider
and
@liamesler
! Subscribe on for a secret sneaky preview of our first game next week... going to Kickstarter next month!
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When you're of the majority, it's very easy to drown others out unintentionally. Being thoughtful about our own contributions, and learning when to foreground others can be huge. We don't have to be loud all the time, even if it feels that way. Let others be loud. Amplify them!
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Gamedev friends, at what point did you realise you weren't 'breaking in' or 'new to the industry' anymore? I'm super curious as I've heard so many different stories!
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In that last Kotaku article,
@dippizuka
pointed out that
#ChorusGame
broke the Australian record for most-funded videogame on any crowdfunding platform to date at ~$1.01 million AUD. That's wild.
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I'mma write something longer once I'm a) home and b) fed, but -- thank you all so much for supporting
@summerfallgames
and
#ChorusGame
. It means the world ❤️
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It was
@vonconrad
’s and my 13th anniversary last month, and to celebrate I got the wonderful
@Estirdalin
to do a portrait of us both. ❤️
A lovely portrait commission I got to do recently. Thank you,
@liamesler
, happy anniversary! :)
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Hey all! We're looking for a contract UI/UX designer to help us out on Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical for a few months and help us nail things down. Interested? DM me or shoot me an email liam
@summerfallstudios
.com with your portfolio!
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Pro tip: if you want to get a job, messaging someone you’ve never spoken to on Facebook out of the blue asking for one isn’t a good approach.
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29 today! What a wild year it’s been. I was just saying yesterday I’m finally getting okay at being an adult. Mostly. 😂
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I’m 31 today. It’s a weird time to have a birthday, or to celebrate anything, but I’m very proud of what I’ve been able to achieve this past year and grateful to work with such wonderful people.
I desperately miss so many, and am gutted not to do GDC, but I love you all ❤️
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We're looking for a contract character modeller to build two character models for us mid-to-late November. Particularly keen to hear from underrepresented and diverse artists! If this is you, we'd love to see your portfolio and rates! liam.esler
@gmail
.com
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Some big games are soon coming out with big player expectations, so I think it's time to revisit the reality that games are made by people.
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This seems intensely bizarre and out of touch. 'Experience the plight of homeless people in VR?' Seriously? What the fuck.
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I have a big thread I’m gonna write in a couple of days but in the meantime: thank you, everyone, for all your love and support. Chorus is the coolest thing I’ve ever worked on, and I’m so incredibly proud of Summerfall, our team and collaborators ❤️
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Women of color in particular have been saying this for a long time, and if has taken me (a very obviously white dude) to help you realise this, then some active work on your part to diversify your networks and information sources will do a lot to help you.
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When someone constantly frames themselves as a victim, without ever taking responsibility for their own actions, there is often a broader pattern of negative behaviour that is kept gated by the complexities of whisper networks and difficulty of verifying stories.
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So.
You're a games student team doing your capstone project and want to make a local co-op experience.
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Feeling weirdly insecure and a bit lost, wanting to be social and reach out but also not wanting to bother people. I don’t mind most aspects of isolation, but the additional social barriers make things difficult on days like today. Extroversion with a side of anxiety.
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The truth is, next year I'm going to start a games studio here in Melbourne.
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Hello friends, just a reminder that it's totally okay to have Complicated Feelings about things. <3
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Very proud of the whole
@summerfallgames
team and everyone who worked on Stray Gods for this huge achievement 😭❤️
Thrilled & honoured to be nominated in FIVE categories at this year's Australian Game Dev Awards! Thank you for all the support for Stray Gods!!👑💖
✦ Excellence in Narrative
✦ Excellence in Art
✦ Excellence in Music
✦ Excellence in Accessibility
✦ Game of the Year
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There are WELL over 1,000 people at
#gcap17
this year! We have more than doubled since 2014. What a testament to the Aussie gamedev scene ❤️
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Today is absolutely one of those days where I wonder how anyone ever ships any game ever. Scope vs. quality is a terrifying thing.
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Pro tip: If you were planning on releasing on Steam over the next month, consider delaying. All Greenlight titles were approved last night.
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I should also say, if this for any reason is new to you, I really encourage you to broaden the range of people you listen to and include more people who explicitly do not look like you.
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all I want in life is to make straight men question their sexuality is that so much to ask???
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Happy queers can finally marry day, everyone! ✨ Big love to everyone who pushed and fought over the past decade and more for the rights of queer people in Australia. ❤️
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~6 hours of cooking this weekend to make sure we don’t need to do as little cooking as possible ‘til we move to the new place after games week. About 34 meals all up. Here’s the chilli, bolognese and shepherds pie — chicken soup is already in the fridge!
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Pro-tip when you get rejected from a conference: don't send vaguely passive aggressive emails saying how much they will be 'missing out'.
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As predicted, I am on my 3rd gin and tonic as my dad tries to get me to try every gin he’s found over the last year. It’s very sweet. Rip my liver.
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Seeing all the lovely comments about Stray Gods this week has been so heartwarming. We're not a big team and had to really push to make it work, especially without crunching, and I'm so proud of everyone
@summerfallgames
for creating something so special. 🥺
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It’s been a while since I’ve been happy with how I look, but getting there at the moment. ❤️
Not sure how I feel about the moustache but hey, Pixar Dad is not NOT a look 😂
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The first Stray Gods demo comes out tomorrow and I'm so nervous and excited for people to see it. 😵💫🎤
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If
@davidgaider
and I were to stream a playthrough of Baldur's Gate II, would 10am Sat morning Australia time/5pm Friday evening LA time work for people? We'd try to make sure there was a VOD version too!
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HELLO, FRIENDS WHO RUN GAMES STUDIOS NEW AND LESS NEW. Please identify yourselves for A Thing I'm putting together! It is cool and exciting!
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Today I turn 32! It's wild to think this is the year
@summerfallgames
will (finally) ship Stray Gods. Can't wait til we can share it with all of you!
As for birthday plans, I'm a bit sick, so staying home and getting cat cuddles is the go. <3
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We're looking for a producer/project manager to work with us! ♥️
Summerfall Studios is hiring a producer to work with us on Chorus: An Adventure Musical and future projects! Want to work on awesome, character-driven games with a great, culture-first team? Check out more at !
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This is what I've been working on for the last few years! I can't wait to announce our first game at
@PAXAus
, I think a lot of you will love it -- hopefully enough to back our Kickstarter! 😍 Follow
@summerfallgames
and subscribe to the mailing list on !
We're super excited to announce Summerfall Studios, a new character and narrative-driven game development studio helmed by
@davidgaider
and
@liamesler
! Subscribe on for a secret sneaky preview of our first game next week... going to Kickstarter next month!
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Decided to head home early, so I shaved, to properly wear a face mask while travelling. As always, being a baby again is deeply weird.
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Note to self: find a new profile pic that doesn't make me look I'm a stock photo of a tech startup founder with a salad in front of them.
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What an absolutely lovely breakdown of Stray Gods 🥺 We put so much into this game, and it’s so validating when people see and appreciate it! Thank you
@OSPyoutube
❤️
"Stray Gods" is an *impossibly cool* adaptation of Greek Mythology and we have a lot to say about it.
In this TED Talk I will–
-B
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Back at the gym and this morning a gorgeous guy smiled at me in the locker room, and I straight up panicked, threw my clothes on and left while avoiding eye contact. One day I will learn how to politely respond to flirting. 😂💪
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