Chloe Mashiter

@chloemashiter

game-designer / performer / creative technician. Agender (they/he/she). Sometime organiser of community funding dinners

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Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· 17d

Powerpoint Partied this weekend and damn straight I'm proud of my contribution (feels like these 4 pics capture enough of it) And if anyone doubts me I will die on the hill of Santa is an ARG

wordart saying "how to help Santa reach his full potential"

A smiling cartoon of Santa with wordart saying "presents presents presents"

An angry cartoon of Santa giving the middle finger with wordart of "presents presents presents" crossed out

Wordart saying "Santa is an ARG (alternate reality" obscured by a fake PNG image of a rosette saying "most improved"

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· 27d

Life news! After 3 years of flight controlling, science-lore-wrangling, coding, teleporting and suchlike, I'm leaving my position as a Creative Associate at Bridge Command in October. I'll still be freelance, but I'm getting back to freelance life wholesale - so will be hunting for work soon!

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· 29d

Count The Rice (Game Changer's latest episode) made me wildly excited from an interactive-immersive experience design perspective: so here's a list of Game Changer episodes that are great references for various design principles: chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

The "Count the Rice" game prompt from Game Changer

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Jul 2

Lastly: Hidden Within Walls, a map-making game where you balance the demands of being a Byrgenweard and a Raederwine (yeah I had fun exploring middle English language for this one!), drawing overlapping maps to serve both the city and the inhabitants' aims and stories...

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Jul 2

Next up: Fox & Redwing, which begins with a fictional folktale your character knows well....build a world, then origami your notes as your character bends and shifts reality, with pieces of the world lost in the folds, merged in the joins. (Never tried origami? Great way to start!)

The cover of Fox & Redwing with the tagline: when you're done changing the world, what's left behind?

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Jul 2

First up: Bear! I'll admit to still loving the core conceit, even years on: *you* are the otherworldly patron of an adventurer, with your body/surroundings signalling how they're doing, and what help they might need. (ngl, it started as an experiment in making myself slow the hell down!)

The cover of Bear with the tagline: a solo game about guiding and protecting a lone adventurer

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Jun 26

My second sale on itch (until July 6th) is the Folklore & Fiction sale - three solo games all ultimately about telling stories to shape the world. Connect to another world by listening to the one around you, alter reality by doing origami, enable rebellion via mapmaking... itch.io/s/192043/fol...

Folklore & Fiction sale - 3 games for £7.50. The covers of Fox & Redwing, Bear and Hidden Within Walls are shown

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Jun 26

I've got two sales happening on itch for the next two weeks! First up: SHLOCK SALE - my most over-the-top games inspired by B-movies, trashy TV, melodramatic premises and general chaotic fun Each game's 25% off - but buy as a bundle and they're 1/3 off! itch.io/s/192035/sch...

The cover images of the games Time Heist, The Fatality Force, Superheroes Saying Sorry/Thankyou/Goodbye and The Andromeda Ward

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 11

A handful of pics from @efimeralevents.bsky.social's game Aretuza (taken by the brilliant Mauro Lopez del Fresno), such beaut reminders of a game I had an absolute ball playing (and lovely to be confident that I definitely want to play more eps in future!)

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Apr 15

heading into Gothenburg having just landed, getting myself ready for Knutpunkt! Already delighted by the chilly air, rigged landscape, looming grey clouds (no, really. my body is *in it's element*) Can't wait to be surrounded by wonderful people and amazing ideas for three days!

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Feb 16

Due to a few dropouts, there's 4 spots available for the Immersive Makers Jam next Monday! Come for a day of collaborating, making and socialising (and it's free!) Book your spot here: ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...

"Immersive Makers Jam" scribbled on overlapping cards, post-its and pages

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Jan 5

Immersive Makers Jam: a day-long free event on Mon 23rd Feb in London Next month I'll be running (with the brilliant Gryph Griffin) an immersive makers jam - a low-pressure space to try things out, learn from others, and meet collaborators! More info/bookings here: ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 30

Heading to UKGE this morning! I'm only going for today, so if you're about gimme a shout so I can come say hi! Will be masked so look out for the multicoloured hair and big glasses

A white person with blue-purple hair and big round glasses smiles from a train platform

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 28

Needed to get stills of some old work this morning, and damn if I don't still have so much love in my heart for this livestreamed panto. The absurdly scrappy visuals, the goose chases in chat, the joyful silliness that was committed to fun over polish...miss you Jack & The Beanstalk

Four performers (including one made up like a panto dame and one who's been pied in the face) are scrappily greenscreened against various different cartoonish backdrops in a split-screen style. A stream chat to the right focuses on an escaped goose who is honking in chat.

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 24

The printed in-world posters for Support Group For The Newly Human arrived! Suddenly realising how big A2 is... And Voidspace Live is *only two weeks away!* Get tix and come pretend to be an ex-zombie (or -vampire, or -werewolf, or -ghost) with me! voidspacezine.com/event/voidsp...

A white person with oversized glasses and pink and turquoise hair holds up a large poster saying 'need help on starting life over? you can pick our brains'

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 24

*damn* Brixton's permanent blood donation centre feels swanky - as ever, if there's anyone out there able to donate but nervous about doing so I'm happy to accompany anyone (w/in London!) to a donation

A white person with pink and turquoise hair smiles whilst laid back in a medical chair with a blood pressure slip on their arm

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 16

Every festival/conference/convention should have a Flash Talks segment. I swear I have never been disappointed by a solid hour or so of 5-10 minute special-interest talks. (though Sam @amazefest.bsky.social's Hyper Talks might be the best hosted/run instance I've ever seen)

A packed pink-lit lecture theatre where a speaker is at a podium next to a huge projection of the meme image of distorted Elmo surrounded by fire

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 13

Another museum wish: more dressing up sections please (went to the German Spy Museum today; did also enjoy dressing up at Wonderkamers in The Hague a few weeks back)

A person wears a trench coat, wig, hat and sunglasses over their actual glasses in front of a museum display

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 12

This may not look like much, but it's the first steps of me making assets as I finally tell myself I *am* going to learn Unity, because I really really do want to make a game that a) is presented as an in-world computer screen (minimising distance between what player + player character are doing)...

A variety of black and purple boxes on a cream background; the word 'speaker' can be seen in one and 'neolex 180' in green in another

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 12

Next: what you're actually doing. You move through a bleak, aggressive landscape. Any path a prior figure has taken, thorns are flattened and easier to walk. But inevitably you reach areas (or veer outside slim paths) and are caught by - impaled by - the thorns. You go until you can't anymore.

A screen shows a dark, brutal, grey, minimalist digital landscape with a humanoid figure at the centre

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 12

Right, there's a game I haven't been able to get out of my head since late March so I wanna chat about it Let me tell you about AGGREGATE

A mutated-looking video game controller made of some grey metallic gnarled subsrance

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· May 8

1 month until Support Group for the Newly Human at Voidspace! So I'm announcing the companion game: 'A coffee with Finn, who used to be a ghost, or vampire, or something.' Made for anyone who can't make it in person, this two-part text-based game casts you as a newly human person seeking support.

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Apr 26

Love this as I currently look into my tickets/plans for the coming week.

Fairytales that are closed. For the time being, there will be no fairytales undergoing maintenance.

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Mar 31

*runs in during the final hour* happy trans visibility day. Visibility is a tricky thing for me at times: I wish I was more visually confusing to people (so they didn't default to assuming I'm a woman) but also I don't owe anyone shit physically to validate my agender-ness. I often feel invisible...

A white person with large glasses and short turquoise hair swishing upwards smiles at camera

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Mar 17

Goddamn the Shadows exhibition at MUNCH in Oslo feels very damn special - will share much more soon but what wonderful creativity, theatrics, surprises, use of tech and general beauty. (little pic of where Munch paints your portrait, w buttons on the chairs arms for English or Norwegian)

In a dark soon the shadow of a person painting on a transparent easel looms over a small chair

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Mar 16

goddamn, thank god I've got a week and a half in Stockholm after Knutepunkt because I'll need that to even *start* thinking about everything I've heard/seen/watched/listened to/chatted about these last few days (for now: Puerto Banana is my new fave tabletop game)

Banana tiles for a tabletop game with various numbers on them, scattered around an unrelated floor map and note saying 'ghost exploration: grab a pack and play your pervasive mini larp experience'

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Mar 11

Made an in-world tarot deck whilst playing Krystalium this week - all inspired by moments in game, used by my character to divine feelings about upcoming missions etc. Really like it as a way of documenting a game!

5 cards:
The Cured (a candle in a cage)
The Wanting Noose (a noose)
The Disturbed Water (a beach with things washed ashore)
The Constant Answer (a bisected crystal, the image in negative on one side)
The Unmade Skeleton (an opening to a spine with crystals around it)

10 cards:
The Decorated Man (a uniformed shoulder)
The Fading Heart (a bed with someone's body shrouded)
The Criminals Comfort (three candles)
The Untamed Scientist (two containers of experiments)
The Foreseen Loss (an inverted anchor)
The Fallen Family (a house with a black explosion at it's core)
The Second Ship (an empty sea at sunset)
The Returning Parasite (a flower overtaken by crystals, with shed ones on the ground)
The Good Death (flowers in long grass)
The Clean Host (a person in a doorway)

10 cards:
The Second Thought (two syringes)
The Slow Poison (an eye with tendrils emerging from a small iris)
The Deeper Wound (a shaded face leads down to a bandaged neck)
The Equaliser (a stormy sea with raft in the foreground, huge ship in the distance)
The Revived Ghost (a body suspended in the position of being dragged away upright)
The Bound Chaos (a crystal in elaborate container)
The Final Lie (hands holding each other)
The Burning Body (a neck, shoulder and arm with crystalline growths)
The 12.05 (a pocket watch showing 12.05)
The Medicine (a torso filling with layered liquid)

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Mar 9

Went through my Krystalium characters 'words' this evening (since, I basically have everything she 'said' written down) - love the variety of messages on 1st page, and the handwriting that varies with tone of message, and I think 2nd page is only written 'conversation' that happened

notebook page with notes:

'theyd fill it with krystalium' (in messier handwriting)
'people cannot go to the medbay because there is too much krystalium there's
'friendly family visit'
'krystalium poisoning + presence of krystalium = dead'
'youre wrapped up cosy in the kraken's tentacles'
'what shit did you have to deal with today? '

He is trying to crew the 2nd ship with Alaverdians (he's crewed the 1st with his own crew). He's expecting news of it's location & who is aboard soon. he will tell me any news as soon as he has it. He can be trusted right now to fight on the revolutions side.

(different handwriting)
And Alaverde?

"revolution's side"

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Mar 9

Been quiet online because I've been larping at Krystalium the last few days! Been silent irl because the universe is hilarious and I *entirely* lost my voice right before the game. Which...definitely gave some interesting insights for research into game and experience design! Writing up soon

A white femme with cropped turquoise hair and blue mottling on their neck wears a grey military jacket and stands outside a fort

Chloe Mashiter@chloemashiter· Feb 17

Just 'rehearsed' Support Group for the Newly Human (spoke to imaginary people whilst pacing my room...) and *so excited* for tonight! This strange, gentle, emotional, silly show-slash-game combines so much I love, can't wait to see what people do with it! (Also: it packs down *this small"?!)