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Mandy J Watson @mandyjwatson

Tech-culture journalist. Copy editor. Professional geek. Words: brainwavez.org/. Tiny games: mandyjwatson.itch.io/. Not here but there: 🦋

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Mandy J Watson@mandyjwatson
18 Aug 2023
I've now been pushed off Tweetdeck and I can't function on Twitter without it so expect so see much less of me here. I am elsewhere, mainly the sky one (as is @brainwavez), and you can always check mandyjwatson.com/ as well, although it's still a placeholder site.

Mandy J Watson

Mandy J Watson | An award winning tech-culture journalist, copy editor, and game developer based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Shoutout to all the Danish people celebrating Nøddespark this Christmas, and Merry Musktardmas to my friends in the UK. (I'm a little iffy on conín asal mór in Ireland but you do you!)
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My entry for the One-Page RPG Jam 2024: Pirate Treasure Transport Terror mandyjwatson.itch.io/pirate-… Command your crew to get the treasure (for you), heartless pirate captain! (I might circle back to give the art a bit more love but otherwise it's done) #ttrpg #1pRPGjam #gamedev

Pirate Treasure Transport Terror by Mandy J Watson

Get that treasure to the ship! An entry for the One-Page RPG Jam 2024.

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Thank you for featuring my #ttrpg project in your newsletter! #gamedev #solorpg #mosaicstrict
Adrià Prat@adria_prat
1 Jul 2024
📨 Boletín de #Quisicosas del 01/07/2024 enviado. 📨 Edición con novedades de #juegosderol en solitario de @itchio, @DriveThruRPG y mecenazgos. open.substack.com/pub/quisic…
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SA Game Jam@Official_SAGJ
24 Nov 2023
The theme for SA GAME JAM 2023 has just been announced! Check the theme out & join the jam here : itch.io/jam/sa-game-jam-2023… #SAGJ2023

SA GAME JAM 2023

A game jam from 2023-11-24 to 2023-11-27 hosted by Free Lives. SA GAME JAM is an annual competition proudly sponsored by Free Lives with the aim of encouraging more South Africans to make games! The...

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This playthrough of my game makes me SO happy. The link to it is in the thread.
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29 Oct 2023
Anniversary #SundayRead from the archives: In Pictures: The 2013 Cape Town Zombie Walk, Part 2 brainwavez.org/culture/featu… The second part of a photographic showcase, in which the zombies retrace their steps as the light fades.

In Pictures: The 2013 Cape Town Zombie Walk, Part 2

A mysterious forcefield (rules) prevented the zombies of the 2013 Cape Town Zombie Walk from continuing their adventure into, or past, the South African Museum so the mangled group mingled before...

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29 Oct 2023
Anniversary #SundayRead from the archives: In Pictures: The 2013 Cape Town Zombie Walk, Part 1 brainwavez.org/culture/featu… The first part of a photographic showcase of one of the best Cape Town Zombie Walks.

In Pictures: The 2013 Cape Town Zombie Walk, Part 1

Now an annual Halloween tradition in its fourth year, the 2013 Cape Town Zombie Walk gathered the likeminded soulless from all over the city who shuffled and moaned their way through some of the most...

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I made a game for the BitsyFest jam. It's my first #Bitsy game. It's a small adventure game about "repatriating" antiquities in museums. (Absolutely not based in reality, in other words.) Play it here: mandyjwatson.itch.io/heist-a… #IndieDev #GameDev #PixelArt
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brainwavez.org@brainwavez
1 Oct 2023
#SundayRead from the archives: GrafLit: The Official Launch And Exhibition brainwavez.org/books/feature… 10 years ago an incredible #sacomics anthology was launched in Cape Town in collaboration with @OpenBookFest.
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I printed my one-page RPG printable! (And wrote a quick blog post about it.) ((Low, low res picture because ::gestures broadly:: and link in next tweet because ::gestures broadly::.))
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Story of the printables here: mandyjwatson.itch.io/battle-… Battle Royale At The Cape Town Horticultural Show game page here (it's free): mandyjwatson.itch.io/battle-…

Printing My First One-Page RPG Printables

Battle Royale At The Cape Town Horticultural Show was my first time designing and finishing a one-page RPG, although I have been thinking about creating them for a while and have a few as yet...

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🎨Did we mention that we put a graffiti mini-game into Wrestling With Emotions? 🐶 Yes, you will be able to paint a dog with sunglasses.
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Joanna Stern
@JoannaStern
12 Sep 2023
And there it is. The dongle we have all been waiting for. $29 for a Lightning to USB-C adapter. Never change, Apple. Never change.
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Darren Olivier@darren_olivier
12 Sep 2023
As another point of comparison, South Africa spends more than 3 times as much on VIP protection than it does on the entire combat air capability of the SANDF including the Hawks, Gripens, and Rooivalks. It's even almost as much as it costs to run all of the Air Force's bases.
Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos
12 Sep 2023
The government spends R1.7-billion a year on the VIP Protection Unit. It spends only R2.2-billion on the Hawks, a unit that is supposed to fight crime on behalf of everyone, everywhere in South Africa. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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brainwavez.org@brainwavez
10 Sep 2023
Over two days a group of comics creators, including @dwuff and @TheBeardlyBen, transformed @book_lounge's windows. We filmed a time lapse and documented the process with detailed photos and interviews. youtube.com/watch?v=yWFbvETi…

Creating The Book Lounge Window For Open Book Festival 2016

Go behind the scenes to learn more about how the comics-inspired wi...

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brainwavez.org@brainwavez
10 Sep 2023
#SundayRead from the archives: Watch As The Book Lounge's Comics-Inspired Window Comes To Life For @OpenBookFest brainwavez.org/culture/featu… #sacomics
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