Dr. Miko Charbonneau

@drmikachu.bsky.social

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Studio Lead of @prettysmart.bsky.social, Dr. of Dance Games, horror writer and game designer. OUT NOW: THE SPIRIT LIFT, a deckbuilding ghostpunk hotel-crawler! VR/Horror game design consulting? Talk or collaborate? https://prettysmartgames.com/contact

A doodle of a white sheet ghost with a black bar across its face that says PLACEHOLDER
Close-up portrait of Miko's face. She is half-Japanese and wearing minimal makeup. Her hair is brown with a long streak of pink transitioning to lavender at the tips. She's smiling and wearing light pink clear glasses.
An illustration of Beatrice, the Golden Witch, with her arms spread and a wild smile. She is holding a gold pipe in her right hand and wearing an iconic black and gold dress. Behind her is a swirling purple fog effect and the background of a tea party room. From the game Umineko When They Cry (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
A graph of nodes and lines which form a visual depiction of the dev process for a game called THE SPIRIT LIFT. The majority of the blooms of circular flower like shapes are in the upper top left. Colors range from yellow to pink to green. In the top right text says "5601 Commits".
An illustration of a digital toy with a face and three buttons at the bottom. The shape of the toy is that of a hamster with puffy cheeks and it has a little ring at the top so it can be attached to a keychain. The screen in the middle shows a digital rodent face sleeping or frowning.
An illustration from the game THE SPIRIT LIFT. It features a piece of paper folded so that four points stick upward and have open areas underneath for people to stick in their fingers. On each wedge there is purple scribbled writing that isn't meant to be deciphered.
An illustration of an open soda can. The can is a green and yellow color, with bright orange fictional font exploding from the middle and a red strip at the bottom. This is a parody of a popular soda in the 90s
Text says October 13-19 Ada Lovelace Day Sale 2025. Awesome games about coding, automation and engineering. Hosted by luden.io The image shows a workspace with a jumbled pile of wires and monitors and circuit boards. In the upper right corner is a portrait of Ada Lovelace with ADA in neon letters. There's a poster on the right wall of Alan Turing that says ALAN WAKE UP.
It's Miko! An Asian woman with shoulder length brown hair that has red streaks. Wearing a red floral pattern and pink glasses. Visual filter is adding pink dog ears and a pink dog nose.
Woman in pink glasses smiles at camera. She's wearing a gold medallion necklace and a blue patterned kimono top
A woman with glasses is holding up a scrap of paper and smiling. Behind her, several horror movie posters are displayed but dark and hard to see. The writing says 2024 Horror Movies Ranked!
The face of a dog in a carpeted room with blue curtains. The dog is brown and black with powerfully worried eyebrows and a big nose. She is wearing a blue collar.
Collage of photos of an outfit from the game awards. Top left is a close up of metallic gold shoes, top right is a woman with colored hair in a suit with a bright blue tie and gold shoes. Bottom Left is the same woman with a man, both smiling in matching blue ties with eyeglasses tie bars. Bottom right is a closeup of the glasses tie bar.
A pixel art masterpiece in a limited palette of colors representing a bygone era of adventure games. Two women sit on a train seat: on the left is a woman with shoulder length blue hair and a blue top with a white collar, on the right is a woman with a bob of red hair, a green hat, a charming gray coat and a yellow bow around her neck. The dialogue reads "can you imagine?"
Prettysmart games' key art for their game entitled THE SPIRIT LIFT. The game’s shopkeeper, Dorian Graywolf, has yellow glowing eyes holding a fan of navy blue cards under his wolf snout. The cards have golden accents with an eye in the center and arrows facing up and down coming from the middle of the eye. The logo for THE SPIRIT LIFT is to the left of Dorian. It says, "THE SPIRIT LIFT" in the same yellow glow as Dorian’s eyes with the first I in SPIRIT mimicking an elevator dial with a blue atmospheric outline of the elevator dial with the actual dial behind it.
The logo for THE SPIRIT LIFT in gold and blue, next to a wolf's face with glowing gold eyes as he holds a deck of cards.
Blue image with a logo on the left stating "THE SPIRIT LIFT" in gold text. The outline of an elevator is painted behind in grungy blue streaks. A wolf's face glares from the right with glowing gold eyes. His muzzle tilts over a hand of cards with an elaborate backing pattern in an art deco style.
A person's hand holding merch for THE SPIRIT LIFT a card game. One is a charm with the name and face of the character Maria. Behind the hand is a monitor showing the game being played
A list of game covers. The list says "Life Changing Games" at the top. The games are listed by title on the side: Persona 3 portable, Resident Evil 4: Premium Edition, Final Fantasy Tactics, Xenogears, Pikmin 2, Phantasmagoria, Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, Shivers, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, Magic: The Gathering (Old PC edition from the 90s), The SIms, Karaoke Revolution, Dance Central 2, Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix, Elite Beat Agents, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, PHoenix Write: Ace Attorney - Justice For All, Minecraft, Magic: The Gathering Arena, Super Mario Bros. 3, Spiritfarer, Vamprie SUrvivors, Slay the SPire, Yakuza 0: Digital Deluxe Edition
A woman and man on their wedding day standing on the beach with the ocean behind them. The sun is setting over the water and silhouetting them with the glow peaking through between their faces
A basil plant with hand sized leaves in a glass jar, resting precariously on the arm of a blue patio chair in a sunlit room
A cropped in shot of me, Miko, an Asian woman in a purple plaid shirt, pink glasses and big black headphones. I'm not wearing makeup and my skin is looking pretty good despite my status as a middle-aged adult.
A screenshot of gameplay from prettysmart games’ THE SPIRIT LIFT horror adventure. The screenshot features a creature boss, Sporacula, in the middle of the frame with little ‘Shroomcake minions flanking his sides surrounded by red glowing chandeliers and a ominous red patterned stained glass window behind Sporacula’s head. In the foreground is the players cards used to defeat the creatures along with the three characters of your team with stats. In the bottom left is a tracker for your buffs
Landscape photo of a field and the ocean. The sky is cloudless and vast. On the horizon another piece of land can be seen. The water is a deep blue. The land is yellowed grass and ragged shrubs.
A screenshot of gameplay from prettysmart games’ THE SPIRIT LIFT horror adventure. The screenshot features a creature boss, Sporacula, in the middle of the frame with little ‘Shroomcake minions flanking his sides surrounded by red glowing chandeliers and a ominous red patterned stained glass window behind Sporacula’s head. In the foreground is the players cards used to defeat the creatures along with the three characters of your team with stats. In the bottom left is a tracker for your buffs.
Slightly blurry, extremely closeup black nose of a dog. The nostrils are enormous.
Dark illustration of an elevator doorway with an old fashioned dial above. The gold logo says THE SPIRIT LIFT
A sparkly image with art of a woman at the hot springs. The text reads "all donations to the Trevor Project matched!" and "A Year of Springs game playthrough finale with DrMikachu" with the link "twitch.tv/plaidberrydesign fundraising for the Trevor Project"