Raquel de Miranda

@rdemiranda.bsky.social

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Narrative Designer & Freelance | Solo Dev @fibrils-studio.bsky.social [TBA, SOMBRAS: negative frames 📸, The Merlies 🌱, Last Time I Saw You ⛩️, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden 👻, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 🏹] Opinions are my own. she/they. FR/EN/PT(BR)

a girl looks at the camera and smile while candidly pressing a red button labeled "immanentize" from a Eschatron 9000 machine, with all settings for "mayhem" and "destruction" pushed to the max
a selfie from OP with eye glitter
a selfie from OP in a woolen white vest. she's looking at the camera, face resting on her hand, and smiling
a list of thumbnails of the games Raquel de Miranda has worked on, which includes: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, The Merlies, Last Time I Saw You, Fading Echo, and project Blur
Thumbnail pour le jeu "The Merlies" avec un petit Merlie avec un chapeau rouge.
Portrait of op against a gray background, staring at the camera with a subtle smile, head daintily resting over their hand as if they're about to sell you a book about wellness or nutrition or something. Long brown hair and brown eyes, in a gray puffy blouse, with a sick chainmail earring peaking through.
A webcam selfie of the OP, with glasses and a checkered shirt, and a Wailmer plushie.
A copy of the book "The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope" on a wooden table with a little potted plant on the side.
A cover for "Open Throat" by Henry Hoke. The title is drawn into the shape of the teeth of the head of a mountain lion opening the mouth over a pink background.
A picture of the comic book "Ce que Cécile Sait" by Cécile Cée, with a picture of a little girl, and drawings of a lightning strike, a pair of lips sown shit, and eyes looking at her.
The cover for "Our Share of Night" by Mariana Enriquez, that showcases a drawn pitch black hand with golden claws on a blue blackground.
The cover of the novel "Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata, where a plate with a little rice ball with women features drawn out of seaweed is laid on top of a pink napkin. The entire aesthetic looks very clean and simple on the eye.
the meme "I just need to" but it's about playing pathologic 3
A cover art for Earthlings by Sakaya Murata (the author of Convenience Store Woman), black with orange dots sparsely spread, and a picture of a cute hedgehog plushie in the center.
A picture of a forest.
Two different articles from The Independent and Bloomberg Opinion being hyperbolically enthusiastic about the place of AI in the US audience' lives (the first one mentioning that "nearly a third of americans have had a romantic relationship with an AI according to a survey", and the second one already claiming that Tilly Norwood, a fake AI actress, is going to lead to a race for "best AI in a leading role" for the Oscars) posted 3h apart from each other.
A picture of OP in a checkered shirt seated in a chair in a white room tinted purple surrounded with sneaky Mass Effect merch
a wide-eyed, puffy cat is biting a cable
A LinkedIn post that reads: " Happy New Year over here! ✨ In 2025, I'm making my desperate call for you to discard genAI, ChatGPT, and the AI tools not fully and forcefully shoved down our throats yet. Even if it's "convenient" or cheaper. Especially if it is. Don't devalue your friends and colleagues. Don't sabotage their worth, *your* worth, because of your checked-out laziness. Don't devalue yourself, your own resources, your own critical eye. Stop making the world worse, stop dissociating on purpose. The impact, both human and environmental (not to mention the actual and hyper-devalued human labor from the Global South hidden within the machine), isn't worth whatever convenience or cheap dopamine or ego hit you're getting. Dare to engage with what's messy within you. Honor yourself. Do the work. You are not merely data to be purchased and sold and replicated. Don't make it easier for that horrendous grift, that billion dollars industry of what might be one of the biggest heists in humanity's history. Don't help them win, don't decide they have already won!! Don't normalize your own commodification. Don't let the slop win, don't enshittify yourself for people who would sell your soul for a market share in a heartbeat. You won't be human for long. Engage with that gift you have while you still have it. (**there are rare and very specific cases where machine learning is a warranted and necessary tool, but I trust those people to be smart enough to know the difference. Exceedingly little of those apply to creativity or videogames.) "
A copy of the collector edition for the game "Last Time I Saw You" on Switch and a potted succulent on a table.
The front cover of the game "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora"
The Spongebob Squarepants mocking meme with "iNnOvAtiOn" as a text header