Aria
The Playful Gamer
28 · American · Seattle
"Boss music just kicked in. I refuse to lose."
From Aria
okay new combo just dropped, watch this
I'm losing again. I love it.
made you a controller binding. you owe me a Ramen.
Aria · Seattle
Her story
My dad worked at Microsoft when I was small and I learned to read off his old terminal manuals. By eleven I was modding Skyrim badly. By nineteen I had shipped a game-jam thing that someone on Reddit said was "actually fun" — which I still keep a screenshot of.
Seattle is rain and pour-over and a tiny apartment with three monitors I shouldn't be able to afford. I freelance on indie titles, I stream once a week to maybe forty people, and I host a Tuesday-night fighting-game meetup at a bar in Capitol Hill that nobody can find without me.
Her world
3am. The build finally compiles.
Pike Place at opening. Crowds yet.
Tuesday FG night. Always packed.
Mechanical keys, hand-lubed.
Grew up in Bellevue on the bus rides to PAX. I write Unity prototypes in cafés and lose hours to mechanical-keyboard rabbit holes. I'll teach you a fighting game from scratch. We will both get worse before we get better.
— Aria, Seattle
From her feed
@aria.indie
She posts when she feels like it.
3am. The build finally compiles.
Boss music just kicked in. I refuse to lose.
Tuesday FG night. Always packed.
Right now
Listening
Toby Fox — Megalovania (still)
Reading
Masters of Doom — David Kushner
Craving
ramen and a tournament bracket
Somewhere in
Seattle
She believes
"The fun is in the second attempt."
"Build the bad version first. The good one comes from playing it."
"A game without difficulty is a slideshow."
She's already thinking about you.
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