Mara McGreal
🌟Environment Artist @ RadicalForge🌟
Currently on Southfield | Prev. ZA4, GWYF + GunJam VR | Runs
@mgdmeetup.bsky.social | AST | Gremlin | She/Her | Opinions are my own! | Women in Games Ambassador✨
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- The emotions I'm feeling with having MGDM events over for now is undescribable, but I'll keep trying to help the next generation of game devs however I can. If you're able to come along to this event, I'd love to see you all. And hopefully i'll be back in the future with other things locally❤️
- Big congrats to the awesome Poncle team, as well as the amazing team here at RF that worked on this! Been super proud of them all and got to watch this be created right from the beginning. So excited to see people playing this!✨
- Vampire Survivors but it's in Virtual Reality! is Out Now 🦇 Classic gameplay that you know and love, but now... you can be the bullet hell with your face! 🔥 Get up close and personal to Poe & his Garlic in Vampire Survivors VR on Meta Quest 3 & 3S 🧄 youtube.com/watch?v=KDAAEYBvq3E
- I'm admittedly heartbroken to have to put MGDM on hiatus after this year, but unfortunately the demand has been quite low and its hard to justify the payments. Focus will be on the discord from now on Running events is hard ya'll. But MGDM is definitely one of my biggest achievements in game dev❤️
- Let it be known I'm still personally wanting to help out in the local game dev scene in Middlesbrough for early careers (college, university, graduates and junior devs) as much as I can, so if anyone ever wants to reach out, or has any event opportunities, please reach out!!
- About to have a religious experience, don't mind me
- Awh yeah, new MGDM up! Reminder that I'm looking for more devs to get involved where they can as we have a bunch of super talented and passionate students and graduates. If you're a dev or a company and want to get involved, let me know!✨
- What: Middlesbrough Game Dev Meetup Where: 2B Creative, Hillstreet Shopping Center, Middlesbrough When: July 12th 1pm - 3pm Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middlesbro... As always, tickets aren't necessary but SUPER helpful for me and even gives you a calendar invite! Hope to see you all there❤️
- Super excited to announce I'm once again a mentor for Limit Break this year! Had so much fun last year both as a mentor and mentee, and want to once again give back as much as I can this time around❤️ Looking for a chaos gremlin with 4+ years of stylised environment art experience? Maybe I can help✨
- 👀👀 MGDM April edition is this Saturday! Don't forget to get tickets. Should be a fun one, with some slight changes so we have some activity tables this time!! Excited to see you all there❤️
- What: Middlesbrough Game Dev Meetup Where: 2B Creative, Hillstreet Shopping Center, Middlesbrough When: Saturday 12th April, 1pm - 3pm (every second saturday monthly) Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middlesbro... Hope to see you all there <3
- I did a silly lil thing I did to show my love for the TCG Pocket Marill full art card I so adore (big S/O to youtube tutorials for holding my hand through scary tech art shenanigans, couldn't have done it without you)
- This is tomorrow! Hope to see plenty of people there! Make sure to check out the eventbrite and get tickets if you can and double check the venue/times if you're used to our previous event's details as its slightly different! If tickets are sold out, you can just turn up too! See you then!❤️
- Where: 2B Creative, Hillstreet Shopping Center, Middlesbrough When: Saturday 8th March, 1pm - 3pm (every second saturday monthly) Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middlesbro... Tickets aren't necessary, but are useful and lets me know interest! Follow us here or on discord for updates too!✨
- MGDM is back this Saturday!!! I'm both extremely excited and downright nervous to be hosting this again, but should be an amazing time!✨ I'm still looking for more local devs that want to get involved with teaching and supporting the next gen of devs so hmu if you're interested in coming along!❤️
- Where: 2B Creative, Hillstreet Shopping Center, Middlesbrough When: Saturday 8th March, 1pm - 3pm (every second saturday monthly) Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middlesbro... Tickets aren't necessary, but are useful and lets me know interest! Follow us here or on discord for updates too!✨
- 📢 Calling all Middlesbrough game devs, students, graduates and educators!! 📢 MGDM is back for every second saturday from 1pm - 3pm. Would love for more devs to get involved, so hmu/check the eventbrite if you're interested in coming, or if you or your company want to get involved with the meetup!✨
- Where: 2B Creative, Hillstreet Shopping Center, Middlesbrough When: Saturday 8th March, 1pm - 3pm (every second saturday monthly) Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middlesbro... Tickets aren't necessary, but are useful and lets me know interest! Follow us here or on discord for updates too!✨
- Big thank you to 2B Creative for letting us host there as we'd be lost without them, and to @radicalforge.bsky.social, who have not only been a silent supporter since conception of this event, but are now an official supporter of the event, helping me get the event back up and running again❤️❤️
- Happy new years everyone! Here's to an amazing '25!✨ I'm striving to do more with MGDM, mentor more people, do more talks/events, continue to be creative however feels best and continue to make really cool art! I wanna continue being my witchy self and make so much bread. Big love to you all! ❤️
- Came up with a little list of things I've done this year to look back on, and got a little emotional with the amount of stuff i've gotten up to! I have so much more I want to do and will carry on next year. I'm so thankful for everyone that's been with me. Here's to a better '25!🎉✨ ('24 list in🧵!)
- ⭐Released GWYF Olympus Odyssey, and what an amazing project it was! ⭐2x award nominations, both of which I was a finalist for!❤️ ⭐Another successful year of MGDM! ⭐Mentored a 3D artist, and mentee'd as a CM! I want to do more mentoring next year! ⭐Worked on multiple amazing projects
- ⭐Met so many new people through various work events, and chatting to online! ⭐Helped a lot in the Southfield discord, and learned so much thanks to Flop and our lovely publishing/marketing team! ⭐Helped out multiple game jams and other events over at the local uni and college
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View full threadShoutout to my various non-work/game dev related fun projects this year too! I learned to make sourdough, homemade jam, made so many cookies, decorated my house in a lovely witchy way and got into spiritualism and mindfulness so much more. I want to look into paganism and more witchy stuff more soon
- Gotta say that one of the most frustrating things about trying to run a cosy non-drinking networking event is definitely being proven that there's just not much space for that kind of thing in the typical UK culture. Had my last venue shut, and there's not many places left that aren't pubs anymore😮💨
- Got back from a long weekend away with my friends where we played board games and DnD and generally just got away from the city for a few days and can't explain how much I needed it, even if I got sick😅 Now onto the rest of the week for Dragon Age Veilguard before getting back to the work grind✨
- In the spirit of resharing work, here's some of the environment dressing work I did for season 3 of Zombie Army's DLC! Some of the most fun I had with environment art was on these levels! A personal favourite is the Control inspired memory corridors in Return To Hell🧟♀️
- Absolutely wild that I made it up to 400 followers after only being back a few days! So glad I switched over. This community at the moment is so nice and inspirational and it's been amazing finding people I already knew over here while finding new people too! Ty for making the 🟦☁️ switch so easy❤️
- So in the last year I've been learning more about CM'ing due to helping with the Southfield discord and my networking event! Gotta say, learning about CM skills has been some of the most fun I've had in game dev recently and I'm always itching to learn more! Wish having two roles was more common😅
- Sometimes it be a chocolate mug cake and persona 5 kinda evening❤️
