AfroDuckling 🦆

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 — Graphic & Motion Designer • Co-Working • Cozy Gamer — Figma, Framer and Rive — Animation • UI • Stream Assets — ✉️ [email protected]

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@sammy_hardesty Someone said a new farming sim 👀💜

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@AerlyaGraphics I felt this in my core 😭😂💜

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

What a journey! We didn't win but it was definitely a beautiful experience, shout out to @rsawardshow and @taylorstationn for making this happen 💜

Thank you for taking the time to vote, spam it everywhere and support however you could! It means everything 🥹😭

[Aerlya Graphics 🌿🎨 @AerlyaGraphics]

October approaches so I'll be doing another round of Emotetober for 2026! I'll be posting reminder posts to select new people every week starting Oct 1st!

If you're interested in trying your luck to get a free emote, pls comment your ref and tell me what emote you'd like!

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

Quack Quack, are you hydrated? 👁️👄👁️

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@aPinkUmbrella YOU ARE S T U N N I N G 💜🙏🏿

[Pixilluzion ✦ Ellsydia 🏡✨ Wishlist Now! @Pixilluzion]

I'm finally running the very first playtest for Ellsydia next week! ✨

I need your valuable feedback to help me improve my little game and make it as enjoyable as possible!

To participate, join my Discord or fill out the request form.

⬇️ Links below ⬇️ #cozygames #indiegames

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@Ethermelanin

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

✨WE MADE IT TO THE FINALS✨

Let's go out with a bombastic side eye and twerk like there is no tomorrow 💃🏿

You know what to do
🔗https://t.co/ms9TQ4uZQa

Winners will be announced on 27th of September!
Wishing all contestants a great final round 💜

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@its_Ninelmo @MLozada Vouching for @its_Ninelmo 🙏🏿💜

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@Pixilluzion Soo excited for you!!! 🥹💜 It’s really coming together now!

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@LadyDevann @InGameMenu Ooohhh this would be an amazing expierence!

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

HADOUKEN 💨
We just watched the trailer of @Street_Fighter on Stream and took on the challenge and got a juicy score of 166350
Think you can beat me?! Jump into the Street Fighter playable now ➺ https://t.co/MJMzAzT4ED

#ad • #StreetFighterMovie

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

✨WE MADE IT TO THE FINALS✨

Let's go out with a bombastic side eye and twerk like there is no tomorrow 💃🏿

You know what to do
🔗https://t.co/ms9TQ4uZQa

Winners will be announced on 27th of September!
Wishing all contestants a great final round 💜

[Rising Stars Awards🌟 @RSAwardShow]

⚠️ ROUND THREE VOTING NOW OPEN ⚠️

This is the FINAL ROUND of voting to determine who will be the WINNER across 17 different categories!!

Round 3 will be open until SEPTEMBER 14th at 11 PM Eastern ⏰

Click Here to Vote ↝
🌐 🔗 https://t.co/3u1aAu67O0

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

@TheEmpressNoir Don’t get me started but one thing for sure is that Autumn and Winter are coming, fuck the cold. Time for cozy games 😭💜

[AfroDuckling 🦆 @AfroDuckling]

Quack, qwek qiack qwock quack quack!!! 💜

[Roco Kingdom @RocoKingdomEN]

Quack quack quack quack quack! QUACK. (Final tests are in progress. Almost there!)

Sign-ups are now open for our Closed Beta, the Quack Quack Test: https://t.co/ukrPhNyXwr

😉Wishlist on Steam now: https://t.co/0Zl70sJpDw

#QuackQuackTest #RocoKingdom #Roco

[riah @dothnktwice]

ghosts is thriller’s hot older sibling

[Aerlya Graphics 🌿🎨 @AerlyaGraphics]

🌿 COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN! 🌿

Updated pinned tweet because it's been a while and my queue is short atm! I do art, animation and video editing!

Ily forever if you refer me to your frens (i have a referral program so you can get free stuff for it)🫡💚 All links are in the replies!

[Spiffiey @Spiffieyy]

👋Hello
For anyone that doesn't know me I have a huge hub of free emotes I've made on my website!
I encourage streamers to find resources like these over resorting to AI.

♥️https://t.co/HpoBiC7wxD

[Major Respect @MajorRespect]

Dear #devs, #gamescom, @geoffkeighley, @asha_shar, @NintendoAmerica, @PlayStation and all the devs of the world.

@gamescom did not have a “sad incident.” It had a predictable failure, then tried to make the victims own it.

Overnight, booths were hit. Laptops, Steam Decks, demo machines gone. Solo and tiny teams lost hardware they stretched to buy, builds they spent years on, and personal/company data sitting on those drives. For at least one indie, the show was over the moment they walked in. This was not a random phone off a table. Cabinets were forced. Restricted halls with advertised security still got cleaned out.

Then came the official line: we are “very sad.” Also, exhibitors can book extra stand security. Also, insure your gear. Also, at an event this size there will always be people who take advantage. Translation: the world’s largest games show sold the prestige of being there, then pointed at the fine print when the smallest exhibitors paid the price.

That is the truth bigger companies keep dancing around. Gamescom needs indies for the story. “100s+ indie studios.” “Awesome Indies.” “Small teams, huge success.” Those headlines make the floor look alive. They make politicians and press believe the industry is still creative, not just a few mega booths and livestream ads. The second the cost of that story lands on a solo developer’s @Alienware and two years of work, the organizers remember the terms and conditions.

AAA can absorb a stolen laptop. A publisher can replace a demo rig before lunch. A platform can write it off. A one person studio cannot. Travel, booth, hardware, time off a day job, demo builds, backups they hoped they would not need, that is often the entire runway. When the venue fails and the organizer shrugs, it is not “risk of doing business.” It is a transfer of risk downward, every year, until the people who can least afford it stop coming.

Do not pretend this is new or mysterious. People already said similar thefts happened before. The response pattern is the same: condolences, police are informed, security is a priority, please read the guidelines. No automatic coverage for indie area overnight losses. No admission that “book your own guard” is a joke when the booth is 9 square meters and the developer is sleeping in a cheap hotel. No public commitment that next year the indie halls get real protected storage and monitored overnight coverage included, not sold as an add-on.

Here is the part the big companies should feel in the gut. If you only post “thoughts with the affected teams” and go back to your meeting rooms, you are part of the machine. You benefit from the indie halo. You benefit from a show that looks diverse. You benefit when small studios eat the downside of a venue that is too big to care.

So hit them with something they cannot ignore:

Say out loud that Gamescom’s statement was inadequate.
Offer hardware, travel money, legal help, or a replacement demo station to the studios that got hit, publicly, not as a quiet DM.
Tell Koelnmesse and game e.V. that 2027 contracts for major booths are tied to included overnight security and loss coverage for the indie and business area small stands.
Stop using “event of this scale” as a moral get out of jail card. Scale is their product. If scale makes small exhibitors unsafe, the product is broken.

Indies are not content. They are not a hall decoration. They are people who bet their savings on a week in Cologne because this industry still pretends that showing up matters. When the biggest show in Europe cannot keep their machines in a locked cabinet, it is not a footnote. It is the business model speaking.

Amplify the developers by name. Demand a written policy, not another sad tweet. If the platforms, publishers, and giant studios stay polite, this happens again. That is the truth. Act like it.

And as a side note big shout out to @CDPROJEKTRED and other companies that offered to assist!