NYSSA DOES ART

Full-time game writer and part-time artist/illustrator. https://nyssashawsmithgendelman.wordpress.com/

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Got laid off 🙃 Game still fucks though you should go play it

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some of you have never been a teenage girl with a crush on another teenage girls and it shows

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A Rhyming Couplet

…look if no one else is going to draw fanart for them i’ll do it myself

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ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam

From the creators of Disco Elysium comes ZERO PARADES – an espionage RPG. You're a brilliant but tormented operant on one final desperate as

And it is OUT! ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies. I am so proud of the game that we've made, and after four years of writing her, it is so, so exciting to finally send my girl Hershel out into the world. My Whole Sick Crew and I hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it.

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Nude Beach, 2026

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New trailer for ZERO PARADES! The game releases in less than a month!

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May 21st. Zero Parades. If you want to see what I've been working on for the last four years, time to mark your calendars.

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New episode of the ZERO PARADES devcast is out! I wasn't able to make it to GDC this year but my lovely and talented co-writers Honey Watson and Kosmos Sinamae had a great time showing our demo around and answering questions from fans.

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Variations in the Migratory Patterns of Coccinella septempunctata (Fly Away Home), 2026

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The demo for the game I've been working on for the last four years (!!!) is going to be featured in Steam NextFest, starting February 23rd!

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Hare With Magnolias, 2026

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new podcast on the making of Zero Parades, featuring an interview with some members of the ZA/UM narrative team

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October is upon us! Take a bat. For moral support.

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lost both of my cats in the last two years. haven’t talked about it much because it never seems to stop making me sad. this sphynx isn’t either of them, but it looks a lot like em.

miss you guys every day. you were the best. xox

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“…I don’t know how many people I’ve helped today, but I can tell you every other person who has died.”

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back on my hospital show bullshit

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me: im gonna practice my caricatures by drawing my favorite doctor from The Pitt

also me, ten hours later: wait shit they’re all my favorite