4 months of work in less than a minute.
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When I pitched The Stamp Station, I thought it was a good idea, but was it possible? Turns out, anything is possible with a team of go-getters serious about their craft.
This April, I installed 9 handmade stamp stations across the Charlotte SHOUT! Arts Festival footprint in Uptown Charlotte. It took months of planning, designing, and coordinating to bring this to life. Solid pacing mixed with quick decision-making, but the goal was always the same: make something functional, solid, and genuinely magical to experience for a crowd hungry for art.
📍9 stamp stations
⭐️ 9 unique stamps
📖 An illustrated story to go with it
If you took the time to interact with The Stamp Station and Shayla Goes to SHOUT!, I truly appreciate you. Thousands of people have this book in their hands and traveled through uptown to collect their stamps. That still doesn't feel real to me.
I've received your messages, and the little girl in me who wanted to chase her dreams says thank you.
I want to thank the entire team that brought this to life with me. It was an experience of a lifetime.
Creative Engineer — @michaelzytkow of @potionsandpixels
3D Printing — Anthony Nguyen
Construction — Center City Partners & @cltshout
Editing — Danielle Thacker
Creative Direction, Ideation, Design, Writing, and Illustration — Me 🙇🏾♀️ Dominique Prescott
You guys are amazing. What are we making next?
#cltevents #clt @shachihata_marking #graphicdesign #Charlotte #cltshout
We’ve been attending MAGFest for quite some time now, and yes, we still think it’s the best game convention on the planet (trust us).
We tend to live in the indie game section, and this year the indie arcades on display were absolutely incredible. The creativity, craftsmanship, and sheer joy on that floor blew us away.
What really stood out, though, was the people. Getting to meet and reconnect with so many incredible individuals who share the same passion for games, play, and experimentation is what keeps us coming back year after year. The community keeps growing, and so does the talent.
#MAGFest #IndieGames #IndieArcade #GameDev #AltCtrl
MAGFest is a reminder of why we love this space so much.
So many brilliant indie devs, incredible conversations, and genuinely good humans building games they care about.
Feeling grateful, inspired, and very excited for what’s coming next. 💙🎮
#MAGFest #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #GameCommunity #GameDevelopers #IndieGameCommunity #GameCreators #GameCulture #POTIONSANDPIXELS
Thanks to everyone in the community who came out to our final Game Industry Gathering of 2025! We had a great time in our ugly sweaters, celebrating what we accomplished together this year and looking ahead to 2026. Thank you all for making this community so special. 💙🎮🎲
#GameIndustry #GameDevCommunity #IndieGames #CharlotteNC
#CharlotteGameDev #GameIndustryGathering #PotionsAndPixels
#GameCommunity #IndieDev #GameEvents
#CreativeCommunity #UglySweaterParty #GameDevLife
Free Play Florida was an incredible time! 🎉
Huge thank-you to the amazing nonprofit team who organized the event — you all knocked it out of the park and made us feel so welcome.
The energy in the space was unmatched: rows of pinball machines, tons of arcade cabinets, a full spread of classic consoles, and a crowd that genuinely loves play. It’s exactly the kind of vibe that makes events like this so special.
Here’s a quick montage from the weekend! 🎮✨
#FreePlayFlorida #RetroGaming #ArcadeGames #Pinball #ClassicConsoles #GamingCommunity
Huge gratitude to all the incredible people in the indie arcade game community that I connected with in Orlando during #IAAPA and @freeplayflorida !
It was great spending time with so many folks I’ve admired for years — all doing amazing, creative, ambitious work in this space and showing so much warmth and hospitality throughout. The future of indie arcade games is bright because of people like this.
Check out and support these amazing creators:
@indiearcadewave , @astrocrowgames , @dsmarcade , @bumblebeargames
