Thais Weiller is a Brazilian game designer and producer. Together with Danilo Dias she co-founded JoyMasher and released ''

Oniken ''Oniken'' is a side-scroller, side-scrolling action game, action platform game, platform video game developed and published by independent Brazilian studio Joymasher for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux. The game was released worldwide for Micro ...

'', '' Odallus'',

Blazing Chrome ''Blazing Chrome'' is a run and gun video game developed by JoyMasher and published by The Arcade Crew. The game was released on July 11, 2019 for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and on November 19, 2020 for Amazon Luna. Th ...

and ''Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider''. She has also created ''Rainy Day'', a game about anxiety and depression: she spoke at

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(GDC) in 2017 about "wondering why no one was making games about the 'crappy moments in life,' like break ups, awful bosses, and experiences with serious health conditions." ''Rainy Day'' was described by one reviewer as ''"um jogo curtinho sobre ansiedade e depressão que você deveria jogar agora"'' ("a short game about anxiety and depression which you should play now"). She has also published two books on game design, "Game Start" and "Pense Pequeno", under

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. Both books are in Portuguese and available for free download. She has an M.Sc. in

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from the

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