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Ripper Coyote
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31 | she/her | satx | programmer of sort | sre/dba and indie game developer
https://rippercoyote.itch.io/
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PARADROP IS OUT - Use tactical drops to win an island war in this micro RTS. Destroy bases while avoiding anti-aircraft guns and enemy air support. Take on 10 missions in an epic campaign, or challenge another player in battle mode! #paradrop #gamedev #godot #godot2d #indiegame #rts #browsergame
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jon’s sandwich shop
December 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
like at this point i just think the audience excuse is such shit. if your entire business depends on your audience being on one social media site, you are still going to lose that audience eventually. you are not diversifying your presence enough to maintain your -current- income
December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I FUCKING TOLD YOU
December 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
the wil wheaton effect is what happens when you migrate to a new social media site and are surprised to discover the people there can post screenshots of your posts from another site, and get so upset about the things you said that you quit social media entirely
December 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
when i was young i thought it would be so cool to work at a major game company and come up with the background assets. someone clearly had a lot of fun making mckong burger in red alert 2 and these days they'd just dump that kind of "idea making" onto an ai and just make you do the boring shit
December 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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sorry I would work on the game but I'm busy doing this #gamedev #indiedev
December 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Etched in the scheme of nature's own hand
December 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I'm not going to make a habit of writing in-depth about the games I work on among teams of other people...but I did have at least one piece I wanted to write about Rhythm Doctor.

Here's my piece about "abstract" and "literal" elements of the game.

blueberrylemonade.pika.page/posts/abstra...
Abstraction in Rhythm Doctor - Blueberry Lemonade
Video games aren’t real. That, uh, goes without saying. But what I mean is that video games tend to go to less lengths to seem real than films and TV shows tend to. Despite the fact that a lot of game...
blueberrylemonade.pika.page
December 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Lot of people talking about the big twitter exodus and how the big "fuck art" button is the final straw, but I'll be real nothing will hit that site as hard as when Simpsons Hints stopped posting
December 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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KICKSTARTER UPDATE FOR #KilaFlow!

All levels complete!? Cutscene progress?! Backer Name in the credits survey?! 16 KILA PLUSHIES LEFT?! KILAFLOW SOON???
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
December 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Oh right the poison
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
if i have to eat one more ham sandwich I'm going to die
December 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
i mean i say every week that there's literally not an audience on twitter, you're just making art for chatbots, and people didn't believe me
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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today is the only day you can repost this
December 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Today's the only day you can post this, get it while it's hot
December 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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this leak turned out to be true so just be wary guys
December 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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The Star is Atop the Tree. Do You Allow Your Greed to Ruin Christmas?
December 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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happy christmas y'all
#Blender #b3d #dragonmarch
December 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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Happy Holidays!
December 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM