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Calliope Ryder ☠️
@callioperyder.bsky.social
Made that hobbit game.
Game Dev | Producer | Artist | PR
🏳️‍🌈Bi | ND | Metal🤘 | Cats 🐈
On a couple of neat lists (hi ma!)

Prev: Lead Producer on Tales of the Shire @ Wētā Workshop, Gamerunner @Starcolt, Prod Lead @GYLD + more!
it’s a good day for orange things in this household 🎃
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
we’ve had visitors staying for the last 4 days and lil miss overbite has been totally overstimulated and zooming the entire time

as soon as they left, she crashed on my lap. audio on for sleeping purrs 😭
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
painful to watch history repeat this predictably. especially on the nose to have a literal great gatsby party while pretending we're not at the repeat of the great depression
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
producers when the game director comes in with a million new changes after finishing the latest hit title last night
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“racist ai bias extremely dangerous, says creator of MechaHitler”

are any of these people fuckin serious 😂
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
sxsw sydney was delightful and truly filled the cup. i’ll post about my panel and talk soon but more importantly, some friendo highlights:

ex wives of divorced dads (these sheilas went down the road for a pack of durries and never returned) @ellalowgren.bsky.social ♥️
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i’d simply die for my tiny scraggly girl
October 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
also i finally succumbed to the lurgy upon arriving home from what feels like endless games weeks (gamescom was too close to NZGDC was too close to GCAP/PAX was too close to SXSW syd)

this is what i get for being so smug about getting all my shots this season
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
genuinely thrilled flares are back, i missed them (and their sister, Boots With Da Fur)
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
aite #sxsw syd

Tomorrow 10am (😭) i’m gonna be talkin mad smack about agile. jira will not be forgotten either, everyone’s getting it. see you there??

after that i’ll be talking madder smack about GG and the rise and normalisation of conspiracy theorists. pray for me, it’s gonna be a big day 🙏
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
October 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
October 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
THATS OUR DAD!!!!

im in tears, so well deserved. i’ve cried more this AGDA awards event than any other
October 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
i was at gcap!! for a min!! I’ll be there tomorrow, delighted to be in melb xx
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
this was ages back but i forgot to share this time i was read to shreds by a tiktok filter
October 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
precious baby study buddy. pls don’t disturb her.
October 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
jane needs no intro, but for my int followers --
nigel latta was an incredible kiwi psychologist and tv host. he covered and humanised many topics that society can be judgey about -- parenting, prisons, crime, money, obesity, poverty -- and, I'm sure, brought many kiwi families together. Like mine.
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
they’ve forgotten how to google

side note at gamescom i was informed that some publishers are just inserting pitch decks snd roadmaps into chatgpt to do forecasting etc and that’s an abomination
September 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
sir my client is a cutie patootie and has committed exactly zero crimes. your eye witness testimony means nothing here

(also!! She's a dilute calico/pastel calico like my lil Echo!)
September 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
putting people… in… the shed??!
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
my phone made a highlight reel of “terminal 2 over the years” and maybe something in my brain is broken but i’ve been giggling at this for 10 mins. compilation of times i’ve been exhausted in melbs t2, specifically, + brunetti

(here’s the short version, you don’t need to see annual pics of lines)
September 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
weather is really turning out for the #NZGDC visitors 🥴 usually i can see te papa from up here.
don’t bring an umbrella out today fellas
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
(i did still have all those symptoms when i was diagnosed with PCOS — also way too late and only diagnosed because of an unrelated fertility issue. for years it was just “oh pain is normal and you don’t get periods often coz you’re a dancer and you exercise too much.” )
September 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
we still don't have a method of diagnosing endometriosis without surgery, btw, but i'm glad we've taken the time to see how it affects men
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM