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mattjwells.bsky.social
• Post-PhD, itinerant instructor, digital games, history of computing • Self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective • Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
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Frenzy is a pixel art demake of the Far Cry genre, with an original story told from an ecofeminist perspective. Here we see Beatrice MacArthur, the player character, discover one of the collectibles in the game. #screenshotsaturday #solodev #indiedev

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Going into OT! #torontoraptors

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Live at the home of the Raptors. Apparently some hockey team plays here too? #raptors #torontoraptors

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Shivaji lies off the Malabat Coast in southern India. It has welcomed visitors from the West for centuries, including traders from the Byzantine Empire. Find the coins they left throughout the game world in my work-in-progress Frenzy #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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A movie you've watched more than six times, using only GIFs

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Featuring proc gen coins from (supposedly) the Byzantine Empire as an in-game collectible. Mostly so players will say, "what the hell is the Byzantine Empire?" #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Post a female character that you love

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Fun fact about my work-in-progress Frenzy, the primary antagonist is named after my childhood bully (first name and nickname, the last name is changed). My DeAngelo Bailey, as it were. Just for fun, really. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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When I have time off and I should be reading but instead I'm playing video games but I tell myself it still counts as "culture"

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Went to see Paddington in Peru expecting a lot of cute bear nonsense; the anti-colonial discourse came as a bit of a (positive) surprise (there was also a lot of cute bear nonsense).

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It's crazy how much better and more efficient a game developer I've been since I really got the hang of using JSON. I hadn't realized beforehand how much video games are really just well-organized data fed into a machine. #indiedev #solodev

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