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Mira Mechtley

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💁‍♀️ she/her 🔢 Dot Product Enthusiast 👾 Principal Engineer on Bounty Star 🔭 PhD Astrophysics 🎲 Pathfinder 🏳️‍🌈 Ace 🏳️‍⚧️ Mom 👩‍💻 MacOS 🕐 Formerly: Root, Eternal, Quasars, Blurst, a bluetooth PowerGlove https://biphenyl.org

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi Bluesky!

I’m Mira, principal engineer at Dinogod working on Bounty Star.
youtu.be/kC-dNxex5Jc

Once upon a time I:
- worked for Dire Wolf Digital on Eternal and Root
- got a PhD in astrophysics studying quasars
- worked at Flashbang Studios on Raptor Safari, Minotaur China Shop, Crane Wars, etc.

BOUNTY STAR | Reveal Trailer

YouTube video by Annapurna Interactive

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Horse Yuri 🌴🥼☕ @softdogtaur.bsky.social · 3h

Happy birthday, continue making the gamers mad

Arc System Works America @arcsystemworks.com · 4h

🪀"No photos, please! How about an autograph?"🪀

Please join us in wishing a very Happy Birthday to Bridget!
#GGST #Bridget #Birthday

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 1d

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.

It NEEDS mass pushback.

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 2d

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 1d

As an accessibility affordance I agree it's nice, and in a competitive multiplayer game i get it, but I am having a lot of difficulty understanding why people are so fixated on it out of those contexts.

Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 1d

Sexy videogames why do people want shoulder swap

A screenshot of the top of my search history in Safari. The most recent search was "videogames why do people want shoulder swap"

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Ubadah Sabbagh is referring to closed-access for-profit publishing here, but I keep thinking about how perfectly it describes the general push to incorporate large language models into the scientific workflow in the interest of higher "productivity".

ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giv...

What does a reaction like this reveal? It reveals a kind of learned helplessness. A mind so accustomed to the constraints of its environment that its first impulse is not to imagine a different world, but to seek a more efficient way of navigating its own prison.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. - #CLNolan #ClocksGoBack

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

a bar chart depicting a huge bar Wealth of the Top 1% "$47.80 trillion" dwarfing bars for the Federal deficit ($1.83 trillion), tax revenue ($4.92 trillion) and Government spending ($6.75 trillion)"

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Lauren Knight @laurenknight.bsky.social · 2d

Friday night Xena x Callisto from my patreon www.patreon.com/laurenknight

Xena x Callisto fanart from https://www.patreon.com/laurenknight Xena is standing over Callisto warning her to stay down. Callisto says “Gladly.”

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 1d

I love this! So glad you are enjoying the game!

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Captain Chaos @captaincha0s76.bsky.social · 1d

I made some art of the MKII Desert Raptor from #BountyStar!
I've been vibing with the game so far. @biphenyl.bsky.social @toesty5.bsky.social @annapurna.com
#Art #PCGaming

A Clip Studio Paint illustration of the MKII Desert Raptor from Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem. It's a mix of character action and farm sim where you play an ex-military mech pilot trying to put her life back together and become a bounty hunter in a post-post-apocalyptic American frontier. It's a small, scrappy mech, scratched and scuffed in many places, painted in a mix of white and orange (with one mismatched purple air intake on the left shoulder) about the size of a Gundog from VOTOMs or a Landmate from Appleseed, armed with a mech-sized revolver and sword, and depicted running alongside a desert highway with rock buttes in the background and a midday sky above.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets

With President Trump sending ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here's how to tell them apart - and what their powers are.
I replaced the bottom of the graphic which showed border patrol, ice national guard fbi DEA and secret service instead with old Wolfenstein 3D characters including German Shepherd, dog German trooper, SS guard, mutant guard, German officer, Hans grosse, doctor scharrs Hitler ghost, mech Hitler, and Hitler.

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 2d

hahahahahha he apparently does not know the names of any presidents before clinton

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Friday once again frens

a man in a suit and sunglasses stands in front of a group of people with the caption keep your eye on the donut

ALT: a man in a suit and sunglasses stands in front of a group of people with the caption keep your eye on the donut

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Draculaura E. Hall 🎃 @lauraehall.bsky.social · 3d

They should invent a way out that isn't through

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Draculaura E. Hall 🎃 @lauraehall.bsky.social · 2d

The log lady from Twin Peaks facing the camera. She is a woman wearing a heavy sweater and glasses. She clutches a log in her arms protectively. She is saying, “one day, the sadness will end.“

Director David Lynch from one of his daily weather report videos. He is turning to a window, looking outside and saying, “but I don’t think today’s the day.“

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 2d

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · 2d

Witchy kitty

An herbalist kitty with a big witch hat and many potions

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toesty5.bsky.social @toesty5.bsky.social · 3d

I got to help work on Bounty Star, which is out today!! Please give DINOGOD some love :)

ANNAPURNA @annapurna.com · 3d

From the mech cockpit to crops - fight, farm, and forge a new life - Bounty Star is Out Now

Pick it up today: bit.ly/BountyStar

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 3d

Really, truly appreciate this review that feels in Clem what I felt in Clem working on this for 5 and a half years. I want games to have meaning for people, I am glad to see the story resonate. 💙

The Ghost of Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 3d

I reviewed Bounty Star for @ign.com. It is the most personal review I've written in a long time (maybe ever) and I'm very proud of it. It would mean a lot to me if you read it.

Full disclosure: I talk about being suicidal for two years in the opening because I had to. This one hit me pretty hard.

Bounty Star Review - IGN

This combination of mech combat and farming is equal parts compelling and tranquil.

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ANNAPURNA @annapurna.com · 3d

From the mech cockpit to crops - fight, farm, and forge a new life - Bounty Star is Out Now

Pick it up today: bit.ly/BountyStar

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 3d

"Cretaceous Thriller"
Sinocalliopteryx: the bird-swallowing dinosaur 🪶

A striped dinosaur with fluffy tail, jumping in front of red moon and catching a long-tailed early bird

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Mira Mechtley @biphenyl.bsky.social · 3d

BOUNTY STAR is now RELEASED on Xbox (including Game Pass), PS5, Steam, Windows Store, and Epic Games Store! I hope everyone enjoys playing it as much as I enjoyed making it, and please tell your friends if you do! 💙
#GameDev #Videogames
store.steampowered.com/app/1497430/...

Save 10% on Bounty Star on Steam

Bounty Star is an over-the-shoulder 3D action game that marries mech combat and customization with farming and base building. The player takes on the role of a broken but powerful ex-soldier named Cle...

store.steampowered.com

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 3d

a very happy Bounty Star to all whomst celebrate!! store.steampowered.com/app/1497430/...

Overland's entire programming and animation team powering this, with game design (and COMBAT) by AZTEZ madman Ben Ruiz !!

graveyard clem chilling on the sickest robot (promo image for new action game Bounty Star)

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 3d

Systems design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; it drops 25 xp, 2x leather, 1x meat.

Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")

3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash

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ANNAPURNA @annapurna.com · 4d

It's almost time to suit up and settle in. Bounty Star releases in just one day.

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