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!
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!
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Tales of the Shire is being delayed until July 29th, 2025, multiple sources have confirmed with me. An official announcement is expected tomorrow, Friday, Feb 21 at 7am NZDT
will i ever see the baby 😩
just a reminder i don’t work here anymore (redundancies last year included yours truly) so pls stop asking me to make it faster 🙈
just a reminder i don’t work here anymore (redundancies last year included yours truly) so pls stop asking me to make it faster 🙈
hey sharks
what if instead of hoarding pieces away, you fund (for the low low price of 1 middle-class salary) an artist to make odd, weird, arty things!! it’s a great investment bc you get endless art forever! your pet art human will be the envy of all your cool rich friends!!
what if instead of hoarding pieces away, you fund (for the low low price of 1 middle-class salary) an artist to make odd, weird, arty things!! it’s a great investment bc you get endless art forever! your pet art human will be the envy of all your cool rich friends!!
Yeah, we need the status symbol to be "well *I* pay for the living costs of a *collection* of only the *weirdest* artists" again
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
hey sharks
what if instead of hoarding pieces away, you fund (for the low low price of 1 middle-class salary) an artist to make odd, weird, arty things!! it’s a great investment bc you get endless art forever! your pet art human will be the envy of all your cool rich friends!!
what if instead of hoarding pieces away, you fund (for the low low price of 1 middle-class salary) an artist to make odd, weird, arty things!! it’s a great investment bc you get endless art forever! your pet art human will be the envy of all your cool rich friends!!
tldr it’s very annoying that we’ve monetised art to the point where everything has to be Product
valve does not care about Art™️; they’re interested in the 30% of whatever sells the most. consumers are less media literate /art-educated than ever (see: schools dropping art history as a subject).
valve does not care about Art™️; they’re interested in the 30% of whatever sells the most. consumers are less media literate /art-educated than ever (see: schools dropping art history as a subject).
agree with the sentiment re art, but:
i don’t think they’re dictating what counts as art, i think they’re dictating what counts as a product. we buy games and play them, in our homes. we don’t see them on the street, or in a museum.
If you’re trying to sell and appeal to a market, it’s a product.
i don’t think they’re dictating what counts as art, i think they’re dictating what counts as a product. we buy games and play them, in our homes. we don’t see them on the street, or in a museum.
If you’re trying to sell and appeal to a market, it’s a product.
art isn’t always going to make you comfortable. it’s treating art in this puritan sense where it has to please you, then it’s just a consumerist product… and we have these storefronts (payment processors too) constantly dictating what counts as art. in hypocritical ways. it’s grim really.
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
tldr it’s very annoying that we’ve monetised art to the point where everything has to be Product
valve does not care about Art™️; they’re interested in the 30% of whatever sells the most. consumers are less media literate /art-educated than ever (see: schools dropping art history as a subject).
valve does not care about Art™️; they’re interested in the 30% of whatever sells the most. consumers are less media literate /art-educated than ever (see: schools dropping art history as a subject).
agree with the sentiment re art, but:
i don’t think they’re dictating what counts as art, i think they’re dictating what counts as a product. we buy games and play them, in our homes. we don’t see them on the street, or in a museum.
If you’re trying to sell and appeal to a market, it’s a product.
i don’t think they’re dictating what counts as art, i think they’re dictating what counts as a product. we buy games and play them, in our homes. we don’t see them on the street, or in a museum.
If you’re trying to sell and appeal to a market, it’s a product.
art isn’t always going to make you comfortable. it’s treating art in this puritan sense where it has to please you, then it’s just a consumerist product… and we have these storefronts (payment processors too) constantly dictating what counts as art. in hypocritical ways. it’s grim really.
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
agree with the sentiment re art, but:
i don’t think they’re dictating what counts as art, i think they’re dictating what counts as a product. we buy games and play them, in our homes. we don’t see them on the street, or in a museum.
If you’re trying to sell and appeal to a market, it’s a product.
i don’t think they’re dictating what counts as art, i think they’re dictating what counts as a product. we buy games and play them, in our homes. we don’t see them on the street, or in a museum.
If you’re trying to sell and appeal to a market, it’s a product.
shocked to say I have finally found an inbuilt AI tool that isn't insufferable and incompetent:
Linear (pm tool) has a surprisingly handy ai filter tool. instead of writing JQL bullshit, i can simply type what I want the filter or view to be in english, and it understands me and converts it. 😌
Linear (pm tool) has a surprisingly handy ai filter tool. instead of writing JQL bullshit, i can simply type what I want the filter or view to be in english, and it understands me and converts it. 😌
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
shocked to say I have finally found an inbuilt AI tool that isn't insufferable and incompetent:
Linear (pm tool) has a surprisingly handy ai filter tool. instead of writing JQL bullshit, i can simply type what I want the filter or view to be in english, and it understands me and converts it. 😌
Linear (pm tool) has a surprisingly handy ai filter tool. instead of writing JQL bullshit, i can simply type what I want the filter or view to be in english, and it understands me and converts it. 😌
Reposted by Calliope Ryder ☠️
once again a thread that underscores “the video games industry / market is a bunch of different markets shoved together in a trench coat”
One thing is that I don't think most people know how completely different the hardcore sim market is from the general games market
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
once again a thread that underscores “the video games industry / market is a bunch of different markets shoved together in a trench coat”
ok this shit pmo
if you have a window seat on a flight you don’t. use. the fucking. armrest.
if you have a window seat on a flight you don’t. use. the fucking. armrest.
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
ok this shit pmo
if you have a window seat on a flight you don’t. use. the fucking. armrest.
if you have a window seat on a flight you don’t. use. the fucking. armrest.
Friends! I'm hosting this AMA for aspiring designers (or anyone interested in hearing about systems / narrative design from two world class vets) in DSG's discord in just over an hour.
Michelle and Paul are super knowledgeable, fantastic and have been shaping our nerd culture for literal decades...
Michelle and Paul are super knowledgeable, fantastic and have been shaping our nerd culture for literal decades...
Ever wanted to know more about how creative direction, systems design, and narrative design work together? 🙋
This Thursday 20 Nov, 9PM EST we’re going live! 🎮🍂
Join our cozy dev livestream + AMA on Discord, featuring Chief Creative Officer Michelle Menard and Lead Narrative Designer Paul Murphy.
This Thursday 20 Nov, 9PM EST we’re going live! 🎮🍂
Join our cozy dev livestream + AMA on Discord, featuring Chief Creative Officer Michelle Menard and Lead Narrative Designer Paul Murphy.
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Friends! I'm hosting this AMA for aspiring designers (or anyone interested in hearing about systems / narrative design from two world class vets) in DSG's discord in just over an hour.
Michelle and Paul are super knowledgeable, fantastic and have been shaping our nerd culture for literal decades...
Michelle and Paul are super knowledgeable, fantastic and have been shaping our nerd culture for literal decades...
Reposted by Calliope Ryder ☠️
Ever wanted to know more about how creative direction, systems design, and narrative design work together? 🙋
This Thursday 20 Nov, 9PM EST we’re going live! 🎮🍂
Join our cozy dev livestream + AMA on Discord, featuring Chief Creative Officer Michelle Menard and Lead Narrative Designer Paul Murphy.
This Thursday 20 Nov, 9PM EST we’re going live! 🎮🍂
Join our cozy dev livestream + AMA on Discord, featuring Chief Creative Officer Michelle Menard and Lead Narrative Designer Paul Murphy.
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Ever wanted to know more about how creative direction, systems design, and narrative design work together? 🙋
This Thursday 20 Nov, 9PM EST we’re going live! 🎮🍂
Join our cozy dev livestream + AMA on Discord, featuring Chief Creative Officer Michelle Menard and Lead Narrative Designer Paul Murphy.
This Thursday 20 Nov, 9PM EST we’re going live! 🎮🍂
Join our cozy dev livestream + AMA on Discord, featuring Chief Creative Officer Michelle Menard and Lead Narrative Designer Paul Murphy.
brontë: writes a novel about obsession, cruelty, abuse, generational trauma, revenge, toxicity of status and class
marketing team 200 years later: greatest love story Of All Time 🥹
wtf lmao
marketing team 200 years later: greatest love story Of All Time 🥹
wtf lmao
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
brontë: writes a novel about obsession, cruelty, abuse, generational trauma, revenge, toxicity of status and class
marketing team 200 years later: greatest love story Of All Time 🥹
wtf lmao
marketing team 200 years later: greatest love story Of All Time 🥹
wtf lmao
it’s a good day for orange things in this household 🎃
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
it’s a good day for orange things in this household 🎃
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 😭
as soon as they left, she crashed on my lap. audio on for sleeping purrs 😭
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 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 😭
as soon as they left, she crashed on my lap. audio on for sleeping purrs 😭
honestly, growing evidence every day that the villain origin story of angry white christian nationalists is that they really, really hate that other queer people are living authentically when their own parents didn’t accept them
today especially so lmao
today especially so lmao
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
honestly, growing evidence every day that the villain origin story of angry white christian nationalists is that they really, really hate that other queer people are living authentically when their own parents didn’t accept them
today especially so lmao
today especially so lmao
Reposted by Calliope Ryder ☠️
Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
i gave my lil sister free rein over organising my linen cupboards and pantry, and my card to go buy any storage solutions
she’s THRILLED. Like christmas came early. I should have done this years ago, nothing makes students more excited than using real money at kmart and bunnings 😭
she’s THRILLED. Like christmas came early. I should have done this years ago, nothing makes students more excited than using real money at kmart and bunnings 😭
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
i gave my lil sister free rein over organising my linen cupboards and pantry, and my card to go buy any storage solutions
she’s THRILLED. Like christmas came early. I should have done this years ago, nothing makes students more excited than using real money at kmart and bunnings 😭
she’s THRILLED. Like christmas came early. I should have done this years ago, nothing makes students more excited than using real money at kmart and bunnings 😭
hey dw dante said there was different levels of hell too, if you’re trying to gauge where you’re going
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
hey dw dante said there was different levels of hell too, if you’re trying to gauge where you’re going
not to harp on about old drama, but this is dubious ethical behaviour is a pattern. keighley also had evidence from JS’s victims who spoke out when she was nom’d for future class.
nothing happened, until public outrage forced their hands.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
nothing happened, until public outrage forced their hands.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
not to harp on about old drama, but this is dubious ethical behaviour is a pattern. keighley also had evidence from JS’s victims who spoke out when she was nom’d for future class.
nothing happened, until public outrage forced their hands.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
nothing happened, until public outrage forced their hands.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
"We are cursed with a system of economic feudalism that has overawed, browbeaten or controlled by insidious methods... the forces of democracy... it has concentrated the wealth of this Nation into the hands of a few families."
- Rep John Rankin in 1935
pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...
- Rep John Rankin in 1935
pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...
In pursuit of democracy
Analyzing every mention of 'democracy' in the Congressional Record
pudding.cool
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"We are cursed with a system of economic feudalism that has overawed, browbeaten or controlled by insidious methods... the forces of democracy... it has concentrated the wealth of this Nation into the hands of a few families."
- Rep John Rankin in 1935
pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...
- Rep John Rankin in 1935
pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...
i’m so, so relieved that this is even possible 😭😭😭
(more votes than all the others combined!!! people just wanna be able to afford to put food on the table and as long as someone competently and consistently explains how they’ll do it, they’ll vote for them.)
(more votes than all the others combined!!! people just wanna be able to afford to put food on the table and as long as someone competently and consistently explains how they’ll do it, they’ll vote for them.)
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i’m so, so relieved that this is even possible 😭😭😭
(more votes than all the others combined!!! people just wanna be able to afford to put food on the table and as long as someone competently and consistently explains how they’ll do it, they’ll vote for them.)
(more votes than all the others combined!!! people just wanna be able to afford to put food on the table and as long as someone competently and consistently explains how they’ll do it, they’ll vote for them.)
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
producers when the game director comes in with a million new changes after finishing the latest hit title last night
the amount of (enjoyably) unhinged posts on reddit describing manic nz travel itineraries has increased a lot since chatgpt
i’m seeing honeymoon posts out here that have 2 weeks straight of basically driving 8 hours a day in beautiful aotearoa 😅 during nov-jan summer holiday rush, no less
i’m seeing honeymoon posts out here that have 2 weeks straight of basically driving 8 hours a day in beautiful aotearoa 😅 during nov-jan summer holiday rush, no less
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
the amount of (enjoyably) unhinged posts on reddit describing manic nz travel itineraries has increased a lot since chatgpt
i’m seeing honeymoon posts out here that have 2 weeks straight of basically driving 8 hours a day in beautiful aotearoa 😅 during nov-jan summer holiday rush, no less
i’m seeing honeymoon posts out here that have 2 weeks straight of basically driving 8 hours a day in beautiful aotearoa 😅 during nov-jan summer holiday rush, no less
Reposted by Calliope Ryder ☠️
Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social
devs / games industry folk who do market research
when you're looking up competitor/inspiration/reference titles, what info are you trying to find -- and why?
when you're looking up competitor/inspiration/reference titles, what info are you trying to find -- and why?
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
devs / games industry folk who do market research
when you're looking up competitor/inspiration/reference titles, what info are you trying to find -- and why?
when you're looking up competitor/inspiration/reference titles, what info are you trying to find -- and why?
as someone who sees a bunch of pitch decks (and pays attention to next fest) i’m genuinely terrified by the amount of gen AI in games already.
I thought we’d have more time.
anyway, regulate regulate regulate 👩⚖️
I thought we’d have more time.
anyway, regulate regulate regulate 👩⚖️
October 28, 2025 at 5:27 AM
as someone who sees a bunch of pitch decks (and pays attention to next fest) i’m genuinely terrified by the amount of gen AI in games already.
I thought we’d have more time.
anyway, regulate regulate regulate 👩⚖️
I thought we’d have more time.
anyway, regulate regulate regulate 👩⚖️
so many people on here act so aggro for no reason (always assuming the worst intention first, etc)
can we not?? we don’t have to repeat the bad bits of twitter
can we not?? we don’t have to repeat the bad bits of twitter
Hey quick tip: you’ll have more success communicating with strangers on here if you’re not a weirdly aggressive and offputting little freak that no one likes
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
so many people on here act so aggro for no reason (always assuming the worst intention first, etc)
can we not?? we don’t have to repeat the bad bits of twitter
can we not?? we don’t have to repeat the bad bits of twitter
Just bought my copy -- so stoked to see this baby in the world!!!
big congrats to @davidgaider.bsky.social @liamesler.bsky.social @elieyoung.bsky.social @merryh.bsky.social @theboyofcheese.bsky.social for getting this sick looking game over the line, I'm so excited to play tonight!
big congrats to @davidgaider.bsky.social @liamesler.bsky.social @elieyoung.bsky.social @merryh.bsky.social @theboyofcheese.bsky.social for getting this sick looking game over the line, I'm so excited to play tonight!
🔥 Malys is OUT NOW in 1.0! 🔥
For a game about demons, you've all been absolute angels - thank you for your support along the way & we're so happy to share Malys' full release with you 🖤
Check out the launch trailer and then get exorcising below!
For a game about demons, you've all been absolute angels - thank you for your support along the way & we're so happy to share Malys' full release with you 🖤
Check out the launch trailer and then get exorcising below!
Malys 1.0 Launch Trailer
Malys is OUT NOW on Steam!Play the game via bit.ly/playmalysExorcise the infernal and exact vengeance in this unholy roguelite deckbuilder from David Gaider ...
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Just bought my copy -- so stoked to see this baby in the world!!!
big congrats to @davidgaider.bsky.social @liamesler.bsky.social @elieyoung.bsky.social @merryh.bsky.social @theboyofcheese.bsky.social for getting this sick looking game over the line, I'm so excited to play tonight!
big congrats to @davidgaider.bsky.social @liamesler.bsky.social @elieyoung.bsky.social @merryh.bsky.social @theboyofcheese.bsky.social for getting this sick looking game over the line, I'm so excited to play tonight!