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Matt Wells
@mattjwells.bsky.social
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• Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0 • Post-PhD, 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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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · Feb 14
Hello!

I am Matt, a solo dev working on Frenzy, a pixel art demake of the Far Cry genre with an original story told from an ecofeminist perspective.

Join Beatrice MacArthur as she fights for her life on the island of Shivaji, while also discovering its ancient secrets.
A screenshot of my work-in-progress Frenzy. A 16-bit looking landscape of palm trees and huts, with a minimap embedded in a smartphone in the UI on the lefthand side.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 6h
"Skittle-haired"? Like, the candy?
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 6h
Interesting. But yeah, I was a huge Car Wars/Autoduel fan back in the day and that was plenty violent, so I'm suspicious that was the reason.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 9h
Fallout used GURPS? TIL!
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 11h
Does not liking any episode of The Simpsons that didn't come out in the '90s another version of this? I'm hoping no.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 2d
Nice, congrats!!
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
In the 80s and 90s they had these sort-of creepy commercials where old men would give Werther's to kids like it was this amazing thing to do and it kind of put a lot of us off of them. Though ironically it won't be much longer before we ourselves are grandfathers.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
A network television show of all things. At least be as cool as an aging millennial and talk The Wire to death instead.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
Oh man you weren't kidding about the replies 😅
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
Years after working in retail I have much more sympathy for the in-store managers - their salaries are so meagre and they *really* have to deal with the corporate assholes above them. Some of them of course were also assholes 😅
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
Every corporations does evil shit. Just because it isn't always so tangible doesn't mean it's not happening elsewhere. I'm not going to become a monk.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
It seems like survival horror is one of the genres that is best suited to VR. I'm surprised there aren't more of these.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
Is it weird to say that I still really like my Series X, and that despite the price increase I'm still subbed to Game Pass Ultimate? If so, then never mind.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 3d
I have to watch that eventually, the first was incredible but also pretty brutal. It left me in a bit of a funk for a few days 😅 Apparently they inspired Rockstar's Max Payne 3.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 4d
"The one where the blonde-haired woman performed mitosis and had a clone fall out of her onto the couch"
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 4d
I miss message boards.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
I didn't know the still blacked out games. I can't really fathom a world where thousands of fans hoping to catch the game on TV would go out and spend hundreds of dollars apiece on tickets instead because the TV is blocked.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
😅 his books was big in the late/post-Cold War era when a lot of people kind of secretly wished we had gone to war with the USSR. His stories were an outlet for that.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
Biblical winds and rain are hitting a very vulnerable country but according to CNN the #2 concern is that locals can't get on TikTok.
A screenshot of the main headline on CNN. Headline is: "Hurricane Melissa's eye is not fully over Jamaica." Below that is a photograph of the storm in Jamaica, and below that is the caption: "The devastating Category 5 storm has already caused flash flooding and widespread internet outages on the island."
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
I have this weird thing where I'm convinced James Patterson is dead and people are just nicking his name for the brand cachet (such as it is) but it always turns out he's alive and I think I'm actually thinking of Tom Clancy.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
Ah, that's what threw me off, I was going to guess II but I only played the PC version.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
Kudos for spelling the name of the day with an apostrophe - the proper 1980s vintage Canadian way!
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
Test Drive?
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
Don't forget when Mitt Romney did know what a donut was! So much food-related political hilarity.
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Matt Wells @mattjwells.bsky.social · 5d
Landline phones aren't for kids, y'all.
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