Rami Ismail (رامي)
@ramiismail.com
I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
@ramiismail.com
· Nov 15
I'm Rami, indie dev, advisor, tool dev, gamedev community builder, & amateur pilot! I help good people make good games in good ways.
Links:
Work: linkedin.com/in/ramiismail
Photos: instagram.com/tha.rami
Newsletter: ltpf.ramiismail.com
Consultancy: book.ramiismail.com
AMA about gamedev, anytime.
Links:
Work: linkedin.com/in/ramiismail
Photos: instagram.com/tha.rami
Newsletter: ltpf.ramiismail.com
Consultancy: book.ramiismail.com
AMA about gamedev, anytime.
"The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial."
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on...
www.lemkininstitute.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial."
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
Gotta say "a bunch of soup" is the hardest I've heard anyone go on the Vex in Destiny 2.
December 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Gotta say "a bunch of soup" is the hardest I've heard anyone go on the Vex in Destiny 2.
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Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!!
🔍Every level hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼… and a soul-shattering story!
GET IT HERE!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
🔍Every level hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼… and a soul-shattering story!
GET IT HERE!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!!
🔍Every level hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼… and a soul-shattering story!
GET IT HERE!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
🔍Every level hidden in plain sight…
🗺️… chart your own path through the world!
⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
👼… and a soul-shattering story!
GET IT HERE!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
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Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
For the record, I 100% seriously recommend this practice to teams that get stuck on decisions like this - decisions for which the ultimate outcome is only knowable in hindsight.
www.gamesradar.com/games/roguel...
www.gamesradar.com/games/roguel...
Slay the Spire 2 devs literally flipped a coin to decide between a new game or a sequel to their genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder: "The rest is history"
Why the heck not?
www.gamesradar.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
For the record, I 100% seriously recommend this practice to teams that get stuck on decisions like this - decisions for which the ultimate outcome is only knowable in hindsight.
www.gamesradar.com/games/roguel...
www.gamesradar.com/games/roguel...
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At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
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Zuckerberg's attempt at making Second Life again could almost certainly have funded every indie game in the history of indie games combined.
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Zuckerberg's attempt at making Second Life again could almost certainly have funded every indie game in the history of indie games combined.
At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
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LOK Digital will launch on Nintendo Switch December 9th!
In this charming puzzler from @letibus.bsky.social & @raindrinker.bsky.social , learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects & help the LOK creatures thrive.
Play the demo and pre-order now
www.draknek.org/nintendo/lok...
In this charming puzzler from @letibus.bsky.social & @raindrinker.bsky.social , learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects & help the LOK creatures thrive.
Play the demo and pre-order now
www.draknek.org/nintendo/lok...
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
LOK Digital will launch on Nintendo Switch December 9th!
In this charming puzzler from @letibus.bsky.social & @raindrinker.bsky.social , learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects & help the LOK creatures thrive.
Play the demo and pre-order now
www.draknek.org/nintendo/lok...
In this charming puzzler from @letibus.bsky.social & @raindrinker.bsky.social , learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects & help the LOK creatures thrive.
Play the demo and pre-order now
www.draknek.org/nintendo/lok...
I would've continued to power-use and pay for Duolingo no problem, but their shift to AI was enough to kill any appetite towards ever using it again.
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I would've continued to power-use and pay for Duolingo no problem, but their shift to AI was enough to kill any appetite towards ever using it again.
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The House of Hikmah opens its doors to you 🚪
Step inside this sanctuary of knowledge and search for answers as you uncover a story of healing, discovery and hope.
Watch the trailer below, and Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...
Step inside this sanctuary of knowledge and search for answers as you uncover a story of healing, discovery and hope.
Watch the trailer below, and Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The House of Hikmah opens its doors to you 🚪
Step inside this sanctuary of knowledge and search for answers as you uncover a story of healing, discovery and hope.
Watch the trailer below, and Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...
Step inside this sanctuary of knowledge and search for answers as you uncover a story of healing, discovery and hope.
Watch the trailer below, and Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...
If you ever want to know the cult of genocidal support Israel has established in the "never again, unless" Europe, consider that Eurovision would overwhelmingly rather have a genodical apartheid country committing endless war crimes on board than the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia.
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you ever want to know the cult of genocidal support Israel has established in the "never again, unless" Europe, consider that Eurovision would overwhelmingly rather have a genodical apartheid country committing endless war crimes on board than the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia.
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Y'know what? You don't get stuff you don't ask for. #gamedev mutuals, please boost.
I'm working on a roguelike with a unique paint-based combat system and a strong distaste for GenAI with an incredible team. We're looking for a publisher to help us fund and market our game. Could that be you?
I'm working on a roguelike with a unique paint-based combat system and a strong distaste for GenAI with an incredible team. We're looking for a publisher to help us fund and market our game. Could that be you?
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Y'know what? You don't get stuff you don't ask for. #gamedev mutuals, please boost.
I'm working on a roguelike with a unique paint-based combat system and a strong distaste for GenAI with an incredible team. We're looking for a publisher to help us fund and market our game. Could that be you?
I'm working on a roguelike with a unique paint-based combat system and a strong distaste for GenAI with an incredible team. We're looking for a publisher to help us fund and market our game. Could that be you?
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So @mikerose.bsky.social & I decided to do a silly podcast comparing notes about indie games & their history & also about suddenly being middle-aged & tired
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
So @mikerose.bsky.social & I decided to do a silly podcast comparing notes about indie games & their history & also about suddenly being middle-aged & tired
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
I have played zero minutes of Destiny 2: Renegades but I watched the intro videos and that's good shit right there - can't wait to get going
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I have played zero minutes of Destiny 2: Renegades but I watched the intro videos and that's good shit right there - can't wait to get going
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SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
holy fuck this is ridiculous, how can we claim games are art if art is this scary to our two primary distribution channels?
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
holy fuck this is ridiculous, how can we claim games are art if art is this scary to our two primary distribution channels?
So @mikerose.bsky.social & I decided to do a silly podcast comparing notes about indie games & their history & also about suddenly being middle-aged & tired
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
So @mikerose.bsky.social & I decided to do a silly podcast comparing notes about indie games & their history & also about suddenly being middle-aged & tired
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately
Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐
mikeandrami.com
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It's really hard to put into words why Ghost of Yōtei feels an inversion of the way Ghost of Tsushima approaches the weight of our pasts and the expectations of our parents. The games rhyme? I haven't quite figured out exactly the words to describe it, but it's cool.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It's really hard to put into words why Ghost of Yōtei feels an inversion of the way Ghost of Tsushima approaches the weight of our pasts and the expectations of our parents. The games rhyme? I haven't quite figured out exactly the words to describe it, but it's cool.
It's really hard to put into words why Ghost of Yōtei feels an inversion of the way Ghost of Tsushima approaches the weight of our pasts and the expectations of our parents. The games rhyme? I haven't quite figured out exactly the words to describe it, but it's cool.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It's really hard to put into words why Ghost of Yōtei feels an inversion of the way Ghost of Tsushima approaches the weight of our pasts and the expectations of our parents. The games rhyme? I haven't quite figured out exactly the words to describe it, but it's cool.
Brendon hits 10/10 here for game release gotchas
I wrote a short writeup on miscellaneous game release gotchas & pitfalls... enjoy!
blendogames.com/news/post/20...
blendogames.com/news/post/20...
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Brendon hits 10/10 here for game release gotchas
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Netherlands news: a box of LEGO fell off the back of a truck, causing 11 kilometers / 6 miles of traffic jam.
www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...
www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Netherlands news: a box of LEGO fell off the back of a truck, causing 11 kilometers / 6 miles of traffic jam.
www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...
www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...
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I've been doing this all year but indie journalists have the same issues as indie games. Unless it's a big name, nobody cares.
November 2025 Indie Game Wrap-Up: The Best New Indie Releases and Demos You Can Play Now - MonsterVine
From gothic roguelites to rhythm adventures, November 2025’s indie lineup is packed with creativity. Discover 13 standout indie games and demos releasing this month.
monstervine.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I've been doing this all year but indie journalists have the same issues as indie games. Unless it's a big name, nobody cares.