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Ricky Haggett

@rickyhaggett.bsky.social

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Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello I'm Ricky - game designer / programmer / creative director of UK-based independent game dev studio Hollow Ponds.

It's been a busy year for releasing things!
- July: our chill creature-tracking game FLOCK
- August: The Wilmot's Warehouse Boardgame
- Oct 23rd: Wilmot Works it Out!

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Key art for FLOCK: a bird and its rider flying along with a flock of creatures following it, with the sun rising in the background

a photograph of the Wilmot's warehouse boardgame in progress

Key art for Wilmot Works it out: a bunch of puzzle pieces dotted around

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 14h

If anything is not a monarchy, it's allotments!

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Ollie Hoff @olliehoff.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for the shares so far folks!
I’m still looking for freelance UI or Illustration projects to get stuck into from November! 🙂

www.olliehoff.co.uk

#portfolioDay

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 1d

We're a Tidal house here - we have a family account so both kids use it. I like Tidal a lot (they pay artists a lot more per stream than Spotify). No podcasts though.

Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 1d

all the best with the surgery - wishing you a speedy recovery!

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Wellmaus @wellmaus.bsky.social · 1d

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 1d

I've read this so many times and I'll do it again.

Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

Any excuse to repost the best piece of prose ever written www.vice.com/en/article/i...

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out

The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

www.vice.com

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Tom Betts @tomnullpointer.bsky.social · 2d

As an example of the sort of stuff on there, one of the articles is a short writeup of a prototype I mentioned on bluesky a year or so back. An approach to generating a top down city map.

www.nullpointer.co.uk/generating-c...

Generating City Maps

This post explains how I coded a city map generator for a…

www.nullpointer.co.uk

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

Is there anything more beautiful in this world than the autumn sun shining down on a tarpaulin with some wood, bricks and an old chair on it?

the autumn sun shining down on a tarpaulin with some wood, bricks and an old chair on it. It's on our allotment.

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

It does often have rapture vibes at this time of year down the allotment. Except they delivered a huge mountain of manure this week, so there were a bunch of people barrowing that about today.

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure what the bed under this tarp will be next season. Maybe corn?

Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

Over the winter not that much - we have some leeks and various brassicas - kale, broccoli, sprouts, some rainbow chard. The strawberries will overwinter in pots. Everything else gets covered until the spring.

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

Is there anything more beautiful in this world than the autumn sun shining down on a tarpaulin with some wood, bricks and an old chair on it?

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

Bizarre?? It's just a perfectly normal film about some ducks?

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2d

there's a (Charlie Kaufman) movie in this

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 3d

Made another mask at Cat Johnston's fantastic masks workshop at Playgrounds yesterday: He's guarding the gourds!

An orange mask made from card, with red lips, a blue nose and purple wool hair

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 3d

Made another mask at Cat Johnston's fantastic masks workshop at Playgrounds yesterday: He's guarding the gourds!

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 3d

Gourds! #gourds 🌱

Various pumpkins and squash I just harvested from our allotment.

An old procreate doodle I did of some pumpkins and squash with faces, and at the bottom it says GOURDS

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at Playgrounds at the Barbican today - come say hi if you see me

Me wearing a mask I made in Catherine Johnston's amazing mask worshop

Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 6d

It's a lot of fun to play in parallel with someone. My son and I had a great time figuring it all out, both playing it sat side by side.

Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 6d

you're in for such a treat!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 6d

just played this & loved it. worth the half an hour of your time it will take to play - beautiful & pointed

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 6d

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 6d

It was my game of the year last year - I took alllll the meat off those bones. Getting the speedrun achievement at the end was such a good feeling.

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 7d

the most powerful people in the world: "it is the least powerful people in the world who are the REAL problem"

everyone: "ah i see, that makes sense"

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 6d

Grunn lives rent free in my head - I love it so much.

Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co · 10d

Exactly 1 year ago I released my normal gardening game ‘Grunn’

A big thanks to all of you who played it and supported me! I have received so many nice reactions since release.. it has far exceeded my expectations 🙏

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 7d

Here's the relevant chart from the above report. It's rare to see such a clear, consistent slope in any social trend. That segregation is decreasing is perhaps the best evidence, least controversial social fact of modern Britain

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