Ryan Matejka
@ryanmatejka.bsky.social
Writer for the Cook Serve game series. Currently pursuing my childhood dream to become a published author.
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Sorry folks I forgot to share my latest post here about my mental health.
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an update on my mental health
it's been a while since i last posted, let's catch up on what i've been going through
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June 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Sorry folks I forgot to share my latest post here about my mental health.
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You can finally experience the full story that I wrote so many years ago! I'm so proud of that hard work, and it's so crazy to think that it's finally out in the world and I can talk about it! I should do an AMA or something...
We just launched our final major update, v0.95, to Cook Serve Forever! It has tons of new challenges, the complete story, lots of new foods and so much more! And we're discounting it to celebrate! 🎉
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Console versions/v1.0 is coming this summer! 👨🍳👩🍳 🥨
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Console versions/v1.0 is coming this summer! 👨🍳👩🍳 🥨
Save 55% on Cook Serve Forever on Steam
Bathe in the sights, sounds, and story of Cook Serve Forever, a narrative cooking game where you serve delicious recipes to the hungry masses of Helianthus.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You can finally experience the full story that I wrote so many years ago! I'm so proud of that hard work, and it's so crazy to think that it's finally out in the world and I can talk about it! I should do an AMA or something...
Sometimes I'm jealous of people at the office who buy hot, delicious restaurant food daily for lunch, but I'm ALWAYS satisfied eating the sandwich I made using ingredients I picked--including vegetables we grew--on sourdough my partner baked. 🥪❤️
April 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Sometimes I'm jealous of people at the office who buy hot, delicious restaurant food daily for lunch, but I'm ALWAYS satisfied eating the sandwich I made using ingredients I picked--including vegetables we grew--on sourdough my partner baked. 🥪❤️
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Cook Serve Forever just got another HUGE update! Lots of new story beats, locations, foods, improvements and so much more! You can grab it now at 55% off- enjoy y'all! 👨🍳 👩🍳 🌭 🥨 🥪 🍜
store.steampowered.com/news/app/192...
store.steampowered.com/news/app/192...
Cook Serve Forever - HUGE Major Update v0.50.05 Now Available! - Steam News
Time for another huge new update for Cook Serve Forever! Thanks to everyone who left Steam reviews for the new redesign- it has helped us tremendously and we're immensely proud to have gone up to Very...
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March 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Cook Serve Forever just got another HUGE update! Lots of new story beats, locations, foods, improvements and so much more! You can grab it now at 55% off- enjoy y'all! 👨🍳 👩🍳 🌭 🥨 🥪 🍜
store.steampowered.com/news/app/192...
store.steampowered.com/news/app/192...
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🚨ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
My voice can be heard in the latest update of the Cook, Serve, Forever Early Access!
Meet Mrs. Mackerel!
Thank you to Vertigo Gaming Inc and @chubigans.bsky.social for this opportunity!! I'm thrilled to be a part of this game with so many incredible VAs and Devs! 🙏✨️
My voice can be heard in the latest update of the Cook, Serve, Forever Early Access!
Meet Mrs. Mackerel!
Thank you to Vertigo Gaming Inc and @chubigans.bsky.social for this opportunity!! I'm thrilled to be a part of this game with so many incredible VAs and Devs! 🙏✨️
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
My voice can be heard in the latest update of the Cook, Serve, Forever Early Access!
Meet Mrs. Mackerel!
Thank you to Vertigo Gaming Inc and @chubigans.bsky.social for this opportunity!! I'm thrilled to be a part of this game with so many incredible VAs and Devs! 🙏✨️
My voice can be heard in the latest update of the Cook, Serve, Forever Early Access!
Meet Mrs. Mackerel!
Thank you to Vertigo Gaming Inc and @chubigans.bsky.social for this opportunity!! I'm thrilled to be a part of this game with so many incredible VAs and Devs! 🙏✨️
This Instagram post on my public account is basically a mini blog on how a night of typing my novel went, if you're curious to read.
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#writersky #writing #writingcommunity
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February 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This Instagram post on my public account is basically a mini blog on how a night of typing my novel went, if you're curious to read.
www.instagram.com/p/DGUmG7judU...
#writersky #writing #writingcommunity
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#writersky #writing #writingcommunity
Y'all aren't ready for the amount of fun weird stuff in this leg of the story.
Man I'm so psyched for the next major Cook Serve Forever update! Here's a small taste!
February 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Y'all aren't ready for the amount of fun weird stuff in this leg of the story.
New post of Scrawl Through the Void releasing in 15 minutes! Subscribe now to get it in your email in 15 whole minutes!
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everything takes longer than i want it to
i had a lot of ideas and projects that i was eager to share with you before the end of 2024, yet most of them remained incomplete when the calendars flipped to 2025
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January 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New post of Scrawl Through the Void releasing in 15 minutes! Subscribe now to get it in your email in 15 whole minutes!
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January 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Our huge new gameplay update for Cook Serve Forever is available now, and to celebrate we've put the game at a series low discount, woo! Thanks to everyone for all of yall's support over the last few months, it means so much. ❤️
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Steam :: Cook Serve Forever :: MASSIVE CSF Update is Now Available!
The huge new gameplay update is available now, featuring all new gameplay and progression systems!
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January 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our huge new gameplay update for Cook Serve Forever is available now, and to celebrate we've put the game at a series low discount, woo! Thanks to everyone for all of yall's support over the last few months, it means so much. ❤️
steamcommunity.com/games/192809...
steamcommunity.com/games/192809...
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My soundtrack for Cook Serve Forever is now streaming on Spotify! Chill out to the tunes today and check out the MAJOR gameplay update on STEAM tomorrow :) shorturl.at/6eJSs
Cook Serve Forever (Original Game Soundtrack)
Jonathan Geer · Album · 2025 · 45 songs
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January 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My soundtrack for Cook Serve Forever is now streaming on Spotify! Chill out to the tunes today and check out the MAJOR gameplay update on STEAM tomorrow :) shorturl.at/6eJSs
I was one book shy of my reading goal in 2024 (I underestimated how huge Dune is), though I'd guess that I spent more time reading in 2024 than in past years, which was the *actual* goal anyway. I'm excited to continue the trend and get back to reading The Expanse.
#reading #bookgoals #readinggoals
#reading #bookgoals #readinggoals
January 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I was one book shy of my reading goal in 2024 (I underestimated how huge Dune is), though I'd guess that I spent more time reading in 2024 than in past years, which was the *actual* goal anyway. I'm excited to continue the trend and get back to reading The Expanse.
#reading #bookgoals #readinggoals
#reading #bookgoals #readinggoals
#authorsky I need help making this site a better resource for my writing - what accounts, communities, and other suggestions can you share to help fill my feed with cool creative writers, editors, etc?
December 31, 2024 at 1:59 PM
#authorsky I need help making this site a better resource for my writing - what accounts, communities, and other suggestions can you share to help fill my feed with cool creative writers, editors, etc?
I haven't made any progress in the personal projects I hoped to work on this month due to sickness, holidays, etc. and even though I *know* that's okay, it doesn't *feel* okay.
#writing #mentalhealth #selfimprovement
#writing #mentalhealth #selfimprovement
December 30, 2024 at 8:23 PM
I haven't made any progress in the personal projects I hoped to work on this month due to sickness, holidays, etc. and even though I *know* that's okay, it doesn't *feel* okay.
#writing #mentalhealth #selfimprovement
#writing #mentalhealth #selfimprovement
To celebrate the end of the year and the upcoming release of the reworked Cook Serve Forever, I wrote a surprise issue of How To Write a Game that's all about developing the best ideas for your story. Read it here:
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How to Develop the Best Ideas for Your Game’s Story
One of the most important tricks to coming up with great ideas is to start brainstorming bad ones.
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December 10, 2024 at 6:17 PM
To celebrate the end of the year and the upcoming release of the reworked Cook Serve Forever, I wrote a surprise issue of How To Write a Game that's all about developing the best ideas for your story. Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/howtowri...
#gamedev #writing #writingtips #creativewriting
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#gamedev #writing #writingtips #creativewriting
I wrote the December update/blog for Cook Serve Forever! It's all about the story ideas we didn't use and how they helped shape the ideas that made it to the final draft. Check it out!
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#gaming #gamewriting #writing #indiegames #gamedev
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Steam :: Cook Serve Forever :: CSF December Progress Update!
Note: David here, just wanted to give a quick update that the big release will be happening December 18th, as there are a few more issues we want to completely iron out ahead of release. Thank you and...
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December 9, 2024 at 8:11 PM
I wrote the December update/blog for Cook Serve Forever! It's all about the story ideas we didn't use and how they helped shape the ideas that made it to the final draft. Check it out!
steamcommunity.com/games/192809...
#gaming #gamewriting #writing #indiegames #gamedev
steamcommunity.com/games/192809...
#gaming #gamewriting #writing #indiegames #gamedev
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More of our teammates are joinin' Bluesky so I thought I'd make a starter pack of all the Cook, Serve, Delicious! devs! So much awesome art and awesome people!
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November 21, 2024 at 6:42 PM
More of our teammates are joinin' Bluesky so I thought I'd make a starter pack of all the Cook, Serve, Delicious! devs! So much awesome art and awesome people!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
How is it there are people in their 20s who know they want to live off the grid and stuff and yet I fell in love with creative writing when I was 13 and still took 20 years to break free from perceived societal expectations to actually decide to go for it? #writing #amicrazy
October 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Coming tomorrow: learn about the story that's been haunting me for a decade and why I'm ready to write it now. Subscribe today to get it right in your inbox.
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i'm confronting the story that has haunted me for a decade
a short story i wrote in 2013 held a deeper significance than i realized, and now over 10 years later i feel empowered and compelled to write the novelization
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October 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Coming tomorrow: learn about the story that's been haunting me for a decade and why I'm ready to write it now. Subscribe today to get it right in your inbox.
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October 4, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I tried narrating my actions aloud the other day to see if it would help me think of how to write more descriptive scenes and now I'm upset I never thought of it before. Also it just helped me focus and not stress about everything else going on. Highly recommend. #writers #authors #writing
September 27, 2024 at 6:54 PM
FYI one of the best science fiction and time travel stories I've ever read is currently $3 on Kindle - Recursion by Blake Crouch
September 15, 2024 at 3:50 PM
FYI one of the best science fiction and time travel stories I've ever read is currently $3 on Kindle - Recursion by Blake Crouch
Drafting on a typewriter was everything I hoped it would be: tactile, focused, satisfying, and imperfect in the best way. Instead of feeling like I lacked options, I felt free from their burden. I cannot recommend it enough.
#typewriter #typing #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #goals
#typewriter #typing #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #goals
September 14, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Drafting on a typewriter was everything I hoped it would be: tactile, focused, satisfying, and imperfect in the best way. Instead of feeling like I lacked options, I felt free from their burden. I cannot recommend it enough.
#typewriter #typing #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #goals
#typewriter #typing #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #goals
I’ve spent too long ignoring my most cherished dream, and that ends now. Subscribe to follow my journey to rediscover myself and become a professional creative writer. #writing #writers #introduction
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it's time to give myself a try
follow me as I document my journey to finally be true to myself
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September 13, 2024 at 9:19 PM
I’ve spent too long ignoring my most cherished dream, and that ends now. Subscribe to follow my journey to rediscover myself and become a professional creative writer. #writing #writers #introduction
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