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Richard Atlas
@richmakesgames.bsky.social
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🎮 CEO / Creative Director at Clever Endeavour Games (he/him)
🍵 Lover of tea, chocolate, heavy metal, cycling, fantasy, health science, and games with good feel 😎
📝 Blog here: http://richardatlas.com
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Last chance to get the Sheep plush! Not to be doing self-promo but I'm trying to avoid the disappointment in the eyes of people who walked by my desk when I had the Chicken plush last time and were like WHAT I CAN'T GET IT ANYMORE

www.makeship.com/products/ult...
October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Just casually making level adjustments on the final work day before NextFest... 😬
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Cute Sheep plush from Ultimate Chicken Horse? Yes plz ↓↓
www.makeship.com/products/ult...
Image showing the Ultimate Chicken Horse plushie of the Sheep character from the game. The background shows 2D versions of Sheep dancing and a blue sky with clouds in it
October 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Not really a life hack but you can just steep mint leaves instead of getting mint tea and it's like 1/8th the price
Bag of loose mint tea leaves next to a mug with a Zelda logo on it and tea steeping inside it.
September 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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New blog post! A design analogy for being a little kinder:

richardatlas.com/2025/09/13/d...
A drawing of a squirrel that says "Sir Von Dreymenhymer, 19th century German squirrel architect". The image actually has very little to do with the post, which is a link to a blog post about design. It involves being critical of design without understanding its constraints, and somehow in looking for an image the author found and chose this one to represent it.
September 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Trying to put the graphic design learnings to use working on the Montreal Games Week branding 🤘🏻

(very much not a graphic designer but working on it! And no the red isn't actually that bright don't worry)
Image of a computer screen showing part of a style guide, with a colour palette and explanations of where different colours are to be used.
September 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Lez goooooooooo 🤘🏻👀🤘🏻
Image of a computer screen on a desk showing the title of the video game Silksong
September 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Look I drew a duck!
Drawing of a cartoon duck in a wooden frame, hung on a wall with other frames. The image says "Pato" which means duck in Spanish.
August 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Still 3 days to back this important project by @anima-interactive.com on @kickstarter.com ! The game tells the stories of migrants and their harrowing but hopeful journeys across the southern US border:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tak...
Header image of Take Us North, showing five people looking at a setting sun over a large border wall
July 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Hey look Ultimate Chicken Horse is on Game Pass @gamepass.xbox.com ! 🐔🐴

#uch #gamepass #xbox
Screenshot of games launching on GamePass this month, showing our game Ultimate Chicken Horse on the list.
July 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Sometimes I do love the internet.
Screenshot of a Spotify playlist called "chill viking music"
July 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Does drinking out of a mug with my own name on it make me a psychopath?

Found this mug and I have no idea where it's from or why I have it but it was the perfect size for my oolong 😭
Selfie of me drinking from a white mug with the name Richard printed across it.
May 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I got a cool Atari shirt at PAX 🕹️🤩
Mirror selfie showing me standing in my hotel room with an outfit of the new Atari t-shirt, green shorts and Converse shoes.
May 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Updating the build in the hotel room an hour before the expo 😬 if that's not indie I'm not sure what is

(Changes made by our lovely devs, not me)
Image of two laptops sitting on the hotel bed showing the Steam page of our game, Ultimate Sheep Raccoon.
May 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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So many cool things at PAX that I don't need 😭😭

Like these amazing books from @mistymountaingames.com where they will refill them with paper when you finish them 😍
Image of leather bound books from the Misty Mountain Games stall at the PAX East event
May 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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If you're at #paxeast come see our booth! Ultimate Sheep Raccoon in full swiiing 🐑🦝🚲
May 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Not sure if everyone knows this but if you press ctrl + ; it opens up an emoji window so you can put them anywhere in any typing application. Only Windows shortcut worth remembering (other than Win+shift+S).
Image illustrating the keyboard shortcut mentioned in the post, showing a table of available emojis to select from.
April 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Hey look it's me!
A toy action figure similar to a Funko pop resembling the user richmakesgames. It features a Zelda mug, a game controller, a hockey goalie helmet, drumsticks, an orange cat and a black cat.
April 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This is why we make games! Just discovered Wonderputt Forever through @weloveeverygame.bsky.social and it's truly a reminder that games are art. Thank you @dampgnat.bsky.social !🧵↓

store.steampowered.com/app/1766540/...
Screenshot of Wonderputt Forever showing the player's ball in a futuristic tower, ramping out to pods that try to reflect life on earth while floating vehicles containing biomes pass by in the background.
March 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Our panel starts in 10 minutes! Come to room 2005 in Moscone West to learn about leadership in crisis 👀
Sign showing the talk description
March 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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If you're in SF for #GDC2025, highly recommend checking out Vital Tea Leaf in Chinatown 🍵
Image of the tea table at Vital Tea showing packaged bags of tea and cups of used tea leaves
March 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The Queerness and Games conference is looking for speakers and games to showcase! Montreal, Sep 26-28 😸

www.qgcon.org/cfp
Queerness and games conference logo (QGCON)
January 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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So glad we have someone like Amanda Askell working on the future of AI.

Excellent @lexfridman.bsky.social podcast including her and others from Anthropic!
Image showing the title card of episode 452 of the Lex Fridman podcast
January 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Got and framed my excellent prints from @helveticablanc.bsky.social

Excited to put them up! 🤩
Image of four prints in wooden frames depicting stylized goblins of different colours
January 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Pickled onions make everything infinitely better 🤤 and make me want to take pictures of my food
Eggs over easy on bread with fake sausage, cheese, pickled onions and cilantro
December 15, 2024 at 5:46 PM