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Matt Wells
@mattjwells.bsky.social
• 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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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.
I'm starting to think that the best thing the NFL can do is not allow teams to go for it on 4th down. 4th and 1, 4th and inches, whatever, you gotta punt 😅
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
A bit obvious and predicatable, but I haven't seen it done yet so I had to toss it out there.
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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.
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Making dying animal sprites certainly is not my favourite part of my game project. But it's a Far Cry clone, so it's part of the package sadly. #solodev
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I enjoy when my enemy characters start spontaneously fighting my friendly characters because it's basically the same AI going up against itself and the winner is who usually gets the best RNG. #solodev #indiedev #gamedev
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Teaching my class on electronic audio today and I always love sharing this bit when I talk about the old days:
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Actual footage of Blue Jays manager John Schneider's mound visit with Max Scherzer #BlueJays:
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
What it's like to be a Blue Jays fan right now:
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
w/o downloading anything new - where are you mentally?
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Frenzy is 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. Short demo here: semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-missi...

#screenshotsaturday #solodev #indiedev
October 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Hi all, hope nobody minds the spam, just wanted to plug my game demo again. After 2.5 years of work it's great to have something to show people! Hopefully I'll have a more extensive demo soon: semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-missi... #solodev
Frenzy: Mission 0 by Adaax
The opening mission of Frenzy: Solace, an upcoming 16-bit open-world action shooter
semioticblocks.itch.io
September 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Frenzy is a pixel art demake of the Far Cry genre, with an original story told from an ecofeminist perspective. Now you can watch the opening cutscenes and play the first mission in the just-released demo! semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-missi...

#screenshotsaturday #solodev #indiedev
September 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
After several weeks of polishing, debugging, and otherwise stressing out the first demo for my game Frenzy is finally here! Good to be done but now I'm even more stressed 😅 #gamedev #solodev #indieddev semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-missi...
Frenzy: Mission 0 by Adaax
The opening mission of Frenzy: Solace, an upcoming 16-bit open-world action shooter
semioticblocks.itch.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Trying really hard to finally get a demo set and ready, and I'm wondering how much bugs at the level of "the birds don't pause when you pause" really matter 🤷‍♂️ #indiedev #solodev
September 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just realized I need to get some files off of my old laptop. Digging around trying to find it (and its AC cord) feels like this:
September 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I want to see this new Paul Thomas Anderson movie.
September 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Just started Assassin's Creed Shadows and it's cool, but really, is the Animus Hub thing really necessary? What it is means is if you bought on Steam (which I didn't), when you start the game you go from that launcher to another launcher (Ubi Connect) to yet another launcher (the Hub). 3 launchers!
September 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I feel oddly guilty when I ask objects to off themselves in Gamemaker. Part of me is like, "no, obj_control_title, you have so much to live for!" #gamedev #indiedev #solodev
September 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
So hot today. I wish I could wear a t-shirt and shorts to campus but that's something only tenured profs can get away with 😅
September 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
August 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Whenever the Toronto Air Show happens I think back to when I saw a plane crash at an air show when I was a kid and had PTSD dreams about it for years afterwards but it was the '90s so I was just kind of like, "oh well" 😅
August 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My barn find from the Kops Records booth at the #CNE. The jacket is ratty but the record is flawless. You can't get this on Spotify!
August 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I'm having to include a unit on medieval manuscripts in the course I'm teaching in the fall and I'm debating telling my students about that time when I got kicked out of medieval school.
August 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm getting irrationally annoyed at all the good people in my Bluesky feed that are posting interesting articles to read while I'm trying to work. Please refrain from doing this for the remainder of the day.

(Also, yes, I shouldn't be checking my feed while working, thank you)
August 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM