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Nathan Ranney

@ratcasket.itch.io

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Game Developer. Made TYPECAST and Knight Club. Systems Designer @santamonicastudio.bsky.social‬

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · Nov 19

Check out my absurd, brain melting, typing bullet hell arcade game TYPECAST. It's cheap and it will hurt you.
store.steampowered.com/app/2536650/...

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 9h

It’s such a purdy game.

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 9h

I’ve been taking lots of screenshots.

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 13h

I just made it to THAT part in Silent Hill f. This game rips so hard.

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 15h

[Sheryl Crow voice] All I wanna do
Is Caves of Qud
I got a feelin
I’m not the only one

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 2d

My new Caves of Qud character is a man Arconaut with burrowing claws, quills, thick fur, and night vision.

His name is Dygdugg, and he’s made friends with a baboon army.

Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 2d

Mick Gordon is goin off on this shit boy www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShi...

The Underking (From Absolum)

YouTube video by Mick Gordon - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 3d

Seeing a lot of “I want social media I can pay for” talk and I would love to know where everyone is getting their expendable income right now.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 5d

I think Fell and I are realizing the same as we work on this game. It wasn’t initially horror at all but all roads led us there.

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 6d

This vessel… requires fruit loops.

Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 7d

Just wanted to pop in here and say it's awfully serendipitous that you're about to release a horror album. >.>

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 8d

Hey will you shut up? I'm playing Silent Hill.

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Fellipe @fellipemartins.com · 8d

Here’s a mockup for a game I’m making with my good friend Cerbu:

You’re a rogue ace pilot taking on the deadliest machines weaponized corporations can throw at you. Fast-paced action, gripping story, the works.

More soon!

Illustration of a futuristic city under attack. In the foreground, a small blue-and-white fighter jet trails orange and yellow exhaust as it fires on a massive armored machine with glowing blue energy at its core. Another smaller ship with a rainbow exhaust streak weaves through buildings in the midground. Smoke, fire, and neon-colored energy streaks cut across the battlefield, while a giant war machine with tank treads looms ahead, dwarfing the pilot’s ship.

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tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · Jul 17

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

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Kris (Wishlist Mansion of a Million Monsters!) @kristruitt.bsky.social · 8d

I added a fishing minigame, but I think I maybe misunderstood something?

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 9d

utahraptor pay a guy to fix it. utahraptor you have to pay a guy when you mess up real bad

qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: I replaced a deadbolt on my front door and it was actually really easy!

T-Rex: Then I replaced the kitchen faucet and THAT was a breeze too!

T-Rex: I spent YEARS thinking these things were hard, but it turns out - nope! There's a whole UNIVERSE of easy-to-accomplish things, and I had NO IDEA.
T-Rex: THE END.

Utahraptor: I tried to replace a bathroom faucet and it was a NIGHTMARE!
T-Rex: Oh no!

Utahraptor: Thing after thing went wrong! It was a nightmare from start to finish!!
T-Rex: So: there's ALSO a universe of hard-to-accomplish things, and it is impossible to know which is which until you start doing them.
T-Rex: Much to consider.

T-Rex: Actually there wasn't THAT much to consider: the universe is a mystery and I'm out here exploring it!!
Off panel: Same, only I'M doing it while at the same time having a broken bathroom faucet back at home!
T-Rex: Neat!!

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10d

Your Only Move Is HUSTLE is $3.99 on Steam buff.ly/JoA9eXB

Deck playable

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 10d

Post you from a different era. This is me in 2007 holding a baby, and me in 2025 holding a baby. I still only wear black band tshirts.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 12d

Arco (Steam) w/ 9 more games is $20 on Humble Games Bundle: Stories from Latin America buff.ly/D28NEfW #ad

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Johanna Morgan @jovghanna.bsky.social · 13d

I might have put too much Belmont in this walking animation
#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #DragoonDrop

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Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 14d

Every producer I've ever worked with is an absolute hero. I was a producer for a while, and it is like juggling chainsaws blindfolded upside down and you don't have arms.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 14d

The job of being a game Producer, a GOOD Producer, looks very difficult to me.

You have to make room for several contradictory things all to be true at the same time:

Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 14d

The purpose of art is to make other people feel as bad as you do.

Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 15d

Saros looks so awesome.

Nathan Ranney @ratcasket.itch.io · 16d

Right? The boy is a genius.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 16d

Still possibly the greatest title drop in video games

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