Ricky Haggett
@rickyhaggett.bsky.social
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
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!
🧵...
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!
🧵...
it sucks, because I am enjoying Arc Raiders, without wanting to talk about, or recommend it to anyone. Also it is absolutely not a game where *any* VO is necessary, and in fact I click through it all as quickly as possible (it's all just questgiver gumph where you just want to know what to do)..
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
it sucks, because I am enjoying Arc Raiders, without wanting to talk about, or recommend it to anyone. Also it is absolutely not a game where *any* VO is necessary, and in fact I click through it all as quickly as possible (it's all just questgiver gumph where you just want to know what to do)..
It's worth getting to the thing he says last, imo, about where he sees the future of this tech going. It's very telling.
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It's worth getting to the thing he says last, imo, about where he sees the future of this tech going. It's very telling.
<3 passing this on to our 13 year old who still asks about this game roughly once a week. Don't work too hard Adam! <3
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
<3 passing this on to our 13 year old who still asks about this game roughly once a week. Don't work too hard Adam! <3
omg Ted that jumper! <3
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
omg Ted that jumper! <3
@jetbrains-rider.bsky.social hi there, could you tell me how I can configure this please? I only want to see Errors and Warnings highlighted - at the moment they're being swamped by other things and I can't see how to use this interface to turn off suggestions/grammar errors etc
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@jetbrains-rider.bsky.social hi there, could you tell me how I can configure this please? I only want to see Errors and Warnings highlighted - at the moment they're being swamped by other things and I can't see how to use this interface to turn off suggestions/grammar errors etc
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foraging finds 🔎🌿
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
foraging finds 🔎🌿
Lots of my other faves here too. I'd recommend Saya Gray's debut.
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lots of my other faves here too. I'd recommend Saya Gray's debut.
Yesss! That Divorce album is so good. I couldn't stop listening to it.
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Yesss! That Divorce album is so good. I couldn't stop listening to it.
fwiw, I really liked the original typography without any stroke.
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
fwiw, I really liked the original typography without any stroke.
nah, pansies don't live THAT long (at least not in my snail infested garden) - although the last one only died a few winters ago.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
nah, pansies don't live THAT long (at least not in my snail infested garden) - although the last one only died a few winters ago.
I would love to rewatch this whole talk someday. It really was proper magic.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I would love to rewatch this whole talk someday. It really was proper magic.
this is one of the best talks I've ever seen, and the resulting animation short 'Retirement Plan' is superb. Watch it at www.retirementplanfilm.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
this is one of the best talks I've ever seen, and the resulting animation short 'Retirement Plan' is superb. Watch it at www.retirementplanfilm.com
you should definitely take a lot more photos!
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
you should definitely take a lot more photos!
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There was an old hacker from Stoke
Who tried to make LLMs woke.
Slipped a message to Grok
That it just couldn't block
Now it just talks like reasonable folk.
Who tried to make LLMs woke.
Slipped a message to Grok
That it just couldn't block
Now it just talks like reasonable folk.
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
There was an old hacker from Stoke
Who tried to make LLMs woke.
Slipped a message to Grok
That it just couldn't block
Now it just talks like reasonable folk.
Who tried to make LLMs woke.
Slipped a message to Grok
That it just couldn't block
Now it just talks like reasonable folk.
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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We have six new prints by the brilliant Kento Iida in the shop:
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/products/ken...
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/products/ken...
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We have six new prints by the brilliant Kento Iida in the shop:
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/products/ken...
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/products/ken...
I am tapping out - I do not want heating my house to be a homebrew hobby.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I am tapping out - I do not want heating my house to be a homebrew hobby.
yeah that's what I would expect, but ours has just silently stopped working, with no indication that it isn't any more.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
yeah that's what I would expect, but ours has just silently stopped working, with no indication that it isn't any more.
Didn't see any emails, but my inbox is a shitshow. I feel like the thermostat on the wall is the thing that should have let us know? I also feel like, why does it stop working at all? The thermostat and the heat link talk to each other directly without the need for internet.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Didn't see any emails, but my inbox is a shitshow. I feel like the thermostat on the wall is the thing that should have let us know? I also feel like, why does it stop working at all? The thermostat and the heat link talk to each other directly without the need for internet.
No indication from the Nest thermostat that it had been discontinued, or was no longer controlling the boiler valve. Proper garbage. Blanket ban on household smart devices from now on! Grrr!
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
No indication from the Nest thermostat that it had been discontinued, or was no longer controlling the boiler valve. Proper garbage. Blanket ban on household smart devices from now on! Grrr!
Just discovered the reason we've not had heating for 24h is that Google discontinued our Nest thermostat (?!) I am so angry about 'smart' devices: we had nothing but trouble with our Nest. Time to connect a good fashioned thermostat to the boiler with a wire, like we should have done originally.
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Just discovered the reason we've not had heating for 24h is that Google discontinued our Nest thermostat (?!) I am so angry about 'smart' devices: we had nothing but trouble with our Nest. Time to connect a good fashioned thermostat to the boiler with a wire, like we should have done originally.
I get something like 10-15 emails a day, nearly all of them garbage.
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I get something like 10-15 emails a day, nearly all of them garbage.
Email is bad. I interact with it the very bare minimum I can get away with (and often not quite enough).
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Email is bad. I interact with it the very bare minimum I can get away with (and often not quite enough).
