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Arden Ripley

@arden.rip

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writer, editor, and localizer for games & comics • IGF Award winner • dark queer fiction • 🔞⚠️ NSFW, adults only! ❥ credits: Pathologic 3, Mediterranea Inferno, Wanderstop, & more ❥ website: arden.rip ❥ The Vow (🔞): https://arden.itch.io/the-vow

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · May 26

Oska and Lalo are not people. They are only weapons to be wielded. The Arcana Imperii has pointed them at a divine beast, and yet they still find ways to make each other bleed instead.

THE VOW is a 300 page graphic novel, available now. For mature audiences only. 🩸⚔️

physical // digital

Cover of the graphic novel The Vow, written by Arden Ripley and illustrated by Julian Cormac. Two people are locked in an embrace, with a sword running through both of their bodies, connecting them together. A string of blood connects their mouths. One has fair skin, messy red hair, and Lichtenberg figure scars covering the right side of their face. They're gripping the short blonde hair of the other person, who is shorter and has dark olive skin.

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Books Schwartz 📚 @sunshineduk.bsky.social · 7h

Oh man oh man just read the first issue of this and it RULES. Could not be more laser-targeted directly at me. Messy queer youths! Grand metafictional melodrama about the history of YA literature! Everyone's least favorite transphobic black mold! Cannot wait to see where it goes from here!

Frank J. Barbiere 🔜 NYCC AA J-14 @fjbarb.bsky.social · 9d

This Wednesday! The Author Immortal from me, @morganbeem.bsky.social, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, @arden.rip & @sievish.bsky.social is coming to you from @imagecomics.com!

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 7h

YAYYYYY you are going to really love what's coming :3

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 15h

OPPORTUNITY Lead Writer - CDProjekt - US

Not affiliated. Shares welcome

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

Lead Writer

Company Description: To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers — this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social medi...

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 16h

Oh! Good for her

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 1d

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

pcgamer.com

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 18h

Working in a setting where the only body of water is a river that very few people fish in or drink out of really made me realize how many fish-based idioms English has

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 19h

I never know what tone to take in marketing so please just do me a favour and decide if "Nemesis is a book about how human transcendence is an ideological stance" or "Nemesis is a book about what if Char didn't wear a bra" sounds more appealing to you loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · 20h

Join us for our 🍂Fall Social🍂, October 26! We'll be outside at Danehy Park in Cambridge enjoying some warm beverages and autumnal baked goods, peepin' leaves, and of course, chit chatting about makin' games.

Come hang out!

🕛Noon
🗓️October 26
🌎Danehy Park, Cambridge

www.meetup.com/bostongamede...

Fall Social 2025, Sun, Oct 26, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

It's that time of year again! Join Boston GameDev for a Fall Social SUNDAY Oct 26th at Danehy Park @ 12pm noon. There will be Hot Beverages & Cider Donuts! Feel free to

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 3d

I dont have the spirit of a Poster anymore. Hiding my derangement in group chats after weeks of pretending to be normal is way more my speed now. You must lure me to you like you are befriending a wild deer and when I feel safe I will unleash a torrent of nightmarish verbiage about Hubert von Vestra

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 3d

It always makes me happy to see love for Milky Way Prince, it's one of the most harrowing stories I've ever read

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 3d

Our entire catalogue for like $10, I don't know what to tell you! store.steampowered.com/bundle/6109/...

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 3d

Yes. I promise

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 4d

thank you, brave warrior...

Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 4d

I spent most of today cuddling my cat and playing Town to City, which may be a perfect video game. I recommend doing that instead of posting the dumbest shit I've ever seen online 👍🏻

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 4d

Oh goodness gracious. The posts have been quite bad today haven't they

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 4d

wtf let Morgan do poppers

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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 5d

finishing a day of working on Pathologic, seeing this before bed, and smiling serenely as I snuggle against my pillow

Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 5d

Installed Town to City and blinked and then three hours had passed

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priscilla 👻🚂🎶 SPOOKY EXPRESS @ghoulnoise.com · 5d

Do you love spooky? Are you a freak for singing saw? Are you scrambling to put together a playlist for your Halloween costume party? LOVE TRAINS? Are you secretly a ghost, ghoul, or goblin?

Pre-Orders are up now for the Spooky Express OST for #BandcampFriday

ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com/album/spooky...

Spooky Express (Original Soundtrack), by Ghoulnoise

25 track album

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 5d

jeez wizard zine

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