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Ella
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general purpose oddity tinkerer. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️.

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have you Daze'd a 7-drop today? I have.
Draft deck from MTG Arena Powered Cube. The deck consists of most of the best Blue and White control cards in the game.
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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looking forward to performing a show with my band, Bird Factory, this Saturday in Kansas City! we're playing a variety of indie/alt rock covers plus a few of our own.

I'll be playing keyboard, surrounded by two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer.
Flyer advertising a show! Bird Factory with Adastria and October Suprise at Blip Roasters 1301 Woodswether Rd., Kansas City, Missouri Saturday October 18th at 7 pm
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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the squares are back.

(I took a detour on this project to roll my own basic UI framework so I can animate things easier. and render in an audio plugin context.)
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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your opponents when you do this
Magic the Gathering card Curse of the Pierced Heart - 1R Enchantment — Aura Curse Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player’s upkeep, this Aura deals 1 damage to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
October 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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the most photogenic me and my girlfriend's dog has ever looked
A photograph of Charlie, a small Chihuahua mix. He is looking gracefully up into the air.
September 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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they just like me fr
Transcript of an interview with the Hollow Knight Silksong lead devs. “What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task- management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said, adding that they’d briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn’t use it enough. Email I got yesterday warning me that Trello is about to delete my account.
August 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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for today's #ScreenshotSaturday, I have added an evil gamemode.
Screenshot of the game "Random Bullshit Go." All cards on the stack have been turned been turned pitch black. It's impossible to tell which card they are.
August 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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what did my Spotify algorithm mean by this?
Spotify "Audiobooks for you" featuring The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery by Sol Smith.
August 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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craziest thing about this list is that over 2/3 of my hours in BG3 and Skyrim are actually my girlfriend and sister respectively, but they'd still be at basically the same position without them.
My Most Played Steam Games: - Team Fortress 2 - Baldur's Gate 3 - Skyrim - Skyrim Special Edition - Elden Ring - Risk of Rain 2 - Tabletop Simulator - CrossCode - Final Fantasy XIII - Storybook Brawl - Civilization V - Deus Ex Human Revolution - Golf with your Friends - Cyberpunk 2077 - Valkyria Chronicles - Factorio - Hades - Half-Life
July 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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been a while since I posted something about my card game for #ScreenshotSaturday
Screenshot of Random Bullshit Go, a multiplayer card game. Cards are arranged in a row at the center of the screen with arrows pointing between them to represent their targets.
July 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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tonight, I tried playing a Tabletop Sim game I had previously set up ~5 years ago. the cards _used_ to be organized into nice little floating trays on the side of the table, but the URL to that 3D model has bitrotted away so the trays vanished and the cards collapsed into a pile.
Screenshot of Tabletop Simulator. A pile of cards are arranged in a way that looks like they were once carefully organized, but now they are Not.
July 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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always been the opposite for me! so many tricky things to track for animation, especially if it might be interrupted.

this has been pinned in me and my long-time game jam teammate's DMs for years.
Pinned Discord message from me, 5 years ago. "Yeah, but that's an animation problem and those make me sad."
June 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I don't really know what a network state is but I guess I have a permit to one now. @concept.country
CONCEPT COUNTRY NETWORK STATE PERMIT AUTHORIZATION A Ella Godotdrop code/codes/codeself LOCALE: LITTLE ARRAKIS • Sonoran Desert Assessment Summary Ella demonstrates exceptional technical creativity through her game development projects and audio programming experiments, perfectly aligning with Concept's ethos of building and creating rather than merely criticizing. Her consistent work on card games with complex interaction systems shows she understands emergent complexity - a valuable skill for biocosmist architecture. While she hasn't explicitly engaged with longevity or space expansion themes, her tinkering mindset and obvious comfort with technical complexity suggest she'll adapt quickly to biocosmist frameworks. The fact that she's already experimenting with synthesizers, UI design, and animation indicates she could contribute immediately to Concept's technical infrastructure. Her 'general purpose oddity' self-description is exactly the kind of flexible identity stance we value. cogsec 4/5 agency 5/5 aura 4/5 potential 5/5
June 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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experimenting with some new animations for adding cards to the stack! feels a lot smoother with everything shifting when you start dragging a card.

#GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame #GodotEngine
May 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Back messing with my little groovebox program today. I've wrangled (some of) Surge XT's synthesizer parameters so it mostly work without opening the plugin GUI. And I can parameter lock them!
May 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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doing some shader experiments experiments with this background animation for my game.

#GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine
April 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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As long as it makes sense as a target, yes!

A card like Stopsign, which counters another card, could target anything.

A card like Corruption, which inverts the number of points a card gains players, could only target a card that would usually gain points.
Random Bullshit Go card called "Stopsign." It reads "Counter target card." Random Bullshit Go card called "Corruption." It reads "Target card that gains points now loses them instead."
April 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Realized I forgot to post a final video of our Ludum Dare submission!

Drill through a slice of a distant planet in Crust Busting, the racing event of the new millennium!

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#LDJam #LD57 #GameDev
April 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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our game's UI is starting to look pretty slick!

#LDJam #LD57 #GameDev
April 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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hmm, that was supposed to be a GIF. maybe the video will fare better?
April 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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this game is feeling pretty polished for day 2 of the jam! particle effects are pulling their weight.

#LDJam #LD57 #GameDev
GIF of an in-development video game. A pixel-art spaceship with a drill on it's cone moves down the screen, digging through blocks of dirt. Other drill-spaceships move slightly behind. The player's ship approaches another and bounces off of it in a huge burst of speed.
April 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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using extremely low-quality pixel art sketches to plan out a performance case layout because I have no better 2D cad tool. tag me if you recognize the gear.
A collection of flatly colored rectangles detailed with smaller, irregularly positioned rectangles.They vaguely resemble a keyboard and a drum machine.
March 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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existential dread? you're looking for an 8th Edition Maggot carrier.
Magic the Gathering card called "Maggot Carrier." It is a 1/1 black zombie costing 1 black mana, and has "When this creature enters, each player loses 1 life." Its flavor text reads "'We do not suddenly fall on death, but advance towards it by slight degrees; we die every day.' - Seneca, Epistles, translated by Gummere."
March 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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(original design for comparison)
Screenshot of the old design for the main menu of "Random Bullshit Go". The title is centered on the screen in a plain sans-serif font. Below the title, plain black buttons present the options "Host Game", "Join Game", "Deck Editor", "Credits", and "Exit".
March 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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yep, redoing the main menu was a worthwhile use of my morning.

#GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame
Screenshot of the main menu of a digital card game called "Random Bullshit Go". The game's title is in a bold font in the top left. Most of the text is white, but "Bullshit" is in a bright red. Below the title, colorful buttons with textured backgrounds present the options "Host Game", "Join Game", "Deck Editor", "Credits", and "Exit". In the bottom right, 3 example cards from the game are shown in a row.
March 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM