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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
Fun fact: you can stack a bunch of Steam Machines on top of each other, and if you jump from one to the other the tops change colour!
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Is it weird to say that I still really like my Series X, and that despite the price increase I'm still subbed to Game Pass Ultimate? If so, then never mind.
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 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
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 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
October 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What it's like to be a Blue Jays fan right now:
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A really solid, if a bit samey, album from a Canadian band that could never really replicate this magic afterwards:
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"The university claims that the indendiary devices had feet and wind-up keys in back."
October 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
"Chat GPT, help me with my coding!"
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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
September 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
September 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Leftists: "let's all try to be kind to each other!" Right-wingers:
September 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I'm struck by the similarities with this image released yesterday:
September 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
AI-generated pre-cavity image:
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 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