About me

Hi!
I'm Ry, a queer 31 year old software engineer and game developer living in Germany.
My pronouns are they/them.

Some terms that describe me:

• nonbinary
• queer
• kinky
• (gray) asexual
• autistic

My politics:

• trans rights are human rights
• free palestine
• fuck capitalism
• wear a mask
• punch fascists

Most of my spare time goes into game development.
Photography is my offline hobby.

Feel free to follow me on Mastodon/Fediverse or itch.io!

What I'm currently up to

Gaming

• Timberborn
  they made the water physics fully 3D
• Clanfolk
  Cute little colony builder. Improves with each update. Calm and relaxing.

Reading

I used to absolutely devour books well into my teens and then just stopped and never picked it up again.
Happy to finally report two exceptions to that:

"Unmasking Autism", Dr Devon Price
Tough reading. Oops. (It's a really good book. It just hits a bit too close to home, at times.)

and for some whiplash
Human Domestication Guide
Highly surprising to see the queer kinky enby getting into this, I know
Perturbance stood out, really enjoyed that one.
Still got a lot more queued up and I'll probably update this!

Web Dev

Poking around with PocketBase a bit.
Seems to solve my issue of "I don't want to deal with databases, authentication, authorization and all the stuff that goes into a web app" and just lets me work on whatever I actually want to do!

This website is built using Astro.
I originally started out by building my own static site generator in Rust using Handlebars templates, but the templating pissed me off too much.
I'm not 100% happy about Astro either, though it's pretty great in general. Something simple as controlling image file names is a ton of work and ends up bypassing the build cache. Ah well.

Game Dev

Godot

I started using Godot at version 3.2 and made some smaller 2D games.
I took a single look at the 3D workflow and capabilities and immediately decided it was entirely unsuitable for that.
Luckily, that changed with Godot 4!
I made a game in one of the alpha versions and later completed a 7DFPS jam with a stable release. I've also fully switched over to C# - nothing wrong with GDScript, but I really need an actual IDE once a project gets larger.

Unreal Engine

Misc Tech

Quite enjoying Rust.
Nicely fills the gap for small native tools where I'd usually have relied on some scripting language.
April 2025 update: oops i have a rust job now

Cooking

I quite enjoy cooking - gets me away from the keyboard and lets me use my fingers for something tangible for once.
I really should put a recipe book on this site