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
• fuck generative ai

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

• Warframe
  it is time again
  (The Old Peace is so good)
• Timberborn
  1.0 release!!!
  3D water physics! automation!
• Path of Exile
  Bounced off this several times in the past, but I've almost made it through the campaign this time. Think I'm done again though :(

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

The pervasiveness of LLMs is draining a lot of my motivation to engage with tech in general.

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