About me

Hi!
I'm Ry, a queer 30 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, primarily Fireteam Nexus.
Photography is my offline hobby.

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

Gaming

• Warframe
  oh no it happened again
  I keep getting stuck on this one for a few months once every year or two. It's just a good game!
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
  Slowly making my way through the first playthrough. I'll probably leave it at the one due to time (looking like it'll be around 100 hours playtime!) and being too annoyed at bugs. But it's a great game, really enjoying it.
  Really interested in seeing what the devs and the community will have done with it in a year.

• Abiotic Factor
  It's really good. Currently making my way through the Crush Depth update in coop.
• Earth Defense Force 6
  Jank, continued, with an absolutely bonkers story. Wonderful.
  The first 20 or so missions are really slow but at some point the game gets going and just does not stop anymore. Hoping we can push through the early slog for another playthrough eventually.
• Helldivers 2
  Not playing a whole lot anymore. Wish they'd stop "balancing" when 90% of the weapons just feel bad :(
• Earth Defense Force 5
  Jank. Recently completed the third playthrough in 4-player coop (in preparation for EDF6). Had a blast.
• Rimworld
  The classic colony builder.
• Once Human
  Unexpectedly had a great time with this. Kinda stopped playing after getting through the first season's story. I don't like MMO raids in general and there's not a whole lot left to do. Been meaning to get back into it for season two.
• Timberborn
  I keep coming back to this with every update. Just the most lovely relaxing city builder.
• Stardeus
  Criminally underrated colony builder.

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!

Programming

Web Dev

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

General

Quite enjoying Rust.
Nicely fills the gap for small native tools where I'd usually have relied on some scripting language.

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