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Cristina Ramos

@saffroncr.bsky.social

Gamedev, RPGs, retro gaming, electronics, boxing, wrestling & trolling. Making a metroidbrainia game for the Playdate. 🎮🥊🤓👩‍🔧⚡🖥️ Itch: https://saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4843670/KATAVATIS/

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Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · 7h ago

"I miss back when devs made games without bugs, only physical release and no online downloads" You mean back when there you could buy a game from the store with a game breaking bug and zero possibilities of a fix? With broken systems or unbalanced until the next physical release in another region?

Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · yesterday

This is kind of a spoiler of my game but basically my idea was that the spaceships with all the Earth refugees would crash into Mars thanks to the carefully designed AI systems and cheap build. But reality keeps getting dumber, my imagination is being outmatched by how dumb everything is becoming.

SpaceX rocket is on course to slam into the moon at 7 times the speed of sound.
Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · 2d ago

Let's remove empathy and the human aspect from the equation and look at this purely through logic. If wealth and resources are not shared, if such a big wealth gap is created between members of the same society, everyone suffers. US pushes people into poverty and then wonders why crime increases 🤷‍♀️

Photos taken Friday show candy and ice cream locked or otherwise chained up at a New York City Walgreens store on Lexington Avenue near East 61st StreetAnti thief locks for ice cream in a store in SeattleHousing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessnessSpain surpassed 6.300 organ transplants in 2025 and remains the world leader. Posted by Communication - IIS Aragón el 23 January 2026 We share this report from the SINC Agency about the high figures for organ donation and transplantation last year. This activity allowed thousands of patients to receive an organ thanks to the public system, according to the report presented by the National Transplant Organization.
Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d ago

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's sad to see Kyoto Xanadu get rid of the modern Ys combat that already worked like a charm and instead push a metroidvania style that's lacking in gameplay, art and level design.

Kyoto Xanadu screenshotsKyoto Xanadu screenshots
Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · 6d ago

Lo que más gracia me hace de Gunpei Yokoi es que SIEMPRE que lees una entrevista suya saca el tema de cuerpos de mujeres como ejemplo para cualquier cosa de videojuegos que estén hablando, desde diseñar mandos con forma de pecho a competir por adquirir mujeres y montarte un harem. Horny on main 🤣

Yokoi: That's right. At the time I was struggling with the question: "How could we fit a joystick in a person's pocket…?" I created a number of different prototypes, including one that resembled a woman's breast. In the end, the model that best allowed players to know, by touch, which direction they were moving, was the cross-shaped directional pad. I never thought it would become the standard though. (laughs) As a project it wasn't something I took that seriously, relatively speaking.The essence of games is competition, and I think that’s a remnant of our past as animals, and the competition of the survival of the fittest. I think you see it reflected all through human history, how people with wealth and power want to have harems, acquire women… that kind of thing is at the root of humanity.
Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · last wk.

It's sad to have to add this to all my public repositories. Until now I shared everything using the most open license available. I'm no longer sharing anything until the AI bubble pops.

License Star Rangers is being created by Cristina Ramos. The game code is licensed under a BSD-3-Clause License. The game art (graphics, fonts, music and sound) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). No permission is granted to submit, link, upload, disclose, provide, or otherwise make the game code or art available to any artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, large-language-model, or any similar system for training, analysis, adaptation, modification, generation, debugging, explanation, or any other purpose, regardless of whether that system retains, learns from, or is trained on the code or art.
Daniel Fedor@dcfedor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · last wk.

It's cool to see that with zero advertising, no video and WIP screenshots on the Steam page I still have people wishlisting the game. If even this early in the development phase there are folks that are already intrigued by it, it's a good enough signal for me to keep going.

Katavatis wishlist additions 101
Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I realized that I haven't shared some updates to the renderer for my Playdate prototype. Here's the masked texture support so I can have windows and railings. Also now I can add hidden doors. And finally, the latest update to the swimming controls and the creepy office with the cleaned up textures.

Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm currently writing the part of my game's story that can be summed up as "Imagine if Jeff Bezos had access to the technology from Event Horizon" and I might have to tone it down because right now it reads like the most terrifying horror novel ever written 😭

Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · 2w ago

"I don't understand why generative AI is so widely accepted among developers. It's so surprising!" So, you've been hearing women and minorities denounce the toxicity and discrimination in those communities for years... decades, even, and you still thought those communities were morally acceptable?

@prisonofhusks.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m making a retro inspired souls-like called PRISON OF HUSKS, and I need your help! We’ve just opened our playtest application in our Discord, so please sign up if you like classic soulslikes, dreamy aesthetics, and gay dolls :]

Phil Salvador@philsalv.bsky.social · 2w ago

Really incredible to have a first-hand document of an unfiltered gaming exec in 1998 trying to rationalize why they don't make games for girls while also acknowledging that is a significant portion of their demographics

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rauch's collection also includes E3 panel transcripts, like the opening keynote of E3 1998 featuring major gaming execs In this excerpt, Nintendo's Howard Lincoln talks about the changing demographics of video games, or as he called it, "the female thing" archive.gamehistory.org/item/5e6324d...

Howard Lincoln: "I just wanted to before I answer your question comment on these demographics. I think that even in the early days of the video game business, in '85 or in that period, our actual demographic figures suggested that it wasn't just boys - seven to fourteen - that were playing so it was probably a little bit broader than that. But, the perception in the market place certainly the perception on the part of the media was that this was just a kids thing to do. What we're seeing now is not only a broadening of demographics, but I think in addition to what we're seeing is kids that grew up in 1985 the 1990 period, they're adults now, or getting into adulthood. And, they are adopting interactive entertainment as a viable life style. That's one of the reasons I think that, probably more of a reason than just simply that they are more mature games out there. But, we're certainly seeing Kaz and Larry have indicated, a broadening of the demographics. The female thing is a tough issue I think for all of us. It's very easy to say oh we're going to make games for girls, but we really don't go about making games that way and never have. We know that the demographics, example on Game Boy are more even between male and female. But, as a marketer you've got to go where the market is. And, it's just very difficult for us to say or game developers make games for girls, it just doesn't work that way."
Cristina Ramos@saffroncr.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you go watch mythbusters early seasons that's basically any small to medium size game company. If you go watch severance that's basically any modern big AAA corporation. If you go watch The War of the Roses that's basically SEGA during the 90s.

Lucien Greathouse@lpg.space · 2w ago

I feel like game devs are a unique combination of all of “doing some of the hardest software engineering”, “wild west cowboy bullshit”, and “hitting themselves in the head with hammers for no reason”