through repetition, the magic is forced to rise
lead writer of sapphic cyberpunk thriller book series "New Astoria" ETA 2025. AAA gamedev. ex-CoD, lolesports, twitch, dauntless, etc 🎸🥁📸 🇦🇺 🏳️🌈
| New Astoria | https://newastoria.tv |
| linktree | https://linktr.ee/chhopsky |
The long-awaited follow-up to my article "How The Games Industry Hurts People".
A tale of trauma, healing, and finding your way back.
If you've ever been burned out, crunched, mistreated, mismanaged, or generally ground to a crisp, this one is for you.
Welcome to Ambrosia Sky, an immersive sim cleaning-FPS in an alien infestation on the rings of Saturn.
“equal parts System Shock and Powerwash Simulator” - PC Gamer
“beautiful, intimate, and deeply affecting” - IGN
Wishlist now!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/Ambrosia_Sky/
Epic Games Store: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambrosiasky-0596ee
If you're graduating from blueprint into C++ land in Unreal Engine 5, you've probably tried to follow the official guides and gotten stuck.
Here's the missing piece of information: Visual Studio setup
https://loadbearingtomato.com/p/visual-studio-setup-for-unreal-engine
Announcement: my new novel, "Synchronous", a sapphic cyberpunk thriller and the first of the New Astoria series.
A curious backwater biomechanic gets the worst case of "I can fix her" anyone's ever had when she encounters a cold-hearted Bureau agent with a malfunctioning robotic arm.
Get early access to the first book by signing up to the Alpha Reader Program.
I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.
I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.
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