Mastodawn

As a kid, whenever we went to the Apple Store I always ran to the back to play the demo games on the iMacs. Now many years later, in an absolutely crazy, full-circle, bucket-list moment, my own game is one of those demo games on thousands of iPads in hundreds of Apple Stores around the world.

Ryan McLeod May 30, 2024

It's continues to be absolutely *unreal* that Blackbox is nominated for an Apple Design Award AGAIN, this time seven years later for visionOS!

Ryan McLeod Apr 23, 2024

Without fail this ALWAYS makes me feel like something is blowing gently into my hand—anyone else? My brain has experienced this interaction in Blackbox 100 times and I still never get used to it! ✨

Ryan McLeod Feb 2, 2024

Blackbox, 11 million phones later is finally in your world, where it's always wanted to be

Ryan McLeod Dec 20, 2023

The Shazam live activity has every right to be this juicy

Ryan McLeod Nov 14, 2023

🫨I took a brief break from working on visionOS with
@robertlong to make something brand new: Newji!

Stop waiting for the Unicode Consortium to make your labradoodle puppy eating cherry pie an emoji and just do it yourself already!!!

(Downloads/boosts doubly appreciated today!)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newji-make-anything-an-emoji/id6468971101

‎Newji: make anything an emoji

‎You know how the old saying goes: if you update someone’s phone, they’ll have new emojis for a night; if you give them Newji they’ll have new emojis for the rest of their life. Pizza rat? Lizard candle? Someone with long luscious chestnut hair holding up a white Siberian kitten? All emojis now. Lo…

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Ryan McLeod Nov 9, 2023

Know how to use shaders to turn this pink thing into a soap bubble? Want to master VFX for VisionOS? I'm looking to hire a technical artist to help with
@BlackboxPuzzles. Let's talk!

(RTs from graphics and design friends *extremely* appreciated)
Details: https://shapes-and-stories.notion.site/Technical-Artist-for-Blackbox-a1a9328717d54698a3baedaf1e29f2fa

Technical Artist for Blackbox (VisionOS)

Technical Artist (Part Time / Remote)

Grow Pixel on Notion

Ryan McLeod Nov 7, 2023

My friend @robertlong and I made an app for making emojis of Chase banks (among other things) on fire 🔥

Try it out? 400 TestFlight slots left: https://testflight.apple.com/join/l66TFLPb

Join the Newji: emoji factory beta

Available on iOS

Ryan McLeod Oct 31, 2023

I’ve been building a new app with my friend @robertlong :)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/l66TFLPb

Give it a try and post your first emojis in the reply or spider pig will come tickle your ears tonight!

Join the Newji: emoji factory beta

Available on iOS

Ryan McLeod Jul 16, 2023

If you search for “dog” on iOS 17 it’ll also show you clips where it’s HEARD “dog”