Rami Ismail (رامي)
@ramiismail.com
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I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me?
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I'm Rami, indie dev, advisor, tool dev, gamedev community builder, & amateur pilot! I help good people make good games in good ways. Links: Work:
linkedin.com/in/ramiismail
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instagram.com/tha.rami
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AMA about gamedev, anytime.
over 1 year ago
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I drove to the event I'm attending today but there's a rollercoaster on the parking lot and I don't know what to do
about 9 hours ago
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Trump wants to leave NATO? Please go, seriously - every move he's made has been supporting Putin or the end of the world, and if the US is out of NATO hopefully the remaining NATO members will just kick the US out of the bases, out of the petrodollar, out of the market, out of consideration.
about 19 hours ago
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So it's an illegal invasion with the goal of expanding Israeli territory by land theft. Imagine the BBC writing with this cowardice about any other invasion. It's time to admit the BBC cannot be trusted on providing objective and fair coverage on Israel, and instead operates as purely propaganda.
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So Israel literally just imposed an apartheid execution law - if an Israeli commits murder in the West Bank, they get a medal after being performatively told that that might've been a bit much. If a Palestinian defends themselves in the West Bank and an Israeli is killed, they are hanged.
1 day ago
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I still think the part on Clair Obscur in my Giantbomb GOTY 2025 list is some of my favorite writing I've done in recent years. I do miss having time to write more.
giantbomb.com/articles/ram...
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Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 | Giant Bomb
Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.
https://giantbomb.com/articles/rami-ismails-top-games-of-2025
2 days ago
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So the US-Israeli war crimes on Iran are to "free Iran's people" and "stop Iran from getting an illegal nuke", perpetrated by a coalition of the US - a morality-free oligarchy building concentration camps for its undesirables, and Israel - a genocidal apartheid state holding illegal nukes?
2 days ago
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Reached that day on a prototype for after Australia Did It work wraps up where it has proven good enough that I'm starting from scratch to make it proper now.
3 days ago
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Very few things are more groan-worthy than someone with influence pretending a giant outcry is because everybody misunderstood them, instead of the simple truth that everybody understands exactly what they're selling but not wanting it.
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3 days ago
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Incredible how a specific brand of smart people can be this dumb sometimes. You don't hate social commentary - you hate social commentary that doesn't conform to your own, and you're normative enough that you don't have to worry about reminding people you are human.
gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...
3 days ago
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INDIGO
4 days ago
You already know you want to go, so why not with a discount? ✅ 1000+ game industry professionals 🎤Industry legends giving Talks 🕹️INDIGO Discover Showcase + Pitch Perfect 🤝MeetToMatch meeting space ☕️🍽️🍻 Coffee/tea/water + lunch + networking drinks included
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Israel prohibiting Palm Sunday Mass in Jerusalem is just a reminder that Israel is an ethnosupremacist genocidal apartheid state - they've started with Palestine and Lebanon and Iran but they won't stop to destroy you, wherever you are, whatever you are - unless you are an Israeli Zionist.
4 days ago
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Remember when Israel bombed a hospital & sniped a journalist & said "we would never do that" & the Western press wrote that down with no questions or memory or integrity & then Israel just destroyed every hospital in Gaza down to the NICUs, and then outdid the whole Iraq war in journalists murdered.
4 days ago
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What the fuck github
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4 days ago
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Ah, this is incredibly sad news. The new project looked absolutely great too.
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6 days ago
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There's an account that's abusing some sort of block trickery to invisibly harass people responding to any anti-genocide things I post with a reference to my 2013 game LUFTRAUSERS, pretending its a pro-Nazi game (it's not) & saying I picked a fight with people who thought it was (I talked to them).
6 days ago
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The US trying to make sure Israel doesn't pull too far ahead as the most despicably evil army on Earth in recent rankings.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years
The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/03/27/iran-us-land-mines/
6 days ago
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"Politician regrets speaking the truth"
8 days ago
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The LaGuardia ATC recording just breaks my heart - utter chaos due to an odor aboard another airplane, no gate available, passengers nauseous, fire truck wants to cross the runway to get there to help & ATC clears them as the Air Canada touches down. Nothing anyone could've done after that.
10 days ago
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Nothing smart to say here frankly, just fascinating and lovely to see study on post-game depression.
www.news-medical.net/news/2026031...
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Study explores post-game depression and emotional impact on players
Experiencing a sense of loss and sadness after dozens of hours spent on a video game? Researchers from SWPS University and the Stefan Batory Academy of Applied Sciences examined the feeling of emptine...
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260319/Study-explores-post-game-depression-and-emotional-impact-on-players.aspx
10 days ago
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Your options for placeholders: - Make them yourself (difficult, takes time) - Slop (monthly sub, kills the planet, enriches oligarchs, bad assets, everyone hates you and they're right) - Incredibly made game assets by
@kenney.nl
($19.95, one-time, supports give-aways to those who can't afford it)
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10 days ago
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I have no memory of what caused this episode to have this title, but I do seem to remember telling the story of the time
@yosp-jp.bsky.social
asked if he could come do an interview with me and the interview included eating extremely hot peppers.
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10 days ago
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Mike Rose
10 days ago
We're doing it LIVE
www.developconference.com/speakers/mic...
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Wander
11 days ago
I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!
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Reading US news & it's so insane. No US soldier dies for US freedom. It has literally not happened since the 1940s. Kids forced into selling their body to the military grinder die to sustain US imperialism and the wealthy, but "Freedom" cannot be stretched to include "Freedom to plunder and murder".
11 days ago
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Once again, the point of placeholder is to be replaced and thus easy to identify. If you're using machineslop to get "as close as possible" - that's not "placeholder", that's either being incredibly ignorant or being a liar hoping to get away with it. There's really no third option.
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11 days ago
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Netflix's One Piece Season 2 holds up the quality bar even if it doesn't reach quite the highs of the first season - it is consistently good and keeps up the energy of the story incredibly well given the change in media.
11 days ago
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Trump will happily sacrifice Ukraine to support Israel's continued genocides. NATO starting to get in line to help in Trump's self-inflicted wound in Hormuz, instead of telling Trump to fuck off so he has to take an out and back out, it is going to cost Ukraine dearly at no fault of their own.
11 days ago
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Morbid irony in the US and Israel destroying the very peoples and civilisations that first established the Siyar - the international laws establishing distinction between civilian and combatant, the protection of infrastructure for life in warfare, and the sanctity of places of worship and healing.
12 days ago
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iain
12 days ago
ok i found a mention of the game online from back then and this gem in the comments section - i've redacted the name because the user still seems to be active all this time later :)
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A good reminder of why process matters: for my first flights of the year, I flew to Calais/Dunkirk. The flight out was gorgeous, but on startup for the return leg I noticed the checklist left brake test failed. Now struggling my way back home by taxi and train, but glad I noticed and did no fly.
12 days ago
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Israeli war crime tradition: they see a blue press vest, they fire a missile or have a sniper headshot the journalist. It is muscle memory from being world record holder most press murdered with targeted attacks three consequentive years in a row.
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Lebanon: Missile lands next to presenter during live report
In footage from Russian state broadcaster RT, correspondent Steve Sweeney is seen diving off screen as a missile hits.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce9mz0gl8z7o
13 days ago
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Aerial_Knight
13 days ago
Hey, we are very positive on Steam! DropShot is also on sale :D
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I just made myself sad - I was thinking it'd be nice for Eid to do something new & make a little signal boost post for Muslim artists and writers and developers and creators, and then I hesitated because I know there's a real risk and threat in making a nice easy-to-collate list of Muslim creators.
14 days ago
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I was asked to talk about DLSS5, but then I got angry about DLSS5, and so that's what in this
@kotaku.com
article.
kotaku.com/we-spoke-to-...
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We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'
One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry
https://kotaku.com/we-spoke-to-game-devs-and-all-of-them-hate-dlss-5-what-the-f-nvidia-2000680059
14 days ago
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Eid Mubarak 🌙
14 days ago
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"Hey ChatGPT, they found out I used you as legal council and believed you on the 'Project X' thing and now I've fucked up 250 million dollars and so everyone is making fun of me, what could I do to look cool again?"
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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PUBG maker Krafton is an AI defense company now, signs deal with Korean aerospace firm that includes investment of up to $1 billion aiming 'to expand the physical AI ecosystem'
Krafton CEO Changham Kim said he hopes the deal results in a "company like Anduril."
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/pubg-maker-krafton-is-an-ai-defense-company-now-signs-deal-with-korean-aerospace-firm-that-includes-investment-of-up-to-usd1-billion-aiming-to-expand-the-physical-ai-ecosystem/
14 days ago
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I was asked to talk about DLSS5, but then I got angry about DLSS5, and so that's what in this
@kotaku.com
article.
kotaku.com/we-spoke-to-...
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We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'
One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry
https://kotaku.com/we-spoke-to-game-devs-and-all-of-them-hate-dlss-5-what-the-f-nvidia-2000680059
14 days ago
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Natalie (Tali) Spitzel 🔜 Vancouver!
14 days ago
I think game devs should have the right to challenge their big AAA CEO or the shareholders to a fistfight and if they win they get to run the company
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kaynSD
14 days ago
Well I guess if
@mikerose.bsky.social
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@ramiismail.com
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Mike Rose
14 days ago
JUST ANNOUNCED: We're doing our first ever LIVE episode of Mike & Rami Are Still Here at Develop Conference Brighton in July! You can find all the details on the programme:
www.developconference.com/conference-p...
And the latest episode of the podcast:
mikeandrami.com
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Me being interviewed about DLSS5
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15 days ago
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Press asked me how I feel about DLSS5 and I had not realized how pissed I am about DLSS5.
15 days ago
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Mark @ Duonix Studios (10 Dead Doves)
15 days ago
If any publishers/scouts want a peek at what we're doing before we start pitching around, DM me. Don't miss out on publishing pure kino
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1000xRESIST | Available Now
15 days ago
hi! we're the makers of 1000xRESIST, and we have... something special coming up soon 👀 ✨ triple-i showcase on April 9 ✨ 9am PDT / 12pm EDT ✨ no hosts, no ads, just GAMES see you there, sisters 💖
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I am awaiting Meta rebranding itself Artificial so we can watch this same stupidity once again.
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15 days ago
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Awwww yay
www.gamesradar.com/games/after-...
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After 4 years of work, solo dev breaks down in tears after opening Steam and learning his game made $250,000 in a week: "I feel like I really don't deserve this"
"I don't know why people are so nice. I don't get it, man"
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/after-4-years-of-work-solo-dev-breaks-down-in-tears-after-opening-steam-and-learning-his-game-made-usd250-000-in-a-week-i-feel-like-i-really-dont-deserve-this/
15 days ago
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Developers have full creative control but also we didn't tell them shit
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15 days ago
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Awwww yay
www.gamesradar.com/games/after-...
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After 4 years of work, solo dev breaks down in tears after opening Steam and learning his game made $250,000 in a week: "I feel like I really don't deserve this"
"I don't know why people are so nice. I don't get it, man"
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/after-4-years-of-work-solo-dev-breaks-down-in-tears-after-opening-steam-and-learning-his-game-made-usd250-000-in-a-week-i-feel-like-i-really-dont-deserve-this/
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Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.
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https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=392880
17 days ago
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Hey CNN, just checking if this is the tragedy you wanted to headline about the US-Israeli murder and maiming of tens of thousands of Iranians.
15 days ago
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