Rami Ismail (رامي)
@ramiismail.com
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I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me?
https://ramiismail.com/
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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.
about 1 year ago
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I love art
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about 14 hours ago
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this is a great read on why doing development and talking about development are fundamentally different things
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about 23 hours ago
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Social media continue to apply the policy that doing genocide is acceptable, but objecting to genocide is not, and suffering genocide is even less welcome.
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about 23 hours ago
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Imagine your elected leader going "genocide man, listen, my friend, you know that genocide and all yeah it's fine its fine they're brown its whatever to me but you just like you know probably an accident but your indiscriminate bombing nicked some graves of ours"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese raises bulldozed Australian war graves with Israeli president
Prime minister stresses importance of repairs to graves in Gaza being conducted as soon as possible in meeting with Isaac Herzog
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/12/anthony-albanese-isaac-herzog-bulldozed-australian-war-graves-gaza
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Why did genocidal Israel headshot a US journalist, try & fail to pin it on Palestinians, arrest a local journalist that witnessed the murder but couldn't pin anything on him, and then threw him in a concentration camp with no trial or crime, just because they can?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
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Why did Israel jail journalist who witnessed Shireen Abu-Akleh’s killing?
Palestinian Ali al-Samoudi was with Al Jazeera's Abu Akleh when she was shot dead by an Israeli sniper in 2022.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/13/why-did-israel-jail-journalist-who-witnessed-shireen-abu-aklehs-killing?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialPulse
1 day ago
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Love that the High Court ruled that prescribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group was unlawful but as they also ruled the ban must remain in place until a future hearing, the BBC must remind its reader that expressing support for them will get you arrested. Normal country.
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2 days ago
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Aura
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it's hard not to think about how 5 or 10 years from now, the shooters (and games writ large) we'll be reverently talking about will still be the same ones we talk about now (DOOM 2016, Titanfall 2, etc) because there is no money going around to make new ones of those happen. we are in purgatory.
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Please don't let it be the cold open, Mike will have us sing barbershop quartets until the end of time
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4 days ago
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Jonathan Cooper
3 days ago
Goddamn I need a VPN to view example Unreal blueprints in the UK now.
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Avery Edison
3 days ago
sigh
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Despite the awfulness, the US government pulling shitty US government things on US soil remains the only reliable way to get US people to react to the US government the way US people probably should react to the US government no matter where the US government does shitty US government things.
3 days ago
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Folks, I'm going to be incredibly annoying for the next, say, 24 hours - because the Australia Did It previews are live (with tremendous thanks to
@mysticforgeinc.bsky.social
& their PR teams doing incredible work arranging all the previews and interviews, because sheesh!)
5 days ago
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Flawless, 10/10 ending
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4 days ago
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A reminder: this is an Irishman with valid papers speaking about how he's being held in US concentration camps. If you don't have to go to the US, do not go to the US. "GDC" is not "have to go". One denial at the border is going to mark you for life, and that's the best of the bad outcomes.
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4 days ago
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Relooted by Nyamakop
4 days ago
“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!
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I was asked about Project Genie and wrote the response kind of tired so if you want to hear my unfiltered and slightly less-than-diplomatic answer about AI it's here
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4 days ago
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I don't think anything is more exciting to me than a whole 2010-"fuck it, this is cool/important to me, we're making it"-coded indie game, made by a team-up of two of the most notable indie devs still standing of their dinstinct waves of indie devs, over what is basically a decade of work.
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4 days ago
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I have learned one thing in my years in games and that is that the most interesting games to play usually have a rating spread that looks like this, either leaning towards a 9 or towards a 4.
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4 days ago
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Please don't let it be the cold open, Mike will have us sing barbershop quartets until the end of time
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4 days ago
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To kick off, this lovely write-up of both game and my general take on indie publishing in
@gamesradarplus.bsky.social
www.gamesradar.com/games/roguel...
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"Let us make weird things," says the dev of this tactical reverse bullet hell, where I can't stop merging more explosive units
Rami Ismail on tackling a unique blend of quickfire strategy with Australia Did It, coaching me through the "curiosity" at the heart of my hands-on
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/roguelike/stop-trying-to-get-us-to-make-the-next-fortnite-or-destiny-or-balatro-says-the-developer-of-australia-did-it-a-train-based-tactics-tower-defense-reverse-bullet-hell-let-us-make-weird-things/
5 days ago
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Dom (@ Sangawa Project)🩷💜💙
5 days ago
This game looks cool and Rami is a cool dev Can't wait to try it
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"relying on AI will mess up your brain" was already something I meant literally, but I have to admit I did not expect it to apply this literally. This is fucked up.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/
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It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
5 days ago
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Relooted by Nyamakop
5 days ago
WORLDWIDE release times for Relooted’s launch tomorrow!
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Mike Rose
5 days ago
EPISODE 6: RETURN OF THE GONG
mikeandrami.com
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Mike and Rami Are Still Here
Mike and Rami Are Still Here
https://mikeandrami.com/
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If you've written up something about Australia Did It and I'm not linking to it in my thread, please let me know because it means I've missed it in my search! I'm in between meetings for quite a bit longer so it's very touch & go but I'd love to include your writing if you took the time!
5 days ago
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Folks, I'm going to be incredibly annoying for the next, say, 24 hours - because the Australia Did It previews are live (with tremendous thanks to
@mysticforgeinc.bsky.social
& their PR teams doing incredible work arranging all the previews and interviews, because sheesh!)
5 days ago
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EpsteIn allows you to take your downloaded LinkedIn archive, and check it for which of your connections was in the Epstein files. (Note: some potentially false positives for common names!)
github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
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GitHub - cfinke/EpsteIn: See which of your LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files.
See which of your LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files. - cfinke/EpsteIn
https://github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
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It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
5 days ago
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Hah, I can't entirely tell, but I think Bad Bunny just brought the light-blue Puerto Rican flag and if I saw that right in the split second I noticed it, I love that
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All but the most radical leftist Western positions on Israel remain "an apartheid state committing genocide, extermination camps, infanticide, genocide, group rape, war crimes, having illegal nukes, terrorism, extrajudicial assassination and kidnapping are tolerable as long as Israel does it".
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6 days ago
New Mike & Rami, tomorrow Teaser:
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castpixel ⚧️⚢
7 days ago
I kept seeing something in japanese shmups: bullets are equidistant. So moving up doesn't create clumps of bullets, and moving down doesn't make the bullet stream seem more sparse. So I mocked it up. Feels very right. It's not for anything, just a proof of concept.
#indiedev
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General rule for all game-critical UI and text: if you personally think it's obnoxiously large, make it slighty larger than that.
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7 days ago
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just found the ahyes album (way too late) and HOLD UP is so KOZILEK 2026 that it put a big nostalgic grin on my face
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Israel just doing just some more war crimes in just some more places, now looking to literally put cancer in Lebanese people's food
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon
President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/israel-accused-of-spraying-cancer-linked-herbicide-on-farms-in-southern-lebanon
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Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/
9 days ago
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Luke Plunkett
10 days ago
please subscribe to a good website
aftermath.site#/portal
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It is remarkable that all Bluesky had to do was not Do Things That Spectacularly Suck and somehow they're fucking that one up in such an attention-grabbing fashion that you'd almost wonder if they're trying to intentionally tank the place
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10 days ago
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Jack Mirkinson
11 days ago
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on
@thenation.com
, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read!
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/a-day-for-gaza-intro-explainer/
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Can finally stop yelling "GIVE THAT MAN A GRAMMY" every time someone mentions
@awintory.bsky.social
. THEY GAVE THAT MAN A GRAMMY.
www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/sword-...
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Sword of the Sea composer Austin Wintory wins Grammy award
The annual music showcase took place last night in Los Angeles.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/sword-of-the-sea-composer-austin-wintory-wins-grammy-award
11 days ago
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Don't love the wording of this - it feels a bit like saying ChatGPT is down, forcing news writers to take a long coffee break. It is a sign of things to come, though, if we don't change course: power and reliance on fewer and fewer superwealthy companies, that can squeeze you for all you have.
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11 days ago
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12 days ago
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Today, judging the games at the Groningen Global Game Jam location, one of the developers said "Oh, and you can press `F` to call your mom" and so I pressed it but I was a tiny green alien so then mom alien appeared on in-game voice chat and obliterated the enemies around me with an orbital cannon
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I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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Google's new AI 'world model' has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it's hard to know what it will actually lead to
Can auto-generated "worlds" really be exciting?
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/google-project-genie-prototype-launch/
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this guy just outed himself as being such a piece of shit that the-whole-of-humanity-averaged-into-an-obedient-chatbot still dumped his ass
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15 days ago
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tami lam
16 days ago
Hey folks so I’m not good at this but, I’m a Sr. Producer seeking work! 💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more ⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev
www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...
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Tami Lam - Netflix | LinkedIn
Producer-shaped person doing the video games thing for 20 years. Nominated for an… · Experience: Netflix · Education: AnimSchool · Location: Irvine · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Tami Lam’s prof...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
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For once, CC:
[email protected]
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