Ruka

Ruka

@rukachorus.itch.io

Digital artist, gamedev. Currently working on visual novel. I guess we're doing this now?? (find me on tumblr @ rukafais, itchio @ rukachorus, and neocities.org @ rukafais)

386 followers214 following654 posts

Ruka reposted

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news

"I don't want to work at this place anymore:" EA workers decry mismanagement and corporate greed after mass layoffs Current and former EA employees paint a bleak picture of daily life at one of the video game industry's most prominent publishers

Ruka reposted

ive never liked putting my stuff behind a big paywall. i did it for years cuz like, you know how Bills is but like, i never LIKED doing it. i dont like scheduling "ok i hold onto this for 3 weeks then i post a teaser, then i post it another few weeks later' that shit is hell it sucks its not fun

Ruka reposted

Replying to @dieselbrain.bsky.social

like i really just wanna Make Shit and show people and folks who want to see more of it happen will occasionally throw me me like $5. but i want EVERYONE to have it. you know? [also: this is not a judgement of folks with strict exclusivity. fukkin, do what you gotta do man]

Ruka reposted

I'm revoking my endorsement of @proton.me, effective immediately. What a slap in the face from a company I thought was on the side of the people. I'm going to begin looking at alternatives after i get my next video done

Ruka reposted

I think it's beautiful when art effects people so deeply they'll go to these lengths to try to save a particular project, I just wish we had any kind of organized body for creative workers across industries that could funnel this energy into actually supporting the people who created the art

Hayes Madsen@solfleet.bsky.social

Does it need to be said that Mass Effect shouldn’t exist without the developers and team that was working on this game? Either they come back and make the game they were, or Mass Effect dies. kotaku.com/mass-effect-...

I do really like the idea of bugcrons not just bc bias, but for the pain point of there'd be so much 'soft tissue' that wasn't preserved through biotransference, the same way it's hard for insects to appear on fossil records unless it's in specific circumstances

Like some of the hard shell details are similar (i'm a big fan of them having similar mouths even under the deathmask culture thing) but a lot of the other stuff is just gone

Ruka reposted

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

kotaku.comWhat Does It Even Mean To ‘Save’ Mass Effect? - KotakuThousands of fans are rallying around a campaign to save the series after BioWare's shutdown, but what does that look like?

Ruka reposted

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Ruka reposted

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

ghanacitizenship.comGhana-Ivory Coast Cocoa Alliance: Mahama and Ouattara Sign Joint DeclarationGhana and Ivory Coast signed a Joint Declaration to strengthen their cocoa alliance, aligning producer prices and expanding local processing.
This post is unavailable.

Ruka reposted

Its forever been the wildest thing being at games conferences -especially the largest ones- and the talk schedule is like - creating sincere art from playful naivete - balancing passion and health - how to dodge parental controls when monetizing toddlers - regrets from my 1st commercial codebase

adamatomic@adamatomic.bsky.social

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

Ruka reposted

You could not waterboard this confession out of me, much less get me to put it in an interview. Can you imagine her kid's middle school enemies getting wind of this? "You suck so much your mom needed Chat GPT to say anything nice about you."

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool