Ella

@ectcetera.net

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simulation software developer. synth musician. general purpose oddity tinkerer. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️. ectcetera.net

A bunch of brightly-lit electronics are mounted on a piece of cardboard. I press play, and it makes music.
A breadboard with a microcontroller on it and several boards with LED-lit buttons and encoders on them. As I turn the encoders, the color of the LEDs change.
A baking sheet filled with chocolate-covered strawberries with small slices of strawberries attached to make legs. Small white sprinkles are used as eyes.
Demo video of the Surge XT synthesizer plugin running in a web browser with a custom HTML UI.
A pair of slim white boots with large straps and silver buckles. They look extremely sci-fi.
Snippet of a SIGBOVIK paper regarding Field Programmable Gate Arrays, i.e. gates in a field which enclose sheep.
Video of a circuit board plugged into a USB cable with a LED blinking different colors.
Photo of two Hydrasynth keyboards - the original fairly large model and the much smaller Explorer.
Screenshot of Reaper showing a 6000 hour long MIDI clip with a couple notes at the end.
Draft deck from MTG Arena Powered Cube. The deck consists of most of the best Blue and White control cards in the game.
Flyer advertising a show! Bird Factory with Adastria and October Suprise at Blip Roasters 1301 Woodswether Rd., Kansas City, Missouri Saturday October 18th at 7 pm
A bunch of gray squares in a grid. When I click them, they animate to become rounder and turn blue.
Magic the Gathering card Curse of the Pierced Heart - 1R Enchantment — Aura Curse Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player’s upkeep, this Aura deals 1 damage to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
A photograph of Charlie, a small Chihuahua mix. He is looking gracefully up into the air.
Transcript of an interview with the Hollow Knight Silksong lead devs. “What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task- management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said, adding that they’d briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn’t use it enough.
Screenshot of the game "Random Bullshit Go." All cards on the stack have been turned been turned pitch black. It's impossible to tell which card they are.
Spotify "Audiobooks for you" featuring The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery by Sol Smith.
My Most Played Steam Games: - Team Fortress 2 - Baldur's Gate 3 - Skyrim - Skyrim Special Edition - Elden Ring - Risk of Rain 2 - Tabletop Simulator - CrossCode - Final Fantasy XIII - Storybook Brawl - Civilization V - Deus Ex Human Revolution - Golf with your Friends - Cyberpunk 2077 - Valkyria Chronicles - Factorio - Hades - Half-Life
Screenshot of Random Bullshit Go, a multiplayer card game. Cards are arranged in a row at the center of the screen with arrows pointing between them to represent their targets.
Screenshot of Tabletop Simulator. A pile of cards are arranged in a way that looks like they were once carefully organized, but now they are Not.
Pinned Discord message from me, 5 years ago. "Yeah, but that's an animation problem and those make me sad."
CONCEPT COUNTRY NETWORK STATE PERMIT AUTHORIZATION A Ella Godotdrop code/codes/codeself LOCALE: LITTLE ARRAKIS • Sonoran Desert Assessment Summary Ella demonstrates exceptional technical creativity through her game development projects and audio programming experiments, perfectly aligning with Concept's ethos of building and creating rather than merely criticizing. Her consistent work on card games with complex interaction systems shows she understands emergent complexity - a valuable skill for biocosmist architecture. While she hasn't explicitly engaged with longevity or space expansion themes, her tinkering mindset and obvious comfort with technical complexity suggest she'll adapt quickly to biocosmist frameworks. The fact that she's already experimenting with synthesizers, UI design, and animation indicates she could contribute immediately to Concept's technical infrastructure. Her 'general purpose oddity' self-description is exactly the kind of flexible identity stance we value. cogsec 4/5 agency 5/5 aura 4/5 potential 5/5
Video of a digital card game called Random Bullshit Go. The player selects cards from their hand at the bottom of the screen, which are then placed on the "Stack" of cards arranged left to right on in the center of the screen. Cards in the stack shift to the right as the played card moves to the leftmost part of the stack.
Video of a computer programming consisting mostly of a grid of gray and blue squares. A column of red squares moves across the grid. Whenever this column hits a blue square, a different sound plays depending on the row. Eight sliders at the top of the program show different synth parameters, which change the sounds as the user moves them.
Tendrils of bright color move around like a liquid. They changes color from red, to blue, to purple, and finally to yellow.
Random Bullshit Go card called "Stopsign." It reads "Counter target card."
Video of "Crust Busters", a game made for Ludum Dare 57. A red spaceship with a drill on it's cone descends towards tiles of dirt and stone. Other ships descend alongside it. The red ship spins, and the ship closest to it explodes in a flash of colors, and sending the red ship flying ever faster.
GIF of an in-development racing game for a game jam. The main game takes place in a large verticle rectangle that looks like a CRT monitor. The player presses "Start" and some meters rotate out of the sides of the monitor to show the player's speed and current distance traveled.
Video of an in-development video game. A pixel-art spaceship with a drill on it's cone moves down the screen, digging through blocks of dirt. Other drill-spaceships move slightly behind. The player's ship approaches another and bounces off of it in a huge burst of speed.
GIF of an in-development video game. A pixel-art spaceship with a drill on it's cone moves down the screen, digging through blocks of dirt. Other drill-spaceships move slightly behind. The player's ship approaches another and bounces off of it in a huge burst of speed.
A collection of flatly colored rectangles detailed with smaller, irregularly positioned rectangles.They vaguely resemble a keyboard and a drum machine.
Magic the Gathering card called "Maggot Carrier." It is a 1/1 black zombie costing 1 black mana, and has "When this creature enters, each player loses 1 life." Its flavor text reads "'We do not suddenly fall on death, but advance towards it by slight degrees; we die every day.' - Seneca, Epistles, translated by Gummere."
Screenshot of the old design for the main menu of "Random Bullshit Go". The title is centered on the screen in a plain sans-serif font. Below the title, plain black buttons present the options "Host Game", "Join Game", "Deck Editor", "Credits", and "Exit".
Screenshot of the main menu of a digital card game called "Random Bullshit Go". The game's title is in a bold font in the top left. Most of the text is white, but "Bullshit" is in a bright red. Below the title, colorful buttons with textured backgrounds present the options "Host Game", "Join Game", "Deck Editor", "Credits", and "Exit". In the bottom right, 3 example cards from the game are shown in a row.
Screenshot of the game Enderal. A ring of stone arches surrounds a statue of a woman on an island in a small lake. A larger stone building with a domed ceiling looms on the other side of the water. A castle with spired towers stands on a distant mountain. Lush trees fill the land between. The sky is orange as dusk approaches.
Video of a computer program with a grid of mostly gray squares, but a few are blue. A set of sliders is at the top. One column of squares is red, and this column moves across the grid. Whenever the red column hits a blue square, a different synth sound plays depending on the row. Squares are changed between gray and blue by clicking on them. The NOTE slider at the top changes the pitch of either a whole row or a single note.
Video of a computer program with a grid of mostly gray squares, but a few are blue. One column of squares is red, and this column moves across the grid. Whenever the red column hits a blue square, a sawtooth synth sound plays. Squares are changed between gray and blue by clicking on them.
Gallery of 15 cards in a digital card game. They all have silly looking photo composites for their art.
Screenshot of a digital card game. Several cards sit on a "Stack" in the center of the screen with targeting arrows connecting them to other cards or to players.