Richard Atlas

@richmakesgames.bsky.social

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🎮 CEO / Creative Director at Clever Endeavour Games (he/him) 🍵 Lover of tea, chocolate, heavy metal, cycling, fantasy, health science, and games with good feel 😎 📝 Blog here: http://richardatlas.com

Image of a tv showing the game Ultimate Sheep Raccoon, with a table in the foreground holding controllers and a hand-drawn sign saying "new features".
Image showing the Ultimate Chicken Horse plushie of the Sheep character from the game. The background shows 2D versions of Sheep dancing and a blue sky with clouds in it
Bag of loose mint tea leaves next to a mug with a Zelda logo on it and tea steeping inside it.
A drawing of a squirrel that says "Sir Von Dreymenhymer, 19th century German squirrel architect". The image actually has very little to do with the post, which is a link to a blog post about design. It involves being critical of design without understanding its constraints, and somehow in looking for an image the author found and chose this one to represent it.
Image of a computer screen showing part of a style guide, with a colour palette and explanations of where different colours are to be used.
Image of a computer screen on a desk showing the title of the video game Silksong
Drawing of a cartoon duck in a wooden frame, hung on a wall with other frames. The image says "Pato" which means duck in Spanish.
Header image of Take Us North, showing five people looking at a setting sun over a large border wall
Screenshot of games launching on GamePass this month, showing our game Ultimate Chicken Horse on the list.
Screenshot of a Spotify playlist called "chill viking music"
Selfie of me drinking from a white mug with the name Richard printed across it.
Mirror selfie showing me standing in my hotel room with an outfit of the new Atari t-shirt, green shorts and Converse shoes.
Image of two laptops sitting on the hotel bed showing the Steam page of our game, Ultimate Sheep Raccoon.
Image of leather bound books from the Misty Mountain Games stall at the PAX East event
Video showing the booth of Ultimate Sheep Raccoon with a line of people waiting to play. People are watching the screens and developers are explaining how to play.
Image illustrating the keyboard shortcut mentioned in the post, showing a table of available emojis to select from.
A toy action figure similar to a Funko pop resembling the user richmakesgames. It features a Zelda mug, a game controller, a hockey goalie helmet, drumsticks, an orange cat and a black cat.
Screenshot of Wonderputt Forever showing the player's ball in a futuristic tower, ramping out to pods that try to reflect life on earth while floating vehicles containing biomes pass by in the background.
Sign showing the talk description
Image of the tea table at Vital Tea showing packaged bags of tea and cups of used tea leaves
Queerness and games conference logo (QGCON)
Image showing the title card of episode 452 of the Lex Fridman podcast
Image of four prints in wooden frames depicting stylized goblins of different colours
Eggs over easy on bread with fake sausage, cheese, pickled onions and cilantro
Exhaustive list of all of the work I did in a day broken down in parts and categorized.
Teaser image showing profiles of animal characters
Image of salad described in the post.
Video showing Montreal hockey player Marie-Phillipe Poulin skating on to the ice in the opening ceremony of the game
Image of matcha bowl with matcha and oat milk next to it
Image of canned fish from inside a store in Lisbon
Masks for ceremonies from Java
Image of video recording
Pixel art animation gif
Speakers on stage
MIGS week schedule
Screenshot of Game Dev MTL site