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Mads (Valkryir)

@valkryir.bsky.social
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Narcoleptic Software Developer, sometimes Game Dev, occasionally streamer Working on Stay In Your Lane - a game about lawn mowing, cart racing and aspirations just out of reach twitch.tv/valkryir she/her Victoria, Australia

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the two events at this venue are PAX gaming and a hygiene conference, perfectly balanced as all things should be
Pax Aus sign Issa cleaning and hygiene expo sign
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I dont have time to play tabletop games these days but the trench crusade warbands at pax look soo good, im being tempted
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shout out to my uber driver who everytime we were stopped in traffic would sit back with their hands steepled. A vibe only a Tesla owner could have
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I LIVED, I DID GOOD. I SPOKE AT PEOPLE, I DIDNT PANIC
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MIGW begins, seated for EMERGENT
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
omg EMERGENT 2026 is sold out, straight up near panicking but I'm keen to share and discuss how the last 6 months of running a local game dev community has been. see you there! and GCAP and PAX but not parallels cause I fell asleep and missed the tickets
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
nobody asked and this probably makes me sound a bit insufferable lmao
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this was funnier in my head i promise #gamedev
an AKIRA poster reference, a game screenshot, there's a tractor sitting on a road in the centre of the image and norman the otter walking towards it the text "STAY IN YOUR LANE" is written across the bottom of the image, it's the title of the game
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Mark @deviousmalcontent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.twitch.tv/valkryir/cli...
twitch.tv
hey mad, im ded - Valkryir on Twitch
Watch Valkryir's Big Walk clip titled "hey mad, im ded" on Twitch.
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
my legs after getting back to the gym after a month away
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stay In Your Lane update: now we have crowds! and the crowds can be cranky! next up: placate them with hot dogs or pretzels or something so they don't throw rubbish on the track and cause the carts to crash! #gamedev
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
IM SO EXCITED (and nervous) I'm going to be on the panel "Running Game Dev Communities: How Do You Balance That?" at EMERGENT 2026 at MIGW this year! If you're in Melbourne on Oct 3rd for games week you should come check out emergent! I'm super keen to see this new conference take off!
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ugh, I've been enjoying Wardogs a lot lately as its been scratching that itch that planetside 2 left since it closed its AU server. I was definitely catching some not so great vibes from the dev communications and this interview is not contradicting that
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm updating a laptop that's been unused since 2019. Windows updater keeps getting stuck, basically how its going:
A screenshot of help options, the highlight one reads "install pending Windows updates  easily"A bing search result that opened as a result of clicking the previous help option.

It reads "There are no results for 'Install pending Windows updates easily windows'"
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've been playing a looot of Squeakcross lately. I think I could manage sitting in a house earning furniture by solving nonograms for a year
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Prototyped a leaf blower tool for my game Stacked some empty beer cans in the editor to blow around for fun Spent 2 hours trying to figure out why half of the beeryramid kept collapsing on start Realised the leaf blower was active by default, on the ground, a touch too close to one corner 🫠
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
word of advice never ever ever ever rely on an email account from your ISP omg I have an email account with a defunct ISP my dad made for me 25 years ago. It became my go to email cause it looked semi professional and was pretty reliable.
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Chemist warehouse kinda sucks to wait around in, but sometimes you get the legendary pull
A the simpsons make-up palette packaging
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
after a few hours I have a new plan, let's just use a leaf blower instead. My rigging and my animation skills are not up to something as complex as sweeping right now lol #gamedev
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I feel robbed, my phone didn't make any noise at all. Also eeww why did it say presidential alert
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
an attempt to dig my way out of my #gamedev rut by modelling a tractor. I spent hours working through tedious problems that were probably my fault to begin with, maybe I can use the tractor to tow myself out of the rut now, but it looks kinda neat now I think
a low poly model of a red tractor with orange accents in a field of grass
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
quick come look there's crow funeral outside
Photo of residential street, 7 crows sitting on a telephone pole, on the street lies a dead crow

technically in this part of the world the crows are actually ravens but we all call them crows
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
it's my birthday so i treated myself to a cake from the servo
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
lol lmao it's not what I had in mind when I said I wanted the solar panel calls to stop but sure why not www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Telstra mobile network mostly restored after nationwide crash
Telstra customers, as well as customers of mobile providers that use Telstra's network, have flooded outage detection websites with reports.
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I fucked up, after signing up my new energy company was like "hey do you want to get solar, we can help". Sure thinking maybe they had a few trusted known installers I have 30 missed calls, they dropped my number into the shark infested waters of hungry pushy solar panel salespersons
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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back on my bullsh
an image that has boxes and a flow chart- GET A NEW IDEA > START A NEW PROJECT > TELL EVERYONE. the pattern repeats circularly, ignoring the box that says FINISH PROJECT
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
i drove into town cause I wanted hot donuts at 8pm but nooo I had the wrong day for when the donut truck was open and then went to the actual donut shop but they were out of donuts is very tragic. I got a hot dog instead
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today was the 3rd monthly meetup for the local #gamedev group I started, its been a lot of fun Being not in the city I didn't know if there was any interest but there's been a great turnout of people who are all passionate about game making, sharing our projects, stories and helping each other.
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I went to a weird little store in a town halfway to the middle of nowhere and found this weird little handmade embroidered patch I have a pair of jeans with a hole in them, this will be perfect
A photo of an embroidered iron on patch in its packaging. The patch is a medieval style detection of a silver and blue knight riding a black horse. The knights helmet is in the shape of a rabbit's head
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Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Submissions to the National Cultural Policy close next Sunday 24 May. We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in submissions. Freeplay's helpful guide on making a submission can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
2026 05 - National Cultural Policy submission drive
Games and play sector National Cultural Policy submission drive brought to you by your mates at Freeplay 💞 Instructions We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in s...
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
me replacing the rear brake light on my car all by myself
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
These Hiluxes and Raptors out there are not driving like there's a fuel crisis. I bet that one LPG falcon I saw is real chuffed though.
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The only marathon I'm waking up at 5am for
Map of Marathon launch times:
US Pacific: March 5 at 10AM PST
US Eastern: March 5 at 1PM EST
UK: March 5 at 6PM GMT
Central Europe: March 5 at 7PM CET
Australia: March 6 at 5AM AEDT
New Zealand: March 6 at 7AM NZDT
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I didn't think I would like Marathon at all because I have not really liked extraction shooters in the past but I accidentally 10hours of it in server slam. It has the good shooty feeling
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I get it now: Marathon satisfies, at 20 minute intervals, my masculine urge to bleed out [here] [here] is a dreamlike and baleful alien vista contaminated, but not yet mutilated by utterly overmatched human brute force
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It made me worse
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
hate to be continuing my theme of energy drink posting but this could fix me
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
How is no-one selling indulgences on the blockchain yet
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Someone out there slandering my good name
A chat conversation between a friend and me:
Friend: [Redacted] tells me you've been making ai art
Friend: Are these allegations true
Friend: On Facebook no less
Me: Wat
Me: I would rather eat a shoe
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
my emotional support energy drink tastes wrong today 🫠
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Everyone should checkout this wonderful little game. It's so incredibly charming and it has a demo so you can try it out right now!
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
fml I just got on the treadmil at the gym and it's already insulting me
Photo of a treadmill dashboard. The display had the word "POO" on it or maybe its meant to read as "P - Zero - Zero" indicating the selected program but this is the one case where I think a zero based index should not be used.
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is amazing also welp time to rework my grass and mowing mechanics for the 4th time
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
How it feels to be sent back into the daylight after getting the pupil dilation drops during the eye exam
A still of Mr Burns from The Simpson's glowing in a forest with huge eyes
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Sure sure sure I could be doing the gamedev tasks I set out to do today but after writing a whole 2 lines of code I deserve a little treat of playing games for 4 hours
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I continue to despise the use of Discord as a support platform. If it's open source, unpaid or a mod or something sure ok fine but I won't like it. If you're a company using discord as a primary support platform then you aren't a real company you are larping, even worse if it's a physical product
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
working on some refuelling mechanics for Stay In Your Lane #gamedev
A stylised 3D model of an Otter in coveralls carrying a much too large red fuel can.
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
im being very brave today and streaming some work on Stay In Your Lane to try and keep myself on task and not start scrolling tiktok the moment I run into the smallest hiccup www.twitch.tv/valkryir #gamedev
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Mads (Valkryir) @valkryir.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Walking in to an almost empty gym only to get flashbanged by some bodybuilder practising his posing in his speedos in front of the mirrors 🤮
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